Rose Rudd @roseannerudd@social.cleverlibre.org

Training a cat.

#Caturday

I gave a speech at Florida's New College Alternate Graduation. It's only 3 minutes long. I meant every word of it.

I remember when John Hodgman spoke at the 2009 White House Correspondents' Dinner talking about Obama being America's first nerd president after years and years of jock presidents. I crushed on the high school nerds so I found it heartening and encouraging.

But having watched too many aggrieved nerds amass wealth and power and realizing they're even worse than the jocks? I'm thinking maybe it's time to let the burnouts take over.

The right-wing 5th Circuit Appeals Court in New Orleans is about to outlaw mifepristone. Belgium-based medical non-profit Aid Access offers mifepristone prescriptions via telemedicine, and mails them in unmarked packages.

https://aidaccess.org/en/

The morning started off slow—didn’t get any birds for at least forty minutes. But when one finally emerged, it turned out to be a Black-chinned. First of the year. Not bad!

Good Day!
Springtime Byram by Daniel Garber 1933

Prickly pear buds opening up. If it was sunny all the buds would be open, and it would be nothing but yellow.

#Cacti
#DesertLife
#Alttext
#Mar

From a day ago, but still applies, although we already knew CNN was like this:

Jon Stewart:

I learned nothing from this town hall about #Trump and his most ardent supporters I haven't known since 2016. I learned a lot about #CNN.

Sending big love to anyone missing their mom today.

Spain is expected to pass a law that would give women three days of menstrual leave every month if needed.
In unrelated news, Republican leaders in Washington are writing a bill that says if a woman has her period in the workplace, she is guilty of witchcraft and should be captured in a burlap bag and cast into the sea.

Put that in your “silo,” Anderson. We are not children, and we don’t need to be scolded for failing to watch another hour of The Donald Trump Show. It’s on every day, everywhere, already.

A metallic object that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home this week was a meteorite, experts say.

The AP reports (and has photos): https://apnews.com/article/meteorite-hits-home-hopewell-new-jersey-91fecf2eb7e5ffb938bfb68920dc6011

#Meteorite #Space #Science

#WhoToFollow

Managing editor of the Kremlin critical medium, Meduza, Kevin Rothrock is now on #Mastodon.
He used to have over 100,000 followers on The Dying Bird, so let us show Elonir Muskovic, that you can build an even larger following on Mastodon — please follow Kevin right here:

@kevinrothrock

Trying a new productivity hack.

A Dutch supermarket chain introduced slow checkouts for people who enjoy chatting, helping many people, especially the elderly, deal with #loneliness.
The move has proven so successful that they installed the slow checkouts in 200 stores...

I don’t know how many people who follow me get gel nails done (or do them at home) but please read up on acrylate allergies if you do. It’s an easy, painful allergy to get, especially from home gel kits, and once you do, it can ruin your life. You will not be able to get most dental work, or implants that need to be adhered to bone (like hip/joint replacements). Even surgical glue to close incisions. Plus so much more: acrylates are in so many common products, from utensils to hair gels.

A prunt is a small blob of glass fused to another piece of glass. Prunts are applied primarily as decoration, but also help provide a firm grip in the absence of a handle. Prunts may be impressed into decorative shapes, such as raspberries, blackberries, or lion's heads.- wiki

In this clip — an update on the debt limit — you can hear not only a museum-quality default to both sides mindlessness, but the sound of a news organization, NPR, utterly confounded by its subject, helpless and paralyzed, unable to think, unwilling to try.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/09/1175071444/biden-holds-high-stakes-debt-ceiling-talks-that-include-gop-leaders

It's so surreal. They're still doing, "When will those squabbling politicians put aside partisanship and compromise for the greater good?" after all this.

Hat tip, @dankennedy_nu

#journalism #uspol

Deer deliver in the strangest of places! If you find a fawn in your yard, leave it alone, do not touch, move or feed it. They have no scent and predators cannot find them unless humans interfere. Mom leaves during the day for 2 primary reasons: to feed, and to keep her scent away. Mom will return, but not until dusk and not if humans are around. If you discover the gift of a fawn enjoy the experience, and let the Mom do what comes naturally. Please share, thank you. #wildlife

Of course CNN is pretending that giving Trump its platform tonight is about journalism.

Come on, folks. Even engaging in this discussion is a waste of time.

It's about money, period.

Yet Big Journalism is, indeed, wasting time and resources it could be devoting to actual journalism.