Adventures In My Four Season Garden
@zenobiapaints.bsky.social
Artist. Gardener. Easily amused by medieval marginalia.
Julie's Secret Jewel Watching Friend.
Happy Holiday Cactus season to those who celebrate.
Julie's Secret Jewel Watching Friend.
Happy Holiday Cactus season to those who celebrate.
Pinned
Just remember: people have been baking with this stuff probably since the Neolithic period and they didn't need a scale or a $300 Le Creuset bread cloche to get there. If anyone bugs you, call it Experimental Archaeology
Am I going to continue to rage drink eggnog?
Signs point to yes
Signs point to yes
After yesterday's storm, New England's next weather feature will come in the form of an Arctic cold front. This front will drop through Thursday, bringing the potential for snow squalls and very cold temps. Details: #MAwx #CTwx #RIwx #NHwx #MEwx #VTwx
www.newenglandstormcenter.com/post/arctic-...
www.newenglandstormcenter.com/post/arctic-...
Arctic Front to Bring Squalls, Cold Temperatures to New England Thursday
Yesterday's storm continues to steadily march away from New England this morning. A wide swath of 6-12 inches of snow fell across interior New England, with a steep cutoff moving toward the southern N...
www.newenglandstormcenter.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Am I going to continue to rage drink eggnog?
Signs point to yes
Signs point to yes
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December 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
— Plato
— Plato
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
— Plato
— Plato
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I made a paint set I really, really like and it makes me happy.
& This is the kinda fkd up timeline where smol happy things matter.
So here. Have some colours that make my brain happy I guess?
It has 3 single pigment primaries + green, & works for mixing a rainbow of colours plus greys & browns…
& This is the kinda fkd up timeline where smol happy things matter.
So here. Have some colours that make my brain happy I guess?
It has 3 single pigment primaries + green, & works for mixing a rainbow of colours plus greys & browns…
December 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I made a paint set I really, really like and it makes me happy.
& This is the kinda fkd up timeline where smol happy things matter.
So here. Have some colours that make my brain happy I guess?
It has 3 single pigment primaries + green, & works for mixing a rainbow of colours plus greys & browns…
& This is the kinda fkd up timeline where smol happy things matter.
So here. Have some colours that make my brain happy I guess?
It has 3 single pigment primaries + green, & works for mixing a rainbow of colours plus greys & browns…
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December 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Franklin and the Boiling Pot of Water
A report by the Pentagon's internal watchdog into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of Signal could be made public this week, a source familiar with the matter told CBS News
December 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Franklin and the Boiling Pot of Water
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This is what I mean when I say the haters are mad that I can enjoy the benefits of fatherhood.
She didn’t want me to have a family because it meant I couldn’t clean her house as much.
And instead of hiring a cleaner, she inspired this zine.
She didn’t want me to have a family because it meant I couldn’t clean her house as much.
And instead of hiring a cleaner, she inspired this zine.
The Book of Karen - A Saddle Stitch Zine
When a ten year friendship collapsed into a hate-filled rant, I collaged her text messages and the art I made along way.
www.kickstarter.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
This is what I mean when I say the haters are mad that I can enjoy the benefits of fatherhood.
She didn’t want me to have a family because it meant I couldn’t clean her house as much.
And instead of hiring a cleaner, she inspired this zine.
She didn’t want me to have a family because it meant I couldn’t clean her house as much.
And instead of hiring a cleaner, she inspired this zine.
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The micro aggressions between the moment Jake moved in and dessert all clicked into a pattern. She had been using antisemitism and transphobia proactively to try to neg me out of changing.
a girl with pink hair says `` we 're not compatible . ''
Alt: A dream girl in pink flying in the clouds says we’re not compatible
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The micro aggressions between the moment Jake moved in and dessert all clicked into a pattern. She had been using antisemitism and transphobia proactively to try to neg me out of changing.
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I was too angry. Too masculine. Too much of a father figure.
a cartoon of a girl talking to a man with the words super dad above them
Alt: A father hugs his daughter and it says super dad. He is wearing a hat with a feather in the front and she is wearing a sari. There are geometric designs on the wall. She has an orange flower in her hair.
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I was too angry. Too masculine. Too much of a father figure.
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What are we talking about? Oh so that’s when my transition became a problem.
two men are standing next to each other and the word transition is on the bottom
Alt: A man daps and transitions
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:38 AM
What are we talking about? Oh so that’s when my transition became a problem.
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There’s not a meme for what it’s like when your friend of 7-10 years makes a joke about including you in the genocide of your people.
December 3, 2025 at 3:37 AM
There’s not a meme for what it’s like when your friend of 7-10 years makes a joke about including you in the genocide of your people.
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“get a tattoo of a bar code on my arm”
or something? I’ve since been gaslit, we’ll come back to that when @cindynorth1.bsky.social tells the story after the zine has been fully funded.
Whatever the exact words were, my body heard a shoa allusion AT me
Sorry there’s not a meme for this.
or something? I’ve since been gaslit, we’ll come back to that when @cindynorth1.bsky.social tells the story after the zine has been fully funded.
Whatever the exact words were, my body heard a shoa allusion AT me
Sorry there’s not a meme for this.
December 3, 2025 at 3:36 AM
“get a tattoo of a bar code on my arm”
or something? I’ve since been gaslit, we’ll come back to that when @cindynorth1.bsky.social tells the story after the zine has been fully funded.
Whatever the exact words were, my body heard a shoa allusion AT me
Sorry there’s not a meme for this.
or something? I’ve since been gaslit, we’ll come back to that when @cindynorth1.bsky.social tells the story after the zine has been fully funded.
Whatever the exact words were, my body heard a shoa allusion AT me
Sorry there’s not a meme for this.
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So we sit down to dessert and she says… she says… I’m disassociating right so I don’t know what she’s saying but then she says
a picture of a girl in a store with the words i 'm dissociating above her
Alt: An anime kawaii girl in a cute toy store with sparkles and a tutu is saying im disassociating and there’s a splatter of blood coming at her down the aisle
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
So we sit down to dessert and she says… she says… I’m disassociating right so I don’t know what she’s saying but then she says
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This thread has the story so far, and I assume you are caught up on the lore.
PART 1
Did I tell you about my zine?
December 3, 2025 at 3:27 AM
This thread has the story so far, and I assume you are caught up on the lore.
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If you’re new here, I’m educating about transphobia and antisemitism in queer platonic relationships because I need 23 people to invest in my zine.
Reskeets get me paid. Little hearts are decor. I’m watching you.
Reskeets get me paid. Little hearts are decor. I’m watching you.
The Book of Karen - A Saddle Stitch Zine
When a ten year friendship collapsed into a hate-filled rant, I collaged her text messages and the art I made along way.
www.kickstarter.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:24 AM
If you’re new here, I’m educating about transphobia and antisemitism in queer platonic relationships because I need 23 people to invest in my zine.
Reskeets get me paid. Little hearts are decor. I’m watching you.
Reskeets get me paid. Little hearts are decor. I’m watching you.
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All right let’s go part 6
We sat down for dessert. She made a remark about getting a barcode tattooed on her wrist.
Invest in the kickstarter or send 10 reskeets to find out what happened next.
Invest in the kickstarter or send 10 reskeets to find out what happened next.
The Book of Karen - A Saddle Stitch Zine
When a ten year friendship collapsed into a hate-filled rant, I collaged her text messages and the art I made along way.
www.kickstarter.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
All right let’s go part 6
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"If You Suffer from Urgent Normal Syndrome, Ask for Help"
Published: 26 June 2023
Urgent normal syndrome is defined by:
🔸Unhealthy attraction to crowded indoor spaces
🔸Anxiety at the sight of masks or air purifiers
🔸An urge to downplay threats
🔸Avoidance of “bad news"
Source: archive.md/EVlwU
Published: 26 June 2023
Urgent normal syndrome is defined by:
🔸Unhealthy attraction to crowded indoor spaces
🔸Anxiety at the sight of masks or air purifiers
🔸An urge to downplay threats
🔸Avoidance of “bad news"
Source: archive.md/EVlwU
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
"If You Suffer from Urgent Normal Syndrome, Ask for Help"
Published: 26 June 2023
Urgent normal syndrome is defined by:
🔸Unhealthy attraction to crowded indoor spaces
🔸Anxiety at the sight of masks or air purifiers
🔸An urge to downplay threats
🔸Avoidance of “bad news"
Source: archive.md/EVlwU
Published: 26 June 2023
Urgent normal syndrome is defined by:
🔸Unhealthy attraction to crowded indoor spaces
🔸Anxiety at the sight of masks or air purifiers
🔸An urge to downplay threats
🔸Avoidance of “bad news"
Source: archive.md/EVlwU
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My work on SARS-CoV-2 variants informed a recent piece in The Lancet: "Epidemiological and virological update on the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2".
The authors were kind enough to mention me and the Variant Hunters Ryan Hisner and Federico Gueli.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The authors were kind enough to mention me and the Variant Hunters Ryan Hisner and Federico Gueli.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Epidemiological and virological update on the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2
The constant emergence of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants has driven the COVID-19 pandemic
and sustains the current endemic. Saltation variants, such as BA.2.86,1 encode highly
mutated spike (S) proteins th...
www.thelancet.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
My work on SARS-CoV-2 variants informed a recent piece in The Lancet: "Epidemiological and virological update on the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2".
The authors were kind enough to mention me and the Variant Hunters Ryan Hisner and Federico Gueli.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🧵
The authors were kind enough to mention me and the Variant Hunters Ryan Hisner and Federico Gueli.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🧵
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Deadly H5 bird flu detected on remote Australian island.
The deadly H5 strain has been found on sub-Antarctic Heard Island, officials say, though it doesn’t “substantially” raise the risk to Australia. Heard Island sits over 4,000 km southwest of Perth and 1,700 km north of Antarctica.
The deadly H5 strain has been found on sub-Antarctic Heard Island, officials say, though it doesn’t “substantially” raise the risk to Australia. Heard Island sits over 4,000 km southwest of Perth and 1,700 km north of Antarctica.
Bird flu confirmed in elephant seal population at Heard Island
The federal government says testing confirms the presence of avian influenza in samples collected from southern elephant seals on Heard Island — a sub-Antarctic Australian external territory.
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Deadly H5 bird flu detected on remote Australian island.
The deadly H5 strain has been found on sub-Antarctic Heard Island, officials say, though it doesn’t “substantially” raise the risk to Australia. Heard Island sits over 4,000 km southwest of Perth and 1,700 km north of Antarctica.
The deadly H5 strain has been found on sub-Antarctic Heard Island, officials say, though it doesn’t “substantially” raise the risk to Australia. Heard Island sits over 4,000 km southwest of Perth and 1,700 km north of Antarctica.
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USA: "Ralph Abraham, a top Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination policies and once described COVID-19 vaccines as “dangerous”, has been appointed deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)"🤦♂️
Louisiana official who called Covid-19 vaccines ‘dangerous’ given key CDC post
Ralph Abraham appointed deputy director as RFK Jr continues to reshape US federal health leadership
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
USA: "Ralph Abraham, a top Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination policies and once described COVID-19 vaccines as “dangerous”, has been appointed deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)"🤦♂️
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8 long-COVID symptoms
1. Persistent high symptoms
2. Intermittently high symptoms
3. Moderate symptoms that gradually improved
4. Low-level symptoms resolved by month 6
5. Worsening symptoms over time
6. Delayed-worsening symptoms
7. Stable but persistent symptoms
8. Fluctuating symptoms
1. Persistent high symptoms
2. Intermittently high symptoms
3. Moderate symptoms that gradually improved
4. Low-level symptoms resolved by month 6
5. Worsening symptoms over time
6. Delayed-worsening symptoms
7. Stable but persistent symptoms
8. Fluctuating symptoms
Study maps 8 long-COVID symptom patterns in adults
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
8 long-COVID symptoms
1. Persistent high symptoms
2. Intermittently high symptoms
3. Moderate symptoms that gradually improved
4. Low-level symptoms resolved by month 6
5. Worsening symptoms over time
6. Delayed-worsening symptoms
7. Stable but persistent symptoms
8. Fluctuating symptoms
1. Persistent high symptoms
2. Intermittently high symptoms
3. Moderate symptoms that gradually improved
4. Low-level symptoms resolved by month 6
5. Worsening symptoms over time
6. Delayed-worsening symptoms
7. Stable but persistent symptoms
8. Fluctuating symptoms
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People who recovered from mild–moderate COVID-19 still show persistent lung and vascular inflammation. This ongoing inflammatory response suggests COVID can have systemic, long-term effects that may raise cardiovascular (CV) risk even after symptoms improve.
Source: archive.md/QUpNk
Source: archive.md/QUpNk
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
People who recovered from mild–moderate COVID-19 still show persistent lung and vascular inflammation. This ongoing inflammatory response suggests COVID can have systemic, long-term effects that may raise cardiovascular (CV) risk even after symptoms improve.
Source: archive.md/QUpNk
Source: archive.md/QUpNk
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Canada: COVID-19 outbreak declared at South Muskoka Hospital.
A COVID outbreak has been declared at South Muskoka Memorial Hospitals' North Wing. The unit is under respiratory outbreak rules: one essential caregiver per patient, and masks/PPE required until outbreak is cleared.
archive.md/QJwUx
A COVID outbreak has been declared at South Muskoka Memorial Hospitals' North Wing. The unit is under respiratory outbreak rules: one essential caregiver per patient, and masks/PPE required until outbreak is cleared.
archive.md/QJwUx
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Canada: COVID-19 outbreak declared at South Muskoka Hospital.
A COVID outbreak has been declared at South Muskoka Memorial Hospitals' North Wing. The unit is under respiratory outbreak rules: one essential caregiver per patient, and masks/PPE required until outbreak is cleared.
archive.md/QJwUx
A COVID outbreak has been declared at South Muskoka Memorial Hospitals' North Wing. The unit is under respiratory outbreak rules: one essential caregiver per patient, and masks/PPE required until outbreak is cleared.
archive.md/QJwUx
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Scotland: "Offshore worker's COVID death to be focus of inquiry."
A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) will examine the COVID death of Donald Singer, 66, a North Sea crane operator from Aberdeen who was airlifted in April 2020 with deteriorating COVID symptoms and died a month later.
archive.md/UmbBa
A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) will examine the COVID death of Donald Singer, 66, a North Sea crane operator from Aberdeen who was airlifted in April 2020 with deteriorating COVID symptoms and died a month later.
archive.md/UmbBa
November 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Scotland: "Offshore worker's COVID death to be focus of inquiry."
A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) will examine the COVID death of Donald Singer, 66, a North Sea crane operator from Aberdeen who was airlifted in April 2020 with deteriorating COVID symptoms and died a month later.
archive.md/UmbBa
A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) will examine the COVID death of Donald Singer, 66, a North Sea crane operator from Aberdeen who was airlifted in April 2020 with deteriorating COVID symptoms and died a month later.
archive.md/UmbBa
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"Don't let your Thanksgiving dinner become a super-spreader event"
COVID isn’t over. Symptoms can overlap with flu. With free tests gone and vaccination rates low — only 6% of kids and 14% of adults are up to date — keep rapid tests on hand, especially if you’re ill or traveling for Thanksgiving.
COVID isn’t over. Symptoms can overlap with flu. With free tests gone and vaccination rates low — only 6% of kids and 14% of adults are up to date — keep rapid tests on hand, especially if you’re ill or traveling for Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
"Don't let your Thanksgiving dinner become a super-spreader event"
COVID isn’t over. Symptoms can overlap with flu. With free tests gone and vaccination rates low — only 6% of kids and 14% of adults are up to date — keep rapid tests on hand, especially if you’re ill or traveling for Thanksgiving.
COVID isn’t over. Symptoms can overlap with flu. With free tests gone and vaccination rates low — only 6% of kids and 14% of adults are up to date — keep rapid tests on hand, especially if you’re ill or traveling for Thanksgiving.