@halfagainasmuch.bsky.social
Working hard to be better than yesterday.
Parent, partner, scientist (PhD), and aspiring gardener.
Parent, partner, scientist (PhD), and aspiring gardener.
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December 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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I've been meaning to post a thank you to the people who ordered things from me this past month! November ~ January are the leanest income/highest expense months of the year at the farm, and folks buying things from my online store has been lovely and helpful. Thank you! :-)
#gratitude
#gratitude
December 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I've been meaning to post a thank you to the people who ordered things from me this past month! November ~ January are the leanest income/highest expense months of the year at the farm, and folks buying things from my online store has been lovely and helpful. Thank you! :-)
#gratitude
#gratitude
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My Aristaloe is sending up a blooming stalk - should be in full bloom in 2-3 weeks. Wish the hummingbirds were here because they'd sure enjoy nectaring from the flowers. #aloe #photograph
December 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
My Aristaloe is sending up a blooming stalk - should be in full bloom in 2-3 weeks. Wish the hummingbirds were here because they'd sure enjoy nectaring from the flowers. #aloe #photograph
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always liked this little bit of city art on street powerbox in Chattanooga. effect is repeated on all sides of the box, ie the view behind with critters superimposed (by NYC husband-wife artists kudu-lah)
December 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
always liked this little bit of city art on street powerbox in Chattanooga. effect is repeated on all sides of the box, ie the view behind with critters superimposed (by NYC husband-wife artists kudu-lah)
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2025 was the time of Strawberry Clover Trifolium fragiferum in SE Hampshire. I found it, often in magnificent abundance, at many sites and mostly in urban environments. It's a lovely little thing and always cheers me. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
2025 was the time of Strawberry Clover Trifolium fragiferum in SE Hampshire. I found it, often in magnificent abundance, at many sites and mostly in urban environments. It's a lovely little thing and always cheers me. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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For about 10 years, when our kids were young, I would do a quick sketch of our house on Christmas Eve after everything would quiet down. This is from 2016...gouache over acrylic, I think. Merry and Happy!
#art #landscape #pleinair #sketch #happyholidays
#art #landscape #pleinair #sketch #happyholidays
December 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
For about 10 years, when our kids were young, I would do a quick sketch of our house on Christmas Eve after everything would quiet down. This is from 2016...gouache over acrylic, I think. Merry and Happy!
#art #landscape #pleinair #sketch #happyholidays
#art #landscape #pleinair #sketch #happyholidays
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I hope everyone has a fantastic Christmas Eve!
December 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I hope everyone has a fantastic Christmas Eve!
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Woke up early and spent some time in my art room. This was the result. I saw the sunrise background on the news this morning and it inspired me to paint a sunrise. #art #watercolor #sunrise
December 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Woke up early and spent some time in my art room. This was the result. I saw the sunrise background on the news this morning and it inspired me to paint a sunrise. #art #watercolor #sunrise
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Sometimes people ask me why I use watercolors for my little doodles and the answer is: because you can make the sky look like this.
December 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Sometimes people ask me why I use watercolors for my little doodles and the answer is: because you can make the sky look like this.
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Day 2 working on the blackwork embroidery for the 2026 SAL by The Steady Thread.
Hopefully I can finish the outer border tomorrow and be ready to start the challenge in January ❤️
Hopefully I can finish the outer border tomorrow and be ready to start the challenge in January ❤️
December 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Day 2 working on the blackwork embroidery for the 2026 SAL by The Steady Thread.
Hopefully I can finish the outer border tomorrow and be ready to start the challenge in January ❤️
Hopefully I can finish the outer border tomorrow and be ready to start the challenge in January ❤️
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The ironclad law of podcasts is that if it was sold to Spotify for 300 million dollars it is unlistenable within the first 15 seconds but if the three people are sharing one meal from Wendy’s you can listen for hours
December 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The ironclad law of podcasts is that if it was sold to Spotify for 300 million dollars it is unlistenable within the first 15 seconds but if the three people are sharing one meal from Wendy’s you can listen for hours
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The end of the year is in sight, and with it, the end of the embroidery of the adults I have some meaningful interaction with, every day this year. Down to the last few spirals. #DHmakes
December 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The end of the year is in sight, and with it, the end of the embroidery of the adults I have some meaningful interaction with, every day this year. Down to the last few spirals. #DHmakes
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And so I must bear to you a heart of stone.. 🖤
December 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
And so I must bear to you a heart of stone.. 🖤
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concentration camps.
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
concentration camps.
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"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
December 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"It is logically impossible to simultaneously be evil, corrupt, and incompetent" is an absolutely amazing take to have in the year of 2025
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Even with broad public support, no major museum has taken up the genocide in Gaza. No large institution I know of has put on an exhibition about Palestinian artists or Palestinian lives.
www.equator.org/articles/how...
www.equator.org/articles/how...
How Gaza Broke the Art World • EQUATOR
The former editor of Artforum, fired in the wake of 7 October, reckons with two years of division, fear and silence
www.equator.org
December 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Even with broad public support, no major museum has taken up the genocide in Gaza. No large institution I know of has put on an exhibition about Palestinian artists or Palestinian lives.
www.equator.org/articles/how...
www.equator.org/articles/how...
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Archaeologists use Munsell books to describe soil colour all the time. I never thought to dig deeper into this colour system!
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*Atlas of the Munsell Color System* (1915)
Munsell envisioned his atlas as a system akin to musical notation, which would liberate visual description from commercially-driven colour names.
publicdomainreview.org
December 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Archaeologists use Munsell books to describe soil colour all the time. I never thought to dig deeper into this colour system!
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Here's Begonia obtecticaulis, a Shrub-like type of species Begonia from Peru. Broad, lush green leaves, sometimes adorned w: silvery or reddish hues. Prominent stipules (the small leaf-like structures at the base of the petiole). Origin: Irmscher. Published: 1949. Greenhouse culture.🌱 #begonias
December 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Here's Begonia obtecticaulis, a Shrub-like type of species Begonia from Peru. Broad, lush green leaves, sometimes adorned w: silvery or reddish hues. Prominent stipules (the small leaf-like structures at the base of the petiole). Origin: Irmscher. Published: 1949. Greenhouse culture.🌱 #begonias
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Trump's VA just banned abortion care for veterans—even in cases of rape, incest, or threats to health.
This is cruel, and dangerous.
This is cruel, and dangerous.
December 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Trump's VA just banned abortion care for veterans—even in cases of rape, incest, or threats to health.
This is cruel, and dangerous.
This is cruel, and dangerous.
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23 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- An NSA employee named Sarah O'Neill is suing the Trump administration over its enforcement of two "immutable" legal sexes, saying it "denies her very existence.”
NSA employee sues the Trump administration over transgender rights and 'immutable' genders
A transgender employee of the National Security Agency is suing the Trump administration and trying to block enforcement of a presidential executive order and other policies the employee says violate ...
apnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
23 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- An NSA employee named Sarah O'Neill is suing the Trump administration over its enforcement of two "immutable" legal sexes, saying it "denies her very existence.”
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How my local action turned into a national movement creating safe spaces for Trans+ people
www.wearequeeraf.com/how-my-local...
www.wearequeeraf.com/how-my-local...
How my local action turned into a national movement creating safe spaces for Trans+ people
Thinking globally, but acting locally sparked a movement, that has ultimately spread the Safe Space initiative nationwide
www.wearequeeraf.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
How my local action turned into a national movement creating safe spaces for Trans+ people
www.wearequeeraf.com/how-my-local...
www.wearequeeraf.com/how-my-local...
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Good morning
Going through some old pictures, I've forgotten what I'm actually looking for, when i came across this absolute delight!
I've rebuilt my collection and I'm probably going to rejoin the primula and auricula group but I'm not sure i still have this precious stripe 😍
Have a great day!🌱
Going through some old pictures, I've forgotten what I'm actually looking for, when i came across this absolute delight!
I've rebuilt my collection and I'm probably going to rejoin the primula and auricula group but I'm not sure i still have this precious stripe 😍
Have a great day!🌱
December 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Good morning
Going through some old pictures, I've forgotten what I'm actually looking for, when i came across this absolute delight!
I've rebuilt my collection and I'm probably going to rejoin the primula and auricula group but I'm not sure i still have this precious stripe 😍
Have a great day!🌱
Going through some old pictures, I've forgotten what I'm actually looking for, when i came across this absolute delight!
I've rebuilt my collection and I'm probably going to rejoin the primula and auricula group but I'm not sure i still have this precious stripe 😍
Have a great day!🌱
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It was really fun to write about this especially because, a couple of years ago, I put together a story about researchers finding old weather records in school logbooks from the Scottish islands.
Where else might climate and weather data be hiding??
www.inkcapjournal.co.uk/storm-worse-...
Where else might climate and weather data be hiding??
www.inkcapjournal.co.uk/storm-worse-...
‘Storm worse than ever today’: how schoolteachers tracked weather in the Outer Hebrides
School logbooks from the nineteenth century reveal how islanders coped with a period of particularly stormy weather. In their resilience is a lesson for the future.
www.inkcapjournal.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
It was really fun to write about this especially because, a couple of years ago, I put together a story about researchers finding old weather records in school logbooks from the Scottish islands.
Where else might climate and weather data be hiding??
www.inkcapjournal.co.uk/storm-worse-...
Where else might climate and weather data be hiding??
www.inkcapjournal.co.uk/storm-worse-...