Melinda R. Cordell

🌱🌱 I KEEP FORGETTING TO MENTION THAT I ALSO WRITE GARDENING BOOKS! For fun and for profit (about $0.05 worth lol). Edible landscaping, roses, perennials, indoor gardening, growing plants in containers, soil building, and all kinds of good stuff. books2read.com/ap/8GpePW/Ro...

From your keyboard to God’s ear.

Definitely true

This is a point that I always want to really hammer home when it comes to environmental matters It’s not about being overly-optimistic, it’s about understanding that there’s machinery at play that wants you to believe that we’re cooked and done, that’s betting on people letting go and giving up

Vivek Ramaswamy has been a horrible person in public for so long that until a friend reminded me, I totally forgot that I wrote a letter to the editor blasting his opposition to a living wage for campus workers more than *two decades ago*

CHECK YOUR BALLOT

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

*Vance attempts turning Titanic* *hits iceberg* “Wow it took me only five minutes to sink this thing” glub glub

obviously many more important takeaways from the French approach to protest, but much respect to the absolute varsity level Whimsy of throwing a whole ass piano at the cops

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Pounded in the Butt By My Own Book "Pounded in the Butt By My Own Butt" for Tax Purposes

America if the news covered it like those countries Over There

The Star Tribune at least ran this in the Sunday paper: www.startribune.com/whats-it-lik...

Also love this clip of indigenous women veterans dancing on Custer’s flag

Thread: rights grabs at Must Read Magazines

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

Found an account that tweets the dialogue of Airplane! line by line, every half hour. Instant follow.

🌱🌱 Here's a little article from my forthcoming book about growing dwarf fruit trees. rosefiend.substack.com/p/how-to-har...

qt what you bring to interviews instead of iced coffee, wrong answers only

In my job interviews I always insist on my gentlemen interviewers wearing pantyhose whilst I smoke three cigarettes at the same time and chug my tureen of un-iced coffee ☕️ I am a maverick, doncha know

Today in “Adventures in ADHD” we have the amazing never-ending scrolling list of 50 million things I need to do, which is constantly in flux because I haven’t written any of them down, and every item on the list is of equal or greater importance than every item on the list So that is fun

🌱🌱 The old white peach trees have a severe case of gummosis, so much that it has glommed onto the ground. But this won’t affect the branches I plan to cut this winter that I’m going to graft onto my existing peach tree.

I've always liked the part of the web where people build things for themselves. A blog about a very specific hobby, a small site someone just wanted to exist. They're everywhere. They've just become surprisingly hard to stumble across. That's why I made this field. #indieweb #smallweb

🌱🌱 This little guy popped up next to a plant I got from a nice grandma … boy, I sure hope it survives the winter! Not sure how hardy it is in zone 6a.

just learned this today

🌱 🌱 A graft on my apple tree wrapped up - then unwrapped. That alarming-looking stuff on the second pic is fine; it is where the cambium has healed together. I think the apple variety on this graft is Palmer Greening.

🌱 🌱 befriended a praying mantis on my Penelope rose the other day

saying this louder for the folks in the back

white peaches off the country highway. Probably planted in the 1960s.

Stop looking at my psyche dammit

👀 … does this make me a good genealogist or an evil one

Get to Know You: Name: Melinda Age: I've been 25 for *decades* Fave food: probably Nutella Birthday: rambling around some cemetery Fave Music Act: Genesis/Dolly/Gordon Lightfoot Country: yes I like living in the country Dream Job: Writing Color: cerulean Season: spring

This year's scion list (so far) from 39th Parallel Orchard. Carter's Blue, Cox's Orange Pippin, Grimes Golden, Belle de Boskoop, King David, Esopus Spitzenburg, and then some ornamental crabapples -- Makamik, Profusion, and Sugar Thyme. Grafting all onto existing apple & crabapple trees. 🌱 🌱

🌱🌱 Here are some chicken pics because I haven't posted anything lately.

I wish a small army of raccoons would infest JK Rowling's house and take up residence in her fridge and use her toilet as a place to dunk everything she loves

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)