Sarah Dearing 🇨🇦
@sarahdearing
Novelist. Experience Snatcher. Birds. Gardening. Oddities. AI slop blocker.
Amazing demo of raptors at my town agricultural fair. Had no concept of the size. Bald eagles are no longer endangered in Ontario, but now is not the time to loosen conservation and protection measures. 🪶🦅
I hope the AI literacy course/trust promoters can recreate the quality, attractive, characters in these census ads. #AIforAll
Fledgeling Robin getting lessons in hopping, flying, and … camouflage today. Mama kept watch from a tree above. 🦉
Mumbai hotel has a bunny garden. There, I learned the word “binkying”. It’s like dog zooming, but with air twirling. #HappyEaster
Adore redpolls. In exchange, here’s a rose-breasted grosbeak from eastern Ontario in Canada. Should be arriving in May. #birds 🪶
AI that *works for all* must include the writers, artists, and journalists who have not consented to their IP being used in the development of suicide helpers. @mark-carney.bsky.social @evansolomon.bsky.social #StealingIsntInnovation #GoodnightMoon
The senior pupper is on a 3:30 feed me let me out schedule this week so here’s a photo of her reflecting my feelings about this. (she’d just got stuck in a hole and I might have laughed).
Not enough pollination. Ate it anyway. Horrible. #2025LessonLearned 🌱
Lemon ginger marmalade made with organic cane sugar. Excellent glaze for slow-baked chicken thighs. 🫙
Some days, walks are hard, but she’s not at all sure this is the solution.
Good start to fall colours from the pagoda dogwood—always first to turn. 🌱🌳
Bountiful. Grew them mostly for dog chews but may have to freeze some for pies.
Look at this crazy complex thing (zoom in). Blue Crown passionflower vine. First flower after two years trying to grow from a package of seeds. Took cuttings last fall in case the one successful vine wasn’t hearty enough to survive the Ontario winter. Supposed to, but didn’t. #bloomscrolling 🌱
Chipmunks doing agriculture: safflower seeds from the bird feeder buried for later or for more safflower seeds? Who’s to say, really. #bloomscrolling 🌱
#Beersky - when did Corona add the Lady of Guadalupe style bottle drawing to the neck? Very cheeky.
Spending the week at the Al Purdy A-Frame writers’ residence in Prince Edward County. Congratulations to the board on its massive fundraising success for winterizing and lifting it onto its new foundation. Apply ye Canadian writers.
Took 4 years but my foxtail finally did its thing. #bloomscrolling 🌱
Up yours big celery. Sometimes I just want the flavour and don’t want to pay $6. Leaves and thin stalks work for that. Cut the bottom of your bunch and root it in water.
I got these a few years back as part of a public safety campaign for people living near a nuclear power plant. Small measure, but still.
Different nibs and shape for editing vs writing. Trad peacock blue cartridges.
$4 but didn’t have exact change to leave in the **unattended money box** so $5.
Quite glad Trump is so effectively poisoning the *common sense* sloganeering of the #CPC