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Great read from @stormofearth.bsky.social! Honored to be mentioned twice 😄

Bluesky isn’t just one app. It’s part of a much larger ecosystem, and your account is the key. Here are 7 useful apps you can log into with your @bsky.app account that you should know about.

After three hours of planting, I can confirm that the feels like temp in St Louis being 106 degrees is accurate. I’m drenched.

'Autumn Frost' Hosta #STLplants

Rising Sun Redbud A colorful yellowish leaved redbud that stays small growing to 8’-10’ tall and wide making it perfect for smaller gardens. #STLplants

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpson’s image

If a hobbit accidentally time traveled to present day, how overwhelmed would they be at the variety of potato offerings they could eat?

A Blue Jay and a male Baltimore Oriole battle in a Cottonwood tree. The Blue Jay looks to have the upper hand (upper wing?) here, but was eventually chased off by the Baltimore Oriole.

We know St. Louisans show up for eachother — we've got receipts. ❤️ You can help us help the community at the next STLPR Red Cross Blood Drive, Tuesday, June 23, from 1 to 6 p.m. at St. Louis Public Radio in Grand Center. Let's keep #STL prepared. Walk-ins welcome. 🗓️ Appointments at stlpr.org/events

The year is 2000. I’m dropped off at my cousins house in the morning so I can get on the school bus. I pass the time until the bus arrives by watching MTV. Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers plays.

Luckily I’m unaware of any of my neighbors calling my lot full of plants a “cesspool of lunacy” or trying to take legal actual because of an increase in insects like in the story below.

Really enjoying the new James Bond video game. I’m typically more of an open world rpg type, but having so much fun with this linear more story telling adventure. It’s really well done and now I want to watch James Bond movies.

My plans for Memorial Day weekend are set. #STLplants

Really interesting podcast episode on how much outside forces affect our language and the words we use.

An extreme closeup of a coreopsis bloom

Yarrow blooms

Another hard worker

This bee is putting in the work.

This app is actually really cool

This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

What’s the cheapest price for gas you have ever personally seen in your life? I can still remember my family visiting my sister in Tennessee as a child and gas was 79 cents per gallon.

The sirens were the result of an "accidental automatic activation," officials with the St. Louis Fire Department told 5 On Your Side on Monday. #stlwx

St Louis, home to the first ever rain siren. #stlwx

Australia is proposing to tax Meta, Google and TikTok a proportion of their revenue to pay for news reporters. The government intends to introduce the draft legislation to Parliament by July. n.pr/4eOMTi3

"I know you're trying to watch the NBA and I'm sorry. Steal your parents Peacock password like everyone else" St Louis NBC Chanel 5 weather man reporting on a confirmed tornado in Clinton County, Illinois. #stlwx

"The city did not have that many power outages, a few hundred. Which on a good day, that's a squirrel." #stlwx

A look at the damage of a weak tornado in Carlyle, Illinois. No structural damage on houses, debris, limbs, trees down as well as some type of wooden structure that on one can figure out what it is. #stlwx

Confirmed Tornado in Trenton, IL heading down highway 50 in Clinton County. #stlwx

Rotation in Summerfield right now moving through Clinton County, Illinois hitting at these times: #stlwx 7:55 PM – Summerfield 7:57 PM – New Baden 7:59 PM – Trenton 8:04 PM – Aviston 8:09 PM – Breese 8:15 PM – Beckemeyer 8:19 PM – Carlyle

27,933 without power in St Louis County which is 5.86% of homes. St Louis City has zero power outages. #stlwx outagemap.ameren.com

A tree in Belleville, IL has fallen into a house - KSDK #stlwx

Over 15,000 in St Louis County currently without power per KSDK #stlwx

#stlwx live look as the storm system moving through Monroe County, IL. No serious rotations but heavy rain and extreme wind gusts.

Apple Watch notifications tornado warning updates on #STLwx channel 5

Not much for rotations, but still some very strong winds heading through St Louis area right now that will bring down some trees and cause power outages as well as rain overpowering streets and small hail making driving unsafe. #STLwx

Baptisia - False Indigo #STLplants

Amsonia - Blue Star #STLplants

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...