: β¦ It was Catherine the Great herself though who originally invited them to emigrate from Prussia, settle there, & farm the land. My Oma & her siblings had many horror stories.
@savagedaughter56.bsky.social: : Such a beautiful Park, I visited as a kid.
@eolai.bsky.social: I really love this painting.
graphic featuring Super Mario of Mario Bros. fame riding a Blue skateboard with Red wheels along with text in an 8βbit font that reads βHAPPY MARIO DAY!β over a Yellow to Orange gradient background with a border of Black, Red, Blues, & White, β J.D.
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: I normally try and keep my feed, & even my likes, as free of pΰ₯¦βΒ‘β Β’@β stuff, oneβwayβorβtheβother, as much as possible because as an Β‘β©β©Β‘πΕΏ@Πβ myself here in the U.S., I know I am & always will be monitored, but on this particular topic, I feel I am allowed to have an opinion.
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In Grade 8, we read the novel βDays of Terrorβ by Barbara Claassen Smucker in school. I was so excited to explain to my classmates what all the yummy foods mentioned were & learned I actually have a relative with the same name as the bookΚΌs main character. β¦
@cathyby.bsky.social [β ]: β¦ Much of the colony had to relocate to higher ground when they blewβup the dam over the Dnieper River & villages were flooded. They were painted as enemies of the state for being devoutly religious + successful farmers. β¦
@cathyby.bsky.social [β ]: β¦ (they had a term for this persecution I canΚΌt remember). I have a book about her hometown that lists in graphic detail, organized by family, the manner in which each person died. GAMEO website is another informative resource. β¦
: Yes it is, they are pacifist; exactly.
It goes even further back. There was an earlier wave who fled back in the 1920s when the government cameβin and began seizing everyoneΚΌs posessions, slaughtering anyone they so much as suspected of tucking anything away β¦ [β
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel called a proposed settlement between the Justice Department and Live Nation "preposterous."
Get well soon, Jello. The world needs you...ππ
Jello Biafra, Dead Kennedys co-founder and Alternative Tentacles founder, suffered a hemorrhagic stroke on Saturday, March 7, caused by high blood pressure, according to a statement on the Alternative Tentacles website. He is hospitalized but stable.
@cathyby.bsky.social: ThatΚΌs where my Oma is from β a little town called Einelage in the former Germanβspeaking Mennonite colony of Chortitza where Zaporizhzhia now stands. They fled back in the ΚΌ40s. She passedβaway in 2024, Age 101.
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β also been inconvenieced by the closure of RiteAids π
: Me, my conundrum I fretβabout fromβtimeβtoβtime: IΚΌve finally landed on a deodourant I really like that works well 4 me, but turnsβout they only sell it in the U.S.. If I ever move back to Canada or ANYWHERE else, what shall I do? Seems important. For now, IΚΌve sent some back with my visiting Mum.
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
: This sounds perfect.
Seth Green killed an industry in a way that @youknowlydia.bsky.social finds hilarious. It was an industry that needed to die so we made her article FREE. 1900hotdog.com/2026/03/nerd...
: and that AltNPS acct.(while maybe not BAD per se)ΚΌs basically just a clickβfarm, not some secret insider resistance movement, sorry.
English author and garden designer Vita Sackville-West was born on this day in 1892. A selection of writing from her column is collected in A Joy of Gardening.Β
#vitasackvillewest #Gardening #WarblerPress #Indiebooks
My friend Rae sent me this on βb and IΚΌm dying πβ΄
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, Iβd have two nickels, which isnβt a lot, but itβs weird it happened twice
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This morningβs dawn chorus:
New research shows vibrations, like birdsong have a greening effect.
It can influence/stimulate stomata to open, boost nutrient/water uptake, enhance growth by triggering molecular changes in plants.
So spring bird song improve plant respiration and vitality
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β missing my OmaΚΌs Gooseberry Soup!
: You are brilliant.
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
