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Candles from ctoanco.com

A blue table. A tan cloth with two thin blue stripes. A lit reddish candle on a white holder. A yellow candle, unburned. Both are shaped like normal women's bodies. In the back, a chicken, a colorful flower pot, an empty jar candle.

Part of the reason we want to try living here is that we are tired of pretending that the individualism we prize in America means much more than selfishness.

Two small birds enjoy nuts and seeds in a hanging bird feeder. Behind the feeder, frosty grass and a white, sleet-covered road are visible.

Glad I was able to fill the feeders and clean and refill the heated birdbath before the sleet started yesterday.

Close up of a small red and beige with speckles house finch sitting on the metal top of a bird feeder.

Little house finch #birds

An Eastern bluebird - blue head, red chest, white stomach - clings to a green mesh bird feeder

Eastern bluebird #birds

Lengthy dream about the apocalypse last night. Read into that as you will.

Yellow clivia or bush lily flowers

Clivia #longwoodgardens #plants 🌱

purple and white virginia waterleaf flowers surrounded by various green leaves

Google says it's Eastern Waterleaf ... #LongwoodGardens #plants 🌱

columns of pink snapdragons and green plants.

#Longwood photos continue! Huge pink snapdragons. 🌱#flowers

A white-breasted nuthatch hangs on a round wire bird feeder.

Switched out to a different seed mix and being visited by so many new #birds!

Part 2:

A fat gray cat sleeps on a gray couch.

Sleepy #caturday

Red and light yellow poinsettias are surrounded by green ferns. Branches holding bright red holly berries hang across.

Today's #LongwoodGardens 🌱photo

Multiple 'Aphrodite' amaryllis flowers, white with pale pink at the edges

Visited #LongwoodGardens 🌱over the holidays. Here's some 'Aphrodite' amaryllis.

Butter sculpture Christmas tree on a white plate, on a red and green plaid tablecloth

The corner of a brown chair. Cream curtains with a gray and green plant pattern. Purple wall. Little gray cat nose peeks out from behind the curtain.

#cats #catsofbluesky

In unexpected things I did this morning: vibe coded a Chrome extension that looks for target keywords in image alt-text and blocks images that I don't want. Shockingly easy.

Cupcake-sized blueberry pie with streusel crumble on a light blue plate with red flowers

Mini blueberry pie

I'm looking forward to it!

I place my hand in the most dangerous of places... A fuzzy and soft kitty tummy. The chubby gray cat stretches out on a gray couch, paws in the air, offering his soft tummy for pets as the trap. Sharp teeth and bunny kicks await.

Kitty tummy

Resources: Radical Safety Which Federal Agents Are in Your Community? North Carolina National Lawyers Guild (for allies and organizers primarily not for immigration legal support) NC NLG is monitoring their Arrest Hotline (as of 11/18/25): 919-627-7483. (Not for immigration arrest) National Lawyers Guild Federal Defense Hotline: 212-679-2811 Use this form to report civil rights violations connected to ICE activity in North Carolina. Use este formulario para reportar violaciones de derechos civiles con las actividades de ICE en el área de Carolina del Norte.

Every day and hour necessary to show it's our people over everything is worth defending. Disrespectfully, ICE has no home in North Carolina and will continue to be shown this through community defense and protests daily.

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Enjoy a moment of peace 🌱🌳

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays.

Listen in ⬇️

There is some sad irony in McClatchy shutting its DC bureau the same day that Dick Cheney died.

That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time.

www.cato.org/commentary/q...

A red zinnia with yellow disc florets at the center.

A red zinnia with yellow disc florets at the center.

Enjoying the last of the zinnias.🌱

Sending hope, optimism, and perseverance to everyone rallying today! I'm on day 4 of some kind of virus that has me trying to cough my lungs out, but with you in spirit. #nokings

Last season of Game Changer, we did a cool activation with LinkedIn in which they helped us give Jacob a prize of $100,000.

This season, I have a similar opportunity for the right brand willing to give us $50,000+ worth of their product.

Hit me up ASAP if you're interested!

Ahhhghhhhhaaaaaagh. That is all for now.

Sorry, more of a comment to myself than any kind of criticism of you (which is absolutely was not intended as)