cindybloch

Year round veggie, fruit, and herb gardener. Like to cook them too! :) Also love family, friends, sci-fi, and the occasional bit of tech writing. Life is good!

[cindybloch @cindybloch]

@PamelaSamuelson This is our first squash. It'll grow!

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@kevinb9n @kilbyblockparty Congratulations!

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@joshbloch They are a mixture of Carmello, Momotaro, Love Apple, Delano Green, Paul Robeson, Ananas Noir, and Orange Oxheart.

[cindybloch @cindybloch]

@josephazam @Airbnb I'm so sorry for your loss.
I, too, have been hurt by @AirBnB. A host recently tricked me into canceling. They "investigated" (w/o listening to host's lying vmail) & said it's the "Host will"[sic]. So I'm out of a place to live w/o recompense. At least it wasn't midnight...

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

[cindybloch @cindybloch]

Not telling you anything you don't already know.

[Pascal Geldsetzer @PGeldsetzer1]

Biggest thing to ever come out of my little group. Pls help spread this finding!

We found clean, CAUSAL evidence that the shingles vaccine prevents a good chunk of dementia cases. So, could a virus cause Alzheimer’s->YES!

Hear me out & see preprint: https://t.co/25f5XFQj8R
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@HrishiHirway @CiaoSamin THANKS you guys for introducing me to sabudana khichdi. I made it last night and OMG, it was WONDERFUL! Fine, fine comfort food! (I had some yogurt, and also made some eggplant pickle to go with.)

[cindybloch @cindybloch]

@CiaoSamin I hope not! :)

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@RafaTmyo They look comfy!

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@aqnguyen How exciting!!! Congratulations!!!
I can hardly wait to get it!!!

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@songneverend @joshbloch 这是真的！ 我把白菜放在回锅肉里，因为我喜欢这个味道。 美籍华人餐厅经常这样供应，所以我就是这样吃它长大的。 我使用的食谱不需要它 (https://t.co/0e9RC0zs8y) 但我还是添加了它，因为我喜欢它。

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@callmeike @joshbloch It's from @aqnguyen, here:
https://t.co/t9qyKdlDih

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@kumiko What a cute fam! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!

[cindybloch @cindybloch]

@tableaupublic No. Subscription services are "pay to play." If I make so little money that I don't pay taxes, I can still use the library.

[cindybloch @cindybloch]

@rebeccalgourley @LisaACarlson @UW @tableaupublic Subscription services are "pay to play." If I make so little money that I don't pay taxes, I can still use the library.
This is an important distinction, esp. for poor folks! Libraries are essential services provided to everyone, regardless of wealth.

[cindybloch @cindybloch]

@rynogeny @HolocaustMuseum Thanks for pointing that out... As a result of your tweet, I looked and I seem to not be following @HolocaustMuseum any more either. Just re-followed. (Is this happening a lot to them?)

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@aqnguyen Oooh, it sounds like the book will tell me how to make the wrappers too. Yay! I'm glad I pre-ordered the book.

[Andrea Nguyen @aqnguyen]

Major book benchmark achieved >> Ever-Green Vietnamese went to print! Here's the cover! Get more of the lowdown on the recipes AND pre-order so you'll get your book ASAP. 🌟 🌱 🌟

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