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A handful of fresh-picked beans and cucumbers, resting on a garden glove.

Gardening is like a miracle.

(Doing my part to leaven a feed of mostly 'the world is burning' news, as we all still need to eat.)

Giant oak leaf hydrangea, covered in white and pink blooms.

A little Chatham county for you: this oak leaf hydrangea is bigger than my living room (with flowers the size of my thigh!):

This whole thing is NOT like Mom and Dad are fighting; this is like watching the gang that kidnapped you falling apart in front of you and realizing one of them will likely kill you, either in spite or accidentally by neglect.

Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like

Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

What THE ACTUAL FUCK??

Get your mouth OFF of liberation.

This will be an especially difficult year to tell the difference between fake bullshit and actual bullshit this April Fool's Day

Like you do.

So grateful for a new @scalzi.com novel read by @wilwheaton.net in the middle of all this crazy.

But I definitely just laughed so hard I snorted tea out my nose, 6 minutes into chapter 3 of the audio. SNORTED. It's not Octavia Butler level prescience, but it IS mighty timely.

But her emails.

A woman's legs in black and blue striped tights and short black boots, resting on a brown floral rug.

Today, I am a 57 year old overtired toddler.

In cute tights.

Literally the first album I bought with my own money. Played it in the house ONE time- in the trash and I was grounded.

One side of a field fence is an 8 pound Yorkie mix, the other side is 4 grown sheep. The dog is poised to pounce.

Standoff.

This is a great little guide for thinking about your role in the larger movement against tyranny and many of those roles' relationships with each other in RPG style:

survivethetyrant.infy.uk

Grocery prices are soaring.

Housing costs are skyrocketing.

Retirement savings are plummeting.

But Donald Trump thought today would be a good day to play car salesman.

Remembering Jimmie Lee Jackson.
Remembering Amelia Boyton. Remembering John Lewis.
Remembering Violet Liuzzo.
Remembering James Reeb.

Remembering Edmund Pettus. Remembering George Wallace.
Remembering the nameless AL troopers & cops.

Selma, 60 years ago today. Remembering, never returning.

BREAKING: Entire Human Race Flagged By DEI Purge Because of “Homo” in “Homo Sapiens”

Can't look at the news today without panicking.

Someone tell me gently when they take the axe to the Department of Ed?

An executive order is not a law.

Dismantling the Department of Education requires an act of Congress.

Rinse. Repeat.

As is my way, I will be giving up men for Lent again this year.

I love my personal tradition, 30 years and counting.

A truth from Trump that reads “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter”

If you’re a professor in a classroom today & you don’t mention this, I believe you’re doing your students a profound disservice. This is targeted 1st at international students, but it’s deliberately broad enough to lay groundwork for a scene Trump & Hegseth have fantasized: troops on campus.

I love this for you!

Here’s a cybertruck getting booed at Orpheus to brighten your Lundi Gras:

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form. ~ Dorothy Allison

Today I learned . . .

My grandma would be so PLEASED that I'm watching Matlock in my recliner on a Saturday night.

If your voice held no power, They wouldnt try to silence you

YouTube video by BETNetworks Kamala Harris Delivers Uplifting Message While Accepting Chairman’s Award | NAACP Image Awards '25

Period.

youtu.be/bnmKwxjMKgs