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Jamison
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Politics informed by science, nonviolence, gardening, and nature
Year three of this dalea purpurea and we finally have both many stems and many blooms. Love the bright orange pollen extended far out from purple petals. #bloomscrolling
June 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Out of context quote of the day: "But where can I get a Faulkner audio book read by a sad sweaty Texan?"
June 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Boy howdy are the wildflowers going in the front range right now. Beaver Brook - Windy Saddle was beautiful. Here's a crab spider I discovered while investigating a geranium caespitosum? (Pinewoods geranium). Id will be in the comments if someone IDs my observation in iNaturalist.
June 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I was traveling in the Midwest the last couple of weeks... It's just so frustrating to exist in a place where life is just ... continuing?? as normal... for now. The complicity nauseates me, and also fills me with sadness. My parents tell me to be safe/don't protest. My only response / 1
June 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Look. If you wanna hang, let's hang at a protest. Until further notice, that's basically all I have available. Picnic protest? Heck yeah. Slip n slide protest? Yes. Lil vegan BBQ? Uuuuh huh.

Yo we can make this shit even more fun than it already is.

Elevate your protest, make some friends.❤️
May 2, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Riding high speed trains is an absolute delight and I really want them in the USA.

I know goal posts have shifted off-to-preventing-nazi-land but that doesn't mean we shouldn't hope or imagine a better future. I'd absolutely love a Denver-Chicago connection.
April 12, 2025 at 6:18 AM
On Monday March 17, on her way to work, ICE detained 30-yr permanent resident and community leader Jeanette Vizguerra in Aurora, Colorado and are threatening to deport her despite a lack of justification for detaining or deportation. Hit up this petition: secure.afsc.org/a/freejeanette
Sign the Petition to Free Jeanette Vizguerra
Ms. Vizguerra has led her fight against deportation since 2009. ICE detained the community leader, mother and grandmother without warning on March 17, 2025. Her attorneys have raised concerns about s...
secure.afsc.org
March 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This morning I'm making a batch of steel cut oats, which I season with fresh ginger and cardamom. Yo, it smells like Fruit Loops. Who would have thought those spices were a part of its distinctive smell??
March 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Look I know that squirrels are little menaces to anyone who wants a kempt looking yard but also the holes they dig everywhere are perfect disturbances for sowing native seeds. Let nature decide which grows and which doesn't.
March 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
A billionaire should only exist as a blip in time; the short term consequence of a miraculous new product or technology. The proliferation, let alone the long term existence of even a single billionaire is a deep failing of society.
March 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Bye bye 20 years of inputting my personal data into meta 👋👋
March 3, 2025 at 1:51 AM
In case you're appalled by #47 and want to give some direct hope and support to Ukraine, they have a website for that! u24.gov.ua The president and VP do not speak for the people. #50501
UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine
UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...
u24.gov.ua
February 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Made a set of mixing bowls for my sister. They're inspired by the double spouted vintage pyrex mixing bowls, but better because these are not glazed with bioavailable lead glazes. During the spout addition, I decided there was no way I was going to put two spots on each one 😄
February 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In most cases, I'm finding that a person wearing an air filtering mask (i.e. a KN95) in public inside spaces is a person I feel safe with.
February 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I'd be pretty stoked about a government that serves all of the people within its borders, and stands as a model for stewarding the earth long l-term... building cultures that can develop and improve for thousands of years.
February 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM