colorfiend

@colorfiend@mstdn.social

Please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere | #BLM | LGBTQIA #Ally | she/her | 💉x7 | #Immunosuppressed | #Gardening | #PsoriaticArthritis | #Cats | #Pottery | #Watercolors | #ErasTour x2 | #Art | #Knitting | #Birds

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jensimmons, to random
@jensimmons@front-end.social avatar

I find it impossibly challenging to know how to live in a world surrounded by people who show me everyday by their actions that they want me dead.

You do not care. You have no moral compass.

I know you will kill me or leave me severely disabled if I let you. If I weren’t already resisting with everything I’ve got it would already be happening. Especially this week in Spain at

Fuck all of you who have such little regard for other people’s lives. You do not have the right to eliminate me.

colorfiend,

@markusl @migriverat @maggiemaybe @jensimmons This summer, I actually changed from an infusion every six weeks to a shot I give myself every other week because the INFUSION CLINIC STOPPED MASKING. And my nurse rolled her eyes when I asked her to mask up at what became my last appointment. No patient in that clinic has an immune system, but sure, screw masks.

ernie, to random
@ernie@writing.exchange avatar

“Honey, can we remortgage the house?”

“What for?”

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186072286633

colorfiend,

@ernie The $6.95 shipping is chef's kiss

petersuber, to USpolitics

The only in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, just launched a campaign to survive.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/106291

colorfiend,

@petersuber Wow. "Greatest Country in the World." No, we suck.

isagalaev, to random
@isagalaev@mastodon.social avatar

What bird is it? I know people use this Internet thing to identify birds? I never…

Edit: it's Pacific Northwest, if that helps.

colorfiend,

@isagalaev Merlin says Cooper's Hawk.

colorfiend,

@isagalaev I don't think so. It's a Cornell Labs app so I took a quick peek (https://www.allaboutbirds.org/) and it sent me to app store.

colorfiend,

@isagalaev I have the app open 99% of the time anyway, so it was simply a matter of taking a photo of my computer. Easy peasy.
Happy birding!

DMakarios, to gardening
@DMakarios@theres.life avatar

Seeking gardening advice and encouragement!

Some previous occupant of my house planted a more or less inedible member of the mint family which has since spread to infest the entire back garden.

I've tried digging clear patches (heavy clay: backbreaking, and it just grows back), and building no-dig beds (worked for a season, then failure to thrive due to root competition).

Does anyone have any suggestions that don't presuppose either a fat budget or boundless energy? I'd prefer not to do anything that is going to destroy all soil life, but I'm getting desperate and am open to suggestions.

colorfiend,

@DMakarios And you don't have to do huge pots or do it all at once. I am impatient, and I have a teenager I can guilt into lifting heavy things for me. Plus, he hates mint and oregano for flowering and bringing bees onto the patio (they can be anywhere else, just not where he sits), so he's more than happy to kill off the invasive stuff.

kristinHenry, to random
@kristinHenry@vis.social avatar

Unfortunately, there is a covid case in my home. We are isolating from each other.

I'm still testing negative. But will continue to test.

I was really hoping we could come through all of this without ever catching it.

colorfiend,

@kristinHenry I'm sorry. Fingers crossed you stay negative.

skinnylatte, to photography
@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io avatar

There’s something spectacular about enduring a ridiculously choppy boat ride for 4 hours and then arriving at the Farallon Islands. While it doesn’t look far from San Francisco on a map, the waters are treacherous and the journey from Half Moon Bay is arduous. People puke nonstop. Thankfully blessed with no motion sickness whatsoever, I try to take photos of the marine and other wildlife I see. Thousands of murres, hundreds of sea lions, a beautiful cacophony.

A sea lion and its pup on a rock
Some birds flying between two rocks

colorfiend,

@skinnylatte I have puked nonstop. More than once. Hope was always eternal. 😂

Studio_Gal, to gardening

Our lime tree, which has been dormant (blossoms but no fruit) for THREE YEARS has just come widdit and I am watching with utter delight as no fewer than TWLEVE limes are growing this year!

#gardening
#garden #joy #gardener #love #harvest

colorfiend,

@Studio_Gal Look, I don't know about where you live, but it's been a seriously exhausting three years for the rest of the planet. Let's cut the lime tree some slack. 😂

appagalcrochet, to random

Considering the recent escape prisoners issue in Chester County PA I have one idea on how to fix their problem and it would only cost about 20.00.

I say measure off the top 2 ft of both sides of the wall and cover with vaseline petroleum jelly. Don't say a word... next person to try the same escape will lose more than their grip about 4 feet in the air, face first. (Smack)

colorfiend,

@kkarhan @appagalcrochet This would work. I use mineral oil on the shepherd's crook that holds the bird feeder. Keeps the damn squirrels from emptying it. Plus, watching them lose all hope of achieving anything as they slide back to the ground is delightful. Seriously fun for me.

fraying, to random
@fraying@xoxo.zone avatar

You have got to be fucking kidding me. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/08/nancy-pelosi-running-reelection/

colorfiend,

@fraying The next generation should be mine, Gen X, but we're not going to get a chance to lead because we'll get skipped for millennials because we'll be too damn old. Fucking boomers.

colorfiend,

@fraying I would add that when the insane assholes first try to kill your spouse and then make a joke out of someone trying to kill your spouse? It might be time to let someone else take a turn.

colorfiend,

@fraying @ReneeWestberry Yeah, I think they clung because they're power hungry and don't give a fuck about anyone but their bank accounts.

jeridansky, to random
@jeridansky@sfba.social avatar

I love having a CO2 monitor to check the air quality in indoor spaces (my grocery store, my dentist’s office, etc.). I’m relieved when stores have good ratings, and I’ve convinced my dentist’s office to open windows to get the rating down to an acceptable level.

I use an and thanks to @brainwane I learned they are on sale (at quite a discount) until Sept. 17. Highly recommended for the Covid-cautious who don’t have one already.

US Customers: https://shop.aranet.com/north-america/product/aranet4-home

colorfiend,

@ai6yr @jeridansky @brainwane One kid has a new AC system in their school with new ductwork and filters that's just a month old. The other has two air purifiers in each classroom. I just texted that one to ask if the filter lights were on yet. :)

SirTapTap, to food
@SirTapTap@mastodon.social avatar

I love Flavacol (popcorn salt) but it's SO fine-grained I can't measure the stuff out properly, not by eye. I almost always oversalt at least a bit. A lot this time.

What do you all do? Measure it beforehand and try to sprinkle it evenly or are there like ULTRA choked shakers that slow it's pouring?

colorfiend,

@SirTapTap I over salt every single time. 🤷‍♀️

fraying, to random
@fraying@xoxo.zone avatar

Hemp Harvest 2023 has begun!

colorfiend,

@fraying Nice!! You got sunscreen on that face?

ernie, to random
@ernie@writing.exchange avatar

Not gonna lie, this appeals to me. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-color-world-first-color-e-ink-monitor

colorfiend,

@ernie Interesting. https://paperlike.com

grammargirl, to random
@grammargirl@zirk.us avatar

Argg. So infuriating.

The risk of long COVID is ~10%.

The risk of lung cancer in smokers is ~10%.

If you wouldn't smoke, you should take COVID seriously too.

I know multiple people with long COVID. You don't want it.

I'm sure some will quibble about the exact numbers (well actually 6%!, well actually 20%!), but the point is that getting COVID is definitely not a no-risk thing.

[Alt Text: 69% say contracting COVID poses small or no risk to their health and well-being.]

colorfiend,

@anderspuck @grammargirl It is absolutely doable. One-way masking with well-fitting N95s has kept my family of four entirely covid-free. My kids go to middle and high school in person. We have traveled by plane multiple times in the last year. I admit we have given up eating in restaurants. And as case numbers go up, we socialize outside. But the masking is why we've stayed covid-free.

colorfiend,

@anderspuck @grammargirl
Seriously? Ask science. It's necessary until we can cure or negate the risk of long covid. Unless we've suddenly become okay with risking children's long-term health? Because we've learned that far from "kids don't get covid," kids have the same risk of catching covid and of developing long covid as adults do.
And, really, it's just a mask. No one is asking you to lockdown. Or to change your life beyond wearing a mask indoors in public crowds. What's the big deal?

colorfiend,

@anderspuck @grammargirl I'm sorry. From friends, my understanding is that it sucks.
If you're wearing a well-fit N95 mask (that's the key), it's significantly harder to get. We traveled with my son's high school team to an indoor competition in Texas with 55k people. We masked indoors. 90%+ of our team tested positive. We didn't.
My daughter and I saw Taylor Swift indoors with 64k people screaming people. We masked, sang, and didn't get covid. It's doable. We haven't been sick in 3+ years.

GrimmReality, to random
@GrimmReality@beige.party avatar

If and his many neo-Nazi buds being locked away for two decades makes America substantially safer - and it does - I honestly have no fucking idea how his Goonsquad Violence Yogi Gavin McInnes is still walking around all free and at very least undeported. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/05/enrique-tarrio-proud-boys-sentenced-jan-6-attack

colorfiend,

@GrimmReality Someone asked how he is going to fit in as a white supremacist who isn't white in prison. I have to admit it's been in the back of my mind all day. Also, I love the fucking around and finally finding out part of things.

GrimmReality, to random
@GrimmReality@beige.party avatar

I wonder if, after a sufficient window to gather the proper data, the Trump Years will be the start of a massive spike in the number of people who think golf is for complete assholes.

colorfiend,

@GrimmReality Two peas, baby. Two peas.

w7voa, to DC
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

Federal judge in sentences Proud Boys organizer Joseph Biggs to 17 years in prison after his conviction on charges of seditious conspiracy for plotting to attack the US Capitol and disrupt the transfer of presidential power on Jan. 6, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/31/joe-biggs-proud-boys-leader-gets-17-year-prison-sentence-for-role-in-jan-6-attack-00113641

colorfiend,

@w7voa In the words of Ms. Taylor Swift, "Karma is a cat purring in my lap because it loves me." Or, as I tell my kids, actions have consequences.

w7voa, to random
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

State record alligator capture in at 364 kilograms and 4.3 meters long. https://www.wapt.com/article/mississippi-alligator-record-length-2023/44936401

colorfiend,

@w7voa No wonder hurricanes aim for that section of the country. A$$holes.

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