One of my fig cuttings, the Tia Penya, started throwing roots within 48 hours. The other two look fine, the Tia is kind of crazy. It's a newer cultivar, so who knows what'll happen with it.

The garden is waking up. The passion vine has the tiniest, eensiest little leaflets at its base. I pruned my mature fig trees heavily, so they won't wake for a bit, but the young fig trees all have leaflets, and one even has a figlet. The oak trees are trying to murder me with their pollen.

I told myself I wouldn't try to propagate fig cuttings this season, but clearly I was incorrect: Bordissot Negra Rimada, Col de Dama Gegantina, and Tia Penya. I'm pondering putting in a black elderberry somewhere, but I'm not sure if I have the space.

may his memory be a revolution

It's not quite wake-up-the-garden-time in Houston (the garden never quite goes to sleep here, either), but I'm plotting to grow some sunchokes this year. I'm putting in a small, dedicated bed to contain them. I ordered a more compact cultivar named Supernova.

No amount of "correct" behavior will keep a fascist from lashing out, just like no amount of submission will keep a domestic abuser from abusing. It's who they are. They will make any excuse, or they won't make an excuse and just do it anyway.

The word "state" is identical with the word "war." - Peter Kropotkin

may every single Border Patrol guard experience no day of peace, or hour even may every ICE agent be reviled in public and private, be driven to such despair by the hatred toward them everywhere may their loved ones too late walk in to find them on the floor may they disappear from all the earth

I’m reading Feed by M. T. Anderson with my English class right now, and this feels like something straight out of the story. Such a gut punch.

If I hadn't already left The Satanic Temple, this would have led to that same outcome. It's great that they acknowledge that the book has many flaws. It's fucking disgusting that they are claiming it as an "original Primary Text of [their] religion."

I swear fresh persimmons are the best thing about this time of year.

Please hear me when I say that 1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements 2) they pre-date the age of social media 3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence

What does TST do that isn’t done better by someone else with the added bonus of financial transparency? No one needs to go to TST for food. Or for an abortion. You don’t need to slap a pentagram on those services.

New awareness campaign

PSA: Satanic Temple is led by a reactionary, borderline-fascist grifter. PLEASE do not amplify the claim that they are magically going to feed a big bunch of the WIC/SNAP folks set to go hungry. At a minimum, that's doing free PR for bad people. And it potentially gives the impacted false hope.

The thing about people showing you who they are through harm is, they do not get to claim publicly to be anyone different until they do the work of public repentance and repair. So if your dirtbag faves are "better" now, well. No they're not, not until they do that work

see? www.facebook.com/AnarchoSatan... we can also make a bright red FB post people can share (but not videos, and probably not 4K+ shares)

They're right, you know. It's insane that people still think this group is some kind of savior. No outsider is going to come and save you or anyone else. Look into your own community. Read about mutual aid. WE SAVE US. That's what Satanists do.

Lessons in Magic and Disaster dead ass captured a slice of queer culture that was so formative to my young adulthood. And now I’m a mom to a queer teenager, and it’s just amazing to have books that see us, written by us. @charliejane.bsky.social

Huh. I wonder why the same doesn't hold true when Lucien speaks about CK. I'm glad I left TST. How embarrassing.

When I was a congregation heads we were specifically told we could not make any official statements regarding George Floyd's murder and TST would not rush to make a comment.

It’s not a surprise that The Satanic Temple couldn’t be bothered to have anything to say about all sorts of violence related to anti-Black racism, transphobia, or retaliation for pro-Palestinian speech by fed/state governments, but TST did quickly come out to say this. This is just what they are.

Now, “Lucien Greaves” *usually* has a sneering contempt for members of The Satanic Temple who expect him to denounce frivolous stuff unrelated to TST’s mission (as Misicko defines it). Just see his Substack. It would’ve been fine for him to let the Charlie Kirk death pass by, too. But he didn’t.

If you join and then leave the abusive organization that is The Satanic Temple, you risk being subjected to a smear campaign. It’s a year after I left, and I’m still being accused of theft. They won’t specify what they claim I stole, but that doesn’t stop them from repeating the allegation.

Baby Cherry Cordial fig tree just chugging along.

Always and forever.

The Satanic Temple is not a leftist organization, despite what most of its “card-carrying” membership thinks. The leftists who did the work in TST exited en masse in 2024. If you look at the social media of the leadership who remained, they regularly sneer at “SJWs” and leftist activism.

I'm a guest on It Could Happen Here with my friend @jamesstout.bsky.social , this time talking about something else we should all care about: the very biosphere we exist in: omny.fm/shows/it-cou...

Local teacher union leader running for State Rep. We're in a social media group together, where she commented towards me that people of my religion and similar religions should stay the hell away from her. Astounding move for someone trying to enter politics. She'd have my vote otherwise.

I am at my school district’s convocation, and this is hell. I’m wondering if we will have to endure another musical starring and featuring our state-appointed superintendent.

Things The Satanic Temple will forgive: using the same account to post the organization's legal updates on Reddit that they once used to post 4chan bullshit, including repeatedly dropping the n-word with a hard r. Things TST won't forgive: making fun of the co-founder in a meme.

Giant swallowtail, freshly emerged from its chrysalis on my tomato plant.

I walked outside this morning to the most beautiful spider web. My fig trees are about six feet apart, and it spans between them. The spider itself is resting right in the center of the web. When the lighting is better, I’ll try to get a picture. It’s just so huge!

Part of the mural on the flood wall that faces Tug Fork, the WV/KY border.

Matewan also has a lot of Hatfield/McCoy memorabilia. The Walking Tour did a great job at putting it into perspective when it could be so easily cheapened the way the media spinner and exploited the whole feud in the first place.

Matewan was a great place to visit. The Mine Wars Museum and local walking tour is run by wonderful, knowledgeable folks who treat the history with the deepest respect. If you have any interest in labor history or radical history, this place should be on your list.

Currently typing from sunny Matewan, West Virginia. Tomorrow I’ll be taking the town’s walking tour and visiting the Mine Wars Museum. My great-grandfather was a miner and he was part of the labor insurrection, so it’s exciting to finally get to come here.

There IS a place for cops at Pride; it's barricaded inside the Stonewall Inn while a rioting crowd of furious queers outside uses uprooted parking meters as battering rams to attack the doors and shoves burning garbage through the broken windows; we welcome them back in their traditional role.

In case you think that The Satanic Temple is going to fix the rise of theocracy in the public realm (eg. 10 Commandments in public schools), I want to remind you that TST can't fix their own problems of being a horribly run organization that treats its own members with contempt.

This is what I have been trying to articulate since I quit working for The Satanic Temple (and was then excommunicated). The most likely outcome of TST's legal strategies is that tiny minority religions are just declared not "real" religions. There is no "one weird trick" to defeating theocracy.

the honor of a lifetime, sweating in my office and desperately trying to achieve the right degree of horny for a TINGLER!!!! long live chuck, donate to the street vendor fund, LOVE IS REAL

I love this so much. New from Witch Club Satan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvgi...

San Marzano tomato plant is now significantly taller than myself. Holy shit, that's a big tomate. My LSU Gold fig is making a goddamn bumper breba crop and I am here for it. So are the grackles, but that's okay because I can share.

I was all cranky because my passion vine had dropped several blossoms without fruiting, but now I have a large green fruit on the vine. Hell yeah. My San Marzano plant is now a gigantic monster and its tomatoes are nice little plummy guys.

was it his own podcast where he appeared as host

On the coattails of the Debacle of the Bad French Fig, my Cherry Cordial fig finally has some new growth. Thus my faith in figdom is renewed.