Lynn Persists

This quarter's all-hands meeting has been rescheduled and, for one glorious half hour, I thought I would miss it entirely.

What's a third cat when we already have two, she asks while remembering very well what having six was like. Six was An Experience.

So, so close to adopting another tuxie, but no, that would be madness. Madness. Don't get another cat. Don't.

Functional systems of organization and classification are hot.You want to seduce me? Tell me about how you would spend a weekend organizing and classifying my baking cupboard, complete with a series of color-coded charts for the inside of the cupboard door.

Do you have a bad brain? Label things, label all the things, label everything you think a normie would mock you for labeling, you will thank yourself later.

One will live in the home office, where I will never look at it, and the other will live in the kitchen, where everything requires a label.

Clearing out a bunch of junk before the Thanksgiving festivities and what do I find, but a SECOND Brother P-touch label maker?

Avocado toast at home means half an avocado per toast, the avocado is properly chunky, there's lashing of everything seasoning, and a good drizzle of lemon juice.

I am here for the queer Drew-Marple mashup. I don't care if it requires timey-wimey nonsense in order to have an ounce of credibility.

Hibiscus, ginger, strawberry, apple, rhubarb tisane to start the day.

The waning gibbous moon setting behind two agave stalks on San Ysidro Mountain just after sunrise today.

The waning gibbous moon setting behind two agave stalks on San Ysidro Mountain just after sunrise today (Photo: Sicco Rood).

Mapping Deportations – U.S. Immigration Control since 1790 Mapping deportations invites you to see the history of U.S. immigration enforcement not as a series of disconnected events, but as a pattern. For more than two centuries, U.S. immigration enforcement…

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A large chunk of deep-blue prismatic azurite crystals mixed with softer, velvety-looking malachite.

A large chunk of rose-red rhodocrosite, a manganese carbonate mineral. It looks not unlike a hunk of fresh raw beef.

A large hunk of yellow-orange wulfenite composed of many thin, flaky looking blades. Looks kind of like someone fused a bunch of cornflakes together.

Here are some pretty minerals from the Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Red is rhodochrosite, yellow-orange is wulfenite, deep blue is azurite with malachite (green). I cannot explain how badly I wished to lick one of these.

Wow, bunch of new followers! How weird, though, that some of you are skeeting and reskeeting the same skeets, in the same order, as each other. Almost as if you aren't quite people ....

A lampwork glass Monarda didyma (bee balm) botanical model on display in the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

A lampwork glass Rudbeckia (black-eyed-susan) botanical model on display in the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

A lampwork glass Lilium philadelphicum (wood lily) botanical model on display in the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. These grew wild in the waste land under the powerlines one year in my childhood.

Spent part of my birthday at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, gawking at the glass flowers in the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants. (Although, the Comparative Zoology’s selection of invertebrate models on display were in some ways more fascinating).

Yes, turkeys are cute and gourds are great, but bring back the cornucopia!

10 years ago, NASA's New Horizons captured this extraordinary view of the frozen plains and majestic mountains on the surface of Pluto…. 3.7 Billion Miles from home

NASA 😎💙😎

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!

(Langston Hughes)

Be the joy you want to see on the Internet, I guess.

There is this thing called the Internet and it is supposed to bring me joy, not shitposts and ennui.

The 19th-Century Entomologist Who Dreamed Up Daylight Savings The 19th-Century Entomologist Who Dreamed Up Daylight Savings: Hungry for more light to find insects, this scientist championed changing time

Ok, it *is* true that the idea of Daylight savings was invented by an entomologist that wanted more time to catch bugs, but I assure you few modern entomologists support it. nautil.us/the-19th-cen...

I hate the clocks going backwards and forwards. When I was young, we didn’t even have clocks. If we got hungry, we ate each other. We were poor, but we were happy. Good times. Not that we had time. It hadn’t been invented. We had to make our own time out of string and cholera.

The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.

A fragment of a Roman mosaic showing a portrait of a person. It's pretty naïve in style. The smile consists of just 4 white tesserae that give the impression of 4 big teeth.

Freddie Mercury from the early days. He's got a big broad smile which shows his prominent teeth.

To mark 50 years since the release of Bohemian Rhapsody, we're sharing this mosaic of Freddie Mercury.

🤦🤦🤦

who called it arson and not crime brûlée

Sure, sure, why shouldn't the wind make the lights flicker on Halloween?

Is this the year we'll bring back the cornucopia?

Looks similar to the purple fountain grass I have growing.