susankitchens

@susankitchens@masto.ai

digital renaissance woman: graphics, web, writing, oral history, digital audio, curiosity. Creator of #postemilycards serving #PostcardsToVoters. Located in Tovangaar, Tongva Land | San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County. Spoutible: https://masto.ai/@susan

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susankitchens, to random

I happened to be at Crystal Cove State Park last week and saw these Velella Velella By-the-wind Sailors.

Photos next post...

“A jellyfish relative that spends the vast majority of its life on the surface of the open sea, velella move at the mercy of the wind, drifting over the ocean with no means of locomotion other than the sails atop their bodies. They tend to wash up on the U.S. West Coast in the spring, when wind conditions beach them onshore.”

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-03/blue-blobs-washing-up-on-california-beaches-velella-velella

susankitchens,

Wind sailors at Crystal Cove State park

I walked in the waves along the beach and they were washing ashore with the rising tide.

“Velella that end their lives on California beaches typically have sails that run diagonally from left to right along the length of their bodies, an orientation that catches the onshore winds heading in this direction. As the organism’s carcass dries in the sun and the soft tissues decay, the blue color disappears, leaving the transparent chitinous float behind.”

Blue Velella on wet beach in front of a tuft of eel grass.
Velella without the chitinous sail (or maybe it landed upside down on the sand), an ovalish ring of deep blue color with tiny strands emanating from the organism.
Another view of a Valella with pale blue sail standing up from body of dark blue flattish oval creature on wet beach sand, in front of strands of eelgrass.

susankitchens,

Here are a couple photos showing the remaining sails

“As the organism’s carcass dries in the sun and the soft tissues decay, the blue color disappears, leaving the transparent chitinous float behind”

#CrystalCoveStatePark

Two transparent arcs, with circular lines on them, rest on the beach with sea and rock in near distance

susankitchens, to gardening

My #CaliforniaWildflower garden bed.
Sown last mid-November. Some of the clarkia is tall! (tallest: chest height, wow)

The tiny Gilia tricolor are delicate and impressive. I passed a garden on a walk where someone has just those and poppies.

Am now wondering how to collect the seeds from each of these flowers. Poppies I understand, the rest I hope to learn. #gardening

The mix: https://www.calflora.org/app/ipl?list_id=px1910
Names:
Collinsia heterophylla: Purple Chinese houses
Clarkia unguiculata: Elegant clarkia

In foreground pink clarkia ungulata and a poppy in the distance as well as purple Chinese houses.
Detail view of Gilia tricolor

susankitchens,

Here’s my #CaliforniaWildflower in POV: How It Started, How It’s Going, How it’s going A Month Later

  1. November (the bed prep and sowing)
  2. March 19 (near equinox)
  3. This week equinox + 1 month

March 19, on equinox: Garden bed with lots of green growth next to a rough tile path in early morning sunlight. Patch is mostly green with no (or very few) flowers
April 21: Patch of wildflowers has a mix of taller green plants and a variety of wildflowers orange poppies, purple Chinese houses and smaller flowers at edges.

susankitchens,

I said I was on the lookout for how to save the seeds from my wildflowers, and I have a resource. The Everwilde site (they sell seeds) has a discussion section for how to save seeds in their ‘How to Grow” section of the site. Helpful Here's the link to their page on #GiliaTricolor
#CaliforniaWildflower
https://www.everwilde.com/store/Gilia-tricolor-WildFlower-Seed.html

susankitchens, to random

Current binocular projection of the eclipse in SoCal (not gonna get totality here) is one big side eye emoji

susankitchens, to random

Ornamental sequoia trees have been imported to and planted in the UK, now more are there than their native California.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sequoias-redwoods-uk

jonny, (edited ) to random
@jonny@neuromatch.social avatar

How likely do you think it will be that ill be able to a) drive across LA to LAX and then b) fly to SFO tomorrow morning... I have no idea how to estimate the navigability of coastal California during this storm #CaWx

susankitchens,

@jonny tons of power outages in NorCal due to high winds there.
More rain (much more!) is gonna fall tonight over LA/SoCal.

Image is about power outages. More and worse outages since this was posted

susankitchens, to random

Not a fan of George Conway, but credit where it's due — this opening ¶ of this essay is beautifully scathing!

Essay is about the hearing whether to grant Trump total immunity (and how Trump team lost the hearing)

#Trump #criminalImmunity #DCCircuit #EpicBurn

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/trump-immunity-hearing-2020-election/677072/

DemLabs, to Colorado
@DemLabs@newsie.social avatar

Where are the lawyers and political operatives who handed George W. Bush the presidency?
https://thedemlabs.org/2023/12/21/supreme-court-bush-gore-election-trump/
#supremecourtcorruption #colorado #SCOTUS #disqualificationclause

susankitchens,

@DemLabs the “appointed time Supreme Court, Thomas, was appointed by George HW Bush, not GWB. I mean, sure if Clarence Thomas voted to stop recount there’s THAT connection.

GottaLaff, to random
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COVID variant growing fast. 💉😷

“The good news is that a recent study from Dr. David Ho’s lab at Columbia University found that the current -19 , which was designed to boost the body’s ability to fight of the XBB family of variants, also offers good protection against BA.2.86 and its offshoots, including JN.1.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/health/what-to-know-about-jn-1?cid=ios_app

susankitchens,

@GottaLaff only 18% of adults got the latest vaxx. Am one of those 18% and glad of it but I hope this news re uptick in cases sparks a wave of additional vaccinations. 🤞

susankitchens, to gardening

#DailyPictureTheme #Wait
Sowing lettuce, spinach, and kale seeds (+more) for my winter/early spring garden is when the #wait begins for home-grown winter salads.

Sowed a bunch of lettuce and greens on Friday (15 Dec) and today (18 Dec) I spy a few emerging sprouts.

This is Mesclun mix. It took 3 days to begin to appear—not bad for seeds labeled “5-14 days to appear”

My job: provide optimal conditions, #wait. It’s a marvel how these tiny things become nourishing plants. #gardening #Zone10b

susankitchens,

All kinda little sprouts appearing.
Take a peek, on the windowsill from the end of the tray—new alyssum sprouts, seen from wide view, teeny tiny arugula sprouts.

Loving how these humidity dome thingies with a catch basin below, make it easy to put seed sprouts in the windowsill.

#gardening #SeedSowing

A 6-cell seed tray with humidity tome opened to see the sprouts within. The tray is in front of a window that has vague green plant color outside. Sprouts have tiny stem and two little open leaves at top. They are about 1/4 inch high, and one sprout looks like a 3-leaf clover but that’s just because of the camera angle looking at the two sprout leaves.

susankitchens, to poetry

— poem by , written in October, and pinned to his twitter feed, is his last work. He was hunted and assassinated by Israel in a targeted bombing.

This is a work-in-progress for a kite card.

Animation: image of printed page with two vertical shapes and words from poem that slides offscreen to the upper right. A pair of hands opens a kite shaped card and shows what’s inside, first one then another. The poem is the same, the designs are slightly different.

susankitchens, to mastodon

Dear #Mastodon experts, if one were to build a tool that would allow a user from another social media site to cross-post to the user’s choice of any federated Mastodon instance, are there preferred tools or protocols to use?

I’m not a software developer, just a user of another social media site who wants to recommend the best tools to the other site’s dev team, but I don’t even know what to search for.

#MastodonQuestions

GottaLaff, to mastodon
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I just got this email from Spoutible, FYI:

Spoutible is soaring to new heights with our latest integration of #Mastodon for seamless cross-platform posting. Now, you can broadcast your thoughts on Spoutible, Bluesky, and Mastodon simultaneously, ditching the need for any extra apps or extensions.

susankitchens,

@GottaLaff I have more on this. Not happy w the implementation. Will post more prolly tomorrow

susankitchens,

@GottaLaff It took a couple of days but I finally put together a short thread about #SpoutibleCrossPosting

https://masto.ai/@susankitchens/111558227659065596

susankitchens,

@GottaLaff “official mastodon” servers 🙄

ai6yr, to Guns
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"The suspect is an older, white man in his 60s, two sources told the 8 News Now Investigators. Those sources said the shooter may have a connection to a person who works on campus." https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/unlv-police-report-shots-fired-on-campus/?utm_source=klas_app&utm_medium=social&utm_content=share-link

susankitchens,

@ai6yr "older white man" "who may have a connection to a person who works on campus"

<speculation> prediction: it's a domestic dispute of some sort. The person who works on campus is a relation, a domestic partner, and she has been trying to leave him or just left him or something like that.

this is all speculation, but call it informed speculation.
</speculation>

susankitchens,

@ai6yr Was reading a post on topic of socialization of young boys, written by someone who paints children's faces. A boy requested a butterfly, but his mother objected bc apparently a pretty natural insect is inappropriate for a boy. Squelch all those emotions early. Adventure, Ambition and Anger are only good outlets, nothing else. Then add life experience, disappointment and rejection, firearms, and a college campus…

I would so dearly love to witness a cultural change…

GottaLaff, to random
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🥳Democrat Daniel McCaffery wins #Pennsylvania Supreme Court race

susankitchens,

@GottaLaff Just saw Indivisible central giving credit to Indivisible PA for working to get Daniel McCaffery elected.

Had seen @taniel's tweets about the PA state supreme court (and what's at stake), welcomed the splendid results, but wasn't aware of voter mobilization activities until today, when I saw @indivisibleteam give a shout out to Indivisible groups in PA who put in the work.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Via Roger Parloff:

New #Trump attorney files appearance in DC case: Dean John Sauer, former solicitor general of Missouri. #legal #TrumpIndictment

My mental picture of Trump:

susankitchens,

@GottaLaff I see that and I hear a sound effect the plink plink that comes, I guess, before beep beep

mathowie, to random
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the funniest thing about Apple is the last version of MacOS features "video reactions" where if your camera sees you do a thumbs up or heart symbol with your hands, stuff happens behind you like fireworks in ANY video app you are using BY DEFAULT.

A friend was in an online therapy session, describing his trauma so the therapist asked if he was alright and he did a thumbs up and then HUGE FIREWORKS BEHIND HIS HEAD.

It's so bad that online therapy sessions now start with a warning dialog!

susankitchens,

@mathowie two cheers for "'first do no harm' design" principle

susankitchens, to random

“after more than 2 decades of persistent efforts, [incl protests, demonstrations, and negotiations], the 4 dams along the CA-OR border have finally started to be dismantled.”

‘“We have so much hope that this river will restore itself,” Bowers Cordalis said. “Dam removal is just the beginning. Dam removal is the end of colonization of this river.”’

The largest dam removal in history stirs hopes of restoring California tribes’ way of life
#Yurok #Klamath #salmon https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-10-05/klamath-dam-removal-tribes

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