LilyLeftTheValley

🤗 The whiplash of the weather is a bit hard to take in such quick succession, but it could be worse!

A square shaped artwork. The background is a cream wallpaper with a dark pink, light brown floral painterly pattern. On top is a hand embroidered male House Sparrow standing on a mound outline.

"Springtime in the garden - House Sparrow"
Hand embroidery artwork
#SmallBirdSaturday #birds #WildlifeArt #embroidery

The overnight dusting is already melting. Oggers has been alternately lap hogging and cat TVing. Mendel is plaintively mewing in the hallway, hoping to lure me out early to feed them breakfast. (Not just yet, dear. Soon.)

The "scattered sprinkles" (I kid you not) NOAA forecast have begun. 🌦️

Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland & Jack DeJohnette - Live at Montreal 2003 YouTube video by Samo Salamon

Rare Herbie Hancock trio set.

youtu.be/fG-wN0G1c9k?...

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Self-own of the decade: BuzzFeed pivots toward AI slop, loses everything.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

American Crows are familiar over much of the continent: large, intelligent, all-black birds with hoarse, cawing voices. They are common sights in treetops, fields, and roadsides, and in habitats ranging from open woods and empty beaches to town centers. They usually feed on the ground and eat almost anything—typically earthworms, insects and other small animals, seeds, and fruit; also garbage, carrion, and chicks they rob from nests. Their flight style is unique, a patient, methodical flapping that is rarely broken up with glides.

PSA TODAY
#TheOutpost 🌱🌿🚶‍♂️🪶🐦
American Crow Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Americ...

Beginning to think the people who mocked expertise and purged the state of experts lack a complex understanding of the world

Ice wine - Wikipedia

At one point I lived in western NY where I first experienced ice wine made from grapes left to winter freezing. 😋 So not long after I found them, I ended up wondering if anyone ever tried something similar because cranberry wine apparently does exist.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_wine

Dunleavy administration forecasts hundreds of millions in new revenue due to higher oil prices A biannual revenue forecast indicated the state would collect $545 million more than previously anticipated in the current fiscal year.

Alaska's Department of Revenue projected $545 million in unforeseen revenue through the end of the fiscal year, due in large part to higher oil prices driven by war in the Middle East.

So...not until people shut up about the Epstein Files, Bibi is no longer in a position to hold kompromat against him re the Epstein Files (or anyone else in the Israeli government), or until Papa Nurgle calls him home to the Fields of Rot and the Eternal Plague Circus, gotcha

For many Black women, the Target boycott is not over. It may never be. A faith leader announced the end of a yearlong “Target fast,” but many Black women who helped launch the boycott say the movement wasn’t his to call off.

We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back.

Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: “[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.”
19thnews.org/2026/03/targ...

🔴 Puttering around outdoors righting things that the winter weather had set askew. Noticed three cranberries poking out of the snow.

Curious, I brought them in, rinsed them off and tried them. Tart, wondrous flavor--and according to online harvest times for New England--completely out of season. 😏

Thank you!

This will make you paranoid, but you should read it anyway. Inappropriate surveillance & another case where our laws haven’t caught up w/ our tech.

HELP US IMPROVE LGBTQ+ HEALTHCARE (there is a QR code to scan) Understanding queer healthcare experiences: Implications for medical education A survey-based research project Members of the LGBTQ+ community complete an anonymous survey identifying ways that healthcare for queer folks will be improved; then medical students and residents will complete a second survey assessing whether their curriculum touches on issues identified by the LGBTQ+ community in the first survey If you are over 18 LGBTQ+ and have ever received healthcare in the United States, we would love if you filled out our survey regarding your experiences receiving healthcare. This survey will take approximately 15 minutes. All answers are kept encrypted and confidential. PI: Dr. Bernard Noveloso, novel1bd@cmich.edu Affiliated with the Covenant Healthcare College of Medicine at Central Michigan University

I was sent this really cool opportunity for LGBTQ+ individuals to participate in a study that is seeking to improve healthcare outcomes for queer individuals. Please share widely!

designs for the obverse of a dollar coin featuring Trump, via https://www.usmint.gov/news/media-kit/semiq-dollar-coin

You know what we're not griping about enough? That Donald Trump's face is going to be on U.S. currency—on $1 coins—later this year. This will be the first time a living president has appeared solo on a coin, and one of the very few times a living individual has ever been on U.S. coinage.

This is absolutely awful...as expected from that waste of carbon.

Translated: 'Anything bad that happens won't be MY fault.'

I have accepted the fact that eventually I will turn to Linux, but with the current brain fog I'm not sure when I might be able to do so.

Totally unrelated...but now my brain is recalling FLW2 errors from a completely different time...what a headache! 🪷

I've not been using it that long (less than five years maybe now?), but for my needs it's been a good fit. It did take a bit getting used to the new UI, but that's to be expected.

I've not had glitches, but as you said it may have improved over time or I'm not using it in the ways that glitch.😅

You may be bonked on the head by a small car while running here.

Have you not yet heard of Libre Office suite?
www.libreoffice.org/download/lib...

saw an advert for a film festival of literary adaptations which included a clip from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and that's sent me into a logical spiral

so, was 2001 an adaptation?

The moment when I realized there's so much going on that my brain didn't realize it's a Friday the 13th until someone mentioned it in a post. 😩

What a timeline to be living!

A sky blue trailer with the words Spin and Go mobile laundry self service parked under the El in the Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia.

Just saw Roz Pichardo of Sunshine House in Kensington post about a partnership with this mobile laundromat service, Spin & Go, which offers free laundry services to Philly's unhoused population. Apparently, a returning citizen started it. El pueblo salva al pueblo. nationaltoday.com/us/pa/philad...

‘Groundbreaking’ UN agreement on justice for women to include those in prison for first time As numbers of incarcerated women approach one million globally, campaigners are hoping the recognition leads to action The “groundbreaking” inclusion of female incarceration in a global agreement on justice for women and girls adopted at the UN this week has been hailed by campaigners as an opportunity to bring about change for hundreds of thousands of women in prison around the world. The agreed conclusions of the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70), being held this week and next at the UN headquarters in New York, explicitly mention “women in detention and in imprisonment”. They set out to address their plight while taking into account the links between discriminatory laws, violence against women and girls and increased risk of incarceration. Continue reading...

‘Groundbreaking’ UN agreement on justice for women to include those in prison for first time

And a text from the local paper saying the county (DeKalb, the Illinois one) has a confirmed measles case.

The entire state of South Dakota (the hellhole where I live) only has a population 925,000. THE ENTIRE FUCKING STATE.

A dumb war makes Trumpworld dumber Tracking the inane MAGA responses to the White House's war frivolity.

War is an extreme action and, thus, triggers extreme reactions. Including extreme stupidity.