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Story teller, brand steward, and event wrangler for a couple of decades at O'Reilly Media. Co-creator of Foo Camp. These days, I garden, play obscure, non-commercial music (which sometimes includes yodeling), and get enough sleep (it's magic).

@quinn ¡Hola chica! Please ignore the message from @sarawingee (note extra "e"). My account has been cloned--working on it. Hope all's as well as can be with you, considering it's dead winter in a fascist dystopia. Whee. Ping me if you get to the Bay Area, it would be good to see you again.

Sara

True Crime story from North Oakland. I know Phoebe, and can attest to its veracity. https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2023/11/02/community/cat-burglar-north-oakland/
Prolific cat burglar prowls North Oakland block

"By the time I realized what was going on, she had made off with my underpants," one UC student said.

The Berkeley Scanner
Happy 85th birthday to Wanda Jackson, the very definition of a total badass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzJ3hiqsi0U
Wanda Jackson - Hard Headed Woman

The Fabulous Wanda jackson on Town Hall Party in 1958. "Keep your cotton-pickin' fingers off my curly hair!"

YouTube

This is a good day to say you don't have to have opinions on things you don't know much about. Most of us don't know much nearly enough about the deep complexities of what's going on in the middle east to have good opinions. Internet opinions rarely help anything, even though they often feel important. Compassion, sadness, and worry, they're all understandable and good responses to tough events.

It's ok to care and not have an answer, even here on the net. It's ok to not argue it out.

Want to help pollinators and the plants they pollinate? Don't get a honeybee hive, plant more flowers! https://nyti.ms/46oIZVY
#gardening
The Beekeepers Who Don’t Want You to Buy More Bees

In Slovenia and around the world, conservationists try — and mostly fail — to combat the widespread belief that honey bees are in danger.

The New York Times

I want an apology from all the mansplainers that mocked my belief that privatizing NASA and relying this heavily on SpaceX would undermine the national security policy of the United States.

https://t.co/WoMI4XEPhE

Musk Secretly Used Starlink to Foil Ukrainian Drone Attack on Russian Ships: Report

The billlionaire allegedly feared the strike on Crimea could trigger nuclear war.

The Daily Beast
Much like the purpose of Newspeak was to make thoughtcrime impossible, the purpose of university dismantlement is to deny access to the language to describe a better world. https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/west-virginia-university-cuts-programs.html
Everyone at West Virginia University Knew Something Was Up. I Hate That We Were Right.

The student population got smaller and smaller while fancy new buildings appeared.

Slate
The Great Animal Orchestra, bioacoustician Bernie Krause’s lovely, moving exhibit at the Exploratorium in SF, is well worth experiencing. Go listen if you can!
Enjoying another chilly, cloudy June night.