“I watched her cooking, from my chair. She pressed her lips
Together, reached for kitchenware,
And tasted sauce from her fingertips.
“It’s ready now. Come on,” she said. “You light the candle.“
We ate, and talked, and went to bed,
And slept. It was a miracle.”
— Donald Hall, excerpt of “Summer Kitchen”, in White Apples and the Taste of Stones
Brown Pelican, Padre Island National Seashore, Texas. That colorful snail looking thing on the end of the bill is only there when breeding, it will fall off shortly after mating. Last April
This would help a lot of people, and it’s one of the reasons it’s so important to push back against the “but the parties are equally bad, so you shouldn’t bother voting” type rhetoric.
jesus christ this would be huge.
hi! if you see this and think it’s a good idea: PLEASE leave a comment. it’s super easy & you can do this in <5 minutes:
When a government agency proposes a rule change like this, they legally must have a public comment period before finalizing it. AND they have to read and respond to those comments in the final draft of the regulation. Not enough people are aware of this , but it can really have an impact!!
This link will take you to the Federal Register page for the proposed rule, where you click the big green button to Submit a Formal Comment
Your comment can be as long or short as you’d like- it can just be one sentence! The key is to clearly STATE YOUR SUPPORT for the proposed rule. You can also look at other existing comments for support.
If you have personal experience with disability benefits, especially the reduction of benefits from free meals/groceries, those are great to include. They like to hear from people personally impacted by these changes, or know people who are.
I know it can be intimidating to post a public comment like this but it is SO IMPORTANT to engage with specific policy changes like this. Saying “this is great!” on social media doesn’t help governmental officials understand the level of support a change like this has, or how much good it would do.
Hey there’s only 215 comments right now, February 22nd, 2023 – They need comments by April 17th. There’s over 10,000 reblogs and notes. Please, please, submit a comment if you live in the US.
Comparing the environment in the Vollema demo to a work in progress early-game area. Each part of the full game is going to have a different color palette, the one I’m working on at the moment is mostly orange!
“In Montréal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!””
