WATCH: If you really STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, please watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes helped by #UrbanThree & @StrongTowns.org. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI

This really looks like an 8000 year old horror story. Or an RPG prompt.

#orchids related, but not a flower. A post flower if you will. An orchid seed pod open with seeds visible. Orchid seed is dust like. So if someone is trying to sell you orchid seeds that are visible, it’s a scam.

I love this image of Shamash and Akkadian temples.

!!!!! When I moved to Georgia in 2014, Dems held exactly zero statewide seats and hadn’t for years, maybe decades, I don’t remember. Now both senate seats are held by Democrats and now two more!?! Wow.

Let's move on to our full #PoliticalLessonPost today. This is where I take lessons my mom gave me and provide them to you as the political education I've found lots of people didn't get. Got reminded talking to a co-worker I know about information tools that may not be common knowledge.

One of the things I'm thinking about today is something I got in trouble for years ago that I still stand by. Very few people are actually good or evil. And that makes them far more dangerous. And in order to change things in the world you don't try to change hearts and minds. You change rules.

This story- and this chapter in particular- lives in my head daily. I think about what I would do. (I would die) It’s very good.

Happy to contribute to @notusperspectives.bsky.social on ways to fix housing policy. My take: make it easier to build homes of all shapes & sizes in more communities by legalizing diverse structures & simplifying complex regulations. www.notus.org/perspectives...

I feel like a flower is needed tonight. #orchids #bloomscrolling Vanilla planifolia (?) Blooms only last a day.

I feel like this story could be told with alterations about many fields. Devaluing human skill by rich men.

I cannot stress just how true and important this is.

Outrageous! The moon rotation in this shot of The Lion King remake implies it was shot far into the northern hemisphere. What happened to realism? Literally unwatchable.

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#orchids #bloomscrolling A very small red masdevallia from the greenhouse. Don’t know the species, but a brilliant red.

@rockstache.bsky.social This is relevant to your interests.

#bloomscrolling #orchids I should know what this is because it’s very distinctive. I do know it’s a coelogyne.

#bloomscrolling #orchids Paph delenatii? Maybe, maybe not. Gorgeous in any case.

this has been my thought exactly with all of these funding resolutions like, why would I agree to shit if Trump is just gonna impound it and do whatever he wants, regardless of how the money is appropriated? if y'all want our funding decisions to be meaningless, let's not have em

“We can’t help poor people because that will help black people” is an unusually honest expression of Republican policy goals

It’s really the correct answer (for me). I bring it up all the time in game discussions.

Pretty good advice. I wish I’d done more of this.

From the greenhouse some tolumnia flowers. #bloomscrolling #orchids

#bloomscrolling #orchids a phalaenopsis flower from the greenhouse. Again, I don’t know the precise cross or species.

#bloomscrolling #orchids An orange Masdevallia from the greenhouse. A lovely jewel among the green.

@rockstache.bsky.social Dare you.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

I'm grateful to everyone in my life who has reached out to ask how they can support me as a disabled trans writer, musician, & creator during this dark moment. Did you know that I have a Patreon where you can get access to new poems, songs, & writing!? And if you can't afford to join, you can share!

#bloomscrolling #orchids in the greenhouse, a large dracula. Not the best photo because it faces straight down and the light was above/behind it.

#bloomscrolling #orchids from the greenhouse. A bulbophyllum. Lovely.

#bloomscrolling #orchids From the greenhouse. It might be a boella, but I don’t know.

Fountain 2

Ok. Why did an Alice Isn’t Dead teaser appear in my podcast feed?!?! Is there more of that amazing, terrifying show coming? Please!

✨🏳️‍⚧️ Belated Pride Comic (1/4) 🏳️‍⚧️✨

#bloomscrolling #orchids Another one from the greenhouse, a cattleya of some kind. I don’t know what many of these are because most of the plants in the greenhouse don’t have name tags. But it’s gorgeous.

#bloomscrolling #orchids Orchids from the greenhouse. This one looks like an Encyclia cordigera hybrid. The fragrance is almost as good as cordigera.

My blooming orchids #orchid #bloomscrolling

@megalodon70.bsky.social why am I missing DragonCon where the Dust Wife and Marra are with Bone Dog!

At the greenhouse. A Bulbophllum orchid, I don’t know the extract species. No unpleasant scent. #orchids

It’s always a good time to tell people about this book! It’s fantastic!

Oh hey, my landlord. And here I believed their “low income housing” line. At least I’m not alone, my city government bought it too.

Years ago in college, I used to have debates with my friends that a clone of me was not me. The second a clone was made it would be a different person and no longer me. I still feel strongly about that. And this story explains it brilliantly and poignantly. overcast.fm/+AAGJrrGMyBc

I am shocked, shocked that this classic from @alfredtwu.com once again applies to the latest funding craze (AI companies in San Francisco)

At the greenhouse. So many Dracula flowers! So many. Zoom in to see their tiny faces. #orchids #flowers

Got to go on @benriggs.bsky.social podcast and talk to @dme.bsky.social‬ about D&D and Mothership. I had a great time, it was a great conversation. Give it a listen if you're interested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rCB...

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

❤️ I love this.

The things that today’s caregivers (female or the rare male) are expected to do are on a whole level more complex than our parents had to deal with. If you haven’t done it you just don’t know. I’ve been a stay at home dad for 17 years. All dads should be required to take time off with the kids.

The quote post of the original thread is coming in a minute. But a shout out to all the stay at home dads. I’ve been one going on 17 years now and it’s has been a mixed bag. Despite being divorced now, I’m still the primary care giver.