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Lou @over-growth.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Windows 98 Plus, Mystery Theme

Image of a windows 98 desktop with wallpaper of a dark wood paneled writing space with a library of books on shelves.

Lou @over-growth.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

www.gaertenderwelt.de/en/explore-t... The Los Angeles Garden at the Gardens of the World exhibit has: A chain link fence around a patch of grass surrounded by a parking lot. OOF. Cutting critique, but unfortunately way too accurate from my time growing up in LA!

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The Garden Cabinet Los Angeles Garden in the Gärten der Welt

The L.A. Garden is a project of artist Martin Kaltwasser. Can’t see the German Garden Cabinet for the cars? Then enter...

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Lou @over-growth.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

🧪 A widely reported finding that the risk of divorce increases when wives fall ill — but not when men do — is invalid, thanks to a short string of mistaken coding that negates the original conclusions. retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/t...

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“To our horror”: Widely reported study suggesting divorce is more likely when wives fall ill gets axed

A widely reported finding that the risk of divorce increases when wives fall ill — but not when men do — is invalid, thanks to a short string of mistaken coding that negates the origina…

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Lou @over-growth.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Photo By www.instagram.com/ketzal_coatl...

Striking photo of a tree backlit by a lighting strike.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

'Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt

Print featuring a shoreline with plants, a blackbird and insects in silhouette in front of sea and a glowing red sun

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Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Parting shot of this rock star from last week… Costa’s Hummingbird on cholla skeleton 🪶☀️🌵 (sunrise reflection in bird’s eye)

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

EHRC now saying that not only should trans people be excluded from sex segregated spaces, but ALSO those matching birth sex: “A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from … service for their own biological sex …to prevent alarm or distress for other service users.” archive.ph/2025.08.07-2...

The Times understands that the guidance is still being finalised and it will not decree that services have to provide single-sex spaces, but that if they do - for example if a lavatory is intended for women - transgender women would be excluded from using it. To allow someone of the opposite sex to use the facilities would be very likely to amount to unlawful discrimination.
It will also make clear that it will not be deemed as discrimination to exclude trans people from those facilities and that services will be allowed to request birth certificates to ensure single-sex services are protected.

It read: "A legitimate aim for excluding a trans person from a separate or single-sex service for their own biological sex might be to prevent alarm or distress for other service
users.
"A trans man might be excluded from the women-only service if the service provider decides that, because he presents as a man, other service users could reasonably object to his presence, and it is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim to exclude him".

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 10/08/2025

1888 trans masc 'Deception'

Photograph of a newspaper clipping titled "A Rathmines Romance." The article, from The Dublin Freeman's Journal of Jan. 9, discusses a family in Rathmines consisting of a widowed mother, two or three sons, and three daughters. Two of the daughters were prepossessing and accomplished. The third, the eldest, was also attractive and possessed musical talent, which she displayed at social gatherings. She also had a talent for drawing. She was an admirable tennis player and an agreeable figure in society. A couple of months ago, she announced that she would go to London to study at the South Kensington School of Art. She returned at Christmas, and many ladies called at her house to see her. The mother calmly announced that her "daughter" was a boy, and then the quondam Miss entered the room dressed in masculine attire, having abandoned the character which she or he (as we must now call him) had been so long assuming of a girl. The incident gave rise to great perturbation among the acquaintances of the family, and as a result no little unpleasantness has occurred. Those who knew the young gentleman as Miss are extremely astonished at the turn affairs have taken. They find it hard to believe that such a deception could have gone on for years without any suspicion of the real circumstances being entertained. The young man has been regarded as a girl, from his infancy. He went to school as a girl, dressed as a girl, entered society as a girl, and behaved as a girl, so that the sudden announcement of his true position in society has naturally caused some commotion among the acquaintances of the young man, while the incident forms a subject of comment to those who do not know the family and have become aware of the occurrence.

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 06/06/2025

I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty. My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.

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Lou @over-growth.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Christmas photo of my cat with jewel orchids showing their inflorescence, and a Xenographica Tillandsia #airplant #orchid #cats

Photo of gray cat with flowers, a blooming jewel orchid, and Xenographica airplant.

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Lou @over-growth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

My terrarium at home. It has a population of powerblue and powder orange #isopods living inside. I really enjoy the mix of textures and colors from the different plant species. 🐛

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Lou @over-growth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Anacampseros 'sunrise' telephiastrum. My own plant! I love the color contrast with the pot. #succulent 👉🌵

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Farraıge @farraige.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The local botanical gardens installed kaleidescopes above a display of succulents. The results are mesmerizing. #nature #photography #plants #succulents #kaleidescope #NewEnglandBG

Looking through a kaleidescope at a display of succulents.

A display of different succulent plants.

A display of different succulent plants with kaleidescopes mounted above it.

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Lou @over-growth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Quote from Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation.

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Lou @over-growth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

🧪 Rats like to play hide and go seek. Featuring the cutest diagram ever. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Lou @over-growth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

5 ways to make life exciting from tumblr user slfcare. I especially enjoy the idea of adding in sensory experience for all 5 senses. The best hobbies involve using all your senses.

five recipes for an exciting life (in my opinion)

1. spending enough time creating things with your hands (baking, drawing, scrapbooking, doodling, crocheting, journaling and so on)
2. keeping track of things like pretty skies, milestones, happy memories, appointments you're looking forward to

3. listening to music that genuinely makes you feel happy and energetic

4. making a habit of reaching out to people in a way that's comfortable to you (i send my dad songs he might like, my friend sends me monthly life updates)

5. being kind to all your five senses → like investing in a scented candle or essential oil dispenser or body mist, having a soft blanket or socks (or a soft animal to pet), listening to birdsong or the rain, looking at the sky more often, and having your favorite foods enough times

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Lou @over-growth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"We have never seen a completely sane adult human." No one makes it out of this life unscathed.

Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn't understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), "We have never seen a completely sane adult human." No one makes it out of this life alive. It's not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving - these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

"Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being." - Robert Anton Wilson

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Lou @over-growth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This is what I look like 90% of the time if we go on a walk together. I love to stop and appreciate the smallest forms of nature around me.

Young man with glasses kneeling next to a banana slug.

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Lou @over-growth.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

In the 1700s, Goethe began to suspect the existence of what he referred to as the “Urpflanze,” a primordial plant from which all others had been derived. A single plant which displays the combination of all later mutations of evolved species.

A 1700s illustration of a plant stem with many different vines, leaf types, and tubers that would grow from different species of plants.

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