Sharon Frey

Fill your TL with affirmation, encouragement, humour, empathy, architecture, love, passion, photography, appreciation, survival stories, fine art, cuteness, local produce, congratulations, surprise, wisdom from those who are decades older than you, + great music. Let the rest go.

On this day in 1989, The Cure released "Lullaby" - the lead single from their eighth studio album “Disintegration” “On candy stripe legs the spiderman comes”

🚨 A teen just created a filtration system that removes over 95% of microplastics from drinking water. Mia Heller, an 18-year-old student at Kettle Run High School, took matters into her own hands after realizing that government agencies were not prioritizing filtration programs for plastic-contaminated water. Frustrated by the maintenance-heavy and expensive membrane filters her parents used at home, Heller spent months in her garage designing a more efficient alternative. Her prototype, which is roughly the size of a standard home appliance, successfully eliminates 95.5% of microplastics—a performance level that rivals existing high-end commercial technologies but with significantly less waste. The system utilizes a specialized magnetic liquid called ferrofluid that attaches to microscopic plastic particles ranging from one nanometer to five millimeters in size. As water flows through the device, a magnet pulls the ferrofluid-bound contaminants out, leaving behind clean drinking water while allowing the magnetic liquid to be recycled for future use. A finalist in the 2025 Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, Heller envisions her low-cost, under-sink system hitting the consumer market to empower individual households against the rising health concerns linked to microplastic consumption. source: Sheffield, T. (2026). High School Student, 18, Invents Water Filter That Eliminate 95.5% of Microplastics. PEOPLE.

Rinderhackbällchen in Avocado saure Sahne Soße, und Essiggurken dazu. Ich bin satt. #Keto

New word from the mind of a 4 year old today - "Flatterling" Instead of the German word for butterfly - Schmetterling, she called it a Flatterling. I guess the English childish equivalent for "Flutterby" 🦋

There's this style of stile, too

@baka_idk Congratulations on your success!

masterpiece project got accepted with papers that I wrote last night/this morning and the general design idea was developed not even 10 days ago by me when i was still chilling while everyone else had some project/plan for several weeks already some guys didnt even get approved

These are our hobbies ON REPEAT!

@malmisanthrope Have the same one! So handy. Green cardamom gets smashed in mine for the occasional pep in my coffee grinds. Do you sometimes slowly roast the cumin seeds before grinding?

My home kitchen hand spice grinder dedicated to cumin and coriander.

@XMartinsMusicX Coltrane. Always Coltrane.

What's Your Favourite Album From 1965? 🤔

Today's Puppentheater featured me voicing the part of St. Josef, a steadfast and quiet carpenter. I love theatre!

@allenanalysis Visible

🚨 THE GHOST BAN STORY Yesterday I ran an account visibility check. It confirmed what many of you have been DMing me about: My account was restricted in search and limited in reach. For those wondering why posts weren’t showing up on your timelines — this is why. Here’s the part that matters: A peer-reviewed study published in Nature found that political content moderation can create asymmetric visibility effects — meaning some viewpoints (liberals) get algorithmically suppressed without formal bans. So let’s test something. If you can see this post: - Like - Reply “VISIBLE” - Share if my content hasn’t been appearing for you Let’s see how organic this platform really is.

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

So many scolding flirty robins outside today. #twitterpated

@VeganRecovering You'd have to check for WHOLE eggs. AI assumes egg means egg whites only. Go figure. So I googled per volume and not per weight. Chia seeds are so light, you'd have to eat massive amounts to equal the protein 250 mL circa 5 whole eggs provides.

Trolling vegan social media for disinformation memes. Who is generating these memes and where do they get this data?

I love that the villain of the film is a child’s tablet. I love how it’s honest about the effect these devices have on kids: how they rob them of sleep, play, & friends. I hope it starts a discussion of the dangers of letting screens be babysitters. I hope parents will listen.

Having a g and t in the hand a mere 15 minutes after my workday with squirrels and badgers ends is undoubtedly one of the biggest perks of living near my workplace, right? Right?? R I G H T ??!?!!!?

A legend tells that when a mother cat’s cries rose by the river, the willow bent low and trailed its branches through the water, saving her drowning kittens. Where their small paws brushed the boughs, soft catkins grew, a gentle reminder of love and compassion. #FolkloreSunday

@redfresds @SketchesbyBoze Oh yes! Thank you for the recommendations.

@LilaViolet @SketchesbyBoze i was just commenting in another thread about the idiot by dostoyevsky. i first read that at 19, good time of life to take in a story like that about innocence & goodness & how the rest of the world generally treats those qualities in us

If you take any joy in learning, books and the humanities this is a bleak time to be living because it seems like all the things you love are being attacked, there’s been a collective loss of interest in reading, cinema, knowledge, it feels as though curiosity itself is dying.

@pgoings @SketchesbyBoze Yes, you are perhaps right about that. "...Done because we are too menny (sic)..." I remember the chills and my intake of breath at the shock. I do at some point want to be a grandmother.

@LilaViolet @SketchesbyBoze I think that Jude was the darkest novel I've ever read. It was excellent, though!