It's been so long since I've given a good update and I've missed so many birthdays. I keep hoping to post belated birthday pic spams, but I'm just going to give a shout out now before it's next year:

Happy Belated Birthdays to my dear friends
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Happy Birthday, Febobe!!! I hope it is full of love and your favorite yummies!!!!

Here is a passion flower to celebrate your day, blooming by the lake here last month:


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Do any of you, dear flist, have advice on buying an iPhone? I am planning on getting one this week ( Read more... )

My best to anyone effected by the explosion in Manchester. I'm thinking of gabi_fics and hoping everyone she knows is safe. Love to all my UK friends. Much strength to all survivors. <3

Also posted at http://lavendertook.dreamwidth.org/248474.html with
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The intersection where I got hit by a car is listed on the map in this article on pedestrian hits in DC in the WaPo today. One of the smaller dots, but there. 2nd and G Streets NW. Not quite the way I'd want to be in the newspaper, but at least it's not a counting among obituaries, so there's that. It's dangerous stepping out your front door, ( Read more... )

I hate that I can't cheer Comey's firing, because I can't help wondering what Comey might have found in the Russian probe, and how a new FBI director picked by Trump might spin what they have more in Trump's favor. Yes, I think Comey screwed our election and helped turn the tide against HRC, but that doesn't mean Trump owned him. More fuckery ( Read more... )

Although I prefer DreamWidth because they operate with integrity, I will continue to crosspost to LJ since I still have friends on LJ who won't come here, and for other reasons personal and political I will elaborate below ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to the talented and kind shirebound!!!!

May it be filled with pretty sweet scented flowers . . .


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I'm not going to mince words here: when Trump told a black woman reporter to go make a meeting between him and the CBC, he was saying "Girl, go get my coffee; you're my secretary and I own you." And that's in the capacity where "girl" stands in as demeaning of both blackness and sex. And "Are they friends of yours?" is "Don't all you people ( Read more... )