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Pawpaw Pedinska
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Gardener, poody/doge lover, former HIV research lab supervisor, canner of world-famous habanero pepper jelly.
Profile pic: A sesame Shiba keeping an eye on you because you're suspicious
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I received my neighborhood gardening society's Peas Prize for the exceptional length of my squash.
A Zucchino rampicante squash leaning against a dead tree. It is approximately 4 ft long and a golden buff color. A few more squash can be seen hanging from the trellis in the background.
December 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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omg, our boy Seth, who looked much like Honey Butter Chicken Biscuit, used to choose 1 ornament/year to sacrifice to our feline goddesses. Only one. Miss that guy. One ornament/yr still drops, usually when we're in another room, & I'm convinced it's Seth visiting/reminding us not to neglect duty.
A Christmas tree with lights and ornaments in a living room front window. Next to it is a 3-level cat tower. On the lowest level sits and orange and white kitty, looking soooooo innocent. He knows he has been caught scoping for an ornamental victim.
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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This cat is more James Earl Jones than James Earl Jones. So handsome and majestic.
James Earl Jones in chain mail and long hair with a very serious - Do Not Fuck With Me - expression on his face.
December 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Two Shiba Inu’s lie curled together yinyang style on a rug. The bigger is a traditional red and the smaller is a sesame with black-tipped outer coat. The pic perspective is from above.
December 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The aptly named Hairy Balls milkweed covered in snow. It’s a volunteer re-seeded from a plant I got last year. Blooms later than our natives so a good source of fall food for garden visitors.
Three green milkweed pods on a branch with snow on them. They are large, oval and covered with hairlike spikes and really do look like a plant version of male gonads. Sorta Shreckish if you ask me.
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Before pneumococcal vaccines were available I had a colleague in Clin Micro who died from it. He was fine on Saturday when we worked together. By Monday at noon he was gone. Highly contagious and 12 hours from symptoms to dead in his case. That's what these ghouls want for our children.
Requiring manufacturers to conduct additional clinical trials every time they want to add additional viral or bacterial strains would delay updates by several years, all the while leaving people vulnerable to the bacteria, Reiss said. Some companies may decide that conducting such trials is too expensive. "You'd need massive, expensive trials that many companies won't pursue," Scott said. Conducting RCTs of proven vaccines could also be unethical, said Jesse Goodman, MD, who previously filled Prasad's role at the FDA and now directs Georgetown University's Center on Medical Product Access, Safety and Stewardship. "It would be unethical to use placebos and let people get pneumococcal pneumonia," Goodman said.
December 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Old doge, new snow. You're never too old to have fun in the snow. 🥰
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Setting aside the fact that this guy thought it would be cute to return to the womb for a photo op, given the prevalence of phallic symbols in architecture, I find the choice of a vagina for public art outside an infectious disease clinic ... interesting. 🙄
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a “forceps delivery was not necessary," local newspaper Schwaebisches Tagblatt noted. "We were able to pull the victim out with our bare hands after about 30 minutes," Mozer added. The six-foot replica of female genitalia was installed 13 years ago outside the microbiology and virology department of the city’s university clinic. It is worth nearly $200,000.
December 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Princess on her poofy bed.
A large red Shiba Inu reclines on her beige, poofy, fuzzy bed. She is laying on her left side, completely relaxed, eyes at halfmast.
December 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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The Trump admin is trying to legitimize - and USE - the Nuremberg defense, a failed attempt at defending Nazis who claimed innocence via the claim that they were "just following orders." Trump wants full impementation of Führerprinzip (leader principle).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superio...
Superior orders, also known as just following orders or the Nuremberg defense, is a plea in a court of law that a person, whether civilian, military or police, should not be considered guilty of committing crimes ordered by a superior officer or official.[1][2] It is regarded as a complement to command responsibility.[3] Thus, under Nuremberg Principle IV, "defense of superior orders" is not a defense for war crimes, although it might be a mitigating factor that could influence a sentencing authority to lessen the penalty. Nuremberg Principle IV states: The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him. They contended that while they knew Hitler's orders were unlawful, or at least had reason to believe they were unlawful, their place was not to question, but to obey. They claimed they were compelled to do so by the Führerprinzip (leader principle) that governed the Nazi regime, as well as their own oath of allegiance to Hitler. In most cases, the tribunal found that the defendants' offenses were so egregious that obedience to superior orders could not be considered a mitigating factor.
November 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Percher and nestler + sprawler.
A lilac point Siamese perches on top of her person. She is facing away from the camera, her tail dangling down along the woman's arm. The woman is trying to use her laptop, but poody isn't having it. A person lays under tangled sheets and blankets with two poodies on top of her. A Siamese is snuggled down into a tiny nest in a green blanket next to her. An orange and white poody defies gravity, sprawling across her, butt in the air and head and front paws down on the surface of the bed.
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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da Vinci immediately comes to my mind as one classic example. His iconic image the Vitruvian Man combines both his artistic and his scientific skills.
Leonardo da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519) Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and paleontology... An image of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian man: "a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1490. Inspired by the Roman architect Vitruvius, it depicts a nude man in two overlapping standing positions, inscribed within a circle and a square. Art historian Carmen C. Bambach described it as "justly ranked among the all-time iconic images of Western civilization".[1] While not the only drawing inspired by Vitruvius, Leonardo's work uniquely combines artistic vision with scientific inquiry and is often considered an archetypal representation of the High Renaissance. "
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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From the very first day.
A small Shiba Inu puppy pays inside the tube of a cat tower. An orange and white cat sits on top of the tower, looking over the edge at the puppy below. This is their first day together.
November 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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They were the biggest snuggle buddies.
A red Shiba Inu and an oragne and white cat lie side-by-side on a couch. They are facing each other and gently playing. The shiba's front legs are apart, her mouth is open slightly as she gazes at the kitty. He is laying with his head down on the sofa, gazing at his doggy sister.
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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They were best buds right from the start.
An orange and white kitty lies on his side lazily playing with a red Shiba Inu. The kitty has his paw on the Shiba's neck, while she lays next to him and looks down at him. They are on a gray stone block patio. The dark red flowers of a blooming hellebore are behind behind them.
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Habanero Red Currant Raspberry jam.
Fifteen jars of jam on a green and white checked towel on a kitchen counter. The jam is VERY red. The kids read, "Habanero Red Currant Raspberry Jam."
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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She's so pretty, Ryan. Our younger girl won't tolerate costumes but she loves leaves. Happy Thanksgiving to you both and thank you for all the information you share here.
A small sesame Shiba Inu lounges on her side in fall leaves. She has a honey-brown undercoat and black-tipped outer coat. She is looking over her right shoulder. She lays on a hill covered in oak leaves in various shades of brown with some moss peeking through here and there.
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Post something random or have an awful December.
A diamond shaped black sign with white edging. There is a stylized cartoon drawing of a crosswalk and a white silhouette of Sasquatch in the middle of it. It reads, "SLOW PEDESTRIAN CROSSING."
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Temps are dropping fast & we have hard frost in the forecast. I'm harvesting the last of the mints to dry for our winter tea. Will pull up a few Daikon radish and carrots to snack on while we make our Thanksgiving dinner. Our garden provides, March through November.
A pair of bright red Daikon radish lay on a cement step alongside a pink gardening glove for size comparison. They are crusted with damp dirt, with red & white stems holding sprays of leaves in all shades of green from medium to bright lime.
November 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Entitlement.
These are men accustomed to looking beneath the surface and pursuing what is hidden wherever it leads—about science, language, world affairs. But about these women those men evinced a profound incuriosity. They were just the scenery, the help, or as Dominique Strauss-Kahn memorably put it, the “equipment.” In degree but not in kind, they are like the men in Southern France who were invited to rape a drugged Gisele Pelicot, and justified this bizarre situation on the basis that her husband had given permission.
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The same reason it took two years for Obama's Kill List memo to be revealed. This started with Nixon, or before, was bipartisan, and has involved many (every?) President since who wants to do something they know is illegal.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: The Obama administration’s internal legal justification for assassinating U.S. citizens without charge has been revealed for the first time. According to a secret Justice Department document obtained by NBC News, the Obama administration claims it has the legal authority to target citizens who are, quote, “senior operational leaders,” of al-Qaeda or “an associated force” — even if there’s no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S. In September 2011, a U.S. drone strike in Yemen killed two American citizens: Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. The following month, another U.S. drone strike killed al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was born in Denver. AMY GOODMAN: The document obtained by NBC News is described as a “white memo” that was provided to members of the Senate Intelligence and Judiciary Committees as a summary of a classified memo prepared by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Last month, a federal judge denied a request by the American Civil Liberties Union and The New York Times for the Justice Department to disclose its legal justification for the targeted killing of Americans. NEW YORK — A secret memo authored by the Department of Justice (DOJ) asserting that President Bush has unlimited power to order brutal interrogations to extract information from detainees was declassified today as a result of an American Civil Liberties Union Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The memo, written by John Yoo, then a deputy at the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), was sent to the Defense Department in March 2003. "Senior officials at the Justice Department gave the Pentagon the green light to torture prisoners," said Amrit Singh, an ACLU staff attorney. "It is outrageous that none of these high-level officials have been brought to task yet for their role in authorizing prisoner abuse." In the wake of former President Trump’s two impeachments, the integrity of the Constitution’s separation of powers and, in particular, accountability for wrongdoing in the White House short of a presidential election is legitimately in question. Yet to date, there has been no thorough scholarly analysis of the source of law underpinnings of the virtually universally accepted aphorism that “a sitting president cannot be indicted” and is thus immune from judicial oversight for criminal wrongdoing. That apothegm derives from two memoranda produced by lawyers for Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton during periods in which their respective presidencies were in crisis. This Article asks the question: What is an OLC memo as a source of law? It applies constitutional and administrative law principles to conclude that, considered together, these particular OLC memos either constitute a categorical prosecutorial declination determination within the ambit of the president’s Take Care prerogative or a non-legislative rule within the meaning of the Administrative Procedure Act.
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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“You will be visited by three spirits…” (plus one photo bomber)

The three (+1) spirits:
A picture of four ducks at dusk. The water is gray-blue shading from light in the background to dark up close. The ducks are black silhouettes against the water, the shore in the foreground as well. Three of the ducks are floating on the water, reflections attached. The fourth stands tall, on guard. All are in profile.
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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This, literally, is the plan: 'If you don't look for it, it doesn't exist and we don't have to spend any money on it.'
Trump said it about covid in his first admin and some crackpot at Heritage decided to put that in the book as Rule One.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/chronic-wast...
If the CDC prion unit were eliminated, "no one would be looking at prion disease," Appleby said. "We wouldn't be able to tell if we have an increase in cases or where they're going or coming from. And when you don't have a neutral party investigating these things or doing neuropathology to confirm or refute those things, you really have no idea what's going on in the public health space." And with the threat of CWD, "this is probably the worst time to get rid of such a division," he added.
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Same. It was a glorious fall evening.
A glimpse of a reservoir through fall trees. Leaves blanket the path. The water in the reservoir is very low, a lot of the shoreline, essentially everything here that looks like a beach, is normally underwater. A smol sesame Shiba Inu lies on her left side in fall leaves. Her honey-brown undercoat and black-tipped outer coat work as camouflage. She is looking at the camera as if asking, "I am disappear yet?" Another view of the reservoir as seen through a bizarre sapling that has two sharp angles in the trunk. It looks like the number 4 (backward). Behind it in the distance is a mudflat where the water has receded. In the distance a glimpse of the water can be seen behind a sun-drenched hill.
November 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Pics of it last year at peak productivity.
Same grow tower in above post lush with cucumber vines marigolds, lettuce and basil. The vertical poles in front are grow lights, there are also grow lights hanging from the modified shelving unit at the top and a furled reflective blanket at the side that gets wrapped across the front to intensify the light. One of the many massive, 12-inch cukes we it produced. We had at least one of these per day during peack production. The fruit is dark green. There is a yellow cuke flower at the top and it is surrounded with the savoyed leaves. In the background is an orange marigold filled wiht flowers and buds. A woman's hand gently holds the cuke away from the foliage. The grow lights twinkle in the upper right corner of the frame. A huge basil leaf, with my - admittedly smol - hand behind it for size comparison. It is wrinkled and ridged, medium green. It is surrounded by cuke foliage (as most everything was by this time in the indoor growing season).
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM