What could possibly go wrong in an area where the water table is 10 to 30 feet down. And with a guy like Elron who is sooo devoted to quality.
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What could possibly go wrong in an area where the water table is 10 to 30 feet down. And with a guy like Elron who is sooo devoted to quality.
Thanks to all who come out today across the US to defend Democracy 💙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 #FiftyFiftyone #50501movement #maydaystrong #resist #NoKings #WorkersOverBillionaires #LaborDay #WethePeople #Indivisible cc @50501movement.bsky.social @50501sanjose.bsky.social
1 Sept 2025 El Sobrante: Labor Day Protest against the Trump Administration Part of a nationwide set of Labor Day protests against the actions of the Trump administration. The photographer at this event was David Rowland. More photos: www.probonophoto.org
1 Sept 2025 San Mateo: Labor Day Protest against the Trump Administration Part of a nationwide set of Labor Day protests against the actions of the Trump administration. The photographer at this event was Paul Rosenblum. More photos: www.probonophoto.org
1 Sept 2025 San Rafael: Labor Day Protest against the Trump Administration Part of a nationwide set of Labor Day protests against the actions of the Trump administration. The photographers at this event were Steve Ziman and Julie Egger. More photos: www.probonophoto.org
1 Sept 2025 San Francisco: Labor Day Protest against the Trump Administration Part of a nationwide set of Labor Day protests against the actions of the Trump administration. Photos by: Camilio Lamus, Nate Love, Rachel Podlishevsky, and Terry Scussel. More photos: www.probonophoto.org
Labor Day #WorkersOverBillionaires assembly in San Jose, CA
17X17 Protest (17K people and 17 miles long) in Redwood City - here are our two 90+ y.o. protestors out there for all two hours!
My aunt is in the mountains she loved. This memorial is nearby. If she were still with us, she definitely would have been out on the protest lines today. She had a keen sense of justice and what our country could be.
Protesters line El Camino Real for 17 miles 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💙 Here, people out to defend Democracy in Palo Alto CA #WethePeople 😊🇺🇸 #WorkersOverBillionaires #LaborDay2025 protests #NoKings #resist
These charming floral tiles are inset into one of the brick courtyards at Allied Arts Guild in Menlo Park CA that we visited with an art group yesterday #random #garden #flowers #art
Donald Trump has invented a new kind of fascism, all the nasty, authoritarianism of the old fascism, but this time the trains *don't* run on time.
Scrappiness. Sure. But also excellence. This has more feeling than if it had been worked further. You can feel an entire story in the way that only one pedestrian has any light.
"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser. One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.
🚨 “The people united will never be divided!” Happening in OUR nation’s capital today. 1/2
Find a spot to speak out on #laborday #labordayprotests #bayarea #resist One option: join 17-mile chain of pro-democracy 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 protests stretching along El Camino Real from Redwood City to Santa Clara Details here: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
For those who don't speak NWS, SLGT = slight risk, MRGL = marginal risk. The percentages in the map apparently refer to probability of severe weather. (from they guy who can google otherwise opaque abbreviations)
For those who don't speak NWS, SLGT = slight risk, MRGL = marginal risk
Had fun day with plein air drawing / painting group in garden of Allied Arts Guild, Menlo Park, CA. New experience for me. I only got a couple of graphite sketches done, but I soaked in feel of this place before gobbling in lunch at their lovely cafe 😋
Won't work. She can't even see quite a day in advance and with the time zones, you won't get the info in time.
I thought the best was Sting in the vicar of dibley
Getting ready for anti-tRump pro-democracy events this Labor Day weekend 🇺🇸 Here's @bsky.tdunning.com when his We the People cap #resist
Name it. It’s fascism.
Stand up, speak out: Sept 1st!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🎉 Pro-democracy #resist attacks on our country 11am-1pm all along El Camino Real 3pm San Jose town hall 4pm - 6pm Palo Alto Stanford Shopping Center California stands up for democracy! 🎉
I would definitely use it due to my sad lack of fluency in Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Swedish and Danish (to name a few that I have needed lately). Even with languages that I can nominally read (German, Russian, and Spanish) having a translate button can rectify ambiguity or save time. +1 for sure.
We need a lot more Dr. Jessica Steiers to pull a body of evidence together like this @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social 👏 theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/how-a-gove... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
But does he make the trains run on time?
Holy shit
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
That's only slightly funny. Otherwise entirely too real.
Why don't they just use the original term for their complaints? Just go ahead and use the words. Entartete Kunst is what they are complaining about. www.npr.org/2025/08/24/n...
That is subject to the axiom of choice which, in this context, states that if at least a finite number of the members of our household goes to the store and are presented with a selection of countably many options that they will be able to choose a nice cheese. This is easier to prove in Europe.
Who sells advanced mathematics isn't useful in everyday life? I use the Banach-Tarsky theorem every time I toast cheese.
Exactly! “If you’ve got issues with what I’m putting out you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out as president “. #Pinks #Newsom youtube.com/shorts/t15da...
This can do lasting damage to the core of the intelligence enterprise -- speaking unvarnished truth no matter the politics. Putin's miscalculations in Ukraine stem from the same problem Hegseth fires head of Defense Intelligence Agency www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Fully owns and controls 10% of Intel? That sounds so much like Anchorman. youtu.be/IKiSPUc2Jck?...
I am so glad I don't live in a welfare state like Texas. Or Alabama. Or South Carolina. Will DOGE be cutting support to these states? usafacts.org/articles/whi...
This photo definitely doesn't do the actual painting justice.
Please follow and support Batman @batmanofsanjose.bsky.social ( linktr.ee/batmanofsanj... ), Food Not Bombs SJ ( linktr.ee/sjfnb ), Hero Tent ( linktr.ee/HERO_Tent ) and all the people that have been on the ground this week trying to help the most vulnerable people in our community.
The test of a society is how we treat our most vulnerable, and in Silicon Valley that is our unhoused neighbors. Sweeps are little more than performative spectacles of cruelty, and do nothing to help people out of the cycles that put them on the streets in the first place.
At the same time that Trump is demonizing the unhoused in D.C., San Jose is destroying the few belongings that people have in the name of cracking down on homelessness. sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-sta...
But surely *this* time Russia will honor their promises not to invade neighbors.
Something something free speech something something
Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.
“The pattern is so consistent it’s almost funny if it weren’t so terrifying. Every single time it goes like this: Conservatives panic about socialism or progressives or whatever. They ally with fascists as the “lesser evil.” Fascists take power. Fascists immediately […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]
Perseid meteor composite of the nights of 8/12-13 and 8/13-14. A few sporadics spoil the symmetry. Used a base image with radiant centered. Cut and pasted 25 meteor trails in same position relative to the stars. @naztronomy.com's tutorial was very helpful: youtu.be/Gy5Wl2pg2ck?... #astrophotography
Google told me that's how you say "native speakers". Given that I have slight knowledge of romance languages and a tiny smidgen of knowledge about the origin of Esperanto, this looks like it means "from birth speaking". That was good enough for me
He seems kind of obsessed with the idea of incompetence. Is he trying to tell us something about himself?
Both signs were kind of spicy, you might say.
I learned an important lesson on this trip. ALWAYS download images at each day that you use your camera. It wall save you a lot of heartache down the road.
My last photo in DC was from 2015 ... before we had a hell-hole president.
To be fair (not a comfortable position for me with respect to Trump), recessions are *always* detected in retrospect because the definition essentially requires this.
The point of putting the military on the streets in cities isn’t to “clean up” those cities, it’s to heighten tension in the hopes that somebody takes a shot at them and gives an excuse for invocation of the insurrection act.
For another half point attempt, Esperanto was explicitly designed to be easy to learn and the proponents claimed that it is easy. There is, however, the question of whether there is anybody who can really be said to be a "denaska parolanto" of Esperanto.
"Hey guys, wanna see my impression of a chicken?"
Greg Brown said it very well. youtu.be/qI_VkjbBLXo?...
I expect that Mr. Geisler would be saying the same thing just about now.
Likewise if he ever takes the throne.
Well, strictly speaking, they could. They could agree for Putin to pull out of Ukraine.
Konrad Heinlein, leader of the Sudeten German Party of Czechoslovakia, paraphrasing the instructions given to him by Hitler for generating a pretext for an invasion, spring of 1938: "We must always demand so much that we can never be satisfied."
Fabulous photo by @glengrambo.bsky.social #birds #photography #nature
Today's watercolor artist, let's hop over to Australia & see work of Sam Grumont @samgrumont.bsky.social Sam paints as meditation. This calm strength shows in the paintings. Each day he paints leaves from eucalyptus (gum) tree, often selected on a walk by his wife Here's one I bought & 💙 🧵 1/
Almost all. This little crescent in Mission Bay in San Diego is a private beach. I believe that this is because the legacy property lines impinge on the high tide line making it impossible to reach the beach. (I knew the owner of 1043 Briarfield) More here: thewebsters.us/2019/05/26/t...
Do I count as a toddler in the house because I eat lots of blueberries?
I hear there is a place near Warman that you might be able to rent something.
A lot of small birds take a bit of time splashing in shallow water when they bath. Not swallows. This barn swallow flew directly into the marsh at Mach 5, completely submerged for a second, and then exploded out in a shower of water drops to continue on its way! #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶
It's TACO time!!!
I think it's a waste of time to spend your time on social media yelling at people who have the exact same level of power that you do to change the world which is to say very little. It IS a good use of your time to enlist other people into actions and projects you would like them to join with you.
Try this instead: www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
Video on the Neanderthal fat factory! What this can tell us about what it means to be human, pop culture fads like the "Paleo" diet, food science, disability & alpha males, & more. youtu.be/gRhrT0f73lo
I would call them stupid more than weird.
Please RT, two open postdoc positions in my metabolic research group: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358375 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358370
Tuesday August 5, in Palo Alto. 11:00-1:00. Raging Grannies with SEIU521, Families First, Bay Area Resistance SV and others on national day of action "Families First Not Billionaires". #paloalto #nokings #50501movement #indivisible #dumptrump #impeachtrump #goodtrouble #handsoff #resist #bayarea
From 50501 San Jose's "Rage Against the Regime" march & protest. Thank you to the hundreds of people who showed up today! #dumptrump #FDT #resist #protest #handsoff #indivisible #sanjose #goodtrouble #50501movement #nokings #stopICE #rageagainsttheregime #50501ca #50501sanjose #50501protest
Say it straight. It's a throne room, not a ballroom
Jimmy Carter John Lewis MLK
Actual link is this one: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to? HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.
I didn't expect artists and their heirs to be this vocal on the side of justice. But let's hear it for the Thomas Kinkade family and these others for being willing to speak up. Source: ARTnews.com search.app/sVdGP
The Treasury Secretary is talking about privatizing Social Security. We can’t let him. As a co-sponsor of legislation that expands Social Security, calling on Republicans to do the right thing.
People often think you mean what you say in comments!
Please bring signs. Bring friends. Bring water, sunblock, and comfortable shoes. But please also select some items from this list that we can distribute to some of our most vulnerable friends who don't have the privilege of a bed or a door that locks.
Together, they have made this list of items needed immediately, before the sweep of Columbus Park on 8/14. On 8/2, let's bring mutual aid and show up for our neighbors in need because kindness is the real punk rock🤘
@batmanofsanjose.bsky.social and his friends at GRACE have spoken directly with the people who live in our parks and are most at risk from the newest executive order signed 7/24 (www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...)
Join us at St. James Park on Saturday, Aug 2nd. Stand with us against the fascism, against the racism, against the slow degradation of our democracy by the depraved oligarchs who have forgotten just how powerful we, the people, are. On 8/2, let's bring mutual aid & show up for our neighbors in need
Ouch! Lion (line) drawing indeed! @samgrumont.bsky.social @marinamueller935.bsky.social
Motherfucking wind farms…
So for those of you out there who like to produce slides worthy of the title "eye charts", here is the font you should be using for them: optician-sans.com
Not much time for art just now, so I'm trying to at least get in a small sketch in breaks. Here's one in graphite using pencils sharpened to extra long points (I have a new sharpener made in Germany for this. Toys!)
The kids are alright!
Finished the sketchbook watercolor painting of Monarch butterfly on thin-leaved milkweed. I think I was finished about 20 min before I stopped painting, but you know how that goes 😉 Schminke pigments, paper is mixed media, not watercolor paper #art #sketch #nature #painting
lol
Not actually from Diderot. Nor Voltaire. Nor even Louisa May Alcott (as famously claimed by Edward Abbey just before he got fired for putting the quote on the cover of the UNM student newspaper. quote.org/quote/the-la...
If you live near San Jose, CA, here's your chance to participate.
Finally got the binding on this quilt and got it washed. Had my friend Ric help me hold it up so Glen could get a shot. It’s 108” x 108” so the extra height helped. Stay tuned for more quilts because I’m in binding mode!
