I laughed so hard youtube.com/watch?v=Jdxk...

Festival de Pescao in Puerto Real, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico

"Left politics should respond not to the birth rate, but to the material needs of working class parents and children." One takeaway, but there are more.

@taliahibbert.bsky.social You haven't posted on here in a while, but I just binged the Ravenswood series and I'm reaching out to say thanks for writing them.

I am fascinating to children which can make bus rides quite exciting.

Spicy autocomplete. Yes, I like this. y.yarn.co/0eb63b4d-abb...

Wait. Ryan Coogler has been sidelined into a reboot? Well shit.

Saw an AI image I won't share, but it brought up the tipping question with a line that explicitly says the service charge won't go to the server. Is this a thing? Service charges added to the bill that aren't split somehow among the staff?

Mothers' Day for Peace, as originally proposed by poet and philanthropist Julia Ward Howe in 1872: "Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking of carnage...Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience."

Sappho, wow.

Happy caturday, says Beluga Greyfinger

I'm really impressed by how many people are masked up here in Cabo Rojo (Puerto Real and Pueblo Norte and Sur). I've been loving Puerto Rico for a lot of reasons and here's one more.

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Apropos of a Cj Cherryh post elsewhere, a postdoc fellow gave me feedback on my SF WIP when I reached out because I was stretching his mitochondrial research into fictional realms and yes, scientists are absolutely into talking about their studies.

VOTE Also, Cass and John are fucking adorable in this. youtu.be/bRe648clNjg?...

Puerto Real, Puerto Rico

www.penbaypilot.com/article/isla... This is amazing! Maine doing its part to reduce carbon footprint!

Fascinating article on an island lovingly tended by the Coast Salish, a reminder that a lot of the mythology surrounding the environment puts a heavy focus on 'untouched wilderness' when in fact Indigenous people have been consciously working with the land for centuries.

I'm screaming I'M FuCKGiN SCREAMING youtube.com/shorts/NOM4L...

Just sailed from Arrecife Margarita to Boquerón and got everything from dead downwind to a hard beat. A very good four-hour trip!

What the Nobodies Know...it would make a great series

Yes, wow.

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

This is invigorating!

Gentle reminder. I thought we all learned this on Twitter, but clearly not.

I love more context.

Lucky day! Walked to the laundromat, packed the clean clothes in bags and put those in a waterproof duffel bag so we could share the load, one handle each. Got rained on while walking to the propane place but it STOPPED before we pulled the laundry in lieu of the tank. Clean, DRY laundry aboard!

Our boat has shed the 17 year old, 299 pounds of AGM batteries it once ran on and now rocks 74 pounds of LiFePO4 POWER! There are several posts about the process on Patreon (always all free access for everyone), but this is the big final wrapup. www.patreon.com/posts/154235...

Putting this up for future reference in case I get into any good-faith arguments on the topic.

This is terrible, and it's been attached to a budget meaning it's harder to fight on the merits (or, more properly, the lacks thereof). Folks have worked so hard for the gains they've achieved. The labors never cease.

Folks are folks is something I started saying as I did more traveling, and a corollary is that women are going to do power at their personal levels of desire...often at the expense of other women.

There are a lot of great comments on the OP's post.

Yay Vera Rubin!

Because joy. These critters are neat.

Walked 3.5 miles...the farthest in a while, since Red Hook was so bad for walking and biking! Patillas, PR is beautiful. The young women at the supermarket couldn't find us a taxi back so they worked it out for one to stay on the clock and drive us herself. So so nice.

Sunset in Patillas, Puerto Rico

the Black Panthers were right

This is blackout poetry to me

Anybody in Puerto Rico got a reader for this drive? I'd love to remind myself what's on it. We'll be in Puerto Patillas, Salinas, Ponce, Punta Ballena, Boqueron? All depending on whether or not a good 10-day forecast for Bocas del Toro, Panama, reveals itself. Andre the Giant has a Posse!!!

Beautiful mural. There's no alt text on the image, here's my go. Figurative flowers with energetically bent stems around and over a femme figure lying prone, face over her right shoulder, left hand's colorful fingers over her right biceps. Eyes closed, star-painted. Center-parted short hair slicked.

Oh, hey, do you want to reward Bree for all her work defending people and democracy with whistles (and other supplies)? Buy stuff from her!

The wind shifted way farther south than forecasted so, instead of a 90° shift, it's a 180°. Keeping an eye on our position is important because the chain stretches out and then the anchor needs to break loose AND THEN reset the other direction. In sand and grass. Wish us luck.

invented a new word: plagiarism

When we treat ourselves to a hotel room (mainly for the shower) and leave Beluga Greyfinger to his own devices overnight, he is clingy for a while.

@scalzi.com so how do I get my cat to become my new boss? This cat won't work AT ALL. I just want him to run the bilge pump but noooooo

Beluga Greyfinger is a cuddler, but mostly by lying on a foot or cozying up next to a hip. He's a lap kitty for special occasions only. Happy caturday!

I SAW A WHALE

With the carrot of "he'll retire", which is just another kick in the teeth.

I started this after a prompt from John Scalzi and it's a fun exercise for me. I hope you do it too, and both give the important info but also get creative!

I support striking nurses. Beyond the general workplace concerns, I KNOW they'd rather be taking care of their patients than picketing. Treat them right! Let them work with dignity and generous rewards! Even "fair" pay doesn't cover what they do and hamstringing their efforts is horrendous.