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Just finished The Witness for the Prosecution (2016) based on Agatha Christie’s “Traitor’s Hands” and wow, messed up. War and tragedy breaks people. We should stop doing wars.

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Holy shit.

From [Feb 2021 to Feb 2022], Alvi caused claims to be submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for Covid-19 tests that were not performed as billed…the laboratory released negative test results to patients, even though the laboratory either had not actually tested the specimens or the results were inconclusive.

Chicago Lab Owner Pleads Guilty to $14 Million Covid-19 Fraud Scheme justice.gov

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This morning I’m going to shower and brew a pot of coffee, bring it up to my treehouse lair, and crawl back under the covers. That sounds grand.

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I started looking at alternate blogging platforms in case I decide to make a secret blog. I investigated Blot.im, Bear.blog, Pika, etc. What I found was not too surprising except one thing: the pronunciation of Pika has shaken my world. In my upbringing, we say pīka. Even Oregon Field Guide does.

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Another bookmark from today, this one is beyond words. Too many quotes to choose just one. I would quote the entire piece if I could. It is fire.

New NIAID Director Scared of Masks thegauntlet.news

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“I hope my story humanizes the experience of having COVID for people,” she wrote in an essay following her hospitalization. “Those of us at high risk aren’t abstract people you’ve never met. We’re people you know and love, and we might die because you won’t wear a mask.”

Tinu died September 26, age 52.

Tinu Abayomi-Paul, writer, disability advocate, and person with Long COVID, dies at 52 - The Sick Times thesicktimes.org

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Finished The Moonflower Murders, now need to find a new mystery series to binge.

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Setting some blogging guidelines.

This post probably isn’t necessary but I started to reply to someone on Mastodon and instead decided to put this little guide here on how I see myself posting across my various blogs at this point. I’ve been doing it long enough now that I no longer really have to think about it when something comes into my head, I usually know what blog it needs to go on.

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Stop living for the approval of strangers who are miserable and dissatisfied with their own lives and looking for things to nitpick about you in order to make themselves feel superior.

Start living for the strangers who might see you and think you’re pretty cool and ⭐️ all your posts and secretly wish you could be best friends but don’t want to make things awkward by saying so.

katharine (@thatkatharine@ohai.social) ohai.social

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Today’s featured photo from the Photos app (2024/10/04)

Trails around Paradise at Mt Rainier National Park, WA.

September 12, 2014

The low angled sun late in the day casts a long shadow across boulders in a stream as wildflower meadows, now mostly green, roll across the distance with large evergreen trees in the distance and a Mt Rainier towering beyond under a blue sky.
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📝 From Apple Annie’s Weblog

LOLtober 2024

2024-10-02

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Today’s featured photo from the Photos app (2024/10/02)

Red trillium with other spring perennials in the background at Heronswood Garden near Kingston, WA.

May 11, 2019

A red trillium bloom stands out in the foreground with other varying colors and textures of spring perennials in the background.
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So now I’m just thinking about how I would go about making a secret blog. Might give me a chance to try out another platform. I still have one blog open here on MB but it would be easily tied to me. Funny: what if I want a new Bear blog never to be discovered?

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I started watching the new adaptation of Moonflower Murders on PBS Masterpiece Mystery last night. This is based on the second novel in the Susan Ryeland series and also stars Leslie Manville. Is there anyone more pleasant than Leslie Manville?

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Today’s featured photo from the Photos app (2024/09/30)

On this day: Simpson Reef and Shell Island near Shore Acres and Cape Arago on the Oregon coast.

September 30, 2010

A three image panorama of the Simpson Reef and Shell Island on the Oregon coast, featuring rugged rock formations and seastack housing man types of marine mammals and other wildlife. The Pacific Ocean spreads beyond.
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I made an 88x31 for weblog, thinking about adding this to my footer for others to add to their 88x31 walls. I also need to start collecting some and make a /wall page.

An 88x31 pixel image for use by other sites to link to my weblog. It has a dark background, a thin white border, slightly rounded corners, white text that says Apple Annie's Weblog, and the Apple Annie green apple avatar.
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Today’s featured photo from the Photos app (2024/09/29)

On this day: Haceta Head, the lighthouse is to the far left nearly obscured by trees, and the lightkeeper house, now a B&B, is on the right.

September 29, 2010

A large headland juts out ahead of a small beach with two people walking and driftwood strewn about. Large conifer trees cover most of the headland, a lighthouse and small buildings on the far left near the end of the headland, and a large white house with red roof sits on the right on a bluff.
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📝 From Apple Annie’s Weblog

Bookmarks #5: The I have too many bookmarks edition.

2024-09-29

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Five and a half hours of yard work between the two days this weekend. I’m going to feel that very soon.

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Back sleeping upstairs in my little hideaway. I like it because it feels like a treehouse. I can have the windows open that face downtown and hear all the city sounds because I’m up higher than my bedroom downstairs. I can also hear the wind in the trees and when it rains, the rain on the roof.