I made signs. #nokings

Police chief was just asked if students should carry their documentation on campus now that the university police has been deputized to do immigration enforcement. His answer: “that would help.” FIU is a show me your papers campus. Sad to see this at this otherwise great school.

Post your Lock Screen

The little, potted desert rose near my door is putting on a show. Figured its efforts at looking fancy deserved a wider audience.

The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.

I don’t consider myself a good person by my own standards of conduct but it kinda bothers me how much it turns out nobody cares at all. Like, in the abstract, I feel like “you should keep your word when possible” should be a thing we agree on and it stains our honor when our country doesn’t do that.

"But remember: the vast majority of art is not profitable. Neither are most of the things that make life survivable. Teaching, caring for elders, and helping people escape domestic violence, just to start." annehelen.substack.com/p/this-is-ho...

It is a truth universally acknowledged...

DOJ "...is shutting down its kleptocracy initiative that’s recovered billions of dollars from corrupt overseas officials since 2010 and the KleptoCapture task force, which has led efforts to confiscate yachts, planes and real estate from rich Russians sanctioned over the war in Ukraine." Of course.

Need good arguments to share about why USAID is worth protecting? Here are some sound bites from Sen. Marco Rubio, who firmly supported US Aid until a few weeks ago!

taking this great advice to get me thru the next 4 years and thought, fuck it, why not make it permanent. I recommend you do the same. Today - new jacket

If you have even the merest, inchoate feeling for type and album cover design, this thread will please you.

Folks, the greatest tweet is now a skeet by the original author. Deploy as needed.

Apologies if you are allergic to mango pollen. My yard is clearly part of the problem.

I know the references are dated, and Minchin is actually Australian, but for me personally, this has always been my Florida Christmas song. Happy holidays everyone. youtu.be/fCNvZqpa-7Q?...

1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, but only because it was connected to the possibility of winning free food at McDonald's.

I do! They're pied wagtails, and I wrote about them a while ago. One of my favourite, favourite winter things! www.newstatesman.com/culture/natu...

Nice quality to the light this morning in South Florida, so I figured I should once again post plants. It's what my followers demand.* *No followers demand this. At all. Ahem... nevertheless, the closeups are jatropha (red), beauty berries (purple), and allamanda (yellow).

Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.

The obvious conclusion is that my favorite genre of music is "Bands that begin with the letters L or N".

Some absolutely phenomenal, long-term investigative reporting on the completely out-in-the open, career criminal infested, ecosystem of illegal slot machines in South Florida. Some real jaw dropping stuff in here, with more to come later in the week.

🍽️ If you happen to be a giant fucking cooking nerd like me with an unhealthy amount of appliances, just here to tell you can cook turkey parts separately, and still end up with a carved plate like this.

Kudos to the @miamiherald.bsky.social for also covering the politicized University Core Curriculum changes at FIU, which are limiting students' options for learning and keeping faculty from doing their jobs with endless, arbitrary bureaucratic demands. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

I am *certain* our comply-in-advance administration is squirming at this article. Cheers to my colleagues who stuck their neck out to denounce the renewed assault on academic freedom in FL www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

Plant posting continues... A heliconia, being visited by a couple of flies.

Great article about the absurdities involved in the politicized "revision" of Florida's University Core Curriculum, where a very standard Anthropology of Religion class was removed because it taught about "unproven content"... like, um, religious belief. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

I made an unholy American cheese version of Pecorino Romano that I call Pecorino Americano. It's made with milk, sodium citrate, salt, sodium hexametaphosphate, and Pecorino Romano. Got that nice salty bite, but melts like American. 🍽️ #foodsky

Post you from a different era. Swansea, 1999. In my "wouldn't it be cool to have blonde hair like Sickboy from Trainspotting" phase. Folks, it was not cool.

Everybody is fighting a battle you know nothing about. You are, quite frankly, a piss-poor war historian

Weather keeps being pleasant, so I'm going to keep posting plants. Pink Firespike with some Cape Honeysuckle in the background.

Squint hard enough, and this counts as a geography story #geosky . At the very least, it is certainly an entertaining "rich old man's idiotic hubris" story.

Good morning! Since the temperature seems to have fallen out of the "stupidly hot" range, figured I'd go outside and snap a picture of my bromeliad doing its thing.

Drinking boxed Pinot Noir, sitting on my couch waiting to watch a 58 year old Mike Tyson box a YouTuber. Exactly how I thought my adult life would turn out. 😉

Great writer and all-around good person Scott Pianowski is here to provide us with fantasy and Rounders-related content. Very happy about this.

Thanks to @sfdb.bsky.social for putting me in their Florida starter pack. Now that I have actual local followers (hi!) feeling the pressure to actual post stuff. So, um... here's a picture of my Mexican flame vine, taken just now!

*falls through the roof of a French bakery* Help, I’m in so much pain

Really glad to have my local Broward County paper, and the many excellent journalists it supports, here on Bluesky.

Everybody tell people to follow me here!

I think the idea of self-care has become really warped, so I'm switching to making "maintenance and morale" bigger priorities in my life. Maintenance is eating right, sleep, hygiene, cleaning my apartment, doing all of my laundry. Morale is seeing friends, fun adventures, hobbies and takeout orders

I’ve always loved the origin of the word amateur on this kind of note- it’s literally from the Latin word for love, someone who is doing the thing but not for money, just for love. Doing things for love is good.

Raised this cardboard palm from seed, and now look, it's all grown up (and because it's a cycad, a male, at least I think?)

Gonzo/Scooter/Rolf, which I think means (quite correctly) I'm an earnest, weary, competent weirdo.

I wrote about the long and important history of laughing at fascists and the Democrats' "weird" allegations against Trump and Vance as an extension of that tradition: bad-faith-times.ghost.io/weird-and-th...

Shell ginger flowers just past their prime.

Plumeria in week two of its spring bloom-a-thon.

I am genuinely shocked I remembered to do something 200 days in a row.

White ibis snacking on bugs in my yard.