Elke Sisco (she/her) 🍉

An in-focus pink tulip in the foreground, two more tulips and several daisies out of focus in the background.

I like photographing flowers in portrait mode, getting the background nicely out of focus.

A live example of that thing I'm forever saying:

In a white supremacist patriarchy, you have value only insofar as you serve the white supremacist patriarchy.

White women's bodies & lives have value ONLY insofar as they serve the white supremacist patriarchy. (See: Ashli Babbitt & Renee Good.)

Closeup of a pale pink rose and several white and pink carnations.

These roses and carnations are so pretty.

A selfie, me wearing a blue and white brocade and silk hat with golden ribbons, bells and tassels.

The brocade and silk hat lying on a dark table.

Today is Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, the last day of carnival before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. I am wearing this fancy hat that belonged to my father, who was part of the local carnival company where I was born, in Tauberbischofsheim, Germany, back in the day

PS: I got the sticker here: www.etsy.com/listing/4449...

A MacBook Air covered in stickers.

I got a couple new stickers, including this California rebel quail. Do you like it?

Yes, I stuck it on top of the Apple logo. Not so fond of the fruit company lately.

Bill got me flowers for Valentine's Day, roses and carnations. I love carnations! They rhyme with my name. (A carnation in German is a Nelke.) So thoughtful.

On the heels of this post last night, I wrote about using the term "concentration camp" and why it matters.

Healthcare group urges RFK Jr to resign after remarks on cocaine and toilet seats President of Protect Our Care issues one-word statement to US health and human services secretary: ‘Resign’

Honestly, those are the only two subjects where I defer to his expertise

A bowl of salad on a brown side table. the salad includes chickpeas, farro, Persian cucumber, red bell pepper, pistachios, and mint.

I made another meal from my Rainbow Plant Life meal plans: a farro and chickpea salad with cucumber, bell pepper, pistachios, and mint. I think this recipe will go into rotation.

A freesia plant with three sets of yellow golden blossoms, above a brick patio.

These buttery golden freesias are doing their part to brighten up the backyard.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I like what Qasim Rashid said - nothing supreme or superior about white people, so he started calling it white narcissism.

Did you buy out their entire stock, lol? It’s on backorder now.

A triangle of many rose bushes, pruned back, with reddish-brown new leaves forming.

The San Jose Municipal Rose Garden in February.

A view down on a bucket full of about 10 bouquets of tulips in many colors.

I was tempted to buy the purple and/or orange tulips at Trader Joe's, but I still have carnations at home.

A bouquet of reddish-pink tulips, with the blossoms wide open.

The tulip blossoms, open at midday.

A bush with round red protea blossoms.

I don't know what this lovely red flame-like plant is called.

Lavender-colored erica.

I went to the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum& Botanic Garden today. They have several gardens representing biodiverse regions around the world - South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. I wonder if the bees and butterflies go, "Hey, let's get Australian food for lunch today. See you at the Arboretum!"

These ARE concentration camps. The question isn’t whether our country will have them. It’s for how long.

We must dismantle the camps. Then bring the perpetrators to justice. Then we must dismantle the systems that enable them. Then we must create systems and education to ensure they never do again.

A small bouquet of yellow daffodils in a slender glass vase, in front of a fireplace.

Daffodils are called "Osterglocken" in German, "easter bells." Isn't that lovely?

A small red brick building with a lighthouse tower, sitting on a grassy patch in front of the Pacific Ocean.

This is the lighthouse on West Cliff Drive that houses the Santa Cruz Surfing Museum.

Closeup of a bouquet of tulips, centering the inner workings of one of the blossoms.

Tulips are just awesome.

A selfie of me with a black cat on my lap.

This cat. the moment I sit down, she is on my lap.

This is not a complaint, au contraire.

We're three days into February and have shipped almost 80,000 whistles to all comers, across the US, for free, because we all keep us safe. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Johnson is such a self-righteous, pompous ass. (All the evangelical "Christians" are, to be clear.)

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

"Today the Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people."

www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Three red flowers in a line. They resemble poppies, and have black centers, a white ring around the center, and red petals.

My phone claims these are poppy anemones, also called Spanish marigold or windflower.

The ochre wall of a building, partially covered with a mural of a side street and building lining it, painted in red and orange.

This mural is at the corner of Willow and Lincoln in Willow Glen, on the building that houses Copita.

A closeup of white and dark red carnation blossoms.

I bought two bouquets of carnations at the farmers' market, one white and one a dark dark red.

A sign on a glass door reading: BALDWIN 100. "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the word, but then you read."

This is on the door at Kepler's Bookstore. (Baldwin's 100th birthday was in 2024.)