the thing about the DST debate is the ever deferred (or erased) shortening of the work week. i mean that’s the solution obviously. i loved this book, though it’s a heavy lift—imagine the graeber was way easier, this is philosophical and dense. but it’s really really good.

my beautiful bunny is pretty much always by my driveway now, noshing. they don’t move when i stand there doing garden stuff, they don’t move when i come and go with the car. they are My Bunny no?

calling this a “conservative public policy institute” and interviewing its director for a medical story is stalinism

i was not familiar till a friend showed me her own photos (she used to live in dallas)

flowers, ferns, berries and so forth

can’t remember why i was looking this guy up but isn’t he cute? turaco

relatedly i find it so cute when an animal is “spotted”

i wonder if chipmunks haunt the margins of everyone’s house around here or if there’s something special about mine. one looked out of the pot at me when i was spying on my tomato plant through the window this morning. this one was a few days ago that’s my house behind her

some of these late 60s anthems are so pompous i wish i could laugh at them. but there was a lot going on i tend to give them a pass

transition

same here! 70 degrees and breezy. in the backyard watching my ash tree die

sugar maple and butternut coming up amid peonies, both native. they have permission to compete if either is interested in a future providing shade

today’s weed is sticky willy and he is non native so out he goes

“CEO news” pretends to lead at the upper left. This is a soporific mix of stories primarily pitched at upper-level businesspeople (sometimes about them—petit bourgeois further down the page) and zionists

did you ever have a pair of socks that kept getting bigger the more you washed them? these were all the same size

pretty yellow roses outside a church (alt text)

going to the farm to get my food resumes today 😁😁😁

an old friend slapped this on facebook. it’s normal kind of twelve steps/AA humor but it’s well done, respect

mostly pretty miserable so i hope you won’t mind me saying that im having coffee in the yard and the birds are doing their bird noises. i have to pull that dead branch off that tree

lerning. Enceladus “is covered by clean, freshly deposited snow hundreds of meters thick, making it one of the most reflective bodies of the Solar System.”

the big bad came for the good dad

from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!

vale

i have an unexpected iris

i don’t really get how this isn’t the lead story (or 2nd to the green card atrocity). also don’t get only evacuating 40,000 people—have you been to orange county?