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Frequently talking about apples. I like other stuff, too. 🍏🌧️🐈🍄‍🟫🫖🔮🛼🐩🪾 🧀🦫🌲🌈🎼🧶🪿🍇🏄🏻 🍁🐑🏹📚🦃🧋🐍🥬🌖

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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fascinating!
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Orchard Notes @orchardnotes.com · 14/09/2026
PSA: A reminder that the best way to pick apples & pears is as easy as 1-2-3: 1. Cup the fruit in the palm of your hand 2. Lift the fruit gently towards horizontal 3. Detach the ripe fruit, or return it to position if it’s not ready 👍🍎👍 orchardnotes.com/2020/09/03/h... #apples #pears #harvesting
A deep red-coloured apple with brown russet patches, in the palm of a woman's hand. More apples and dark green leaves in the background.
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Ariel @sycoraxpine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We have a really well developed ability to project ourselves onto other things.
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I didn’t set out to collect this many apple-related books over the past month, but I can’t say I’m mad about it. 🍏📚
A stack of 8 books related to apples. Titles include Cider Hard and Sweet, The Artist and the Orchard: A Memoir, Good Apples, Modern Fruit Production (published 1947), Tasting Cider, Overheard in the Orchard, Ciderhouse Cookbook, and Apples and the Art of Detection
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The Wild Hunt News @thewildhunt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
CA lawmakers approved legislation expanding protections for Native American religious practices & sacred sites on state lands, while provisions requiring tribal consent for certain state actions have raised concerns over potential impacts on infrastructure & water … wildhunt.org/2026/09/cali...
wildhunt.org
California Lawmakers Approve New Religious Freedom Protections for Native Tribes - Indigenous Land, News, Paganism, Politics, U.S.
Witchcraft & Pagan News - California lawmakers approved legislation expanding protections for Native American religious practices and sacred sites on state lands, while provisions requiring tribal con...
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’m wondering if this netted pattern is caused by an environmental factor, a predictable varietal trait, or perhaps something else entirely? Any which way, I think it’s exquisitely beautiful!
A mostly-red apple covered in net-like russetingTwo bright pink-red apples with yellow web-like patterns on the skin A red apple with bold yellow web-like markings on the skin
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Absolutely flawless evening with a cider flight, an open mic night, and a book on commercial fruit production in the U.S. published in 1941🍻🍎🍐
A beautiful cider tasting room strewn with dozens of vining plants, a flight of cider and a vintage book called Modern Fruit Production on the table in the foreground, and an acoustic trio playing and singing in the background
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PBF Comics @pbfcomics.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“What a beautiful universe, hon" says a telescope as gazes upon an aurora borealis. “It really is”, responds the telescope's partner, who it turns out is not a telescope, but a microscope. Hands full of algae, she wades waist deep in a disgusting swamp, amazed by the heavenly microscopic life all around them.
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“Serendipity overwhelming intention. A mild interest burgeoning into what some may describe as obsession. Tickling the surface has created an itch that must be scratched, a compulsion that must be sated. Many orchardists and makers have been caught up and swept along on similar currents.”
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“Apples appear in religious and spiritual contexts both past and present—from orthodox texts and recurring festivities to folklore and esoteric traditions like divination.”
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Found a use for some of the apples that get thinned! 😆 This one spent some time in the freezer, and now Stella has been playing with it for nearly 20 minutes. 🍏🐩
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
via "jester"
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Lungs aren't just older than feet...they are waaaaaay older than feet. Lungs are older than trees.
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The mini orchard nursery is all mulched in for summer. Ginger Gold, Ashmeade’s Kernal, 2 Hudson’s Golden Gems, and the feral apples from the side of the highway 🍏🎉
Five tiny first-year apple trees in pots, surrounded by deep mulch
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
It’s fruit set time! Is there any such thing as too early for thinning? 🤔
Two tiny apple fruitlets
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
“I think our relationship with labor has been built this way by design. To convince us we are lazy if we do not want to toil away doing something useless in order to make a rich man richer for the rest of our lives.” Some really good reframing in here ❤️
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
My graft took! 😍
Small grafted apple tree with a single growing bud
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Cluster of neon pink and green maple seeds laying on a sidewalk
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Really neat tool for looking up a given apple variety’s pollinator group!🍏🐝
orangepippintrees.com
Online pollination checker for fruit trees
Select your apple, pear, plum or cherry tree variety and we will suggest pollination partners based on flowering group, bloom period, and other attributes.
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
If you’ve got anything to spare for a lovely person who lost her job unexpectedly, any support would be so appreciated.
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
With some generous help from a pro, the mysterious highway apples have been grafted! Cross your fingers for me, because we weren’t able to get much scion wood off it. (I also tried my own hand at grafting a Hudson’s Golden Gem!)
Two small grafted apple trees in one-gallon pots
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
After 5 months in storage, the Mountain Roses turned burgundy purple inside and tasted a hint like wine.
A Mountain Rose Apple cut open to reveal burgundy purple flesh after 5 months in storage
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Excuse me, my Liberty apples turned PURPLE in storage?? 😍 Back row: Kingston Black, Melrose, Liberty // Front row: Granny Smith, Winter Banana, a second Liberty
A colorful array of apples
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Wow, good mail day! 📭
A pair of wood-handled bypass pruners and a book called A Vagrant’s Pomona by James Fergusson
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
“The measure seeks to establish a heritage orchard program to identify and register historic orchards and maintain a list of rare and lost apple varieties across Washington.”
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
By no means a new article, but a great read nonetheless. A thoughtful dive into questions about the role of nature vs. human intervention in cider/wine production, and why “nature vs. human intervention” is itself an unhelpful false dichotomy.
cider-review.com
Rethinking terroir for the 21st Century
Chris digs into the changing world of natural wine and cider, and considers how we might rethink the concept of terroir in response to the climate crisis.
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Returned to the wild highway apples to try and collect scions…this was the absolute best I could get. Is this anything? They’re a bit shrimpy…😩
Three small twigs of scion wood cut from an overgrown apple tree
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Lindsay Trevarthen @morningoak.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
theguardian.com
Country diary: It’s extraordinary how much our orchards are founded on connection | Mark Cocker
Buxton, Derbyshire: From those who planted them, to those who pruned them, to the pollinators and the mosses, it’s a long, collective endeavour
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Found this very cool book from 1906 at my fave antique book store a couple of weeks ago 🤎
Cover of an antique book called “The Old Cider Mill” by James Arthur Lodge. The cover is dark sage green with white and coral orange accents. Inside cover page of “The Old Cider Mill” book.
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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
DID YOU KNOW? If you have Delta Sky Miles, you can donate them to help a kidnapped-and-released person fly home! They are set free on the streets of El Paso or another Texas town with no phone, no money, nothing at all. Your miles can get them back to their loved ones!
standwithminnesota.com
Donate Your Miles — Stand With Minnesota
Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
This whole thread is highly worth the read.
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
🥹💞
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 25/01/2026
The debut came nearly 30 years after the variety sprang from the Washington State University's Columbia View Research Orchard.
oregonlive.com
Long-awaited Sunflare apple makes public debut in Washington
The debut came nearly 30 years after the variety sprang from the Washington State University's Columbia View Research Orchard.
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Marty Suncreme @martinobeat.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
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Cider @ciderchat.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Wassail: a cider-soaked tradition to wake up the orchard and welcome a good harvest.
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Honestly, helping to edit Wikipedia feels like one more small way to fight the enshittification of everything. Worth considering.
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I had been wondering about this recently!
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Wassailing Apple-Trees with Hot Cider in Devonshire on Twelfth Eve. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 12 January 1861. Found on lookandlearn.com
Several men with lanterns and cider are gathered around an apple tree on a winter night. They appear to be toasting to the tree with their glasses raised.
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Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 03/01/2026
Although the total amount of cultivated farmland in Oregon is shrinking, filbert acreage is booming.
wweek.com
Hazelnuts Are a Bright Spot for Oregon Agriculture
Khushboo Rathore
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
One of the most delicious apples I tasted all year came off a tree growing feral off the side of the highway, between the railroad tracks and a car dealership. I’ll be heading back in a few weeks to cut some scion wood because these amazing apples deserve to continue on and be appreciated!
Three medium-small yellow apples mottled with red and orange blotches, and a hint of russeting
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Kieran Moolchan @heykieran.com · 27/06/2025
This video from @hankgreen.bsky.social is a great metaphor and description of what I think has happened to the Internet, and our overall "consumption" of information, no matter how nutritious or empty the calories of information we consume are. youtu.be/9euKCrTyMEc?...
youtu.be
You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information
YouTube video by vlogbrothers
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illuminatusprime.bsky.social @illuminatusprime.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Some things to keep in mind as movements get built locally.....
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Wilkins @staceasw.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I’ll always show up for Renaissance slander.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Cider Review @ciderreview.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
New contributor Joe Flannery-Sutherland traces the origins of apples and pears, their evolution across millions of years, and how the attraction to early hominids has resulted in the rich cider landscape we now have.
cider-review.com
Cider’s Evolutionary Backstory
New contributor Joe Flannery-Sutherland traces the origins of apples and pears, their evolution across millions of years, and how the attraction to early hominids has resulted in the rich cider lan…
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Preacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
No republican should be running unopposed during the next election. Anywhere. For any position. No matter how small your town is. A lot of places have the potential to flip after this disaster. Do it. Run for office. You are not any less qualified than the people in power right now.
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4KitSake 🎃 @4kitsake.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes
Hieroglyphics with translation texts below them that reads

I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness.

I am the one who made me. I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.
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Beeves, but over here @beevesoftime.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Maybe the internet isn’t ready for this take but here: Being mad at how people voted in 2024 instead of at a system that makes it possible for this to happen is exactly the same as being mad at your little brother for misbehaving and pissing off your abusive dad. You’re actually mad at dad.
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