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2026-08-05 18:22:23 UTC

After a storm, look on the ground under the oaks and pines.
Pale grey-green tangles come down with the limbs. Pull one strand: if a white elastic core stretches inside the green sheath before it snaps, that's usnea. Old man's beard. Take only what already fell — never off the living tree, because it grows slowly and it does not come back on your schedule.
Dry it a day on a towel. Pack a jar half full, cover with 100-proof vodka, four weeks in a dark cupboard, shake it when you remember. Scotland, Appalachia, and China all reached for it for the same things: the throat that overstayed, the chest that never quite cleared after smoke season.
It's an air-quality indicator. A wood with usnea in it is a wood with clean air, which tells you something about what you're standing in before it tells you anything about your lungs.
What do you reach for when the smoke has been sitting in your chest?
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#Herbalism #Foraging #Usnea #Lichen #Nature #Folklore #Druid #Photography #Wildcrafting #Community #Solidarity #FoodAsMedicine #Fediverse
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2026-08-05 03:17:19 UTC

Every summer, Estonians unbolt the gate and let strangers walk into the garden.
Old farm plots, revived manor grounds, seaside beds bent sideways by the wind. No ticket booth. No velvet rope. No QR code stapled to a fencepost by a marketing intern. You walk up, somebody's grandmother shows you her currants, and you leave knowing the names of four plants you didn't know that morning.
They sit above the 58th parallel. Ten weeks of summer, and they worked out centuries ago that hoarding it is a species of madness.
A hundred sealed yards is a hundred little islands. A hundred open ones is a single system — which is how seed and pollinators and neighborly obligation have always actually worked.
Who would you open your gate to this month, if you decided to?
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#GardensOfMastodon #Estonia #Gardening #Community #MutualAid #Permaculture #Commons #Solarpunk #Photography #Nature #Neighbors #Solidarity #Folklore
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2026-08-04 16:12:14 UTC

For the ache that outlasted the week.
Willow — seileach. A heaping teaspoon of dried cut bark per cup of cold water. Cover it, leave it on the counter overnight, eight hours, strain in the morning. Cold maceration, not a boil. The cold isn't fussiness — heat drags the tannins out hard and you end up with something that tastes like a wet fence post and sits badly.
Salicin is where aspirin came from, so the same cautions ride along: not for anyone who can't take aspirin, not for children or teenagers, not alongside blood thinners, not without asking whoever knows your chart.
The willow has been doing this since long before the patent office existed. It can wait for you to check.
What do you reach for when the low back has been gripping since Monday?
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2026-07-28 17:52:15 UTC

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Like literally, Id lose paid subs over flagrant cuss word language.

2026-07-28 17:51:50 UTC

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most people dislike my language choices. When I was purely on substack, I got told using the word Fuck too much made it unreadable.

2026-07-28 15:37:20 UTC

Nearly half of Gen Z adults—48% of 2,365 surveyed—say they won’t darken a church door because Christians’ support of Trump has made them leave. They didn’t leave over theology. They left over the company the theology started keeping.
The brand is a repellent. The kids ran the numbers. They saw the receipts. And they’re heading for the exits at a dead run.
When a bunch of pulpit-pounding fuck hucksters tell you they speak for the sacred, and an entire generation looks at them and says no thank you, I’ve seen the receipts—that is not the death of anything holy. That’s a haunted house losing its last paying customers.
They can keep the steeple. We keep the fire.
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#GenZ #ChurchExit #Trump #ChristianNationalism #QueerRights #Politics #Data #Polling #Faith #Grift #Religion #News #LGBTQ #WendySays #ThistleAndMoss
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2026-07-21 19:33:40 UTC

Fifty years ago she built the association that today asks women to prove their sex with a cheek swab.
Billie Jean King said it plain in 2020 — no place in any sport for discrimination of any kind — and she has not taken it back. The word still sits on the table where she left it, waiting for the house she built to remember its own name.
You don't get to control what comes after you. You only get to be the one who said the true thing first, and clearly.
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2026-07-15 18:22:25 UTC

Broccoli stems. Chard ribs. Carrot tops. The fennel fronds you paid for and binned.
Peel the woody outside off a broccoli stem and the inside is sweeter than the crown — slice it into coins. Chard ribs cook like celery, three minutes ahead of the leaves. Carrot tops are an herb. Chop them like parsley and stop apologizing.
Roughly a third of what most kitchens buy in produce goes in the bin, and almost none of it is spoiled. It's the part somebody in an advertisement decided wasn't the food.
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." — Alice Walker
Two minutes of knife-work buys you a free meal a week, forever. There's a particular light in a kitchen where somebody stopped believing the packaging.
What part of a vegetable were you taught to throw away?
#FoodWaste #Cooking #FoodAsMedicine #ZeroWaste #KitchenSkills #EatTheStem #Frugal #Recipe #Food #Photography #MutualAid #Solidarity #Druid
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2026-07-14 17:01:03 UTC

When the basil or thyme threatens to bolt in this heat, don't lose it. Strip the leaves, crisp them a day or two on a plate in a sunny window, crush them into a jar of coarse salt.
Pennies. It turns a plant about to rot into a seasoning that lasts the winter.
Sovereignty is often just refusing to let the abundance rot.
What's about to bolt in your garden that you could save this week?
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2026-07-07 17:34:34 UTC

I am not one to post #memes usually, but my disdain for #xtians made this one just a little too hard to resist. The funny part is , my fluency in #hebrew, #greek and #latin from my post graduate #divinity degree means I can look at the statement at face value and laugh hysterically about it. And why #Christians are such profound idiots.
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2026-07-06 17:14:16 UTC

The heat broke sometime before dawn and I stood on the back step in it — the first cool air in nine days moving over my arms like something forgiven.
My body knew before the radar did. It always does. The wheel has turned past the solstice now, into the long green middle of the year. The storms came for everyone, the deserving and the exhausted alike. You do not have to earn the cool air.
Twenty-three people didn't live to feel it break. The land keeps its own ledger of who got shade and who did not.
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2026-07-01 16:23:46 UTC

Pack a jar with whatever crisp thing is going soft — cucumber, radish, a stripped carrot. Equal warm water and vinegar, a spoon of salt, a spoon of sugar. Into the fridge. No canning, no boiling bath, no fear.
By tomorrow it's sharp and alive and yours — made from the half-bunch the grocery chain priced to guilt you into throwing out. Someone decided the wilting thing was worth saving, and saved it.
What's softening in your crisper drawer right now that could be tomorrow's lunch?
#Pickling #Fermentation #NoWaste #FridgePickle #Cooking #FoodJustice #SlowFood #KitchenWitch #Frugal #Photography #Homestead #EatTheWeeds
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2026-06-14 22:38:13 UTC

The elder is throwing its creamy heads right now — you have about two weeks.
The old people kept it for fevers and the first scratch of a cold. Snip the heads late morning when the scent is up, shake the little life out of them, and steep. Then skip the fourteen-dollar bottle: a gallon of cordial is sugar, a few lemons, a spoon of citric acid, and a slow afternoon. Steep overnight, strain, sweeten, bottle.
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Biadh às an talamh — food from the earth — and a corporation cut out of the deal.
#Elderflower #Foraging #Herbalism #WildFood #Cordial #FolkMedicine #SeasonalEating #Druid #Nature #Gardening #Botany #Photography
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2026-06-05 15:32:07 UTC

134 days, line by line. That's the window one outlet just counted — every move this government has made against queer and trans people since late January, until the list stopped reading like news and started reading like an indictment. 31 ignored court orders. A $600M cut to HIV and STD care. Hormone therapy banned for trans inmates. A counterterror strategy that brands trans people the domestic threat while scrubbing white supremacists from the page. When a government writes your name on a kill-list dressed as policy, the only sane answer is to write your own name larger. Read the full ledger — then turn, and tend.
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#Pixelfed #LGBTQ #Trans #TransRights #Pride #PrideMonth #Queer #QueerNews #Fediverse #Activism #ProtectTransKids #News
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2026-06-03 17:09:07 UTC

Sixteen states now define "sex" narrowly enough to write trans people out of legal existence. Twenty-six have banned gender-affirming care for trans youth. Seven ban the bathrooms in K-12 schools. Every study said what these laws would do — higher anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation among kids legislated as a problem to be solved. The numbers were never abstract. They were a countdown. A child should not have to be brave. That we ask it of them is the indictment.
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2026-06-02 22:20:01 UTC

El Niño is coming back, and the numbers are brutal: 80% odds before August, 90% it lasts through November. The Pacific runs 6°C above average and the trade winds that hold the warm water west are giving up. Sea surface temps have warmed 4.5x faster since 2019 than at the close of the 1980s. The last two El Niños gave us the hottest years ever recorded. The land keeps the ledger we refuse to read — and it always collects.
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#ElNino #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Climate #Heatwave #Science #Environment #ClimateAction #Weather #News #Sustainability #Earth
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2026-03-03 20:28:18 UTC

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There is history for this, men showing femme traits.
1. High Heels (17th-century Europe)
2. Wigs (1600s–1700s)
3. Makeup (Ancient Egypt)
4. Skirts (Ancient Rome & Greece)
5. Corsets (Elizabethan England)
6. Lace & Ruffles (Renaissance)
7. Handbags (Medieval Europe)

2026-02-19 01:24:52 UTC

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oh Ill go shopping for sure. I am always in preference to support arists (as much I a enjoy it when people enjoy my writing, specially my queer fiction -- https://thistleandmoss.com/)

2026-02-17 21:29:46 UTC

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I love this piece

2026-02-15 20:42:45 UTC

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thats a cat. :)

2026-02-15 00:18:11 UTC

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I am mu thankful, as that will be going on as a laptop splash wallpaper for a friend who needs a new laptop. and I have one to give.