Thank you for the reminder to ask someone (I emailed DC Master Gardeners) if there's a better way to transport water to newly-planted street trees than going back and forth a number of times with jugs (no nearby spigots). I'm too clumsy for larger buckets tbh

Everyone needs to read Matthew's latest post, because this is what's in store for all of us at some point--being harmed by HCWs whose inadequate training & supervision are policy choices--unless we mobilize to reverse MAHA's cuts to Medicaid & Medicare

In her proposed #FY27 budget, Mayor Bowser is again asking those with the least to sacrifice the most in a time of rising prices and economic constraint. Read more about the mayor's budget proposal (and what we think DC should do instead!) here: https://loom.ly/OjGj4FI

Do yourself a favor and stick your nose in some chokecherry flowers.

It me!! I’m the one making way more money on Beehiiv! Detailed breakdown (including hard numbers) tk

This week I started a very part-time job as a standardized/simulated patient at a school of nursing. I have so. Many. Thoughts and questions. It's SO INTERESTING!!!

Typographically this has a gravity and a cadence that is truly inspiring to me

As a pharma company, you know your position is morally indefensible when even business publications like Forbes are scathing about your refusal to supply HIV drugs to MSF and much of the world, while charging the few you do sell to exorbitant prices. 1/4 www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

“Del Vecchio understood something that would fuel the next thirty years of expansion: if you put a fashion label on a medical device, people will pay twenty times what it costs to make.” www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-glass... HT @nextdoorsv.bsky.social

DC Public Library is hosting its first Flea Market on Saturday, June 6, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. outdoors in front of the MLK Library! DMV-area vendors are invited to sign up to participate! Fill out the Application by Friday, May 8 ➡️ https://bit.ly/4vsvjq0

I would really like a 2 or 3 hour version of this that includes Taters napping and coming and going as he pleases. Also, I will believe that someday, this will be the first human artifact encountered by others in the universe.

A perfect meme from the birding community 🪶💚🎶

you’re not allergic to any visible flower, because visible flowers have big sticky pollen designed for bees. you’re allergic to something wind-pollinated

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Weird/interesting to have just watched the Artemis II launch while being so near the end of N. K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy

Why does the train car have a spoiler, or, rather, Why is the train car the only one with a spoiler

it only works if you're clicking the link, so if you wanna be super nice go to the artists links and click on it to go to their shop 🫶. and etsy sellers, update your links if you're not using this format.

Being moved from Medicaid to Healthy DC Plan was so seamless they didn't enroll me at all and I went through withdrawal from my medications

I? Fucking love??? This game????? But seriously, I love everything about this game. The characters, story, music, atmosphere, EVERYTHING. #art #fanart #chibi #kinda #sorrywereclosed #sorrywereclosedmichelle #sorrywereclosedrobyn

My long term plan is to kick it, honestly

The single bloodroot at the National Cathedral is back and it's pink baybeeeee!!! Get a load of those fuzzy pawpaw buds. Check out that trillium!!

Gen AI is an extremely large and extremely fast dice roller! That's all!

Ooh I can picture this as the delicate flower from Hollow Knight. All right, it's on the list to make out of paper.

New name, same purpose: supporting DC consumers and tenants! 🤝 Starting today, OAG's FREE mediation program is serving residents under a new name: Consumer and Tenant Response 📱 Call 202-442-9828 📧 Email [email protected] 🔗 Visit oag.dc.gov/complaint We are here for you!

and if you can believe it... it's twin peaks day once again #art

This time I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna submit prizes. I've got ideas.

I'm interested to notice where and how I and others go at times in the direction of "less" technology in art. I want to use less plastic, fewer synthetic materials.

Streetscapes are an ecosystem and landlords should be penalized for reducing diversity, I think as I pass the empty storefront in Dupont Circle that used to hold Bedazzled.

End of an era: free identity monitoring for people affected by the 2015 OPM hack is over :(

I dearly deeply wish this would happen here. I can only imagine what I would create if didn’t need to tackle art from a capitalism/business marketing standpoint.

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

I miss having the medication which treats both ADHD and narcolepsy for me and helps me be able to do things as well as not have to sleep for several hours in the middle of the day

These colors!

Last year, in June and July, two of my tillandsia recurvata flowered. In late November the fruits split, and now some of the seeds appear to be growing. I'm so excited! These are the best air plants of them all.

Neat anthropocene thread

It's almost as if money is hoarded by the already wealthy and the lower middle to lower class uses it to.... BUY things.

LinkedIn Job Alert: Visual Information Specialist for CBP. GS-13, starts at $120k/year (in exchange, of course, for your soul). So far 25 people have clicked the apply button.

very generous of zoe, and as always, all agitprop i've drawn is available to print for whoever wants it drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Federal agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis this morning. He was a 37-year-old ICU nurse who spent his career keeping people alive — including at the VA. Call your senators & call Schumer. Vote NO on DHS funding. 🧵 www.patreon.com/posts/149044...

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This is ridiculous and it disgusts me (fuck stadiums, fuck golf courses, and fuck lawns) but at least they're required to use bird-safe glass.

Some friends of ours you should consider donating to before the end of the year 👉🏽 1. East of the River Mutual Aid: MSMA wouldn’t exist with eorma, one of our anchor orgs. Support their amazing work here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Maybe still not having found a job is the universe telling me to monetize my hobbies, but............ Please, I have ADHD and a sleep disorder. Please, I don't want to attempt to monetize my 84 hobbies that I'm only into cyclically for like a month at a time each

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

The only kind of climate change I can approve of 😌

DC folks, if you're seeing the news of the ICE murder in Minnesota, & like me are furious, here's a resource. Never been to a Free DC orientation, come join, been inactive for a while, come join again. We're going to win, the only question is how quickly and will you be a part of it.

Hi everyone! I’m coming back to the ole’ Blsky to ask a huge favor. Last month, we almost lost our beloved little guy Fritz to a sudden onset of FIP, which is a rare and deadly cat disease. We’re running a GFM to help pay for his ongoing care and treatment! www.gofundme.com/f/a-fritzmas...

For slightly better color matching I switched to using a piece of cherry wood instead of ash, then sealed with tung oil. I love this little thing.