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@twistylittlepassages@weirder.earth
I had to look up TTRPG… I’m curious to see what you make!
I used to hate setting prices/fees for my services (interpreting)…. Still do, come to think of it (watercolor paintings)
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Quaker. Developing watercolor artist as a hobby. Part-time tennis fan and slightly more than a backyard birder. Addressing issues of privilege while working to heal my psycho-spiritual wounds as a result of it. Knit-worthy. she/her or they/them
Profile: Watercolor of a silhouette of a blue heron in foreground, reflection of golden sunlight and soft tree image beyond it
Header: Watercolor of a sheep, painted with golds and oranges, with a dark blue underside, looking directly at viewer
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BEST BAKES:
Gluten free: pie crust & chocolate mandelbrot
BEST BACKYARD BIRDS:
Northern flicker, red-bellied woodpecker
NOT ON MY BINGO CARD:
being doxxed, living under a dictatorship
SECOND LANGUAGE:
ASL
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@heidilifeldman WoW, thanks for doing this!!
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@Remittancegirl I see it as part of our (Americans in the USA) spiritual malaise.
In my own life, when I lose touch with the Loving Principle, Divine Spirit, God(dess), the Great Mystery, then I too easily lose my grounding and lost in my complaints, whininess, anger, self-pity, misery, etc.
When I’m grounded in Love, it’s so much easier to turn off the news, ignore the headlines, and focus on my immediate community and my social circles
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@sarae Such good advice!
I wasn't really paying attention to the measles outbreaks, until my twin brother wrote me and said he learned he was no longer immune to measles-- and he was getting ready for an international trip so he got vaccinated again.
Thankfully when I had my doctor check my immune level for measles, mine was still very strong!
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@CTGT@birds.town I'm not sure what I love about this photo but I do love it!
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@christineburns@mastodon.green Ooh, very cool! On a rare occasion in the States, there is an outlet on the base of a lamppost in a hotel parking lot. I’d love to see some of these chargers in the US, but not gonna happen for awhile, I fear
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@hollie Good for you, good for the bike, good for the bumper sticker! 😝
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@jon@henshaw.social Thanks for making me smile on a dreary day where I am
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@DigitalHorology@hachyderm.io This is cool
I was hoping to post for Silent Sunday but am just having a heckuva time getting back into the fediverse groove… Will take some time to scroll through some of your #SilentSunday photos and call it good enough!
So great to hear the announcer use they/them pronouns for Seattle’s CJ Jackson, who I believe identifies as non-binary — and uses she/they for pronouns, according to Wikipedia
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@cpay This is on my “hope to see it one day” list. Where did you snap this photo?
My most recent watercolor based on a photo I took at a nearby pond.
At the pond are turtles, herons, egrets, cormorants, mallards, wood ducks, songbirds, redwing blackbirds, and even an occasional loon.
Yesterday I posted a photo of a watercolor I did—but it wasn’t the photo I intended to post! There were a few details I added later; not sure why I posted the not-quite-finished one.
This is the completed painting, which adds swirls/gentle ripples in the water, a shadow below the rocks, and a few touches around the reflection of the heron itself
Thanks for the many likes and boosts of the previous version!
The #PWHL finals between Montreal and Ottawa were great this year (again)!
And just about 10 minutes after watching the celebration, I realized that these great teams are likely going to look completely different next year because of the expansion 😭
The league is going from 8 teams to 12. How is that going to work exactly…? Who will retire? What else is in the works?
Disappointed and a bit disgusted to see another US team added to the growing #PWHL roster, instead of preserving Canada-US parity among the teams.
Is hockey in hot climates really a thing?? Nevada, followed by San José…?!? I understand the logistics about wanting professional arenas for playing and practicing but still…
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Can you recommend an HVAC service for furnace and a/c tune-ups, etc?
Today I fired our HVAC company who we have worked with since 2019. The small company merged with Hero Home Services--which isn't the main issue. But Hero uses #AI for nearly all of its customer service and it *sounded* like an actual person... except it just repeated what I said, like "I'll pass along your concern about XYZ." Gave me the creeps
Who do you use?
#BirdCallOut this morning, just from what the Merlin app could identify:
Tennessee warbler -- sounded just like what I heard yesterday and got a glimpse of
Northern mockingbird
White throated sparrow, which sometimes move through here
Yellow rumped warbler, also likely a migrant
Great crested flycatcher - new to me!
Also seen/heard:
Northern cardinal
Goldfinches
Egrets
Cormorants
Chimney swifts
American robins
By the time I set up my scope, the songbirds had gone quiet or had left!
We received about 3/4” of rain overnight #mnwx
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It’s nearly 7:00pm Central time 5/17. Will it rain tonight after all?
That game was insane and had it all— outstanding goalie plays; score by a rookie; tension over a possibly serious injury to a key player; intense exchange of scores, including with only seconds left; the GOAT having a hand in a critical play as time was ticking; and of course overtime—though only one OT period, which is now almost expected and almost boring 😅
Just heard about the #Broadway musical Suffs, about women’s suffrage movement, based on actual people and events. PBS is showing it, “in the manner of Hamilton,” and the first half has been so compelling and well-acted that I am off to bed 90 mins later than usual!
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@canyakker@mas.to Beautiful capture!
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@bipolaron@scholar.social This quote is everything--
“History has shown us that surveillance states exist not to protect innocent people from criminals, but to make criminals of innocent people"