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  @emilyvanartist@mastodon.social @beandreams@friendhole.social We used to cut the bottoms off the bull kelp and spin it really fast to make tones. You could shift the tones by cutting them shorter or longer and when you get a bunch of people together it's amazing.

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  My inner woodworker loses its mind when I see someone using a belt sander across the grain.

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  There's something utterly fucked about people who see the planet as real estate and not the ecosystem that literally nurtures humanity. It's like staring at a brick so hard that you don't notice it's part of a wall or that the wall is in fact attached to a building.

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  Hanging with an old friend today. The loveable Agent Cooper. #dogsOfMastodon

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  I learned how to make cornbread when I was 14 years old. I've tried many others, but the first one I learned to make and eventually adapted to gluten free is still my all time favourite and maybe my favourite comfort food in rainy summer weather. #ouchThatsTasty

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  I don't know if I ever remember it raining here in July for at least 10 years. Serious torrential downpour.

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  I deal with a lot of grief surrounding my MECFS. People who knew me in the before times, knew I always had about six things on the go - At least two jobs, a very active band and volunteering with a harvest collective and music projects as well as studying kung fu for nine years. When I finally pared that down to one job, I used to cook meals for a crew of 13, three meals a day for a month straight, rain or shine, rough seas or calm waters. I did this so I could access better care for my chroni...

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  Irish and gaillige speaking friends, I'm changing my last name to my great grandmother's maiden name, which I know would have been prefaced with ní, but I'm agender so that feels a little weird, and I could go with the O' but I'm wondering if there's ever been a non gendered preface for names in Irish language, or if maybe there is one created now? I know it's maybe a long shot, but I would love to find out if I have an option, otherwise I may just run with O'....

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  Very excited to have found a stool I can use to sit while cooking. It means maybe I might be able to cook a little more often, and will give respite on the days my batteries disappear halfway through cooking and all I want to do is crumple into a ball on the floor. How was I ever a ship's cook? It was pretty brutal spoons wise then, but now I think I'd just die after a day. #mecfs #ouchThatsTasty

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  I just had a small, teary moment when I was standing outside and could smell people cooking breakfast. I never thought I would ever live somewhere that smelled like pancakes and bacon outside on a Sunday morning. Eight years ago, I would be listening to cops harassing homeless people, wheezing from car exhaust and smelling hot garbage. My life has changed in both horrifying and beautiful ways and I'm so glad I get to be here this morning, but in a bittersweet way where I know that the...

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  I guess it's summertime again

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  Curtido of future delicious tomorrows... #fermentation #ouchThatsTasty

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  Thinking about how I didn't realize how privileged I was as a teenager to have a grandad who was a former airplane mechanic in the military. Anytime my shitty $200 car was broken he would just say "bring it over". My car repairs were always out there, like he used pop cans to fix my exhaust system, but they literally never broke down after he'd done whatever he was gonna do. I also remember that the only exhaust system he could find to fit my old car was a Cherry Bomb so anyw...

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  Was thinking about how nearly all my trans friends use signal for communications, but how convincing my cis friends (save a couple who are pretty aware of the world, and one who is a journalist) to do so has been an exhausting effort to the point that I don't even bother anymore. The biggest argument is "but why????" from the safety bubble of a group of people who have never even glimpsed a thought of being persecuted for their own existence.

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  Hey fedi friends, My usual colouring app has, of course, become a cesspool of AI. I'm really struggling because it's a really good way for me to get my brain to check out when I'm having a bad mecfs day. Is there a non AI colouring app out there? I don't want to be supporting a hellish dystopia on days when i have to check out

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  People losing it over hantavirus while ignoring the ongoing pandemic is a special kind of sad/hilarious.

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  @Linzington@kind.social 💕This should just be how the world is. Everyone says "oh, I'm not ableist", but why the hell aren't we all fighting loudly for this on the daily if we aren't. Ableism is nearly invisible to people who aren't dealing with it on the regular. So much of people being ableist is going through the world without ever bothering to think about what other people have to juggle every single day.

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  Hey lovelies! It's becoming blatantly apparent that the age of search engines is dead. I was thinking back to how I functioned finding things before them: usually bookmarked or scribbled down links to good sites. Do you have any favourites? Wayback and internet archive, of course. Could we compile a list of resource sites for fedi users somehow? Categorized I would guess? I think there are enough of us here with special interests that it would be a work of art in the long run.

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  https://www.404media.co/hackers-dox-hundreds-of-dhs-ice-fbi-and-doj-officials/

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  Yet another "assassination" attempt still won't make the Epstein files go away.

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  The wild menace of the morning sleeps fiercely now. Spring brings out big feels for Gus. #gusTheCat #toebeanTuesday #cats #catsOfMastodon

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  Hey beautiful humans, a friend of a friend just lost everything including her three cats in a house fire. They had only moved in 4hrs before it happened and hadn't had a chance to activate their tenant's insurance yet. They have lost absolutely everything. Kelly is a small business owner who runs an amazing cat rescue café. I really hope she can recover and keep her business afloat. Please help out if you can. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-kelly-recover-after-losing-every...

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  Yeah, this was definitely written by stephen king #monsterdon

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  The first year here was a real slog. @ana was destroyed by basically having to do a move without movers by herself with the assistance of some amazing friends, and my MECFS had another massive flare when we did. But, we've been slowly building our garden over the last two years and this spring when I go outside what was once a gravel parking lot is buzzing with bees, hummingbirds and predatory helpers. We are both slowly recovering and the work we need to do outside is slowing down....

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  Every so often we have a perfect PNW morning where the petrichor is perfection-The subtle blend of the icy brine of clams and oysters, cedar boughs, flower pollen, rain and fresh split wood, sometimes a hint of wood smoke. It's pure heaven and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Since I was a tiny child this the scent of home. I'm standing out in the garden in the rain just to take it in. It pairs really well with a hot cup of coffee. Other days it stinks...

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  The cat every single morning: "Hey, are you alive?! Hey, are you alive?! Hey, are you alive?!" Me, half awake: "Yup" Cat: "OK! See ya!"

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  I wish I knew where this came from. It was my grandfather's and I saved it from a box my parent's were getting rid of when he died. It's a nightmare to dust, but I love the carved forced perspective of it. Reminds me of him every day. #art #folkArt #woodCarving

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  Not sure what has shifted but I there were a large number of people masked up at the grocery store today across multiple demographics, to the point that it seemed to make a lot of unmasked people really uncomfortable. It's almost like visibility increases awareness... #maskUp #covidIsNotOver

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  Too bad this will be investigated by the guys from Zoolander. https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/us/deaths-disappearances-scientists-investigation