Wax Begonia (Begonia cucullata) sidewalk spillover from a window box in the Gayborhood, shot in 2018.
(This one is for new follower @norska11.bsky.social, who apparently likes Begonias)
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Pavementplants
The work they are doing to normalize and universalize gAI use in schools and universities, to discredit any criticism, all to ensure they have a captive and uncritical customer base utterly dependent on them for generations
digital painting in procreate. Illustration of two young harbor seals in water with rocks and algae
seals!!!
This was a fun one to draw
Stop Wiping Your Glasses on the Bottom of Your Shirt Sorry, but You're Probably Not Washing Your Sheets Enough Stop Throwing Out Old Clothes. Repurpose Them Instead.
The increasingly large hectoring section of the newspaper
visenyaism on tumblr: "Honestly fuck A1 for making me have to go on and on defending the dignity of toil like I'm some kind of protestant"
I ended up with three grandmothers, due to a divorce and remarriages, and two worked (my nanna did telephone operator and department store sales and my step grandmother did a mix of farm work and department store sales).
I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth
Deep blue four-lobed flower with white throat and white pistil. The lobes are fringed.
Cluster of deep blue fringed flowers with a sheen to their fringed petals
Three blue fringed flowers with white throats
Gentianopsis thermalis, our Rocky Mountain Fringed Gentian, blooming along the South Platte near Garo #nativeplants
#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to Sep. 9 🌿
Favorite hybridizers: Ferdinand Cayeux. 'Sérénité', from 1931, came to me by accident but quickly became a favorite. It's a great grower and bloomer. So colorful.
#iris 🌱
Classrooms of children in Iran. Hundreds of people in Lebanon. The ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The message from our political and media class is clear: their lives are less valuable than others.
Every human being matters, and every human being deserves a life of peace.
I mean Sky news don’t even try to hide it, in fact they make an active declaration as to whose lives have value.
we need more places where he can exist in public without being expected to buy anything, not fewer
giving the books in the shop a good squeeze to find out which ones are raw and urgent
'If generative AI is shaped by power, politics and principle, then education cannot treat it as neutral infrastructure. It is not simply a tool that reflects human bias. It is a technology aligned to particular visions of the future.' 3/3
daylight saving time is a corrupt scheme by Big Smart Appliance to make you frustrated with having to change all the clocks twice a year and submit your oven to the horrors of Logging On
I also didn't like it until I spent it with socialists and they gave a talk about its radical history. Because I'd only seen the corporate and liberal feminist version, which was very boring.
Are women more safe today in England and Wales than they were in the past – or less? What the evidence shows
theconversation.com/are-women-mo...
I am supposed to be a brain in a jar
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
yellow snapdragon
A self-seeded snapdragon growing up through a crack in my concrete garden path #SundayYellow 🌱
A teeny-tiny pavementplant Pansy (Viola x wittrockiana) shot today in Lower Moyamensing.
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Pansies
An Iranian brick maker turns over wet bricks to speed up the drying process in the sun
In Sabzevar, Iran
Photo by Hadi Dehghan Pour
The oil is flowing into the sewers and the streets are on fire in Tehran
It's easy to be mean and it can feel real real good to be nasty if you're not used to getting your dopamine any other way, but with my own eyes I've seen shame cause people to dig in and compassion help people climb out.
A cluster of white daisies with yellow-orange disk florets blooming close to the shale it’s growing on.
Eight years ago today 🌿
Townsendia hookeri, our Hooker's Easter Daisy, blooming at the Neva Road shale bluff. Adapted to our high steppe by blooming early and staying low to the ground. Invasives can't compete with it in its raw shale habitat. #nativeplants
WHY DO ALL THESE HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES WANT TO BE CONNECTED TO THE BLOODY INTERNET? Our landlady installed light switches that don't work properly unless you use them in conjunction with an app. I don't want a fucking app for light switches. I just want to switch a light on and off, using a switch.
we have saved daylight
but at what cost
I think you look great!
#Rémi est un peu agitée depuis ce matin et refuse de dormir. Curieusement, parfois, ma présence arrive à la tranquilliser. Ça semble être le cas aujourd'hui. Elle s'est endormie dans mon bras.
