C.M.Pettitt

This is one explanation for no one involved answering the question: "How exactly is AI going to make money?" Because the answer is "By coming up with new ways to rip you off."

I love Camphor trees.

The large green arrow-shaped leaves of a California beeplant stand out in a sea of cut-leaf geranium's small green snowflake-like leaves. An old wood fence disintegrates in the background. Fallen magnolia petals litter the ground.

The California Figwort Beeplant (Scrophularia californica) I planted near a magnolia in Fall '25 has tripled in size among the cut-leaf geranium and other European invasives. 🌱 #californianativeplants #nativeplants

I think back to discovering self-insert Real Person fanfiction in 2003 and in hindsight it was rather wholesome.

Overhead view of three young yellow, white, and black striped Monarch caterpillars munching away on milkweed.

🌱 @joyf.bsky.social @flutterbyflora.bsky.social @saunieindiego.bsky.social

Look who's arrived! Monarch season has begun. 🐛

I briefly forgot Chris Christie existed. How could you do this to me.

"I am going to the grocery store tomorrow. What can I pick up for you? Are you running low on pet food?"

"When you go to the hospital Friday, I can give you a ride there and back. We can get lunch afterwards."

When I was born there were Americans still alive who had been enslaved. I'm only in my 60s.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Nine square botanical photographs arranged in a grid, each showing a naturally heart-shaped form. A cyclamen leaf with pale green marbling; a pink bleeding heart flower; clusters of tiny white flowers; a snowdrop; curled fern fronds; shepherd’s purse seed pods; a delicate umbel; blue forget-me-nots forming a heart shape; and a pair of swelling buds. Soft green backgrounds throughout.

Hearts appear throughout the natural world, in leaves, flowers, seed pods and unfolding fronds. A small gathering of botanical hearts for St. Valentine’s Day. #ValentinesDay

Standing next to their thick old trunks, a view looking up at sunlight filtering through the green leaves of two very tall trees

#art #photography #BlueSkyArtShow #wood #trees #sacramento

The Army didn't single out Hershey. Other chocolate companies such as Mars competed to meet the requirements. Hershey won in the all-important heat resistance category. Source "Emperors of Chocolate" 1998.

Hey I'm back! As some of you know, I experienced some scary harassment here last month when a user threatened me and the sanctuary I work for and I was shocked when they received only a 3-day suspension for that. I have now been assured that the offending account is permanently suspended, and

Of all the salutations, "Hi there" is the most demoralizing. :/

I've read the article "correction" twice and it doesn't seem to be a correction.

This is a weird pocket of land between the 80 bus loop freeway and Alhambra, north of E St. Visually it will not affect the neighborhood any more than the derelict warehouses there now. Alhambra and C St. can easily handle the increased traffic.

Possibly a magazine cover or catalog cover featuring a photo of a woman in a sporty, short green outfit preparing to mount a front-loader cargo bike with a massive wicker basket filled with flowers. She's on a muddy beach. Some info found on the photo says it's from 1974.

Let's just admire this massive wicker basket for a while

Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom We have seen this song and dance before.

There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today.

I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand.

There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.

The White Horse's 'Caballo Blanco' drag show confronts Trump with defiance and celebration The White Horse, Oakland’s 91-year-old queer bar, is still a fierce site of resistance and celebration.

Oakland’s 91-year-old queer bar is still a site of resistance.

Pentagon wants counter-drone sensors to protect US infrastructure — and fast “The urgency of the threat” is prompting the Defense Innovation Unit to solicit products in time for a spring 2026 demonstration.

“The urgency of the threat” is prompting the Defense Innovation Unit to solicit products in time for a spring 2026 demonstration.

I remember this as being the worst cookie on earth.

Turned out great for the Yamamoto class. /s

Working 12am-8am effs up body and brain chemistry in ways that are hard to describe. It's beyond exhaustion.

Measles has a life-long negative effect not reported here. The virus destroys immune system "memory" to defend against previously encountered diseases.

Oak Titmouse with a crane fly in their beak, while perched on a branch, before delivering bug to nestlings.

Chestnut-backed Chickadee with caterpillars is perched on a branch, before delivering them to nestlings.

Female Western Bluebird sitting on top of a bird box with an insect in her beak. There is a nestling poking its head out of the box in anticipation.

These parents used our nesting boxes last season, so I had many opportunities to watch insect deliveries! 💚
#Birds&Bugs #BirdOfTheDay #Birds 📷

Holy shit.

Will be milk protein, which makes some people fart, or pea protein, which makes everyone fart.

This is one explanation for no one involved answering the question: "How exactly is AI going to make money?" Because the answer is "By coming up with new ways to rip you off."

AI making money at last!

you can’t possibly be a company that acknowledges ai is “alive” and then say you “own” the ai and use it for profit right