Freshly-minted Red-tailed Hawk 🪶

2:35am. The cats are chasing each other through the house at top speed and the younger chihuahua has gotten out of bed to yell at them.

I have decided I will also apply pizza and pistachios so I can go all in on the lack of healthy response.

In related news, all bad tv is either too terrible or not bad enough. And my book is too serious.

Today at work just absolutely sucked. I know drinking wine will not solve anything at all, but still, I'm going to drink some wine. To be fair, I rarely have these days where I feel like work actively sucks. But boy, in some ways that makes it a lot worse when it does happen.

If USC Dornsife was trying to make us believe in the relevance of academia to public life, they have not done a bang up job.

I'm reading a book about the Russian revolution and it is not helping my mood at all. 💙📚

I am fairly annoyed at someone which is likely to make me unfairly pissy when I talk to her. This will not help. Please send patience by post.

When I suddenly get blocked by a rash of people, I wonder what Discourse I have accidentally entered.

"If work doesn’t have to be locked in harmful, exhausting patterns for our endeavors to succeed, why aren’t more of us adopting beloved ways of working?" Beloved Economies: Transforming How We Work, Jess Rimington and Joanna Levitt Cea 💙📚

The 15 yr old dog had his 1st seizure. Cancelling plans and staying home to make sure this is not a cluster situation. Absolutely nothing the vet can do. He just had bloodwork done, all good. There is no earthly way we will be doing surgery on a tumor, if one is there. Just wait and see. #olddogs

I finished Beloved Economies by Joanna Cea and Jess Rimington yesterday. I did not find I believed in all of it, but it was really thought provoking and inspiring about how we can do better business as communities. Recommended. 💙📚 #booksky

Story of O, bought at a church book sale age 11.

my main concern with graham platner isn't that he's actually a devout nazi but that he's the sort of ideology-free populist who can't be trusted

Op de valreep in mijn achtertuin

I just ate a pint of ice cream. No one was gonna be able to stop me. This is one of the best things about being an adult.

I don’t live in Maine—then again, neither do these Platner boosters—and primary voters there will pick who they want. But at a national level, picking the Nazi tattoo candidate strikes me as a big unforced error, stemming in part from badly over-reading the 2024 election as a cultural “vibe shift.”

True love.

One of many:

For people who don't know about it, I find the Gift Links feed very useful: bsky.app/profile/did:... It does only pick up stuff that's been published, though, nothing breaking on social media itself.

You all need a strawberry poison dart frog from Costa Rica, right? They should not hurt you if you do not lick them.

#booksky 💙📚 During my holiday I read The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble, her semi autobiographical novel. It's always a safe bet I will love Drabble and I loved this. I've been reading her work since I was a student. The Peppered Moth follows 3 generations of women, and you should read it.

For Marianne Moore on her Seventy-Fifth Birthday, I.A. Richards

Still Life Flowers in a Jug at Charleston (around 1919), Roger Fry

Femme blonde (Portrait de Germaine Survage), Amedeo Modigliani, 1918

Roderic O’Conor, The Bridge at Grez

I’m not sure what it is I love about anthropomorphic food, but I love anthropomorphic foods. I hunt down patterns on Etsy and then I crochet them. So many anthropomorphic foods. I LOVE anthropomorphic foods. 🧶

hills club? peaches, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1911

Yeah, this one really squares my boobs as a sociologist. Arlie Russell Hochschild made one of the most important contributions to the sociology of labour ever, updating the Marxist concept of alienation for the late 20th century and it got sludged into "I don't want to call my mom."

… a joke about Icarus, but it might not land … … Atlas, but it’s a heavy lift …

-tree: impossible to narrow down. so many good trees. Larches rank highly -flower: morning glory -season: spring or autumn, winter is good too -tea: black! "Irish" or "Russian" -coffee: light roasted misc varietals -genre: shoegaze, hard rock, postpunk, "dark hippy" -dessert: baklava

Tree: a nice Fraser Fir Flower: California Poppies Season: I’ve become a Winter girlie; my apologies to my younger self but I cannot stand being hot anymore Tea: ehhh Coffee: never Genre: in which media? Dessert: anything that has dark chocolate in it basically except cheesecake, or stuff with nuts

Tree: Palm Flower: Lilacs Season: Spring Tea: Green Coffee: not a fan Genre: most of them Dessert: ice cream Bit Basic, but there you go

smith apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1924

I had a joke about Hercules but I realised the punchline was labored

Enjoying the California poppies in San Francisco. Not enjoying the heatwave. #urbangreenspace

Enjoying the hot weather at the flooded picnic table on the Merced River while listening to the roar of Yosemite Falls. #waterfalls #Yosemite #hiking #landscapephotography

Eid Mubarek-- may we all have peace in our hearts and our minds.

Peace to Dolores Huerta, a hero amongst heroes.

I came home & discovered my elder Chihuahua managed to break one of his nails off at the base. In response, while bleeding profusely, he ran in circles until he gave up and decided to poop repeatedly as-- idk-- punishment? I spent the 1st part of this evening cleaning poop and bloody footprints.

Sloths were too high in the trees for my poor iPhone camera, but you get the idea. They were cute!

Elena Ferrante is Banksy??

Hong Kong shot on film

China is adopting green energy at a scale hard to imagine for many other countries, with the country's latest five-year plan further signalling its intention to reduce its dependency on foreign oil.

"Bored of peace."

There and back again. My hotel room is full of stinky clothes. I burned my nose and my forearms. My knees no longer love me. I am so looking forward to sleeping in a bed and not a tent. This world is crazy beautiful, friends.

Out of the jungle and back to the city after a short hike today