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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026

Show/tell me a book in your TBR pile, written by a woman. I'll go first:

[book cover]

ORBITAL

The
Booker
Prize
2024

A NOVEL

SAMANTHA
HARVEY

"Ravishingly beautiful." - NEW YORK TIMES
"Harvey makes an ecstatic voyage... and looks back
to Earth with a lover's eye." - THE GUARDIAN

U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Mark Zuckerberg blocked the Indivisible Team from their accounts today. That tells you how dangerous it is to use any Meta platform. Boost what you can on all the channels! They fear democracy! #NoKings #Indivisible #VoteEarly

People by a highway hold letters that spell VOTE EARLY.

A small portion of the large crowd at the No Kings/Vote Early demonstration, holding various signs up to passing traffic.

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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

[food] Been on a Penzey's garam masala jag, lately. I usually put it on winter squash, and today I had a pear that needed to be eaten, along with a few goldenberries, so gave it a dusting of garam masala, and it worked! #food

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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

New mini Masto plushies to buy! I ordered both new colors (I missed out on the last pair), and a t-shirt. Pro tip for the US: if your order adds up to about $90, you get free shipping. That's a significant deal, because less than that, shipping would be $40. Put that money into merch.

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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

A site I didn't know about, with wastewater data on CoVid19 outbreaks in the US. pmc19.com

Map of the United States showing areas with rising CoVid infections. Hot spots include most of California, northwest Nevada, Alaska, eastern Idaho, south and eastern Texas, southern Illinois through central Tennessee and Kentucky, and central Florida. Other smaller locales have some rise as well.

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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025

The map at lower resolution, to get the idea. #earthquakes

Map of California with yellow to dark red color scale indicating the most catastrophic potential is along the San Andreas fault, but with most of the rest of the state still still capable of experiencing a level IX or X. No place is lower than VI.

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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025

I have never seen a greased pole climbing contest anywhere else. This tradition goes back decades here. I wonder if they have insurance coverage. Kids and adults can have a go. #MendocinoCoast

A child is helped to come down from a tall pole.

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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2025

The gold record won by this lucky bidder at the silent auction a few years ago. You never know what will be on offer.

A man holds up a framed gold album arranged with production information for the Elton John record Songs from the West Coast.

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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

Relatedly, there’s a new interpretive center being developed at the last remnant of the US Army fort that was built in 1851 to kill, contain, and eject the native Northern Pomo population. The fort, unrelated to the North Carolina facility, was named by a […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

A disc shaped sign centering on a depiction of a Pomo basket, and surrounded by Pomo language words that are also translated as “We are still here” and “We are alive”. Barely visible behind the sign is a white wooden building that was part of the original fort. Putting this cultural center here is a small, symbolic measure of justice.

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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2025

Jughandle State Reserve is a place to cool off. #MendocinoCoast

Looking down at the crescent of the protected beach of Jughandle, where some human figures are standing at the water’s edge. In the near foreground are some bright red paintbrush flowers in the dry grass.

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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025

It was the fourth wave from the Alaskan quake of 1964 that reached 20ft high in Crescent City.

Wikipedia excerpt:
On March 27, 1964, the Great Alaskan
earthquake in the Prince William Sound
area, set in motion local landslide
tsunamis, as well as a trans-Pacific
wave. The tsunami wave travel time to
Crescent City was 4.1 hours after the
earthquake, but it only produced
localized flooding. 281 The second and
third waves to hit Crescent City were
smaller, but the fourth wave struck with
a height of approximately 20 ft (6.1 m)
after having drawn the harbor out
nearly dry. 281 The next morning the
damage was counted: 289 buildings
and businesses had been destroyed;
1,000 cars and 25 large fishing vessels
had been crushed; 12 people were
confirmed dead, over 100 were injured,

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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

Steamed romanesco in my new bowl, dressed and heavily seasoned with zatar and feledes paprika, with the little garnish bowl holding pumpkin seeds. #AmEating

$Wide blue bowl with the romanesco, with its fractal patterns obscured by mayonnaise strings and lots of red powder and sesame seeds. A little bowl peeks out from one edge, holding green pumpkin seeds. A fork is stuck under the vegetable.$

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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2025

Made a bowl fresh vegetable salad, with sardines and dahlia petals, involving no sugar whatsoever. #AmEating

Blue bowl full of colorful vegetables like carrots and peas (the cucumbers and onions are underneath), sprinkled with yellow petals; on a tray beside little bowls of plain yogurt, and pumpkin seeds.

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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

#Mendocino #GoodTrouble We had a band. Did you get a band? This is a good community.

A buff-white Pomeranian in a black carrying pouch, in the foreground, while a musical ensemble plays in the background. In the far background is Big River Bay.

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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025

Another view of the beach with wrack drifts of white Velella husks on the dunes, while the freshly awash creatures show some collective blue color in the active surf zone. #MendocinoCoast #MarineLife

Wide view of the beach near Laguna Point showing the white ripples of dead by-the-sea sailors variously washed onto the gray sand.

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