Elise

This is wild! Glad you didn't get your tires stolen!

California painter #ReginaJacobson earned her BFA and MFA in Painting from #LagunaCollegeofArtandDesign. Cult of Beauty, altarpiece. Triptych. 84 x 129”. Oil on canvas. 2013

A dog in a tie happily typing on a laptop while intense military combat takes place behind them.

Me, working on my little articles and book projects in February 2025:

In this last month I have made the mental transition from "air travel is very safe" to "at least it would be a relatively quick way to go"

I’m catastrophizing hard tonight. Normal strategies aren’t working. Suggestions, folks?

A white South African taking over the world's foremost imperial superpower through installing 19 year old Zoomer fuck boys nicknamed "Big Balls" in charge of Social Security systems is some sort of cosmic justice for the US.

Pioneering physicist Shirley Ann Jackson '68 PhD '73. She was the first black woman to earn a doctorate from MIT and was featured in Ebony magazine in 1974.

"I do not weep at the world - I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife" ~ Zora Neale Hurston

#BlackHistoryMonth

ME: *sits at desk and works* Just focus. Just focus. Don't look around. Do NOT look around.

THE NEWS:

It really is.

They really are. And they are stomping hard on all of us.

Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.

A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

if you’re hating current events rn break some bread with betty white: a thread

Thread. Not gonna lie, that teared me up.

God bless her and her courage.

Line graph time series showing global land surface temperatures (90°S to 90°N) in a red line and global mean (land+ocean) surface temperatures (90°S to 90°N) in a blue line. Temperatures are averaged annually from 1900 through 2024. Linear least squares trends are also shown from 1990 to 2024. The land is warming faster than the global mean.

An updated look (through 2024) at how much faster the land is warming (where we live) - this point can be obscured in the standard global mean temperature plots... 🧪⚒️

+ Data from NASA GISTEMPv4: data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
+ Download graphic at: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

We have a socialist solution:
This is what libraries are for. This is what libraries are for. This is what libraries are for. This is what libraries are for. This is what libraries are for. This is what libraries are for. This is what libraries are for. This is what libraries are for.

Sometimes sandwiches are unruly and hands are weird. I get it.

Proof that nothing is all bad. I would like better proof like universal, quality healthcare, but whatevs.

Ha! I need to remember more to use it.

My dog wandered into my room in order to lead me back to his chair and look pointedly at the heading pad control. What a dog.

“You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.”

― Dr. Norman Ernest Borlaug

"First, forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.”

~ Octavia Butler

A reminder to myself as I move into a new season of writing ✍️🏾

It’s just a lovely day on campus!

Yes we can and it’s so disappointing.

I am like, 73% stuffing.

I found myself thinking this way shortly after the election, and have recognized that it’s the same sort of meanness that is behind the whole magat movement infecting my thoughts. It’s so easy to be caught up in it.

Young tan and black tabby cat with green eyes and a chipped ear indicative of a neutered feral cat in a goofy spider shaped pet bed.

Everything is hot, stinky garbage, but this silly creature decided to come back after a month and a half, so maybe it's not all bad.

photo of a steller's jay standing on an diagonal (upper left to lower right) mossy oak branch. their back is to the camera and their head is turned to the left in profile.

#FromTheArchives '14

I titled this one "Perfect Pose" in my pics folder.

I was not wrong.

Steller's Jay #birds #becurious 🪶