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sunflowerinrain

@sunflowerinrain@mastodon.online

Immigrant, singer, ex-techwriter, ex-editor, ex-TickIT auditor, catlady, Baha'i. Used to design, implement, and deploy CRM middleware, but now forgotten how because left it to study music BA(Hons) from UEA. Have a minor horde of descendants and other family, far away in various parts of the globe, none of whom I've seen IRL since Covid appeared.

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alice , to random
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    sunflowerinrain ,
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    @alice Please permit me to tag onto your rant.
    Builder installing an outdoor storage space mixed his cement on the flowering strawberry patch and killed the lot.
    "Professional" "gardener" strimmed a whole flowerbed to the ground while mowing the lawn.
    Different gardener razed the raspberry plants to the roots while they were in flower.
    Helpful neighbour strimmed the herb collection... and they were in pots...

    Is there a word for flower-haters?

    CitizenWald , to histodons group
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    Well, here's a nice one for @CoinOfNote (as well as all @histodons ):

    Tom Holland: We must celebrate England’s forgotten founding mother

    "If a fire broke out at Tom Holland’s house, the one item he would rush to rescue is a coin. . . . For his 50th birthday Holland tracked down and spent 'my entire family savings' on the coin that was minted in Chester during her rule, which had been found in an abandoned Roman fort before appearing at an auction in New York"

    So cool.

    https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d5805e06-18e8-456b-8284-bdd345287351?shareToken=d395a39b1fd793d6f206f08a264061b3

    sunflowerinrain ,
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    @CitizenWald @CoinOfNote @histodons Makes more sense than celebrating a saint who had nothing to do with England.

    pluralistic , to random
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    Hard to overstate how enshittified and botshitted Google Maps has become. Went looking for my local locksmith on Gmaps. Maps shows 20+ fake locksmith referral scam outlets and doesn't even register the real locksmith, despite it being fully visible in Street View.

    Instead, a red pin on the shop identifies it as a fake locksmith scammer. The real locksmith - which has been there SINCE 1942 (!!) and is a verified merchant - doesn't even show up.

    Google Maps, showing the storefront for Golden State Lock as an empty building.

    sunflowerinrain ,
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    @pluralistic I had to give up googlemaps a while ago. Shame it's used by various satnavs, because for where I live it's horribly wrong. One of the things marked as a road is actually a drainage ditch. As for the ads and scams... urgh.

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