Reading essential. I taught myself botany, I don't have an academic degree in botany, but I had a long career working as a botanist in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Hawai'i. All from reading. Imagine what you would like to do and keep reading!

4 MORE DAYS! Applications open for The Perry Second Chances Scholarship to women nationwide on 11.15. A few reminders: - all criteria is on the website at thurmanperryfoundation.org - we don’t respond to direct inquiries nor will it affect your chances of winning. Read the website.

Join Benny Wenda at the Rev21 Online Festival, where he’ll speak on “The Fight for Freedom in #WestPapua.” 🕒 15:00 GMT | November 15 🌍 Register online: events.zoom.us/ev/AjPpsEFuC...

Yep. Buying this. Fuck Boomers.

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

recently my youngest sister (17) had a slight medical issue and had to spend ONE night at children's hospital. we just got the bill...for $18,000. Y'all have truly lost y'all damn minds. Luigi was right.

The trees in Morioka Castle Ruins Park have turned beautifully vivid in color. It’s about the time they begin to shed their leaves.

Whew, girl

The Legion of Soft-Voiced Women Who Will Gleefully Assault You

Grapefruit 😇 #art #oilpainting

Putting any part of me out there in the digital ocean (voice, image, likeness, creativity, heart, soul)

What did I just tell yall? 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↔️

Went to the beach to see the lights, and the moon made a surprise appearance too.

An Amerikkkan "climate expert" LMAO that is QUITE the oxymoron

If y’all can’t see the aurora tonight… for the first time in my 45 years on this planet it’s dipped far enough south that I can.. so.. here you go!

Gratuitous peonies shot. The girth!

I want love letters... not just in the beginning... I want to pull out shoeboxes of notes after years that make me smile & remember why I fell in love

It’s later in this live I did. But, did you know that Chuck D is a u.s. soft power asset? www.youtube.com/live/9KE6wyg...

Haole Fatigue: when non Hawaiians ( mostly white Americans) come to Hawai’i and act a fool but blame us and call us Hawaiians racist. Hard to be racist when Hawaiians are the minority in their own homeland.

Also, I’m not clowning people in general for failing the bar. But her failing the bar? Bring out the dancing lobsters!

We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...

"it's not in the stored training data just the entire training data set"

Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.

Any days is too many days to be on a cruise

Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract *** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY*** Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy

Billionaires are bad for business. That isn't a political take. It's logic. If i have a billion dollars, i am buying things for me and my family. If you gave a thousand people a million dollars ( BECAUSE A BILLION IS A THOUSAND MILLION) they would buy things for them and their families.

Wow

Yes you’re attractive but would you watch the sun set with me? Climb up on the roof for the best view? Do a picnic with me under the stars while I pick your brain? Hike with me to watch the sunrise and talk about the things close to our hearts?

I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that we're dealing with a very dangerous organized crime syndicate that's using unregulated AI videos, bot farms, algorithms, mass surveillance, data collection, etc. as weapons to turn us against each other while they pillage and plunder us

Coming soon... "Boys Drawing Boys" a Queer Pasifika mens social space hosted by @tanugago.bsky.social and Pati Tyrell at Afi Studio. Stay tuned for more details. Be sure to follow us here or on Instagram for info. www.instagram.com/fafswag/?hl=en

It's always these clowns with no imagination telling the rest of us what is and isn't possible for our future together. Please shut up because your idea of innovation is putting Wi-Fi in a fridge.

the one just laying there is sending me so bad 😭

baby owls are so funny to me because every video i see of them being handled they look like they can’t believe they’re being perceived 😭

Such a pretty girl! The 90s had so much variety in terms of gorgeous Black girls. (& this is why I'll never want a bone straight blow out.)

The woman on TikTok calling the mosques and asking if they’d help her with formula and 100% of them asking nothing but what kind do you want and where are you is the Muslim I am, the Muslim I know. And it really makes the hate that much more unmooring.

The worst part about being smart is seeing how much stupidity and willful ignorance there is in the world AND having to contend with the fact that you can’t fix ANY of it.

The worlds of art, scent and Māori storytelling have come together in Journey of Scent - a new six-part series exploring memory and identity through perfume.

Human rights complaint filed to United Nations over treatment of Māori

I DO NOT WANT TO CHECK OUT WHAT’S NEW WITH GEMINI STOP ASKING

trying and doing new things creates neuro-pathways allowing you to take in and process new information and new understanding. this is called neuroplasticity and it is what makes your mind more resilient to negative, overwhelming, or confusing information. mental fortitude is the name of the game rn

Sharing this again bc it’s important

Everyone… I just need to rent a place to replace our tent. My family has fallen very sick because of it, Don’t forget us even with the ceasefire it’s an illusion to divert attention from us. Our suffering has worsened, the situation is extremely dire and I’ve lost everything except my trust in you.

Show up as yourself. Fully. If you don't show up as yourself, you leave room for someone else to do it. There is no shortage of people who move through the world with resentment because they keep encountering others doing a bootleg version of what they were too scared to do themselves. Be you.

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one

Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are. www.latimes.com/california/s...

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

One of my HS classmates is a trucker who has hit hard times because of an on the job injury and since this country’s social safety net is trash, needs to raise funds to support his recovery. Please consider donating, even if you can’t offer much 🫶🏽 www.gofundme.com/f/help-jason...