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gem spear

@oneirodynia.bsky.social

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Oakland. Snapdragon Tamer. Night Gardener. I mostly post about gardens, animals and basketball (mute #nba and/or #wnba hashtag). Sometimes cocktails, music, or history.

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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · Feb 25

No one gets onto our porch without solving a riddle.

Photo through the front window: a short haired black cat sits like a sphinx on a wide, flat balustrade (??) next to our front stairs. He's looking back at the window with a slightly offended face.

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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 56m

Yeah, another antisemitic, colonialist, authoritarian regime that threw people in jail for thought crimes was definitely the best outcome for Europe /s

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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 1h

hahaha 🤣

gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 2h

I wish I did! I would get them to bring me a tiny Valkyries basketball to go with my Warriors ones

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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 2h

(not that I know anyone there)

gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 2h

I was just idly wondering who I could write to at Chase Center to get them to put in a Boba shop...

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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 2h

#WNBA

gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 3h

There should be, but there isn't- the closest place is Plentea, on the corner of 3rd and Warriors Way :-)

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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 4h

Never understood why they colored in the flag red on the album cover.

gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 4h

Chasing the drug of pwning some loser because it's more important than building a future. I wish they'd all walk into the sea.

gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 4h

I hate this increased emphasis towards a winner/loser society, where everything needs to be a game someone can win something from, and everyone's trying to grift.

gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 4h

He needs no encouragement! 😂

Photo: Rufus, laying on a white outdoor sofa, having vanquished the cushion. Behind him are some shrubby green plants and a wire mesh cat enclosure.

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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 5h

This is stupid and harmful. WTF is wrong with everyone these days.

gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 5h

Rufus, having refused my attempts at a much needed pedicure. After this photo he went and kicked the crap out of an outdoor cushion

Photo: a velvety black cat lounges on a redwood deck. His eyes are closed. He is unperturbed.

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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 5h

A shaft on morning sun was hitting this canna “Kismet” just right yesterday. Bought the rhizome this year and this is the first bloom. (Also pictured: today under overcast skies). 🌱#Oakland

Photo: closeup of maraschino cherry-red canna flower. The stalk and leaves are mahogany, but copper bronze in the sunbeam. The flower seems to be lit from within.

Photo: closeup of sun illuminated leaf, glowing coppery red with delicate red veins. Out of focus in the background is dappled green foliage.

Photo: same plant under cloudy skies. Maraschino red orchid like flowers ( there are two now) and deep burgundy tropical looking leaves .

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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 17h

This little butterfly has a Bluetooth transmitter and as she travels, it pings people who have the Project Monarch app installed.

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 21h

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 21h

As far as I'm concerned, becoming more like the people who are taking away everyone's rights is 1) morally bankrupt and 2) illogical WRT to building a voting blok.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Muting this thread now.

gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 21h

Like, you either believe that everyone has the same rights, or you don't. It's quite simple.

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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 21h

If a district is gerrymandered in republicans' favor than denying the humanity of trans people won't help, will it? And yes, I agree that all democrats should get on board with not sacrificing groups of people because republicans think they should.

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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 21h

The fake panic about "wokeness" is just that- a method to deny civil liberties to a ever widening group. There are more democrats than republicans in the country- you have to give them something to vote for, e.g. a moral center that recognizes the humanity of everyone, at the expense of no one.

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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 1d

They're all Downtown to me.

gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so sorry. I've always loved the story about Charlie mocking Eddie by zipping around him as a puppy. He was an excellent dog.

gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 1d

I've read that the CB pro can be inconsistent with pressure. Bambino is pretty tried and true and gives you a bit more options for control if/once you're not a beginner.

gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 1d

I'm very sorry. 🐾

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Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social · 2d

"By removing the hashtag, tech platforms are redistributing organizational power away from the users and toward themselves. Now they have all the say in who gets to see which topic, and how topics are structured in the first place."
etymology.substack.com/p/why-platfo...

Why platforms are killing the hashtag

Today I write in anticipatory nostalgia for the cornerstone of a more democratic internet—one which is slowly being stolen from us.

etymology.substack.com

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gem spear @oneirodynia.bsky.social · 2d

hahaha 😂