Kaj of the Creek

Story collector, divinatrix, weekly WUFOer, data nerd, ambassador for #Liminal Earth
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Often spying on #birds, sneaking up on #mushrooms, putting my body in water, or researching something that catches my interests (#Forteana, the spiritualist movement of the early 20th century, #PSI, #dinosaurs, self-taught female #naturalist/scientists of the long 18th century)

White & unlearning racism #ChronicallyIll #queer #genderqueer #spoonie #ActuallyAutistic #InvisibleDisability #CFS

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If you're planning to buy #GirlScoutCookies this year, please consider ordering from a #trans Girl Scout to make their day. #GirlScouts erininthemorning.com/p/2024-tr

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🍪 ~EDOX~ 🍪edox@pdx.social
2024-01-13

What is the status of the kale? #pdxtst

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rebecca ravenoak 🏳️‍⚧️ggggbbybby@hachyderm.io
2024-01-13

something I didn't know when I started weaving was that washing a piece of handwoven fabric is ✨magical✨

the yarn is asleep on the loom, but when it hits the water it wakes up and swells and wiggles and settles into place. it's the most fun you can have while doing laundry.

handwoven huck fabric in a rainbow gradient laid on a drying rack. the fabric transitions from bright yellow in the bottom right corner to deep purple in the top lefthandwoven huck fabric in a rainbow gradient laid on a drying rack. the fabric transitions from reddish purple mixed with yellow in the bottom right corner to dark green in the top lefthandwoven huck fabric in a rainbow gradient laid on a drying rack. Rainbow and white stripes travel vertically throughout the cloth, intersected by stripes of brighter and contrasting colors
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Mark Ingalls :pdx_badge:ingalls@pdx.social
2024-01-13

21:45 Friday - The Portland #weather radar is offline as precipitation as begin in the south end of the Willamette Valley.

#pdxtst #orwx

2024-01-13

Whether the #pdx #snowpacolypse is neigh or not, I’m eating soup & binging #Miyazaki

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2023-11-17

"Goodnight Moon" was published on this day in 1947. While she was writing it, Margaret Wise Brown was also writing beautiful bittersweet poems for the tragic love of her life. This is their story: t.co/z8auNCY8t6

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2023-10-07

Politicians criticised for 'toxic' language as religious and transgender hate crimes increase

Figures show almost 9,400 religious hate crimes were recorded in England and Wales year-on year - a rise of 9% - while transgender hate crimes have increased by 11% to 4,732.

Politicians criticised for 'toxic' language as religious and transgender hate crimes increase
Figures show almost 9,400 religious hate crimes were recorded in England and Wales year-on year - a rise of 9% - while transgender hate crimes have increased by 11% to 4,732, the Home Office said.

By Siba Jackson, news reporter

[Picture of the back of a police officer]Politicians have been criticised for using "toxic" and "dehumanising" language as new figures reveal religious and transgender hate crimes have risen in the past year.

The number of transgender hate crimes recorded by police in England and Wales increased by 11% to 4,732, according to the Home Office.

Religious hate crimes rose by 9% to 9,387, year-on-year data up to March 2023 showed.

Muslims were the most commonly targeted group, accounting for 39% of offences - followed by Jewish people, who were the victims of 17% of offences.

Christians accounted for 7%, followed by Hindus and Sikhs both at 3%.

In 22% of the offences, the targeted religion was not known.

The figures were published as Rishi Sunak sparked controversy with remarks about gender during his Conservative Party conference speech on Wednesday.
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2023-10-04

CALLING ALL WUFONAUTS!

It's that time again. On Wednesday, October 4 at 8PM PST, at wufo.watch or on the Liminal Earth YouTube, we'll be gathering together to hang with LIMINAL ENTITIES!

This week, we'll be partying in a few parking lots across the Pacific Northwest! What does THAT mean? You're just going to have to join us and find out.

Bring snacks and be ready for weirdness! SEE YOU SOOOOOOON! #paranormal #weird #ufo #ghost

Creepy cloaked figures hover above a number of white circles in a darkened parking lot at night.
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2023-10-03

What do you call a Highland band in summer?

Piping hot.

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Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎austinkocher
2023-10-03

We need a Global Email Non-Proliferation Movement similar to what we did with nuclear weapons. Everyone draw down your email stockpiles at the same time, disarm existing emails, end the creation of any new emails going forward. This is the only way humanity can survive.

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#Sunchoke #fermentation #recipe continues apace. Inspired by #kimchi— it’s sunchoke leaves, carrots, scallions, and some seaweed to keep it vegan but still a little fishy.

The paste is chili, garlic, ginger, and some stinky bob for a little cilantroyness. It released a lot more liquid than I expected! But the sunchoke leaves definitely shrunk down. Now it’s in the crock; I’ll check in on it in a week!

#ferment #food #ferments

A pile of dark green sunchoke leaves mixed with carrots and scallions. They are covered in a red, spicy looking “paste”A pile of dark green sunchoke leaves mixed with carrots and scallions. They are covered in a red, spicy looking “paste”
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This is what I mean when I say “nature isn’t something you ‘go to.’” This fern has been living under my car for a long time. #Ferns, y’all. Not sure if I should encourage it by watering it, if I even could, or transplant it somehow. I’m worried I’ll damage it if I try, so it’ll probably just live there until it can’t. It’s kind of amazing though, isn’t it? #plants #botany

Three small fern fronds, descending from the bottom of a car above the rear mudguard.
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2023-10-03

Last night, you dreamt of a sacred taxidermy beast in a barbarous chapel. This dream came to you from the earth.

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2023-10-03

Betazoid Dance Instructor urgently needed to replace previous Dance Instructor (unavailable due to Ritual Disintegration), for 16 Federation Standard month tour to interpret USS Arcos NCC-6237's Binary Planet Cartographic Survey in the Carraya sector. Captain Picard Day planning and Transporter Anxiety (Original) experience desirable. #StarTrek #JoinStarfleet #AskUsAboutStarfleet #TheyShouldHaveSentAPoet

2023-10-03

@cynaq @actuallyautistic

I used to think I was “good” at multitasking, but I am actually TERRIBLE at multitasking but good at holding “that other thing I was doing” in the back of my mind so I can return to it post haste once this pesky interruption is over.

Monotropism Score: 197 / 235
Your Average: 4.19

This score suggests that you are more Monotropic than about 55% of autistic people and about 96% of allistic people based on data from the initial validation study.

2023-10-03
2023-10-03

@cynaq @actuallyautistic
me taking this test: “Routines provide an important source of stability and safety.” Naw, not really

Also me: I went to the one local store that carries Proper Tea (PG Tips!) and on my monthly trip, and they were out. I crouched in the aisle (it’s on the bottom shelf because I was born in the incorrect country of the USA 😂) staring so distraughtly at the empty spot that a fellow shopper gave me a compassionate look & backed slowly away.

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2023-09-28

Today's gender is a fall of narwhals.

2023-09-19

#ICYMI #WUFO is back y’all! Join us every other week to get weird and look up 🛸🐞🦅 #AerialEntities #UFO wufo.watch/

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2023-09-19

Just finished @r_emrys's "A Half-Built Garden" and can't stop thinking about (among other things) her vision for actually-helpful technology: algorithm-assisted decision making processes that give explicit weight to human-defined values. *This* is what I wanted to build when I got into tech.

Good story, too. Very highly recommend:
bookshop.org/p/books/a-half-bu

#scifi

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