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Scientist who mostly posts about plants and my cat, Milli. Interested in art, science, animals, weather, baking, #UglyDogs , photography, TV. Former Tweeter.
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Holy crap. Playing soccer (football) in the middle of a lightning storm seems very bad indeed. Wondering about all the fans safety as well…

And HAIL?!

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@mjausson
That’s what I was hoping. Did you see it? There was water streaming off of the corners of the roof, like a waterfall.

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@mjausson
Yeah, it could’ve used some Valkyries but otherwise wild.

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When you’re out working in the yard and you suddenly feel the judgement of a cryptid from afar.

#Gardening #ChonkBun #SunsOutBunsOut

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@Irisfreundin
It seemed to feel I was doing better later. Maybe it wasn’t pleased with the big shovel or the noise I made shoving the big storage bench around on the patio.

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which is the funniest search engine to pretend to use?

sollat ,
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@loren
Yahoo is theoretically funny but I feel like it would be ageist to laugh about it.

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Blue eyes, sharp claws, can’t lose

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I fell down another Alice In Chains YouTube hole yesterday and somehow ended up watching this charming video of Dustin Hawkins from The Darkness reacting to an opera vocal coach (The Charismatic Voice) reacting to him singing “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” back in the day (2003).

https://youtu.be/ovXzWeMFBSg?si=Or9MXdZEMIpTdHlb

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I’m having a Mandela Effect moment. I could have sworn that Joni Mitchell died in the 60s. Now I find she’s 80 and alive and well 🤔👀 Have I skipped realities again?

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@Fury
She’s been all over the place the last few years. I think she had a long illness maybe? It’s thanks to the Brandi Carlile Effect.

sollat ,
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@Fury
She’s been bringing people she idolizes or appreciates along as a guest or building a festival type of show.

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Somebody who knows biology and chemistry tell us why raw spinach leaves such a weird feeling on our tongues?

sollat ,
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@_L1vY_
I usually eat baby spinach (whatever that actually means) and don’t have any problems with it.

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Friday feets cleanings

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@apontious
Getting all the nooks and crannies like an English muffin. :blobcatlaugh:

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Please launch Microsoft Authenticator to authenticate this log in.

Welcome to Microsoft Authenticator! Please launch Microsoft Authenticator to authenticate logging in to the authenticator

??? I'm about to smash this thing into dust

sollat ,
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@germ
Microsoft Authenticator death spiral. Not helpful at all.

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Anyone else watching Tracker?
What do you think?

sollat ,
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@RickiTarr
That guy was on Passions. I find it exceedingly difficult to watch him not do ridiculous shit.

sollat ,
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@RickiTarr
It seems unlikely Tracker will ever save a living doll from some kind of monster while learning his father is an assassin for a witch.

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so should I watch the debate or should I decide that I actually love myself

sollat ,
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@adr
My parents are hoping for an epic breakdown to generate schadenfreude. I’m not watching.

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I get really annoyed whenever dying smoke detectors start beeping and don't have the patience to change the batteries on my own, but I still understand the importance of functioning alarms so I'm incredibly grateful that I have a supportive partner who is willing to move us to a new home whenever that happens.

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@itty53 @TheBreadmonkey @Alice
This literally happened to me yesterday. Luckily I have other CO detectors. So scary.

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Hold that thought, I need to go yell at a woodpecker

sollat ,
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@otterlove
The vent for my parent’s oven is a favorite of woodpeckers. My mom puts a speaker in the oven cranked up to 11. Possibly Rammstein.

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I really appreciate every moment that is not a heat dome and every time it rains in the Summer.

sollat ,
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@PacificNic
Every day that I don’t have to water plants!

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I almost forgot that debate isn't tonight. Which I'll pass on watching. While it looks like it'll be aired and streamed on all the major platforms/networks, IMO there's no point in watching. I already know who I'll vote for, and it isn't "Eric Cartman"... or spending two hours watching such.

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@dtgeek
Same. There are always memes and clips anyway. I need as little of that man on my TV as possible.

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A hundred chicken-sized Godzillas would make mincemeat out of pretty much anything. A Godzilla-sized chicken would feed a small town. I know which one I'd prefer to have to fight.

sollat ,
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@intransitivelie
I feel like you’re underestimating the pent up rage of chickens.

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in the pokemon universe is it weedle wednesday?

sollat ,
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@loren @handmade_ghost
It is always Weedle Day somewhere.

Wheedle On The Needle
by Stephen Cosgrove; illustrated by Robin James
Deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest lives a quiet old creature named the Wheedle. When humans move into his forests, bringing their loud city noises, Wheedle flees to the rocky peaks of Mount Rainier, and then to the very tip-top of Seattle’s Space Needle.

Cover of a book “Wheedle On The Needle” by Stephen Cosgrove; illustrated by Robin James Image of a large furry orange creature looking somewhat mischievous relaxing against a small boulder while holding an orange flower in one hand. To the right is the top half of the Seattle Space Needle. There is a yellow seal in the bottom left with “35th Anniversary Edition”.
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    • sollat , to random
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    Smoke detectors going off for an hour. Fire department figured out one had gone bad, setting off the whole series. Spent most of the time opening windows and trying to get the cat out from under the couch unsuccessfully.

    I’m sure my heart rate and hearing will go back to normal sometime next week.

    Edit: felt like an hour, but it was about 12 minutes according to my phone (100 dB).

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    Milli takes an anti-nail-trimming stance. Luckily the rest are relatively non-lethal in pokey-ness.

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    what movie should i watch, i want to watch something that is really weird and different, maybe kind of funny, can be dark but not horror. anything come to mind?

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    @loren
    Ponyo?

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    Flowers!

    A bright fuchsia bloom
    Many branches covered in purple and white bell shaped flowers
    Three little green buds hiding inside the top of a bunch of green leaves (probably a lily)

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    Has anyone seen MeTV Toons, which launched today? Any thoughts about it? (I haven't seen it, but didn't see many posts about it...)

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    @dtgeek
    I don’t have it on Xfinity (just MeTV). Search says I may be able to tune a receiver to it, but I don’t really know how that would work.

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    @dtgeek
    I saw something called “Toon in with Me” and a few episodes of The Flinstones. Everything else was a collection of shows that were always repeated on TV in the 70’s and 80’s.

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    Are there dahlia vampires because this looks like dahlia vampire damage

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    @Waitnwallflower
    My big dahlia has that kind of nibbling and it hasn’t even bloomed yet. My money is on snails, slugs or both.

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    @Waitnwallflower
    They have babies. Little blobs who like to hide and chew. I’ve been slacking on Sluggo distribution.

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    Milli sitting in the north window, looking at something as usual. She made her way to the corner of the patio window and started making noises, so I peeked. A cat sitting by the table.

    Didn’t realize until I checked the camera trap: it was not the neighbor’s tuxedo cat. I’m guessing not or there’d have been more drama. Whoever this new cat is, it jumped up onto the table to check out the catnip plant and probably got wet in the dish for the pitcher plants.

    Video: A black and white cat walks under the patio table looking for a way to get up. After jumping, the cat sits at the edge of the table and some water drips down onto the patio. The cat is more muscular than the neighbor’s cat, who also has much more white fur.

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    @donkeyherder
    She loves a good nemesis. It’s kind of like watching a soap opera. :blobcatlaugh:

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    @donkeyherder
    A new piece of evidence has emerged. Perhaps we are dealing with the return of after all. Sigh.

    Video: a black and white cat leaps up against a window in passing, probably in response to my annoyed cat inside, and then saunters to the left.

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    Okay, so the AI-generated woman built a fire in her tent to warm it up. Big deal. What I'm worried about is her stick-finger.

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    @ColesStreetPothole
    I’m concerned about her eye infections.

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    I love the incredible, flighty lightness of birds--watching them light on blades of grass and scarcely bend them or bob on a branch in the wind and never stir because they are like a molecule of the wind itself. This little song sparrow was walking on the surface of a pond without even dimpling the duckweed, even on takeoff.

    This photo is a rich, slightly lurid wash of bright green, olive, and chartreuse water lentils/duckweed with a sprinkling of black speckles across the top third like black sesame seeds. This pea-soupy scape is the surface of a wetland pond, reservoir water deceptively still below its green overlayment. Standing pertly in right-facing profile in the center of the soup is a richly brown songbird with a striped grey face and a streaky grey breast. E looks like a clockwork sparrow--face pointed precisely to 3 o'clock, flat tail like the tab on a teakettle held high and pointed to 10 o'clock, wings held to the side and making tiny, perfect triangles behind em. E has been wound up and stood at attention on the surface of the pond, a magic trick of feathers and walk-on-water levity. One more turn of the key and e will burst into song.
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    Whoa. That pond must be choking in duckweed!

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    There are three northern flickers in the huckleberry bush. It’s not an easy bush for medium sized woodpeckers to sit in, so they just kind of throw themselves into it and sit where they land. I’m glad they’re enjoying themselves!

    A huckleberry bush, small leafed shrub with red to pink berries. The bush is about six feet tall (two meters) and contains three northern flicker birds of various ages but about the same size - maybe a bit smaller than a crow (thinner, shorter legs, same body length, longer beak). One bird is in the upper left, one is below that one, and the third is in the lower right. The two lower birds look slightly browner and may be young. The top bird has sharper markings and is more watchful.
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    Photos has alerted me to the food I accidentally potted. Boy, is my face red.

    A picture of several plants, where one small round cactus with many pink curved spines in a fine pattern has a translucent symbol (a circle with a fork and knife in it) overlaid on top. The app interface below the picture gives results for the attempt to identify the cactus as food, including recipe links for “Classic Cheese Ball” and “neo-Neapolitan Bombe”. Below the recipe results are eight results for “similar web images”, mainly cakes, of which one is on fire.
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    • sollat , to random
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    Milli cannot believe the nerve of these birds.

    #Cats

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    Just saying, Starmer going full TERF ten days before the election has not made me regret voting against his party the other day (by postal vote).

    I will never vote for bigotry.

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    I’m watching John Oliver talking about him. My feeling about him is: he has the most nazi sounding name I’ve ever heard. It’s honestly distracting.

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    We've lost the nametag for this pretty little plant, but Google thinks it's a Veronica (we can't decide which one)

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    @SurrealSeal
    PlantNet app thinks it’s veronica, too. I was thinking it wasn’t pointy enough but it looks like some veronica has a less pointy flower shape. I’m not sure whether to trust the app though. They all seem to have turned into apps to sell plants instead of accurately identifying plants. :blobcatshrug:

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    I felt ill last night at bedtime, like that feverish feeling under your skin. I hoped it was just being overtired and overheated for days.

    But I am still sick this morning. I do have a fever and I just want to sleep. But I have a lot of (virtual but exhausting) sessions, I have to deal with the bank yet again (by phone), and I'm trying to finally get maintenance out here to fix the AC. The heat has been brutal for days.

    I will open the windows and warn them to mask, but they probably won't.

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    @_L1vY_
    I think the symptoms can linger. Take care!

    RickiTarr , to random
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    Y'all, my brother and his boyfriend were staying at this Dairy B&B, and the barn cat had kittens. This one kitten kept wanting to be petted and held, and the owner said they could take it if they wanted it. I can barely handle this much cuteness!

    My brother's bf with the kitten in his lap in the car. He is looking down at her absolutely delighted, and she is looking at him the same way.
    This is the kitten sitting on my dining table next to a bowl of water. She's sitting up straight looking very prim and regal.
    Also on my kitchen but her from the side looking down

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    @RickiTarr @Kierkegaanks
    Neptune, with an option on Toonses?

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    The flickers are hanging out this week! As shy as ever, but I got a little video of them poking at peanuts.

    Video across a cement patio at ground level. Two northern flickers concentrated on finding and picking at some peanuts or other things at the edge near the grass. They make no noise other than the beak hitting things on the patio. Some other birds chirp near the end of the recording.

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    Ugh, we hit fireworks season a week or two ago and it's really picking up this weekend. I think there might be some jerks driving around and maybe firing them out their windows? Either that or someone unrelated is driving through my neighborhood gunning their engine for fun.

    And the car alarm(s) of course go off when the fireworks detonate nearby.

    🤬

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    @SRLevine @meganL
    Saw the first sign today. Took a minute to figure out what it was even for. Could not be less enthused.

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    Y'all I saw a mink down by the lake!!

    …you're gonna have to take my word for it. :blobupsidedown:

    The mink, its front half hidden by railings in the foreground.
    The mink about to dive into the water, seen from so far away that I had to put a red circle on the picture so you can tell where it is.

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    @ColesStreetPothole @nev
    I once spent like five minutes trying to take a picture of a red squirrel in a tree without scaring it away. Got a perfect shot of my mother losing patience and walking around the tree on the left while the squirrel ran down and scampered away into the bushes on the right.

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    @donkeyherder
    I live and let live with two exceptions:

    1. Incursions upon my person (I have a proven slap reflex)

    2. Those teeny tiny bright orange-red fuckers because they are The Worst

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    is so uneven. Parts of this last episode made no sense what-so-ever. Last ep was solid. Don’t get it.

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    @macmanx @gedeonm
    I’m hoping Bazil has the nose that knows.

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