Erin

“Empires preserve their power with the stories they tell. But just as critical are the stories they don’t…The pages they tear out.” David Grann in The Wager.

Here’s hoping history repeats itself and trump drops dead too!

The screen time controls on Apple products are SO SO SooooOoo BAD. If they don’t fix it soon, I’m moving to Kindle with no regrets.

Correct.

To be fair: nobody (sane) wants Kash AT an active crime scene.

The bee is covered in the pollen of a pink Rose of Sharon flower.

As a further timeline cleanse for you, please enjoy this pollen-swaddled bee I photographed when I was in Portland over the weekend.

I have left countless things on my roof and driven away. Countless.

This shit is too bleak. It breaks my heart. Going back to prioritizing my mental health and local activism.

It’s pretty brutal. Welcome to solid foods! 😄

Alas, living in a desert is not conducive to blueberry bush growing so no. I have been up your way-ish and gone picking. It was amazing. I gave myself a tummy ache. 😆

As a S. Californian who adores blueberries and canNOT grow them, this photo makes me sooo jealous. 😄

This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.

THREE blocks, damn.

Cabral though!!

Franz Ferdinand feat. Peter Capaldi - Take Me Out

Each and every headline is worse than the last. It’s heartbreaking and awful and depressing. I’ll focus on local stuff I can affect. But I’m otherwise out for now.

Vance is here to grab content he can post on X, using your replies. Starve the beast.

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.

I pass by this sign every day at work. And I feel it with my whole heart and soul.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.)

Sen Andy Kim (D-N.J.) Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.)

Anyway, congrats to the seven Democrats who voted to confirm Kristi Noem earlier this year

I’m not catholic, far from it. But I’m going to attend too.

Same.

One of my all time favorite. I can eat it by the gallon. (Pound? Vat?whatever.)

I am so proud of my fellow San Diegans. And will NOT hesitate to do the same if ICE pulls this bullshit in my vicinity.

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It’s very tasty slop!

Why isn’t Alan Tudyk in more things. He should be in SO much more.

Federal prosecutors in Chicago have an 86th birthday present for Tom Girardi:

They're letting him get away with stealing from the families of the Lion Air plane crash victims.

Motion to dismiss filed today. His CFO and son-in-law still will go to trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We have one too!