A Concerned Scientist
BE@zeroes.ca
<p>Former, now recovering, chemist. Former genealogist, current Dad, husband and outdoorsman always trying to get my off-grid, Appalachian life in order. </p><p>Homestead life is most of what I talk about these days, and it's usually restricted to followers only. Science, pollution and COVID are most of what I talk about more publicly, although not nearly as often as I used to.</p><p>Going to try to regularly post pictures to my pixelfed account at <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pix.zeroes.ca/BE" class="u-url mention">@<span>BE</span></a></span></p><p>Same person as <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://qoto.org/@BE" class="u-url mention">@<span>BE</span></a></span>, but issues there have led to my account not working well for a while now. Thank you
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Post #1141031
I was just outside in the forest planting some trees and I heard a bunch of buzzing long before I saw anything. Instinctively, I looked up, but the swarm was flying just an inch above the ground. There were hundreds of little bees, doing a zig-zag pattern in maybe an 8&#39; x 8&#39; area. After watching them for a minute, I ran inside to grab a cup to try to catch one, because they were moving way too fast, and never landing, so I couldn&#39;t figure out what they were, and I&#39...
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Post #950227
I used to write the occasional post about friends and family and how they weren&#39;t doing so great in the earlier COVID years. I haven&#39;t done that in a while, really just because everyone&#39;s sick all the time, while saying they&#39;re great, and you either realize it or you don&#39;t. But, my wife just came in and told me that her mom has officially been diagnosed with early onset advanced dementia, and I had to go find my old Mastodon account on a different instanc...
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Post #810630
@DaywalkingRedhead@toot.cat This bothers me so much. My wife&#39;s a virtual teacher, and due to the way it works in the state she teaches, she gets a mix of kids, but one of the groups are students who either didn&#39;t, or couldn&#39;t finish a class in school. The last few years she gets so many parents calling her up telling her that their kid &quot;won&#39;t get out of bed&quot; or that they were a great student until recently when they &quot;started refusing t...