Awwwe! Some people lack enzymes. As for me, I adore glitter!
08.03.2026 05:32
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Awwwe! Some people lack enzymes. As for me, I adore glitter!
A really beautiful volcanic outcropping in the middle of ocean wave action. With a blue sky filled with fluffy clouds in the background.
I know this isn't all that far from the view of Pola Island, and yet I can't possibly remember the exact location (if I even ever knew it [lol, just ask me about navigating American Samoa]).
Just some fabulous music to keep me on track as I do my annotations www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl88...
A view of some beautiful parts of the National Park of American Samoa. Volcanic bits in the background surrounded by ocean with greenery-covered volcanic bits in the foreground.
Working at slightly long last to annotate all my photos from my visit to American Samoa. Lol, #goals for getting that done this weekend.
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
The Supreme Court:
A very small moon - one might say a toenail moon - shines above a neon sign which glows saying Club Raven.
The toenail moon shines over Club Raven. I can gush over one thing or another....
I had zero interest in watching Wonder Man until I heard both the Black Girl Nerds coverage and Talk from Superheroes episode on the show. And, OMG! Thank you both - Wonder Man was such a fantastic watch 😍 bsky.app/profile/blac...
I tried watching a superb owl for the first time in decades and, OMG, it was soooooooooo booooooring (I'm 1000% unexcited by both the game and the commercials). I'm home now and bringing joy to my life re-watching #StarfleetAcademy episodes. 🖖
Spoilers galore!
I thought it was also quite awesome to have Cirroc on screen again, too 😍🖖
I don't have a coherent response at this time, but OMG! I laughed, I cried, I loved!
Oooooo! Inspired by that other person who posted when the new #StarfleetAcademy episode posted last week, I checked just now, and episode 5 is up on Paramount+! Whew! And not a moment too soon since it seems spoilers may be every where. 🖖
Nonetheless, it needs to be said and I appreciate all that you say in clear, understandable and yet unflinching language.
The latest episode of #StarFleetAcademy was sooo good. My heart overflows with what we broadly learned of the Klingon story & more narrowly of Jay-Den's journey.
After listening to the SyFy Sistas podcast, I realize I must learn the correct pronunciation the humans actors' names. They deserve it!
@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...
#SaveNCAR
People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
Well, there's a pile of books but by no means do I have the energy to list all the titles. Take my word for it that it's a pile. Of books.
Alllll these books need my attention. And yet, which shall win?
Preview image from Star Trek Starfleet Academy Episode 3. Cadet Master Lura Thok and Professor Jett Reno are standing next to each other, each having a whistle hanging around their neck.
I chortled with glee for much different reasons during this week's episode of #StarfleetAcademy But overall, it feels like it's settling into itself more and I'm really enjoying it 😍🖖🌱
LOL, you'll make the PR team cry! These people have been making the rounds on allll the media lately...
I'm not surprised, you didn't really seem interested from what you saw at ComicCon.
Gina Yashere as Commander Lura Thok in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy who is of Klingon and Jem'Hadar descent. My fav teacher character!
I enjoyed the first two eps of #StarfleetAcademy with some caveats. On the good side, I think I might have actually laughed out loud several times and I already love some of these peeps! But I do wish we would get more than 10 eps so we could let some of the moments breathe a bit.
You know that thing where if you read a word too many times, it loses all sense? By the third paragraph of this piece the word "oil" ceased to have any meaning in my mind, only getting worse the more paragraphs I read. And now I need to rush off to a dictionary to see whence this strange word arose.
And another
Good was sadly not the first person shot at or killed by ICE this year. Posting a few that @cliffmay.bsky.social and I reported for @mcsweeneys.net earlier this year that did not receive the same level of attention.
Full list: www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest...
#LestWeForgetTheHorrors
I'm a Samoan master carver 🦇🪲🪶
Small chapbook titled Ginger Storm Artists- Poets- Writers and additional Samoan O Le Si'uleo O Samoa, Pago Pago. Cover also has a tropical flower of some sort on it.
Oh! And I eventually found the bookstore the bartender recommended! Lol, once I wasn't driving, I was able to spot it tucked away. Found some very local authors/works. 📚
A coconut with a hole has a curly blue straw inserted to drink all the coconut juice!
I cannot fathom having so many coconuts that you routinely sell them with a hole and a straw popped in as a beverage. Yet, here we are...
Pola Island in the distance across a bay under partly cloudy skies.
Where the Pacific meets the land at the end of the Lower Souma hike. Very pretty pools get water added every once in a while when the wave churn is high enough.
The innards white tendrils that are purple at the end) of some sort of flower rests on the forest floor.
Happy to be doing my second summer solstice for 2026! Though only being 14 degrees south of the equator doesn't make it feel incredibly solstice-y 😄☀️
Two books sit side by side. The book on the left, titled Haylanni The Journey to Miss Samoa has a woman in a white dress crowning a woman in tan traditional clothes with a white hair thing on the cover. The book on the right titled, Earth's Embrace by Lani Wendt Young, has the silhouette of a woman and a winged insect on the cover. Both are from Samoa and, in this case, will have to be close enough.
And when I asked the librarian at the public library her response was, what kind of books? 😍 Followed by clear directions and the information I needed. Lol, it's all about knowing who to ask. Thank you librarian and GIAS in Tafuna 💙📚
I do love to shop at bookstores when I travel but American Samoa has been particularly challenging on that front. I was so desperate I even asked a bartender (response? panicked look and vagueness 😄). Fortunately, I'm one of those librarians who visits public libraries when I travel 1/2
