Amidst all the chaos, some good news - the lime-sized mass they found on my uterus is a benign fibroid. It's not hurting nobody so I get to keep him until I get the yeeterus. My sister says we should name him Garth.
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
"...what the reaction of their neighbors would be when they discovered the empty apartments in the morning..."
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem
"The objective seems to have been a test of general political conditions -- whether Jews could be made to walk to their doom on their own feet, carrying their own little valises, in the middle of the night, without any previous notification; ..."
Doof meme reading "if I had a nickel for every time Michael says "tranche" in an episode I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
I had to look up a word when I listened to the latest IBCK @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Well, the @aclu.org canceled the Equal Rights for All campaign. Disappointing to see a campaign that was fueled almost entirely by volunteer organizers get shut down by a closed door executive meeting. #aclu #equalrights ?
My dog, a black and white Great Pyrenees border collie mix, lays down on a red checkered pillow, with her front paws demurely folded beneath her.
Have y'all seen my dog? #dogsofbluesky
My usual walk post-windstorm. A paved walking path goes under a railway bridge, but a branch has fallen across the pathway and is marked off with caution tape. My dog is visible in the foreground. The sky is blue with a few white clouds.
Checking out the wind damage
I have a personal preference for serif>sans serif fonts but I have never switched sides harder than this week. All hail Calibri, I GUESS
I white-knuckled it for an hour through the thickest fog I've ever driven through, while my partner slept supportively beside me.
A clean Word document of the same Scab Sheet, organized from two to one column and with all the spelling corrected.
Here's what we can create with human transcription!
Screenshot of The Scab Sheet. Almost all of the words are jumbled or misspelled, with extra incorrect formatting marks.
Why can't AI do it? These docs have a lot of artifacts that messes up AI transcription. Here's what one AI tool gave me...
I'm working on a project to make our library's archives screen reader accessible, and you can help! Crowdsourced transcription projects at fromthepage.com/osulp
How has @ashleyshoo.bsky.social not been on @deathpanel.bsky.social yet omg
My coworker apologized for disturbing me while I was crying, but actually I was finishing my lunch in my office and was deep on a quest to figure out where Chuck Palahniuk threw his tonsils in the mid-90s (in a jar, into the woods, behind his house, is as far as I've tracked down)
I googled okra to make sure I was remembering the right thing (I was), found it is also called lady fingers, and now I've invented the Worst Tiramisu
Corvallis peeps! Tonight is the first public meeting of the Tenant Bill of Rights, 6.30pm in the student lounge of WestM. Check out TBOR.actcorvallis.org for more deets.
My deepest apologies to Brooke and also YES PLEASE
I desperately need @ihatejamesdobson.bsky.social 's take on this song that's been stuck in my head since I was a tiny person youtu.be/sQWN2fZVHJc?...
It's time to replace the filters in our purifiers and restock supplies! contribute thru vnmo
ID: a cool-toned pastel flyer featuring the clean air corvallis logo, our fundraising goal, and a qr code for vmo. Text reads "Help us buy more air filters, masks, and rental spaces for events! Goal: $500"
Tenant Bill of Rights meeting tomorrow, 7pm! DM for address. DYK Corvallis is the most rent-burdened city in Oregon, and the 2nd most in the United States? Of course you did, you pay into it every month!
Poached egg plant - white flowers with a yellow circle center, and frilly green leaves
"Oregon sunshine", bright yellow flowers with thick green leaves
Oregon checkerbloom, wide green geranium-like leaves with tall stalks of purple-pink flowers
Another Oregon checkerbloom, close up on the flowers. A cluster of pink-purple blooms growing up a stalk. The flowers at the bottom have bloomed first, gradually getting smaller to the tip of the stalk which only has small buds.
A mother's day bouquet from my garden, all Oregon natives.
Omg I'm not religious but the Pope using his last moments on earth to scold Vance is based as fuck
Listened to an old episode of @unclearpod.bsky.social. This Canadian Cold War and incompetent leadership sounds familiar....Are we living through the plot of Canadian Bacon?
Hahaha I'm a librarian. I didn't even think of that context until now!
A presentation slide depicting a series of cartoon stock images: a butt with gas escaping, a person being blown over by the wind and losing their umbrella, a crack in the ground with three people reacting in fear and running away.
I had to sit through a workplace training where they had an image of a farting butt to illustrate "you must be resilient to the winds of change"
@jamieloftus.bsky.social i think my Wikipedia app is broken
If you weren't possibly a million miles away (I can't remember which coast you live on now) I would absolutely hang out and experiment on soil blocks with you.
It ain't much but it's honest work.
Keep an eye on the ERA ballot initiative in Oregon. Currently in signature gathering, aiming to be on the 2026 midterm ballot.
