~* Sarah

Citizen of the world: lived in five countries on three continents. PhD in astronomy, didn't stay in the field. I enjoy art, astronomy, beer, cats, hiking, knitting, nature, reading, running, yoga.

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2026-09-16 01:56:07 UTC

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People published a list of the stadiums (though they got it from Rolling Stone): https://people.com/macklemore-dropped-ed-sheeran-tour-free-palestine-comments-12120784
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2026-09-08 03:13:40 UTC

This is one of my first season milkweeds. I foraged the seeds from a nearby plant and got them going indoors and everything. This one in particular got eaten to the ground twice. Both times, it came back as twice as many plants.
One thing I've been learning this year through gardening is that plants are incredible. They have their limits (our sunflowers didn't recover from being repeatedly chomped), but some of them really spring back.
#milkweed #nativePlants #gardening
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2026-08-29 01:49:00 UTC

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he didn't seize anything. His executive orders aren't worth the paper they're written on.
It's probably just a distraction from the invasive carp getting closer to the Great Lakes since this administration cut funding to the program keeping them out and probably some crimes he's committing.

2026-08-23 01:24:45 UTC

Holy shit. They tried to get Canada to give up the ability to freely negotiate trade with other countries *and* expected it to stop caring about French language information on products. That's basically being a vassal state.
Good on Carney for walking away.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/u-s-encroaching-canadian-sovereignty-tariff-negotiations-frechette-9.7317055
#uspol #cdnpoli #fuckTrump #No51stState #french

2026-08-19 02:16:06 UTC

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there aren't always a lot of jobs, let alone ones that provide a living wage.
I don't know what this dude's exact circumstances were. I don't think he was good at long term planning and might not have been too bright since he impulsively moved to an island in the middle of the Pacific where he knew nobody. I got the impression that he would rather have had a bartending job if one came up rather than join the military.

2026-08-19 01:28:10 UTC

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I met a guy from Iowa (or maybe Idaho, I forget which) who up and moved to Hawai'i thinking he could line up a job and housing but failed to line up either and ended up enlisting because it was that or sleeping on the street. And apparently they were pretty aggressive about recruiting him while he was homeless.
I lost touch with him after that, but he seemed like an okay guy who made a bunch of bad decisions and just got taken advantage of.

2026-07-24 18:47:56 UTC

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I'm not sure why churches are into Hallelujah either, given that some verses in that song are totally about sex too.
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2026-07-16 00:52:12 UTC

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as Trevor Noah quotes his mom in his autobiography:
"The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He's attracted to independent women. "He's like an exotic bird collector," she said. "He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage."

2026-06-30 20:26:00 UTC

I think the plants that have impressed me the most in the garden are the violas and the marigolds. I've only ever seen either of them looking kind of sad and small before and didn't realize they could have just so many flowers or get so big. They're not the biggest plants in the garden, I just expected them to stay tiny and they didn't.
#bloomScrolling #gardening
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2026-06-27 15:22:49 UTC

Pokeweed or no? I didn't plant anything exactly here, but I accept some volunteers. It's crowding out some plants I do want and I don't think I want poisonous plants in my garden, even if they are native and beneficial otherwise because I have a child and it's also overcrowding a few things I did plant.
It's coming up as a 38% chance match for pokeweed on PlantNet with a drop off after that.
#gardening #nativePlants
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2026-05-29 13:19:48 UTC

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I watched the tunnel re-appear this morning. The mole seems to have dug it from the other side and I guess just powered through the coffee grounds to the side I thought was the tunnel entrance (if the coffee grounds even bothered it at all).
I think the next step is going to be to plant some marigolds and chives (and maybe some lavender) in and around the garden as a deterrent. If that doesn't work, I'll look into a screen underground to keep it out of that garden.
#gardening

2026-05-29 02:36:55 UTC

I have a mole digging in my moss garden. It looks like it's digging in from under the driveway.
I've been preparing to add a few more low-growing plants and decorative rocks to the part of the garden that gets more sun, so I took out the grass and rock gravel that was there and then put a bunch of coffee grounds in area where the mole tunnel enters the garden. Hopefully, the scent will deter the mole from re-digging the tunnel so I won't have to resort to more drastic measures.
#gardening

2026-05-02 17:51:03 UTC

First stage of fig tree planting: complete.
I dug a hole (with a little help from my kiddo), put the tree in it, backfilled and did some initial watering and added mulch.
Next phase is to build a small fence around it to protect it from the local critters.
#fig #tree #treePlanting #gardening
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2026-04-24 17:17:04 UTC

A deer munched on my daylillies! They apparently don't like them that much, but I guess one of the local deer was hungry enough to try.
I plan on fixing up and expanding this part of the bed (I've already been weeding the grass away since it had been taking over), so I'll be sure to include some plants that deer like even less when I plant some companions for these.
#gardening #deer
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2026-04-05 20:47:07 UTC

I got a late start planting my seeds that need to start indoors, but they've started to sprout!
The goal is to have a bunch of flowers for the local pollinators. Not all of them need to start indoors, so I haven't started those.
There are milkweed seeds (only one has sprouted, but I collected and planted two types) lots of violas and daisies and no lavender has popped up yet.
Nothing will be going into the ground for another month, but it's nice to see some progress.
#gardening #flowers
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2026-01-18 00:11:01 UTC

I made up a quick boycott poster. Any suggestions for improvement are welcome.
If Ronald Lauder wants to betray NATO allies, then why should anyone in NATO buy from his company?
Don't forget to tell them why they're losing your business either: https://www.elcompanies.com/en/news-and-media/contact-us
#BoycottEsteeLauder #BoycottBillionaires #BoycottUSA #StandWithGreenland #NATO #USPol #EUPol #CanPoli #CDNPoli
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2025-12-05 13:16:26 UTC

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Edinburgh is pretty decent without a car. It relies on buses more than trains and trams though. The ground is apparently too hard to dig a subway through (it's built on ancient volcanos) and they have plans to expand their tram system, but the bus really does take you most places you want to go (including out to the countryside).

2025-09-26 13:29:50 UTC

It looks like in their haste to throw around terrorism charges for *checks notes* waving a flag, the prosecutors failed to follow procedure and got their case tossed out.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/26/terrorism-case-against-kneecap-rapper-liam-og-o-hannaidh-thrown-out
#kneecap #Gaza #freespeech

2025-07-23 00:12:54 UTC

Spotted a few of these in the wild today.
#DumpTrump #poster #uspol
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2025-07-15 01:04:55 UTC

We have a pigeon nesting in one of our trees! I saw her collecting small twigs and grass from our yard too.
#bird #birdsOfMastodon
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2025-07-02 01:46:39 UTC

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in the early 2000s, my mom was sending me nonsense emails and I was replying with snopes links. In the 2010s, that basically changed to her posting nonsense on Facebook.
So many people don't bother fact checking at all.

2025-06-24 14:49:15 UTC

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Maybe put the blame for climate change where it belongs, on the wealthy.
#climatechange #EatTheRich

2025-06-24 14:48:07 UTC

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... and the reason people need cars in the first place is a lack of decent public transportation or other alternatives.
But rather than blame these other factors (which are mostly controlled by men, who are overrepresented in politics and on the boards of the companies making these decisions), you want to blame women.

2025-06-24 14:46:20 UTC

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so you think that homes aren't a necessity? Or are you assuming that women are purposely choosing larger homes rather than the developers deciding that larger homes are more profitable and then pretty much only building larger homes so they're the only options?
It's the same with cars in the USA: the manufacturers make more money off bigger cars so they don't make as many smaller cars because each unit is less profitable...

2025-06-24 14:27:19 UTC

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women make the majority of household purchases because it's a task that's usually delegated to them along with cooking and cleaning. They end up buying stuff they need, plus whatever their families need in addition to whatever they want or the children want because men generally just buy the stuff they want.

2025-06-24 14:15:29 UTC

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that kinda sounds like a way to blame women for climate change.
I think that men (who are disproportionately wealthier on average) are doing just fine wrecking the planet of their own volition without blaming their wives for it. Anecdotally, the couples that I know who are high-consumers tend to both be high-consumers. The wife might buy lots of household junk and clothes, but the husband will buy lots of cars or electronics.

2025-06-22 04:31:30 UTC

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ah, so just regular jankiness. That's a bit less exciting.

2025-06-22 04:25:15 UTC

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first sign of Iran taking revenge?

2025-06-17 13:32:15 UTC

Telling people to gather for food, then firing at the crowd with a tank. Appalling.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-aid-trucks-1.7563117
#Gaza #genocide

2025-04-24 23:04:54 UTC

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that was amazing!
I had to find their website. They have a few more videos on it: https://lesfoplafonds.com/

2025-04-09 01:54:13 UTC

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this is peak "just one more lane" behaviour.
You would think a nice high speed rail line along the 401 would help a lot of commuters.

2025-04-04 02:08:20 UTC

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maybe the people with $400 million 40 years ago were bad people too, if you want to adjust for inflation.
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2025-04-03 12:35:40 UTC

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I was thinking about this "you can't tax the rich or they'll leave" idea and at this point I just think that sounds like a good deal. If every country taxes the rich, maybe they'll just be stuck sailing from port to port on their stupid yahts, exiled from the rest of society.

2025-04-01 20:30:08 UTC

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I'm so impressed that he's staying on topic. I hope he beats the record (and then I hope someone else does it again when he has to stop, the next four years should just be the Dems fillibustering non-stop).

2025-03-22 20:33:25 UTC

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hopefully nobody mixes up the 3D printed gum and the real gum.

2025-03-18 03:04:38 UTC

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a woman at my playgroup's kid is doing grad school applications and heard the same from a lot of places (I think in physics). I'm not sure if they were rejected across the board, but they mentioned Europe and Canada being options.

2025-03-06 20:07:23 UTC

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I read a fictional book called The Deluge by Stephen Markley. It's definitely US-centric, but it is about the impact of climate change.

2025-01-01 14:37:59 UTC

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it also seems like there's an additional problem because these numbers are people being hospitalized for these deficiencies instead of having their GP catch the problem before they get to that state.

2024-12-26 22:29:10 UTC

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yeah, there's so much on the internet that's unsuitable for children. I don't think I'm letting mine online for quite a while.

2024-12-26 21:44:17 UTC

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they can get them as adults with their own money.
My kid is a toddler, so we're not even in the territory of phones being a thing anytime soon, but we're also not getting a tablet and we're introducing them to computers via keyboard and mouse. I just don't think throwing smartphones and tablets at children is a good way to encourage digital literacy in general, even setting aside the safety/privacy issues.

2024-12-26 21:16:00 UTC

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exactly. Children (especially young children) don't need smartphones.

2024-11-13 23:49:41 UTC

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Is This Hour Has 22 Minutes still around (or still any good)?

2024-11-09 17:09:32 UTC

I've been thinking a lot lately about #boycotting all billionaires. I'm not sure it's possible to do avoid patronizing them entirely, but they're destroying the environment, funding the worst politicians and waging a full on class war (that they're winning), so they deserve it at least.
Anyone else on board to #boycottBillionaires ?
#consumerism #PostConsumerism #EatTheRich

2024-10-28 05:08:37 UTC

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I think part of it is the right wing media. Like, when Fox did their interview with Harris and they showed a Trump clip, but edited out the bit where he went on a rant about "the enemy within".
She called them on it, but for people who get their news from Fox, they're always seeing the "high points" and none of the lows for Trump. They miss him being incoherent or saying that he'll be a dictator on day 1 and just have people on downplaying whatever gets through.