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floralford.bsky.social
Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. Kitchen garden enthusiast. California zone 9b
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🌱 Peppers, violas and watercress seedlings. Night protected on a southern facing wall and greenhouse plastic cover. I'm way behind my seed starting this year with all of this cruel chaos.

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NEW: USAID Dismantler Peter Marocco Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Well done, keep nothing back!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

submitted 18 days ago • 1765 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 20 days ago • 1330 comments

NEW: WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s DOGE project. By @telliotter.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 966 comments

Welp, that was nice while it lasted. Canceled my substack, hope writers find a new place to post their work.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

🌱 Seeded my pepper plants December 29th, such slow growers. A variety of hot and sweet peppers, some favorites are the Sugar Rush Peach and Aleppo peppers.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

I have been thinking a lot about how becoming more informed and aware over the next four years in a way that’s really useful might mean more books about history and less getting sucked into the daily firehose of bad news which is the present

submitted 35 days ago • 42 comments

A short Saturday hike with family in Bidwell Park, northern California. Warm and sunny winters day

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

mine will always be the sperm whale who reacted to a Roman soldier throwing a bottle at him off the Byzantine coast by sinking every ship he could off that coast for the next 60 years and had the emperor declare him an enemy of the state and name him after the Titan who attacked mount olympus

submitted 50 days ago • 84 comments

Checking in with my winter garden. Small progress but its just fine, lots of root growth to prepare for the coming spring growth. Particularly excited about my raddichio seedlings in the garlic patch!

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“It’s a logical end point for a technology whose sole meaningful use case is enabling criminal extortion and money laundering: finally carrying out the bank robber’s dream of draining the value in Fort Knox.”

submitted 89 days ago • 9 comments

The scariest story I’ve read in days. This is exactly the sort of law Viktor Orban would come up with: the Treasury can designate a nonprofit/NGO as “supporting terrorism” and the president then revokes its tax-exempt status. In 2020 Trump could have bankrupted BLM chapters with a penstroke.

submitted 98 days ago • 7 comments

The auction for Trans Lifeline, organized by @leighharlen.bsky.social is live! Items can be found here: www.32auctions.com/ProtectTrans... Everyone needs to go look at this hat, it's so good I'm screaming: www.32auctions.com/organization...

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Harassment of people of all different backgrounds is going to increase sharply. Wanna make a difference? Take a free online bystander intervention training from Right To Be. Here's one on 11/14. We all need to learn how to watch out for each other. Please sign up. righttobe.org/events/bysta...

submitted 105 days ago • 109 comments

Violas from my garden, a whipped caramel, almond, espresso swiss merangue buttercream cake made last month for family. Just a quick post before I head back into almond harvest.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

Hello. Bit of a moody fall cake vibe in the kitchen today.

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment