New sign to keep in my car. Y’know, just in case.

What a [bleep]ing snowflake this POTUS is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

DC Folks: caseytrees.org/sign-the-pet...

Anyone live near me in DC and are to join for noisemaking at Kansas and Blair? 5 minutes a day and it’s fun. freedcproject.org/news/dc-here...

Finally getting produce from my much-neglected garden. This is the time of year I vow to do better next season

I just learned that I qualify for a senior citizen discount at the lovely thrift shop down the street and am not at all sure how I feel about this.

Bailey, f/k/a Beetle (shelter name), f/k/a ??? (first 14+ years of his life are a mystery) Feb. 25, 2009 - Aug. 24, 2025. He was a good boi.

WTF justification can there be for a resting a person while they are going through the proper citizenship application process? A US Army veteran who was injured in service to this country by the way. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/08...

ICE just posted this video taking down the sign in Mount Pleasant on Twitter.

I just successfully cleared the clog in my bathroom sink drain and nothing in my entire professional career gave me as great a feeling of accomplishment.

I don’t even have words for the evil of keeping badly injured children from receiving medical care

Hard to disagree

Bailey is very cute when he sleeps

Look at this face. Maybe you’re at maximum cats for your household, but also maybe you know a friend who needs feline companionship. If so please tell them about Banjo. I think if properly introduced he do well in a multi Animal household. He loves company and playing and not being bored

I really worry about the world the next generation or the one after it will be growing up to live in.

Seriously, how can you not want to bring this guy home?

Reminder: Banjo is affectionate, playful guy, and available for adoption

The situation at the immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” has gotten so bad that detainees have been on a hunger strike for over ten straight days.

Anyone in the DC area need mire feline affection in their lives? Meet Banjo, a swet, sociable, playful guy I’m fostering

Little dog has fallen asleep on my foot. Am trapped; send help!

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Trombone Shorty! A great night at Wolf Trap.

WaPo: We've killed our independence and objectivity, please like our owner NYT: Trump Making Amazing Deals, White House Says; Mamdani Late 4 Times in 6th Grade CBS: We'll censor things you dislike, here's millions of dollars, please let our parent do a merger WSJ: BREAKING: TRUMP-EPSTEIN LETTER!

“Elites and their nonprofit gatekeepers encourage us to make small, ‘reasonable,’ or ‘winnable’ demands, and they try to redirect our action to official channels that are non-disruptive, with narratives about ‘peaceful protest’ and ‘coming to the table.’ They encourage reforms premised on the…

Also the air conditioner will be repaired today after only 1.5 days and not in the worst heat so I’ll call that a win.

I made a thing!

First summer harvest. The shishitos are just getting going. There is also the promise of banana peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, a single (volunteer) eggplant, delicata squash, beans, sunchokes, and possibly ground cherries. Not bad for a season of neglect.

A reminder on this Independence day. Never mind the recently disappeared and those held in concentration camps

Truly, we live in the stupidest of times.

I feel claustrophobic just looking at this picture but wow. What a win

That’s it for my trip pictures. I realized towards the end that I should have hash tagged them, but as it is you’ll have to go through my whole feed to see. Sorry. But there’s more travel pix than other things for this segment.

Last set!

Final day, Lisbon. (The official tour ended on arrival but I stayed two more days to see the city.) Banksy museum. Did you know there’s a Banksy museum in Lisbon? I did not before this visit. Loved it. All are reproductions, presumably from photographs, so far as I can tell.

Lisbon. Multi-story buildings decorated in the famous local tiles; A view up one of the city’s many hills; the Rua Augusto Arch built to commemorate the city’s rebuilding after a devastating earthquake in 1755

Still Porto Santo, in the Christopher Columbus house museum. He lived here a while after marrying a Portuguese woman. I do not know who St. Catherine of Alexandria was, but she seems to have kicked ass.

Porto Santo Island, Madeira Islands. First we were driven around to appreciate beautiful scenery.

More Funchal. A huge ring of flowers decorates the road. We were there during a flower festival but missed the parade unfortunately. Statue and ducks in a pond in the park, and very cool vendor table with jewelers from upcycled n espresso pods.

Cruise day 7, Funchal, Madeira Islands. Morning bus to top of hill to see view and church, cable car/gondola ride back down.

Telescopes and the road back down.

Cruise day 6, Santa Cruz de La Palma, Canary Islands. Roque de los Muchachos Observatory. Another drive up steep, windy roads to 7,860’ above sea level.

Day 5, the road to and from the Teide Obervatory. Unfortunately no good pix from the observatory itself, but it was an interesting tour, including a chance to view the sun through a properly fitted telescope

Cruise day 4 was a day at sea. On day 5 we visited Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, and made the first of two visits to observatories.

The meal after the tea was something else.

After lunch on Gorée, we headed for the ship and left harbor around 4 p.m. Day 6 (Day 2 of the cruise) was a day at sea, so not pictures. Nice to have a chance to rest and feel less ill. Cruise day 3, Dakhla, Western Sahara.A

Day 5, Île Gorée. Beautiful island with beaches, dining, vendors. Historically played a role in the slave trade and the fort where people were held before being shipped across the Atlantic is an important site.

Day four. No pictures because I was feeling really sick, actually starting Thursday afternoon. One of the few businesses open was the dive shop, so I went out with them but ended up aborting the dive b/c I did not feel good about it. Not the shop’s fault, though.

Day three. Thursday, May 1. Labor Day, major holiday in many countries. Did I think to check this before leaving? No, no I did not. So I did not visit the African Art Museum or the Museum of Black Civilizations. The African Rennaisance monument ent does not close, so visited that.