I'm pretty sure no one has ever spelled the word "renaissance" correctly on their first try, without looking it up.

Sometimes bigots say "I don't understand why LGBTQ+ people have to be so in-your-face about their sexuality."

We straight people are CONSTANTLY in EVERYBODY'S face about our sexuality, it's just that it's super common and completely normalized, so no one cares or even notices.

Every time a dude introduces you to his wife/girlfriend, or a woman introduces you to her husband/boyfriend, they're essentially telling you "Yeah, we're totally boning, and on some level, you now know that."

You know when your neighbors are having a big bonfire party, and you can smell that wholesome, earthy bonfire scent, but you're kind of jealous and bitter because they didn't invite you?

That's how I feel about #Canada right now.

Oh, hello #Mastodon, I forgot about you for a couple months there. I'll try not to do that again. I really do enjoy you, and I'm certainly not going back to that Other Site.

Question for those who say prosecuting a former president sets a dangerous precedent:

Isn’t it more dangerous to set a precedent that a former president will never face accountability if they broke the law?

I've been neglecting #Mastodon. I need to get back in the habit.

In unrelated news, Wiseguy #Pizza in #WashingtonDC (East End-ish area, a few blocks northwest of the #Capitol) is amazing. Just discovered it today. Thought I'd share.

Feb 20, 1962.

John Glenn climbs into the Friendship 7 to begin his 3-orbit flight.
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#NASA #History #Moon

Pepper the mostly #Labrador #Mutt says Happy #Mondog!

#Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #MuttsOfMastodon #LabsOfMastodon #DogsOf WashingtonDC #WashingtonDC, #WashingtonDCParks

NEW: Long a shadowy force in American politics, Christian Nationalism is having a coming out party. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/christian-nationalists-national-association-christian-lawmakers-1234684542/

Day three of complete #decaffeination. Crazy vivid dreams again last night. I hope that's not a permanent change, because I really prefer peaceful, dreamless sleep.

Mild headache this morning, but it's not too bad.

Brain fog and disorientation seem to be fading, which of course is a good thing.

#Caffeine #CaffeineFree #QuittingCaffeine

A mostly #labrador #mutt on the #WashingtonDC waterfront on a cloudy Wednesday afternoon.

(Also, my hand.)

#Dogs #DogsOfWashingtonDC #DogsOfMastodon #MuttsOfMastodon #LabsOfMastodon #Potomac #Watergate #KennedyCenter

@feditips @gotosocial I'm very likely going to switch to a small, self-hosted instance on a RPi or similar device sometime in the not-too-distant future. This looks like a great project to keep an eye on.

Mealt Falls on the Isle of Skye
#waterfallwednesday #photography #scotland

#WaterfallWednesday

It's one of the cascades in my fairy forest near Lauragh 😊

#Ireland #BearaPeninsula #nature #cascades

"We strongly believe that publicly funded knowledge should be publicly available.”

Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei of @punctum_books, joining forces with @internetarchive to make #openaccess scholarship available to all.

BRILLIANT project that should lead the way for many areas of knowledge production

#libraries #oa #books #academia #scholarship

https://blog.archive.org/2023/02/22/punctum-books-helps-build-streamlined-system-for-archiving-open-access-monographs/

@arstechnica I read this post at first as "8GB of Samsung flash memory shortage," and I'm not entirely sure I'm wrong.

@Dave2022 Beautiful. At first glance, for just a moment, I thought it was a photo I took on a trail just outside of #WashingtonDC a couple years ago.

It was a really weird moment, because I was pretty sure I haven't posted it recently.

#FromTheArchives: #Flowers. I'm not sure what kind of flowers. I'm a #photographer, not a #botanist.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #PlantsOfWashingtonDC

Day two of complete #decaffeination. No headache this morning, which is a huge improvement, but I'm still feeling brain-fogged and disoriented. Not as bad as yesterday, though.

CRAZY vivid frickin' dreams last night, and I'm pretty sure I don't like it. Hopefully I'll go back to the quiet, peaceful downy darkness of mostly-dreamless sleep before too long.

#Caffeine #CaffeineFree #NoCaffeine #QuittingCaffeine #CaffeineWithdrawal #CaffeineAddiction

My sister got this photo of Earth's moon, Venus, and Jupiter all lined up last night.

#Photography #astronomy #NightSky