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Sea Salt Blooms

@seasaltblooms.bsky.social

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A regenerative, organic flower farm in Midcoast Maine offering a la carte and DIY wedding flowers, events, and educational opportunities. Also a writer, reader, and teacher. Knitting is my Xanax, along with the flowers of course. She/her

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Sea Salt Blooms @seasaltblooms.bsky.social · Feb 6

I’m here for any gardening and growing help.

Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · Feb 4

Hello friendos

Your librarian here with a little tip

Now is a great time to learn DIY. The library has books on how to mend clothes. Upcycle clothes and furniture. Sewing. Basic home and auto repair. Thrifty cooking. Gardening. Container gardening. Woodworking. Practical skills never hurt!

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Sea Salt Blooms @seasaltblooms.bsky.social · Mar 23

We are due more snow tmrrw & it’s probably not even winter’s last hurrah. I’m self soothing remembering these leftover tulip & lilac blooms I brought in for us. We grow a lot of flowers for others & sometimes I forget to bring them in for us too but I’m trying to be better! #bloomscroll #flowerfarm

A mason jar full of of pink and purple tulips and purple lilacs rest on a wooden lazy Susan on a blue table with a wooden window in the background.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Mar 17

this is a golden age for walking out of your lab with a USB key in your pocket getting on a plane and going to Luxembourg

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · Mar 17

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · Mar 16

Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.

By @arthurallen202.bsky.social

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Sea Salt Blooms @seasaltblooms.bsky.social · Mar 15

Finally hitting 50 Fahrenheit this weekend but still weeks away from these blooms which just feels unfair 😂 Maine is worth it though! #bloomscroll #flowerfarm #tulips #spring #midcoastmaine

A handful of orange tulips in front of metal raised beds on a sunny day with trees in the background.

Sea Salt Blooms @seasaltblooms.bsky.social · Mar 8

What if we all just said no to this relentless changing of the clocks? I. Am. Not. A. Fan.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Mar 8

TENNESSEAN: “A recent study by ITEP estimated the # of undocumented immigrants working in the U.S. is between 7-8 million with an estimated payroll of nearly $280 billion. This represents almost 5% of the total U.S. workforce.” www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

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Sea Salt Blooms @seasaltblooms.bsky.social · Mar 8

Close up photo of some of my Floret zinnias last season. One of my goals this year is to take more (& much better) photos. I love this one though? I remember I was so hot that day these zinnias & I were SO happy to get back in to my cool flower studio! #bloomscroll #flowerfarm #zinnias #gardening

Close up photo of pink, pastel, peach, and lilac zinnias. Sone are fully double, sone are singles.

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · Jan 29

Being trans is a joy and a gift! Some folks are trying to take away that joy! We will not let them! We will become even more trans and more joyful as time goes on!

a banner which reads Trans Rights Are Human Rights surrounded by stars and yellow roses

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Sea Salt Blooms @seasaltblooms.bsky.social · Mar 6

Ahhhhh! I get that 100%. I’m firing all of her dahlias. I should have picked that up from the grown from cutting but I have the flu and brain fog so I didn’t 🫠 I had a bunch last year sadly. Not as many as some tho!

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Sea Salt Blooms @seasaltblooms.bsky.social · Mar 6

Bloomquist Alan?

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Rachel @sugarmaple.bsky.social · Feb 17

Sending love to you. We can honor and appreciate some of our past traditions while knowing the world can be a better place due to its diversity, science, compassion, empathy and love for all the people & creatures under the sun.

#homecooking #gardening #farmsky #homesteading 🍽️ 🌱

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Alt Musician @altmusician.altgov.info · Mar 6

@altfws.altgov.info if any of the fish and wildlife service, people contact you pass this on.

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Sea Salt Blooms @seasaltblooms.bsky.social · Mar 6

Last year was my first year growing a lot of celosia (successfully) and I really fell in love with its feathery fun spiky shape. Along with strawflower I want to grow SO much of it this year! #bloomscroll #flowerfarm #gardening #celosia

Photo of a bucket of celosia flowers in shades of red, coral, and yellow. Some apricot lemonade cosmos are also tucked in the bucket.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Mar 4

Sam Alito gave cities more leeway to dump raw sewage into our water supply by deploying a sleight of hand so clumsy that it would fail to impress a kindergarten class.

This isn't statutory interpretation. It's a gut renovation of the Clean Water Act on behalf of polluters. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Supreme Court Rules the Clean Water Act Doesn’t Actually Require That Water Be Clean

Amy Coney Barrett was not having it.

slate.com

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · Mar 6

Honestly pretty funny that Republicans spent four years warning that the Democratic president was a senile, checked-out vegetable who’d handed control of the government over to unelected extremists

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Sea Salt Blooms @seasaltblooms.bsky.social · Mar 5

And to you! I can’t get king cake locally I just order it from NOLA or make it myself. So I’m envious! My kids LOVE to try to find the baby!

Sea Salt Blooms @seasaltblooms.bsky.social · Mar 4

I lived in New Orleans for a long time and marveled how we could have such a rich insane holiday when everywhere else it was just Tues. Now I live everywhere else and I’m still amazed. Anyhow, here’s some King Cake ice cream and happy Mardi Gras everyone!

Photo of a cup of soft serve ice cream with a spoon in it and Mardi Gras colors of purple, green, and gold sprinkles. Photo taken in a car.

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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · Mar 4

"The most striking aspect to Trump's crypto reserve and the scrapping of anti-money laundering rules, which together amount to a global charter for criminals, is that he's making no effort to dress them up. This pig has no lipstick." My column. on.ft.com/43kiBOu

Trump’s heist in broad daylight

[FREE TO READ] Having previously declared bitcoin to be a ‘scam’, the US president now wants to add it to the Fed’s balance sheet

on.ft.com

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Mar 4

Taking a super nice train in Italy for $45 and thinking of how cool it is that our taxpayer money back home will buy Ethereum to bail out David Sacks.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Mar 4

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Mar 4

ahhhhhhhhhh

A tweet from Trump that reads “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter”

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Mar 1

The bloodbath at NOAA apparently included meteorologists with the National Weather Service; scientists inside what’s simply known as NOAA Research, or the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) more formally; technicians that keep up the country’s weather instrumentation;

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Mar 1

NOAA returns/produces so much more money to the American economy than it costs, no stories about any of this should allow them the absolutely bullshit "savings" framing

We Are All Less Safe Today, as NOAA Gets Hit With Mass Firings

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Mar 1

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · Mar 2

Vermont understood the assignment.
Take notes, America.

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Sea Salt Blooms @seasaltblooms.bsky.social · Mar 2

And a sunset photo from my other garden. I put some seedling dahlias there last year because I put them like everywhere I could 😂. Sunset is always so lovely in this spot. But the seedlings didn’t get enough sun I think! #bloomscroll #gardening #flowerfarm #dahlias #sunset

In the foreground are tall purple open center dahlias turned to face the golden sunset in the background.

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Sea Salt Blooms @seasaltblooms.bsky.social · Mar 2

Five mins of scrolling was more than I could take this morning before I had to go back to flowers. This is Hollyhill Starburst, a dahlia I bought on a whim last year and ended up loving so much. So did my littles! I should grow more maybe! #bloomscroll #dahlias #gardening #flowerfarm #midcoastmaine

Photo of dahlia Hollyhill Starburst. A laciniated (spiky petals) pink and white dahlia just above a wooden raised bed side. It’s surrounded by greenery.