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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Garden season definitely over, pottery season begins again. Reskilling by throwing a bunch of agateware for a studio fundraiser. This new handle shape is excellent. #PlainsmanM390 #PlainsmanM340 #Agateware #Pottery #WinterHobbies #DrivenIntoTheDirt

A snowy semi-wooded scene with some very healthy deer hanging out not far away

A stripey buff-and-red striped mug with a black-and-copper glaze on the rim and an ear-shaped handle

A pile of a dozen buff-and-red striped mugs at the bisque stage, not yet glazed. Manta have ear or curl-shaped handles

Grey-and-brown striped freshly-thrown mug bodies, still wet and not yet handled

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Got some bell beaker and double bump mugs coming along. Coming back after a summer of gardening, slowly. #PlainsmanCoffeeClay #Mugs #ThrowingOffTheHump #Pottery

A group of roughly 9 unfinished mugs in a ceramics studio, waiting for handles. Some are roughly bell beaker shape while two have a double-bump, waisted form.

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Hard to photograph the rainbow mugs,I guess they want a video and spinning. Clay is M370. Shape is 14th century inspired. #CeramicGlaze #SpectrumFloatingGlaze #Pottery #PlainsmanClay

A tall mug with vertical stripes of glaze forming a rainbow around its outside

A tall mug with vertical stripes of glaze forming a rainbow around the outside

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Suspect I'm too autistic to use this advice; between "a picture is worth a thousand words" and everyone noticing different things in pictures it's hard for me. Bonus of alt text is that I can steer attention, but it definitely does lose a ton of contextual detail. To do correctly I'd write pages.

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Too unwell to get out of bed today except for the bathroom. My cats were helping me rest but they went outside for a break. The air coming in the windows smells like it's going to rain.

An orange cat sprawled comfortably on a blue blanket

An orange cat and a black cat cuddled together next to a blanketed human

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The first 18 jars/7 roosters. Stewed then pressure canned Every moment today is a prayer: let everyone have this abundance. Let all regimes complicit in starving people crumble. Let everyone live and heal Ahmed and Leo gofund.me/7dc704d7 Rafif chuffed.org/project/1330... Maryam gofund.me/1032b5b6

A giant pot outside on a propane ring full of onions, carrots, celery, water, and seven rooster carcasses.

A big 18-jar canner outdoors on a propane ring, gathering pressure

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I've been ultra overcapacity, and will continue to be next week. Last week was drs appts, this week was loading the roostermobile for butcher, next week is animals to the vet. I'm very lucky Siri is there to keep me in bed otherwise. It would be lonely and awful otherwise. #DisabledHomesteading

A long box pickup truck with all eight feet of box fully loaded with tarped poultry crates, the crates mostly full of donated roosters for a year's supply of meat.

An orange cat pancakes contentedly on a pair of blanket-clad legs resting on a bed.

An orange cat nestles on a contented-looking human's chest, perhaps asleep.

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Been having serious trouble cognitively so no alt text, so no pictures. Sigh.

A field full of white daisy-looking flowers, actually scentless chamomile, with the sun setting in a wash of warm light over it and dark conifers silhouetted against the bright sky

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Scouring cotton shirts (white cotton really is as gross as they say), picking scentless chamomile flowers, and simmering them. Then tannin and alum, then dyeing. I like working with linen way better but this was an experiment. #NaturalDyeing #UseYourWeeds #DyeExperiments

A big cauldron of streaming water full of white cloth. The water is yellowish.

A big cauldron full of sudsy water. The water is distinctly yellow.

A large pot full of white flowers with yellow centers -- scentless chamomile.

A pot full of wilted white flowers with yellow centers simmered in water and wilty

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I'm mostly ok with "people being wrong on the Internet" EXCEPT folks who share suicide hotline memes without fact checking them. Someone fighting to live may have only enough energy to make one call, and if they're taking that number from your post it better be accurate. Your false info can kill.

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I'm always very grateful to my past self for making crates exciting snack sources for several weeks a year kinda randomly. It makes getting the cats to the vet so much easier, they line up to go in. Except Demon, who's a problem. 🐈🐱😸 #GoodAnimalCare #ThinkingAhead #Cats

An orange cat in a cat carrier, the door open, while a black cat waits outside the carrier for his chance to get in

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I have a second slime mold! It's neat when new creatures come to live here. Especially when they're an indicator of some middle stages of biomass breakdown. #FungusID please? 💛🌱

A yellow-orange mass of tiny textured bubbles rises out of a pile of wood chips and begins to coalesce into a smooth surface. It's probably the dog's vomit slime mold.

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I'm going to call this row of winter wheat a success and plant some more. 🌱 #NorthernGardening #WheatExperiments

A tall row of wheat just about finished pushing out its green ears, five feet tall. A dog is mostly screened by the wheat

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Trellises slowly going up. It's very hard on my body but hopefully they stay there once they're in. 7 for tomatoes, 2 for actinidia kolomikta. Concrete reinforcing wire or cattle panels plus t-posts. I may have dislocated my pinkie slightly. 🌱 #NorthernGardening #DisabledGardener #MyHappyPlace

Rows of young tomato plants. One row has a trellis, one row has a wobbly trellis partly in place, the last row has no trellis yet

A weedy garden with a row of young tomatoes under a trellis, some tomatoes mulched with straw, and some garden boxes with broccoli and kale growing in them

Two parallel rows of wood chips marked out with pink flags down the center of a garden, with barely visible baby kiwis planted in the wood chips

A contraption of dairy crates and boards protecting tried of tomatoes. The frost cloth has just come off the boards in preparation for trellises going in, and the chenopodium weeds are luxurious and almost hide the tomatoes

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

When I moved here, the first summer the yard was full of clover and the scent of its flowers filled the air. My geese pick the flowers off and mow it short, so one gardening goal was to return areas of clover to the property Success 🌱 #PollinatorGardening #WildGardening #NorthernGardening

A tall, lush growth of white and and balansa clover in a field with trees in the background.

A tall, lush growth of white and and balansa clover in a field with a fence in the background and a narrow path barely visible through it

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Between sealing the house for wildfire smoke and our multi year drought, it's been many years since I've seen mosquitoes swarming on the outside of a window screen. Years, too, since I got blackfly bites in my own yard. youtu.be/qjLBXb1kgMo #NorthernBC #AYearWithRain

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The blackfly song

YouTube video by Rob van Vliet

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PAASTA Community @paastacommunity.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🍝Our next PAASTA Seminar Series talk will be next week Wednesday 02 July at 15:00 CET! 🍝 @mirandaevans.bsky.social will be presenting "The Proteomics of Pottery: What can dirty dishes tell us about ancient diet and cuisine?" As always, DM us for the Zoom link to join!

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Then a road crew. Never gonna complain about someone fixing the road but it's not a quiet morning.

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

There's a rooster crowing on my front deck outside my bedroom window. They're not really supposed to be there.

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

More garden pictures: the wild columbine is starting, the aspen borers progress, somehow the birds didn't eat all my sweet ciciley and it's about to flower-- but as you see they loved the borage right beside it. Apparently the ducks are the only animal that can kill borage. 🌱 #NorthernGardening

The distinctive microchip-looking silver paths of the aspen leaf borer taking up roughly half of the surface of several aspen leaves

Ferny tall foliage of the sweet ciciley plant, topped with unripe seeds

A wire frame placed over a comfrey plant, which has been nibbled nearly flush to the ground and only stopped by the wire

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Puppies playing, my pineappleweed lawn, and the river of chives (geese don't eat chives). 🌱

Two large white dogs in a very active play pose with each other

A dense, short green plant with ferny looking leaves that covers the ground, just high enough and dense enough to hide a garden hose

A close-up of pineappleweed, a ferny looking plant with little yellow button like flowers

A wide trail of purple chive flowers growing across a pasture

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 16/06/2025

I just want 'ai' to go away. The simultaneous widespread poisoning of knowledge; attempt to end-run professions that cultivate critical thinking; and sucking the joy out of everything while ramming unwanted technology down our throats is so exhausting. I just can't anymore.

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Maddy Seale @maddyseale.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I'm delighted to present this Science special issue on Plants and Heat! Through a series of Reviews and Perspective articles, covering topics from cell signalling to ecology there is something for everyone here. (1/8)

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

We have three interlinked issues right now in Canada: lack of services/care for disabled folks, a really easy to access assisted dying program, and newly expanded forcible incarceration for addicted folks. It's a real and dangerous problem.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 15/06/2025

Alberta premier defends charging most Albertans for COVID-19 vaccines www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairie… 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca

Premier of Alberta Danielle Smith speaks to media following the First Minister’s Meeting in Saskatoon, Sask., Monday, June 2, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Liam Richards

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

After yesterday's rain I can feel plants drinking deep. Spring moves on, from crabapple and saskatoons to lilacs and roses Moisture brought rust, it'll be on saskatoons as well as roses. Not sure where the juniper alt host is. Or can hedging cedar host? Time to have greens in oyster sauce 🌱💚

A crabapple tree with a thick carpet of petals underneath it, knocked off by age and rain

A row of brassica greens just opening flower

Tiny specks of bright orange rust on a rosebush

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Planted corn yesterday into dry dust, set up irrigation, and we got a blessed, soaking rain This is my first year with sweet corn, pre-sprouted to quicken the season, covered in anti-crow cloth (they pull up all the seedlings). Siri helped chase bugs Super mix of 🌽 to start 🌱 #AdaptationGardening

A diverse mix of many colours of sweet corn seeds, pre-sprouted until the first hint of root, divided into three portions on a plate

Frost cloth covers a large garden bed. An orange cat sniffs at the cloth suspiciously

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 13/06/2025

Brian Wilson covers "Brian Wilson" by the Barenaked Ladies youtu.be/bjeWqXyVLu4?...

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Brian Wilson - "Brian Wilson" (Barenaked Ladies Cover)

YouTube video by BarenakedLadiesLive

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Wildfire smoke is blowing our way today. I should not have been outside as much as I was, and yet it's beautiful out there. First rose! 🌱 #FireSeason #NorthernBC

A young aspen tree, each leaf has a silver line down the midvein and one or two shorter silver lines coming off that

A lilac bush in flower, the petals are purple with white outlines

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Thoughts and prayers to America's Gestapo, cowering in fear in the face of such violent [checks notes] . . . ur, dancing in the streets.

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Less lethal you say ? We beg to differ. cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/viole...

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CAIN: Issues: Violence - List of People Killed by 'Rubber' and 'Plastic' Bullets

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Boarded in international waters. That's usually called piracy or hijacking if it's anyone else.

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Peppers going in: sweet peppers yesterday, hopefully hot peppers today. Cats are always helping. Especially Little Bear with the catnip 😂 🌱 #NorthernBC #ShortSeasonGardening #VarietyTrials ❄️🇨🇦

A garden with several rows of pepper plants freshly planted and a couple more laid out for planting

Several short rows of hot pepper plants laid out really to plant while three cats lounge interestedly.

A black cat rolling and clawing at a dairy crate during in the garden

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 07/06/2025

If you are arrested during a protest or action against ICE or CPD in Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. (This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.” — Le Guin

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Solly lying in the freshly tilled field before and after I started planting around her. She did not move. You'd hardly think she could chase off bears I got a couple rows of tomatoes in. Almost done tomatoes, then peppers 🌱🐶 #VarietyTrial #TomatoTrial #LGD #Akbash #Maremma #NotDeadJustResting

A freshly tilled garden with a very flat, large white dog sleeping on her side in the rain in the middle of it

A freshly-tilled, partially planted garden with a very flat, large white dog sleeping on her side in the rain in the middle of it

A huge white dog on her side, sleeping, with small seedlings freshly planted around her

Six rows of tomato plants in a garden. The plants are very young, and only half the rows are planted, the rest are still in pots awaiting planting

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

This goes into my to-read list, three headline worked 🤣

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

More than 30,000 people have been displaced by wildfires in Saskatchewan and Manitoba alone – and it’s not even summer yet www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

theglobeandmail.com

Some wildfire evacuees are leaving their First Nation for first time ever, chief says

About 30,000 people have now been told to leave their homes in Manitoba and Saskatchewan

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Erin Greenstorm @greenstormblue.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I feel bad killing plants to eat them, but lambs quarters spanakopita is delightful and greens and an egg do amazing things to a ramen brick Then an evening watching mixed herds of dinosaurs graze while other dinosaurs swoop singing through the air 🌱 🦕 🍜 🪿 #NorthernGardening #Solsticewards #Geese

A garden box full of mixed brassica greens: leafy cabbages, mustard greens, and pak chois in many colours of green, chartreuse, and red

A clump of oregano growing up through the grass

A young orchard with geese grazing in the evening light

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