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Manatees: Not the mermaids we wanted, but the ones we needed. 
Today is Manatee Appreciation Day! Once mistaken for mythical creatures, manatees are marine mammals part of a small group known as "Sirenia,” a name which comes from the Sirens of ancient Greek mythology. Spending most of their time traveling, resting, or eating seagrass, manatees help maintain healthy marine ecosystems by keeping aquatic vegetation in check. This is why they’re sometimes dubbed the “lawn mowers of the sea.” 
Unfortunately, all three extant manatee species are vulnerable to extinction—and these graceful sea critters require additional protection from major threats like habitat destruction and collisions with boats and ships.
Photo: David Hinkel, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons 
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The last Wednesday in March is Manatee Appreciation Day.
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There is some pretty shocking footage out there of the Baltimore bridge collapse early this morning. I've already seen some incredibly wrong, incredibly insensitive Hot Takes about how shitty the bridge was to have fallen after being bonked by a boat, etc
Please don't be that person.
The facts will come out. Speculation is silly. In addition to loss of life, the Francis Scott Key bridge was a major arterial in that region's highway system. Its loss will be felt for years, and not just to daily commuters.
Baltimore harbor is closed. No shipping at all. This will impact supply chains in ways we cannot even assess yet.
It's pretty fucked up.
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i love u yaks i love u yaks
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Amphibiuary 2024.
Day 28: Repeat
Pls hire me for textbook illustrations
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24-4. Mixed media, with recycled/repurposed material including scrap wood and paper, dried acrylic paint peelings, and discarded plastic packaging.
I fiddled with this one for a long time, and I'm still frustrated with bits of it, but I'm trying not to let my perfectionism get in the way of moving forward! At least I learned a lot about how to get the effects I want, and how not to.
The material that makes up the center background of the bottom part of this piece is a composite of shavings from carving my layered paper "stones" and peeled-off bits of acrylic paint from old projects and palettes, stuck together with acrylic medium, sliced to show the strata, and rearranged.
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imagine Alex learning that Shane is also into gridball and declaring that they're besties now. Invites him over to watch a game on TV on the weekends (Shane's not allowed to bring alcohol though). NOT a shipping post i just like the mental image of this sweet college student latching onto this washed-up 30+ y/o dude by virtue of them being the only two people in town who are at all interested in sports
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There a trucks lining the street, bringing welcome improvements to our electricity infrastructure. They had to turn the power off for that. So these babies are getting sunlight from the window instead of LED light this afternoon. Most of these are tomato sprouts, but there are a few cucumber sprouts just coming up.
The extra baby (and by baby, I mean tomato sprout) in the paper cup is from where there were two seedlings in one pod. I gently pulled it out of the pod, saw that its roots came with it, and transplanted it. Everyone tells you to snip off the extra seedling rather than potentially damaging the remaining plant, but my heart won’t let me.
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Garden progress
This weekend I added soil to the middle 4x8 bed (I did the front 4x8 bed two weeks ago) and I planted more beets, carrots, radishes, and chard. It’s too early for beans, but I found some old seeds and decided I can either plant them and see what happens or toss them, so I planted a few bush beans in the raised bed and some pole beans in an EarthBox. I had tried winter sowing some sugar snap peas and protecting them with leaf mulch. Most didn’t come up, but two or possibly three did, so I gave each seedling a bamboo stake to grow on and we will see what happens. I worked around them to plant the other things in that bed.
My neighbor gave me some arugula seeds she had saved from her plants last year. I added those to the front bed between the rows I had planted with other things. I also planted some beets and radishes in the grow bag. Maybe I’ll put potatoes in there later, but I don’t have any right now.
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“The Jewish response to trauma is counter-intuitive and extraordinary. You defeat fear by joy. You conquer terror by collective celebration. You prepare a festive meal, invite guests, give gifts to friends. While the story is being told, you make an unruly noise as if not only to blot out the memory of Amalek, but to make a joke out of the whole episode. You wear masks. You drink a little too much. You make a Purim spiel.” Precisely because the threat was so serious, you refuse to be serious – and in that refusal you are doing something very serious indeed. You are denying your enemies a victory. You are declaring that you will not be intimidated. As the date of the scheduled destruction approaches, you surround yourself with the single most effective antidote to fear: joy in life itself. As the three-sentence summary of Jewish history puts it: “They tried to destroy us. We survived. Let’s eat.” Humour is the Jewish way of defeating hate. What you can laugh at, you cannot be held captive by.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt"l, "The Therapeutic Joy of Purim," article published 1 March 2015
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reblog to diminish the horrors from the person you reblogged from
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24-3. Mixed media, with recycled/repurposed materials including scrap paper, cedar remnants, and acrylic paint peeled off a discarded painting.
I changed my mind and decided to use a numbered format for this series after all. Giving the series a thematic name (Metamorphs) felt too confining, and I spent too much time agonizing over whether a new piece really fit the name. I'm still focusing on transforming and honoring the beauty of recycled, repurposed, and rescued materials, but the numbered system gives me a bit more freedom to evolve and explore.
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Yeah I'm AFAB, but what's much more important to understanding my Gender is that I was Assigned Older Sister At My Sibling's Birth
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✨️ feeling your feelings ✨️
Who else hates it?
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Right There in River City
That last post about the Sacramento History Museum made me kind of nostalgic. Sacramento was my first placement after I finished my M.Div. That’s far enough in the past that I can gloss over the hard parts.
I’m nostalgic in a different way for the time I lived in Oakland. And even more different for San Francisco.
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We have officially reached a viewership level that has never been obtained by another museum before! All of us at the Sacramento History Museum are in disbelief.
We would have never thought that our institution, a small nonprofit museum in Sacramento, California, could reach this many views, but we are incredibly thankful for all of those who take the time to watch our videos and for your support.
In this video, Howard letterpress printed a headline announcing “Sacramento History Museum Reaches One Billion Video Views On YouTube” while using our Washington hand press, which was manufactured in 1852!
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