I grew up in rural north central Florida in the 1970s. I definitely learned “boughten” then.

Blue sky with tall cumulus clouds in the distance.

Gray clouds preceding a thunderstorm.

Two pictures about 10 minutes apart showing the rapidly approaching storm system coming from the south. #wawx #seattleweather #severethunderstormalert

Just got this today. #pnx2 #paintnailspunchnazis

The New York Times Spelling Bee How many words can you make with 7 letters?

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Colorful sumac from the past fall. #onlybeautifulthings

Wordle 1,305 3/6

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13/15. Raised Methodist but became agnostic as an adult.

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#apod 2024-11-25
The Horsehead Nebula
Image Credit:
Alex Lin
(Chilescope)

Web page: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241125.html

Trump's popular vote lead continues to shrink faster than Matt Gaetz's career options.
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A derogatory term for Native women will be removed from place names across California The word "squaw" was declared derogatory by the Department of Interior in 2021. Since then, hundreds of geographic features have been renamed with input from local tribes and Indigenous communities.

This is a good thing. www.npr.org/2024/11/16/n...

Chocolate brown chihuahua

An “I voted” sticker from King County, WA.

Ballot has been sent in and processed by the elections office, waiting to be counted!

An “I voted” sticker from King County, WA.

Ballot has been sent in and processed by the elections office, waiting to be counted!

Me too

Photo of postcards and postage stamps

200 Postcards to Swing States. I don’t want to phone bank or knock on doors, so this seems like the next best way to take action. #GOTV

It’s been 35 years for me, but I was also 17 and came out to someone for the first time in a letter. Life has been, and continues to be, full of challenges. But that kid is glad to still be here and surrounded by loving friends and family. Happy Coming Out Day!

This could’ve gone poorly.

Wordle 1,205 3/6

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Photograph of the constellation Orion.

A bright clear pre-dawn sky this morning. #orion

A wrist watch, a fogger, and a bottle of cough syrup with spoon.

The childhood of champions...

Wordle 1,200 4/6

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Well, this was interesting.

Interesting. We were in Spokane, WA over Labor Day weekend and observed a lot of downballot signs, mostly R, but only a couple Trump signs and slightly more Harris signs.

Thanks for this. I just ordered my postcards.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #5,558,259, jms71.bsky.social ‪@jms71.bsky.social‬, joined on May 3, 2024"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #5,558,259!

Decent effort today.

Wordle 1,187 4/6

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I certainly hear it less now than I did growing up but it is definitely a word. Wordle 1,186 4/6

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TODAY IS NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION DAY

Last night my feed became about Amber Thurman's enraging & wholly preventable death 💔 & how many women come close to death by pregnancy even w/o abortion bans.

Trump & the GOP would wish that on us in perpetuity.

It's on us to make sure they can't ⬇️

If you see this, quote-post with a beach from your gallery.

Take your anti-trans nonsense elsewhere.

Some of mine:
1) Home town public works day laborer
2) Sweet Factory assistant manager
3) VA hospital records room assistant
4) Texaco gas station cashier
5) Hospital patient transporter

Giving humans the ability to produce crocodile hemoglobin, so we can hold our breath for a really long time or survive low oxygen environments. (Hat tip to Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy.)