Michael Cervieri

Pondering bees and trees along the CT-RI border.

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2024-08-04 23:53:18

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other deep thought: the distance between glory and obscurity is short.
today's winner ran 9.79 seconds. the last place finisher, 9.91 seconds. that's fast enough to have won bronze in 2016.
and an appreciation: for the first time in history, all 8 runners finished under 10 seconds.

2024-08-04 21:00:19

Noah Lyles won gold today in the 100m by 5-thousandths of a second.
While I appreciate weights and measures, I wonder if they'll ever just call these things a tie?
#sports #Olympics
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2024-08-04 20:24:45

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@npub1gq5…yxjq this wonderful. thank you.

2024-08-04 02:27:30

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@npub1gq5…yxjq i have a bunch of sassafras but haven't yet tried harvesting it. any recommendations or resources for doing so?

2024-07-31 21:03:54

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@npub1w9a…04m0 it all kind of made sense at the time.

2024-07-22 21:35:20

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@npub1w9a…04m0 in the 2010s i had a gig advising the moldovan government on their e-governance initiatives. life is weird like that.

2024-07-21 02:17:42

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@npub17t7…zuxj do you always travel by train or are you experimenting?

2024-07-21 02:07:45

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@npub1j8q…ma30 🙋🏻‍♂️

2024-07-12 00:05:07

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@npub1r3u…srva me too. she says drawing calms her.

2024-07-11 23:14:30

my daughter's changing her drawing style. she turns six next week. i think it nuts.
#drawing #illustration #art
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2024-07-04 02:51:10

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@npub1lec…myvh it's like time keeps on ticking... into the future🎵
it's wild.

2024-06-28 00:39:44

the sun's going down after a big day.
#sunset
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2024-06-24 06:09:19

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@npub17nv…96rn one of my favorite covers ever

2024-06-22 17:37:04

today i learned not everyone gets brain freeze when eating cold things too fast. matter of fact, under 50% do.

2024-06-22 14:05:54

from a quick NYT story on target introducing generative AI tools to their frontline employees.
"As the retail industry experiments with generative A.I., some see its potential to eventually make in-store shopping feel more like online shopping."
i'm old enough to remember when it was the other way around. how could you make online shopping more like the in-store experience.
#robots #tech #AI

2024-06-19 10:53:44

i woke this morning to the joyful squeals of my daughters.
my eyes were closed. i listened to them run about the house.
laughter. laughter. such delightful laughter.
magical, i thought. so special.
after listening for a while, i opened my eyes. i'd make them breakfast.
strange. it was pitch dark out.
i checked the time.
3am!!!
not so magical.
but magical.
#parenting

2024-06-12 01:38:26

in early spring i spent a few days in the woods hacking back at invasives.
i went for a walk today to see what's been going on.
ferns. beautiful, lovely ferns have been going in.
#nature #ferns @npub1p9h…n3uq
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2024-06-09 14:21:55

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@npub1ye6…pwej never popped my collar - and fortunately duck and cover was gone by the time i came through - but did pretty much everything else on this.

2024-06-08 17:04:18

in chicago and took a wrong turn on our morning walk. we ended up in this industrial area along the river.
when i lived in NYC i used to go on long photography walks in industrial areas brooklyn and queens.
eg, https://michael.cervieri.com/2022/11/cities-rust/
this is like a flashback to a previous life. i wish i had my camera.
#chicago #architecture #photography
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2024-06-04 03:55:21

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@npub1gsn…fchn i have a pond and this afternoon it was covered in a thick stew

2024-06-04 00:26:13

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@npub1gsn…fchn can confirm. i had a (relatively) clean porch this morning. now, not so much.

2024-06-04 00:21:36

Of the handful of peonies we have, this one's the most indecent.
#bloomscrolling #flowers @npub1p9h…n3uq
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2024-05-31 13:49:42

scientists climb california's 2,200-year-old general sherman giant sequoia to check on its health.
https://youtu.be/yzgytycKOzY?feature=shared
#trees #nature

2024-05-30 22:24:13

that's a whole lot of guilty.
#politics #law
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2024-05-30 09:00:32

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@npub13aw…kayf yeah, i'm in southern New England. 95% of the ones i see are ratsnakes or garters

2024-05-30 00:10:34

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@npub1k3q…l2nx i believe so.

2024-05-29 22:48:55

rodent control in our barn.
#snakes #nature
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2024-05-27 10:26:47

today i learned that yesterday was national paper airplane day (US).
sadly, we missed it *but* every day is paper airplane day at my house.
here's 50 ways to make your paper fly: https://www.foldnfly.com/
#fun #parenting

2024-05-23 23:41:48

on fire loving fungus:
"Fischer and colleagues found, for instance, that Pyronema can eat charcoal, breaking it down and releasing its contents."
https://daily.jstor.org/the-vital-near-magic-of-fire-eating-fungi/
#fungi #mushrooms #ecology

2024-05-21 02:04:16

tech people: is ios/safari shite or do most mobile browsers choke on the trackers and ads publishers have on their sites?
i frequently have articles reload while reading them or throw errors while reloading so i have to manually navigate back to the article.
my laptop and desktop handle these things fine.
#tech

2024-05-18 12:17:56

"Some of the largest and oldest [Baobab] trees in Australia have been estimated to hold more than 100,000 liters (26,400 gallons) of water."
#trees #nature
https://www.reuters.com/science/study-reveals-history-oceanic-voyages-remarkable-baobab-tree-2024-05-15/

2024-05-14 20:03:28

this family of geese took up residence a few weeks ago. they're less skittish of me now than they were then.
https://cdn.masto.host/socialtreedance/media_attachments/files/112/441/223/029/120/902/original/60664972096e01ca.mp4

2024-05-09 23:15:13

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@npub1eav…g6f3 i might have to do that and [clears throat] give it a swing...

2024-05-09 22:48:55

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@npub18ue…xhq5 swing it like a golf club?

2024-05-09 22:32:07

i often come across old-timey tools when clearing brush. they make me wonder who was here back in the day, what they were doing, and what they were thinking when standing in the place i now stand.
i also wonder how annoyed they were when they lost their tool, the one that was just. right. here.
i know the feeling well.
anyway, here's today's find. the shaft is about three feet long
#gardening
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2024-05-09 00:06:39

an unfortunately articulate description of our climate inaction:
"The world’s response to date is reprehensible – we live in an age of fools."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature
#climate

2024-05-08 23:04:07

as i read up on invasives, murrow's honeysuckle is a bit of an asshole:
"[S]ome studies have led researchers to believe that honeysuckle may release a toxin into the soil from their roots that would harm surrounding vegetation, preventing their growth."
https://www.nps.gov/articles/morrows-honeysuckle.htm
@npub1p9h…n3uq #nature