Apple Annie 

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On “I put pixels in their place” hiatus. Recovering front-end web developer. You might find me in the garden or staring at a bird.
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LocationLower Columbia, PDX, PNW
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Here for#gardening, #birds, #photography, occasionally politics and technology
And then there were two. #BloomScrolling

Perhaps I should call this a New Year cactus. First bloom open today.

#BloomScrolling

Best soon-to-be showing yet.

LOL I opted out in 2003 when I left an abusive ex and moved. 2024 my ass.

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@AmandaMarcotte/113724529815051123

Amanda Marcotte (@[email protected])

Straights aren't pairing off like they used to, and the press wants to blame women — for daring to have standards. I argue that it's MAGA that broke heterosexuality. They make it seem like hell. Of course more women are taking a pass. https://www.salon.com/2024/12/27/tradwives-incels-and-cat-ladies-the-year-maga-broke-heterosexuality/

Mastodon @ SDF

I personally do not drink and though I do not fault others who do, the pervasiveness of alcohol at work events really bothers me. Yet in states with legal weed, that isn’t invited at work events. Seems unfair.

https://mastodon.social/@veroandi/113703721009084007

This bacopa was planted in May for summer containers but is living its best life now in mid-to-late December.

#BloomScrolling #florespondence

I wasn't sure of this before, but now I think I am.

You know how the male Anna's does the territorial dive/tail feather chirp display? I'd always read that this was related to mating, but my resident does this *to me* when I think he's had enough of me in his yard.

Apparently the nearly three hours I spent out there today was too much for his liking. He dived me twice.

lol the PNW had two of these in the span of a week and no national news coverage https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/top-stories-u7govdf1z/-/a-QGUb0sQGSuuCx_Vz5uJ-Ww%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0
Atmospheric river and potential bomb cyclone bring chaotic winter weather to East Coast

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. East Coast was beginning a whiplash-inducing stretch of weather on Wednesday that was rainy, windy and potentially dangerous, due in part to an atmospheric river and developing bomb cyclone. Places like western Maine could see freezing rain, downpours, unseasonably …

Associated Press - By PATRICK WHITTLE
Sandhill Cranes on Ice

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The hummingbird appreciation crowd on Mastodon is *strong*.