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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

I keep screaming about this. My book group now realizes that the problem with poorly written books, is often the lack of a great editor. As AI (poorly) substitutes for real editing, it’s hard to read anything without mentally correcting all the errors.

Great horned owl looking down at me from a mossy branch. #staredown #birdoftheday #nature #photography #owls #PNW #birds

Up here, they hibernate when it’s below 43 outside. One winter,
I picked up a flowerpot, and a frog beneath seemed to be made of rubber, but was actually asleep. He warmed up in my hand and woke up! If froggy bugs you, buy him a bus ticket up here. 🐸

First, the original (true?) Christmas cactus is a hybrid. It's a cross of Schlumbergera russelliana and Schlumbergera truncata. It has the official hybrid name of S. x buckleyi (synonym: S. bridgesii). Several newer hybrids involving S. closely related species have been created and they all now fall into what is called the "Buckleyi Group." Second, Thanksgiving Cactus is the species Schlumbergera truncata (yes, the same one that was used in creating the Christmas cactus). Third, the Easter Cactus is Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri. It's different in many ways with clearly distinct flowers and foliage and especially in the bloom time. Its flowers are filly starlike. The T and C are tubular and splayed. The flowers and foliage of the Christmas and Thanksgiving Cacti are close enough that they are often confused. Their differences are detailed in illustration. But morphological characteristics aside, it's the bloom time that often gets muddled. Thanksgiving cactus generally blooms around Thanksgiving, give or take. Care, a big factor here, can alter that timeline. Playing with light and watering schedule are the biggest influences and they can change the bloom schedule by up to three weeks one way or another (more if you have a greenhouse with substantial lighting equipment). Christmas cactus blooms around Christmas. With a big give or take. It's a hybrid to begin with and that makes any seed-grown progeny variable. Add in the many new hybrids and you have a wide range of possible bloom times. Such potential bloom times are generally controlled, however, by the greenhouse growers who produce them for sale at the appropriate holiday time. Even the Thanksgiving cactus can be tweaked to bloom at near Christmas time and sold as a Christmas cactus. Once you get it home and grow it into a second year, it'll revert to its expected time.

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Plenty of indoor gardeners are now wondering why their Christmas cactus is blooming so early. It's a little complicated.

In addition to the annotated photo below, I've included detailed points in the ALT text.

Thanksgiving cactus (?) starting bloom about 3 weeks after watering resumed. Big ridiculous brilliant red flowers erupting from segmented green spiky leaves

May be…Christmas cactus? Leaves less spiky, medium pink color flowers on long green arching segmented leaves. Dim up on top of rack incorner if room.

2/2 to indirect light, done food and start watering it, it’ll bloom in about 3 weeks.
Really nice post, thanks! And couldn’t see last few sentences…and I do mainly outdoor gardening since I often neglect indoor plants, unless they’re starts for the garden.

1/2 Have both Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti. To further confuse everything, mine are often neglected, erratically watered, moved around to brighter or fuller light etc., so they may have a couple bloom cycles during the winter. If I bring Christmas cactus away from forgotten purgatory

How weird and amazing, never seen this before. Gardening really sharpens your attention, doesn’t it?

BTW Been enjoying the Cavern Sessions on passport (PBS streaming), a garden feed here, and looking up! (try it, just not at the sun!). Today, a pair of bald eagles were flying lazy circles way above a parking lot, and we kept pointing it out to people, who were all delighted to spot them too. 🦅🦅

This is the least that people can do for each other, and everyone needs to do this for a bit every day.
And then perhaps reach for a coloring book, watch a comedy, listen to some favorite music.

Good news: I had an update from Duck Duck Go, and it let me turn off a slew of AI crap and other annoying garbage myself! Let’s see more of this, instead of constantly turning things back on after we say no…

Facts

Brian is one of the most thoughtful people out there talking about one of the biggest issues in our nation. His book is a must read. And he is a must watch human. See @brian-goldstone.bsky.social tomorrow.

Yes, the all important technique: interrupt the person hogging the floor to say, “Jim we need to get to others’ questions. Sandra, you have a question?“

If COVID had made everyone stink instead of air dangerous, every school would’ve fixed this by 2021.

Emotional support trunkfish to the rescue 🤗⛑️👜🐟 #spottedtrunkfish #trunkfish #swimminghandbag #emotionalsupportanimal #cutiepie #fishkiss #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

I can’t decide if Microsoft is now causing migraines or Microsoft IS a migraine 🤕

"In The Colours Of A Rainbow?"
Sibbald Pond West of Calgary 20251113T0130Z
Rarely does one capture such a variety of colours in the aurora, the Rayed Arc "Curtain", filled the Western horizon for an hour, there was no real activity in the East.

Ankle ice pack that is like a heavy, thick black open-toe sock, for 10-15 minutes of ice treatment

Not kick a$$ but kick ice…sprained an ankle and this slip on sock full of gel that goes in the freezer is “ahhhhhhh”

This us in addition to “someone” shooting a dart through another window recently? 🥳

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton We Have AI Now

Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

Good to see some brave former NIH senior staff members & grantees speaking out in this excellent article by @cohenjon.bsky.social

I salute you all for that!

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First human case of H5N1 bird flu reported in Washington State. The patient has no exposure to cattle, likely contracted from birds or possibly infected milk. Very unwell, currently admitted, organ support not reported. The clade will be critical. No evidence of H2H spread at this stage.

@richardhirschson.bsky.social

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Auras have worked for me x 5 years

Gorgeous creature

Hope kids were nowhere nearby to see this…and want to wreck a window themselves!

It’s the print/slide/negative scanner shuffle…my cohort has so many pics in so many formats, some get lost in translation, trying to preserve them. Numbering system in scanner program goes only to 10K, so I probably overrate them. Sigh.

No disparagement to Dr. Gottleib or others highlighting this, but what autoimmune disease ISN’T triggered by Epstein-Barr? If men developed autoimmune disease as frequently as women, we would already have an EB virus vax. #autoimmunedisease #lupus #multiplesclerosis

Wowed, so far beyond “plain“ gardening!