Erika

They’re nostalgic for SkiFree?

Talked to my (old, not hip, historically neoliberal) mom and she was raving about how much she enjoyed Bad Bunny’s halftime show, AND she brought up the power lines! We love to see it.

I wasn’t clear on the utility of the discussion.

Perhaps because they’re perfectly aware that a even a single Covid infection could be career-ending?

I've been to about two-thirds of them. But interestingly, also never Sierra Azul! Once I'd moved over to Oakland I ended up spending my time in the East Bay parks...and now if I come back to CA (it's been years) I just end up going to an old favorite instead like El Corte de Madera.

Something that gives me great pleasure is that my battered copy of the MidPen guidebook to the trails has Umunhum as not open with question marks about if that can be achieved, and now it’s open. Love it.

I would have preferred that zero, but this will do.

😊

The Moonstone Covenant - Jill Hammer. Classic-style fantasy novel set in a city of river-islands with four women mains who are all married to each other, some good old fashioned place intrigue, and an interesting magic system.

Like seriously, rewatch the Ring ad. It's worth outlawing and then breaking up Amazon. This is surveillance state technology the worst authoritarian dictatorships of the past always dreamed of.

Absolutely infuriating. How does that space stay so so backward after all this time.

When I have decided to be a lifetime hater, the commitment is TOTAL. 😈

he said god bless america and my heart did a reflexive anxious skip and THEN the feeling of relief and happiness when he started naming countries, omg.

It actually made me nauseated. I'm not joking. That was fucking disgusting.

Specificity breeds art

I am watching the halftime show, however. 🙌

The only thing I want from the Superbowl is for the Pats to lose, and lose bad. I want coworkers crying in the office tomorrow.

[photo of a pottery bowl with the stylized face of an owl] Columbia River region, Washington or Oregon Owl Effigy Bowl, Pre-contact

Guys, guys—I found a Superb Owl that is also a Super Bowl!!!

I made brownies in a round pan yesterday. Weird. Eating them like slices of pie. Broundies.

I had the same reaction 😅📚

Thanks for making! Skunk cabbage is a familiar friend to me in the wetlands here in New England and is a worthy ally in the fight. <3

A sticker with an opening skunk cabbage bloom, surrounded by melting nice and the words below it, we can melt ICE.

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Media Spotlight article in Groundwater journal. Underground hydromusicology: subjective interpretations of groundwater-inspired electronic music.

My first job was DJing, starting in high school and occasionally into my 20s. Years later, I found electronic music tracks called “Groundwater.” That curiosity has now become a Media Spotlight article in Groundwater journal. In press.

When I was in my 20s Boston had multiple alt weeklies. Feels hard to believe now how good we had it and how easy it was to go out.

The Trona sheet covers very southern DV, southern Panamint, the Avawatz, Searles Valley, etc.

Geofriends! Do you want my full size printed copies of the 1:250,000 Trona sheet, both the geological and the topographic maps? Geo also comes with unit sheet. They are the perfect size for magneting to a vehicle. They’ve been to the field so the edges are ragged but the maps area is in great shape.

I'm enjoying a good old fashioned non-celebrity Weiner Scandal™ haha.

My condolences. So so sorry to hear! 💔 but wow, to die with happy words on your lips…I am glad for her that she had that.

Nashville is furious about power outages. Republicans say ‘woke’ is to blame. As Nashville’s utility company struggled to recover from a catastrophic ice storm and its Democratic mayor ordered a review, some conservatives attacked diversity training.

1. deregulate everything and destroy all regulators so nothing functions in the public interest under the pretense this "aids innovation" and "empowers entrepreneurs"

2. blame poor people and minorities when nothing works

Hate crime. Not even sure against who but hate was involved.