all the firsts after you lose a pet are so brutal the first time coming home and they're not there, the first time you instinctively almost call for them, the first time you go to reach for their food to feed them, the first sleep without them nearby knocks the wind right out of you

My volunteer pumpkin patch got a much-needed pop-up shower just now.

[cw pet illness/death] As we are nearing the time where we have to say goodbye to Graham, I wanted to share the remarkable luck that we came to be a family. Below is a picture from the zillow listing when we were looking at houses on Cape Cod, and he was on the then-owner's bed.

[watching two crows chase a hawk] i'm gonna need a bit more information before i know who i'm rooting for here

we've got MAGA, who would rather support pedophiles and fascists than face they may be wrong about stuff, and then we got liberals, who would rather let the people MAGA supports win than face they may be wrong about stuff.

Curious why, with the recent update to my phone, suddenly every single attachment i have ever sent or been sent to my phone since 2017 (photo, screenshot, gif) all of which had been previously deleted, are now appearing as newly sent in my iPhone storage Because praytellwhattheeeefuuuuck

Dem leaders: fuck you I do what I want, run for Congress yourself if you don't like it People: ok sure *primaries them* Dem leaders: no not like that that's not what I meant please I was just trying to call you people dirty plebes

The etsy witches and the revolutionaries yet to be named

The mom of one of my son's classmate saw my free Palestine tshirt tonight at pickup and complemented me on it, and then invited me to a "Moms Against Fascism" group that meets locally?! And suddenly I feel so much more hopeful for the future😩🥹👏🏻✊🏻

Allowing the suffering of others will never ensure your future freedom.

what if it happens on the fourth of july

It was never just about sports. It sure as hell was never about protecting women. It’s about trying to erase trans people, which will never happen, and it’s also about restricting bodily autonomy.

It's always wHy didn't yOu VOTE hArdeR and not why didn't biden put trump in jail and expand the supreme court

This should have been 9-0 in favor of the plain text of the 14th Amendment. I expected it to be 7-2, figuring that Alito and Thomas were lost causes. But to have it come down 5-4 on the 14th Amendment argument--to have both Kavanaugh *and* Gorsuch go the other way...man, that's bleak.

I figured your day might be brightened by a pumpkin blossom, idk

i cannot stress enough how much this man should not be the democratic presidential nominee

Maspee Wampanoag Powwow is coming up, and wanted to share. "Come out for a weekend of dancing, drumming, food, vendors, contests, community, and culture. Bring your family, invite your friends, and help us spread the word!" #mashpeewampanoag #capecod

I'm really making a huge effort to keep our parenting stuff even, and resist becoming more of the enforcer of rules than my partner. Which is ironic because while I was pregnant I remember him joking that I would let this kid get away with so much stuff. Ha.

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Happy Pride everyone

Milkweed 🧡🩷

Hydrangea 💙

"Fishing" in the backyard

We did it 😎

[cw pet illness/death- in case you want to skip over posts like these, I try to remember adding this] Not that there's ever an easy way to go about navigating pet loss, but Graham's declining health is so hard to gauge when it's "time" vs other pets I've had to make the call with.

i rose up from my bog for this?

GUIDE: Welcome to the Great American State Fair! TOURIST: Incredible! And which state are we in right now? GUIDE: (violently shaking their head) Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Interested in seed saving? Elspeth Hay spoke with two local pros about how to get started.

You have indigoed your last girl

free her

We're rewatching WarGames, and dang, it hits different in the age of fuckin ai "General, you are listening to a machine. Do the world a favor and don't act like one."

I had previously never heard of a place called culvers

Land back starts with Mar a Lago

I'm pleased with this

you wanna see what kind of person stancil is? go see what he is posting about this today. go see who he is sending his goons after.

I have gotten over 10 businesses to sign up on the anti-ICE pledge in the last 48 hours and they're coming in quicker because I think it's finally catching steam/cachet within the local scenes. Some really big ones, too. People are starting to tag their favorite businesses to sign.

I've said this in various ways before, but almost every time I am gardening, it flashes back: there's no fucking way you could take even the slightest glance at the infinite variations of nature and honestly believe "tHeReS oNLy tWo gEnDERs" Like, be so for real

Small milkweed bug on the milkweed, a little on the nosey

we need more education about how the long-term punishment of Haitians is crucial to the white supremacist project a proof-point for them about why you should never rise up, how you can never be free

Seeing a lot of coverage about the TPS ruling being a "win" for Trump's "immigration agenda" and what the story really should be is that this ruling paves the way for an expansion of ethnic cleansing. Because that's what has been happening and will occur moving forward.

Grimly amusing Dem machines think they deserve some sort of entitlement hierarchy. My entire life, everything has been moving backwards, politically, democratically, bureaucratically, judicially. You are all failures. You are presumptively part of the rot that must be removed down to the root.

Just got woken up because of a searing pain, by what appears to be a spider bite on my back, painful enough to wake me from a deep sleep in the middle of the night cool cool cool cool cool

Help my partner is watching Point Break again

I grabbed a baby raccoon with a peanut butter jar stuck on its head while it was running through city traffic, and pulled the jar off to rescue it.

Our neighbor shared some lamb's ear last year and I had no idea how absolutely obsessed the bees would be about its flowers🥹

I am not a lawyer but I know the Supreme Court’s rulings today violate international agreements on refugees & migrations that the US is party to. Because international law matters when states enforce it, this is a political window for democrats to insist the treatment of refugees & migrants matters