Oh my goodness, Kyla. I hope that migraine goes and stays away.

Night sky, a spray of clouds over the rooftops and a waxing moon hiding behind a tall palm tree.

Moon in the palm

Omg

Changing posts retroactively seems bad.

Moon in its corona. There’s a planet up there, but it’s behind a cloud.

Hidden Jupiter

So pleasing!

My favorite cat

When you see a bad-ass who may still be bad but has had too many cosmetic procedures.

Last semester I resorted 2 bringing snacks 2 keep students in class. As an adjunct, I’m barely making enough to survive but there was also extra pressure 2 keep my numbers up. This semester that course was cancelled the Friday before the semester started. So frustrating to be putting the work in.

Such sweet pain

‘I’ve become stronger:’ Leqaa Kordia on life after ICE detention One month after her release from ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia remains determined to challenge injustice. In an interview with Mondoweiss, Kordia discusses her arrest, the stories of the women she met in...

READ: One month after her release from ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia remains determined to challenge injustice. In an interview with Mondoweiss, Kordia discusses her arrest, the stories of the women she met in detention, and her Palestinian identity.
mondoweiss.net/2026/04/ive-...

I used to evaluate spice by whether the top of my head was sweating. Sadly, I have had to tone it down a little as I have gotten older.

In these dark, sad, enraging times, we must turn to poetry, to music, to arts in all its manifestations. We must write and cook and dance all while imagining what is possible in radical hope. We must love as we fight, strategize, and organize. The world necessitates beauty and struggle. #resist

I love them

Pictured: the alley with its utility poles and palm trees above. A wall of blooming flowers to the right.

Was stopped by the smell of jasmine.

Saw a new bike lane yesterday and it was nice!

Saw a new bike lane yesterday, and it was nice!

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil killed in Israeli strike on a house where she took cover, paper says Rescue workers say a Lebanese journalist was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. The daily Al-Akhbar newspaper says its reporter Amal Khalil was killed on Wednesday in the southern vil...

Israeli airstrike kills Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil

Rescue workers were fired on by Israeli forces so they were forced to halt attempts to reach Khalil, Lebanon's health ministry said

Khalil’s body was retrieved at least six hours after the strike

apnews.com/article/leba...

your pinned post is the amuse bouche of your account

I hope so! 🫶

“Black women are two-and-a-half times more likely to be murdered by men than white women, and more than nine in every 10 murdered Black women know their killers.”

“Black feminists have been writing about and advocating against gender-based violence for what feels like far too long.

In fact, the first use of the word intersectionality was in an essay by Black feminist legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw…

Are we screaming into a void?”

My God.

Ten pound weight and companion weight buried like paving stones.

Pink rose with missing portion. Looks like a bug had a tasty snack.

Cactus bloom against a wooden fence.

Pink climbing flowers, maybe a kind of morning glory?

Ha. Good to know.

Knowing the murder details of Celeste Rivas Hernandez and knowing that her murderer played a show near my home afterwards is a lot to hold. I told my prom story on here a few weeks ago and there is something about knowing the place, the land.

All the words we use for conquest.

I have been hearing this same story from librarians and booksellers both for two who years at least!

Is this something I need to witness?

Amazing

Tomatoes about to be next