BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

Brascidostele Gilded Tower 'Mystic Maze' - I bought this one in spike a couple weeks ago.

Can anyone tell me if the pseudobulbs will plump back up when watered? I plan on repotting when it's done blooming. I grow in my house, so I know I need to raise humidity. #orchids #orchid #Brascidostele

Gotta say I'm totally concerned with Musk trotting out his son like a prop at press conferences. But then again I'm totally concerned Musk is allowed in his childrens' lives at all.

Vet found hanging draped in trans flag The suicide letter they won't publish

I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe.

She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today.

RIP Elisa.

I look forward to seeing them!

The room she's in now is a passive-solar atrium space, and I assume the temperature fluctuations caused her put on one more spike when I thought she was done. Though I know someone who has a Twinkle that blooms throughout the year.

South facing window, bright indirect light. I feel like so far she handles a lot like my easier philodendrons.

I grow indoors at home as well. I use larger cache planters filled partially with non-wicking rocks for individual humidity trays and run humidifiers during the winter. I water any time the pot weight tells me to, MSU fertilizer once a week.

I haven't had her very long and recently moved, so I can't be certain my environment is going to yield better spike rates or not. (Cont.)

Absolutely woke up with that in my head this morning and apparently looked "bleak," staring off into space while eating a donut hole.

Oncindium Twinkle 'Fantasy

#orchid #orchids #oncindium

Even with tariffs on Canadian goods, my medication is still 70% less in cost next to the generic with my pharmaceutical coverage. Last year they wouldn't even cover it.

#chronicillness #disability #disabilityrights

Can BOTH sides quit blaming the mentally ill for every bad thing happening in the US? The people who have enabled this aren't mentally ill. They're xenophobic, morally bankrupt, &/or victims of propaganda. The rhetoric spewing out of Trump surrounding the mentally ill makes me scared I'm next. Stop

With the Trump administration using mental illness and disability to blame people and harm others as a justification, can we maybe not with also implying the people who enabled and support this are mentally ill? It's dangerous rhetoric at this point.

Welcome to the herd! I'm marking this to come back in the next 24 hours. But my first recommendation is make yourself a medical binder to take with you to appointments.

For the record it went up 2 pot sizes.

It took my 3 hours to pick my potbound in sphagnum moss dendrobium orchid out of the pot then restake her. Why am I like this?

Pictured with her babies.

#dendrobium #orchid

A gray and white cat lies in the floor of a ivory shower with door open. She is staring at the camera.

My cat is almost 14. She is absolutely the sweetest cat. She tries to copy things I do. I walked into the bathroom to discover she was grooming in the shower.

(I know this wasn't copying. Let me have it anways.)

#cats

We have that very special time of year where I am grumbling and cussing about plant chores while also having a terrible time not buying 20 more plants. I must be coming out of my winter dormancy.

#houseplants #orchids #plantcollector

Truly elegant in its beauty!

Quaker Groups Sue Trump Administration Over ICE Church Raids Several groups of the Religious Society of Friends brought a lawsuit alleging services were cancelled over congregant fear of ICE raids

Several groups associated with the Quakers are suing the Trump Admin alleging that ICE raids now authorized to hunt for migrants in churches is a violation of their First Amendment right to free exercise of religion. meidasnews.com/news/quaker-...

The days are getting longer and spring is coming early. I can say that because my annual need to obtain as many houseplants and orchids as possible has kicked in slightly early this year.

I start watching Equagenera's Instagram live sales while drinking coffee.

I'm a plant-obsessed groundhog girl.

Yup. I've been exceedingly irritated by the discourse around trying to explain it all away.

Hahahaha. Laughing in tachycardia.

Absolutely. But at least there are both orchid and kitten feeds here.

Me forcing myself out of bed 11 am: (yelling) I am alive and human! I have to be alive and human today!