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I-Scream Ridge

@eileen4ever.bsky.social

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#FlowerReport & #CookieParty feeds. she/her. Gardening (zone 8b), tech, news, music, poetry, arts, science, pie, and love. The greatest of these is love. Pie is a close second.

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I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 13d

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I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 2m

There is space for it now, but I’m worried it might get a little too crowded. What do you think, gardeners?

I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 18m

Eastern NC, or maybe Coastal Carolina.

I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 49m

My mother always said that was Virginia (having spent her young life in NYC and LA, and then moving around as a Navy wife)

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17h

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 17h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 1h

Good luck getting folks in Eastern NC to call that Tidewater.

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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 1h

So long, coal

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I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 1h

Yes. Tree guys are indispensable for those big trees.

I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 1h

Two years ago I hired an arborist to cut back my camellias, and this year I bought a ladder.

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Michaela Neville @micnev.bsky.social · 15h

If you, like me, try to limit your Amazon shopping, you can still benefit from Prime Day deals by shopping the sales that other, non-Amazon retailers put on to compete with APD.

For example, I need some new sheets. I can buy them directly through the company website at a similar discount right now.

Our Favorite Prime Day Deals From Stores That Aren't Amazon

You don't have to shop Amazon Big Deal Days to save on WIRED-approved favorites.

www.wired.com

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11h

The Washington Post is Fox News in print

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 11h

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

www.status.news

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Thugs

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I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 11h

I missed this. What an ordeal for you both. I’m glad he’s healing.

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Jeremy @floregonian.com · 11h

Maybe you’re not into marching band techno, but maybe it’s just because you don’t know better

MEUTE - Slow Loris

YouTube video by MEUTE

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I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 11h

I’m honored! 🦋🌸

Gulf fritillary on a Bumble Rumble dahlia.

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I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 13h

I gave my friend Ruby three dahlias in a bud vase yesterday, and they looked so perfect that they actually looked like artificial flowers.

Three Peaches and Dreams dahlias, peachy-pink with yellow centers.

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I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 13h

It got too dark to plant, so I just set the pot where I think it’s going to go. Big rain tomorrow.

Yellow flowers in a pot set in a flower bed on the south wall of a white house.

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I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 13h

I only went to procure some potting mix and a new pot for my Christmas cactus. I wasn’t going to buy. any. more. plants.
But this beauty was half off, and I just couldn’t leave her at the garden center. 🌱 #FlowerReport

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I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 14h

1936.

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 15h

1936

Men Are Becoming Less Manly, Scientist Thinks

Men today are not as roughly masculine as they used to be, according to Dr. Edward K. Strong, of Palo Alto, California, noted psychology professor at Stanford University. He set forth this conclusion in an article in the current issue of the Journal of Social Psychology.

The only he-men are engineers and farmers, he stated in an account of a survey of divisions of interest among the sexes.

But if you are a minster, a lawyer, a doctor, a writer or a newspaperman, you have feminine interests, which have become stronger with each generation.

--The Bonne Terre Register, 7 Feb 1936

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I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 17h

Well, why not?

I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 17h

#CookieParty!
[alt text for embed: a couple dozen perfect looking spice cookies on cooling racks, drizzed with creamy icing]

Sherman Putterman @sherman-p.bsky.social · 1d

I made some spice cookies 😋

sugarspunrun.com/spice-cookies/

I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 17h

mmmmmmlemonnnnnn #CookieParty
[alt text for embed: two backing sheets with golden cookies that look super tasty]

shnames.bsky.social @shnames.bsky.social · 1d

Love baking these lemon sugar cookies

I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 18h

Happy Birthday! Looks like a sweet little #CookieParty!

I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 18h

#CookieParty!
[alt text for embed: two images, one a recipe for Gooey Butter Cookies, and the other a parchment-lined baking sheet containing 35 gorgeous golden-yellow cookies]

cath🎃 @thevantass.bsky.social · 1d

As we know, I am from the Saint Louis Metropolitan Area. If you want to know what ridiculous foods we eat here, try these Gooey Butter Cookies. I adapted the recipe from a comment I found on the St. Louis subreddit into something that is easy to follow and read. Better than the local stores. 10/10.

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I-Scream Ridge @eileen4ever.bsky.social · 18h

#CookieParty!