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@rmkubinec.bsky.social Ope, don’t mind me, I’m just a yankee forgetting Columbia and Clemson aren’t the same municipality. 🤡🤡🙃
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\nBut the phrase has been sitting differently lately because this outbreak is spreading not only through compassion but also through the global withdrawal of it.
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Spring Progress 📷 2026.05.19
\nWe might be able to say summer has arrived.
\n![](\"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/1000x/https%3A%2F%2Fnic.babarskis.blog%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F06caf569f5.jpg\")
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\n
Same principle applies across all sorts of culture-making endeavors, and increasingly any public good that can be commodified for shareholder profit.
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\nSiri confirms it’s an Eastern Redbud!
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/thebigbabooski/90032248","date_published":"2026-05-12T19:33:11+00:00","author":{"name":"Nic Babarskis","url":"https://nic.babarskis.blog","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F47%2F1685639.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"thebigbabooski"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-12 19:33","date_timestamp":1778614391,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"90023960","content_html":"📸 I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tree so brightly flowering and leafing at the same time
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\nThe maple shed its blossoms and has moved on to leaves. #SP26.4
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TEXAS! (by Erin Newman-Mitchell)
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@cliff538 Remarkable!
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Tea Anemone by Tatsuya Tanaka at Miniature Calendar:
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Westenberg calls it “withdrawal” but you could also label it sabbath:
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Here’s a nice little primer on the history and scope of the U.S. Forest Service.
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To the extent I pay attention to Home and Garden trends I always got the impression the platonic ideal for lawn maintenance was a golf course fairway.
\nMeanwhile I’m out here weedmaxxing
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\nWorld Press Photo’s 2026 photo of the year, Separated By ICE:
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@martynwendell.bsky.social FANTASTIC
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@martynwendell.bsky.social Me, a member of a mainline Baptist church every time I see one of these.
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@adamkeiper.com Doordash Grandma?
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@mwerickson those last 10 or so minutes 😭 😭 😭
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