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first green glasses day at my new job (iykyk)

Asked a friend how it's going and they responded "bad but I'm used to it" devastating

Banging on this drum yet again, both men and women up to age 45 are eligible for this vaccine (and I’ve *heard* you can pay out of pocket if you are out of eligibility) and the amount of cancers it prevents: This is the cancer moonshot you heard about.

saw a bluebird :)

fuck

"how are you?" absolutely makes me shut down

For at least the last five years I just ask, “How is your day going?” It’s smaller scale, doesn’t require people to reckon the larger existential and ongoing problems as much. And most people are just surviving one day at a time.

Owls are cool little guys. I wish our schedules overlapped more.

thinking about maybe trying my hand at sleeping tonight

there's something so beautiful about biting into a garlic knot and leaving a lipstick stain on it

I have absolutely no idea what I’m supposed to do with this information

One of the most revolutionary things you can do right now? (You’re not going to like it.) Mask up! 😷

I am no stranger to harsh winter conditions but wow this is brutal

team 'buy yourself flowers' forever

I saw this on Pinterest and I don't know where it's from but it's cracking me up

Our bodies— Donald Britton

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

only tethered by those I love Han VanderHart ❤️

another year where "worst valentine's day 2017" hasn't been replaced and that's all I can ask for

A little late to Print Prompt Monday a new printmaking concept from @strangford.bsky.social @gemmatrickey.bsky.social and @printsbythebay.bsky.social This weeks theme: Into the Wild. This is a linocut print inspired by the folk song ‘Hares on the Mountain’. #printpromptMonday #intothewild

got sent to the office in 7th grade for laughing

Mahmoud Darwish

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

Another day I haven’t inherited a charming yet battered bed and breakfast by the sea with a dark history only I can uncover

Enjoy these two blue jays sharing breakfast on this very cold morning 🪶

Obsessed with this graphic from a four+ decades old paper about Long-eared Owls 🦉 (they really looked at a Saw-whet and said “🥔” 😭)

if your beans didn't soften while cooking it's not because you salted too early. it's not because you added too much acid. it's not because the beans are too old. it's because you're impure of heart and the beans Know

👋 My first post on @bsky.app and more to come 💯

honestly it will be on brand if despite my efforts every single one of my plants dies this winter. real starting over hours

andy serkis' hair from the return of the king appendices lives rent free in my head

Worked hard on this, and I hope it will be a useful resource for many. A beginner’s guide to Long COVID, with a discussion of mechanisms: www.thegauntlet.news/p/what-is-lo...

kinda can't believe it's taken me this long to start using the finch app

BLUE LETTER being followed by RHIANNON, which segues into OVER MY HEAD, which then goes to CRYSTAL makes my entire soul wobble in its corporeal container

blue of the sky without violence blue dust on the grapes on the vine blue mist on the pond’s dark face —Han VanderHart one of three new poems in the new @screendoorreview.bsky.social 💙 read the full issue here: www.screendoorreview.com/issue-19/

“It’s enough to know the moon is gone” A poem by Caroline Crew.