Roll to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world

I am going to throw away my phone and walk into the forest.

The Nostalgia Critic and The Wall YouTube video by Folding Ideas

Absolute savage ruthlessness in a mild-mannered Canadian accent is one of my favorite things about Dan Olson. I highly recommend his review of Nostalgia Critic's The Wall even if you have no interest in Nostalgia Critic or The Wall. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rokA...

I have now received no fewer than 3 emails from Old Navy because someone else bought something at Old Navy on Saturday and they put in my email address when they signed up for rewards. I immediately unsubscribed, they said they would take 10 days to take me off the mailing list.

Annoyed with myself because I didn't have a relaxing weekend; but I did spend an hour weeding and ~5 hrs on the longarm, and I guess you can't have it both ways.

There's a bit of "I wish I could be a dad but still be able to go on cool adventures, rather than soccer practice and orthodontics appointments."

@decassette.bsky.social Can't reply to that other thread, but there definitely seems like there's a fantasy of idealized father hood and becoming a Good Man - but combined with a rejection of suburban mundanity and constraints on freedom.

Definitely deserve Shake Shack for finishing that quilt top

The lure of baking muffins becomes ever stronger precisely when I have other things that need to get done.

True love:
In the middle of the rainstorm, the cat slinks out from under the dresser,
Meows,
And slinks back under.

Still have about 2-3 hours of work to finish piecing the quilt top. Optimistically booked myself some time on the longarm machine - I will need a big refresher on how to load a quilt, but hopefully can get done this weekend!

without lionizing Leo XIV too much, i think people are brought up short by encountering someone in a position of authority who seems to have commitments to stable concepts of right and wrong that supersede class loyalty to other powerful people (which is largely the same as what Dan is saying)

Okay, he didn't come up with this himself, he got it from Theosophy. But it's still interesting how long this specific kind of BS has been kicking around and how long it's been linked to racism and fascism.

Listening to a podcast episode on this guy and it's all nonsense about Lemurians and Atlanteans and not, as far as I can tell, in a metaphorical way

Wait, is all the Ancient Aliens stuff just straightforwardly the fault of self-proclaimed superfascist Julius Evola?

I don't think any of my milkweed has decided to show up this year, and none of my seeds sprouted. (Did they dry out over winter?) They may yet surprise me, but the only reason I'm not more bummed is that the bergamot is growing so fast.

Plant ID app will identify Creeping Bellflower and be like "This plant looks healthy!" Yes I know it looks healthy, that is the problem

Disney is building an absolutely bonkers master planned development in my neck of the woods. New renderings imagines what I think 19th century poppy addicts saw when they looked into an impressionistic painting.

www.storylivingbydisney.com/asteria/

I was genuinely anxious about whether these plants could really come back after showing no signs of life in the winter, but roots are really good at storing energy, it turns out.

Ohio Spiderwort. The plant has many long grass-like leaves, about 4 inches long, and is growing up through last year's dead leaves.

I'm experiencing for the first time how incredibly quickly perennials can grow after a year to get established. I would swear this plant was not here yesterday!

My oven has lost its will to make things hot 🫠

The Bund: Fighting Fascism, Fighting Zionism (w/ Molly Crabapple) Podcast Episode · Know Your Enemy · April 10 · 1h 26m

Drop everything and listen to @mollycrabapple.bsky.social being interviewed about her new book on the Jewish Labour Bund in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Absolutely riveting history. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Made maple walnut blondies for Student Worker Appreciation Week and the smell is unbelievably good. It's almost enough to make me not regret that I didn't do as much quilting, or gardening, or taxes as I meant to this weekend.

180 half-square triangles is too many half-square triangles when you're on a deadline.

We read Gloria Anzaldúa for book club and it made me sad that there is not more publisher support these days for that kind of book - two languages interwoven, memoir x history x poetry x personal essay, queer and Chicana. Not that it was ever easy to get that kind of book published, but still.

I doubt I will find time to do taxes *and* Creeping Bellflower control tomorrow.

The unfortunate thing about gardening is that if you procrastinate, suddenly you find yourself playing chicken with all the things you won't be able to do once it gets too hot, either because of how the growing season works, or because you don't have the stamina to mow the lawn when it's 95 degrees.

Pink Pony Club but it's on the grocery store sound system while you're migraineously buying groceries so you're suffused with deep ineffable melancholy

7 out of 9 quilt blocks done; hoping to finish the top by this weekend. Feel like I'm behind schedule but there's not that much point in rushing when my batting probably won't arrive for another week.

A black bird with red and yellow patches on his shoulders. He stands on a railing looking determined.

It’s Red-winged blackbird time at the marshes and waterways. So much shouting! So much guarding of territory! So much fierce birdiness!

#birds 🌿