Washi Waxwing

Made it into the bean club. 🎊

In honor of the arctic air blast that is heading this way, harvested some blueberry basil (smells like blueberries) and used some Meyer lemon juice to make a lemonade. BEST LEMONADE EVER. I'm going to have to go out with a flashlight to harvest all the remaining blueberry basil before it's too late.

OMG, there's going to be a Goonies Lego set...! I feel like that movie IS my childhood. Watching the video with a reveal of who is playing with it at the end made me emotional.

Helena Moreno's campaign playing Barry White as she comes out for her acceptance speech as the next mayor of New Orleans.

Excellent.

Covid & flu vaccines now available in New Orleans without prescription. Contact Nola.gov/vaccines or Walgreens.com/schedulevaccine

New Orleans vaccine update from the health department

A key moment in growing fruit & nut trees: you've done it long enough that you have a list you'd like to cut out this winter

you're making my life WORSE we are BREAKING UP

Amen

Twenty Years After the Storm What home meant before, and after, Hurricane Katrina

20 years ago this month, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. For so many New Orleanians, our lives are demarcated by this moment. If someone ask you about an event or memory from the past, we say “was it before or after the storm?” On this twentieth anniversary, I wrote about going back home.

This is why Charlottesville melted down its Lee statue. If the statue is removed and simply put in storage, it remains what @artcrimeprof.bsky.social calls “America’s strategic racism reserve.”

I miss when republics declined because of lead pipes or something. instead my culture got digital access to the entirety of human knowledge and went immediately insane

I wish there was delulu hive on this site. Red horse? Act iii: Revolution? Black hair? The Betty Black Tour? Secret Act iv?

Shoot it straight into my veins.

It is very cooling, on this hottest of evenings, to look back at pictures of New Orleans covered in snow. That was only six months ago.

I have been waiting for them!

I kept bringing the picture up because something was off and now I know what it was

I don't like to speak badly of people. I have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face. -Andre the Giant

This thunderstorm is so intense, if I could I would crawl under the sofa with my cat.

Every time I read about Malcolm-Jamal Warner I start crying.

how about we talk about it as "scam friction" so we can ground it in @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's description of "scam culture"

🎵 when the app scans your eye just to order a pie
that's scam friction

when you have to pay little fees through the day
that's scam friction

I really thought I had lots of time to do all the things before I go on a little trip but then the email letting me know the Sinners dvd is arriving TOMORROW came through and well...

As someone who lived in New Orleans during the thing you call Katrina, I’m here to say that the time to politicize governmental failure in a tragedy is when anyone is still paying attention.

Plaza Tower sold, will be redeveloped into senior living facility Sources tell WDSU that the building was purchased by two developers, Brian Gibbs, and Lincoln Avenue Capital.

Ohhhh, so we're not going to die outside Plaza Tower.
We're going to die in it.

www.wdsu.com/article/new-...

Plaza Tower under sales contract with $250M plan to convert to affordable senior residences A California-based developer plans to turn the 45-story abandoned skyscraper into affordable senior housing.

Senior residences in a 45 story building in our city with utility companies that routinely have difficulty providing water and electricity... what could go wrong?

www.nola.com/news/busines...

I don't think I'm going to be able to do all the 20th Anniversary of the storm media consumption.

It's also a good way to survive a climate disaster

There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems

I hope she never gets in that car again. That was terrifying.

She's okay!

Watching this live stream of Beyonce and oh my god the car was tipping and they have had to put her down in the crowd...!

Photo of a former parking lot with plants growing up through the asphalt

They paved paradise,
Put up a parking lot.
Paradise said: That hurt, but let me tell you about geologic time