coffee is prepped
waffles are prepped
consciousness is prepped

Pushed the shed renovation forward a little with some slug help and a carpenter bee eviction (sorry little dudes) (precise holes, much impressed)

The truth, it hurts.

"Humanities education encourages students to think creatively and critically, to reason, and ask questions. And, as the humanities offer insight into nearly every aspect of life, they have been considered a core element of a well-rounded education since ancient times."
https://action.nationalhumanitiescenter.org/what-are-humanities/

What time is it? Crayons time.
#takeABreak

http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/

Characters hanging around the buffet this morning. Offered them coffee, no takers.

Oy. Drama from space. Prolly don't try to run a back up right now.
Geomagnetic K-index of 8, 9- could cause widespread voltage control problems and some protective systems may mistakenly trip out key assets from the power grid.

Looks like we picked up a hitchhiker

Ran some questions through Bing's LLM and noticed the link text _never_ matches the link.

Also the articles sometimes have nothing to do with the narrative.
I don't need _less_ reliable search results, even worse if they try to look authoritative.

This is not the way.

Ukrainian exhibiting extreme adaptability. Their drone game is seriously berserk.

#Ukraine

The Merlin mobile app has some amazingly great bird song recognition. Can watch it happen in real time.

Good Robot! Tell me who's chirping!

(It also can ID by photo) (good robot)
https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

Want to do an energy audit and the power company website is _almost_ useful. But.
Stupid download button does nothing. Tried two different browsers.

I blame vm.downloadMyData()
Yeah, I pressed f12, I'm going to jail now.

Aha the oak leaf hydrangea lives! Thought I might have over-pruned them last year. I don't actually like hydrangea but these overgrown rangey monsters came with the house and the pollinators like 'em.
#gardening

neighborhood used book store wants us to get better habits.

Hop in your means of transportation and move your corporeal essence to these coordinates: -78.70092, 35.81031

https://ncartmuseum.org/series/ruth-e-carter-afrofuturism-in-costume-design/

nosanitize

NATO planes say hi

This festive coffee bowl requires a darkened room.

... Okay Joy of Cooking I will hear you out. 🔥 🧐

#coffee

US Congress website still believes in RSS.
#RSS

Their faces...

When accepting a state award from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, paramedic Alina Mykhaylova gave the president the combat badge of Dmytro ‘Da Vinci’ Kotsyubailo, Ukrainian military commander and Hero of Ukraine, recently killed in the battle for Bakhmut.

#ukraine

Japanese Camellia is blooming. Nice big shady shrub, birds like it.

Lesser periwinkle's blooming.