Beautiful! And a great reminder to leave the plants standing until spring

A podcast I enjoy (World Gone Wrong) uses "baseline" as a check-in:
"You okay?"
"The world's on fire but I'm not in active cris8s -- I'm at baseline."

"You baseline?"
"Not really, I got some bad news about my job..."

I really like that option as a way to say I'm not o k a y, but I'm okay.

We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.

Cancelled my premium and deleted my profile the other week!

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My hour-old tattoo featuring beloved native plants, birds, and bugs from my Michigan back yard:

Believe me, I'm just grasping for any sliver of hope these days, and hearing conservatives accidentally admit that for-profit health insurance is a scam is just a tiny drop of satisfying irony in the grand scheme of our hellscape

They're shockingly close to backing themselves into this argument, and I'm here for it, I guess??

Griddle, is that you? 🕶️

"My feet are burned from walking a path not meant for me" is a stone-cold banger 🙌

I'm currently making and canning applesauce with a handful of family members 🍎

Would you consider, perhaps, becoming Chuck Schumer for a bit? Just long enough to tender his resignation maybe?

I started trying Deezer a week ago and so far, so good! It was really easy to import my Spotify playlists, etc.

Instead of being out here deciding which minority groups we can potentially throw under the bus for meagre gains, maybe we should run with the message that every human deserves dignity!

What a fucking concept.