Megan Lynch

@may_gun

Disabled. Masters student Hort & Ag, UC Davis. Artist/musician/VO. She/her

Unceded Patwin Wintun land
Joined April 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    19 May 2017

    I'm a student studying carob (Ceratonia siliqua) street trees in SoCal & carob history in CA.

    Megan Lynch speaking about carob  to the Foothill Chapter of CA Rare Fruit Growers.
    Carob seedling growing in tissue culture.
    Pods of 'Santa Fe', a seedling selection that was a street tree in Santa Fe Springs, CA, USA. Was cut down for a freeway.
    View of a street where most of the street trees are century-old carobs.
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  2. 4 hours ago

    The more I think about it, the more I think “plant imperviousness” might work, although it seems less snappy because of how often that ableist metaphor is used in English language poetry, prose, songs, etc.

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  3. 4 hours ago

    There is a well-known botany podcast that uses the phrase “plant blindness” in every single episode. And others echo it or have taken it on board. It’s time to come up with less ableist language as it’s an important phenomenon to describe, but not at the expense of blind people.

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  4. 4 hours ago

    I’d want to check with the blind community on Twitter and other social media first, but “blindered” might work as it’s actually something put on one that blocks one’s vision. Or “plant impervious”.

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  5. 4 hours ago
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  6. 4 hours ago

    Oof, the irony here. Many blind people have expressed a desire for an end to using blindness as a metaphor for ignorance. So one of the biases we’re passing on is ableism... We need to find other ways to describe the indicated phenomenon.

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    4 hours ago

    📢Have your voice heard! One week left to submit feedback on the public consultation "Plant pests – checks on imported plants (updated rules)" Draft implementing regulation. 🌾🎋🦗🦟🇪🇺 Submit your feedback until 10 February 2020 🗓️ here 👇

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  8. 5 hours ago

    This is true about so many workplaces, IMO. If I were a mgr, I’d much rather have an honest and candid employee than encourage people to hide mistakes. The sooner you have honest info, the sooner you can correct.

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  9. 6 hours ago

    About 24 hr before this pre-proposal I have little training on doing is due. Now's the part where I cry, right?

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  10. 7 hours ago

    When I was younger, one could read scholarly books or even mass market books of the kinds of jokes people told, carefully, in Soviet Russia. A lot of the jokes folk make now are starting to sound like that to me.

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    7 hours ago

    Not to mention the best freebies from so far

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  13. 7 hours ago

    If the broken bezel makes the display go out while I need it, I’ll be up Excrement Estuary.

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  14. 7 hours ago

    So I’ll use my totally janky falling apart laptop while the “newer” one is in the shop, then switch out. Hope this works as I really don’t think the iPad Pro is up to all the stuff I do on my laptop for school.

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  15. 7 hours ago

    But I really don’t like the choices Apple has taken away and I at least know this old hardware as opposed to the not-all-that-cheap refurb/used stuff out there. So I’m getting these fixed, one at a time.

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  16. 7 hours ago

    I’ve hemmed and hawed over whether to buy a new MacBook Pro or just MacBook, whether to buy “new” used, or whether to just fix what I have. I’ve spent hours and hours and weeks doing this.

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  17. 7 hours ago

    Well, I haven’t started this laptop in something like 2 yrs because the battery expanded within it (not exploding, thankfully) and cracked the bezel, the connection to the keyboard, etc. It turns on, it reads the external HD. I have to use a bluetooth keyboard to do input.

    Back hinge of old MacBook Pro showing it no longer fits flush and there’s no battery in it.
    View of blue wallpaper on old MacOS screen.
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  19. Retweeted
    14 hours ago

    Having made a number of car ads for the in a past life, thought I would make one for what we really need in our community.

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    9 hours ago
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  21. Retweeted
    9 hours ago

    MONDAY. TOMORROW. We decide our demands. Meetings: 12-1 or 5-6. GSA Lounge. Bring everyone! Can't go? Have your demands heard:

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