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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 2h

I found mine in a small shop in town that specialised in kitchenware 😊 I also have a set of measuring spoons for cup sizes - which in itself is an inconsistent measurement, bc there's like the imperial cup, the US cup, etc. 😅

US and UK cup sizes

In the UK, cups have rarely been used in published recipes since the 1960s. If it's an old UK recipe, it'll use the imperial cup (284.131ml), which is significantly more than its more modern 250ml metric cup counterpart, now referenced in the UK as well as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the rest of the Commonwealth.

In the US, it's 236.59ml in recipes, but 240ml on nutritional labelling. Still with me? The mess begins before you've even cracked an egg.

With all this confusion around cup sizes, weighing in grams with a set of kitchen scales becomes an easier and more accurate way to cook. It also helps you ensure your cake doesn't turn out somewhere between a concrete slab and a chocolate omelette.

You can use the reference tables below to assist you with converting your recipe ingredients from cups to grams.

Weighing scales at the ready, let's go through the most common baking ingredients in turn.

(source: thecalculatorsite.com)

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 2h

You can also just use any table or teaspoon... because standardised.

Two Tablespoons - one for eating on the left, one for measuring on the right

Two Teaspoons - one for eating at the bottom, one for measuring at the top.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 27/10/2026

Trick or treat! Like this post to give me candy. You can create your own costume on mu.social

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 27/10/2026

It's still chronological under "All" Grouping is more like filtering

Screenshot of the top of the new beta version of the notifications tab, showing options for "All" (which is greyed as the active view), "People I follow", "Replies", "Follows", and more...

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

Some people never had to fight for anything in their lives... 🙄 Also, just to add: the vast majority of the French public support the protests (which have grown into a protest against right-wing politics)

Screenshot of a Bluesky post by Sebastian Roché (posted 23 October 2026, 08:11am CEST)

English Translation:
93% of the French consider that the demands carried out by the protesters for the purchasing power and the expensive life are legitimate. They are 82% to share this review about claims brought by high school students and students.

French original text:
93 % des Français considèrent que les revendications portées par les manifestants pour le pouvoir d’achat et contre la vie chère sont légitimes. Ils sont 82 % à partager cet avis à propos des revendications portées par les lycéens et les étudiants.

Post links to an article by leparisien.fr about the student protests.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

I think this is a rather cute problem to have when using @mu.social as Bluesky client... 😅

Little pixelated grey kitty companion taking a nap right in front of my "new post" button", which is colored in dark-ish orange (mu.social let's you choose a theme color)

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026

Saw your post on the ActuallyAutistic feed, and my autistic brain needed to respond 😅 Bluesky has labels you can use to avoid unintentionally flashing anyone (if users set those content warnings to "warn", your post will still show up, but has a grey bar that can be clicked to reveal the content)

screenshot of me posting an image. At the bottom, a yellow marker arrow points to the labels menu that you can click on. And at the top, the Alt Text option is marked in yellow as well.

(The image used is one of a phallus-shaped soapstone piece, inspired by lucky charms worn by the ancient Romans - let's see if the automated moderation detects that)

Screenshot of the opened warning labels menu - it shows two sections with different categories.

Adult Content
- Suggestive (implied sexual activities or suggestive poses)
- Nudity (non-sexual)
- Adult (sexual activities)

Other
- Graphic Media (this is for graphic violence, etc - NOT for sexual content)

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

👍 if you click on the "Liked by 585 users on the labeler's profile, you'll see all who liked it, with their roles visible, it's what I did earlier to find a few other people

Screenshot of the Middle Earth Quest labaler, with the "Liked by 585 users" highlighted in yellow.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Bending the rules a tiny bit, but couldn't resist adding this one 😇 "Color-coded, because what are we, animals?" (I'm autistic after all, and I love organising sheets in a similar manner)

Screenshot from VLD, showing Pidge and her brother Matt discussing intel aboard the Altean castleship. Matt compliments Pidge on the intel organisation: "And I love that you color-coded it, because what are we, animals?"

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

First time in like 3 or 4 months I made a stir-fry for dinner 🤤 #NaarnasKitchen

Chinese bowl filled with steamed rice and a vegetable & chicken stir-fry. The stir-fry has carrots, red bell peppers, broccoli and onions, all of them brightly colored against the white rice. At the back, you can see my ADHD Alien tumblr.

(The stir-fry smells delicious! Happy to dig in in a couple of moments)

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

I remember watching this one while having a migraine episode and I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes... (it did help distracting me a teensy bit from the nausea back then)

Screenshot from the French movie "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis" (2008). Screenshot shows the two main characters sitting at the counter in a French pub and having a beer as they have a good chat.

As mentioned in the post, this one made laugh really hard!

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

And because I just remembered this scene, have a second one. 😁

Screenshot from the movie Wasabi (2002) with Jean Reno, Ryōko Hirosue, and Michel Muller. Screenshot shows Reno and Muller sitting at a table in a Tokyo Restaurant and discussing. Reno has some Wasabi on his right index finger and is about to lick it up.

The scene then continues with Reno's character not reacting AT ALL to the wasabi's heat, which Muller's character can't believe (having lived in Tokyo for a while) and licks some too, only to immediately turn bright red and cough.

The movie is in both French and Japanese, and I remember it was quite an amusing watch too.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026

@theeldervampire.bsky.social You might like this little manta ray ❤️ Color scheme was deliberately chosen, as it was a gift for a friend. (Tagging you because I can't respond directly, but I still wanted to share something as a small cheer-up 🫂)

Small clay manta ray, glazed in a soft blue on top, soft red in its mouth, and (not visible here) white on its belly. It is formed to stand on its wings, and it seems to smile

Small clay manta ray, held in my hand to show the white belly. Its gills subtly show the trans flag, using the same blue and red colors I used forthe back and mouth.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

I might have misjudged the amount of filling I had left over 😅 (I thought I might only use up half a pack of dough wrappers, but nope, another full tray with all wrappers used) Tip: If you do have wrappers left over, add some goat cheese (or cream cheese), and fry them.

Another baking tray filled with freshly wrapped dumplings. (I was hoping to have some wrappers left over actually bc they are great with some goat cheese in it and then fried)

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

From the official VoteInfo app (by Swiss Gov). Left is the color map, right is the breakdown of No per canton. The Romandie (French-speaking part) in general tend to vote more left than the German-speaking part, btw.

Color map of today's vote on today's neutrality motion. It's colored entirely in red, with the western cantons in darker red than in the eastern one

Percentage of NO per canton, highest to lowest:
Basel-Stadt 79.91%
Neuenburg 75.58%
Zürich 74.47 % NEIN
Basel-Landschaft 73.95%
Bern 73.35 %
Waadt 73.02 %
Solothurn 72.52%
Luzern 71.83 %
Jura 71.80%
Zug 71.41%
Freiburg 71.11%
Aargau 70.43 %
Wallis 67.09%
Nidwalden 66.96 %
Graubünden 66.59%
Genf 66.58%
Appenzell Ausserrhoden 65.35%
St. Gallen 65.01%
Thurgau 64.39%
Obwalden 64.08%
Schaffhausen 63.45%
Uri 62.96%
Glarus 62.40 %
Appenzell Innerrhoden 59.66 %
Schwyz 57.86%
Tessin 51.75%

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

So, had some minced meat and gyoza wrappers in my freezer, and decided to make dumplings. I've made them before, so folding them is now relatively easy. And they are a geat option on evenings when I don't really have the energy to do full cooking 😊 #NaarnasKitchen

Baking tray lined with freshly folded dumplings

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Look, my first meme 😆😆 (Put in the text myself too!)

Sinple Meme of Gimli after the Battle of Helms Deep. He sits on a dead Orc that still has his axe in his skull, and he smokes a pipe in celebration. Added text reads "Defeated the Orcs. Time for some good Old Toby to celebrate."

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

And just in case, this is the flag of my hometown 😎

The flag of Bern: a red field, with a yellow diagonal band charged with a black bear with a red tongue, claws and penis, walking upwards toward the hoist.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

The silk blouse btw ❤️ (Funnily enough, it's labelled as size M, and I'm swimming in it, which I LOVE)

Vintage silk blouse hanging from a hanger for drying. The blouse is black with palm prints in a light golden-brown.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

Oi, Rohirrim! Give your fellow Dwarves a chance to issue a challenge! 🪓 #MEQuestDwarves @middleearth.quest

Screenshot of me trying to see who is ready to be challenged among the Dark Sides of Middle Earth - 4 times in total, only for Rohan get inbetween, which means next challenge is possible in about 11 hours

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026

Which one of those concerts was cancelled? That one in Biel? Or the one in Schaffhausen? As far I could see, neither has been cancelled - and I can't find anything about cancelled tour dates for 2027 either (where he might perform in CH as well)

List of dates of Macklemore's previous performances, among them are the Lakelive Festival in Nidau/Biel (7 August '26) and the Stars In Town Festival in Schaffhausen (6 August '26), both are cities in Switzerland

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

Pulled out my laptop and drawing tablet to work on this a bit more. Basically played around with line weight all afternoon, and my brain is happy we discovered/learned something new 😁 (I use Krita on my laptop) #ArtOfNaarna

Pic of my XP-Pen drawing tablet with Krita open. There is some detail visible of a WIP drawing in greyscale - it's Shiro from VLD with a content expression.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

I'd say that is anecdotal evidence at best, and doesn't quite refute my words. I think rah put it best as to why it can be a good tool in the hands of those who know what they're doing, and not beginners - you first need the proper framework to understand what you're doing.

Comment by rahaeli regarding LLM usage in tech fields (such as security or coding), posted on 5 September 2026:

Yeah, it's the kind of tool that's best used once you already know what you're doing, not by beginners, and there's a real concern that people who are using it from the beginning won't ever develop the conceptual framework and understanding that lets them use it most effectively.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

Touching text ❤️ Especially the paragraphs about how it changes our way of learning - away from developing understanding on our own and towards being given answers immediately. (I've learned most of what I know by doing and bc I'm stubborn as hell if I want to know how something works 😁)

I think some people who go into this field learn by brute force, myself included. Trying things over and over until they work. Finding solution after solution until they start to recognize what the better solutions are. Learn by doing until success. I’m afraid those types of minds may have a harder time learning in this new era. I worry about an over reliance on these tools. It's a similar feeling to how some new coders would learn frameworks that abstract web development. There's a missed opportunity to learn from doing and how it's made. Nothing inherently wrong with these web frameworks, but it does lock you in and sometimes makes it harder to move on to something new if you don't know the fundamentals of web development. Similar to the lessons you learn from writing projects by hand and researching hard problems.

It's a new world in many ways. In my life, I've seen the ways for a common person to gain information via research move from the card catalogs in libraries, searching the internet, and now onto asking LLMs. The LLMs usually do the previous two for you in a sense. You could always ask someone a question and get an answer, but I always found learning in research. I would learn something else along the way; it was a journey. I think there may be some of that still in LLMs, but I can't help but wonder what's lost when the skill of research is not practiced as much as it once was.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

It uses OAuth, which means they are NOT privy to your log-in credentials.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

From the FAQ of this little poll:

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

Post something random and I promise you, your September will be at least a little bit better than it would have been if you hadn’t posted it. ❤️ (I scrolled through my photos and went with "hehe forgot I took a pic of that")

Vintage yellow VW that is now part of a garden arrangement. It is used like an oversized plant pot, with quite an arrangement of plants where the seats would be, and it is framed by bushes and smaller trees. (I walked past it on a rather grey and cold December day)

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

Let's see how many folks will complain about the Discovery feed being down 😆 (Also thanks to the Bsky support team for working on this and being able to apply a fix rather fast)

We are investigating an issue where posts, likes, etc. are failing to be saved.

We have applied a fix and are monitoring the results. Note that timestamps on posts may appear odd for some users. We have taken our Discover feed down for required maintenance in the meantime, and will bring it back up soon.

August 29, 2026 at 06:41 GMT+00:00

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026

From Bluesky's status page - Team is/was aware of the issue...

We are investigating an issue where posts, likes, etc. are failing to be saved.

August 29, 2026 at 06:41 GMT+00:00

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

I'd say that is rather not the case.

From the Wikipedia article about Bluesky:

Corporate Structure
Bluesky Social, officially named Bluesky Social PBC, is a privately owned for-profit corporation. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, but considers itself "decentralized" without a physical head office. As of September 2025, it had 29 employees.

Bluesky Social is a benefit corporation; as such, it is allowed to use its profits for the public good, and is not obligated to maximize shareholder value or return profits to its shareholders as dividends. It is owned by former CEO Jay Graber and other Bluesky Social employees. Graber has the largest ownership share of the company. In late 2024, members of the board of directors included Graber, Jeremie Miller, Mike Masnick, and Kinjal Shah.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

You know that there is a Feedback button in the Bluesky menu, right? Use that if you want to send in requests - it might have a higher success rate to get a response from the team instead of tagging them repeatedly...

Screenshot of the menu in the Bluesky mobile app. The Feedback button at the bottom is highlighted in yellow

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

I feel like my ATmosphere account has a problem... Logging into eurosky.social first directed me to the Account Move site, then on second attempt "unknown error" Bluesky App log-in tells me my username doesn't exist. And PDSls is "unable to obtain client metadata" 🤨🤨

Screenshot of the Eurosky log-in, showing the "Unknown error occured" response below the field where you put in you handle/name.

Screenshot of the Bluesky log-in - it shows the "We couldn't find an account with that username"

Screenshot of the log-in mask on PDSls.dev where the following message is shown below the field where you add your handle/name.
OAuthResponseError: "invalid_client_metadata"
error: Unable to obtain client metadata for "https://pdsls.dev/oauth-client-metadata.json"

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

Nö. Wenn, dann sollte Media Literacy hinzukommen, ähnlich wie in Finnland...

To quote HAMLET - Act III, Scene iii (3), Line 87:
"No"

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026

Assembly was pretty easy, charging station even has stands for the accessoires, and you can fold the handle down so it takes up less space. Need to let it charge over night, but I'm curious how loud the 68dB (instead of the 80dB of all other models) will be. 👀

Box containing the vacuum standing in a big Ikea bag. The vacuum is a Bissell Multireach Essential 18V - a compact cordless vacuum.

The Bissell Multireach vacuum assembled (and standing in the midst of the chaos that is my floor). You can see that the main part of the vacuum can be detached to be used as a small table/furniture vacuum.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 21/08/2026

Tagging Open Doors fics as such is just to legally cover their asses IMO... Regarding whether AO3 is an archive or not: - It's in their name and on their "About" page It's definitely NOT a social media site, if that's what that person on the dead bird app wants to argue.

Screenshot of the AO3 header, the name written out is "Archive of Our Own".

Screenshot of the first two paragraphs of AO3's "About" Page:

"The Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) is a nonprofit organization, established by fans in 2007, to serve the interests of fans by providing access to and PRESERVING the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms. We believe that fanworks are transformative and that transformative works are legitimate.

We are proactive and innovative in protecting and defending our work from commercial exploitation and legal challenge. We PRESERVE our fannish economy, values, and creative expression by protecting and nurturing our fellow fans, our work, our commentary, our history, and our identity while providing the broadest possible access to fannish activity for all fans."

Screenshot of Merriam-Webster's entry on "archive (n.)":
Definition 1: a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved
(examples:
- an archive of historical manuscripts
- a film archive)

also : the material preserved -> often used in plural
(example: reading through the archives)

Definition 2: a repository or collection especially of information

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

Mood... (I keep thinking it's Friday for some reason)

Meme of Ben Affleck standing on balcony or porch, with a cigarette in his hand and a bottle of I guess beer n the ledge of the balcony rail. He looks absoluyely done with the world.

Meme of two pics. Above it's Shelley Duvall in (I think) her role as Wendy in The Shining. She is smoking a cigarette and has a forced, rather exhausted smaile on her face. She says: "What a week, huh?"
Below it just says "Wednesday" in big white letters on black.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

Add-on: Unless either Bluesky or someone with some professional insight says otherwise, technical issues on the service end are likely the cause for what happened - as mentioned in the International Business Times (see link & screenshot) www.ibtimes.co.uk/bluesky-outa...

Screenshot from the linked International Business Times article:
"Based on the behaviour described by users, possible causes include a failure in a core backend system, authentication or session issues, problems with Bluesky's 'AppView' layer — the part of the system that assembles posts into a timeline — or temporary overload in the infrastructure behind the AT Protocol, the open standard Bluesky is built on, though these remain unconfirmed."

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

I've read it, and it's still about the attack in April, not yesterday.

Screenshot from the Security Affairs article about the DDoS against Bluesky (dated APRIL 21, 2026):

"Bluesky suffered a 24-hour DDoS attack that caused outages. A pro-Iran hacker group claimed responsibility for the disruption.

Bluesky experienced a sophisticated DDoS attack that disrupted its services for about 24 hours, starting on April 15. (Date marked in yellow)

Bluesky is a decentralized, open-source microblogging social media platform similar to X (formerly Twitter). It allows users to post short messages, images, and videos (up to 300 characters) while providing more control over algorithms, data, and moderation."

Second screenshot from the same Security Affairs article:

"The attack disrupted feeds, notifications, threads, and search, causing intermittent outages. A pro-Iran hacker group, called 313 Team (aka “Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq”), claimed responsibility, highlighting growing threats against social media platforms and the impact of coordinated disruption campaigns.

“Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. (Date marked in yellow) They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.” Bluesky announced. “We have not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private user data.”

The company found no signs of data breaches and confirmed it limited the impact of the attack and avoided prolonged outages."

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

I'd love to use that library too as autistic person - but for some reason, when you choose a different country than the US, you're still *required* to put in a US state in the registration form...

Screenshot from the OAR account registration. It shows the chosen country as Switzerland, with the State/Province field marked with a red border as required - the drop-down menu on that field, howver, only lists US states as options.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026

Not even the first time something like this happened It's just kinda creepy to follow someone like this and then ask them out for a coffee and/or chat...

Deanna Troi from ST:TNG sits in front of her computer terminal with an exasperated expression. Next to her head it says: "Computer, why are men?"

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026

Below the current situation around that area, as shown on the NGF website. Cascadia seems to be calmest area of the whole Pacific Ring of Fire right now, so I don't think there is an short- to mid-term risk of any big earthquake happening. ❤️ Link to the map: www.iris.edu/app/seismic-...

Screenshot from the NGF website, showing recent earthquake activity on the west coast of North America (between Alaska and California). It shows that the Cascadia region is currently much calmer than the Alaskan coast to the north of it, or the St. Andreas' Fault area to the south of it.

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026

I think part of the reason why we hear about so many more earthquakes is bc we have better and more equipment placed. Plus, there are about 500k earthquakes per year, of which about 100k can be actually felt by a human. Earth's crust is constantly moving...

From the Wikipedia article on Earthquakes, section Frequency:

"The number of seismic stations has increased from about 350 in 1931 to many thousands today. As a result, many more earthquakes are reported than in the past, but this is because of the vast improvement in instrumentation, rather than an increase in the number of earthquakes."

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naarna (she/they) @naarna.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026

Hope you're having a decent summer! (Europe is having a 3-month heatwave 🫠 Can't wait for rain to finally come!) Anyway, found another account that might fit the ragebait category. bsky.app/profile/ori-...

Screenshot of Ori-Ole tellying jenn m. jackson, a Black person who talks about the death of Professor Arday, that not everything is about skin color. (A very American White reaction)

Ori-Ole calling Kashana (again a Black person) a "leftist loon" in response to her react post about Professor Arday's death.

Ori-Ole showing her White American ass - asking Sutton why she hates her own race...

Ori-Ole being racist towards NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, telling him to take his "family of Overlords" (meaning his Muslim family) back to Uganda, as well as using "Communist" as a slur.

(Mamdani is a Socialist Democrat, but that probably looks a lot like Communist when you've been fed lies all your life)

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