Today, I successfully bullied my Dad to let me block, report, & delete dozens of spam texts. Most of them political.

No Things Day.

Aurora, Colorado has been my home for the past decade, and I am absolutely fired up about this election cycle! We have 19 days til Nov 4th.🗳️ The Democratic candidates running for Aurora City Council genuinely give a shit about our community. Get to know your candidates here! auroragetthevoteout.com

Aurora Colorado, we have the opportunity to vote out MTG wannabe Danielle Jurinsky. Yeah, she’s the one who lied about immigrants and invited donald here to attack our city. Her opponent Alli Jackson lives in actual, old Aurora and cares about her fellow citizens.

Exclusive: Report Finds Systemic Atrocities in Colorado Immigrant Jail The GEO detention center in Aurora keeps immigrants freezing, starving, and waiting — while shareholders cash in. migrantinsider.com/p/report-fin...

This is about that time that Aurora city councilman Sundberg forgot to renew his website and someone bought the domain and redirected it to an article about his racist FB videos. Steve vowed to never talk to the Sentinel again 😂

Major issues include public safety, police reform, affordable housing and homelessness. sentinelcolorado.com/metro/aurora... #AuroraCO #AuroraVote2025 #NoPaywall

Jurinsky, with her (no kidding) $200k+ campaign contributions has been able to afford new RTD bus stop ads all over Aurora …and I can’t stop thinking about how many people passively fart on her face every day now ☺️

Miller moth working furiously to get at the nectar in our pink cosmos

Found some gilly guys 🍄‍🟫 during yesterday’s backyard clean up. Agaricaceae are common, but not usually in our yard! #mushroom #Agaricaceae #mycology #neat

Independent Journalism is worth every penny. In April I finally cancelled my WaPo sub & instead started a paid sub to @marisakabas.bsky.social. Today, ACLU of CO and other local lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of their clients against Noem, DHS, & ICE. Marisa's work was cited in the footnotes.

It's the classic authoritarian playbook: smear your opponents with baseless lies so that you can try to shut down peaceful, organized dissent. We won't be intimidated. We won't be cowed. We won't bow down. No Kings.

26 mile ride today. #bikesky

❤️‍🔥💯 she sure is! In fact, here is the lineup of candidates by Ward & At Large. If you live in Aurora, CO make sure you’re paying attention so we can vote out bullies and vote in folks who care more about the People than personal power. #AuroraVotes #AuroraGetTheVoteOut

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Yesterday I picked our dozenth zucchini from the garden. Too many zuke babies. I lifted it above the fence line, and offering to our rear view neighbor. (We don’t talk much, but our dogs are acquainted.)

Political affiliation, prayer service and political alliance clarified. sentinelcolorado.com/nation-world... #CharlieKirk #FactCheck #TylerRobinson

"The country we knew isn’t here anymore except to the extent that we knew it, and if anyone is going to remember what it meant or what it could have been, it will only be because people like you and me find a way to tell them." buttondown.com/theswordandt...

! I've been banging this drum for months Due process is how you determine things like 'is this person a citizen' & 'did they break a law' GOP's insistence that noncitizens & lawbreakers shouldn't get due process is putting the racism-cart before the logic-horse ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

So I was innocently perusing diy Halloween bathroom decor ideas and—

omg it's finally happening occasionally former judges speak out about the Supreme Court but I have long wished current judges would do so a sitting judge saying it is "inexcusable" that "sweeping rulings arrive with breathtaking speed but minimal explanation" feels like an important door opening

I’ve found August to suck a bit this year but the good news (if you’re in Colorado anyway) is we have Aurora Pride tomorrow! It’s in the Aurora Arts District this year, no 30 minute drive to the stinky lake! #pride2025 🌈🌈🌈

Friends of the Everglades and the Center for Biological Diversity are suing ICE over Alligator Alcatraz, that horror show they're building in the swamp in the everglades. Indigenous groups are also out there protesting and working against it. Here's a useful graphic #alligatoralcatraz

I realize it's not front-page material but the Colorado Rockies are ranked 30th out of 30 teams.

Experienced the entire queer lifecycle. 🌈❤️‍🔥 #denverPride2025

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker. My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

It’s happening! Hearse Con at the Stampede in Aurora is always worth checking out— excellent oddities vendors, sick af hearses, and goth baddiessss ahh 🩶🖤 Check it out! www.hearseclub.com/hearsecon/he...

Happy #bloomscrolling on this #rosewednesday 🌹 First blossom of the season and bunches of buds getting ready to pop.

Sweet baby Harold gets “Christmas” (yogurt container) every couple of weeks, and he’s always delighted 🥰 #dogs #dogsofbluesky #Anatolian

I love this vegetable paella recipe from ATK 🍽️ Feat. artichoke hearts, zucchini, onion, olives, garlic, tomatoes, rice, and peas

French lentil soup with potato and spinach 🍽️

serious feel-good story of the day, week, month, year.... be sure to watch the video!! coloradosun.com/2025/03/20/d...

AG Phil Weiser: "Jeanette Vizguerra has lived in Colorado for 30 years and has kids and grandkids here. Detaining a grandma does not appear to be about public safety. I continue to have serious concerns about violations of due process..." buff.ly/PRfyUDU #JeanetteVizguerra

Read Mahmoud Khalil’s letter from an ICE detention facility: defector.com/read-mahmoud...

🌱 #gardeningsky we are, I think, in the home stretch in our battle against the utter nightmare that is mature, abundant Nightshade.

Book Mail!!!! 📚 my preorder of Oathbound by Tracy Deonn arrived today from @paperbacksfrybread.bsky.social I’m so stoked to delve into this finale!!!

😍 The speed with which I clicked on this gay whales article was both impressive and… well... I think I sprained my thumb.

And that's exactly what our dean just did bsky.app/profile/josh...

1. A new Texas bill outright criminalizes being transgender as felony fraud. It is one of the most alarming bills that I have ever seen. Though it stands little chance of passage, its rationale is already being used in other places and by the trump admin. Subscribe to support our journalism.

My sister just told me that the Pink House in Conway, AR is on the market and idk what happened but I’m really sad to learn it. This is a great article from 2019 on this historic queer community cornerstone & beacon of hope. John and Bobby were so special. 🌈 www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/ju...

POV your Anatolian heard it’s supposed to be warmer than single digits this weekend

Everything is temporary. So why are you feeling stressed? If that easy time passed, this difficult time will too. Gurdeep.org

I don't have any words of my own as this week draws to its close. But this poem resonates. Maybe it will speak to you too. Shabbat shalom, friends -- even amidst all of this.

New bike day! @bradwrench.bsky.social and I assembled a new Rad City 5 this evening.

I love us & our crazy adventures. Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 💌🎶 “I'm feeling devious/ You're looking glamorous/ Let's get mischievous/ And polyamorous” 🎶🌹

I will have to look for the meeting notes from @dredf.bsky.social as I got a message from zoom when trying to join that “The webinar is at the host’s allowed capacity”. This is virtual standing room only and I’m low key glad to have gotten this message 🥹

Do this! I chastised Google for cowering to the orange traitorous power-hungry narcissistic felon in office and pleaded with them to change it back. It's been the Gulf of Mexico for almost 500 years and no one person should be able to decide to change it based on his ego and weak nature.

Already the news is rather, um, effervescent this morning, so let's all just stop here and rest and enjoy this bird break, featuring a photo of what is definitely, absolutely a bird (photo by me)

Newsletter: The tech industry has turned on the consumer, using abusive, manipulative software as a means of extracting wealth from every corner of our lives. Both society and the tech media must fight back, as I believe many of us deeply love our tech. www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/