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evergreen comment, multiple use cases: WELL, THAT'S NOT FUCKING OK EITHER

This goes out to everyone who's never been *formally* assessed for autism, but...

Viola 'Delft Blue' 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #TuesdayBlue #BlueTue #ColorADay #EastCoastKin

This is genuine brilliance.

Frankly, eating Mexican breakfast three times a day sounds fine to me.

Victim blaming season is back, alongside darker evenings and mornings. But perhaps it’s time to recognise that like “cities aren’t loud; cars are loud”, our roads aren’t dangerous by themselves. It’s the motor vehicles on them that create the danger and that perhaps it’s time to address the source.

This is true. Cardamom is the #1 spice.

Prince Maurice's grave is interesting, because it was a good example of the conflicting thoughts families had. Princess Beatrice refused repatriation of the body. She felt he belonged with his men. But she fought for years for the right to spend her own money on a custom headstone. This was blocked

Bath time!

Maybe the high security seal is making friends with 100 otters

SO close to Sprank season!

Penstemon virens, our Front Range Beardtongue, blooming along Flagstaff Road #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to April 26 🌿

#Poetry #Painting #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) Birch Forest, 1903. oil on canvas. #Autumn 🍂

"For unmarried women, these books will do nothing but give you unrealistic expectations for when you do get married." I honestly thought there was some sort of Christian marriage rule that wives must never, ever say anything negative about their husbands in public.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

I noticed in the supermarket the other day that chocolate bars are going big on sparkles and whole spices and crunchy bits and pieces. I don't know how much is "offering novel consumer experiences" and how much is "cutting costs by reducing how much chocolate goes into the chocolate".

Taiwan election tidbits: At the big Keelung rally, very politically savvy of DPP mayoral candidate Puma Shen to mention his wife used to live in Keelung, he talked about her commute between Taipei and Keelung and the crowd was really into it. Love the giant cat in the harbor behind them.

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree.

Bat, Albrecht Dürer, 1522.

This confused me a lot as a child

>Calvin’s Dad Explaining meme with chess and poker

Tag yourself. I'm the happy little frog.

The comedian Tom Allen has a fun line related to this: "podcasts, or as we used to call them, Radio 4."

A beautiful poem, by Howard Nelson. “My Father Went To Funerals”

no society or human culture can exist without the regular practice of “they went out again, mildly against their will, to the lodge or some church committee”

House for sale in Gouda. Would suit a thin person who only owns a single bed.

Thirty years ago I was on a high-volume high-aggro mailing list, and when someone lost it like this the tradition was for someone to take the text of the message, alphabetize it, paste it into a reply, and say “these words didn’t appear to be in any particular order so I alphabetized them for you”

Hoping for the Little Blood Clot That Could

So how did Lula come from behind to defeat Bolsonaro? In short, turnout. Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. But Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in the first round & won eliminated candidates' votes. A remarkable mobilisation. Second round turnout is usually below first.

WE DID IT. I CANT FUCKING BELIEVED WE DEFEATED USA WE DEFEATED A COUP WE DEFEATED META WE DEFEATED EVERYONE WHO TRIED TO SILENCE BRAZILIA PEOPLE LULA WON GUYS. THE PEOPLE WON.

And again, it's worth noting that this happened despite Lula being an incredibly flawed candidate. His son and some of his key political allies are embroiled in genuine corruption scandals. He's 80 years old. Crime is incredibly high. But he's won despite those flaws. There's a lesson in that.

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Fair's fair, I too think Bill Maher is a cunt. But I can express that in 4 words just fine.

An awful lot of white vegans also seem to think spices and herbs are forbidden animal products, so I wouldn't trust their judgment in general

Today's the feast of St Crispin and St Crispinian, traditionally 3rd Century Roman twins who were martyred under Diocletian. They're the patron saints of cobblers and leather workers, and here they are busy at work in a roundel of collected continental glass now in Kings College Chapel, Cambridge.

Jay's work really is gorgeous.

“Woman Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock at New Year”. Ukiyo-e woodblock print. About 1740’s, Japan, by artist Okumura Masanobu.

Sensory overload is weird and inexplicable. I can happily spend 3 hours in a mosh pit provided the T-shirt I got at the merch stall doesn't have a scratchy tag.

The graphic etymology of 取 “take; select” is pretty friggin metal

"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

The fun of being an old person at a metal concert... Younger friend: oh look, someone crowd-surfing! Me: I once chipped my collarbone doing that. YF: when? Me: oh...[quick calculation]...about 30 years ago. YF: [visibly shaken]

Emily Dickinson #smallpoemsunday

Yet another Minneapolis stolen bike Framed Alaskan alloy fat tire bike Hit me up if you see it. Throw a lock on if you can. I am tired.

I've read this story...

I was so proud of myself today. Changed the oven, microwave and rice cooker without having to look anything up. (And the kitchen clock but that's just a little wheel on the back.)