parsnip & star machine
@soowrites.bsky.social
bilingual(🇬🇧🇰🇷) cellist/writer/lawyer
poetry as contemporaneous reflection, contemplating such topics as expression, sensory inspiration, power and its abuse, community, healing & agency. sometimes painting
I worked on this book: tinyurl.com/3kjjxabv
poetry as contemporaneous reflection, contemplating such topics as expression, sensory inspiration, power and its abuse, community, healing & agency. sometimes painting
I worked on this book: tinyurl.com/3kjjxabv
Pinned
From my parsnip soils I slowly rose
Small as gnats or just specs of dust or dirt itself
But in the fresh air and open space
Free to move, easily stunned
2/
Small as gnats or just specs of dust or dirt itself
But in the fresh air and open space
Free to move, easily stunned
2/
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
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The wake ripples of escaping ducks.
#stunday #eastcoastkin #ripples #pond #scape #landscape #photography
#stunday #eastcoastkin #ripples #pond #scape #landscape #photography
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The wake ripples of escaping ducks.
#stunday #eastcoastkin #ripples #pond #scape #landscape #photography
#stunday #eastcoastkin #ripples #pond #scape #landscape #photography
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Texas censorship
The Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.
Texas A&M to vote on banning “race and gender ideology”
The proposal appears to mark the first time a Texas university system offers definitions of what kind of instruction related to race and gender should not be permitted.
www.texastribune.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Texas censorship
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An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
An agreement to agree to do a later vote is NOT an enforceable contract so what in the actual hell are Americans getting out of this deal??
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
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Investors in design software giant Adobe Inc. can't revive claims that the company downplayed the threat it faced from competitor Figma Inc. before announcing a $20 billion deal to buy the rival.
Adobe Investors Can't Revive Suit Over $20B Figma Buy - Law360
Investors in design software giant Adobe Inc. can't revive claims that the company downplayed the threat it faced from competitor Figma Inc. before announcing a $20 billion deal to buy the rival, a Manhattan federal judge has determined, finding that the investors' new allegations regarding the company's market-size hypotheticals wouldn't have misled reasonable investors.
www.law360.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Investors in design software giant Adobe Inc. can't revive claims that the company downplayed the threat it faced from competitor Figma Inc. before announcing a $20 billion deal to buy the rival.
It’s the essence of life, in a way
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It’s the essence of life, in a way
Mary Wollstonecraft aka Mary Shelly
If you loved the movie, read the book
If you read the book, then please also check out a seminal essay the same author from 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.
It awakens
#frankenstein #reads
If you loved the movie, read the book
If you read the book, then please also check out a seminal essay the same author from 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.
It awakens
#frankenstein #reads
Frankenstein was absolutely perfect.
I did have to close my eyes at some of the worst surgical stuff because I’m a wuss.
I did have to close my eyes at some of the worst surgical stuff because I’m a wuss.
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Mary Wollstonecraft aka Mary Shelly
If you loved the movie, read the book
If you read the book, then please also check out a seminal essay the same author from 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.
It awakens
#frankenstein #reads
If you loved the movie, read the book
If you read the book, then please also check out a seminal essay the same author from 1792, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.
It awakens
#frankenstein #reads
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Since January, Trump's Treasury has quietly gutted enforcement of the corporate alternative minimum tax — a huge boon for big business and wealthy investors.
Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.
Reverse Robin Hood.
Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.
Reverse Robin Hood.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Since January, Trump's Treasury has quietly gutted enforcement of the corporate alternative minimum tax — a huge boon for big business and wealthy investors.
Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.
Reverse Robin Hood.
Meanwhile, he's led an all-out assault on Medicaid, SNAP, and other programs that help the poor.
Reverse Robin Hood.
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a-ha - Take On Me (Official Video) [4K]
YouTube video by a-ha
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Sounds like a fair shot
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Sounds like a fair shot
Brilliant
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Brilliant
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Yes we switched from forced air heating to a heat pump years back cutting our all electric manufactured home power bill in half. You also get air conditioning with a heat pump and the cost is the same as when you are using it for heating.
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Yes we switched from forced air heating to a heat pump years back cutting our all electric manufactured home power bill in half. You also get air conditioning with a heat pump and the cost is the same as when you are using it for heating.
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“Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.”
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.”
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
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🚨BREAKING: In a win for Wisconsin voters, a state judge vacated a ruling that would have forced election officials to conduct mass citizenship checks — a move voting rights advocates warned could have wrongly purged some citizens from the rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
In a Win for Voters, Wisconsin Judge Withdraws Anti-Voting Order on Proof of Citizenship
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: In a win for Wisconsin voters, a state judge vacated a ruling that would have forced election officials to conduct mass citizenship checks — a move voting rights advocates warned could have wrongly purged some citizens from the rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Today the Supreme Court heard a very, very technical case about whether a government contractors (in this case, private prison company GEO Group) should get essentially qualified immunity for contractors (I'm oversimplifying). The answer, it seems, will be no.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
Justices Doubt Timing of Immunity Appeal in GEO Wage Case (1)
Several US Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of GEO Group Inc.’s argument that it can immediately appeal a lower court’s rejection of its immunity defense to escape forced labor claims from im...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Today the Supreme Court heard a very, very technical case about whether a government contractors (in this case, private prison company GEO Group) should get essentially qualified immunity for contractors (I'm oversimplifying). The answer, it seems, will be no.
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
“We are witnessing a big shift as tech billionaires make a push to buy local power, create polarization and moral panic, and push the traditionally liberal/progressive Bay Area toward Republican-style policies”…
Canada stands for something way more grounded — just say no to fascism
Canada stands for something way more grounded — just say no to fascism
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 AM
“We are witnessing a big shift as tech billionaires make a push to buy local power, create polarization and moral panic, and push the traditionally liberal/progressive Bay Area toward Republican-style policies”…
Canada stands for something way more grounded — just say no to fascism
Canada stands for something way more grounded — just say no to fascism
Wow
But like
A cut apple ?!
But like
A cut apple ?!
Ah why not? Here's another Barn Owl picture I have taken. This beauty was flying right towards me.
#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife
#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Wow
But like
A cut apple ?!
But like
A cut apple ?!
In mine I saw baby ducks crossing a puddle and my parents were travelling teachers
Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
In mine I saw baby ducks crossing a puddle and my parents were travelling teachers
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The exciting talent @katiewilson.bsky.social has taken a narrow lead as ballots are still being counted in the Seattle mayoral race.
If you want a sense of why this is very cool news, here's something of mine from earlier this fall
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
If you want a sense of why this is very cool news, here's something of mine from earlier this fall
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Can Progressive Mayors Redeem the Democratic Party?
Zohran Mamdani isn’t the only candidate challenging the status quo—and having fun doing it.
www.newyorker.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
The exciting talent @katiewilson.bsky.social has taken a narrow lead as ballots are still being counted in the Seattle mayoral race.
If you want a sense of why this is very cool news, here's something of mine from earlier this fall
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
If you want a sense of why this is very cool news, here's something of mine from earlier this fall
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee my law firm has filed to intervene to defend the new California congressional map from attack. www.democracydocket.com/cases/califo...
🚨 Tangipa et al v. Newsom et al
Learn more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee my law firm has filed to intervene to defend the new California congressional map from attack. www.democracydocket.com/cases/califo...
you know
the amount of people who will say something like "they went to tech so you know they're smart"
YALL
math science engineering is a certain kind of skill that some ppl study but lolll plz do not defer to stem folks on all the things, just on stem things
YALL
math science engineering is a certain kind of skill that some ppl study but lolll plz do not defer to stem folks on all the things, just on stem things
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 AM
you know
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it's not good for anybody to be referred to as a genius or wizard; they may come to think they are an actual genius or wizard
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
it's not good for anybody to be referred to as a genius or wizard; they may come to think they are an actual genius or wizard
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I took a photo yesterday as the sun was setting and I thought it would be fun to shoot it again while it was snowing.
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I took a photo yesterday as the sun was setting and I thought it would be fun to shoot it again while it was snowing.