This evenings flowering weed is a tiny bluet, Houstonia pusilla... first one this year. Last year was a REALLY good season for them, let's see what they do now...

Not a bad way to end the day

... that hour when you have to look really closely to tell whether it was a bird or a bat

Opens Threads Sees a guy asking if it's time to put Trump "I did this" stickers on gas pumps like Rs did during late-COVID $-gas for Biden MAGA: "idk what y'all are talking about, gas is cheap in Texas" Others: counterexamples MAGA: I'd never live in a Democrat shithole place like *Indiana* ...

Might be done crocus posting for a while ( :

Good day to stand with her lil feet in the creek... it's warm already ... this was yesterday--today she wanted to put her whole belly in the water, and was mad that I wouldn't let her. (No time to give her a bath)

... y'all need to stop using "the 1900s" to mean "anything up to 100 years before the year 2000"

Gator and crawdad étouffée 👍 Delicious, and somehow Lenten

...read this for "lampooning them doesn't discount the seriousness of their actions... it undermines their power and status", but it's actually a good article top to bottom

Two things can be true: Proton Mail had no choice but to comply with a local court order--they did the correct thing there. And This is still gonna be a PR nightmare for Proton, whose users probably don't think about treaty obligations when reading the TOS, which they all totally did

Why is it *now*, when I've got to get home, that she is pondering how far we should go?

.., okay, I thought the point of taking her out here was a "walk", but... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Flowering weed: henbit deadnettle, Lamium amplexicaule... I had seen a few of these already, but there's suddenly enough to color patches of the grass purple

Flowering weed: Dandelion, Taraxacum... I've been told not to try to narrow it down much beyond that, Taraxacum is a bit of a mess ( :

Flowering weed : we've got a good patch of common chickweed across the lake as of today...

Flowering weed -- lotta bittercress out today! Always hard to get a picture of this guy

finally, a streamlined social media experience

My kiddo declares that the little odd scrap bits of nugget parts in the dino nuggets are "nugget coprolites"... I can't argue with this!

I woke up w a headache so I called in for the morning and took the dog for a longer stroll. It's a lovely day out... even getting a little warm now #ncwx

More crocus posting?

Current status

You can't see me!

Accurate depiction of cat with a little salami

"Going on a stupid little walk for my stupid little mental health"

... why is 10:30 the time my dog gets riled up and wants to play either tug or fetch, and thinks jumping up on me or Mrs. @cpgrouchy.bsky.social carrying her toy will convince us? ...

Today in #critterspotting I thought I saw a pickerel frog when I took the doggo down to the creek before work. This evening I definitely hear them! And the toads, and the spring peepers... Also: saucer magnolia must be near its peak, daffodils loving life, buckeye leaves starting

The only one who could ever reach me / Was the son of a…

Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"

TRUMP CONFISCATES RAIN ON PLAIN. FILM AT 11

... sitting here at 6:00 running Jira jql queries for stuff to stuff into a report, and cussing liberally at it bc it keeps trying to autocorrect my query

Oho... *popcorn dot GIF*

It's 4:00 and I'm waiting on a colleague for a project and I'm getting hungry Can somebody email me a taco or something

Kristi, you're doing a heck of a job

... wasn't Dolan the one the MAGA guys wanted to be Pope?... Self-proclaimed über-Catholic Vance is picking a fight with the guy his own people liked best? After Timothy Cardinal Dolan offered him a face saving kindness...? Maaaan. These guys are just exhausting

#ux problems: why *do* we make everybody wait however many seconds and click thru stupid captcha tests to see (eg) a menu...

Anyway, this is a good reminder if an LLM-generated text has these strikingly novel insights, it is almost certain that they come from a book that your academic library has lying around in an external warehouse somewhere and no one has requested it in decades.

Iran has choked off 90% of the world's chili reserves by closing the Straights of Hormel

How your email finds me

*opens Threads* *sees somebody with a question they could have googled... but a linguistic question, not tech help* Detailed helpful answers... obvious jokes, some funny... and a sub-thread of "you're obviously American" *closes Threads*

... he made Washington into Bill Maher, but with eyebrows

Uhhhmmm don’t love a Bluesky dev publicly calling the entire user base conspiracy brained. If Bluesky users are prone to conspiracies @alex.bsky.team it’s because y’all place no value on communicating and don’t give people enough information, forcing them to come to their own conclusions.

Wisdom. xD

ok, look: if you're proud of your product and you're advertising a freebie that's great; if you want me to take a survey before you give me anything that's... probably fine; but by the time I'm answering set-up questions like a compliance training, I'm gonna close the tab and never look at you again

since it's gonna be topical here AGAIN... a college-friend of mine hates DST. ... no, not @knittingdaddy.bsky.social , though he does too. MP on DST: marypatcampbell.substack.com/p/here-comes...

None a' these!

Post a tree you have photographed.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

One of my grandfathers was a security question, the other was applying for a bank account...

what do you mean “frolicking” isn’t a deliverable. are you super sure

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