If you didn't regularly stay up into the wee hours of the night reading under the covers with a flashlight when you were a child, then please don't tell me that you understand what it's like to resist authority.

Good morning from the orchidiarium! Happy Saturday. 🌱#bloomscrolling #orchids #hoya

Hello #writingcommunity and #poetry lovers 📚💙 The #poetrybrew this week is for the nature lovers 🕊️ “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry

LIFT.👏 THE. 👏 CAP.👏

9/ This is an enormous reminder that eradication isn't permanent without continued investment. We eliminated screwworm. I said it last week and I'll say it again- keeping threats at bay requires funding, surveillance, expertise, and long-term commitment. Prevention only works when we keep doing it.

Update on my Dendrobium unicum:

Oh please! Oh please! Oh please! Possible inflorescence on my Den. aggregatum?! I’ve had this one for at least five years, this would be its first bloom.

Scarlett cup blooming today.

Larkspur growing along a bike trail. Had to stop and take a picture.

Sometimes we have to laugh to keep from crying.

I will not vote for anyone who does not commit to expanding the court to 13 seats and imposing term limits on justices, retroactively if legally possible. You should not either. It must become a job requirement for Dems in Congress and the White House.

"Every upright conscience cannot but decisively condemn any racism, no matter in what heart of place it is found. Ultimately, it emerges in ever new and unexpected ways, offending and degrading the human family." #SaintJohnPaulII #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Really feeling the centre cannot hold so it’s time again for this gem

First poppy of the season. Poppy “Allegro.” 🌱 #bloomscrolling

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert

Do the thing you told yourself you were going to do. It is crucial that we build a trusting relationship with self. Start w small moments of honor. Listen for the ques, then honor them. Gotta pee? Go. Hungry? Eat. Feeling blah? Shift environment. Trust begins when we are reliable. Nurture it.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. ~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) #Photography, Olly Brock.

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

My dendrobium unicum is a blooming powerhouse. This is a third rebloom, loads of buds setting, on four inflorescences. 🌱 #orchids

My Dendrobium nobile is reblooming! I think this one is Red Emperor ‘Prince.’

Finished crocheting a wool blanket for friend’s toddler daughter today. I call this one my columbine blanket

Another paphiopedilum for your #bloomscrolling pleasure.

This timeline sucks, but at least there are orchids. Paphiopedilum. 🩷🌱

#captainamerica #punchanazi #marvel

You realize what’s happening right now, don’t you? You have to see it at this point, right? I mean, they’re not hiding it anymore. The GOP is dismantling the protections of the Voting Rights Act for one reason: they assume that white voters will save them. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/not-racist...

Key Lime reblooming for me this morning. 🌈🩷🌱

BREAKING: A Closer Look at the King of Planets. 🪐🛰️ NASA has just released a new perspective of Jupiter so sharp it’s almost impossible to comprehend. Those intricate, marble-like swirls aren't just clouds—they are colossal storms, many of which could swallow Earth whole. 🌍🌪️

Wow, this is fantastic.

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“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!” Jabberwocky By Lewis Carroll #WyrdWednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

New acquisition. Dendrobium nobile Oriental Smile “Butterfly.” Love the color and fragrance. Smells of apricots.

My Hoya “Shooting Stars” - I call her Jaberwocky

Planet Earth and Milky Way from Space

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter...

Jesus said, “Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” —John 13

The countdown to the 25th amendment has begun.

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

Update on my Den. Hawaii Stripes #orchid #bloomscrolling 🌱

Beautiful zygo 🌱🩷

My goodness is this one slow to open. Den. Hawaii Stripes #orchid #bloomscrolling 🌱

Finding joy where I can. Two first time bloomers this morning. Brassiocattleya Little Birds and Zygopetalum Advance Australia HOF.

I had a rare WFH day on Thursday and got to spend desk time with my emotional support cat.

Poems for Lent (Day 15) • William Wordsworth •

In the last 14 months of Biden's term, 1,740,000 total jobs were created. In the first 14 months of Trump's current term, 150,000 jobs were created. That's a ratio of 11.6 to 1 ... The idea that "Republicans do better on the economy" is and has always been BS.

Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) to Face the Nation: “I don't have any obligation to fund a Department of Homeland Security that is violating the law every day, just like I don't have any obligation to support this war that is illegal as well.”