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Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they)

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Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 23h

🌱 NeriumOleander
*White Salmon Zone9B blooming in Shadow of South Mountain Park, is at the Southernmost perimeter of the 🏜️ City of Phoenix Arizona, a 6 hr drive from both LV and LA close to a whole lot of 🏜️
Not a 🏜️Rat, I'm a tree/water person;
made the best of it🪏
All things end✨
future planning

Oleander is a versatile evergreen shrub that is native to the Mediterranean region.
It is known for its showy, clustered flowers that bloom from late spring through fall. The flowers can be various colors, including white, pink, and purple.
The plant is highly drought-tolerant once established and thrives in hot climates and coastal areas due to its resistance to salt spray.
All parts of the oleander plant are highly toxic if ingested by humans or animals.

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Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 1h

I prefer to get high before I do serious cooking!
I am anxious otherwise, especially about baking.

Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 1h

Sooz!
Cabbage rolls are my favourite meal for someone else to make for me😋
At the holidays I would watch my aunt assemble them,you know the hack for cabbage🥬 right?
Tell us more about your🥧 I've never made one!
Does it matter if it's from scratch or store-bought?
(grandma's crust was a bit tough).

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Sooz @cruisinsoozan.bsky.social · 1h

I’m making cabbage rolls and apple pie today from scratch. Just like my grandma made, a hundred years ago. She didn’t get high first though. I don’t think.

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Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 1h

I love this for you!

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1h

Idk what it is about cancer specifically that makes people think all your sins forgiven. We throwing a crawfish boil when Steve Scalise dies. TF?

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 1h

veteran's memorial, city hall (1851-1852), parks falls, wisconsin, 2003

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Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 1h

*incredibly subtle* Americana

Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 1h

*perpetual fear*
why it was worth* becoming an American citizen*/$1000
I understand that I had fewer obstacles due to genetics, but understand, I was brought here to USA as a passenger, not by choice.
First time the Fash was elected, was when I *needed* to apply:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The quiet toll of Trump’s legal immigration crackdown: ‘I’m trying to stay afloat’

Immigration lawyer Kim Xavier says stricter enforcement and delays are leaving even legal immigrants in limbo and fear

www.theguardian.com

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Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 2h

I think I'm mostly upset on top of everything else, that Jaz has left us, at a time when it *actually is* a perfect time to leave BlueSky.
Most of the metrics that I see other free applications spewing out are piggybacked on the work of jaz bsky.jazco.dev/stats
No jaz equals no more fun with 🔢😭.

Atlas - Engagement-Based Social Graph for Bluesky by Jaz (jaz.bsky.social)

bsky.jazco.dev

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Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 2h

Atlas - Engagement-Based Social Graph for Bluesky by Jaz (jaz.bsky.social)

bsky.jazco.dev

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Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 2h

but the CEO shitting the bed?
this place is done and there is no other place to go, yet.

Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 2h

I mean it! I am completely disgusted with the majority of people that I run into now and that was not the case in any way with early Blue Sky!
the kind of things that I ran into then were of a unshared experience which was harmless to me.
those are the kinds of things that are easy to tolerate

Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 2h

Update: My poor little bubs!
She spent the night hiding in the bottom of a closet in which a doggy bed resides.
*did not even ask for a walk*😭
LunaDog

small gray poodle mix dog upon a circular upholstered storage container with a throw blanket rest her head upon the window sill in the sunroom of a 1976 desert ranch home. a diffused light is above the dog, outside is overcast and rain at 8:00 a.m. on a Saturday in the shadow of South Mountain Park / phoenix.

Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 2h

It is the nadir of Journalism to write a single word about KidRock, unless it is written sarcastically or he's dead.
You are dancing to the Fascist tune
BlueSky has died for me
There are a couple of humans left, for whom I remain no choice to go elsewhere
most of you just continue to do the dance

Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 2h

you guys are jerks for quoting kid Rock
mostly I think you guys are jerks anyway
but this is among the jerkiest shit that has been going on Today on BlueSky, and that is really saying something given what the CEO has been up to lately.
*Please don't use the word Jerk because it's ableist*
Sarcasm

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Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 2h

but you see he still has a career...

Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 2h

I don't either
Unfortunately the people who do care,
The Media
keep writing about
yet another sad clown who has monetized himself.
Bluesky* has nothing to do with the results that you are getting
You have to choose better FOLLOWS (it was inevitable; only time this place was good was 2 yrs ago).

Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 13h

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🌱 Very Windy on the South side of SoMountain Park Zone9B Phoenix

Palms Fronds Silhouettes Desert Suburban Night Sky
PeaceMaker Finale! was awesome AF.
LunaDog is deeply skeptical of when walkies will next be safe bc it's too windy/noisy; she waits to go in.

palms Fronds against night sky on a windy night in a suburban desert back yard

LunaDog watches the increasing winds from the safety of the lighted porch outdoors, b&w in partial shadow/ bad light.

Android22
photo edit
LunaDog in semi shadow

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. Every time I think I’m done crying someone does something kind like this and I’m in tears again. A weird mixture of happiness and gratitude and just missing him so bad.

Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 1d

He looked so regal in that pic, I had to draw him! Hope that's OK. I'm so deeply sorry for your loss. He looks a beautiful boy who probably purred really loud 🌸☘👑

A digital illustration of an incredibly fluffy cat, drawn in a watercolour-and-ink style. The colours are pastel with lots of yellow, aqua, and cool pink. The cat sits facing us, his bushy white chest contrasting with brown tabby colouring, giving the air of a wise white-bearded king. He has white paws and a white blaze on his face that covers his cheeks and nose. His long, bushy tail curves behind him, adding drama to the seated pose. A gold crown with red gems floats above his head like a halo, sending off radiant lines in the background. He sits on a fluffy white cloud. Around the image is a stylised frame, decorated with red clover (state flower of Vermont) and in the centre, the subject's name: FERGUS.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 23h

serving looks like they're posing for Feline Vogue

My gray tabby baby, Cio Cio San, lounging on a white plush cushion of the cat tree

My spooky black son Radamès peeks from his plush white cave.

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Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 21h

*tradescantia pallida

Lady Autism👩‍🌾 CindyM🍁 (she/they) @cindym.bsky.social · 21h

🌱 Sideyard Purple Heart/ Spiderwort Plant

Found an AI-generated description that caused me to wonder why *Spider* Wort (in the AltText description; honestly it's still in question).
Everyone agrees that someone's mother, MIL or grandmother kept one of these plants.
Tradescantia Oallida Bloom detail

purple spiderwort plant with a single tiny pink flower at the end of one of its stems.
has had many names but it is not representative of any human group...
The species Tradescantia pallida, also known as purple heart or purple spiderwort, is a popular houseplant with dark purple leaves and stems.
Another common species is Tradescantia virginiana, or Virginia spiderwort, which is native to the eastern United States and has flowers that can be blue, purple, magenta, or white.
The common name "spiderwort" may come from the spider-like leaf arrangement, the web-like filaments of the flower, or the web-like sap that comes from cut stems.

tradescantia pallidia flower detail showing delicate spider like stamen near the center, adjacent to Golden nectar
aka The species Tradescantia pallida, also known as purple heart or purple spiderwort, is a popular houseplant with dark purple leaves and stems.
Another common species is Tradescantia virginiana, or Virginia spiderwort, which is native to the eastern United States and has flowers that can be blue, purple, magenta, or white.
The common name "spiderwort" may come from the spider-like leaf arrangement, the web-like filaments of the flower, or the web-like sap that comes from cut stems.

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Jules 🦋 @julesk.me · 1d

On my way to lemonaid to pay out of pocket for hormones because doctors don’t know s about f

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Savage Grace @savagegraceorganics.com · 1d

psilocybe. Cubensis

‘Jedi Mind Fuck’

One of my favourite strains.

Now fruiting nice and evenly across the box and will be ready to start harvesting in a day or two 🍄💊

Shot into a dark tub full of small to medium sized magic mushrooms with white stipes (stems) and brown caps. There’s mist around the base of the mushrooms giving it a pixie vibe

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