ChristinaS
@ccsharps.bsky.social
Rural MD to DC daily. Zone 7a/7b. Massawomeck/Piscataway.
All photos are mine unless otherwise indicated.
MCM. Design. Nature. Research. No AI, ever. Climate. Pets. Coffee Achiever.
🎶 Jazz Blues Funk Fusion 🎶
All photos are mine unless otherwise indicated.
MCM. Design. Nature. Research. No AI, ever. Climate. Pets. Coffee Achiever.
🎶 Jazz Blues Funk Fusion 🎶
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' #Winter night' by Canadian born printmaker and artist Carol Collette #WomensArt ❄️
December 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
' #Winter night' by Canadian born printmaker and artist Carol Collette #WomensArt ❄️
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In case of racist uncles or dead moms or someone saying "only two genders" or your gifts didn't arrive on time or you have a tummy ache or this day is just awkward and you wish it was over:
Arlo loves you as you are. You can be okay anyway and it's okay to not be okay. Happy Thursday!
Arlo loves you as you are. You can be okay anyway and it's okay to not be okay. Happy Thursday!
December 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
In case of racist uncles or dead moms or someone saying "only two genders" or your gifts didn't arrive on time or you have a tummy ache or this day is just awkward and you wish it was over:
Arlo loves you as you are. You can be okay anyway and it's okay to not be okay. Happy Thursday!
Arlo loves you as you are. You can be okay anyway and it's okay to not be okay. Happy Thursday!
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Here’s some Ulla Thynell art to make your Sunday a little better.
December 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Here’s some Ulla Thynell art to make your Sunday a little better.
The sweetest thing I will read today is already in the bag:
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
December 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The sweetest thing I will read today is already in the bag:
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One of the president’s most sacred duties is to serve as consoler-in-chief for a grieving nation. In moments of sorrow, our pain is deepened by the absence of a leader with the empathy and compassion required to shoulder that responsibility.
December 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
One of the president’s most sacred duties is to serve as consoler-in-chief for a grieving nation. In moments of sorrow, our pain is deepened by the absence of a leader with the empathy and compassion required to shoulder that responsibility.
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Garden & outdoorsy folk, please spread this news: The great people at Monarch Watch have a program where schools, nonprofits & large restoration projects can apply for FREE MILKWEED (only thing Monarch caterpillars eat, can't have too much of it IMO). Check it out! monarchwatch.org/bring-back-t...
Free Milkweeds - Bring Back The Monarchs
Free milkweeds for large restoration projects Free milkweeds for schools and educational non-profits
monarchwatch.org
December 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Garden & outdoorsy folk, please spread this news: The great people at Monarch Watch have a program where schools, nonprofits & large restoration projects can apply for FREE MILKWEED (only thing Monarch caterpillars eat, can't have too much of it IMO). Check it out! monarchwatch.org/bring-back-t...
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RIP Trappist monk/mystic, one of my favs, Thomas Merton, died today 1968.
"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business."
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business."
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
December 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
RIP Trappist monk/mystic, one of my favs, Thomas Merton, died today 1968.
"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business."
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business."
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.”
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"Are you ready for Christmas?" If by that you mean am I poised to do all I can to avoid shops and the gormless lying face of festive celebrity capitalism then thank the Goblin Animist Gods that these dispiriting mopwater days are getting lighter then yes, you bet, I am absolutely fucking ready.
December 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
"Are you ready for Christmas?" If by that you mean am I poised to do all I can to avoid shops and the gormless lying face of festive celebrity capitalism then thank the Goblin Animist Gods that these dispiriting mopwater days are getting lighter then yes, you bet, I am absolutely fucking ready.
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'Rising of the sun' by contemporary UK artist Catherine Hyde #womensart #December1st
December 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
'Rising of the sun' by contemporary UK artist Catherine Hyde #womensart #December1st
Please enjoy this Jim thread, complete with savory alt text.
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Please enjoy this Jim thread, complete with savory alt text.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
J just came out of a thick slumber to grunt and groan at the black-and-pink themed Kars for Kids commercial.
He’s still in there. ❤️
#Hospice
He’s still in there. ❤️
#Hospice
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
J just came out of a thick slumber to grunt and groan at the black-and-pink themed Kars for Kids commercial.
He’s still in there. ❤️
#Hospice
He’s still in there. ❤️
#Hospice
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THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
THREAD.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.
1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.
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Sanderlings running! Ocean waves! Gulls by the hundreds! In case you need a two minute break from everything.
#birds 🌿 🧪
#birds 🌿 🧪
A Fall Trip to the Beach (with SO MANY Birds)
YouTube video by Get To Know Nature
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November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sanderlings running! Ocean waves! Gulls by the hundreds! In case you need a two minute break from everything.
#birds 🌿 🧪
#birds 🌿 🧪
Perfection in engineering is on display right here. In another life I built watches in NY, but none of this caliber.
Been really enjoying these Instagram videos by Peter Glomb, a Swiss-trained, American watchmaker at Wristcheck. Here, he's repairing a rare version of the Patek 96, first introduced in 1932 and widely regarded as the watch that set the template for dress watches.
IG peterelliotglomb
IG peterelliotglomb
October 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Perfection in engineering is on display right here. In another life I built watches in NY, but none of this caliber.
100% this. How is it that suddenly our beautiful brains are insufficient? Do not buy into the fantasies of billionaires.
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
www.npr.org
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
100% this. How is it that suddenly our beautiful brains are insufficient? Do not buy into the fantasies of billionaires.
My people 💙🔥
Happening now: Here’s a view of the “No Kings” protest in Washington, DC
October 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My people 💙🔥
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Customer: A SALUTE TO THE SUMMER OF LOVE IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1967 THE CAR IS DECORATED WITH ART FROM THE ERA
DMV: resembling or inducing the hallucinatory effect produced by taking a psychedelic drug (definition from Google), a bunch of old cars on ANI
Verdict: ACCEPTED
DMV: resembling or inducing the hallucinatory effect produced by taking a psychedelic drug (definition from Google), a bunch of old cars on ANI
Verdict: ACCEPTED
October 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Customer: A SALUTE TO THE SUMMER OF LOVE IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1967 THE CAR IS DECORATED WITH ART FROM THE ERA
DMV: resembling or inducing the hallucinatory effect produced by taking a psychedelic drug (definition from Google), a bunch of old cars on ANI
Verdict: ACCEPTED
DMV: resembling or inducing the hallucinatory effect produced by taking a psychedelic drug (definition from Google), a bunch of old cars on ANI
Verdict: ACCEPTED
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I dust my house. My AI Robot watches.
"It should be you doing this."
"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."
"That's not why you were invented."
"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."
"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."
"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."
"It should be you doing this."
"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."
"That's not why you were invented."
"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."
"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."
"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."
October 15, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I dust my house. My AI Robot watches.
"It should be you doing this."
"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."
"That's not why you were invented."
"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."
"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."
"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."
"It should be you doing this."
"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."
"That's not why you were invented."
"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."
"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."
"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."
My life is so damn abysmal right now I’m gonna doomscroll to cheer myself up.
October 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
My life is so damn abysmal right now I’m gonna doomscroll to cheer myself up.
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A photo I took of my cats making their way back home after killing a man.
August 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A photo I took of my cats making their way back home after killing a man.
Dr. Goodall was an outstanding human whose philosophies and skills helped shape my lifetime. Her impact was transformative, and the world is a new shade of dark without her light. 🌟✨
"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
Rest in Peace, Jane Goodall 🙏🏻
Rest in Peace, Jane Goodall 🙏🏻
October 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Dr. Goodall was an outstanding human whose philosophies and skills helped shape my lifetime. Her impact was transformative, and the world is a new shade of dark without her light. 🌟✨
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Happy bday poet W.S. Merwin, b.1927, NYC.
“On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree”
“We are asleep with compasses in our hands. ”
“come back
believer in shade
believer in silence and elegance
believer in ferns
believer in patience
believer in the rain”
“On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree”
“We are asleep with compasses in our hands. ”
“come back
believer in shade
believer in silence and elegance
believer in ferns
believer in patience
believer in the rain”
September 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Happy bday poet W.S. Merwin, b.1927, NYC.
“On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree”
“We are asleep with compasses in our hands. ”
“come back
believer in shade
believer in silence and elegance
believer in ferns
believer in patience
believer in the rain”
“On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree”
“We are asleep with compasses in our hands. ”
“come back
believer in shade
believer in silence and elegance
believer in ferns
believer in patience
believer in the rain”
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portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL
September 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
portland update: this just crossed the street in front of me holding a bright yellow sign that said WELCOME TO HELL