I won't donate all of them because some would be difficult to replace if I lost the digital files, and I do still use a CD player so my favorites get regularly played even in 2026.

Well I didn't finish sorting my CDs and DVDs but I do have a plan! End of this week I'll check which of my CDs are ripped onto my computer, plan when to work on the rest, and then when done donate many to most of them to the library for their used book (and media) sales.

Years ago @mikeduncan.bsky.social told me "you can rewrite shit but you can't rewrite nothing" and it's made every draft easier since.

Plastic storage bin opened to show it contains 52 CDs in their jewel boxes. This is one of three identical bins that I had stashed under my bed to "sort through later" and rather foolishly I decided that "later" = today.

Decided my decluttering task for today will be DVDs and CDs because they are all collected together and should be relatively easy to go through.

Unfortunately I actually had THREE bins of CDs stashed under my bed instead of the single one I thought I had! 😕

You know it's rained a lot when the river flood warning in the weather forecast is basically from now until whenever. The river just flooded on the 6th and now it should crest again tomorrow afternoon.

(I'm fine, mostly what will flood is roads by the river, parkland, and a golf course.)

It would be nice to never have to kill wild animals, but the hippos don't belong there and have a negative effect on creatures that do.

At least they are large enough to hopefully locate with a little more ease than invasive damaging insects!

All clothing sizing is irrational and dumb, but nothing is as bad as the sizing on women's pants.

My best option might be size up 2 sizes and then take in the waist a little bit so they won't fall down, since wearing baggy sweatpants isn't always professional. 😄

This is Missy. She escaped from her backyard and ran straight to daycare, where she had a spa day and got to play with her boyfriend. Lessons were learned, but not the ones her parents probably hoped. 13/10 (TT: spotsplaceyqr)

I think GenX is where the break started so that's the biggest discrepancy between what was expected based on their parent's experience and what they wound up getting as they became adults.

...anyone who claims they will restore the so-called natural order of things is very appealing. For younger generations the idea of competing with a diverse group of people isn't as weird and they realize they are all getting screwed equally anyway do may as well stick together.

...but when they start doing better than you on exams, and getting into better schools, and making more money, and they aren't just nice diversity tokens in the workplace but actual coworkers with skills and ambitions, then they become a threat. The hierarchy is upended. At that point...

...they still had the idea that they, like their fathers, were just going to get good jobs and always be on top of the heap without needing to put in much effort. It's easy to encourage female classmates to do well and apply for internships and grad school when there aren't very many of them...

I think part of it is, especially for the young men, that they were raised to *say* that women and minorities had just as much chance to compete for jobs etc as they did, the best man or woman should be chosen for positions based on merit and not on who was white and had a penis, BUT...

Isolate, Inebriate, Intimidate, Repeat: High Rates of Sexual Force Against Women Are Reported When Young Men Given Anonymous Surveys - Lucia F. O’Sullivan, Scott T. Ronis, 2026 Few studies survey men who have remained undetected after engaging in acts of sexual aggression against women. Most survey women who were targets of sexual aggr...

so according to this study, it’s not all men, just 95% of them journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Well of course, he's from Chicago. Where the penitentiary has an entire wing dedicated to politicians. 😄

Congratulations Hungary. 🙂

Weenies.

Well yuck. Eyes are so stupid expensive for everything.

Picture of the yarn library setup at my local public library. This is in a large room just inside the entryway, next to the circulation desk. Two 12-cube storage units with square mesh bins, most of the bins have labels attached with the description of the contents - "blue acrylic", "brown acrylic", "scrap acrylic", and "specialty yarn" for example. The bins contain a wide variety of yarns of that color. The sign on top of the storage units reads YARN LIBRARY - Take what you need and leave what you don't!

This is their yarn library. I'll have to pace myself to not overwhelm with donations lol.

HOWEVER I found out my local library has a "yarn library" so I can make deposits of the skeins I don't want and they will find their way to another person in the community who can use them. 🙂

One of the staff members at the circulation desk, when I asked about it, said it has been extremely popular

Found a pattern for a crochet blanket like a peacock tail and since I'm picky about colors I ordered 17 skeins of yarn so I can see them in person and choose the 5 colors I want.

Stuff like this is why I have such a huge yarn stash!

Blue morpho resting on a leaf, wings together so the brown spotted underside is visible.

Blue morpho with the wings spread, resting on my hand. Everyone loves the iridescent flash of blue on the upper surface of the wings but they don't usually sit with their wings open. The borders of teh wings are black, with blurry lighter spots along the edges of the wings.

White peacock butterfly resting in the sunlight on a bright orange flower.

Clipper butterfly resting on an orange flower against green vegetation. The color pattern on these is so complex, with the brilliant white patches bordered by black veins on the forwings, blurry black and blue-green streaks extending along the length of the hindwings, and the black and aqua stripes extending across the butterfly body and into both forewings. Most butterflies just have plain dark bodies so seeing a clear pattern is striking.

More butterflies from this morning (2 of 2).

Three butterflies resting on orange flowers and vegetation, basking in the bright sunlight. From left a rusty-tipped page (wings black with rust tips, divided by a cream band), Julia longwing (solid orange long wings, with a blurry black border and a couple indistinct black bars on the forewings) and a white peacock resting on a yellow flower (wings with a white background and orange and black narrow outer borders, covered with orange and brown-black spots and bands).

Rusty-tipped page butterfly resting on a bright orange flower (zinnia?) illuminated by brilliant direct sun.

A longwing butterfly resting on a smooth green leaf basking in the sunlight. The butterfly is black with very pale lime green bands on the wings.

Four butterflies resting on smooth, shiny green leaves in the direslct sunlight. Two of them are postman butterflies (longwing butterflies, mostly black with a couple red and white bands on each forewing), one is the underside of a blue morpho resting with wings together so you can only see the complex pattern of brown spots and bands, and what I think is a ruby spotted swallowtail on the far left (black wings with large cream and reddish-pink patches on the hindwings).

The butterfly event at my local botanical gardens is winding down, so my morning preparations are much quicker and I had time to take some photos this morning. Plus it was SUNNY before it starts raining again. Sharing for anyone who wants a little color. 🦋 (1 of 2)

A ceramic pendant with a rocket.

A ceramic pendant that says let there be science.

A ceramic pendant with a diagram of the scientific method.

A ceramic pendant that says think.

Seeing the Artemis space mission makes me want to make more #sciart
Thank you for the inspiration.
More science for the people please.

(Pendants made by me at surly.etsy.com)

Went to the member pre-sale for the local library spring used book sale and found a LOT of cool books this time! Spent $54 but left with bags full of 42 new to me books. 😄

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

A golden retriever licks a book called Our Moon, with a cover featuring a golden Moon shining into two dogs, including said golden retriever

Ok darth it is admittedly not that new any more but really, (Chandler Bing voice) could there even BE a better time for people to buy my book??

Cover model Sunshine would be happy too

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Best @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social typo in history.

I really wish that ballparks would stick to ballpark food, but done really well. If they have delicious burgers, hot dogs, nachos, chicken tenders, fries, and sandwiches or wraps i think most fans would love them.

Keep the novelty foods for the restaurants or special occasions or something.

Even sitting at a table, with utensils and a stack of napkins, I'm not sure how one would begin to eat that. Let alone deal with the bloated feeling afterwards.