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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · 19h

Up here in the hinterlands I've just seen one Platner sign, which is one more than I've seen for any other Senate candidate.

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Deborah Lowe, Contemporary stained glass artist, UK

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · 5d

So much crazy stuff everywhere. A few days ago I chatted with a woman selling cider doughnuts who seemed ok until she started popping off about solar panels leaking anti-freeze and permanently destroying the earth underneath them. Yikes. Started to wonder what she put in her doughnuts. Backed away.

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · 6d

Keep up the good fight. I greatly appreciate what you are doing!

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · 18d

After you posted about ropewalks, I thought about all the people all over the world who once walked for miles every day twisting rope. According the the diorama at the ME Maritime Museum one long time employee walked 140,00 miles. Half of them backwards--3 times around the circumference of the earth

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · 20d

@charlieangus104.bsky.social always lifts my spirits. He reminds me so much of the people I grew up with on my grandparents' farm on the Canadian border. I wish we had more like him here. Go Charlie! Elbows up!

KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · 22d

Just waded into the back of the wild garden, and you're right--it smells just like gardenias. What a nice surprise!

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · 26d

The appearance of Boots the dog confirms that the hydrant is actually a TARDIS space/time vehicle for small creatures. Judging from the iembossed McAvity on its front the original inhabitant was likely T.S. Eliot's elusive Macavity: The Mystery Cat, always the prime suspect but never caught out.

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · 27d

The sugar maple leaves haven't turned yet so I can't take a photo, but every fall there are some that reliably have leaves with patches of green, yellow, orange and red.

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · Sep 9

She also got a dig in on Graham Platner noting that his Dad is “a prominent attorney”, undercutting his working class narrative. We need real change in this election, but to me this looks like two wily old women trying to set up the bros to knock one another out. What other reason for Kleban’s run?

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · Sep 8

That's the way I've made it, too, with some olive oil in the pan. Agree that the difference in texture between the crisp outer sear and softer interior kicks it up a notch. The sear also adds flecks of color as well some umami.

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · Sep 7

"What struck me most was how much of their skepticism came from incomplete information rather than anti-science ideology." This article is a great counter to the propaganda from the likes of Christiane Northrup, one of the "Disinformation Dozen" unfortunately based in Maine. Thanks for posting it!

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · Sep 5

My great-grandmother was the local midwife and dispenser of herbal cures in her northwoods Maine town in the late 1800s. However, none of her healing skills or the healthy lives they lived on the farm could save one of her daughters from dying of whooping cough, two others from TB.

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sending a rainbow of vegetables from my garden. It's amazing what the land can provide to nourish body & soul.

An old woven ash potato basket holding a rainbow of garden vegetables, among them cluster of big red tomatoes, a long red pepper, a box of yellow, orange and chocolate cherry tomatoes, a big purple cabbage.

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · Sep 2

Musk hasn't got a clue about what civilization means, Western or otherwise. However, he is good at cultural erosion--his takeover of Twitter did a good job of that. Now he's going after the meaning of Heinlein's word "grok"-understanding based on empathy. Another concept Musk fails to comprehend.

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · Sep 2

If they're your friends and family who are working, you're not going to forget them. But if you don't know anyone who works then forgetting all about workers a definite possibility. As the Senator frequently demonstrates.

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · Aug 31

You're right, of course, in a sociological sense. But what "rural" means depends a lot on what you're looking for. For me it's also an environmental concept - the diversity of species around me, air that smells good, more birdsong than traffic noise, no streetlights so it's easy to see the stars.

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · Aug 31

Skowhegan, Farmington, Houlton and Machias are all county seats of rural counties with facilities like courthouses, hospitals, professional offices, car dealerships, etc. Although they exist to serve rural populations, they're towns and considerably different from the rural areas surrounding them.

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · Aug 31

I have some idiosyncratic personal metrics (e.g. it's not rural if you buy your eggs at a store) but basically it comes down to less than 50 people per square mile. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ma...

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · Aug 30

According to a June 2025 poll reported by Axios, Bernie Sanders has the most influential Democratic primary endorsement with 60% of voters more likely to vote for candidates he endorses, 12% less likely. Closely followed by Elizabeth Warren, 56%/10%. www.axios.com/2025/06/13/d...

The most important Democratic primary endorsements: poll

New data reveals only a fraction of those endorsements motivate primary voters.

www.axios.com

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · Aug 29

"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷

Mural by JDL Street Art in Roubaix, Lille, France, depicting the Statue of Liberty covering her face with both hands in a gesture of shame. The figure is painted in shades of grey with teal accents on the torch and crown, set against a muted background with a golden halo-like circle. The artwork spans the side of a tall brick building, contrasting modern street art with historic European architecture in the surrounding cityscape.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · Aug 28

Nothing - even you - is alone in this vastly interconnected web.

Alexa Robles-Gil @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social · Aug 28

Like humans, every tree has its own microbiome — an invisible ecosystem that is only beginning to be understood.

My latest for @nytimes.com (gift link!)

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/s...

In Every Tree, a Trillion Tiny Lives

www.nytimes.com

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · Aug 26

Eric Foner's Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution is excellent and also comes in an abridged edition if you're not up for reading the almost 800 pages in the original. I also really like Henry Louis Gates' 4 part Reconstruction documentary, available on PBS if you're a member.

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · Aug 25

Not to decide is to decide.

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KateInMaine @kateinmaine.bsky.social · Aug 24

Seeing a Grand Banks Schooner under full sail is a thrilling sight. I'll miss not seeing the Bluenose again for awhile. But that's far outweighed by my appreciation for Canadians upholding their excellent moral values. I hope that the US can live up to them again sometime soon.

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