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ICE and Border Patrol's rampant racial profiling and blatant disregard for the Constitution puts us all in danger.

Tell Congress to hold them accountable at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks-

07.03.2026 17:13 👍 905 🔁 324 💬 19 📌 16

Leaning into the peace of this gently wavering atmosphere, I added a lo-fi playlist to the soundscape. It was nice.

21.02.2026 15:21 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

I woke up this morning and the walls of my bedroom were shaded gray by an overcast sky. Then, the almost imperceptible noise of drizzling rain just barely faded in and out of hearing and a quiet grumble of thunder soon after.

21.02.2026 15:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Leaning into the peace of this gently wavering atmosphere, I added a lo-fi playlist to the soundscape. It was nice.

21.02.2026 15:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pink quince blossoms.

Pink quince blossoms.

Pink almond blossoms.

Pink almond blossoms.

Flowering quince.

Flowering quince.

A bee visits cherry blossoms.

A bee visits cherry blossoms.

🍑🌸BEWILDERING BLOSSOMS🌰🍊

Spring's great conundrum...which blossom is which?🤔

There comes a period in the year when species of ume, quince, peach, cherry and almond trees can all be seen in bloom🔍😵‍💫

#blossom #Kyoto #Japan #京都 #cherryblossoms #梅 #桜 #桃 #木瓜 #アーモンド

20.02.2026 04:05 👍 160 🔁 52 💬 3 📌 1

Will we wait to see whose side they're on before offering grief or defensive arguments for those who have fallen? Will we hear that a person was slain and decide whether or not to care based on some kind of scale of righteous morality? Aren't there situations in which murder should be decidedly bad?

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That's absolutely fair!

14.01.2026 22:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh, no, I just meant record the content at your leisure, then edit and post when you feel like it without any kind of timeline. Not sure how the guests would feel about that, though!

14.01.2026 22:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I suppose there may be a worry of the content being out of step with current events. I say keep the conversations... even if they go unpublished. Art will always be relevant, even if the current events don't line up.

14.01.2026 04:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's a truly wonderful show. Would it feel better to make a decision about it? I do understand the discomfort of meandering. I imagine doing it as you please might feel too noncommittal.

14.01.2026 04:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The back of a sign on which someone has tagged the phrase "butt stuff"

The back of a sign on which someone has tagged the phrase "butt stuff"

AI could never

13.01.2026 22:17 👍 187 🔁 29 💬 4 📌 2

The inexplicable hope of soft kindness for anyone and everyone.

14.01.2026 04:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Like sunshine in the winter.

14.01.2026 04:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And while I was never in the care of your presence or kind regard, I feel it deeply.

14.01.2026 04:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You, who mattered. Matters; so much; within your circle. You, who continues to matter.

14.01.2026 04:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Perhaps it is not so important that I understand why or try to make sense of our collective loss of you, Ms. Good.

14.01.2026 04:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Or, maybe the inability to judge or condemn a subject with pure heartedness or radical goodwill feels somehow offensive in itself.

14.01.2026 04:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Instead of exploring with curiosity, offensive skepticism, like a protective amulet.

14.01.2026 04:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Somehow, being unable to understand intrinsic kindness and empathy on a humanitarian level frustrates. Angers.

14.01.2026 04:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I imagine that the average "conservative" copes with skepticism.

14.01.2026 04:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think a lot of us deal with the frustration of not understanding something in different ways.

14.01.2026 04:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
the case for living 

Sometimes a breeze blows on a sunny day.
A pollen-covered bee crawls gracelessly
across a poppy, loading up on food
to share with all her sisters in the hive.

The first tomato of the year is ripe,
ready for salt and slices of fresh bread.
The juice drips, tart and sweet, down to your wrist 
before you have the chance to lick it clean.

You laugh, undignified and far too loud
as you remember what your best friend said
when you were young. She's long since passed, of course,
but every burst of laughter brings her back.

It's not enough, and yet it's all we have,
each too-small seed of joy unearthed from soil
watered more often by our tears than rain
and melting, soft and fragile, in our hands.

In lack of hope or some great blessed plan,
we hold and kiss and keep them while we can.

the case for living Sometimes a breeze blows on a sunny day. A pollen-covered bee crawls gracelessly across a poppy, loading up on food to share with all her sisters in the hive. The first tomato of the year is ripe, ready for salt and slices of fresh bread. The juice drips, tart and sweet, down to your wrist before you have the chance to lick it clean. You laugh, undignified and far too loud as you remember what your best friend said when you were young. She's long since passed, of course, but every burst of laughter brings her back. It's not enough, and yet it's all we have, each too-small seed of joy unearthed from soil watered more often by our tears than rain and melting, soft and fragile, in our hands. In lack of hope or some great blessed plan, we hold and kiss and keep them while we can.

In June I finished a poem about being suicidal and the tiniest things one can use as a carrot to keep themselves going, and here at the close of the year I am finally (mostly) ready to share it

31.12.2025 22:42 👍 229 🔁 65 💬 13 📌 0
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

18.12.2025 14:17 👍 21052 🔁 5486 💬 222 📌 552

7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds.

Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)

17.12.2025 04:26 👍 2047 🔁 1314 💬 163 📌 424

And suppose the shrimp head was actually some sort of ceremonial headpiece, armor (helm), or breathing apparatus (think diver's helmet) and it would pop off and the tiny creature's hair would float out, revealing a tiny human face. Which could also mean the segmented shrimp tail could be armor too.

17.12.2025 17:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Furthermore, there would be different shrimpmaid/mershrimp races based on the species!

17.12.2025 17:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If there are mermaids, but instead of fish, it was shrimp, would the top or bottom half be shrimp? Would the other half be a girl or fish? 🧜🏻‍♀️🦐🐟 (I delight in the idea of a fairy sized mermaid, but wonder about the logistics... 🤔)

17.12.2025 15:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My brain hurts a little too, just trying! Need more Omega-3s, perhaps. 🤔

03.12.2025 19:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0