Carolannie
@carolannie.bsky.social
Amateur photographer, avid reader, retired sys admin, ecologist at heart, a grandparent, and responsible for Guy Noir the black cat and Monty the gray shih tzu dog. Timeline follows my train of thought, such as it is.
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A fungus photo a day: Waxcaps/hygrocybes taken yesterday, four more photos below. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A fungus photo a day: Waxcaps/hygrocybes taken yesterday, four more photos below. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
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Wow this is a very good definition of mansplaining. 🏆
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Wow this is a very good definition of mansplaining. 🏆
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November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
47 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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"Granite Mountain Views" for #MountainMonday
View into the desert from the ascent to Granite Mountain, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California.
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#Mountains #Hiking #AnzaBorrego #Desert #LandscapePhotography #SouthernCalifornia #SanDiego
View into the desert from the ascent to Granite Mountain, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California.
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#Mountains #Hiking #AnzaBorrego #Desert #LandscapePhotography #SouthernCalifornia #SanDiego
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"Granite Mountain Views" for #MountainMonday
View into the desert from the ascent to Granite Mountain, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California.
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#Mountains #Hiking #AnzaBorrego #Desert #LandscapePhotography #SouthernCalifornia #SanDiego
View into the desert from the ascent to Granite Mountain, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California.
store.alex-kunz.com/featured/gra...
#Mountains #Hiking #AnzaBorrego #Desert #LandscapePhotography #SouthernCalifornia #SanDiego
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November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Caregiving professionals observe that foreign-born workers in particular tend to see looking after seniors as desirable, meaningful work. Many come from cultures that revere their elders[...] But it’s a benefit that ...Trump’s anti-immigration crusade is undermining.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart
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November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Caregiving professionals observe that foreign-born workers in particular tend to see looking after seniors as desirable, meaningful work. Many come from cultures that revere their elders[...] But it’s a benefit that ...Trump’s anti-immigration crusade is undermining.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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Thanksgiving March Protest
Harassing Drivers
Outside Market
Richfield Minnesota
Harassing Drivers
Outside Market
Richfield Minnesota
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Thanksgiving March Protest
Harassing Drivers
Outside Market
Richfield Minnesota
Harassing Drivers
Outside Market
Richfield Minnesota
It's that time of year when the leaves are gone and the lichen and mosses growing on the tree branches take center stage
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #Lichen #Mosses
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #Lichen #Mosses
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It's that time of year when the leaves are gone and the lichen and mosses growing on the tree branches take center stage
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #Lichen #Mosses
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #Lichen #Mosses
I like Doug Muder's weekly posts. He's usually on target, and his posts are remarkably helpful
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The Vibecession and the AI bubble
Depressed consumers and record-setting stock markets don’t usually go together. Why are they both happening now? I recently came across these two facts: The stock market hit an all-time high …
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November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I like Doug Muder's weekly posts. He's usually on target, and his posts are remarkably helpful
weeklysift.com/2025/11/24/t...
weeklysift.com/2025/11/24/t...
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So it's not the dot com bubble, it's the dot com bubble crossed with Enron?
This is as close as the lawyers at the Journal allow reporters to get to "fraudulent fraudsters sighted wearing fraud pants and doing a fraud." www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
So it's not the dot com bubble, it's the dot com bubble crossed with Enron?
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"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Men are in trouble, is the solution making them a problem for women and children too"
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Eggs — for Pecan Tart and Bourboned Sweet Potato Pie
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowel #TheOutpost #FarmersMarket
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowel #TheOutpost #FarmersMarket
November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Eggs — for Pecan Tart and Bourboned Sweet Potato Pie
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowel #TheOutpost #FarmersMarket
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowel #TheOutpost #FarmersMarket
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For #BlueSkyMonday
A sure sign of #Autumn
As a Gray Squirrel
Eats a black walnut
In the riparian forest
Captured Nov. 21, 2025
#Fall
#photography #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #thewildimages
A sure sign of #Autumn
As a Gray Squirrel
Eats a black walnut
In the riparian forest
Captured Nov. 21, 2025
#Fall
#photography #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #thewildimages
November 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
For #BlueSkyMonday
A sure sign of #Autumn
As a Gray Squirrel
Eats a black walnut
In the riparian forest
Captured Nov. 21, 2025
#Fall
#photography #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #thewildimages
A sure sign of #Autumn
As a Gray Squirrel
Eats a black walnut
In the riparian forest
Captured Nov. 21, 2025
#Fall
#photography #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #thewildimages
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“I would be making a category error. We are not calculating the price of luxury. We are calculating the price of participation… The utility I’m buying is ‘connection to the economy.’ The price of that utility didn’t just keep pace with inflation; it tripled relative to it.”
"The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poor
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 AM
“I would be making a category error. We are not calculating the price of luxury. We are calculating the price of participation… The utility I’m buying is ‘connection to the economy.’ The price of that utility didn’t just keep pace with inflation; it tripled relative to it.”
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If you've heard about RFK Jr's "wellness farms," have I got a story for you.
I've worked on farms where most of the crew were put there as rehabilitation for various issues.
So I'd love to tell you all the various ways those farms made us all worse!
youtu.be/pDNoVqiGb_c
I've worked on farms where most of the crew were put there as rehabilitation for various issues.
So I'd love to tell you all the various ways those farms made us all worse!
youtu.be/pDNoVqiGb_c
RFK Jr's Plan To Put Americans On Farms
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
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November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If you've heard about RFK Jr's "wellness farms," have I got a story for you.
I've worked on farms where most of the crew were put there as rehabilitation for various issues.
So I'd love to tell you all the various ways those farms made us all worse!
youtu.be/pDNoVqiGb_c
I've worked on farms where most of the crew were put there as rehabilitation for various issues.
So I'd love to tell you all the various ways those farms made us all worse!
youtu.be/pDNoVqiGb_c
Rainy days and Halloween graveyards
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Rainy days and Halloween graveyards
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #OurNeighborhood #MapleLeafNeighborhood
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Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
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This Day in Labor History: November 23, 1891. A miner in Alaska named Patrick Whalen was injured in a mining accident. After a lower court awarded him financial compensation, the Supreme Court stepped in to make sure that injured workers would get nothing!!!!!!
SCOTUS ALWAYS HAS BEEN TERRIBLE!
SCOTUS ALWAYS HAS BEEN TERRIBLE!
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 23, 1891. A miner in Alaska named Patrick Whalen was injured in a mining accident. After a lower court awarded him financial compensation, the Supreme Court stepped in to make sure that injured workers would get nothing!!!!!!
SCOTUS ALWAYS HAS BEEN TERRIBLE!
SCOTUS ALWAYS HAS BEEN TERRIBLE!
"Without darkness nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers." May Sarton
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
"Without darkness nothing comes to birth, as without light nothing flowers." May Sarton
"The Climate Study That Changed My Life Forever"
She decided that her research needed to be public, not just seen in academia
#ClimateChange #NaturalHistory
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She decided that her research needed to be public, not just seen in academia
#ClimateChange #NaturalHistory
climateages.substack.com/p/the-climat...
The Climate Study That Changed My Life Forever
How research showing mammals in the wrong climates made me leave the lab for storytelling
climateages.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"The Climate Study That Changed My Life Forever"
She decided that her research needed to be public, not just seen in academia
#ClimateChange #NaturalHistory
climateages.substack.com/p/the-climat...
She decided that her research needed to be public, not just seen in academia
#ClimateChange #NaturalHistory
climateages.substack.com/p/the-climat...
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I have to repost this because I have taken so many pictures of Tulips but failed to capture their raw, passionate essence. This picture by Plustax444 is phenomenal!
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I have to repost this because I have taken so many pictures of Tulips but failed to capture their raw, passionate essence. This picture by Plustax444 is phenomenal!
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Just experimenting here. Truro beach sunset.
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Just experimenting here. Truro beach sunset.
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Barbed wire and a weathered old fence post. A breezy, bright autumn day on the moors.
#classicmono #photography #Stunday
#classicmono #photography #Stunday
November 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Barbed wire and a weathered old fence post. A breezy, bright autumn day on the moors.
#classicmono #photography #Stunday
#classicmono #photography #Stunday