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sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · 8h

Can't go this time* but I love my small city, could hear honking and people yelling from downtown for the protest for over 2 hours 😍

*about to start as caregiver for Dad's immune cell cancer treatment, hopefully to great result.

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sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · 10h

What I picture when I think of a butterfly. 100 years, what's that in butterflies?

Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 11h

🦋 The butterflies of North America
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884-88 [v. 1, 1888]

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Illustration of four Papilio bairdii butterflies from "The butterflies of North America" (1888). Two butterflies show their wings fully spread, displaying black wings with distinctive yellow bands along the edges and blue and orange spots near the tail. The other two show a side view of their wings, highlighting intricate patterns of pale yellow, blue, and black. The detailed and symmetrical wing designs emphasize the species’ vibrant coloration and varied wing positions. The illustration aims to depict accurate natural history details for identification.

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Jo @jokar.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s a list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · 3d

I love how I type bs in my browser and it opens bluesky my current bs delivery mechanism of choice.

sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · 8d

God I hate when a big disruption to my routine is coming but not for a while. Constant anxiety for weeks. Most things I'm scared of I try to rush in and do, or avoid completely because the waiting for something I can't picture how it will go is just the most constant horrible feeling.

sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · 9d

I'm starting to think one of my (not so new now) coworker lacks theory of mind. She seems literally incapable of imagining what things she knows now that future person reading her notes will not.
It's not because she doesn't know them if you notice & ask for the missing info. So exhausting.

sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · 10d

Way too many people don't get that an almost perfect test of who will make you poorest quickest is that they are the ones offering a shortcut to get rich quick.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 10d

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 10d

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

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sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · 11d

Also discovered Elizabeth Hand via my library app. Even what they label crime/mystery of hers is very horror flavor & all gorgeously written IMO.

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sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · 11d

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes was a sci-fi horror I liked.

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sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · 11d

Have always been convinced puce and chartreuse are backwards, puce should be in the green/yellows and chartreuse should be in the pink/purples.

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sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · 16d

My current most petty hatery thing is that I can't exclude a certain thriller author from my Hoopla suggestions.
Never read them on that platform or checked out from my library as I find their writing unreadably bad but my suggestion stay absolutely inundated.

sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · 19d

I had that fridge problem, you can likely quite easily adjust the front feet to raise it a bit so it gravity closes harder. Wished I'd known and done it sooner.

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sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · 22d

Alt text 10 pumpkin and elongated pumpkin shaped mystery squash, in a mixture of dark green to light orange skin colors. Half have a few small spots of skin damage where the critters took a taste.

sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · 22d

Squirrels keep nibbling on the winter squash/pumpkiny guys so harvested most. Left a few that are near the house, fingers crossed they remain unchewed because they will be better with more time on the vine.
Prettt good crop considering I planted none of them, these are all the volunteers.

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sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · Sep 18

Now starting every online recipe search by adding "Mark Bittman" to fairly reliably get one of his basic recipes, recipe searching is so bad.

Next step, move the microwave on top of the fridge & dig out my cookbooks (including his encyclopedic How to Cook Everything). Quicker and better result 😭

sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · Sep 18

Well, my Disney/hulu vacation pause just became permanent.

Not buying this shit, both figuratively and literally.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · Sep 16

A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.

Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · Sep 16

Well, this is fucked up and depressing.

Ian Casselberry @iancasselberry.blog · Sep 16

Rolling Stone fired Alan Sepinwall, Status’ Oliver Darcy reports. That’s probably the end of my subscription.

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sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · Sep 13

I met Computer long ago when it it was yet Text Only and from that time I learned to never ever adventure into dark places without first figuring out how to bring your own light.
Or you will inevitably be eaten by a grue.

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Sep 13

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · Sep 9

Looking good, heard them all seal, now they sit for 24 hrs before the final check. Canner is the smallest one, only holds 4 of this size jars.
5th jar is a quick pickle (unsealed), will go in fridge to start using in a few days.

5 jars of pickled green beens and cucumbers cooling on a cupcake print dishtowel covered counter.

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sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · Sep 9

Doing my first canning in 2 years in my new-this-year electric pressure canner (though I'm doing water bath this time- pickles and pickled green beans).
In my tiny galley kitchen really liking the ability to make the brine/sauce/whatever on the stove, while the canner is separate on the counter.

sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · Sep 9

Yeah rotating is the way to go.

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sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · Sep 9

Haven't seen that one, will check it out (though right now watching mostly hulu cuz I'm pausing it end if the month)

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sheetmulch.bsky.social @sheetmulch.bsky.social · Sep 9

I get it periodically so I can rewatch Pie in the Sky. I liked Ludwig recently.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 8

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us.

When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · Sep 7

I don't want to start a thing so I'll just say that there will never be a good argument for privatizing USPS. That would be like privatizing libraries. The aim of services isn't to be run for profit, they are for serving the greater good, which USPS has been extremely successful at.

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