Wordle 1,724 5/6 🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Grrrr I hate when that happens

Wordle 1,719 2/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Hot diggity! Not bad!

My daffodils have begun blooming. It reminds me that winter eventually ends, at least for a time. As I recite each year when I see them flowering: Daffy-down-dilly has come to town In her yellow petticoat and her green gown

Wordle 1,717 2/6 🟩⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I'll take it!

Wordle 1,716 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The greens of Spring are here.

Inspired by yesterday's liver cup, today I had a delicious chicken liver mousse with a honey walnut fig balsamic drizzle on the crispiest crostini. Followed by ricotta gnocchi with mushrooms bourguignon, and then hazelnut mille-feuille. I. Am. SATED.

Screw the Winter Games, I'm competing for the

I'm so amazed by the art I see in my feed. Quilts, embroidery, cross-stitch, drawing, painting... It's marvelous.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Flynn is watching the #PuppyBowl! #DogsOfBluesky #acd #cattledog #heeler

This song still holds up. youtu.be/a20pAUy1Mes?...

Currently re-reading.

In the great tradition of protest songs, Springsteen delivers. Let's see the right try to use this song from the Boss at one of their rallies--not much room to misinterpret this one, but never underestimate that bunch.

Happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day to those who celebrate!

My senators out there paying attention!

Our great horned owl was close by last night: "Hoo hoo, hooooo. Hoo hoo, hooooo."

An excellent piece by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social.

This is so interesting. Like pumped storage, but without the need to be near a big body of water with hills--it can go just about anywhere.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

The nurses who cared for my dad in his hospital stays were so kind and strong. The nurses who cared for him in his last stay, who saw him through to the end, were some of the most compassionate people I've ever met.

Pretti died after asking a woman he was with if she was OK. Good died after telling the man who killed her that she wasn’t mad at him.

If you think American citizens should be summarily executed by masked federal agents, you’re not a patriot. If you think the lawless goons loyal to our demented pedophile criminal president are greater than the people of Minnesota, you’re not a patriot. You’re a fucking Nazi.

Wilhoit's Law: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

dude if he does the coin toss and dies on the spot and collapses like a sack of rotten onions I’ll convert to a religion tonight

Flynn went for a ride to the farm store to pick out a new toy today. He's pretty happy with his ChuckIt Amphibious Bumper, even though we don't have a pond or anything. It has a rope that we can pick it up with--the actual toy part is covered in dog slobber within the first couple of tosses.

Flynn was skeptical of the choice to be indoors on a nice winter afternoon. Not that he doesn't love being a couch potato; he's a champion snoozer when he's of a mind. #DogsOfBluesky #heeler #acd #cattledog

Well, that worked out just fine. Wordle 1,667 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This one's pretty okay, too Wordle 1,666 3/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Pretty happy with this one. Wordle 1,664 2/6 🟨🟩🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Heard a great horned owl hooting in the firs before dawn.

Her 12/08/25 New Yorker piece about her diagnosis and illness and the grave risks her cousin poses to healthcare was really heart-wrenching.

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Kindness is good for the heart and the mind.

This piece and Riki Lindhome's "So Long, Farewell" breakup anthem are a few of my favorite things.

A C-list anti-vaxxer wanted to know if I was really stupid enough to believe that vaccines work by preventing disease, not infection. Yes, if “stupid” means 200 years of evidence History class is in session. Do you know why vaccines are called vaccines? rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/how-vaccin...

Feeling appreciation for the solstice and the promise of longer, brighter days.

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Flynn went to the farmers market today and saw some very large, conical cabbages. But his favorite part was getting a little pup cup of whipped cream from one of the lovely vendors!

The time is out of joint!

"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas."

He's nuts.

Eardrum fully healed!

There was a time when "the president is going to address the nation" used to be so sobering and serious, and now it's gonna be something like, "Cap'n Crunch has been artificially held at that rank too long because of Woke. As of tomorrow, I am signing an executive order to make him Admiral Crunch."

Fat Donnie has announced that he'll address the nation tomorrow. I can't even guess what it's about, but I know that I will be horrified and completely unsurprised.

Shocking and upsetting news about Rob Reiner and his wife. Really just awful.

This one's pretty good, too.

Happy with my second-half comeback on this one. Wordle 1,639 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

We had great horned owls hooting in our trees early this morning, before sunrise.

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