Jade L

Simple neuroscience-based hack for anxiety: 🌿go & be in a place with plants & trees for 15 mins 🌳You'll inhale plant oils(phytoncides) from foliage 📉your stress hormone(cortisol) will drop significantly Many of our brain pathways evolved to motivate us to forage for plants-they're still very active

open.substack.com/pub/jadespat... When all else fails, cook! Latest recipe on my Substack:

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January 20, 2025 is MLK Remembrance Day, NOTHING ELSE.

They really did it. Is this even the United States of America anymore??? - #tiktok

Well, it really happened. #tiktok is really gone. They think they can control us with the bann but they don’t know that we don’t need an app to expose their shadows anymore. The cat is out of the bag.

LA gardeners!! I am a permaculture grower collecting seeds to help reseed areas that have been affected by the #Eatonfire & #Palisadesfire. If you have any vegetable seeds (Zone 9-10) or California Native Seeds, pls DM me!

Packed my Go Bags, sitting tight & vigilant in my home in between the Eaton & Hollywood Hills fires while watching Evacuation Order alerts. Counting my blessings that my home is still safe for now but grieving for so many friends lost their homes. My heart is breaking for LA, moment by moment… #LA

The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them free for anyone to share and adapt. Here are some of the highlights.

The last Dragonfruit of the summer! Just harvested today - in December! #gardening #growyourownfood

Surround yourself with the kind of people who support their local library, bakery, bookstore, and café.

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

Favorite discovery of the day: Joy of Cooking has a podcast!!

My new favorite discover on @bsky.app - sounds that are great to work to!

I love waking up early & seeing what the other side of the world has been up to on @bsky.app .❤️🦋✨

📢 App Version 1.94 is rolling out today (1/5) A new release to go along with 20 million users! Open this thread for details. 🧵

The Christmas stuff is everywhere out there & in my Netflix feed already & I’m like “Noooooo!! I’m not ready for it yet.”

Please remember, the climate COP meetings are DESIGNED to fail. It is not a bug, but a feature. Here's how they could be designed to succeed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Please remember to tag posts with #naturewriting so they will appear on the Nature Writing feed. I hope the hashtag will bring writers & readers together, & help create community. I'd love the feed to be as diverse as poss, so do post on the margins - where nature writing merges with other subjects.

Tonight there will be a Blue Supermoon at 9:35 ET The moon will appear about 8% larger than a normal full moon and 15% brighter than a normal full moon. The next one won't be until January 2037. Keep any eye out tonight!

Excess CO2 in the atmosphere is well-documented, but our understanding of its effects on ocean chemistry is still limited. In July 2022, our reporter Tomoko Otake looked at how acidification could jeopardize thriving fisheries. 🐟 www.japantimes.co.jp/mjk/eJwdzcEK...

Morning @bsky.app 🦋✨ Made some Yuzu Honey this morning to preserve the first season’s harvest. Just add #citrus & #honey to coat & store in the fridge. This is a Korean #recipe that’s great as it is as a tea (add hot water to a spoonful) or as add to dressings or marinades, etc.🍋✨

Alright! Started working on a literary agent starter pack on here, for all my writer friends out there! Follow along and see what folks are looking for. go.bsky.app/EFopcRo

Has anyone in the US ever seen this mushroom species?

Shall we have another Justsmudge fascinating fact? 🌹🌱 Roses 🌱🌹 We've all seen them, stories tell tales of them, even the Bible blames Eve on rose thorns!💃 But did you know that rose fossils have been found in the USA confirming that they existed 35 million years ago? That's even older than me ☕

The strongest atmospheric river to hit California in months is expected to dump rain and snow across the northern half of the state this week — also bringing high winds and possible flooding — before eventually making its way south, forecasters say.

Here is everyone who is now Verified On Bluesky. These are the names you can trust (and me). I am working on adding more every day. go.bsky.app/CTkQxBY

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Good morning @bsky.app 🦋 !! Today’s harvest is the last of the summer #watermelons - in November no less!! Rare, even for us Zone 10 -ers here in LA. Anyone else still getting summer fruit?

Grimmway Farms recalled an array of its organic whole and baby carrots over concerns of an E. coli outbreak. Recalled carrots were sold at retailers such as Walmart, Whole Foods and Trader Joe's.

www.instagram.com/reel/DAo9Ljn... On Purpose:

A great Wendell Berry quote for our times:

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...

Hello Europe & Asia @bluesky ! Here’s a bouquet of Evening Primrose harvested from my LA garden to brighten your day & a good night to US.

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

Lots of people still pouring in it seems - yaaay and welcome 👋 If books are your thing, then you might find my bookish starter pack of use go.bsky.app/518dS5X

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

When your husband brings you fresh picked Yuzu tea, flowers, & blackberries from the garden, you pause for a moment to feel the gratitude & to realize how blessed you are. And to cry from a very long 2 weeks full of dealing with family emergencies & election anxiety. 😭❤️🙏🏼✨

Confession & New commitment: Was never very active on X. I mostly just listened & engaged with posts that resonated with me. Starting over here on #bluesky, I’m going to be more active, go out on a limb to find my voice and to learn from everyone here.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYLSuEcj/. Don’t forget to delete your content before u leave X.

Finally grabbed the new 50th anniversary edition of Frances Moore Lappe’s Diet For A Small Planet. Anyone remember that from way back when? This updated edition is well worth the wait. Alto’s happened since it first sparked the global plant-based food movement. #food #climatechange #bookstoread

Only here for an hour now & it already feels so much nicer here at @bsky.app 💙🦋✨

Part 5 of Newsnight's coverage of people leaving Twitter/X for @bsky.app we hear from @jimalkhalili.bsky.social that "Bluesky is very easy to use.. Some say it's like an echo chamber, you only listen to people you agree with.. Why not, what's wrong with that" - concur 👏