Anyway, this would have been unbelievably easy to check if CNN had cared to do so. I used Photoshop because I have it. Could have been done in MS Paint. Underestimating a protest by a factor of somewhere around 100x, whether through incompetence or malice, should get any journalist fired.

Anyway, I highly recommend entering things in your local fair and then going to see the stuff people enter at local and county fairs, because it's all stuff people make that's important enough to them to display it. It's positive community participation!

Here's another one from France that just looks very French and would make excellent wallpaper or a mural.

At least 15 robins are hanging out in our naked buckeye tree.

Letter of recommendation: The Mars House by Natasha Pulley. 😍😍😍😍😍

Ok, thanks for the input everyone! I'm going to just enter both of those, plus this stunnah.

I'm also thinking about this one but worry that it doesn't have a great focal point.

I'm honestly asking for opinions! Maybe I should just do both? Flowers only this year I guess.

Which one is better to enter into the fair? Both were taken in France last spring.

Pals, we made it to Friday. Here's a variegated camellia to celebrate.

I know things are completely wild right now, but if you need a break to do something creative the new call for submissions for Little Looms is out! The theme is "In the Garden" and I'm looking for not just weaving projects, but also some dyeing and eco printing articles/tutorials. 1/

Jings but it's been a poor month for print sales so far. Almost as if you'd rather spend what little money you have on food and keeping warm. But if you're thinking of buying some art can I just point out my pictures are edible* *they are not edible. marswasrubbish.etsy.com

In case anyone was wondering, the bruise on my knee is approximately the diameter of a baseball. 😬

H*ck yeah snowdrop!

A yellow rose at dusk for your Thursday.

Is it a bad sign if the first tarot card I pull is a Garbage Pail Kid card with my own face?

Someone please explain what wizardry our neighbors practice that they have healthy dahlia plants producing flowers in late January?!?!?

Doing a New Thing this evening (going to my first community choir rehearsal), everyone send good vibes so I don't embarrass myself too badly! 😬

Usually this white camellia is first of our three to bloom. 🌱

A slug with spirit fingers? A slug with spirit fingers!

This is a department store.

The quince has begun! 🌱

Probably I should rest my leg after yesterday to give my knee a minute to heal but my brain needs exercise pretty desperately. 🫠

H*ck yeah moss!!!!!

Slathering arnica goo on my horrendous knee contusion, as one does.

Me: your hair looks so nice when you brush it. You look like a princess 5yo: 😠 no I don't! Me: you don't want to be a princess? 5yo: NO! Me: What do you want to be? 5yo: a demon hunter.

One of the history facts that fucks me up: Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Betty White were all born in the same year.

Back on my bullshit, camellia edition.

Bought the kid his first ever pair of Crocs* today so he can wear them over his various dance shoes like all the other kids in his various dance classes. It was bound to happen eventually I guess. 😶 *Nordstrom rack but I'm still annoyed about paying $30 for a pair of injection molded plastic shoes

I had two nasty falls so I called it a day. The second one is going to hurt for a while. 😬

I'm pretty okay at skating except when people* fall right in front of me. *mostly kids who seem to have zero awareness of their surroundings

It's Zamboni time!

I did a running at the river park and F came with me and he ran most of it! He has decided he wants to run a 5k so I offered to help him train for one.

Please guess how much I regret this action after the several hundredth time he has played it today. 💀

TFW you are very good at using your bed.

I less than three citrus season 🥰🍊🍋

I've now made it possible for my child to play the bass line from Seven Nation Army on the piano, RIP me. (Not pictured: the strip of paper on which I wrote out the note sequence).

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I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two white wildflowers.

BARBIE YAGA

This is correct. I don't trust politicians who aren't pro-trans, because the only quality I'm looking for in a politician is that they will use their power to protect marginalized people. If they're willing to sacrifice trans people, they'll be willing to sacrifice anyone.

We're working on a project at the theater tomorrow and one of our friends who is also working on the project is a massive deadhead so of course he's leaving early to go to the big memorial service for Bob Weir in SF tomorrow.

Once again, we all made it to Friday, and we all deserve this bright magenta cabbage rose that smells amazing.

F watched the first episode of stranger things today and asked about the scene with Nancy and Steve in her bedroom and his comment about taking her clothes off, and why the parents would be upset if they had sex, and why teenagers would want to have sex, and I ended up

The collective Bluesky psyche desperately needs a 30-50 feral hogs of some sort. It's too bleak in here. We need to riff on something stupid to keep up morale

Hey Bluesky, do you enjoy reading about -dilapidated amusement parks? -bizarre animatronics? -psychedelic dark rides? -cults? -friendship and sisterhood? If so, you might enjoy my book The Merry Dredgers. If you'd like to learn more, here's a review by Gabino Iglesias: locusmag.com/2023/06/gabi...

People posting their Spotify Wrapped should be treated like people showing off the endangered animals they've slaughtered.

I drew an accidental penguin!

A lot of people keep learning that the Gov Newsom who posts online is nowhere near the same as the Gov Newsom who podcasts & that's because one Newsom is crafted by a queer Latina who understands how messaging works and the other Newsom is the guy who can't stop shooting himself in the foot.