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2026-08-16 01:02:46 GMT

I didn't know about this! Thank you. Will watch!

2026-08-12 17:26:49 GMT

When the leaves on your zucchini plants get so bodacious that you don't see the zucchini until it is the size of Jugs, the Pug, one of the goofiest and lovable (though the all are, of course) members of the #DogsofMastodon.
Should make for some excellent zucchini bread!
#Gardening
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2026-07-23 00:47:00 GMT

Thanks for this. I use neem oil on some plants (when I see leaves being chewed up) but not on everything in the garden. Maybe that's what I need to start doing.

2026-07-06 15:06:55 GMT

Erasure? Who's erasing whom?
#USPol

2026-07-05 00:59:52 GMT

Y'all in the Family
#HillBillyTVShows
#HashTagGames

2026-06-29 23:47:15 GMT

I haven't been to a Lebowski fest. I did, however, see the Dude at the Hollywood Bowl when we both were there to see Dylan! A brush with greatness (two greatnesses).
This is such a great t-shirt! where'd you get it?

2026-06-20 20:57:24 GMT

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@nprofile…jppl
I'm so happy you're reading it! What do you think so far?

2026-06-20 20:51:05 GMT

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@nprofile…jppl
I have no doubt that Melville would wear it as badge of honor.

2026-06-13 01:47:16 GMT

Those are gorgeous. #Bloomscrolling

2026-06-11 01:55:27 GMT

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@nprofile…wq8a
haha! I LOVE this game, too. I aim for the Big Lebowski with every post but tonight's is a book so no can do. 🤓

2026-06-11 01:53:19 GMT

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@nprofile…wq8a
Thank you and love the sponsorship! 🤓

2026-06-11 01:24:09 GMT

The House Wine of the Seven Gables
#AppetizersABook
#HashTagGames

2026-06-09 22:35:22 GMT

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@nprofile…32yj 💯

2026-06-09 22:20:41 GMT

Run on this, #MAGA. I dare you.
#USPol
#Greed

2026-05-27 14:34:21 GMT

"What’s more certain is that Trump did himself no favors by destroying #Cornyn’s career over a grudge that is over five years old. The move signaled to Republicans the futility of bending over backwards to help Trump, which is all Cornyn has done since then. Trump is destroying their personal hold on power, and that the one thing members of his party can’t abide. Even Republicans have their limits."
From @nprofile…xdmg's mouth to God's ears.
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/27/trump-will-regret-endorsing-ken-paxton-in-the-texas-senate-primary/
#USPol

2026-05-24 01:43:15 GMT

I know. Haunting. I thought the talking yellow dog would be a harbinger of something good, which I guess, maybe it was, in that there was a warning. But man, what an ordeal.

2026-05-21 00:31:30 GMT

I truly don't know why these pollsters are stunned. He's a criminal who, along with his family and fellow #fascists, is stealing our money, healthcare, & democracy, & declaring war on anything that moves or anyone who can't stand him. They think the polls are devastating? Talk to the generations of young people about their futures.
#USPol

2026-05-19 15:56:50 GMT

I look at this photo of this Mar-A-Lago faced woman, and my first thought is, I'm ready for a remake of #Zoolander with #MAGA women in the lead, doing a Blue Steel pose. It would be anti-fascist, vicious, (in the way the #Onion is) and funny as could be. @nprofile…xdmg in recognition of her fantastic #Salon essay on the aesthetic (anti-aesthetic) of that face. My second thought is, of course, disgust.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-jr-and-bettina-anderson-set-to-miss-out-on-dream-wedding-location/
#BenStiller, you listening?
#movie

2026-05-18 13:35:40 GMT

Follow up questions regarding #cell #phones and #carriers:
1. Does anyone use Credo Mobile and, if so, do you like it?
https://www.credomobile.com/plan
2. Does anyone use Credo Mobile with a basic phone; i.e. not a smart phone?
Thank you, #fediverse!

2026-05-16 14:43:21 GMT

In two weeks, #Alzheimer's and #Brain Awareness Month starts. Just sayin'.
"[Dr.] Abraham warned that the list of potential conditions Trump has, or a complex differential diagnosis, could range all the way from the need for more sleep to a president who is suffering #dementia, or some other serious problem 'that threatens the world.'”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/doctor-sounds-alarm-trump-79-125722715.html
#USPol

2026-05-13 16:38:22 GMT

#3GoodThings (student feedback on the midterm exam I gave using blue books, aka going old school!)
1. The students liked using a pen -- they felt more connected to what they were saying -- despite finding it harder than using a computer.
2. The students were more careful w/the words they used. B/c they didn't want to have a lot of scratched-out marks on the page & b/c they couldn't edit like on a computer, they chose words w/greater care.
3. They needed more time.
#Teaching
#Humanities

2026-05-13 16:33:42 GMT

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

2026-05-12 16:30:45 GMT

Bruce Willis is an extraordinary, beautiful human being. His wife, Emma Heming Willis is, too. He has given us #Moonlighting, #TheSixthSense, #DieHard, and now his #brain. Such a gift will help advance the #science that is so crucial to understanding #frontotemporaldementia.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/bruce-willis-family-plans-brain-donation-to-support-dementia-research/ar-AA2225GV?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=69f897c548734f0080f73008b8f331b8&cvpid=f65cd13cce784450ff2ab615762e340c&ei=211
#Dementia
#Neurology

2026-05-06 21:39:00 GMT

Heinous definitely works. Venal is coming out of my mouth more and more. . .

2026-05-06 21:12:58 GMT

#3goodthings
1. Had a wonderful #glutenfree biscuit at Mariposa, an awesome GF bakery in the Bay Area (one is #SF at the Ferry Building; the other in #Oakland).
2. Seeing my kid.
3. Reading Ian McKewan's What We Can Know and came across this beautiful, meaningful sentence: "Whenever humans got out of the way, the rest of the living world edged back and flourished."

2026-05-05 16:12:43 GMT

My #gardening thumb has finally been activated. It only took 65 yrs & someone who had a vision for our front yard (from St Augustine grass to St Francis w/#California natives!), a lot of patience, & an ability to help me make a garden in #LA that spoke to my #Berkeley state of being. We call it The Let it Bee Zen Project; aka the anti-death cult project. Cultivating beauty (& I know how privileged I am to be able to do this) may not be an act of resistance but it's essential.
#Bloomscrolling
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2026-05-01 14:32:36 GMT

#3GoodThings (Teaching Hawthorne)
1. The students loved "The Minister's Black Veil"! Who would have thought? Best class this term!
2. We discussed: Does the veil mean anything? Reverend Hooper's sin? The community's? Does refusing to take off the veil constitute a sin in and of itself? Hawthorne asks us to interpret but keeps its signification open or veiled.
3. One student said the veil brought out the community's desire for conformity. They should just deal with it!
#books
#Humanities

2026-04-30 15:33:25 GMT

On this last day of poetry month, here's one of my favorites by Allen Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California" (1955). It has just about everything: Whitman, peaches, and Berkeley.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california
#Poetry

2026-04-24 02:22:58 GMT

Hey #MomsForLiberty, I mean Moms for #fascism, I taught #Beloved today -- you know, one of your favorite books to ban, the one that won a #Nobel -- and the discussion was wonderful, thoughtful, powerful. The students were blown away by #Morrison's voice, writing, story. We talked about a lot about #grief, generational #trauma, and the power of stories. And F you for trying to take them away.
#Humanities
#Books
#BannedBooks

2026-04-22 15:38:17 GMT

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@nprofile…2h69
I love this. Thanks for posting.

2026-04-22 15:30:17 GMT

All hail The Onion.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/infowars-logo-just-got-makeover-120000016.html
#LGBTQ
#Pride

2026-04-19 01:44:40 GMT

He is such a sick f*ck.

2026-04-16 15:53:16 GMT

#Media, does #Kushner have security clearance? Probably not -- how about an article about that? Or a Congressional hearing?
"Blatant corruption, it seems, has become just another perk of the job.
The White House is not requiring Kushner to file financial disclosure documents, & certification of Witkoff’s has been inexplicably delayed for months."
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/16/trumps-middle-east-envoys-are-partners-in-duplicity/
#USPol
#Greed

2026-04-15 20:30:48 GMT

When I am in the garden, I hear #Hendrix -- Purple Haze. What do you hear in your garden?
#Bloomscrolling
#PrideofMadeira
#ButterlyBush
#lobelia
#IcePlant
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2026-04-08 17:40:51 GMT

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@nprofile…mnk3 💯

2026-04-08 17:38:24 GMT

"Strawberries" -- Captain Queeg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KekChFdIe00
#USPol

2026-04-08 01:45:50 GMT

Instead of the media telling the truth: i.e. 1) his genocidal statement warrants immediate removal and 2) his decision not to decimate Iran is perhaps the only sane thing this madman has done (still, obviously, demanding removal) they are calling him chickensh*t and Taco. What, you want him to stick to the threat?
Not helpful.
#USPol
#Media

2026-04-07 16:38:19 GMT

Today's Articles of impeachment. Can we get a vote before 8 pm ET?
https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres1155/BILLS-119hres1155ih.pdf
#USPol

2026-04-07 15:04:49 GMT

#Congress, can you count to 25? -- asking for the world.
#25thAmendment

2026-04-05 16:55:59 GMT

Invoke the 25th Amendment before he ends the world. He is afraid to die alone (and of the #Epstein files being released and his criminality, yet again, held up before a world that loathes him) and will bring us all with him.
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-xxv#amendment-section-1
#25thamendment
#USPol
#Epstein

2026-04-01 02:00:22 GMT

Tower of London Records
#MedievalStoreNames
#HashTagGames

2026-03-30 15:58:01 GMT

I don't know Firefly and after looking it up can't believe it. Where was I in 2002 and what I have been doing since? Will correct this deep flaw asap.
Love the sequel idea but why not go full-Ahab? So much fun to think about a potential cast!

2026-03-28 21:55:44 GMT

This sounds good!
"As its title suggests, her film is less about Jacobs himself and more about how she sees him, and why she loves him. She’s uniquely capable of showing what makes Jacobs’ work special without ever having to tell us. As far as fashion documentaries go, “Marc by Sofia” is an ideal punk rock companion to Jacobs’ grunge-driven ethos."
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/27/sofia-coppola-taps-the-whimsy-of-90s-marc-jacobs/
#Movies

2026-03-27 19:31:28 GMT

Wisdom from @nprofile…4nva
https://lets-address-this-with-qasim-rashid.ghost.io/13-rules-to-protect-yourself-while-protesting-at-no-kings/
#USPol

2026-03-27 14:48:41 GMT

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@nprofile…vlmj
I love this. Thank you for the explainer.
This is a beautiful Carly SImon song but I actually had Dylan in mind!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhgZibLRQ0E

2026-03-27 04:21:15 GMT

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@nprofile…anc6
I'm so very sorry. Sometimes talking to a stranger is easier than someone you know. I'm here . 🫂

2026-03-27 02:17:30 GMT

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@nprofile…vlmj
I will take that as a compliment but because I am not Carly Simon, I'm afraid I need an explainer re: the $5.00. 🤓

2026-03-27 01:47:26 GMT

Live long and punch Nazis
#LiveLongAndAnything
#HashTagGames

2026-03-27 01:43:24 GMT

Live long and let your freak flag fly
#LiveLongAndAnything
#HashTagGames

2026-03-27 01:40:00 GMT

Live long and watch the river flow
#LiveLongAndAnything
#HashTagGames

2026-03-27 01:38:19 GMT

Live long and do the time warp
#LiveLongAndAnything
#HashTagGames

2026-03-27 01:38:03 GMT

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@nprofile…p3s8
haha!!!

2026-03-27 01:37:28 GMT

Live Long and feel free to bowl on the Shabbos
#LiveLongAndAnything
#HashTagGames

2026-03-27 01:36:37 GMT

Live Long and Use Ghee
#LiveLongAndAnything
#HashTagGames

2026-03-27 00:04:50 GMT

A discussion of ambiguous loss.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ambiguous-loss/id1757439424?i=1000756950309
#Alzheimers
#Grief
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2026-03-26 21:01:40 GMT

If they hate the science this much, I have a modest proposal: fascists don't get the benefits of medical care, which they are so intent on undermining for all of us. No #dementia care, no #surgery (plastic or otherwise), no vaccines, no state-of-the-art cancer medicine.
#USPol
#Medicine

2026-03-25 19:47:48 GMT

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@nprofile…3p2k 💯

2026-03-25 18:51:32 GMT

Hallelujah!
“If you could read Toni Morrison, why would you read AI?” [Joyce Carol] Oates asks.
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-books-music/a70519504/novelists-writing-storytelling-2026/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KMJCFJ99ZDZGTWM8GNF5S9DX&_kx=S8WC11UrKrAVtPRocDXO4oHLgvmFT3ek79stvWBEDio.U5D8ER
#Humanities
#Books
#AI

2026-03-25 15:46:35 GMT

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@nprofile…rk99
MAGA and think are mutually exclusive.

2026-03-25 15:28:08 GMT

On #Trump's (actually Linda from Arizona -- groan) “make airports suck for everyone” plan": "The 'everyone' aspect of airports is likely part of the psychological dynamic here. . . But even for those [MAGA voters] who live in the whitest of suburbs, if they have to travel, that means going to an airport, usually in a city, where they get a full eyeball of the broad spectrum of people that constitute how Americans actually look."
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/25/ice-at-airports-trumps-troll-move-backfires/
#USPol
#ICE
#TSA

2026-03-25 14:56:36 GMT

Thank you to the #Penn Memory Center for hosting #AgeofAging & this episode on ambiguous loss. We discussed the experiences of my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's & my attempt to put into words my love & #grief for what he was going through. W/gratitude to the #PennMemoryCenter and, as always, to #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller of #UCSF's #MemoryandAgingCenter for writing w/me our dual #memoir, Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, & the# Brain.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ambiguous-loss/id1757439424?i=1000756950309
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2026-03-25 02:47:45 GMT

Singin' in the Monsoon
#inflatedMoviesOrPlays
#HashTagGames

2026-03-25 02:27:06 GMT

You've got some packages
#inflatedMoviesOrPlays
#HashTagGames

2026-03-25 02:07:57 GMT

West Side Stories
#inflatedMoviesOrPlays
#HashTagGames

2026-03-25 02:07:15 GMT

70 Brides for 70 Brothers
#inflatedMoviesOrPlays
#HashTagGames

2026-03-25 02:04:27 GMT

Like Fuji Water for Godiva Chocolate
#inflatedMoviesOrPlays
#HashTagGames

2026-03-25 02:03:38 GMT

The McMansion
#inflatedMoviesOrPlays
#HashTagGames
#TheApartment

2026-03-25 02:02:37 GMT

Super Cool Hand Luke
#inflatedMoviesOrPlays
#HashTagGames

2026-03-25 02:02:21 GMT

The Longest, Hottest Summer
#inflatedMoviesOrPlays
#HashTagGames

2026-03-25 02:01:46 GMT

The ginormous Lebowski
#inflatedMoviesOrPlays
#HashTagGames

2026-03-25 00:17:41 GMT

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#Bloomscrolling, Part 2. Some close-ups of some real beauties. Bet you can guess my favorite color!
#Hendrix
#ExcuseMeWhileIKissTheSky
#Gardening
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2026-03-24 22:28:33 GMT

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@nprofile…khlq
Thank you! 💜

2026-03-24 20:47:06 GMT

Yes & thank you! My daughter's talented partner is also the designer! I dug up the lawn & did lots of planting with help. I feel like I know each plant intimately. Each has a story. The white rose my mother gifted us; the Moroccan daisy my daughter picked out. Even the stones! The decomposed granite that looks like the desert, which my husband loves. It's a story that we've planted, that I'm now writing (when not hand watering!). Send a pic back if you want. I'd love to see it.💜

2026-03-24 20:32:53 GMT

You're so kind to say that. Thank you. I will post some more close-ups to share some of the beautiful blooms. 💜

2026-03-24 20:00:39 GMT

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@nprofile…gynp
THANK YOU!💜

2026-03-24 19:53:07 GMT

Got the name of the grevillia. It's a Poorinda Queen. Looks like it, too, can cause an allergic reaction. Thanks again!

2026-03-24 19:39:09 GMT

Thank you so much for this information. I will find out if it's a silk oak.

2026-03-24 19:03:59 GMT

THANK YOU! Everyday I have a new favorite. It's hard to see in the photo but one of the trees is an Australian Grevellia and another is a Red Bud. I also love the mallows (the soil does too). They have gotten so big in a matter of months. Maybe my very favorite, though, is the Buchanan sage. It is such a cool plant.

2026-03-24 18:11:54 GMT

Thank you. I am so lucky -- in a myriad of ways -- to have been able to do this.

2026-03-24 18:08:09 GMT

💜

2026-03-24 18:05:29 GMT

Our #garden: before, after, & a visual excerpt. California natives & drought tolerant plants (thank you Lincoln nursery on Lincoln), gold decomposed granite, lots of rock (thank you Stoneyard on Lincoln). Thank you to my garden coaches who saw what I couldn't & helped bring some much-needed beauty into this world. Having planted these treasures of memory, potential, & the present tense, & continuing to care for them, now I get to write their story.
#Bloomscrolling
#Memoir
#LosAngeles
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2026-03-24 01:33:16 GMT

Just Don't Do it
#HashTagGames
#BoredomSlogansOrAds

2026-03-23 15:57:10 GMT

"Yes, Vance was celebrating the intelligence of a same man who suggested injecting bleach into human lungs to kill the Covid-19 virus and who bragged that he “aced” a cognitive test with sample questions like “what is this animal?” while pointing to a picture of a horse." -- @nprofile…xdmg
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/23/how-iran-emasculated-jd-vance/
#USPol

2026-03-23 15:51:52 GMT

What happens when the essential workers who clean the planes, load the luggage, clean the restrooms, make and serve the food, stop showing up for work out of fear of these armed fascists? By the way, are their faces covered?

2026-03-23 15:47:17 GMT

will watch.
"Having lived through the first era of the #manosphere, whose spates of incel violence unfolded very publicly on college campuses and group-fitness classes, my instinct is to oh-you-sweet-summer-child this assertion. But he’s referring to something that’s different, if almost as chilling: The suspicion that on a mental and interpersonal level, a lot of young people just never fully left lockdown."
https://www.salon.com/2026/03/22/i-watched-inside-the-manosphere-with-my-son/
#uspol
#Gender
#Misogyny
#COVID

2026-03-22 22:42:49 GMT

"there is an aesthetics in all things."
#Moby-Dick
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2026-03-22 01:09:53 GMT

Eight % is enough
#LendingTVShows
#HashTagGames

2026-03-22 01:08:33 GMT

Moonlighting to pay off the interest
#LendingTVShows
#HashTagGames

2026-03-22 01:07:35 GMT

The price isn't right
#LendingTVShows
#HashTagGames

2026-03-22 01:06:50 GMT

Whose Loan Is It Anyway
#LendingTVShows
#HashTagGames

2026-03-21 03:11:13 GMT

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@nprofile…wq8a 💯

2026-03-21 02:13:24 GMT