Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit

"Abolish ICE in your neighborhoods... but not in your coffee. America runs fascists out on Dunkin'"

(I know the world is burning down, and I'm mad as hell about all the same things you're mad about, but once in a while I want to post on-topic, ya know?

Plants and gardens are still worth talking about.)

Native plant sources - MAPN

Massachusetts Pollinator Network (MAPN) just put out a TERRIFIC list of #nativeplant nurseries and retailers in MA - location, contact info, what they carry, and their level of commitment to not using pesticides (esp neonics). 🌱🐝

I'll use it this year for purchases.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

When it clicks and the words start to flow, it feels like you're channeling something outside your own mind. Like some force much bigger than you has taken up temporary residence inside your words.

Also impeach the VP, because there seems to be plenty of impeachable material there too.

(Once we have control of the House and have chosen a worthy Speaker, anyway.)

YES that is my aesthetic

we talk about carcinization, but never about the many, many times plants have invented the “tree.”

Tree is not a kind of plant, it is a thing plats do, and they are by and large unrelated.

Aw man. Do you have any other rings similar to this one, maybe even in a 7? Love the setting in particular.

See, everybody loves blueberries! If you live in the eastern US, you can grow these keystone plants in your yard. Or even in containers.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to your feed.

It's so unusual!

I'll decline for now, but I might change my mind later today if no one else claims it. :-)

I have spent too much with you and am afraid to ask, but...?

Massachusetts for the win!

Seriously, this is a frighteningly high percentage of Americans that support Christian nationalism. How are we going to push it back in the coming years?

Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians SFF authors are the front-line practitioners who put the fruits of history’s craft into daily practice, sharing it in doses the public can consume, combining, treating, administering, customizing, …

My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title!

WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS
Yes, *all*
And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think...

I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!

...but yes, hummingbirds are hilariously pugnacious!

^ has never met an angry lovebird or conure, who totally give angry-chihuahua vibes PLUS they live with us and can direct their rage at our faces

Oh my God, they beat the Blizzard of '78.

Fortunately today's forecasts are a lot better, and this is putting much fewer people in danger!

And the rich shall be sent empty away, soon enough

(went to Evensong tonight)

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

I was thinking that too! The fireplace, the windows, the 17th-century vibe.

Oh. In that Atlantic essay that everyone went ballistic about because it wasn't literally true and didn't literally happen to the writer, this is how the fictional child dies of measles.

Terrifying.

Alysa Liu from overhead mid Biellman spin with the fabric on her gold sequined dress fanned out uniformly. Her head is tilted back, her eyes are closed, and she looks completely content

Then you’ll love this shot

Heads-up to MIT people. Building 39 is going to be demolished at some point soon.

I swear by Duluth's fleece-lined pants. Will fangirl over them any day. I think some of them are even on sale at the moment.

I got it, and I'm not sure how? But I'm excited? I've got three companion birds at home - one's green and one's yellow!

Eeeeeee

A woman in a silver blindfold, laurel wreath, and gray wings holds a silver sword labeled "JUSTICE IS COMING" in crooked black letters. Behind her is a gray sky and out-of-focus bare trees. The woman's face and long brown hair are the only saturated colors - everything else looks like a sepia-tone photo, or maybe a painting in gray watercolor.

Photo taken by John Flaherty at today's ICE protest in Burlington, MA. (It's not me. I just think it's a gorgeous photo.)

You're right, thank you.

Hey. Plant people. Got any creative, hands-on, not-been-done-yet ideas for sharing native plant info with the public? 🌱

You can apply for this grant to make it a reality!

Think I'll share this with our local nonprofits and advocacy groups. ARMI, Grow Native Mass, Win Fast Forest, EwA, ...

Oh come ON now, haven't you taken enough of my money??

Fantastic to see two older American athletes - both moms - win Olympic medals in monobob tonight! Also fantastic to see their kids up there with them.

Congratulations, Elana Meyers Taylor and Kaillie Humphreys.