Maria Thompson
@writercpa
Gov't employee (for another 12 months or 12 minutes, depends on what they say next), writer, gardener, CPA with a passion for books - why I serve as Treasurer for Baltimore Science Fiction and curate its Little Free Library charter 155682
#gardening String beans, Japanese eggplant, and boat loads of the Cherry 100 and Early Girl tomatoes. I eat so much better when fresh veggies are right outside my door!
Ticket Prices go up at midnight Aug. 2 Outer Rim Folm Festival hosted by @balticon.bsky.social The Outer Rim Science Fiction Film Festival. Baltimore, MD Aug 28 - 30 at the Baltimore Science Fiction Building. theouterrimfest.com Bsfs.org
#gardening Today's harvest My first cherry tomatoes, that barely lasted long enough for the photo and a boat load of shishito peppers. Thank you to @tkingfisher.com for turning me on to growing them!
#gardening My first zucchini of 2026 in development. Butter and parmesan await!
#gardening A little rain and my zucchini and Early Girls went berserk! And the beans at the end of the container are no sloches!
First basil for fresh pesto! A little onion that wintered over and the snow pea that made it to the kitchen; the rest didn't make it half way across my tiny yard. LOL! #gardening
The #Baltimore rats took my lettuce and spinach last weekend. It's too late to restart spinach from seed & there were none at the garden center. I replanted the lettuce inside a cage w 1/2" guage galvanized wire. Baltimore rats carry weapons beyond teeth & claws. Be careful out there #gardening
Bored? Here's what you could doing @balticon.bsky.social Balticon always more to do than you can, but half of the fun is trying! Balticon.org
Other things happening @balticon.bsky.social Happy Hookers Meditative #Knitting & #crocheting hats and scarfs for donation to a local shelter We give books to children! And we give love to Fandom! It's what we do. Balticon.org
Too wet for #Artscape? @balticon.bsky.social has a great Art show and lots of other great stuff@ Balticon.org
The pictures are at twilight because I had a long day. On the left: basil, German thyme and an Early Girl Tomato. Romaine lettuce in a window box planter next to #2. On the right: parsley (2 squares), cherry tomatoes, basil, shishito pepper, cowhorn pepper, basil and chives. It's a start.
End of Week 1: New 8'x2' raised beds in place w 20 gal. self-watering feature in the bottom. Should not have been deterred in testing the bed on the right even with the overnight rsin it held - it leaks due to liner folds - young unskilled labor I should have checked. #gardening
Maryland, 23 States & a Governor fight for the right to vote. This is why the John Lewis Voting Rights Act matters and why we must stop the SAVE Act. The Regime and its Red cronies only win by cheating and they know it! Get registered & vote in every election! oag.maryland.gov/News/Pages/A...
Nope. I think everyone needs skin in the game. Paying taxes is part of being part of the community. A person's share should be reasonable according to their means, but everyone should pay something. If she wants to exclude the amount at the poverty level, fine, but $100k is not poverty, even in CA.
#gardening True signs that the time of planting is nigh! Strawberries appearing!
Thank you @aspca.org of Baltimore for connecting us with our new family members. Falco is black cat at the top. Loki is the curled up tuxedo at the bottom. Again, we'd lost out on one bonded pair (by minutes), but I asked if there was another? Voila, our third pair of black & tuxedo #cats.
Flying teddy bear! A great mother's day picture possibly never photographed before because the flying foxes move fast and the pups provide little contrast against mom. Great story of how this photo was made.
#Baltimore 8 inches of snow in my rear yard with sleet coming down. I was really happy paying some kids who did my front walk and steps about 2 inches ago around 1 PM
Immigrants! They and their children get the job done! The problem is that people like Miller don't know the stories of sacrifice and hardwork in their families that made their lives possible. Everyone should work to find their family's immigration stories.
The biggest tax loophole for the rich and very rich! Even Warren Buffet speaks against them. We can protect family farms and family run small businesses while properly taxing income from trading stocks. This is a rip off! finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-...
#gardening This year's last, found on failing vines in the morning light.
Want to make bets about how fast the GOP pulls the football in December? No help for people who must sign up for plans now. How much subsidy and when? Will open enrollment be extended? Just when GOP might start to feel pain from constituents who can't buy insurance or fly, the DEMs pull the ball!
If you've seen the Tweed Courthouse in NYC, you know where The Regime gets its decorating ideas.
Decorating the White House on nouveau riche Bronx Renaissance. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Get scammed or have your identity stolen while the Federal government is shut down? You're on your own. Even the bots are not working. I guess the good news is that they're also not replacing government employees. Last act: send all contractors (including the Cloud providers) stop work orders.
@balticon.bsky.social observes #BannedBooksWeek (Oct 5 - 11) with a readathon Saturday, Oct. 11 12 - 6 pm 3310 E. Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD 21224 Read from a book in our library or bring your own favorite banned book. Lists of banned books at www.ala.org/bbooks
US policy since 1948 Executive Order 9981 of President Truman is requiring "equality of treatment and opportunity for all in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin." Straight up: Is this being repealed? (Or just wink & nod while ignoring it?)