Aaw thanks! It was good seeing you again.

Not only does it smell like cabbage in an old gym sock (but humid! Leave it in the locker until the end of the season) it gets ten to twenty degrees hotter than Sumatra jungle temperature to attract pollinators. 🍖 🌺, 🪲

Me, feeling the heat emitted by a corpse flower.

Tonight I had the opportunity to smell the elusive and forbidden smell. It was awful, and so awesome. One of Dartmouth's corpse flowers bloomed unexpectedly and I was able to visit.

Yes! Do it!

Double congratulations!

It's a "savor every word and pesky, non-reading obligations will just have to wait" kind of book.

Yes!!!

Best organizing moment of the day, summed up:
Fabulous Queer 1: What if someone really young shows up to Event and we get in big trouble?
Fabulous Queer 2: Old people talking in a room has literally no kid appeal.
Adopt a Resolution: Protect trans youth from meetings that could have been an email!

It is infuriating! It's so obvious! It's obvious enough, we should be allowed to do the punching now!

I have a friend who teaches and openly advocates for LGBTQ+ students in this district. Having multiple friends turn up in the news in one week is wild for me. I'm thinking if it feels like they're coming for LGBTQ+ organizers and the most vulnerable members of our demographic, it's because they are.

It brought me so much joy! In a time when I was very numb and struggling to feel anything at all, it brought all the big emotions. It is absolutely brilliant, and I will say so forever.

No Tubman, No Rainbows: Defense Schools Prepared for Hegseth’s Wife The American schools at the NATO headquarters were scrambling to comply with Trump diversity, equity and inclusion rollbacks. An expected visit from Pete Hegseth’s wife intensified that effort.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

I've got to share this one without saying too much, but I've said before, the teachers in the DoD schools (who work for the federal government and Congress is their school board) are the canaries in our coal mine. And the NYT was cautious about how much they shared to protect the teachers that spoke

Death threats super suck but they're going to happen if you take a certain kind of principled action. We've had them for WRJ Pride, and had to get a terrorism rider on our event insurance last year after our drag queen story hour was shut down due to bomb threats. But we're organizing for year six!

A sign says "don't be a fascist, ok?"

An "Elon Musk salute" now? Ugh.

Gods, I loved that show.

Whether or not we can achieve it, we can imagine a better world clearly, and work to move in that direction.

Science teacher: " Can you show RNA and DNA visually?" My Italian classmate: RNA is a single pasta coil, DNA is two interlocking pasta coils.

A former student sent me a science meme today, and that makes me happy. :-)

I'm sure you know this but make sure he applies for unemployment right away. And reapply for all those income based assistance programs you couldn't get before.

Grady Hendrix's Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

He wasn't even trying to be subtle, and still it's getting practically no media attention, let alone condemnation. So fuck this fucking Nazi fuckbag, his enablers, his collaborators, and his apologists. There's no "both sides" when Nazis in the government publicly do Nazi shit. 😡

A couple of cats trying to sit on the same lap.

A couple of cats trying to sit on the same lap.

Skittles and Winds of Chaos have finally agreed on boundaries for a double lap sit! I'm stuck in this chair forever.

Teacher in biology classroom with Spooky Science Lab shirt

I'm ready for @spookysciencelab.bsky.social Season 2!

I have an ex who used both judiciously. I never mastered the art and hold her in deep admiration.

A tuxedo cat investigates inside the refrigerator.

If I don't know exactly what I want, the moment I open the door.

Yup, that one messed baby me up so bad. My takeaway lessons: rich ladies freak out about pearls, you have to go to the bottom to get to the top, and invisible fire is definitely coming for me.

He was my first Doctor. I learned to knit to make a Tom Baker scarf. Although it was more purple than brown because that was most of the scrap yarn I could find.

René Magritte's Le Séducteur: A full rigged sailing ship against a cloudy sky. The ship is patterned in a continuation of the ocean waves.

Today I saw a particular incarnation of René Magritte's Le Séducteur, and it is haunting me.