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justafrog

@justafrog@mstdn.social

Full-time amphibian.

Strongly committed to treating all individuals of the most common primate species fully as valid persons as much as possible.

Concerned about covid19, climate destabilization and economic equality.

Likes complete information abstract board games which have been played for centuries, straight into this modern time.

Middling at chess, kind of okay at baduk. Into the second year of taking shogi seriously.

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msquebanh, to Flowers
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Picked #RedWeigela #flowers & #roses to make small #fragrant #bouquet for Mom. The roses smell divine!

I got the vase for free. It's part of set of 3 glassblown art vases. Got them from a free pile from local estate clear out, a few years ago. I'm good at scoring lots of #freebies & rarely buy anything new.

#bloomscrolling #florespondence #Saanich #VictoriaBC #NatureGifts #GardenGifts #YYJ #Spring #Wsanec #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #PNW #botanical #CutFlowers #floral #GrowItGiftIt

Bouquet of red & deep pink roses with red weigela flowers in a green & white glassbown artisan vase.

justafrog,
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@msquebanh Getting only good things and only when needed has been nothing but wonderful for me.

It's a very different way of living.

But it also means that I'm not constantly throwing junk out.

When I throw something out a few months after buying it, it feels like I'm throwing cash into the bin.

Awful feeling.

I'll always try hard to avoid that.

futurebird, to random
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Here is my small nervous Formica subsericea. These are black field ants, you can tell them from carpenter ants because they are shiner, only come in one size (no majors with big heads) and their thorax has a dent rather than a hump. They also move differently from carpenter ants which tend to be more deliberate and less spastic.

Today I gave them fruit flies and they have eagerly piled them up in front of the queen. Who looks like she just wants to go to sleep.

justafrog,
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@futurebird Fat bottomed girls.

msquebanh, to asianfood
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& - simple, yummy & healthy dish. I use extra garlic in mine & eat it with steamed rice but it's great on its own.

Chayote is also known as vegetable pear or christophine. Peel the skin off before cooking as it's tough/not fun to chew. A that's used in lots of . Fab source of vitamin C, dietary fibre & potassium.

justafrog,
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@msquebanh It's good to keep in mind.

Both to be thankful you don't have to eat any emergency things, which are in that category for good reason, and that you know you can still fall back a little before hunger becomes a real threat.

I remember talking to people who lived through the 1944/45 famine, and the tastes they talked about weren't very fun.

A lot of "safe" things are impossibly bitter, for example.

atomicpoet, to random
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There’s certain technology that I earnestly wonder why we abandoned it. For example, digital audio players (DAPs).

These devices provided something smartphones don’t: a distraction-free way of playing music.

And they were way more personal because everything on your DAP was put there by you! They were a collection of your genuine taste!

justafrog,
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@atomicpoet For me, it's the choice between buying a separate device, or installing some app on my phone so I can use it like that.

The important part is to disable all notification sounds and vibrations, because those will keep piling in no matter what.

But I figure my complete lack of FOMO is very rare.

I don't personally know anyone else who can both know there are notifications and simply not check them until tomorrow or the day after.

Because right now, I just want the music.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
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Some of my friends that are convicted felons are 100% innocent of what they were accused and convicted of. Some of my friends that are convicted felons are guilty, and absolutely did what they were accused of. I don't make fun of people for being convicted felons, and I don't ostracize them. Instead, I don't let bad people around me. My definition of bad focuses on the choices that a person made in the past, and the choices that they make now. Some of the worst people, will never be felons.

1/N

justafrog,
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@mekkaokereke When a random unknown black guy becomes a felon, lots of people are sure he must be an awful person.

When a certain specific awful person gets a 34-count conviction, he gets more money thrown at him.

It's hard to believe this game is fair, when they make it so obvious.

RickiTarr, to random
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Could a Betazoid and a Vulcan have a kid together or would the kid just immediately feel schizophrenic all the time?!

justafrog,
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@RickiTarr Pon farr daily, constantly talking, and worst of all, while they talk they are on topic, concise and full of fascinating new ideas.

Vulcan science would make multiple transformative breakthroughs each year, and they'd just be so tired of dealing with it.

The incessant libido is okay, because they simply assign someone to take one for the team that day. Logical.

But someone who talks that much and makes so much sense that you can't stop listening? Nightmare fuel.

eniko, to random
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i've been happily using fedi for a year and a half now. i wonder if it's time to establish a kitsune games account on some server somewhere 🤔 i know not everyone who wants to follow our games wants to follow me and deal with me being perpetually on my bullshit

justafrog,
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@eniko Is this another attempt at "Eniko is not that interesting"?

Because you are WRONG about that.

AnarchoNinaWrites, to random
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The Atlantic: "there are ways to legally kill children, but it still looks bad..."

Me: "You. Now. Get in the fucking sea."

Lesser evils my puckered asshole.

justafrog,
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@AnarchoNinaWrites I'm never, ever going to forget "legally killed child".

Very mask-off phrasing, there.

"It's okay to kill those children over there, because..."

No, fuck off.

msquebanh, to britishcolumbia
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practices came under after a highlighted being burned for power in the .

The documentary was not broadcast in . Hansen said the reason B.C.’s wood pellet industry is a focus in is the Power Station in .

https://globalnews.ca/news/10525850/bc-forestry-practices-international-scrutiny/amp/

justafrog,
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@msquebanh What's most frustrating to me is that environmentalists in Europe were adamant that permitting "biomass" as a renewable would cause precisely this.

Clearcutting nature to generate the biomass, replacing it with either nothing at all or tree plantations.

And now it's simply happening as predicted.

justafrog,
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@msquebanh It takes an extraordinarily myopic view of the world to look at a forest and see only lumber to harvest.

Don't know why people see such politicians as suitable leaders.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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This is something I am deeply worried about too; throughout but again this morning, with Israel’s horrendous bombing of a refugee camp just days after ICC put out a warrant against Netanyahu, and again, so far, NOTHING from Biden and co:

that the liberal world order so obviously means nothing, is a sham; that “Might is Right” - always but now so completely clearly so. As Nesrine Malik says, this will have wider repercussions.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/27/icc-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-us-west

justafrog,
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@pvonhellermannn Asia, South America and Africa are watching the hypocrisy, and that damage won't quickly be undone.

Reputational damage heals very slowly.

justafrog, to random
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@adhdeanasl Don't know if you still care, but the illustrious Go Ahead Eagles actually made it to Europe-wide competition.

I'm looking forward to international reporters trying to ignore the name.

msquebanh, to pnw
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Some Storm the Gorge photos from Super Sprints .

Great fun, & drumming in our first races! We did pretty good, considering we've had only 7 practices. We beat a more experienced team that has trained twice/week for a few years in our last race with time of 1:08 minutes!

I'm exhausted & bit sore. Putting ice packs on & then having a long hot bath 🛀

Me & two fellow paddlers. Two women, one on each side of me.
Our team, in dragon boat, braking to hold.
Our team at line up, waiting to be called to dock to board dragon boat.

justafrog,
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@msquebanh Gotta wonder how much more you'd manage with experience.

It's a very promising start!

futurebird, to random
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Ant Insults
(inter-colony)

  • Your queen's egg production is FALLING
  • Six-Sister (implying the other ant comes from a tiny colony and only has six sisters)
  • Termite
  • Your majors can't follow a six thick trail.
  • Doodle Bug Offering
  • Ladybirder (implies aphid rustling)
  • frass face
justafrog,
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@futurebird
"Go bite a leaf, zombie!"

"Aren't you a little too ugly for a mimic?"

"I've seen males more useful than you!"

justafrog, to random
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People who dare not call a spade a spade remind me of this piece of satire, made for German TV.

I imagine 99% of the press taking the guy with the hat's viewpoint.

https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI

justafrog,
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@timorl What is it with queens marrying card-carrying nazis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Bernhard_of_Lippe-Biesterfeld#Relationship_with_Nazi_Party

StillIRise1963, to random
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With the 2024 election, Black people are not the people anyone needs to worry about. We’re not the idiots, we’re not the nazis. It’s white people. FOCUS.

justafrog,
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@StillIRise1963 I keep thinking of this Pew Research report:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship-by-race-ethnicity-and-education/

It's white people.

100% due to white people.

No other big group has a majority for team red.

compost, to climate
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I am amazed at how much waste composting worms can process.

When a worm bin is well-managed, it never smells bad and the worms prefer not to escape from their house. Also, no intruders will interfere with them.

A worm bin is the most efficient and elegant way to compost inside or outside.

It is a very powerful solution to stop sending your waste to landfills and to help the

justafrog,
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@compost I'll never understand the people who tear off biomass, bin it to be burned, and then replenish the subsiding ground with purchased soil.

It's really not less effort to do that, and costs much more.

msquebanh, to China
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#China once had an #InternetArchive run by #researchers at #PekingUniversity that allowed users to perform keyword searches of more than 2.5 billion #historical web pages from millions of websites in #Chinese.

Archived news articles about events from just a few years ago are no longer showing up on internet searches in China, cutting off access to the country's recent history from all but the most resourceful researchers..

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/internet-disappearing-archives-05242024131340.html

#AsianMastodon #Censorship #TootSEA

justafrog,
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@msquebanh Objective reality is the greatest enemy of any autocrat.

They can't let it be easy to look at.

Of course, the end result will be that they can't correct mistakes anymore, because it's not permitted to acknowledge any.

RickiTarr, to random
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Have y'all ever had someone act like you were hurting them somehow by just liking a food?

Any time I buy or make kimchi, my Mom says it's so gross and she doesn't want any and just on and on. I never offer it to her, or make group food with it, but for some reason she seems offended by it, and I don't know why.

justafrog,
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@RickiTarr I've had this a lot.

"Solved" it by pretending the food in question doesn't exist in front of the people who will not shut up about how much they hate what I'm eating.

It's such irritating behaviour and I will like people less for giving me a list of foods which may not be mentioned in their presence.

justafrog,
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@mentallyalex @RickiTarr Soy beans are pretty versatile.

Not just the diversity of tofu, but things like soy sauce, natto or tempeh, or, shockingly, just eating soy beans!

But yeah, people don't seem to understand why cubes of fried hard tofu are snack-tier for me.

They are, though.

RickiTarr, to random
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I think it would be really funny if the porn actress talked liked Foghorn Leghorn.

justafrog,
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@RickiTarr Good:

Yes! YES! YES! OH YES!

or

Yeah... yeah... YEAH!

not good:

Yep. Yep. YEP! YEP! YEP!

StillIRise1963, to random
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You’re not special. You’re not better. You’re not immune. Bad things can happen to YOU too.

justafrog,
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@StillIRise1963 Bad things happen to good people every day.

mekkaokereke, to random
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There are only ~40 million Black people in the US. Population similar to Lagos state in Nigeria (the tiny red part).

There are ~250 million US white folk (~220 non-Hispanic white + ~30 million Hispanic white).

So Biden's "missing" 10% of Black men, is fewer than 2 million. Or less than 1% of white US population.🤡

White voters don't face the massive systemic voter suppression that Black voters do. So increasing white dem turnout is much easier.

So if your boy doesn't win, blame yourselves.

justafrog,
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@mekkaokereke Black people are literally the most heavily skewed towards D.

It's absurd to focus that much on black voters, when there is far more room for change in other demographics.

It's so blatant.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship-by-race-ethnicity-and-education/

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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The will make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like a walk in the park. With ice cream.

" Rising seas, bigger , and other increasing hazards have created a dangerous instability in the U.S. financial system. "

That, on top of developers building in flood plains and wildfire-prone places, and the US government providing the .


https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/04/bubble-trouble-climate-change-is-creating-a-huge-and-growing-u-s-real-estate-bubble/

justafrog,
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@CelloMomOnCars Something like "insuring A makes insuring B impossible" might work, if B made them more profit.

Considering they're only withdrawing from very specific things, that might simply not be the case.

If only people were willing to look beyond the quarterlies and realize we actually need a livable world.

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