Protein craze doing real harm👇 Americans are eating up the meat industry's health claims www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... Seeing "same tactic the tobacco industry used to try to undermine the overwhelming" evidence of harm. "...experts’ concerns about the risk of heart disease & other illnesses."

I covered all the native plants with blooms ahead of the hard freeze. They're all blooming about six weeks ahead of schedule. We'll see how it goes. 🤞

Diabetes math: I spilled my breakfast and already prebolused. Do I clean up first or remake and eat breakfast first?

I made tomorrow night's dinner and tonight's dinner at the same time, and the problem is that tomorrow night's dinner looks so much better.

Texas' grid operator, ERCOT, forecasts electricity demand in the state could more than quadruple by 2032. The vast, vast majority of that forecasted demand comes from data centers. interchange.puc.texas.gov/Documents/58...

There was An Incident with the utensil holder, so while everything goes through the dishwasher, I'm reliving my childhood where Big Fork does everything.

Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...

I would never wash dishes ever again. And an excessive amount of help with organizing the stuff in our home.

My first bloom in Colorado! It's a columbine. No one tell her that there's a hard freeze coming.

Fucked up story, and also note how many people would lose jobs and get totally fucked if they can’t get $1600 together to get out of jail.

I'm at the dentist, and they gave me the option of doing the cleaning today with a longer than usual wait or coming back next week. And I picked next week like the coward and procrastinator I am.

The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections is now LIVE! Please read it, share it, and bookmark it to help support anti-censorship candidates in Texas. And check back frequently! As always, I'll be updating it until election day (May 2). docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#StarTrek #Sisko197

I picked up my plants from the fancy native plant nursery. The containers are so wee. 2 3/8 inch square by 5 inches deep. I'll plant after this weekend's freeze.

Just got my first shipment of Dexcom g7. Not looking forward to the switch. #diabetes

I love you, Facebook Marketplace

There's no such thing as "authentic food". There are traditional ways of making things, but adapting food based on your needs, access to ingredients, and personal taste is just how cooking works. Just don't be an asshole and say that you've improved someone else's food by changing it.

I never expected (or wanted) to do the SAHM thing. Which has turned into the unemployed professional thing now. Kid-me would be delighted by the amount of crafting I do. And that new books can be accessed day or night without leaving my home. Not Enough Books was a chief complaint of my childhood.

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

*They Might Be Giants voice* The Moon is a sphere A three days’ ride from here With a cratered and rocky gray surface Jumping up in the air’s Six times easier up there And the temperature is hundreds of degrees* *during the day

Thinking about the time my boss sent me to a coffee shop to tell The Guy Who Looks Like Stephen Spielberg that she would be ten minutes late. (This was before everyone had cell phones, but was still a really ridiculous request. Also, I'm face blind.)

It looks like The Colorado Sun is independent and has one-click (more or less) cancellation. I'm in!

I am overly polite in a lot of situations, but I will not be sidetracked when I'm trying to cancel something. "What did you like about the subscription?" "I want to cancel my subscription." "I can offer you a discounted price." "I want to cancel my subscription."

I've got a sugar free lemonade-Fever Tree light ginger beer to drink, and it's time for The Pitt

About a decade ago I did important drink research to find out which plant milk made the best egg cream. Unsurprisingly it's soy milk (followed by soy creamer and hemp milk). This was long enough ago that oat and pea protein milks weren't really a thing, so it's probably time for a follow up.

Salsa cremosa (because salsa w/fresh tomatoes isn't practical, I assume), nooch, soy sauce. Though I suspect nooch wouldn't be allowed, so my backup is vegenaise.

Today is the day I schedule all the appointments. It's going to happen.

I spent ten years visiting sanctuaries to create intimate photographic portraits of elderly rescued farm animals. I am lucky but my publisher @uchicagopress.bsky.social was a dream partner in publishing & promoting the book: www.isaleshko.com/allowed-to-g...

We eat black bean soup pretty often. It's a pantry meal that everyone likes. It changes each time based on what's in the house. This was maybe my best version ever. Pretty sure it was the lime juice. I might have to start buying limes more often.

What *could* a very strong El Niño mean for Colorado weather next fall/winter? 1) Not all El Niños are equal. How strong/when it develops will be critical to fall/winter impacts. Even with a very strong El Niño looking likely, there's more we still don't know than we do (sorry). #COwx

Who has a kickass NYC endocrinologist?

We've only done diabetes day camp before. I just looked at the cost of a week of diabetes sleepaway camp. How does anyone afford that?

In the last 4 months there have been 2 serious questions about microplastics research. Both are concerns that the level of measured microplastics is inflated by contamination or measurement error. This is from January: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our mural on native plants and pollinators at H. A. brown elementary school in Kensington starts today! We’re still shy of our fundraising goal, so if anyone would be down to support educational art in an underserved area of Philly, I would really appreciate it! givebutter.com/KenzoMural

Feeling really frustrated with the cost of blood ketone strips. It's probably time to try to get insurance to cover it, but I'm expecting that to be a painful process.

Did you know that the Moon experiences Earthshine, just as we have moonshine down here? The #ArtemisII crew will be watching for Earthshine effects on the near side as they fly past. As well as everything else - it's going to be intense! 🧪

Pulled the trigger and spent my High Plains Environmental Center gift certificate. I only made one mistake and misread 6 feet as 6 inches. So I'm going to have to find a few places to stash extra Apache Plume.

I'm home. The kid is out of the hospital. It's been a day.

If you're on my flight, this is all a lie and I'm not sharing.

My suitcase is full of tortillas. If there ever were a right time for my flight to get mysteriously stranded on a deserted island, this is it.

And stop spraying your lawn for mosquitoes. There's no such thing as a spray treatment for mosquitoes that doesn't affect other insects, including bees.

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

Help me #knitting peeps! KnitPicks is having a 30% off sale on merino/silk blend yarn for 6.99/skein. I want to get some for a future project, but don’t know enough to know if this is a good deal on that type of yarn or not! Should I jump on it before it ends tonight or wait til yarn store tmrw?

The kid convinced his dad that there isn't school on Monday. (There is.)

Seriously, I'm dying to know what smells like chocolate. I didn't see any chocolate daisy, and none of the blooming plants smelled like chocolate. (I sniffed every one.) My best guess is that it's a medicinal plant, since that's the section where the scent was strongest.

Huge kudos to the people at Festival Beach Food Forest in Austin. They have done a tremendous job with their space. Lots of people quietly enjoying it in the middle of a drizzly Friday. And it smells like chocolate.

I just discovered High Plains Environmental Center puts out a plant catalog. I'm in native plant heaven. high-plains-environmental-center.square.site

PS I should put in a plug for Wild Ones Front Range. We support folks in gardening with #nativeplants. This is a good year to dip your toe in if you haven’t yet. If not for the bees, butterflies, and birds, then for the water!

I'm at the troublemaker table. They brought supplemental wine.

I'm on my way to second night seder and way overdressed. Apparently my wardrobe is Clothes You Can Garden In and Fancy Wedding and nothing in between.