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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 11h

Had a fabulous dinner featuring gravenstein apples fried with ripe jalapenos, onions, and quince vinegar (I made it, but the concept was my partner's).

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 19h

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 19h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 22h

Now with #AltText

A black background has white text at the top that says “amphifa.” Two flags over each other, common antifa flags, have a black flag and a green one. An image of a green frog facing left with a blue ascot sits on the black flag. Circling the flags is the text, “amphibians against fascism.”

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

It’s quite the loophole. A get out of laws free card.

Murder is illegal, but logging is not. So Trump says that person is a tree. Voila, killing is legal.

Sound absurd? Real claims include:

Unarmed migrants are invading foreign soldiers.
Drugs are military arms.
Peaceful expression is rebellion.

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 1d

M.O. of Counterfeit Nobles

Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 5d

I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.

Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 2d

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 3d

The advantage of spring harvest is that bulbs are easier to clean, the advantage of fall harvest is that it's better for the bulbs you replant/transplant. The flavor is hard to distinguish between spring/summer harvest and fall harvest in my experience.

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 3d

For wild harvesting it needs to be when there are above-ground parts (flowers being the easiest to spot) so you can avoid any confusion with Zygadenus/Toxicoscordion. But garden grown camas can be harvested anytime. I like to harvest after it is dormant (Sept, Oct).

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 3d

Please do! We moved it off of Lopez so that more folks can come.

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 3d

Last night I made shrimp and nettle dumplings and now I'm thinking about camas dumpling fillings.....

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 3d

What to make? Camas sushi, camas icecream, camas filled crepes, camas salsa, camas cupcakes? As many of the above as I can manage! And maybe some new ones too.

Kwiaht @kwiaht.org · 3d

Join us for our 7th annual Camas Festival! A potluck featuring camas (Camassia leichtlinii) based dishes and presentations and discussion of camas cultivation. Saturday October 25th 12-3pm at the Stevens Center of the Padilla Bay National
Estuarine Research Reserve. www.kwiaht.org/calendar.htm

A great camas (Camasssia leichtlinii) inflorescence. The flowers are deep purple.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 3d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 4d

And it turns out the right ferry isn't running anyway.

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 4d

I am kind of glad. I spent the weekend island hopping and need to do stuff at home now (and enjoy the fall sunbeams!)

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 4d

I mixed up an in person meeting with a virtual meeting and now am on the wrong island (fortunately that's because I stayed on the island where I live).

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 7d

Doing some research, I just came across this image of shad fishermen checking their nets in the Bay of Fundy. I'm sharing because it's cool. Have a good day.

Three fishermen are checking nets strung high above the ground. The tide has gone out. One is on a mule-pulled cart, one is climbing a pole, and a third watches from the ground. Credit: Library and Archives Canada/National Film Board fonds/e011176116.

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 7d

I've got a gluten free apple betty recipe around somewhere if you'd like it.

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 7d

Today I was raiding Orcas orchards (and hitting up farmstands) to supply tomorrow's tasting with the Orcas Museum. Neither Arkansas Black nor Peck's Pleasant were ripe yet, but I found an unexpected crop of seedling "Allred" and an unnamed seedling of Golden Russet.

Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 7d

Golden Ball, living up to its name. I just had the opportunity to talk with the legendary John Bunker about this variety and how it relates (or doesn't) to Fall Pippin!

A fallen golden apple with light russeting next to a Himalaya blackberry cane.

A large, sprawling apple tree covered in round golden apples.

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 8d

These crabapple crosses (Arkansas Black crossed with probably Malus baccata) fall off the tree when ripe and spoil quickly, but they are tasty when fresh, press into lovely cider, and are undeniably pretty.

A small apple cut perpendicular to the stem, the flesh under the skin is deep pink, gradiating to white around the star of the core.

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 8d

These Pewaukee apples aren't ripe yet, but they all have a delightful fleshy bump next to the stem. Very distinctive. So far we have only found this variety in one orchard on San Juan, but in that orchard remnant all the trees are Pewaukee.

Two green apples with red stripes and brown russet near the stem, one is held sideways, both have a peaked bump in the russet part one one side of the stem, in the sideways apple the bump completely obscures the stem.

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 8d

And a modest sized Gloria Mundi just before it was chopped to add to dinner

An enormous green apple with a bruise held over a cutting board.

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 8d

Just one of our projects is a federal contract. But it's a project with time sensitive tasks, and I have a stop work order on it because of the US government shutdown.

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 8d

An incredible Blue Pearmain crop to come on the tree where I collected my cutting.

A large apple tree behind a fence, covered in large purplish apples. A large dead branch stick out the top of the tree.

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Madrona Murphy @arbutocrat.bsky.social · 8d

A very underripe Blue Pearmain on my tiny grafted tree

A pale purple apple with white spots and green streaks sitting on an upturned flower pot.

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