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A beautiful beginning to a day that turned out quite fine. My orange Oncidium orchid is going strong.

Some nice mushrooms from yesterday’s walk

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Grogu Now that’s a great title.

There’s still time to submit a public comment opposing this new rule. There’s not even 2000 comments yet. There’s a link here, easy to use. Took me just a few minutes, the time it took me to write this post. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

People died for the right to vote. People died for the right to vote. People died for the right to vote. This is not ancient history. This is my parents' generation. Today the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act. We cannot forget what it cost to get it.

The Taney Court gave us Dred Scott. A stain on America. The Roberts Court is building its own stain by gutting the Voting Rights Act, piece by piece. History is watching. History never forgets. Shame on you.

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

I kinda like The Godfather and Grogu, it has a nice alliteration

#NarratorCall: we need a Hawaiian male-presenting narrator for an incredible 4700-word story. $30 paid! If this is you, record a 2min sample MP3 and email it to [email protected] so we can check recording quality.

Thoughtful and amusing Star Trek science thread.

This is AWFUL and should get national press.

Pricing my artwork always feels this way. Choice seemed obvious until the room filled up with paintings.

Surprise is always one when I spell it correctly.

It’s so worthwhile to let conventions know you need childcare. My son had excellent care at multiple Worldcons and that’s because they knew how many parents needed it.

This is a great program to reward them for reading. Who doesn’t love free pizza?

This is so cool. I’m excited to learn they’re in California. I’ve seen camel spiders and wind scorpions in Africa but had no idea they were in the US.

This is a great thread for all of us who loved Nancy Drew mysteries. A comparison of two versions: 1930s and the 1950s revision

Happy fern appreciation day.

Always makes me happy to celebrate ferns.

Wow! This is very cool:

If you did not enjoy today, then call your reps and senators tomorrow and say this 👇

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

Made my calls. Have you? 5calls.org/issue/stop-i...

I'd read a piece of historical fiction about a pistol-packing 73-year-old former First Lady taking on the Klan.

I wish people wouldn’t complain about generations. You can’t help what year you’re born. Boomer, GenX, Millennial, etc are social constructs. Shift the years by 10 and you can create a group w different traits to complain about. It’s a prejudiced generalization about an artificial group.

Timely quote.

I know almost all of these orgs and almost all of them are the ones doing amazing work either as Israelis fighting to end the Occupation or as Palestinian- or other marginalized group-led orgs for their communities or some as I/P co-led building bridges towards the future or etc.

Can folks please take some of that wonder at the possibilities of science and engineering that Artemis inspired and advocate for science? That would be extremely cool and fun of you to do.

HR 7661, the Federal book banning bill, is unfortunately still alive. Please call your reps and say NO ON HR 7661! You can read the bill's full text here and see if your Congressperson is one of the 19 co-sponsors: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

ACTION ALERT⚠️ Dept. of Interior is trying to rush through a revocation of Biden’s public law protecting lands around Chaco Canyon from new oil/gas leases. They’ve given only 7 day for public comment, during Easter/Passover. Thread 🧵 below on why you should care, but here’s a link to comment! 🏺

Another classic.

When I see Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren endorse Graham Platner, it doesn’t make me trust Platner, it makes me lose respect for Sanders and Warren.

Was watching the Vger episode Tuvix today and thinking how much more fun it could be on Lower Decks. Why not take the DNA of Tuvix for a clone? Neelix and Tuvok could be its parents. Oh the chaos that could ensue.

Agree and this reminded me of how my son improved his reading via Pokémon games where nothing is spoken but all dialogue is written. Any pathway to better literacy is a good one.

Not much time left - it’s now or never!

I thought the deadline was 9 am Pacific? Either way, you need to get on it right now instead of waiting.

Even less time now.

Good point

I have a tree joke, but it’s too knotty to tell in mixed company.

One of my favorite things about living on Hawai’i: parking lot orchids.

It's such a deeply evil attack line and totally antisemitic. Rampant antisemitism is always indicative of national sepsis; history proves this. I don't know what else people need in order to be convinced that all of these lies are very, very bad for Jews, Muslims, and everyone else.

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

Also imagine if people were like “China threatens the existence of Chinese people worldwide because it wraps itself in Chineseness to justify its atrocities” (which it regularly does!). It’s an obviously bigoted argument in the first place.

Are you a trans person in the US looking to relocate from a high-risk state to a lower risk state? Did you know there’s a $10,000 no-interest loan you can apply for to help you do that? Link here and more info in thread below hfls.org/move-to-thri...

We need to move the World Cup out of the US.

Use our action center to tell Congress to speak out against ICE's detention of Nashville journalist Estefany Rodríguez and any effort to deport her.

Fundraiser with backstory: The doorbell rang. The coffee went flying. Did not land on any live wires so my room isn’t on fire. Hobble to door. Oh. There’s a package.

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