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seawall

@seawall@mastodon.nz

Queer, #AuDHD, vaguely artsy, apprentice hairdresser, well-meaning but often clueless parent to an #autistic #PDA kid. 🌈♾️💇

American Pākehā in Aotearoa NZ. :tinoflag: :laserkiwi:

Clean Air Crank™. #COVIDIsAirborne 🪟🌬️

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futurebird, to random
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Oh to live in a world where a dragonfly-like insect, Meganeuropsis graced the skies! What iridescent hues flashed on those great wings in
the Carboniferous sun? What sound did they make as they flew?

If you know about dragon flies you know about: The Nymphs.

Nymph such an innocent word for a swamp monster. In the 15th century they were called “pond lizards.”

We know nothing of the nymphs of Meganeuropsis. But think how large they must have been! Heavier than the adults. Pond dragons!

seawall,
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@futurebird Oh lawd, he buzzin'!

Our native dragonfly here in is pretty big. The one pictured here (not my own face, lol, from a news story) is standard, but I swear there was a larger one perched on our deck last year. I gotta find that pic, I put a soda can next to it for comparison...

msquebanh, to Toronto
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“I started growing hard-to-find in 1950s Toronto and helped shape into what it is today”

When Wing Fung Chong came to from as a young man, produce was scarce. So he saved up, bought a and started importing and cultivating fruits and vegetables to supply the city’s growing Chinese population

https://torontolife.com/memoir/growing-chinese-vegetables-shape-toronto-chinatown

seawall,
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@msquebanh I love stories like this. Reminds me of something that happened locally here in , an old Chinese lady's extensive herb and vege garden was hacked back by her housing provider without warning, but there was such a public outcry that it was rebuilt, and people raised money and sent seeds to replace her rarer plants from around the motu. That was two years ago, I hope she's still thriving 🌿 https://i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/127401733/social-housing-tenants-garden-flourishes-after-being-destroyed-seven-months-ago

futurebird, to random
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Bumblebees learn by observing other bees. Bumblebees, like ants, may even teach each other. In a University of London experiment a bee watched a "fake bee" (a fuzzy yellow & black orb on a stick) pushing a yellow ball into a circle for a sugar water reward. The bee copied this action.

When a nest mate was introduced, they learned by watching the bee trained in the previous experiment. I find the idea of a "fake bee" adorable.
https://www.popsci.com/brainy-bumblebees-can-push-balls-into-goal/

The bee watches the fake bee push the mini football into the circle.
Two bees shown from above with various balls.

seawall,
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@futurebird omg, bee-ball, the one sport I would set reminders to tune in for

seawall,
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@lathamgreen @futurebird I showed this trick to a friend last year as we were out walking. Big tired bee on the sidewalk, I happened to be drinking a Bundaberg apple cider (non-alcoholic), and we crouched down and puddled some in a leaf for it.

futurebird, to random
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If you saw a business called “rumble” with a big neon sign and boxing mitts on the wall what would you think they sold?

a dojo, right? or a gym.

Now what if I tell you their full name is “rumble dry bar”

that’s cute. boxing themed bar—

wrong again. You will never guess what they do. try.

(this kind of thing is exactly why everyone makes fun of us, nyc)

seawall,
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@futurebird Yep, "dry" style salons, I learned about those just as I finished my second year (and left the biz to have my kid). No cuts or colours, just the washing, drying and styling. At least one guy in my class moved to Sydney to work at one and makes pretty good money. Lot less hair to sweep up, too, lol

msquebanh, to random
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I follow & practice Taoism. That doesn't mean that I sacrifice my own rights to independent & critical thinking. Doing so actually goes against our Taoist beliefs in that:
We believe in educating peoples, we believe in questioning human masters, we believe in balancing human footprints with natural worlds, we believe we are connected to air/water/soils & what we choose to do/think here & now, affects our afterlives for eternity. Nature rules above us all.

seawall,
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@msquebanh Con artists are as diverse as their marks, sadly. Can't always spot em that easily

futurebird, to random
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<possible rant>
Why do shirt stays only come in humongous mens sizes even though they make little dress shirts for women (which the cleaners charge extra to clean for some godforsaken reason) and they don't stay tucked in but there are no solutions?

if you are a small man what do you do?

"business dress" hates small persons.

seawall,
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@futurebird Business shirts also gap or pop right open over one's cleavage when one has any bra size north of a B cup, in my experience

futurebird, to random
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Well someone took futurebird on twitter over from me.

I thought logging in once a month would be enough. It was not. FYI.

That's not me over there anymore.

seawall,
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@futurebird

LiveJournal?

puts down whiskey, lights cigarette

There's a name I haven't heard in years...

futurebird, to random
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"guess how much evolution took place on the coelacanth in millions of years?"

-Some Creationist

I just like the phrasing of evolution taking place "on" something. Like it's a cold that you catch or something Morbius would do.

Bout to 'volve all over these arthropods.

seawall,
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@futurebird It's volvin' time!

T, to random

Look, I don’t want to write a horror story about the Brain Fog, but y’all keep sharing real-life Covid horror stories about what it does to people’s brains and…

seawall,
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@dave @T similar has been done via Eugene Ionesco's play "Rhinoceros", which was unexpectedly but entertainingly adapted into the Jenna Jameson-led horror comedy movie "Zombie Strippers" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_(play)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_Strippers

seawall, to wellington
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Attn

Talk on what to do about the while is at the helm, tonight and tomorrow.

Plz boost for reach

seawall, to random
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Yo, this cloud is wild, Ōtautahi

seawall, to NewZealand
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Three years of these guys in charge... SMH

seawall, to NewZealand
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Congrats, New Zealand, looks like with Chris Luxon, we'll be getting our very own George W Bush.

More business than political nous ✅
Evangelical Christian ✅
Probably gonna just go along with whatever his more clever and evil party fellows want ✅

Enjoy! 💀

seawall, to random
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Miscalculated the time between my last dose of ADHD med and my first espresso drink of the day, and my heart is running a marathon without me.

Image from Microsoft SwiftKey Keyboard

futurebird, to random
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A group of ants arguing about lady bird conservation. Some of the aphid rancher ants complain that the ladybirds, especially the larvae eat too many of their steer. But the urban ants think they are majestic creatures who don't deserve to be hunted and they even have a whole study showing that hunting them isn't effective.

Much ant grumbling and arguing.

No one thinks it's odd at all that the ants too sometimes eat aphids. (They're our aphids!)

seawall,
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@futurebird I love this and want to read the picture book to my son

seawall, to NewZealand
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Because my memory is barely better than Dory, if I do anything less often than once a week, I basically forget how to do it and have to relearn it.

So, I'm looking up how to vote again, lol.

I thought we got ballots in the mail, but maybe that was just that one time back during lockdown?

Also, I don't think we got any Easy Vote packs? Maybe they got blown out of our mailbox by the high winds this weekend, lol

seawall,
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Managed to locate my nearest polling station, a 15 minute walk distance, and got my vote in. ✅ ✅

If you're eligible and have free time prior to the 14th, I encourage you to go vote early too. Avoid the crowds.

seawall,
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@christopherd i would but everyone i talk to regularly, at least in this country, is already pretty engaged. I could pop down to the community garden where I sometimes help out maybe, see if anyone is fence sitting there

futurebird, to random
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Whenever I read about an artist or scientist who went to the US to escape fascism I wonder where the heck I'm supposed to go

:(

seawall,
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@futurebird we've got a very nerve-wracking election soon here in Aotearoa NZ, but if you want to try your luck... https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/preparing-a-visa-application/living-in-new-zealand-permanently/new-zealand-skilled-residence-pathways

Loukas, to random
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My new profile picture has a mobile phone reflected in my glasses, which I think says a lot about society.

seawall,
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@Loukas Much to think about

msquebanh, to random
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I'd be burning a lot more stuff down in colonial Canada if it wasn't for my family needing me to not be jailed. That's why I help wherever possible from home now. I can't go back to active frontlines for awhile & that frustrates me because I'm strongest at active frontlines & it's where I have the most experience at fighting against colonial abusive systems.

I'm doing my best from where I'm at now.

seawall,
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@msquebanh yeah, same. Some days I feel so deeply furious, it's only my kid needing me that keeps the fiery revolution fantasies only as fantasies

seawall, to random
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I'd like to get some raspberry and blackberry bushes in my backyard, but I know from last year's attempt at blueberries that blackbirds will get under netting somehow, even if staked from the fence to the ground. I've heard of "berry cages" or frames you can tack netting to, can y'all share pics and tutorials about such things?

Pls boost for reach

seawall,
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@billbennett It's on the cards, but not within our current budget to properly feed and care for yet

seawall, to random
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Haven't said this in a bit, so

ahem

Indoor air quality () is the water sanitation of our time.

Schools, workplaces and hospitals should all be properly monitored and ventilated/filtered.

At the VERY least.

That is all.

seawall,
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Appreciate the new round of faves and boosts, but please tell me, what are you doing in your own personal sphere to hold the line re ?

seawall,
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@PieterPeach which respirator do you favour? Is it elastomeric? I acquired a Breathe mask using at home measurements, but feel like an even lower profile one like the Flo mask might fit better

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