@mcfate Oh but it's our destiny to occupy every earth-like planet in the galaxy no matter how hostile its environment is! We could put the same effort into making Earth another Eden, but ... destiny!

Not only are the northern lights expected to be visible as far south as Olympia, but Olympia's sky is predicted to be clear when it happens. That's so unlikely and accommodating I have to suspect there's a catch somewhere.

My neighbor to me last week: We're going to Paris!
Me, smugly: Well, we're going to Spokane!

Tbh, I don't envy him. Spokane was pretty nice, we got to see some of the Columbia River along the way, and we didn't have to spend hours in a plane--not to mention days in Paris--with a six-year-old and a toddler.

IIRC, in the old Achomawi tales, Coyote has three maggots in his head. One gives good advice but he never listens to it, the second never knows what's going on, the third gives bad advice, which he always follows. Or something like that.
Maybe RFK Jr. just needs more #brainworms.

One detail stands out as spot-on for TFG: boxers and a T-shirt to signal sexytime. He had silk pajamas handy, but no.

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#wordle
This game ... this language!
Wordle 1,052 6/6*

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Ready to accept my award for self-restraint: in a choral rehearsal, the guy next to me has penciled nothing at all into his score--like he actually thinks he's going to remember all the nuances of pronunciation, articulation, dynamics, etc. that the director is giving us, which if even one person forgets it's going to sound like shit, and I just want to yell IF YOU'RE NOT MARKING UP YOUR SCORE WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING HERE???!!!111!!!ZOMG
#choralsingers

Which compels the conclusion that the very best musician today is Office Max.

They say a good musician always carries a pencil. A better musician carries two, one to make notes in the score and one to lend out or use as a spare. I suppose the best musicians carry at least three pencils.

Trailside trillium in Grass Lake Nature Reserve, Olympia. I lost count of all the trillium out there. There were lots of pink ones too.

Elmo is the poster kid for deluded tech bros.

"'We should be thought of as an AI or robotics company,' Musk told investors. 'If somebody doesn’t believe Tesla is going to solve autonomy, I think they should not be an investor in the company.'"

I.e., "my way or the highway." I just hope there are no Teslas on that highway.

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"Up in our country we are human! And since we are human we help each other. We don't like to hear anybody say thanks for that. What I get today you may get tomorrow. Up here we say, by gifts one makes slaves and by whips one makes dogs."
--David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years

[Danish explorer Peter] Freuchen tells how after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping off several hundred pounds of meat. He thanked him profusely. The man objected indignantly:
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I must be naturalized here. When I went to ride my bicycle to the co-op yesterday my spouse offered me the car and I said, "No thanks, it's not raining that much."
#PNW

Oil & mining companies are crying because the Biden administration slapped maximum protection on 13 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska, and told the miners they couldn't build 211 miles of road through it.
Alaska GOP Senator Dan Sullivan says the best way to reverse these decisions is to put Congress and the White House back in Republican hands.
Noted, Senator.
#politics

Just learned that the Democrats are considered to have a slim chance of keeping the Senate this fall. We won't miss Manchin and Sinema themselves, but if the Rethuglicans get control it's going to be ugly for the environment and the economy. They're bad enough in the House.
#politics

A scammer is trying to run the DHHS scam on me on Fakebook. Just playing with him now, wondering how far to lead him on before reporting him.
I already reported his profile to FB, but nothing seems to have happened, they're too busy blocking poets like Marcus Bales. Scammers trying to cheat retirees out of the life savings are one thing, poets are another.