Adrienne Stricker

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Ok, so it's four screenshots and we're having a fancy dinner party in Ten Forward. There's guests sitting in the background and we're focused on Worf & Data. Worf's #BattleSash is extra fancy that's how you know we're at a party. Worf is carving what looks like a turkey on a table with lots of different foods and flowers on it, and looks VERY irritated while Data is speaking. Closed caption reads, "Ambassador Byleth is demanding, temperamental, and rude. You share all those qualities in abundance. Perhaps you should try to build on your similarities." In the third screenshot Data gives Worf a patronizing shoulder pat. The fourth screenshot shows Worf holding up the very large carving knife towards Data who has just walked away. Worf looks like he wants to shank him.

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Harry Caray's call - Sandberg game vs Cardinals June 23 1984 YouTube video by Jeff Kelley

Ryno

History’s blood crumbs; prisoners on the other side of the gate; a geographical oxymoron; what the printer omits on its own; margins of plain paper; where on a map, a named city doesn’t exist, only a remembered one; the negative space the art teacher says to trace against; a special kind of alibi: I am not where you think I am I am everywhere   —  we are everywhere  —   you think we’re not.

"What The Exiled Are" by Sara Abou Rashed

Absolutely dig! 🔥 🐉

She’s the real deal.
Please pay attention.

We are facing the most brazen rollback of civil rights in generations.

On July 17th, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities are mobilizing to ensure #GoodTroubleLivesOn and carry John Lewis’ legacy forward.

➡️Find a good trouble event: social.demcast.com/s/65nTti3j

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄

I've just watched the NatGeo documentary 'Sally'
Go watch it, no really, go watch it.

And yes, today 42 years ago, Doctor Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.

films.nationalgeographic.com/sally

EDNA My daughter is bored so I tell her silverfish are neither silver nor a fish, but a spoon-dull insect that loves kitchens bathrooms the mouths of children. Silverfish! Silverfish! she squeals, the word peeling from her lips and crawling down her legs. She watches me knead the day’s dough and asks if Kleenex are used to clean necks. The TV says a crane collapsed off 34th and she wants to know if it's because the crane was thirsty. Some afternoons we visit the neighborhood pool and even though she can barely swim my daughter isn't afraid. She's so unafraid it makes me afraid. She loves it when I pick her up and throw her as far away as possible. She loves to paddle back and scream Again! Again! But she loves it most when I swim away as fast as I can, when my back becomes a shore she’s trying to reach. My daughter's named the pool Edna. Sometimes Edna helps her reach me. When it's time to go my daughter says "See you soon, Edna." Every day I am terrified in new ways.

“My daughter asks for a sugar cube before bed…” because a horse keeps visiting her at night. Just a single cube, which she cradles in the center of her palm, tiptoeing up the stairs, careful, not letting one bit ship off an edge. Every night it’s like this: the soft hands, the undershirt’s robe-swish, then weeks later she asks: Where do horses go when they say they can’t come back? I never thought there was a gift to be made of nothing, until I was a father and had to give it every day. I’m sorry. I don’t know, I say. Extra books at bedtime, extra songs, extra effort to tauten sheets to chin. Lamp off, forehead kiss, shut the door before The Gone come in, creaking floorboards, settling into her chair, soft they neigh into her ear, licking salt from her hands, cheeks, chin, sweet granules from the tangles of her hair.

View from Eurydice’s Shoulder “In the first six months you child doesn’t know they are a separate person from you.” Every night after I tuck my daughter in she sings. Which means absence is an instrument she’s learning to play, the air between skin and skin the station where the self arrives lugging it’s duffels of sorrow; how the mind minds the gap until the mind becomes the gap. I too am learning—about sounds, the cavil of a latch locking into place, how silence is a type of touch, which means a type of burial, a face glimpsed in the dark, and then the dark, and then the dark.

happy Father’s Day! here are a few of mine from over the years: “Edna,” originally published in HAD, “My daughter asks for a sugar cube before bed…” originally published in my book Ways We Vanish, and “View from Eurydice’s Shoulder,” originally published in Poet Lore.

a photo grid of dolls with protest t-shirts and signs.

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

I love baseball

White Jesus fandom is *nutty*, y'all.

The beautiful Breonna Taylor should have celebrated her 32nd birthday today. Never forget her. ❤️🕊️

Utah study on trans youth care extremely inconvenient for politicians who ordered it The state's ban on gender-affirming pediatric care "cannot be justified" by science, a two-year review concluded.

YOU DON'T SAY

"The consensus of the evidence supports that the treatments are effective in terms of mental health, psychosocial outcomes, & the induction of body
changes consistent with the affirmed gender in pediatric [trans] patients. The evidence also supports that the treatments are safe ..."

🌈✨ It’s the stretchy rainbow cat time of the week

From Earth to the edge of existence—this stunning illustration shows the entire observable universe in one frame. From our Solar System out to the cosmic microwave background, it’s all here. A visual journey through 13.8 billion years of cosmic history. Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi / Wikipedia

From Earth to the edge of existence—this stunning illustration shows the entire observable universe in one frame. From our solar system out to the cosmic microwave background, it’s all here. A visual journey through 13.8 billion years of cosmic history.

Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi / Wikipedia

George Floyd should be alive today.

He should be raising his daughter, living his life.

5 years later, we owe him more than thoughts and hashtags.

His daughter said, “My daddy changed the world.”

Let’s stop failing her, and him.

Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.

"One (U2 Music with Metallica Lyrics)" Chris Cornell@Santander Arts Center Reading, PA 11/22/13 YouTube video by Jim Powers

I mean.

A large tree trunk with roots twisted around all the way up the trunk, surrounded by foliage on a sunlit day

Bushes overlooking a beach in Kingston, WA with the mountains and houses in the background

A sandy beach with a large driftwood log and walking stick, with the Puget Sound, trees and a bridge in the distance

Last week I got to spend a few days with my dad and family in WA. Being on our tribal land is always good for my soul.

Eugenics is an essential part of fascism. Disabled people and seniors are expensive and don't "produce" at the same rate as abled people. We are a drag on the system in their eyes. The intent to kill us is crystal clear.

Remember that it's STILL not cool to make fun of ANYONE'S weight, in any context, and that's STILL not how we get to ANY justice or liberation, EVER

EVEN if you think you're being sly and funny about how the president is like the mob boss from that movie or whatever.

Words and deeds only.