Kara Hartz

RIP Walter❤️

I love that I can tell my 19 year old kiddo that there's a praying mantis in the garden and he'll excitedly come out in pajamas to look.

Wicker was a lot of fun. Although my usual theater wasn't showing it and I had to hunt down one that was. When picking seats online, the ones already taken were replaced with little basket icons instead of being greyed out. 😂

Maybe not as big as some of the other stuff posted, but FIP in cats used to be a 100%death sentence. The treatment available now is amazing and just getting more accessible and affordable all the time.

go to your camera and search "boat" and post the one you like I think this was Monterey. The boat was incidental, the focus is of course the nesting seagull.

I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

Someone finally commented on my Sanctuary Moon shirt. Of course it was at the library.

You shouldn’t have to work if there’s a bird outside you want to watch

Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.

My manager puts out a little monthly activity for us, which is great. But she likes AI which is less so. I don't think it knows what a pumpkin is.

This was a really fun read. Highly recommend.

Another book I loved lately: There is No Antimemetics Division by by qntm. Riveting and creepy. So good. bookshop.org/a/112306/978...

We've gotten these since. . . well many years now. I don't actually remember how long. Frogs, eels, crabs, squid. . . am I forgetting one? Anyway, my kiddos are in college now, but still want their holiday creature facts!

I was getting tired of being told what to do. Self-determination was a pain in the ass sometimes but it beat the alternative by a lot.

This is exactly correct. Every word.

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring.

Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway👇 Write a letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes. Not so hotte damne swyvinge evil.

I needed to hear this.

Preservation has to make everything complicated. And that’s not a metaphor for my experience here. Okay, yes, it is a metaphor.

bookshop.org/a/112306/978... Recently finished this and it was so much fun. Just picking it up to continue reading made me happy. A great, great read.

Just got home from seeing the new Spider man movie. That was a lot of fun.

We didn't have this one. We had Funk & Wagnalls that my mom got one at a time from the grocery store. Read those.

Husband got me a bird feeder with a camera for my birthday. Got my first visitor a few days later. Now he's here regularly. House finch I'm pretty sure?

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie released the year you turned 18?

It rained today. In July. In the CA East Bay. 😲 I've lived here 37 years and in that time I don't think that every happened before.

(Apparently getting free will after having 93 percent of your behavior controlled for your entire existence will do weird things to your impulse control.)

This is not our moon. It's Jupiter's… and the biggest in the solar system.

Discovered California Towhee nesting in my rose bushes. Now I am anxiously awaiting a baby sighting. I try not to get close except when I have to water because the parents get cross with me.

Guy who was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein says what?

fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current wip? "There's something moving over there."

What I keep noticing in all these type photos of the fair: there are no kids. Every county or state fair I've ever been to was lousy with kids. It's weird.

This is obviously silly reasoning, but I might instead argue that the rise of people believing nonsense is strongly correlated to Myth Busters ending.

What’s in a name?

🎈Happy birthday Panda!🎈 1 year old!

Humans should really do more research. There were operating manuals that would have warned her not to fuck with us.

Two Democrats and two Republicans introduced a bill to create America’s first National Wildlife Corridor System—protected public lands for the migration routes animals lose as habitat fragments. It also funds wildlife crossings over highways at $18M a year.

MINISTER: do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband JOHN JACOB JINGLEHEIMER: i do JOHN JACOB SCHMIDT: i do

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen. One of those fantasy books that just start up in that fantasy world and trust you to figure stuff out from context without a lot of explanation (just enough) lovable characters who are their own worst enemies. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Those in and around Benica do this about how you pronounce Benica.

Good excuse to bring back rainbow bumblebear ✨