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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Just made tea with some of the lemongrass from my garden, and oh my god it is so fresh and zesty, why did I wait so long to do this* 🍵🍋😌 Cut a few stalks into one inch pieces, steep in boiling water for 15 minutes, and then **inhale** ahhhhh *probably […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Yellowy-green tea in a white mug with blue stripes sitting on a cluttered wood coffee table

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Saw this little guy today (okay, not so little) and took a bit to realize it had a huge tackle in its beak! I got closer to see if it was hooked / tangled or just very partial to this fish-shaped piece of trash. It didn’t seem to be in distress and flew off […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Lots of cone flowers in my small but mighty container garden, plus not-yet-blossoming swamp milkweed. Best thing about it is they come back every year and need very little maintenance aside from watering and occasional deadheading. #bloomscrolling #pollinators #gardening

An array of pink and white cone flower (aka echinacea) blooms in various stages growing out of dark grey containers. There are swamp milkweed stems and a variety of other green growing things. The scene is warmly lit by the setting sun.

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

And 3. Saw a horseshoe crab in the far end of the Reserved Channel! Never seen one here before, and probably wouldn’t have spotted it had the tide and sun not been just right. They can really move! #boston

A hazy shot of a horseshoe crab in shallow murky water, seen from behind. The telson (tail thing) is barely visible.

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Anyone else in the #boston area noticing an uptick in dead / dying trees this spring? This one on Newbury St just now, but in Seaport and Southie it seems like every other one. Just me? Something more localized? It’s really depressing 😔🌳

30-40 foot tall tree on an urban sidewalk. It has no leaves, some large broken branches, and lichen all over the trunk. There are brick buildings in the background.

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Also got visited by a cardinal on our deck! The usual visitors are pigeons, gulls, and the occasional starling or robin. Finches are rare, and the cardinal was a first. I am a dork for nature 🤓

Cardinal perched on a deck rail, viewed from the side. Its body plumage is a muted red, so it’s either an immature male or a female. Cool either way

Cardinal sitting on the turf floor of a deck, peeping through the grass.

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Today is a true spring day, so we went on a hike in the Middlesex Fells. Saw an amusing mushroom, a lady’s slipper (!), and some very happy dogs (not pictured)

Bright green trees with rain-damp trunks on the shore of a still pond. The pond reflects the woods, so the image appears mirrored

A pink lady’s slipper nestled amongst ground cover on the forest floor. It is sculptural and somewhat delicate looking, as orchids tend to be

Two beige mushrooms, not sure what kind, on a grey tree trunk. The one on the left has a sort of happy, dough boy face. It reminds me of a muppet and it is very good.

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

While debarking I saw a lady with a cool button on her jacket and I told her I liked it. Then she gave it to me! Made my day. Be good.

A simple button, black text on a white background, that reads “BE GOOD”

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

Cruised around Boston Harbor today and saw some winter wildlife, including seals, scoters, eiders, and a snowy owl (!). Phone camera not suited to that task but the scenery in general was very moody and cool. Thankful it was a “warm” 30ish degrees on the water.

“The Graves,” a grey lighthouse in the outer harbor on dark ice-covered rocks. The ocean is a dark grey blue and the sky is a wall of clouds. Hard to see but there are sandpipers and other birds in the water and on the rocks.

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

New Year’s lemon pigs, ready Good riddance 2025, don’t let the door hit you on the way out #nye

Two festive lemon pigs sit on a blue tablecloth

They have cloves for eyes, toothpicks for legs, and pennies in their mouths. Not shown: tinfoil curly tails

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

This is an “only in America”* kind of embedded ad. Someone somewhere decided that people need to see ads for MRIs, and that they need to be enticed by false urgency and discounts to get one *jesus, I hope so anyway

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

In the past few months there’s a Statie who’s been parking in creative aka illegal parking spots around my neighborhood. Blocking fire hydrants, pedestrian crossings, you know. I and others have repeatedly reported the issue; no one will be surprised that […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

A photo of two red and white street signs. The top sign says “TOW ZONE NO STOPPING ANY TIME” and the sign below it has a fake (?) piggy nose, beneath which says “PARKING (left arrow) ONLY”. So like, pig parking only. It’s very good.

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2025

Loving these post thunderstorm clouds. No hail here but the southeastern sky was starting to look a wee bit green. Very dramatic watching the planes take off with this as the background! #boston #mawx

A towering dark cloud on the left illuminated by the setting sun (not shown) on the right. Blue sky is beginning to appear. The cloud is grey brown and yellow and imposing. A barely visible airplane (livery unclear) takes off in front of it.

A wide angle photo of storm clouds receding to the southeast (bottom of the frame). Towards the bottom the color is dark brown grey and ominous. The setting sun makes the rest of the cloud shine pink and gold. A hint of blue sky is visible at the top.

A British Airways plane takes off in front of a particularly stormy looking wall of clouds. The cloud wall is a muddled, ombre grey brown, darker at the top.

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

Really cool lightning in a towering (but hard to see) cloud northeast of #Boston. Wish this foreshadowed rainblobs but alas. Paging @WEATHERISHAPPENING ! #weather #mawx

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2025

Beautiful day here. Went out for an early walk along the beach before it got busy but could’ve stayed longer, it’s so pleasant out. Saw lots of dragonflies and a number of tern nesting sites. #boston #southie #beach

A view of the beach and water. It’s a cloudless day. The Harbor Islands are on the horizon. The water glitters from the sun, and numerous boats bob on the surface. There is a silhouette of a person sitting on the beach just in front of a sand dune.

Numerous pale violet flowers (unsure of species - maybe a type of aster?) bloom from tall stalks rising out of the sand dunes. Behind, out of focus, is the beach and the water line.

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2025

While running errands today, spied these messages in a doorway by Kings Terminal #Southie “Sometimes in life you have to do things you don’t want to do That’s what life is One fuckn vile task after another” “I know Everything happens For a reason But what the fuck”

A black doorway on the side of a brick building. Sticker lettering on the door reads “115K” and “common space emergency exit (not an entrance)”

Above the doorway are red stenciled letters (description in the next image)

To the right of the doorway, a white column is attached to the wall. It’s in rough shape and the paint is peeling. On the column, black stenciled letters read

“I know
Everything happens
For a reason

But what the fuck”

The top of a white doorframe on the outside of a brick building. Red stenciled letters read:

“Sometimes in life you have
to do things you don’t want to do

That’s what life is
One fuckn vile task after another”

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2025

This guy is thoroughly unimpressed by my neighbor’s bird spikes

A rock dove or pigeon perches on a deck railing, several stories up, just in front of a strip of bird spikes. Its tail rests over the spikes. More spikes loom on the railing above it. The bird is looking towards the camera.

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025

Beautiful show of solidarity and strength at #Boston #Pride today, combined with #nokings protest RESIST WITH PRIDE (repost w/ faces covered out of an abundance of caution)

Boston Pride procession near the Public Garden. People are displaying rainbow flags, fans, umbrellas, you name it. A big three piece banner in the procession says “RESIST WITH PRIDE”

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

Even more jellies drifting about today, around the Summer St bridge over the channel. They seemed to be concentrated around the current (ofc). The orange topped one was huge! Still so cool! 🤓 #boston #marinelife

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2025

Nerded out on all the moon jellyfish 🌕️ we saw on our walk around the Reserved Channel today. Apparently this is a regular occurrence in he harbor but I’ve never spied them here before. So cool! #boston #marinelife

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025

Day 1 of #PAXEast 2025! So far I: - Watched Omeganauts drive fast cars off a cliff to calamitous applause - Got a jump scare playing a horror farming game - Improved my Japanese grammar via card battle - Had lovely conversations with total strangers about […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Red background and bright green graffiti style text that says “paxeast” in 4 different styles

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2025

I know these aren’t googly eyes but it made me immensely happy when I saw it #pareidolia #boston

A building under construction with an exposed plywood facade. There are two security cameras (maybe?) mounted side by side on the facade, which look like huge, very amusing googly eyes. Further, there is a band of light beneath it that looks like a subtle frown.

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2025

Went to my first #MIT Flea today! Didn’t pick anything up but am glad to have a new (to me) local source of vintage music, video games, and pretty much anything else that’s even vaguely nerdy

Laptops and tablets sorted into plastic bins, neatly tagged and displayed. A cardboard sign is attached to a table behind them that reads “cage-free organic computer parts”

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Today was (is!) a lovely day to walk to the #Boston Public Market, eat a donut, buy many bready things, and then come back and lounge on the deck with a book

Fresh fish, clams, and mussels sit on ice in a food stall display. I don’t eat meat or fish but there’s just something about fresh fish at a market, y’know?

A diverse array of breads and pastries in another food stall. Signs advertise wondrous things like “dream cookie” and “pizza roll.” A rainbow flag is also on display.

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2025

Went all over the #Boston area this weekend, in spite of the unseasonable cold. MIT List Visual Arts Center, Beacon Hill, and ramen in Fort Point on Sat. Today: breakfast at My Diner in #Southie, and then #Cambridge Antique Market, where I picked up a wooden […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

An image from Pedro Gómez-Egaña’s installation The Great Learning. A series of walls with openings, as frames, recedes into the distance. Each wall/frame forms a series of rooms, many of which are exactly the same down to the last detail. Each room slice is part of someone’s living space: a kitchen, a sitting room, a bedroom. In the image, a simple clock hangs on one of the wall/frames. A drawing and a jar of pens/pencils sits on a table. This scene repeats across several wall/frames. They are like liminal spaces.

A simple street (alley) scene in Beacon Hill. Tidy brick buildings line either side of a puddle-y, narrow alley. Flower boxes and a flag decorate the front of one building. To the left in the distance, a few trees have begun to display early spring buds.

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2024

One of my fave things about this day, a tradition for the past few years, is walking down to the beach. It’s the quietest the neighborhood ever gets. There was a moment with no cars or planes - just the waves and the wind. (It’s great in summer too but […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Foreground of snowy and sandy beach. Background of deep blue water, with islands on the horizon. A white boat with a stowed sail rests on the water. A seagull swoops over it.

A beach at very low tide. The sand is wet and strewn with pebbles. A wooden jetty is in the distance. A lone seagull rests on the water.

The same beach at very low tide. A decaying wooden ramp, probably a boat launch, is exposed in the muck surrounded by rocks and shells. The water is calm and the sky above it is clear blue.

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2024

For the love of god I am begging startup founders to read a book. Or in this case, just watch a movie and notice basic plot points! Blade runners RETIRE replicants. What are you trying to say by applying these words to your product and employees? #tech #product

A screenshot of a part of a job posting, which reads:

Lead Product Manager, Replicant

Call center AI chatbots

A snippet of a iob description, which reads:

Company values

Blade runners - We take ownership and pride to influence the outcomes of our goals and like a Blade Runner, are resourceful in accomplishing them

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2024

Well, I couldn’t just sit in the hotel stunned and doomscrolling. So we went back out, past Marayuma Park to the hiking spot to find the lookout we went to 8 years ago. The bamboo is taller, but it’s just as beautiful. Not sure what else to do right now except keep going. #travel #japan

A landscape view of Kyoto through a grove of bamboo and trees. The evening sun illuminates the foliage. A mountain is visible in the distance

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2024

Spent a couple days decompressing in the mountains (aided by a superhot bath). Inspired by the trees and little farm to make a couple tiny drawings. Smelled so fresh! #travel #Japan

A chair sits in a shadow with softly illuminated shoji screen doors on either side. A forest is visible through a glass door in front of the chair. The light is yellow and blue

A mug, notebook, and pen sit on a wooden table. In the background, a scene of forest and mountains

A moss-covered wooden bird house stands on stilts amidst trees and shrubs. A building is visible in the background

A verdant, rainy field with rows of crops. The field is surrounded by trees, some of which are changing colors

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Kate Roberts @krra.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2024

Very cool Extinct Media Museum in Chiyoda City. Touching encouraged! The Apple manga was 👌

An array of old mobile phones from years past on a shelf

A manga called “Steves” depicting the Apple founders drawn in manga style on the cover. Wozniak looks perfect

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