I’ve been making small #papercraft emblems for #DiaDeLosMuertos Here is the completed pile of monarch butterflies and sugar skulls (Next post, a short 10-second monarch butterfly glue Timelapse)

LA Metro D Line (purple) extension that goes to LACMA will open in Q1 2026, not fall 2025. Here’s an Oct 15 rundown by LA Streetsblog la.streetsblog.org/2025/10/15/m...

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'" I've saved her some time.

quoted for truth: ‘“Since the fire, I most relate to other people who also experienced it,” Pedersen said.’ 🎯💯

Ohtani speaking for all of us saying "I want to go to sleep as soon as possible."

they call it America’s pastime because it’s past the time we all need to be in bed

Will Klein!!! Freddie Freeman!!!!! Good Night everybody. Sleep well! 6 hours 39 minutes for this game

Remember: if it's white smoke coming from Dodgers stadium, a run has been scored. If it's black smoke, we play another inning.

The Jays and Dodgers will break for Christmas Eve to share a drink in no man’s land, show each other photos of the family they left back home, before heading back to their respective trenches.

The Dodgers organist playing from Gilligan’s Island A three hour tour

the year is 2047. water is currency. emperor dwayne ‘the rock’ johnson is humankind’s last hope against the army of octopus that walked out of the seas three years ago. the dodgers and blue jays are starting the 17,432nd inning of game 3 of the 2025 world series.

Was just talking about mystery area codes in CA (where is that code mapped to? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) Found this historic map of area codes. Area codes kept getting divided. First by fax machines, then mobile phones and, of course, population growth. www.lincmad.com/map1970s.html

Happy middle of the night watch to all who celebrate. Had one of those zonked first sleeps starting at 8+ pm (very busy day), got up, washed dishes + watched Jane Austen-discussion YT vids. Am now finding this first sleep/2nd Sleep article about a different era. tedium.co/2020/10/30/s...

Gardening again in Communal Garden. Standard collards and purple tree collards lettuces doing nicely I harvested a couple where 2 plants grow together. Let the lesser Lettuce have a run! 🌱 Pro tip: shade cloth over lettuce in #SoCal #SGV Sunset zone 21 / USDA Zone 10a works for Aug seed sowing!

I'm looking at this L A Taco guide to see what to do to take part in Día de Muertos lataco.com/dia-de-los-m...

The other #Papercraft I cut out last night is here: sugar skulls and flowers made with treble clefs. (All inspired by an remembrance altar for my brother, who played guitar) Alterations will need to be made

Translated: “I made a variety of papercraft umbrellas 😆 They even open and close!♪ #handmade #papercraft #umbrella #handmade #papercraft”

Went to Altadena Public Library’s Fab Lab Yday to make small #Papercraft #DayOfTheDead art. I feared that the black paper for the monarch butterfly was gonna tear apart coming off mat, but it was strong enough! 📸1️⃣ cut out, before glue 📸2️⃣ on the cricut mat (Yes, the 🦋+my NoKings sign are related)

I’m so heartened to see #SGVHabitat and a large group volunteer effort to rebuild homes destroyed by #EatonFire Pondering how to help. 1st, Himself’s remediation, +a big Family of Origin home project. It’s OK, there’ll still be lotsa work to do by time I’m ready to 🔨 www.instagram.com/sgvhabitat

/4 The last time I saw a reach-out this undisciplined it was when Michael Avenatti called me at work to tell me that everyone was laughing about what a nobody I am.

/2 In fact, the NATURAL AND PROBABLE CONSEQUENCE is that you look like a whiner. Second, she arguably violates 6(e) by revealing grand jury information. Third, she argues. DON'T ARGUE WITH REPORTERS. Fourth, she violates DoJ press guidelines. Fifth, she displays ignorance to a reporter...

Yes, it might be entertaining if people weren't being stolen off the streets, and actual physical wreckage of parts of the White House complex. Would that someone with this kind of "thoughtfulness" reached out with contents of the Epstein Files.

“Day of the Dead started to emerge in popular culture in the 1970s during the Chicano movement and one artist who was critical in that transformation was Ofelia Esparza.” New Ofelia Esparza exhibit opened at the Vincent Price Art Gallery at ELAC in Monterey Park (til 4/26) laist.com/news/arts-an...

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

I began sewing again during the mask-making stage of pandemic, put the machine away (argh, don't have good space for it) So when I saw a link on 🦋 re setting your sewing space, I clicked, viewed. Later, 🔎 for "sewing room" showed this thread, about why it's hard to make clothes in the US of A.

I wasn’t exaggerating it rules so hard

Elites collapsed and capitulated. Regular people never did. #NoKings

I love Pasadena. I love L.A. I love this country. #nokings

We brought our own frog! (Psst: it's @ador.bsky.social!) #NoKings #Pasadena

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Out on the street among hundreds of thousands marching for Liberty #papercraft #papermodel #statueofliberty #nokings

No Kings Pasadena! #nokings #nokingspasadena

The signs 🪧 I made that we took with us to the very well attended #NoKings demonstration in Pasadena, CA Preamble to the Constitution And “The only orange monarch is a butterfly”

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

Rereading text messages from the multiple family health crises of 2024 (2 brothers, +partner), and so much happened in so short a time. A good re-read. Looking at MacOS/iPhone apps to export (+print?) message threads. iMazing (liked) Keepster (website gone) iExplorer (used this a while back) …>

The Epstein Files remains the only hostage not released.

As we get closer to starting the remediation for my S.O.'s Altadena house, this sense of "at last! remediation can finally begin" is also an embarkation on a process with its own challenges for the people doing the remediation.

I listened to both episodes of this podcast about Catherine de Medici, thinking this was the Medici woman donated all the Medici art to the City of Florence, but no. That Medici benefactor was Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici. So dear @thehistorychicks.bsky.social, consider this a request for a story.

A friend who lived in Pasadena area decaders ago is in town. Today we visited old haunts (our 1983 apartment!) & I took her on a tour of Altadena to see #EatonFire's destruction. She, over & over "my goodness!" Here n there a house being built After, I needed chocolate & a long nap. Oh, Altadena 💔

They should all write: I spend a lot of time fact checking the lies from right wing media outlets.

funny that this would immediately bring musk to mind because i do believe the ultimate goal is to make CBS news useless in much the same way musk essentially destroyed twitter

Don't make the mistake of believing that this represents bad management. She has been hired to corrupt or destroy CBS News in the service of billionaire oligarchs, and this is one step on that path. Can't judge a man's marksmanship unless you know what he is aiming at. bsky.app/profile/oliv...

He came up as an activist with now elected officials Maria Elena Durazno, Karen Bass, Antonio Villaraigosa, and Gil Cedillo. With his booming voice and stature, Kent was a *presence* felt in every room he was in, and even when absent. inthesetimes.com/article/jame...

Kent Wong, longtime worker advocate, has passed. He was the Founding President of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Director of the UCLA Labor Studies Center, and a strident voice for justice. A 5th generation Chinese American, Kent cut his teeth as a lawyer for SEIU in Los Angeles.

The UCLA Labor Center is deeply saddened to share that Kent Wong, our former director for more than 30 years, has passed away. His legacy lives on with every staff member and student at the UCLA Labor Center. labor.ucla.edu/statement-on...

Sepulveda

Andromeda #1 Exhibited at Astoria Art Center in May 2025 10 x 10 inch Pulled mulberry paper on stretched canvas #paperart #mulberrypaper #interiordesign #comfortart

Finally cool enough in SoCal SanGabrielValley to cook with the oven. Trying Samin Nosrat’s buttermilk chicken recipe. This little butternut squash (harvested from the communal garden I volunteer in) had an expressive moment in the midst of food prep. It’s now cubed and ready to go in oven. 🌱