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Small green seed starting container sitting on a gridded cutting mat; labels note the start date of Mar 1 for each pepper: Serrano, Purple Cayenne, Chilhuacle Amarillo, NuMex Suave Red Habanero

Small green seed starting container sitting on a gridded cutting mat; labels note the start date of Mar 1 for each pepper: NuMex Heritage Big Jim, Yellow Caribbean Habanero, Scotch Bonnet Red, Chile de Árbol

Small green seed starting container sitting on a gridded cutting mat; labels note the start date of Mar 1 for each pepper: Jalapeño Orange Spice, Lemon Drop, Fish Pepper, Jalapeño M

Small green seed starting container sitting on a gridded cutting mat; labels note the start date of Mar 1 for each pepper: Seven Pot Chocolate, Bhut Jolokia Chocolate, Serrano Tampiqueño, Trinidad Scorpion Yellow

Growing season three months out? Time to get out the spicy pepper seeds because peppers take their sweet time getting started.

Seed trays currently sitting on a heating pad which itself sits on a chunk of rigid foam board insulation.

Underneath a desk, to be safe.

Foreground: upside down close up of a grey cats face, copper colored eyes wide open; background: a grey claw grasping a human leg at the end of which is an obstructed view of a black boot.

Caturday: POV, looking down at my lap while trying to put on chore shoes this morning.

A set of small green leaves sprouting from a few very short vine stubs sticking out of some dirt in a ceramic pot.

The rau răm clone I’m making for our also-culinary-oriented neighbors is coming along.

It’s a layered cutting, so that took some of the stress off, but it’s nice to see it thriving in its own container.

Illegal War

Grey cat lounging and smooshing his head against a rainbow-mottled multi-color rug as he holds a small rainbow catnip toy.

Indeed.

WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine are monitoring the U.S. operation in Iran from President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where Trump is currently located, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Jesus Christ they're running the war from Mar-a-Lago

www.reuters.com/world/us/top...

Lionel Hutz from the simpsons editing a business card which reads "PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST - NO MORE FOREVER WAR" to read "PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST? NO, MORE FOREVER WAR"

Up and down a park avenue, IIRC.

Exclusion America, formerly Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts, announces its new “White American Race - Camping Recreation Into Military Enlistment” pipeline program with the Department of War. Secretary Hegseth raised a glass in support of the new WAR-CRIME scouts initiative.

Still salty. S.L.U.T. forever.

“It’s a streetcar!” powered by overhead electrical lines, aka trolley poles, which makes it a…

And TBF, their metro didn’t bowdlerize the official name.

Glossy, bright green baby leaves on bright green shoots between dark green leaves on a branch, against a mottled white tile backsplash. It stems from a plant in a ceramic pot topped with leca balls.

My potted (grafted) makrut lime bush has noticed the slightly longer days to begin new leaves.

Bonus: because Sociable Cider Werks is part of the Bar Crawl for Mutual Aid organized by Keep Us Housed, $1 from each pint purchased 1-6pm will be donated to Lights On, Homes Warm to help pay utility bills.

Saturday at Sociable Cider Werks 4-9pm for a Makers and Bakers Market with a screen printing pop-up from Owl's Eye Art Collective. Bring your own cotton item to print Suggested $15 donation for rent relief

Saturday Feb 28 at Sociable Cider Werks
4-9pm : Makers and Bakers Market with a screen printing pop-up from Owl's Eye Art Collective

Proceeds will go to the Wilson Foundation's rent relief fund and directly to families in need

Also: collecting supplies for Twin Cities Food Justice

The wheezy swoletariat.

"If you're born at the bottom you KNOW it's a joke" says Girl. "No one deserves to be born at the bottom." "You roll the dice," says Cat. "If you're born at the top you should KNOW it's a joke - no one deserves to be born at the top," says Girl. "You take your chances" says Cat. "If you're born in the middle," Girl says, "you might not get the joke - you might think that everyone starts in the middle." "Chutes and - " says Cat. "And spend your life," continues Girl, "looking for a ladder that doesn't exist." "-all chutes" says Cat. "Shoot. What's the joke?" "The Meritocrats!" sings Girl.

Jokes we tell

YouTube video by Neil Cicierega Bustin

Cue: youtu.be/0tdyU_gW6WE

And what this means for your portfolio!

After every couple books I come away with “I feel like the author has recognized/learned some things”.

I’ll be listening to book fifteen while cycling.

Map of Mexico of cartel territories as of 2024 with color key in the lower left hand corner, via https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/p/mexicos-drug-cartels-are-not-competitors based on data from https://www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexicos-cartel-map-2024

2024 map approximating impacted zones in blue.

I initially thought that the Mexican Jewish community was having a representation moment in cartel leadership.

You do with a round, which this kinda is.

BUT, it’s more about community taking a cathartic thwack at the log segment; I brought my splitting axe, not my wedge-n-sledge kit to join in the nominal “splitting”. Also in attendance, and of amusement value, folks on stage with hatchets.

SAVE MONEY: if you find yourself picking out tooth chunks, use the term “cheap flights to mexico” when picking out a dentist!

This is taking me back.

Noted.

Let’s check the roster for candidates: teamusa.usahockey.com/2026olympicw...

Anyone but Amy.

That seems like a big energy expenditure; I think we can accomplish similar results with a circus cannon and a volcano.

Tap into renewables, ya know. Get that geothermal working for society.

A coil of red, yellow, and blue ribbon cable running from a top view of a light blue bicycle fork as the ribbon and a bronze colored brake cable come up in front of light blue bicycle’s headtube. The top of the ribbon cable terminates in clear heat shrink before it moves to light blue heat shrink; the bottom of the ribbon cable is obfuscated by the bicycle fork.

And I got to use fun colors for the cable run: