Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit

Have you only just started watching it?

Oooh, you're going to have so much fun! Jealous!

Aw, dammit. Thanks for raising the issue.

All of it is still useful because it shaped how I think, act, and just exist in the world. Even when one might reasonably consider it a vocational education. In fact, my anthropology, design, and psych/cogsci classes might have had the longest useful life across my multiple careers!

Got my CS degree at MIT in the distant past. Still use it, even though I don't even work in CS now, because I learned:

* How to think precisely and logically
* How to debug anything
* That I can learn HARD THINGS with enough patience and intensity of focus
* To ground actions in facts, not hubris

Seriously, man

SAD can go suck it. I'm going to literally sit in a sunbeam right now.

YES! This is my true turning of the year - the afternoons get longer from here out.

This "sun sets at 4:00" nonsense is one of the things I dislike most about living at this latitude.

It really is one of the best animated Disney films. My AMAB kid adored it growing up, and we saw it and heard that soundtrack so many times that it will now be a comfort film for all of us, forever.

A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that. @yaboyni Take a moment And and realize the moment You took has already passed Thank you See you next time

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Full moon has just barely emerged from over the horizon. It's banded by light clouds. A dark brown tree-filled landscape spreads out beneath it, with a lit playing field in the foreground, and the sky behind it is dark blue-gray.

Moonrise over the suburbs of #Boston tonight.

Man, I love how a drone can get you up over the rooftops and trees for shots like this!

I write this stuff, and yeah, it's such a fascinating (if morbid) exercise for the imagination.

Orange groves in Georgia.

New Orleans as an island.

Neighborboods cut with drainage ditches to keep downpours from instantly flooding houses.

OBX and Cape Cod = diving destinations.

Talkative African grey parrots are charismatic internet stars. @wire-wildlife.bsky.social journalist Rene Ebersole investigated the global scramble to source and sell the birds, which is threatening their survival.

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I believe you all, and it's 100% a disaster in the making. But my kid is an undergrad at UVM, and we had conversations over the holiday about Jes's thread. Kid says they DO NOT see this apathy in their classes or peer group right now. (Thank goodness!)

Widening the gap between educated and... not?

A calligraphy piece made up of Hebrew and English writing of varying sizes and styles. It is black on a cream background. The image forms flt shapes that resemble a shofar blasting out the texts relevant to resisting ICE and DHS.

1. Yellow rectangle - Title/Topic of the daph 2. Teal section - Beware the government authorities (Pirkei Avot 1:10; Bartenura on Avot) 3. Dark red section - On the necessity of loud protest (Mishneh Torah – Fasts, 1:1; Shabbat 54b and 119b; Sanhedrin 20a) 4. Green circular section - Imperative calls for justice (Deuteronomy 16:20; Pirkei Avot 1:14) 5. Orange section - Torah directives for caring for the stranger and resisting unjust action against them (Exodus 1:17, 23:2 and 23:9; Leviticus 19:33; Numbers 35:11; Deuteronomy 23:16) 6. Purple section - On one’s relationship to the community (Pirkei Avot 1:7 and 2:4; Bartenura on Avot; Taanit 11a) 7. Navy blue section - The importance of rescuing the downtrodden at the expense of the wicked (Mishneh Torah – Gifts to the Poor, 8:10; Gittin 61a; Proverbs 11:10, 24:11, and 31:8) 8. Yellow bottom section - There is a season for everything (Ecclesiastes 3) 9. Orange edge - Rashi-style explanation for the acronyms “ICE” and “DHS” 10. Dark teal edge - The importance of action over thought (Avot of R’ Natan 8:5) 11. dark red edge - My Hebrew signature and the date

New calligraphic work: "On Resisting ICE and the DHS"

This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.

Yeah, it's weird watching those straight flyway lines - with so many overlapping planes! They're separated by more actual space than it appears, of course, but still.

CHO Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (CHO/KCHO) - FlightAware Charlottesville-Albemarle, Charlottesville, VA (CHO/KCHO) flight tracking (arrivals, departures, en route, and scheduled flights) and airport status.

This is from FlightAware: www.flightaware.com/live/airport...

Your airspace is crowded today! Looks like normal commercial flights, for the most part.

When it gets really cold bluebirds roost together in a pile using collective body heat to help them survive. They arrange themselves so they don’t smother & alternate positions within the pile. Photo by Wildlife Rehabilitators of North Carolina (WRNC). Thank you Van Harris for sharing this. 🐦 #birds

#Boston skyline this evening, with Route 2 and Spy Pond in the foreground. Gorgeous clear sky.

We found that a smoked-salmon appetizer and a light chowder (of some kind of white fish, usually, or maybe clam) added two fishes to the total without too much stress or overeating.

When my kid was very little we used Goldfish crackers as one of the seven.

That's secret, secret

Dale Partridge on Twitter writes: "Feminist media is BIG mad about me saying that women shouldn’t wear underwear (leggings and sports bras) as outerwear. As Pearl says, “It’s amazing how hard women will fight to be naked.” Immodest ladies, read 1 Tim. 2:9, repent, and follow Christ." Attached are two images. Image 1 headline: “Outraged pastor slams worker at quaint coffee shop for wearing ‘sinful’ leggings and sports bra in front of kids” Image 2 headline: “‘Make sin shameful again’: Pastor sparks row after sports bra complaint”

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

This explains why I remember Air Supply’s “Making Love out of Nothing At All” as being a sister song to “Total Eclipse”, doesn’t it?

Yeah. Halloween candy prices (almost all chocolate-based bars cause that’s how we roll at our house) had me raging in the aisles at Walgreens. It’s very expensive right now.

Ohhh. Heck of a zoom lens you got there.

Send up a cheap drone and cut off a few stems? I don’t know!

Or just knock 'em down with a long stick? 😂

From Flora Novae Angliae. Get yer calipers:

Solanum americanum is my only-slightly-less-off-the-cuff guess.

First impression is giving Solanaceae, yeah.

Don't think I've seen this one before!

This literally makes me want to vomit.

I'm so sorry, Karen.