📸 March Photo Challenge #22: Insect. Taken in 2016 when I volunteered for and was on the board of directors for a local, socially conscious art & music festival called Summer Jam West. That year’s theme raised awareness about the Monarch and encouraged planting milkweed 🐛

I don’t approve of Instagram but I strongly approve of Jennifer Coolidge. Check out the full W article here

💃🏽 I have a naive idea on how we can better show solidarity with drag performers in the U.S.

📸 March Photo Challenge #21: Tiny. In Gilda Radner: Live from New York (1980) the character Emily Litella reads a children’s book called “Tiny Kingdom” to a classroom of hooligans. I won’t spoil the surprise, but there’s a big twist at the end of this tiny tale that will leave you in stitches.

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY 2X17 "MURAL ARTS"

Jacob secures a visit from a mural arts program for his students but doesn’t agree with their chosen design and attempts to influence their decision. Barbara and Melissa learn parents are petitioning to turn Abbott into a Legendary charter school.

DIFFICULT PEOPLE 1X04 "THE COURAGE OF A SOLDIER"

DIFFICULT PEOPLE 1X03 "PLEDGE WEEK"

DIFFICULT PEOPLE 1X02 "DEVIL'S THREE-WAY"

DIFFICULT PEOPLE 1X01 "PILOT"

Joined the pxlmo.com instance of Pixelfed. Using an app called Tusker for now. Here’s my profile which is sparse for now. Anyone else using Pixelfed? Apps you recommend? People to follow? 📸

Michael just made the first bouquet of the season 🌸 tête-à-tête and hyacinth.

📸 March Photo Challenge #20: Houseplant. Pre-lung transplant surgery Michael had a veritable houseplant jungle. Here’s a photo of our little lioness, Maggie, taking a break from exploring it. Post-surgery he’s allowed to have a few houseplants but has to practice restraint.

SCIENTISTS DELIVER ‘FINAL WARNING’ ON CLIMATE CRISIS

Extreme weather caused by climate breakdown has led to increased deaths from intensifying heatwaves in all regions, millions of lives and homes destroyed in droughts and floods, millions of people facing hunger, and “increasingly irreversible losses” in vital ecosystems. Source: Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late | Climate crisis | The Guardian

This is good people. This is what good people do. And for the rest of March, if you forward your own Trevor Project donation receipt email to help@omg.lol, I’ll add a year to your omg.lol address. ❤️ The Omg Lol Times · Charity Auction Benefitting The Trevor Project

🎵 Now Playing: Shimmer by Throwing Muses from the album University on Music

DO BETTER,  MUSIC

My kingdom for a better library management solution than Apple Music! 601 songs (of about 20,500) have somehow turned into “Apple Music” songs in the cloud, instead of “iTunes Matched” songs in the cloud. Makes it as if I don’t really own them. But when I play one, it duplicates itself to the iTunes Matched version. So then I have to delete the Apple Music version. Also, now there are tons of songs I.

My favorite Dorothy Parker quote ever, shared by our unblushing professor with our Foundations in Library and Information Science class on the first night of class. You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think. I felt like I’d arrived home.

Dear Mary, We all knew you had it in you. Telegram sent after a much-publicized pregnancy -Dorothy Parker

Another zinger! She ran the whole gamut of the emotions from A to B. Of Katharine Hepburn in a Broadway play -Dorothy Parker

This made me laugh out loud. How could they tell? On being told of the death of President Coolidge. -Dorothy Parker

OHIO IN THE NEWS. AGAIN.

Today Ohio joined five other Republican-dominated states—Louisiana, Alabama, West Virginia, Missouri, and Florida—in leaving the Electronic Registration Information Center, a national data-sharing consortium that updates national voter rolls. Right-wing election deniers say that the bipartisan ERIC is controlled by left-wing groups that enable fraud. March 17, 2023

📸 March Photo Challenge #19: Analog. A close up of the All Wave logo on my 190 gms virgin vinyl 10” record Off You by The Breeders. All Wave maintains a completely analog recording and production process. No computers. Nothing digital end to end. Kim Deal invented it. More Info

For those that use @NetNewsWire how do you manage saving articles to read later. Star them? Or is there a better way? Or do you use some kind of other read it later service?

📸 March Photo Challenge #18: Portico. Another challenge word I had to look up. And I don’t come across many a portico in my day-to-day so I reached back to 2018 for this photo. I’m dressed as a Gays Against Guns Human Being here in front of the Ohio Statehouse’s portico.

🤪 “He shed,” she said. Seriously. Say it five times fast and see how you do.