Dig in!! // For #MacroMonday a hungry bee on lavender

#Bees #lavender #AnimalPhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #fujifilm #FujifilmXSeries #fujinon
cropped, otherwise
// Exif on post‘s instance #sooc

#DIY Heated #NeckWrap with #Buckwheat & #Lavender

August 28, 2019

"In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a DIY heated neck wrap using buckwheat and lavender at home. This wrap can be microwaved for warmth or kept in the freezer for a cold neck or shoulder wrap. The lavender added to the heat pack makes it very relaxing."

Learn more:
https://nourishandnestle.com/diy-buckwheat-heated-neck-wrap/

#SolarPunkSunday #SewYourOwn #HeatWrap #HeatPad #HeatTherapy

From our yard recently, “sending” these blooms from our heart to @Kleen and @Weather_Rock_Wx, in gratitude for their June 2 and June 5 donations! How to donate, plus FAQs: https://bikemonterey.org/about/financial-donations.

About those blooms: Learn what we frequently do with lavender, and why we bought special thread at Slow Fiber, Monterey—better still, see a Salinas bike commuter we met when she was en route there June 5, to help her friend / the owner in that shop. https://bikemonterey.org/bike-buzz-17th-anniversary-edition.html

#ActOnClimate #cycling #biking #transportation #ActiveTransportation #BikeTooter #MontereyCounty #OrganicGardening #flowers #dianthus #SweetWilliam #lavender #SweetPeas #gardening

Just gone through a taster pack of different #EarlGrey variants. 🫖

Earl & #LadyGrey - known quantities. Love them.

Strong Earl Grey - Rinsing your mouth with #Bergamotte. Good. 😂

#Lavender Earl Grey - It had not occurred to me that my life was lacking lavender flavoured #BlackTea, but definitely worth a try. But what does Bergamotte do in it? And vice versa?

#Vanilla Earl Grey - #vanilla flavoured black tea can be lovely. But again: what does Bergamotte do in it? And vice versa?

Is Peter Thiel’s Palantir the most evil company in the world …. along with all the other “tech-bro” $billionaire outfits?

Quite possibly!

*** Recommended read & please boost! ***

“The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials”

by Charlie Young, Ian Tucker & Carole Cadwalladr in The Nerve

@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@NHSrCommunity
@nhsactivistrn
@NoPalantirInSouthYorkshire
@ZackPolanski
@kein_palantir_bw
@palantirwatch

“The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption risk”

https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-revolving-doors-peter-thiel-transparency-corruption-risk

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Government #Labour #Starmer #MOD #NHS #Thiel #Karp #Israel #IDF #PalestinianGenocide #Gaza #Genocide #AI #Lavender #Corruption #Sovereignty #DataSovereignty #RevolvingDoor #ICE #Trump #Mandelson #Epstein #Watson

The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials

The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption risk, write Charlie Young, Carole Cadwalladr and Ian Tucker

The Nerve

I will speak at the #bitsundbaeume community summit in Berlin today:

Title: #AI as moral red herring in #warfare

"The #Lavender system of the Israeli military shows how the notion of "AI-enabled targeted killing" is completely misleading and conceals the actual goal of such systems: producing civillian harm. This phenomenon is in line with other AI narratives actually derailing useful societal discourses."

https://pretalx.wikimedia.de/bitsbaeume2026/talk/PYLFEX/

This talk is based on this upcoming publication: Rainer Rehak & Taylor Kate Woodcock (2026) Automating civilian harm: On Israel’s use of the AI-enabled targeting system Lavender in Gaza and International Humanitarian Law. In The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’26). https://doi.org/10.1145/3805689.3812357

#ACM #Israel #Genocide #Gaza #IDF #bitsundbäume

Insta-famous lavender farm in Ontario will reopen later this month
If your perfect summer day involves a scenic picnic on a lavender field, then there's good news: Avalon Lavender Farm in the Ontario city of Mono, will reopen for the 2026 season later this month.Located about an hour north of Toronto, the family-run farm is welcoming visitors back for another summer of blooming lavender, with sprawling countryside views and...
https://www.blogto.com/travel/2026/06/avalon-lavender-farm-ontario/