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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain

@wearegonnafindout.bsky.social

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Native plants (7b/65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain) - ask about my starter pack 💚 Decarbonization, oddments Working on building energy regulations at a big nonprofit; speaking for myself here She/they

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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · Dec 28

I'm considering a little post series extolling the virtues of easy beginner #nativeplants 🌱 for the Mid-Atlantic because in March or April, a bunch of new folks will careen into this hobby (it's like clockwork) and it might be handy to have said posts for quoting.

I'll thread them starting here.

Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · Dec 28

Up to 41 #nativeplants species sown 😳🌱 (a few out of frame here)

Eight winter sowing containers, mostly plastic salad boxes held together with binder clips, sitting on the ground next to a beige house

About 20 winter sowing containers, some gallon jugs and some plastic salad boxes held together with binder clips, sitting on the ground next to a beige house

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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 29m

Oh I definitely didn't know until I went researching for notable persons with missing or injured eyes!

Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 30m

Decent photos of faces. Teddy has really impressive eyeliner and from a distance Peets often looks photoshopped because the spot under his missing eye is so bright white.

🐈🐈 #kittens

Peter the kitten. He is buff tabby with white splotches. His right eye is missing, with a bright white spot right under where it was removed. His left eye is golden with a milky spot on it. His pink ears have white tufts.

Teddy the kitten. He is a gray classic tabby whose right eye was removed. He has a very nice bright white monocle pattern around his remaining eye.

Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 55m

hup!

🐈 #kittens

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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 57m

Teddy still had his eye, just couldn't see out of it, I think.

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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 1h

Our previous cats had mundane people names and we liked it ... though I too definitely wanted to call the gray boy some variation on Odin 😂

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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 11h

They're named after notable persons with one working eye: gray is Theodore/Teddy (Roosevelt, blind in one eye due to an injury in a boxing match) and buff is Peter/Peets (Falk, actor who played Columbo, had an eye removed as a little kid due to cancer).

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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 11h

Lol well... Our last two were white and gray so we're used to it

Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 11h

Just read the alt text. "Werewolf mohawk" 10/10 no notes

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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 11h

Attempts

🐈 #kittens

A gray classic tabby kitten missing his right eye. He is stalking over a black and beige area rug.

A buff and white splotched kitten drinking water from a blue ceramic dish on a black and beige area rug

A gray classic tabby kitten to the left and a buff and white splotchy kitten to the right, on their bellies, seen from above. Their paws are just barely touching.

The kittens having a scuffle. The gray kitten is on the ground, looking aghast.

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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 12h

Awwww cutie pies

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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 12h

I am learning it is hard to take good photos of kittens

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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah they were for sure in my hair too.

Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 16h

Fetch quest (two kittens, male, right eyes missing)

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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 20h

CA-based, yes?

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Shreyas Sudhakar @shreyassudhakar.com · 21h

I need your help sending another gas furnace to the junkyard - @vayu.pro is looking for a part-time project manager to help us grow!

Zero prior knowledge needed.

If you’re organized, creative, empathetic, and want to break into a climate career, you’ll thrive.

Know anyone who fits the bill?

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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · 21h

What local businesses should we highlight in the Baltimore Beat gift guide?

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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 20h

I hope someone has written a poem about this friend and its highly combustible host plant 💚🦋

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BOOgeltechno (FSU 3-2) @bageltechno.bsky.social · 1d

everyone (midatlantic/northeast only) go outside :)

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Kate @herbygardens.bsky.social · 21h

Went on a little hike today and saw these beautiful bald eagles in their nest.

#nature
#birds

Two bald eagles in their nest at the top of a large tree.

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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 20h

🎯

Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 20h

Not to be an asshole but why can't the answer be "just no" for data centers 😂😭

Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 20h

A local bestie of mine is into fiber arts actually, though crochet not knitting I believe. HmmmmMMMMmmmm

Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 21h

Thank you!

Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 22h

I'm not sure we will edit well when taking lessons from data center grid/ratepayer issues to electrification grid/ratepayer issues. Current transmission fights hint at this outcome. And if the main lesson is just "no" ... idk man, seems bad

(no solutions here only anxiety 💖)

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Erin Sherman 🌱 65n Chesapeake rolling coastal plain @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 22h

I'm a little worried about the extent to which people will assume data centers and electrification of combustion equipment are similar power and infrastructure problems, with similar solutions and costs/risks to solve. The latter is so diffuse compared to the former - physically, financially, etc.

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