I got a little hand-held microscope for my birthday and I've had a great time looking at stuff. It's hard to know what magnification level you're at when you focus, but I think that there's one focal point at 400x and another around 1000x. I'm not a plant knower, so I may have labelled incorrectly.

Extremely irresponsible for @theguardian.com to conflate these two things: ordinary Jewish people are not responsible for the actions of the state of Israel, and a disgusting hate crime isn't the same as a protest against a weapons manufacturer.

Heartwarming that the far right mob in the UK is still willing to fly the flag of a foreign country at today's #unitethekingdom fascist rally. I don't know what exactly they like about Georgia, but it's very sweet nonetheless.

The far right: "pointing out similarities between the Nazis and the MAGA movement is political violence"

Also the far right: "we are literally the Nazis"

I'm re-reading The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright and I'm amused to find the first passage that Past Beth found important enough to highlight.

There's a frog in the garden!