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JuliaRedman.com Orchids and Rare Plants Maker, artist, orchid grower. We believe in the value of science and human rights around here. Also cats and horses and random spiders.

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Julia - she/her @juliaredman.bsky.social · Feb 4

Hey all, I’m sure you didn’t sign up to watch me lose my mind over the existential crisis that is the USA right now, but these are unprecedented times. I will endeavor to mix in plant and creative content per the regularly scheduled program as well. 🥴

Julia - she/her @juliaredman.bsky.social · 27d

That’s sweet and all but we have to survive that long. And more to the point, repeated assaults like this take their toll because the claw back to normal lacks a similar level of aggressive pace. Then we just do it all over again in a few years because too many either don’t learn or don’t care.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Oct 3

This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight.

But consider this...

Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending.

Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 3

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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Julia - she/her @juliaredman.bsky.social · Sep 28

There are also geothermal solutions that involve putting large pipes way underground as a way to cool and recirculate air through the space. There are at least two greenhouse companies that offer this as an incorporated concept including greenhouse in the snow and .. ceres I think is the other.

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Julia - she/her @juliaredman.bsky.social · Sep 28

What if you sink it into the ground about four feet with concrete walls, like a basement, then stick the greenhouse on top? You can also get tinted twinwall polycarbonate or glass to provide a bit of a light filter and in theory reduce heat gain.

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Julia - she/her @juliaredman.bsky.social · Aug 31

Work in progress. Subject inspired by a Pleione flower, underlying layers built over time through experimentation and, basically, existential crisis 🤷‍♀️
The lip has come out slightly lopsided. Not sure I’m going to correct that. Perfection is a myth, after all.
#orchids #fineart #painting

A still life painting sitting on a table. Painting has a textured surface consisting of coarse intersecting lines, and random raised patches. Background is mostly yellow orange in color, with hints of green. Dominated by a floral subject picked out in shades of pink and purple.
Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas.

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Fine Art Gallery @fineartgallery.bsky.social · Jan 9

Artist: Fermin Garcia Sevilla
"Villanueva de los Infantes", oilpainting 40x40 cm
#art #oilpainting #januarty #landscape

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The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 18

Shop at The Onion store. It's not like anything else has made you happy.
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'I Hate Whatever Today Is' Headline T-Shirt

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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · Aug 18

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Julia - she/her @juliaredman.bsky.social · Aug 15

Laelia purpurata, first bloom seedling
Not quite a semi alba, the petals are actually pale pink. I don’t recall if this one had a forma attached to it, and I can’t seem to liberate the tag from the pot to find out.
#laeliapurpurata #cattleya #orchids #bloomscrolling #orchidaceae

Overlapping orchid flowers, pale petals and sepals with brilliant jewel tone lip. In the background is a riot of green leaves.

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Julia - she/her @juliaredman.bsky.social · Aug 14

Looks bigger than lava burst (?). That has little flowers about an inch high on short plants.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 11

'Stoer Lighthouse' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #womensart

Pictorial textile artwork with scene of a lighthouse on a cliff by the sea under a swirling sky

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NPR @npr.org · Aug 11

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Trump has the power to deploy the National Guard, but "none of the conditions exist" for the president to take over the city's police.

D.C. mayor defends capital's crime rates after Trump threatens to take over police

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said President Trump has the power to deploy the National Guard, but "none of the conditions exist" for the president to take over the city's police.

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ACLU @aclu.org · Aug 11

60 years after its passage, the promises of the Voting Rights Act are under attack across the country.

The right to vote is at the core of our democracy and we won't stop fighting to protect it.

The Voting Rights Act at 60: A Legacy in Jeopardy, a Democracy at Risk | ACLU

As the Voting Rights Act turns 60, its legacy is under siege—from courts, lawmakers, and a government retreating from enforcement. The battle to preserve it is now a fight for the future of democracy itself.

www.aclu.org

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Julia - she/her @juliaredman.bsky.social · Aug 8

I kept this plant because it had some skeevy looking leaves. It’s fine, just they were a bit ugly. I had no idea it was going to bloom out completely without purples. I do hope one of the others blooms semi alba, as special as an alba is I’m still fond of the semi alba variation.

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Julia - she/her @juliaredman.bsky.social · Aug 8

Vanda tessellata alba, smelling like a spiced mead. They are bright chartreuse, typical tessellata vein pattern barely visible, with a snowy white lip. This is from a population that was supposed to be semi alba, so with a pink lip.
#vanda #vandatessellata #bloomscrolling #orchids #fragrantorchids

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Julia - she/her @juliaredman.bsky.social · Aug 8

Pachypodium eburnum
A young plant about 5 years old. I took these photos a week ago or so, I should take another. All flowers are open now, making for an impressive display.
#caudex #succulentplant #bloomscrolling #pachypodium

Pachypodium eburnum flowering plant held in an extended hand. Potted in clay, the thick, squat trunk of the plant is topped with a tuft of leaves and a long stem dressed at the top with an umbel of large white flowers.

Closeup of the caudex body of the plant, gray, globular, and spiney, topped with crisp, bright green leaves. Potted in a clay pot.

Pachypodium flowers. White with green throat, vaguely trumpet shaped.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 24

Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice.

Make no mistake: Trump and the GOP just chose to do this.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jul 19

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Julia - she/her @juliaredman.bsky.social · Jul 19

#Bulbophyllum odoratissimum. Vaguely fragrant of some kind of melon soap substance. This plant is only loosely associated with the cedar shingle it was given as a mount. Some roots are attached, but the bulk of the plant exists as a hairball in front of the mount.
#orchids #bloomscrolling

A puffball of yellow and white flowers with a peek of red in the center of each. The flowers are arranged much like a sweet gum’s spiney seed pod.

Flowers just starting to open sport a stronger orange color

The whole plant looking like a leafy hairball with its wiry white roots everywhere except the cedar mounting shingle

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Julia - she/her @juliaredman.bsky.social · Jul 18

Wow!

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Peter Kuper @pkuper.bsky.social · Jul 18

@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social
First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Jul 11

WTF?!? Border Czar Tom Homan claimed that ICE and Border Patrol agents don’t need probable cause to detain people they suspect are undocumented, saying they can do so based on factors like physical appearance. This is straight-up racial profiling, not law enforcement.

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Julia - she/her @juliaredman.bsky.social · Jul 3

Vandachostylis Rainbow Stars (falcata x Charm), first bloom seedling. Very fragrant of cheap cake icing and birthday candles.
#orchids #bloomscrolling #vanda #neofinetia #neofinetiafalcata #fragrantorchids

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Jul 1

#HappyPride for the next 335 days, too.

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Julia - she/her @juliaredman.bsky.social · Jun 11

Some #orchids blooming here now.
Names in alt text.
#phalaenopsis #oncidium #tolumnia #equitant #bulbophyllum #bloomscrolling

Phalaenopsis Nianzhen Song (venosa x finleyi)

Rrm Orchidom Orange Delight x Tolumnia guttata

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