Kaweah Lake, in central California with red pillars of light over the mountain range from the aurora borealis.

A little bit of excitement from last night. The northern lights very rarely ever make it down into central California. Had to go out and see what I could capture.

#aurora #photography #landscape #art #bluesky #california #canon

The reporting is a little sparse here, but it suggests the lecturer was removed because a student complained to one of her US Senators, who then leaned on IU.

Central Florida soup kitchen faces eviction after church raises rent, cuts operation hours The Wildwood Soup Kitchen has operated in the church's fellowship hall for decades, but it's now ending as volunteers say they were told to pay more or get out.

I guess if you are going to do awful things, now is the time while all things terrible are happening www.wesh.com/article/cent...

Reposting this…for reasons.

They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.

In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”

And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

This is all a girl can hope for.

Me, I’m the girl.

Thank you, Deborah.

Gonna be a whole lot of brand new socialists after that first premium payment

They should not have fucked over all of our federal employees and hurt so many people for literally nothing.

I told my Senators that the message Senate Dems are sending is that if we vote for Democrats resoundingly in an election, they’ll promptly fold.

Is this what they want us to take from this?

I'm real real close to feeling like we can't ever know who these 8 took the fall for, so maybe we should just throw them all out and start from scratch.

i don’t play pundit and try to guess how stuff will play to voters whose politics generally make no sense to me, but if ending the shutdown was about the important business of getting SNAP benefits and air travel back online, it also rewards hostage taking in a way that seems pretty ominous to me

My heart 💓💓💓

It is so upsetting!!!

Democrats ran the table on Tuesday at state and local levels, getting not just its base excited but “normies” fed up over the last 10mo, so of course national Democrats want to do everything to pop the air in the balloon.

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

The ACA made my whole self-employed life possible. For almost ten years, I was able to build a career that actually worked for me AND keep receiving necessary care to address the consequences of childhood medical neglect. And I still deserved better. We all do.

Smoke show!!! 😻

Would meme

The Democratic caucus trying to stop Chuck Schumer from agreeing to a CR with a nationwide abortion ban attached

😂

Truth. And sometimes I choose myself. And sometimes others. But acknowledging it as a choice and coping with consequences of said choice is the game changer.

A final fuck off to James Watson and to every news source who’s naming him as one of two co-discoverers of DNA structure without mentioning Rosalind Franklin. 🖕

I wasn’t able to opt out of a photo/image on a flight recently at the airport. Being able to take our biometrics without our consent is also part of this slop of ugly gross tech. I hate it!

When I made a big move I put all the things I wasn’t taking with me on offer ONLY… I let all my friends and family know to come over and take what they wanted, leave the rest. The rest I donated or junked.

did somebody already do this one

Come for the call-out of the NYT, stay for the drubbing of a whitepaper as an "unscholarly corporate-sponsored piece of risible chaff."

Keep track of the victories when they come

The rich have shamed poor people into silence to such an extent that almost no one knows how absolutely crushing it is to be poor in this country.

This has been bringing me joy for three days now.

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Vibe Check is the best thing every week (now twice a week!) but this episode in particular is the very best because @theferocity.bsky.social and @zachstafford.bsky.social kindly answered one of my questions and said outrageously nice things about me 🥺