An orange sunset down a residential street. The green streetlight hangs like a reflection.

What a beautifully moody sunset.

I'm glad you were there for him.

My closest story to this kind of thing was when someone, knowing I'm a big Cleveland baseball fan, asked me what I think of the new name.

"Thrilled! It was long overdue and it's the best possible choice. And it's not Spiders."

I only realized what they expected when they started sputtering.

Thread. Reminds me of the time I was unintentionally but unapologetically obnoxious at a writing workshop where my feedback to one person was that his protag was way too over-the-top racist, and of course I get that this is just the first three chapters and he's setting up a redemption arc >

depends on the dinner and on the desert.

Can't have cheesecake right after a big meal.

Can have a cookie right after a small one.

Every candidate I have every voted for since /maybe/ John Kerry was fine with selling out some of my rights as a person with various disabilities if it would bring in some people from both sides of the aisle.

Yet it never counts.

I unfollowed and blocked some former mutuals who were like "Anyone who votes for Harris is actively supporting genocide," and that's annoying, but it's also not at all representative.

It's just a couple of loud white expatriates who don't have to live with the consequences of their decisions

I keep hearing people say that Democrats can't push away A or B or C but I never hear them say "A needs to include trans people; have we considered NOT selling them out?" or "B is the peaceniks, so let's go for that?"

It's always group C, Liz Cheney voters, and Liz Cheney lost her election.

Idk what Arthurian enthusiast needs to hear this but Avignon comes from the Latin “Avenio.” It does NOT have a relationship to the word “Avalon” which is thought to come from the Proto-Brythonic “aβaln,”for “apple tree”

A spiral bound field guide with a photo of sea star and a sea urchin, written and illustrated by Madelynn DeBest.

An illustrated schematic of the zones of the rocky intertidal and which species live at what depths.

An example page from a spiral bound field guide, open to the entry for bladderwarck, a light green seaweed with little air bladders to help it float.

A field guide entry for an invasive blue crab, showing it to be 9” across.

One of my former students took her final project for my field natural history class and turned it into her Honors thesis: a 100% original, hand-drawn field guide to the rocky intertidal! And she got copies printed for her defense!

Just going to say again that while I'm not recommending any specific crimes as being ethical means of resistance, I'm comfortable singling arson out as a particularly unethical one.

It merely inconveniences the powers that be, and it generally kills the most vulnerable members of society.

He's made pretty clear he doesn't think it's a good point and that his frame of reference is the one that matters.

Because, we need to protect the children. God knows, no one has used that argument for bad things ever.

I have them enabled for my spouse, my best friends, my mom.

Not any of my unindicted co-conspirators, however.

Yeah I'm not upset about it, but I do think it's funny how sensitive these centrist podcasters are about mild disagreement.

I would bet money if my profile picture were my boring white guy face he would be on here arguing with me.

Don't worry, Kari Dru. He doesn't know anyone who still worried about protecting their data. That's SO last decade.

In less than 30 seconds.

Don't you dare talk back to eliasisquith.blog .

This is one of those "I don't know anyone who does therefore it doesn't happen" takes.

Every trans person I have ever met is protecting their data because otherwise bad things happen.

See also "sex workers."

Hell, and teachers, for that matter.

Some people just really like rusty knives I think.

I dunno. My grandmother was the same way.

Which quickly turned into "why can't you accept a compromise" and "why are you taking his side" and "I'm your mother. You should listen to me. It's fine if they're on the top rack. I do it all the time." and "MY KNIVES ARE NOT DULL!"

This actually caused a big fight one time with my MIL.

My SIL was cleaning up and I said something like "hey, don't put the knives in the dishwasher. I'll wash them later."

And before she could even say "oh ok" her mom piped up, "OR let's just compromise and put them on the top rack."

Oh I thought of another one: "Don't put my knives in the dishwasher."

The font was intrinsic to the mailing list.

NEO folks!!

I've been trying to think of all of mine.

So far I'm at "Don't park so close to my car that I can't open the door."

and

"Please stop flushing Clorox wipes."

People saying that student protestors were ineffective in protesting for Gaza really are missing that public sentiment has swung pretty fast and far on that, and they were absolutely a part of that.

Guys, give it up, a conservative opinion website says that young people and college students aren't protesting.

Case closed. No one cares. It's all up to Gen X, and since there are only a few dozen of them and all the white ones are fascists, we had best just pack it up and go home.

/s

How old was Renee Good?

How old was Alex Pretti?

Emily Philips?

David Hogg?

Do you not read the news or does it only count if you see it personally?

I was out for a walk yesterday and some kids were out playing and they were arguing among themselves about whether being born before COVID meant their oldest sibling was "old."

"Dude, you weren't just born before it. You REMEMBER what it was like before COVID-19. You're SO old."

My 9yo is morally superior to them.