I’ll take “extremely niche groups you did not expect to see on a pride march but makes sense when you think about it” for 10, please

That feeling when you're in bed all day with a migraine and then you finally start feeling better but it's 7:45 and you don't really have the capacity to cook anything, so you say, oh well, there's sweet potato fries in the freezer, but you burn the sweet potatoes fries to the point of inedibility

BEES

Gonna get rich and open a classic Wisconsin lakeside supper club with an all-vegan menu

I painted a red panda! medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

When we look back on this era as an era in which much of the common good was stripped for parts and sold to the lowest bidder, this will go in the end credits.

ashes in my mouth

I'm seeing so much milkweed around this year - in private yards and in road medians (where it seemed to be planted purposefully). I feel happy about this, not least because it lets me off the hook for not growing common milkweed in my yard.

Four of the boldest Shakespeare adaptations on the US–Mexico border — a narco Macbeth, a post-apocalyptic Henry IV, a queer Hamlet on the turntables, and a Tempest in a hurricane — now free for everyone to read in the third volume of The Bard in the Borderlands. Dig in now: https://ow.ly/9UWc50ZjlWv

The rabbits got my wild bergamot 😭

In more uplifting news, here's a video that @danielbiss.bsky.social and @katmabu.bsky.social starred in to promote the opening of the Niles Township People's Prairie www.instagram.com/reel/DaLgydf...

The shiver that runs down one's spine when one keeps hearing figurative 'quietly' in a video and one can't help wondering how much of the script was written by a LLM

I haven't had a hot dog (real meat or fake meat) in at least 14 years, but now I have a heat wave, end-of-June craving. Well, this year I was pleasantly surprised by Tofurky deli slices, so I kind of have high hopes for food technology!

Still mad at Chewy, now I'm also mad at PetCo, and intensely annoyed that I will need to find another place to buy cat food from.

If you're not keeping up with Raygun's T-shirts this summer then YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG! I get compliments and great conversations every single time I wear a Raygun T-shirt in public -- people stop me to find out where I got it. I'm considering carrying their business cards. Seriously. #raygun

Not hugely looking forward to the change in weather from "too cool for my tomatoes to grow" to "too hot for my tomatoes to grow."

Minor gripe about my insect ID app: it identifies every single species of bee as "harmful to humans" and "harmful to animals" even if they are very non-aggressive and unlikely to sting you except in extraordinary circumstances.

Best part of being off work for a week: not having to worry even the teensiest bit about meal prep until next weekend.

Also perhaps the most pointless use of AI. ARE THE REAL BABY ANIMALS NOT CUTE AND WHIMSICAL ENOUGH?

Trans rights are Moomin rights

Local buns absolutely mowed down my purple prairie clover. It's such a good bee flower, I might have to grow some more next year and fence it in.

45% of the unpopular opinions on Reddit are "I have a sensory sensitivity and I don't understand why everyone else isn't as grossed out by [X] as I am" and 45% are "I'm bigoted."

This is absolutely magnificent & cut through the heart of me to make me feel everything in the most succinct possible way

First time trying to do landmine squats. I lost my balance, fell on my ass, got up, then did four sort of adequate reps.

Knitting Dartmoor’s soils. How socks helped translate geoarchaeology into something fun, easy to understand, and cosy (with patterns): www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/kni...

People should know that NYPL alone has 100 vacancies and that this doesn't include the 160 vacancies at BPL & QPL. Library workers also need higher pay. Meanwhile the libraries ARE NOT RECEIVING ENOUGH FUNDING. We need @mayor.nyc.gov and the @council.nyc.gov to fund libraries at 0.5% of budget now.

I will be glad when the Beef Tallow and Collagen era is over. More and more things that one would expect to be meat-free are not actually meat-free when I check the list of ingredients.

“Don’t expect conservatives to take responsibility for the incels they radicalize.” Right-wing rage-bait got everything wrong about the Montreal shooting

Last year I was only seeing Common Eastern Bumble Bees. This year, the hyssop hasn't even bloomed yet, and I've seen at least three different bumble bee species (plus other pollinators too small and quick-moving to identify). Really chuffed that the Itty Bitty Prairie Patch is having success!

@bradlander.bsky.social has won his primary election in his race for Congress in New York. Brad Lander has spent his career standing up to powerful corporate interests, fighting for working families, and advancing policies that make New York more affordable and equitable.

I think I'm turning I Might Need Bifocals years old.

Being a green card holder since 2025 has been a lot of "Well, this probably won't affect me specifically, but it COULD affect me specifically, and I don't want to be paranoid or stop living my life, but also, it's not out of the realm of possibility that I could just get deported on a whim???"

Trying out a new gym! Don't mind all dad rock all the time; do mind the lack of air conditioning. The machines are calibrated very differently from Planet Fitness, which makes me feel strong af. No televisions, thank goodness.

If you're good at bumble bee identifications, I have some crap photos up on iNaturalist that I think are bombus fervidus? www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Happy Juneteenth from Milwaukee, Wisconsin — home to one of the oldest and longest-running Juneteenth celebrations in the United States

In 1915, 26-year-old performer Huddie Ledbetter #LeadBelly left Dallas to visit his parents on their 68.5-acre farm near Leigh, TX, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Juneteenth. It was a fateful and costly decision for both him and his family. 🧵

I realize that this seems like a feature rather than a bug for many, but it seems like a very bad idea to spend $1000+ on something you could lose if you get a speeding ticket.

Had big ambitions to learn QGIS this summer. It's now the middle of June, and... I can change the roads to show up in green.

Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.

I am very grateful to feel like I can say "I can't be in this crowd for too much longer" or "I'm going to go because it's too many flashing lights for me" and get taken seriously,

贈貓詩 For My Cat 執鼠無功元不劾，一簞魚飯以時來。 看君終日常安臥，何事紛紛去又回？ You haven’t caught any mice. I let it go. The fish and rice were set out at the appointed hour. I watched you drowse the day away — so now What’s got you galloping madly everywhere? --Lu You 陸游 (1125-1210)

Apparently the baseball game I watched half of (a group of us from work went for Pride Night) was pretty neat? I got overstimulated, ate a churro, went home during the 7th inning.

I was reassuring my cat that the rain was outside and couldn't hurt her, but she wins this one, because water is pouring in through the window flashing.

On June 1, 1972, Godspell opened at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto. No one in the audience knew that they were seeing a group of unknown actors who would change comedy forever and go on to win Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tonys. This is the story! 📸 Jeff Goode 🧵1/12

Apparently there's a study that says that spending 20-30 minutes in nature can lower your cortisol, but I don't think it counts if you spend 20-30 minutes pulling out bindweed.

You can tell that I was way too influenced in my youth by Gen X and Baby Boomer science fiction nerds because I still don't say "sci fi" to mean "science fiction." And if you use the word "sci fi" for a science fiction novel, I briefly think, "oh, but that's not sci fi."

You can really see it in my grocery bill that I'm making an effort to eat more fresh vegetables. (Well. At least I don't eat beef.)

Expectation: I can probably finish a tote bag in a weekend Reality: Ran out of interfacing almost immediately; now I'm stuck until I can psych myself to go back to Michael's. Alas, they were mean to me last time.

I'm mildly annoyed that I lived in Marshalltown, IA for several years without ever learning about civil rights activist Anna Arnold Hedgeman, who was born there (though she moved away at a very young age.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Ar...

Giles was a great librarian, recognizing the information needs of his patrons and supporting their research projects with courage, dedication, and the occasional magic spell. RIP.