Dave the Pondering Introvert 🎷

I believe this is what the literature calls "being perceived" 🐅

Vibrant spring hyacinth bursting with joy on a slightly rainy day. Colours are predominately in pink tones with a few dots of yellow, white and purple in the background. Greenery surrounds these beauties that all sit at the base of a grassy hill. On the top of the hill a few little steps in the grass bordered by cement urns containing a variety of flowers

finding joy is an act of survival

#FlowersonFriday #gardens #nature #photography #youmatter #lookaround #wellbeing #mentalhealth

A spray bottle, for close talkers.

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

There is so much evidence of bad faith behavior it feels like the really egregious acts get lost in the noise, but see: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

IMO OMG GET A GRIP – POSEIDON LECTURES THE IMO - Ocean Rebellion Poseidon, Ruler of the Ocean, and two, naked, merpeople, disrupt festivities and lambast delegates at the UN IMO MEPC80 drinks reception.

and here's more about the Poseidon moment from @oceanrebellion.bsky.social

oceanrebellion.earth/imo-omg-get-...

Snow-covered trees lit by a light under a black night sky.

Black sky within

Saariselkä, Sápmi, Lapland

#WhiteReindeer #arctic #black #BlackSkyWithin #sky #night #light #frost #snow #trees #SkyAndEarth #travel #Saariselkä #Ivalo #Inari #Sápmi #Lapland #scape #snowscape #frostscape #landscape #nature #chatgpt

Credit/Photo: INGEB

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Sunflowers in front of the Chicago skyline that appear as tall as the skyscrapers behind them.

Sunflowers
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJuxtaposition
#UrbanGaze #Chicago #scape
#ColorADay #YellowThu #sunflowers

Throw a hip into them (as long as they have the puck) at about a 45 degree angle and give a little push upward just as you hit

I am an "AI hater" so I argue that it shouldn't be used for research (writing, recipe lookup, email summarization, etc.) at all

Yeah in Northern CA this week, I saw $5.79 for Premium and $6.89 for Diesel. By shopping around, I can get 91 gas for $5.14 but I expect my next tank will be substantially higher as prices are still rising here.

it’s a mystery worthy of benoit blanc

😂

It's N95 Mask time. It's carry hand sanitizer time. It's social distancing time.

Please keep yourselves safe.

GNU TERRY PRATCHETT

#gnu #terrypratchett

Wow, well done

Leave us out of this fkn war!
We in California didn't vote for the #Felon47!
#StopTheMadness

Selfie if the author in an under the see patterned jump suit.

The author with her book noumenon and her book the helm of midnight.

Traditional birthday selfie is late because I slept in due to the major storm last night. P.S. I don't feel guilty hawking my books today--there are seven to choose from!
bookshop.org/lists/books-...

Well I assume that the followers were lost while on a march - following you through the perils of the dark realm.

Too many years reading various fantasy war series, I guess. I cut my teeth on Zelazny's Amber series

mornin' sunshine

Always tough on the road through the gorge with the waterfall on the left. Too many Bandersnatchi hiding in the trees. Good news is that you can usually recruit replacements in the valley of snowdrops

When Americans were asked to temporarily sacrifice going to their barbers so we could keep the morgues from overflowing, people with guns stormed the Michigan capitol.

I could use some ideas for the Saturday meeting - if you know of any good ways to help make things better right now (candidates to watch, organizations doing good work, good sources of actionable information) - lemme know!

Iran Drops Unredacted Epstein Files Over U.S. (A plane dropping leaflets)

On Toad’s birthday Frog gave him a hat. Toad was delighted.

Black-and-white photo of an elderly man in a long coat, leaning into playing his violin beside a wire fence and flora, with an open instrument case on the ground in front of him.

Adolfo Kaminsky