Everybody: "Stop using beach/leisure pictures when covering a heat wave!" WHYY Philly: "I gotchu"

Well, I suppose I shouldn't be running the 3D printer during a heatwave anyway. (yes it just globbed all the filament around the printhead, despite being in a perfectly air-conditioned house)

Put a bee waterer out and decided in the middle of the rosemary/oregano would be the most shaded spot, and accidentally pushed over and then released an oregano spike that a bumblebee was in the middle of so that was, uh, entertaining.

Purple *used* to be my favorite color. 😐

I am of the age "every doctor's appointment spawns two more." (I'm fine, there's just a LOT of preventive/diagnostic stuff when you get old, it turns out. And every time they ask "when did you last have X checked" I say two years and doc looks at my chart and says, mmm, six. Time flies!)

I always have a pack of dollar store earbuds, mostly for my kid but also for strangers, and lately I've gotten a lot of "I don't have a jack" and now I realize that that doesn't have to stop me from using them to solve the problem.

"There are 366 species of hummingbird, and every one of them would destroy the world if it didn’t have to spend its time constantly finding little sips of nectar." 100% true. (The idea that R2D2's beeps are swears absolutely came from hummingbird watchers. Foul-mouthed little jewels of the air.)

Sent Kid 1 out to get groceries and they said "guess what's out there!"

I had to put a disclaimer that they're not fully-dimensional plush shoes because look at that blue one! It's the same design as the pink one, just stuffed plush instead of flat faux-leather, and yet!

Okay, y'all are in a doom spiral. It's bad! But swapping increasingly dramatic "what if" stories isn't gonna get us out of it. Not gonna cook myself in it.

I tell you what, the new clipboard on trixie is about to make me ragequit Debian. I uninstalled it on the 4GB laptop because it kept getting Inkscape oomkilled, and now it's doing the same on the 32GB desktop. (I should not have to say it but: do not parachute in to suggest a different distro)

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

Coincidentally "one" is also the number of justices that they have to flip or replace next time, ON A BASIC QUESTION OF "is the Constitution still valid?"

Tom Kean Jr.: "Depression is so shameful I must drop out of sight and refuse to answer constituents for months." Great message, good job. (not sure which is worse: that it's true and he believes that, or that he is covering something actually shameful and believes depression is okay to underbus)

Plant stand restock in progress. Philly people, I’ll be at the riverwards produce in Fishtown from 4-7 selling native plants to our neighbors! Come say hi, get some plants!

I haven't kneeposted in awhile so: I'm down to at-home exercises and time, but today after doing all my little exercises the newer knee was flexible/strong enough that I could walk down stairs a little with it. 🎉

Pretty sure @rincewind.run could drop this in as his daily Pratchett quote and aside from the archaic spelling and not renaming Pompeii we'd all go "huh, don't remember that scene but it checks out; probably time for a reread"

who could have foreseen it

Currently on a tech support chat (human managing 30 simultaneous issues? AI? who knows) so the odds are even that when we're done my phone will once again have a data connection, or that I will lose the phone number I've had for decades and which all my 2FA is linked to. Love living in the future.

oh hey john

Landscaper last year: "and we'll fill in with a few herbs until the natives take over" Rosemary this year:

I feel pretty confident in saying this was *targeted*: Wikipedia is one of the last bastions of actual reliability and that cannot be borne.

LRP: Philly has great neighborhood names. Wichita tried to "revitalize" its river neighborhoods by renaming them wait for it "River East," "River Center," and "River West." 🥱 The neighborhood that literally used to be a separate town went "nah, we're still Delano."

Moth Mullein (Verbascum blattaria) shot this morning north of Gray's Ferry Avenue, in the area between Forgotten Bottom & Devil's Pocket. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Wildflowers #MothMullein

Someday I will remember that the good frozen kimbap came from Costco, not Aldi, and the store that keeps getting kimbap back in is Aldi, not Costco.

Apropos of nothing at all, this is a picture I took some years ago of a neighborhood parade float built by two people on a shoestring budget, in a church gym, with minimal hand tools.

This app will have truly arrived when I can search "fireworks" and find out which of the zillion municipalities around is doing their fireworks a week early in broad daylight. (Woodbury. It's Woodbury.)

There’s a baby bird in my lavender

If you post slop videos, you get blocked. If you post slop videos while begging for donations for an animal rescue via PayPal instead of via that rescue's Web page, you get double blocked, by which I mean I also unfollow the person who boosted you into my feed.

They want Temu tomes. They want Shein-ce fiction. 🫤

Independence Day is coming, time to load up the printer with red white and blue and make patriotic prints.

NWS is aware that forecast.weather.gov is still down. We have restored weather.gov. Technicians are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. NWS’s local Weather Forecast offices continue providing forecasts, alerts & decision support with no interruption. Other NWS sites aren’t impacted

Things I never thought I would type: look at how they greeted the Algerian team arriving back at the DoubleTree in Lawrence, Kansas

And the inexperience really shows. My town of 10k people puts on festivals that are better, and better-attended, than the nonsense on the Mall right now. It takes practice. You gotta recruit people who have done events before, before you go national with something.

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

I assume it's actually referring to sites I've visited in tabs but mobile Firefox saying "20 Trackers Blocked" on its own bookmarks page is kinda funny.

This "person" has been all over the South Jersey feed, posting obvious-to-locals fake photos of Cape May. Probably a pig butchering scam, but maybe (given the "Blue Wave/Vote Biue" part) a politically-oriented phishing one.

Maybe it will happen on Saturday. (It's certainly going to happen for a number of people. 😔)

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Tower: "This is why you should still be flying RJs."

May the odds be ever in your favor

To avoid WHAT now?

They have done this here in the train-station lots and WHY WOULD YOU NOT WANT THIS? (Aside from fossil-fuel donors, of course) (Alas, they don't produce more than the trains themselves use because being able to recharge the car while I'm in the city would be *chef's kiss*)

MEL BROOKS IS ALIVE PLEASE BEAR THAT IN MIND WHEN YOU SEE BIRTHDAY POSTS ABOUT HIM TODAY I REPEAT MEL BROOKS IS VERY MUCH ALIVE

Got mine in there, last minute. Bid on a tee, help democracy!

I love that Lush has left Meta and X and joined Bluesky!

Excuse me, I was told that New Jersey did not get as hot as Kansas

Getting the bug of the month sign ready for July. The rules for bug of the month are that it must... 1) have visited the garden in the last month 2) be a native species 3) be cool as hell. So far the bugs of the month have been Black Swallowtail 20-spotted Lady Beetle July? Lightning bug.

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