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Elizabeth S-F

@esfdogma.bsky.social

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Lover of Border Collies, sheep, pareidolia, and art. Trans Rights are Human Rights. She/Her

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Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · Dec 8

Pareidolia: Seeing meaningful patterns in randomness.

Definition image thanks to Grant Snider of Incidental Comics. incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/words-of-w...

Pareidolia: Seeing meaningful patterns in randomness.

Comic drawing of a girl on a hill with the sky and clouds above and the definition of Pareidolia hand written on a green hill.

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Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 13h

Mud doggy pareidolia creature.

Rock surrounded by mud, and leaves in which I perceive the head and neck of a dog facing to the right of the frame.
It puts me in mind of an Airedale Terrier with a muddy/wet snout and mud on its beard.
Pareidolia: Seeing meaningful patterns in randomness.

Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 17h

Morning walk pasture view.

Two Border Collies wander in the rain on a green pasture surrounded by green, brown, and gold trees. Sheep and red barn in the distance.

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Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if the Smithsonian will keep this in the collection.

Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 1d

Source: The National Museum of American History's online exhibition American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith explores voting history and fundamental questions about what it means to be a citizen.
www.si.edu/object/vote:...

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Vote | Smithsonian Institution

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Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 1d

Last year I did a count down of days until the election on FB. This photo for 29 days really struck me.

I wish more people voted, and those that did had really paid attention to what they were choosing.

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Photo of anAmerican bald eagle head and neck, with a small tear flowing from its eye. Below that is the word VOTE In red white and blue colors

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Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 1d

"All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog.”
~ Franz Kafka

Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 1d

Morning walk pasture view.

Light clouds over pasture surrounded by trees. Red barn and sheep in the distance.

Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 2d

Without downloading anything new - where are you mentally?

Title: Actual photo of how well I'm keeping it together right now.
Picture of square crushed, crumpled, ripped cardboard box barely held together with some tape.

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Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 2d

Morning walk pasture view

Sun rises through trees surrounding pasture withe fallen leaves. Border Collie dog wanders on field. Red barn and sheep in the distance.

Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 3d

Shhh... bumblebees sleeping.

This is what happens when you attempt to pick dahlias at dusk.

Three bumblebees sleeping on a pink dahlia blossom.

Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 3d

Morning walk pasture view

Sunrises behind trees surrounding pasture. More bare branches and fallen leaves. Border Collies wander about the field. Read barn and sheep in the distance.

Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 4d

Morning walk pasture view.

Sun rises behind trees surrounding pasture. Shaft of light from the sun illuminates the gold and brown fallen leaves. A border collie roams in the center of the frame. Grazing sheep and a red barn in the distance.

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Gabe @cwgabriel.bsky.social · 5d

Great post from @tychobrahe.bsky.social yesterday.

"Gen X is the equivalent of pre-war steel. … having a formed identity prior to the ambient radiation of social media is like having been administered a vaccine they don't make anymore. Because they can't."

www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/20...

Ghost Recon - Penny Arcade

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Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 6d

Just scrolling by to say I like the pareidolia bird in the pic with your watch. And beautiful sunset. Wow.

Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 6d

Morning walk pasture view.

Glow of rising sun behind trees surrounding green pasture covered by low fog and a bit of frost. Fewer leaves on trees, more on the ground. Sheep grazing and a red barn in the distance.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 6d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

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Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 7d

Kavanaugh Stops taken to a new level - busting down apartment doors in the night, pulling US Citizens and immigrants out, leaving them handcuffed on the street until 3AM.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 7d

Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 7d

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog.

Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog

Researchers employed a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for Long COVID. More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scien...

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Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 7d

Morning pasture view

Now with a hint of frost.

Glow of the rising sun behind trees surrounding pasture. Pasture grass had a light coat of frost. Trees leaves have turned gold and fallen on the ground, showing more branches every day. A lone border collie sniffing the ground. Red barn and sheep fence in the distance.

Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 7d

When things are intense and dark,
time to enjoy something intense and dark.

Picture of a package of chocolate with a picture of two pieces of chocolate on the label and the words:
Intense Dark 72% Cacao Dark Chocolate Bean to Bar

Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 7d

Truth!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 7d

May her memory be a blessing.

Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 7d

I noticed my settings requiring ALT text were removed. Maybe some system upgrade caused this, I do not know. This resulted in this image being posted without this text: Cloudy skies over pasture surrounded by trees. A Border Collie dog in the foreground. A red barn in the far distance.

Elizabeth S-F @esfdogma.bsky.social · 7d

Morning walk pasture view

Sun rises through trees surrounding green pasture. Leaves on trees turning yellow and brown and some have fallen on the grass. Two Border Collie dogs sniff the ground. A red barn and sheep in the distance.