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Beautiful sky this morning & birds are loud. Saw a bright yellow VW bug drive by. It made me smile. Exhausted from yesterday. She always wears me out. I don't know where she gets her energy. Nurse comes today & I have to face the shower. Will try to catch up more later if I don't crash out.

A THIRD FUCKING TIME. Jesus fucking Christ. Just in a year!

What I liked about the few pics I saw posted was that they showcased the talents of the people who made the clothing that might not otherwise have been seen. Some of them were outstanding & thought-provoking.

As someone whose sibling was in a wheelchair: 🥹 Royce Lewis saw a boy in a wheelchair at a signing and people kept cutting in front of him — so he took off his Jordans and signed them for him and went home in socks Amazing story from @audramartin.bsky.social

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

Long day. Mostly navigating & visiting a friend's family & friends. Coming home hairy from just before Emigrant. Thick with fog all the way to Yuba Pass to where you couldn't see the guardrails or lines on the road. Was glad I was there to keep her company, though.

It was going to be my first stop at Machado's, but they are no longer there. Marionberry pie, acquired.

The first time I got married, I was working, but my mom made sure to send me a cookbook of 1,000 Chinese recipes so that I could also learn to cook like his mom. She had already taught me that mopping the kitchen floor, done properly, was with a bucket, on your hands & knees, to see all the dirt.

Americans were rounded up and deported then as now and many other times. For being Brown.

Is it #showheart That’s the tag i think…i so rarely find them around and i think this is my first heart to show y’all. Be Most Excellent to Each Other✨

The pipeline would eventually cross 234 miles of tribal land. The hearing initiating the project caught community members off guard.

The first one. I haven't listened to them all yet. Perfectly smokey. It's that "woman walking into a private detective's office" vibe.

I LOVE editing poetry, thinking about poetry, living within other people's poems for a while. Won't you give me the chance? This month I'm accepting manuscripts (from single poems to full-length books) and, frankly, I'm ready to pour my heart into them. blacklawrencepress.com/consultation...

Someone west of me sure must be getting a tremendous sunset but the cedar forest gets in the way of me seeing it. #906Life #puremichigan

This is masterful. The idea, the subjects, and most importantly the execution, because the on-point styling and photography makes it hit.

They're killing Brown people. This is ethnc cleansng.

Having a very regional discussion with a Reno friend. When you "go over the hill," do you stop at Ikeda's or Machado's? Yes. This is about pie. No one on BlueSky has any opinions about that.

The ten cents on every can sure saved my butt at the end of the week or month when I was in college, if I could find enough of them people had thrown out. Washing out bottles to refill them at The Body Shop before that became taboo, & promoting Polartec at The Nature Co. Passionately.

The BLM closed Tikaboo Peak and surrounding land for at least a year, likely forever. Citing, “safety” reasons. www.blm.gov/sites/defaul... It likely had more to do with increased YouTuber activity than anything else. The last public viewpoint of Area 51. From my trip, 2016. #PublicLand #BLM

They should really take a look at me. The doc wanted me on Keytruda, but it wasn't "standard of care" for my cancer, so I got Jemperli. I got the vax jab every time it was available. Was put on hospice 8 months ago & after discontinuing treatment & told 3-6 months. I was just trying to keep the ppl

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The bus-food axis: millions of Americans live in transit deserts where accessing healthy, affordable food is an inconvenience and an extravagance

When you notice birds, you might also notice the kind of developments that could pollute the area around you & you might advocate against them. When enough people advocate and stop them from happening, it improves not only the health of the birder, but the health of their community.

Why should people care about preserving regional cookbooks? 🕳️ In VANISHING CULTURE, Katie Livingston explains why the humble home extension cookbook should be preserved and shared for generations to come. 🎧️ Listen on the Future Knowledge #podcast futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van...

Mental health is ALWAYS a priority ❤️‍🩹💚✨

Another in the “Shadow Geometries” for #Blueskyartshow theme #ShadowPlay

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I need the right head space to work it into verse, but even when I was 22 & my bed was nothing more than a mattress on plywood on cinderblocks in the living room bc I didn't have a couch & in the bedroom I had two cheap filing cabinets w/a board across them as a desk & a bookcase, I would do "spa"

I love how this poem moves from funny to serious I've seen this. The bar in Belfast International Airport. We heard the alarm, could smell the smoke & sat on & finished our pints. I have witnessed the second half of the poem too. It's time to pour our pints on the fire #Poetry #Poemoftheday

The "change password" area needs to be easier to find on all apps/tech devices so that I don't have to spend 20 minutes with tech ppl trying to figure out why I can't reconnect the TV box thingy to the router. Why bury it behind several other layers of shit?

Just gonna start with a #ShadowPlay post for #BlueSkyArtShow With a little elusive one i had to go digging for last night. A soft one from Sono…(2023) #ArtofSelfPortraiture

I made a second #swirls double exposure for #Abstractia and i think i like it better than the last. Sono Una Fotografia On body and identity #ArtofSelfPortraiture

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Marenisco, Michigan Pop: 172 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marenisco,_Michigan Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=185514024 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39848629 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53277445

A bit how I had been cutting my hair over the last year, only, imagine over my ears, as well, & at one point, an under-layer as much as I could reach where that bony spot is at the back of my head! The $12 wig (wig #2) is a bit thin through the bangs, but better, overall than #1. I can slap it on

This Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the communities whose traditions, knowledge, and connection to the sea continue to shape how we care for the ocean today. Stay tuned for content that showcases this strong and beautiful community. 😍 🌺 💙

An appeals court has made it harder to access mifepristone. But for decades, people have been having safe abortions without it. From Embedded, the story of the OTHER abortion pill: misoprostol.

One insurance denial for Teressa’s husband stated, “your newborn does not meet the criteria for coverage.” “This is when I really start to think they’re just denying,” she recalled. “They’re not even looking. They’re just ‘deny, deny, deny.’” (Published Sept. 2025)

I might have done some of this yesterday. Does it count if it was a 50% off candy bar, a 75% off bottle of Malbec, & a little at home "spa" kit I've been eyeing for a year? Going to mask from head to toe today!

she’s right.

"Up in Seth's Room," by Norma Fox Mazer, published in 1981, would probably never have gotten published. The young man, a high school dropout, is 19. The girl who likes him is 15. If I remember correctly, she navigates the situation well. Not explicit or graphic but gritty.

For Trump, bulldozing through an ancient cemetery and destroying an internationally known 1,000 year old petroglyph is a great accomplishment—part of his effort to erase any evidence that anyone other than white Europeans ever lived in Arizona. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

T X has what's called Election Identification Certificates. They're free. You prove you're you and are a citizen and you get one valid for 6 years.

A great read & way to get out of town without leaving your favorite chair. You can smell the pines & the fear. It wasn't my usual genre, but I enjoyed the characters & the setting immensely, which led me to read both this first one & the sequel. I recommend picking up both for a nice escape.