Knock Out Honey Bees

Jun. 15th, 2025 11:57 am
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My mom's garden has a vigorous knock out rosebush just beside it, and various bees adore it. Although I'm severely allergic to bites and stings, I will still follow honey and bumble bees; they're too busy to care about me.

Fun fact about me: I cannot smell typical roses. Knockouts are the only roses I can smell.

Photos beneath the cut. )

say hello to Indiana

Jun. 14th, 2025 08:28 pm
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At the end of last month I visited Indiana for a week, and in that time went on FOUR hikes. There are too many pictures to put here so I'm posting a link to my ~150 picture album: My sister and I are both very into taking pictures so the hikes were very slow :D but I think it really helps in remembering that there's something interesting to see in pretty much every square inch of the outdoors. There is always a bug, or a fungal disease on a leaf, or a shiny drop of water.

The Album

We visited, in order:
  • Ritchie Woods Nature Preserve
  • Summit Lake State Park
  • Shades State Park/Pine Hills Nature Preserve
  • Southwestway Park

The pictures feature:
  • many, many insects
  • a stately gentleman frog, who very kindly let me get within an inch of him
  • snails
  • two snakes
  • cool looking plants/fungi
  • general landscapes

For the most part the locations are broken up by a couple non-nature photos, except for Southwestway Park (which begins at the photo of the yellow spider in the web). Once you get to the art museum pictures there's no more nature, unless you count the clouds outside the plane window.

Conwy

Jun. 14th, 2025 10:00 am
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We spent a few days in Conwy in north Wales recently and had wonderful weather for it.

A view across  Afon Conwy (the River Conwy) with Conwy castle as a bonus.



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Hey AI — hands off my em-dash

Jun. 14th, 2025 02:03 am
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My fave is the semicolon; however, I refuse to cede em-dashes or any other punctuation marks to ChatGPT.

These attacks on the em dash — a ChatGPT hyphen? How very dare you! — have in turn blazed across social media spaces populated by the kind of folks who will tell you, unprompted, that they have a favorite punctuation mark and what it is. (It is very likely the em dash.) — https://www.salon.com/2025/06/11/ai-cant-have-my-em-dash/
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Content advisory: the following images portray animal decomposition and a messy (though not scatological) plumbing mishap, respectively.

This is the very first photo I took in the process of exploring my new surroundings in Florida. I was recovering from a lengthy illness and a lengthy road trip, and coming to terms with a discombobulating succession of life upheavals; accordingly, I began with a local animal in no condition to evade me.

This roughly crow-sized bird (species and cause of death unknown) lay in an oddly heraldic position suggesting a necromancer’s coat of arms, on the disheveled curb strip of a business that was both recovering from Hurricane Ian and changing hands—likewise in a state of transition. The red spot at heart level is a dried wild fruit of some sort.

Taken on 4 June 2023 at 19:48 U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time:

Fined_be_ye_who_move_my_bones. )

Some while later, I suffered a clog of mysterious blue-gray residue in my bathroom sink (don’t worry; it’s long since been dealt with, although not conclusively explained)—and was fascinated by the delicate poinsettia-like radial pattern created when the water finally receded.

Taken on 20 July 2023 at 14:16 U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time:

Mystery_plumbing_sludge. )

STRUGGLE SESSION: Draft Next Week

Jun. 13th, 2025 02:31 pm
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Posted by Dan Savage

Venn: Grab quote. I’ve talked about this on the show… more than once, too much according to some commenters. I do not believe (and have not “insisted”) that sexual orientation is exclusively about attraction to gender. What I’ve said… to thread this needled… and in recognition the validity of the gay identities of the gay … Read More »

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And now about the spiders

Jun. 13th, 2025 01:19 pm
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This big and scarysmall and not scary at all spider was discovered on our ceiling. It was my macro lens that made it big and scary ;)

See the big and scary spider )

Chicks of the laughing dove

Jun. 12th, 2025 12:36 pm
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It was their first day out of the nest, which they spent on a branch just opposite our window.

Read more... )

For more information (in Russian), see here.

The Boyfriend Experience

Jun. 10th, 2025 11:00 am
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Posted by Tracey Cataldo

My boyfriend went on a trip abroad with his friend (also a guy). After he came back, he showed me that he made a Bumble profile while he was there. I didn’t feel like anything was off or ask him to show me; he volunteered. He said that he was just curious to see how … Read More »

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With Trans Comedian Nico Carney

Jun. 10th, 2025 11:00 am
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Posted by Nancy Hartunian

When she was in high school, she surprised herself and delighted her boyfriend by squirting all over his face. But the incident alarmed her enough to set off a neurotic need to pee before every sexual encounter. How can she get out of her head about it, and allow for spontaneity in her current, awesome … Read More »

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Crown Point Vista House

Jun. 8th, 2025 01:38 pm
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Just returned from a road trip through Oregon and part of Northern California. On leaving Portland we followed the route of a tourist trolley and started out at Crown Point Vista House. The views of the Colombia River were indeed impressive and well worth the twisty drive up to its height. The structure itself with its stone and stained glass was also interesting to see. The bathrooms on the basement level were all marbled -- not the usual for tourist stops!

Above is the overall view east. Read more... )

STRUGGLE SESSION: Calling In Sick…

Jun. 5th, 2025 07:40 pm
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Posted by Dan Savage

There are so many great comments about this week’s column and podcast — confronting cologne addicts! sending nude pics! humiliating hung guys! — but I’m still COVID’s bitch and I don’t have the energy to respond. I’m so sorry! But I am gonna share a letter that just came in just now and invite you … Read More »

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Can I Peg My Dom?

Jun. 3rd, 2025 11:00 am
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Posted by Nancy Hartunian

A married woman in a poly relationship is planning to visit a boyfriend who lives in a different city for a month. But since they made these plans, she started seeing yet another man. Should she tell the guy she plans to visit about the new guy? Should she do it before the trip so … Read More »

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Quickies

Jun. 3rd, 2025 11:00 am
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Posted by Tracey Cataldo

1. Queer boy in an open relationship with a silly question. I’ve started seeing someone recently. They’re cute and I enjoy their company, but they use a lot of cologne and it’s hurting my desire to be physical with them. I don’t know this person well and our trajectory is towards a friends-with-benefits sort of … Read More »

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Taken on 21 June 2024 at 20:33 US Eastern Daylight Savings Time, as I hurried up the street through the break in the rain.





My limited equipment does the scene nothing even remotely resembling justice: neither the gauzy rainbow-sherbet luminosity nor the grand theatricality of the skyscape, with the air of a vintage book illustration or a meticulously painted film backdrop. A detail I particularly like is the small dark cumulus cloud at bottom center that suggests a person astride a charging (pig? bear? huge dog?)

(Keanu-as-) Constantine 2!

Jun. 2nd, 2025 01:52 am
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"Peter Stormare Gives Update on ‘Constantine 2’; Keanu Reeves Reportedly Unhappy with Script" by Meagan Navarro (very similar articles seen on a number of other entertainment news sites).

"'But to do a sequel, the studios want to have, you know, cars flying in the air. They want to have people doing flip-flops and fighting action scenes,' Stormare said."

I think I agree with Keanu. We already have the John Wick franchise. IT IS AWESOME. But we don't need the Keanu-as-Constantine franchise to turn into another John Wick franchise.

I hope they resolve this soon because I am DROOLING at the chance to see Stormare play Lucifer again.

Photos: House Yard

Jun. 2nd, 2025 12:17 am
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These pictures are from Sunday, but it's after midnight, so the post says Monday.

Walk with me ... )

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