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~* Sarah

@stellarsarah@mastodon.world

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Citizen of the world: lived in five countries on three continents. PhD in astronomy, didn't stay in the field. I enjoy art, astronomy, beer, cats, hiking, knitting, nature, reading, running, yoga.

470 Followers

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39 Posts

Joined November 07, 2022

~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 4w ago

This is one of my first season milkweeds. I foraged the seeds from a nearby plant and got them going indoors and everything. This one in particular got eaten to the ground twice. Both times, it came back as twice as many plants. One thing I've been learning this year through gardening is that plants are incredible. They have their limits (our sunflowers didn't recover from being repeatedly chomped), but some of them really spring back. #milkweed #nativePlants #gardening

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 3mo ago

How fitting that the day after Carney officially abandons the previous climate change policies, Canada Day celebrations are canceled in Ottawa due to flooding. It's almost like physics doesn't care how hard it is to address climate change. #cdnpoli #climateChange

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 1w ago

Finally got around to getting a mammogram. The process was physically uncomfortable, but the technician was cool and let me see the images. And I definitely don't have cancer (at least in this one particular part of my body they looked at), so that's a plus too. #mammogram #womensHealth #preventativeMedicine

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 4w ago

Replying to

@kdwarn@social.coop ah, I thought it was a purslane. Good thing I didn't try to eat it at least, but I suppose it is is bit smaller.

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@tinker@infosec.exchange personally, we use a VPN so our ISP doesn't have to know about how we sail the high seas and doesn't send letters asking us to knock it off.

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social when you say that identity politics can wait, what do you mean by that? Because it sounds an awful like you're suggesting that the rights of women, people of colour and LGBT+ people don't matter. Also, neo-liberalism isn't working out for white dudes either, so I'm not sure why "avoiding identity politics" helps them. @selzero@syzito.xyz

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 6mo ago

Caught in a yawn...

#CatsOfMastodon

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@fullywoolly@mastodon.social yeah, Data and Lore were pretty much the only sentient machines and Starfleet kept trying to do tests on them because they didn't understand how to do that. @thomholwerda@exquisite.social @danirabbit@mastodon.online

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@JonChevreau Musk isn't going to invent immortality. That man hasn't invented a single thing in his whole life and doesn't know anything about biology, let alone enough to conquer death. He might put his name on someone else's invention, but he doesn't create for himself. @Remittancegirl

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 15mo ago

Replying to

@Daojoan@mastodon.social in the early 2000s, my mom was sending me nonsense emails and I was replying with snopes links. In the 2010s, that basically changed to her posting nonsense on Facebook. So many people don't bother fact checking at all.

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 3mo ago

Pokeweed or no? I didn't plant anything exactly here, but I accept some volunteers. It's crowding out some plants I do want and I don't think I want poisonous plants in my garden, even if they are native and beneficial otherwise because I have a child and it's also overcrowding a few things I did plant. It's coming up as a 38% chance match for pokeweed on PlantNet with a drop off after that. #gardening #nativePlants

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 5mo ago

It's funny seeing so many Earth Day sales. Needless consumption is the opposite of supporting the environment.

You don't need to buy anything to celebrate Earth Day. The first "R" in the three Rs is Reduce.

Reduce the things you buy. Reuse, repair and refurbish the things you already have. Not just on Earth Day, but every day.

#earthDay #anticonsumerism #environment

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 7mo ago

Living in interesting times suuuuuuucks.

#uspol #war #fascism

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@RickiTarr@beige.party as Trevor Noah quotes his mom in his autobiography: "The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He's attracted to independent women. "He's like an exotic bird collector," she said. "He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage."

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz yeah, you're probably right. Hopefully they get forced to leave by diplomatic means.

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@pl@cosocial.ca I feel like a breathalyzer installed in a car would get super nasty really fast. Especially if it's a car that's shared by multiple people. If they cared about safety, they could ban the monstrous trucks with 5' tall hoods and everything though. @briankrebs@infosec.exchange @campuscodi@mastodon.social

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social should the Follicular phase be days 6-13 instead of 1-13? Otherwise, great guide.

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@tantramar@zeroes.ca yeah, I'm not surprised that Trump wants to acquire this data, but I am surprised who he wants to buy it from. @austinkocher@mastodon.social

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@beeoproblem@mastodon.gamedev.place same. That's why I picked within the next 5 years. @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@indivisibleteam gerrymandering of any kind should be flat out illegal. Boundaries should have to be drawn following county/city lines or roads, rivers etc with a minimal perimeter to area ratio and decided by a non-partisan committee or something.

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@saltywizard the UK had fascists before WWII, but they didn't take over. The UK still has fascists, but they've kept them out of power so far. That's kind of winning, right? @Strandjunker

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@afewbugs@social.coop yeah, I remember my flat in the UK where we'd run the heating on full constantly in the winter and wear jumpers and it was still chilly because the insulation was awful. Plus our landlord refused to replace the very inefficient heater even though he spent more repairing the damn thing during our tenancy than it would have cost to replace it with a higher efficiency one (there was a part that kept burning out because it was designed badly).

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@JPK_elmediat that's how I would assume he means it. Unfortunately, it looks like Trump and Netanyahu set off a powderkeg and this looks like it could become a bigger conflict. Turkiye had to shoot down some Iranian missiles and they're a NATO member who could maybe invoke Article 5 if something lands. @SnowyCA @dyckron

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 15mo ago

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@courtcan@mastodon.social ah, my mom never said anything negative in response to the Snopes debunking. I did start these corrections by emailing her individually and then eventually just hit reply all with my debunking after a few attempts. Then one of her friends who was in that email chain thought that my email address belonged to his daughter with the same first name and it got all awkward, but she did stop emailing me those kinds of things. @Daojoan@mastodon.social

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@HarriettMB she also put the bag on the ground‽ Even if it hadn't been stolen, it could have been stepped on or kicked. Just for the laptop alone, that would have been bad news.

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@jeffcodes@infosec.exchange Peters is retiring, so there is going to be a primary for his position. Tell your friends in Michigan to support Abdul El-Sayed for senate in the Democratic primary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_El-Sayed @QasimRashid@mastodon.social

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 7mo ago

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@dyckron yeah, though I would hope it would be limited to scrambling some jets for air defence of any countries that didn't decide to jump in on their own (including the UK allowing the use of their bases). @JPK_elmediat @SnowyCA

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 6mo ago

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@HarriettMB yeah, it sounds like everything was massively under-insured. Assuming it was all actually in there and not stolen by someone else. It's just so careless. I don't even put my bag on the ground and the most expensive thing in that is usually a book.

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Strandjunker Elizabeth Warren is proposing a wealth tax. It's only 2% over $50 million and 3% over a billion... but better than nothing?

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@contrasocial@mastodon.social it goes further back than Bush Jr. It goes back to at least Regan. @Flowermob@mastodon.social

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 2mo ago

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@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz they should just confiscate all that equipment and press charges.

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 10mo ago

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@mattblaze@federate.social the UK also fired its ambassador to the US because he was involved with Epstein.

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@mattblaze@federate.social the others who were sent to CECOT with him mostly got repatriated to Venezuela, I think. That's how we've been hearing about the torture prison at all. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czry5k52np2o

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 6mo ago

So I guess the question I have is whether anyone actually agreed on the ceasefire terms in the first place or whether Trump and the administration is just lying about what they agreed to and they're changing their story?

I feel like what happened is that Trump made a threat that was too far (genocide is an obvious war crime, the military might not do it) and didn't want to have to carry it out, so he agreed to whatever Iran wanted in the moment and is now trying to walk it back.

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 8mo ago

Replying to on xeno.glyphpress.com

@JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com to be fair, the video does suggest that it might have happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_6kGluvINg Especially if you look at the faces of the people behind him. @praetor@mstdn.social

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 5mo ago

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@QasimRashid what else should anyone expect from a guy who wrote a book defending torture?

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@dansinker@omfg.town conformity with authority is the opposite of punk.

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 2w ago

Replying to

@ajroach42@retro.social I heard Christian rock a bit when I was in youth group, but I never got into it. Maybe if there had been Christian punk, I could have been into it as long as they sang about things other than Jesus and weren't total posers.

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world

· 4mo ago

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@AG7GM@mastodon.radio at some point, I think it was the Tories in the UK had some issue sending letters out where they messed up names with apostrophes. You'd think everyone in the UK would be good at handling those since the UK includes Northern Ireland, but apparently not. I also knew someone who had a hyphenated first name and apparently that's not something computers expect. @ajh@indieweb.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

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