We aren't emphasizing this enough to our young service members
#SupportandDefend

Buttato

NYTimes puzzles getting spicy 🥵

Our MINI has opinions.

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender

This is Stan Lee, and he would like to give you a hug.

He would also like to ask why we call them "prickly pears" when "spine apple" is right there....

After ten years in a professional environment where I have been ignored as either Cassandra or Chicken Little...(Sometimes by the same person in a single conversation)...and now that we're about to swear in a rapey Russian asset and his oligarchs, I've prepared a thoughtful and thorough response:

The invisible hand of the free marketplace of ideas apparently slapped him in the digital town square.

Finally get to play the #SixGenerations chart game!
Note the question marks on the Ancestral places - most of these families came from Europe so long ago, I haven't been able to trace them to their true Ancestral places.
In my sixth generation, one 3rd-great was born in Ireland and two in Germany!

This is Emilio. He lives in our patio furniture.

Reppin' @pseudopod.org at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens today and ran across this tentacular delight.
#notcuddly
#notsnuggly
Still #awesome

I'm launching a new music newsletter - to start off, I'll share albums that have been bringing me joy, but once we have a few subscribers I plan to do more.

open.substack.com/pub/allkinds...

Striking out on a new adventure with All Kinds Musick:
allkindsmusick.substack.com/p/hello-brav...

How do you find your way when all of the world's music is at your fingertips?

Thanks to @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social and the @theignyteawards.bsky.social Awards committee for recognizing @pseudopod.org ... and to the impossible crew at Pseudopod for letting me be part of the work you do!

Christmas joy in our family: reading @chucktingle.bsky.social book titles to my son

Home sick most of this week, with COVID nipping at those around me...

But also have a cheerful fire in the fireplace and 75% of my kids coming for Christmas next week.