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kate

@kate@aus.social

Listening, thinking, walking, working, growing things. Here since 2016, worrying about climate, healthcare governance, international education, #compostodon. Lapsed BlueSky, exited X, and in Australia.

Images: a green marble, and a reflected shape of light on a grey surface.

“I want to be on the side of surprise, and against the certainties of pictures and property.” - Barbara Kruger

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futurebird , to random
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Exciting ant queen collecting trip in AZ. Why does it feel like all the coolest ants are in the South and South West. It's not fair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV1CkkkKbOM

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@futurebird @glitzersachen @dotsandlines I love this whole thread, thank you.

kate , to plants group
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Welcome to the first day of Winter. while thinking about the grief of the world. Wind’s picking up, just blew the door shut and shook the house. These little ones stay safe by being very small.

@plants

Two small pansies, the front with block purple petals and white petals with a single purple blot at the end of each white petal, and the rear with two raspberry leaves and then white and raspberry leaves as if water coloured.
Osteospermum: a purple pinwheel arranged around a bluish centre, each radiating petal a tiny spoon.

kate , to random
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In the community where I live there’s a winding path that cuts through densely overgrown scrub to the beach. At one point the path meets a little creek and many people could jump over it.

Over the past 20 years, many little informal bridges have been built, and when they give way someone replaces them. This lets kids on bikes and others who can’t jump use the path. The latest is magnificent, we’re all in awe. Someone came down with power tools after the big floods and did this. We’re all benefiting.

This is the to me: if you have the resources and make a bridge (simple or complex, depending on what you’ve got to give) everyone gets to use the path.

kate , to plants group
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Hey @dillyd this droplet of water in the throat of an autumn rose in the garden just now brought your beautiful photograph to mind.

@plants

https://allies.social/@dillyd/112072604730321564

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@Philipnschofield @dillyd @plants

Just adding a description: it’s a close up of a rose in early bloom, mostly peach but pink at the edges and somehow lit from within with a bright yellow. In the background, more buds.

I feel sure it’s the same rose as mine!

kate , to random
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Something about the : people describing their own images with language that is precise like a signature. The photographs of @HonDuMuc come with a painterly layer of description that brings out secretive detail. Filmmaker @dilmandila describes flowers exactly as you’d expect a filmmaker to do. @paralithode uses the language of careful poetic observation and I learn every time.

I seek out like someone opening a window in an advent calendar, and every time I’m so grateful to all the screenreader users here like @bright_helpings who keep pointing the way to this intimate space of wonder that makes things better for everyone.

waldoj , to random
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I made a new Mastodon bot, called "I Hope This Email Finds You.” Twice a day it proposes a novel way to conclude that sentence that opens so many emails. (It uses phrases from Google Books that include the phrase “finds you.”) I've been having fun reading these, so I turned it into a bot because you, too, might have fun reading them. https://botsin.space/@thisemailfindsyou/112295528875440987

kate ,
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@ergative @timrichards @waldoj @thisemailfindsyou This discovery finds me startled.

historytothepeople , to random
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X is a dumpster fire and Threads didn't work because capitalism. So hoping this platform fills the Twitter void. I'm a public historian that loves to talk about history, current events, and media.

kate ,
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@historytothepeople Hello hello, give yourself time to get used to things. If you keep posting and keep following people who interest you, things will start to grow for you. Consider moving to a smaller server when you’re ready (it’s pretty easy). There are all kinds of historians here.

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@historytothepeople Follow @FediTips for all sorts of helpful advice!

You’ll hear all sorts of “mastodon is this” “fediverse is that”. But it’ll be whatever you make for yourself. Follow who interests you and you’ll find that what they boost also interests you, so follow them too. It’s a social playlist.

I’m thinking about your public history question.

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