A week on Wegovy: Less bloated? My appetite slightly reduced & eating less. Everything else has stayed the same (I lead a pretty active life). I’m down exactly 1.4 pounds. (I can fluctuate that in 24 hours.) I figured I’m spending about $32/weekly for this. I’ll give it two months.
Settle with this for 2:47 minutes and enjoy! #MiddayMonday
Canada has officially started building the wall at the U.S. border🇨🇦😂 Budget: a few trees Construction crew: 1 beaver 🦫 Payment: maple syrup 🍁 Sorry for the inconvenience, eh? 😂 #Canada #CanadianHumour #SheShed
Alert the tabloid press: I went to Home Depot & I bought ONLY the fiber hanging basket liners I went for & REMEMBERED to use my store credit. I DID NOT impulse buy ANY PLANTS! (I’m going to CAREFULLY CONSIDER those tall Lagerstroemia and where I’ll plant them before I grab them tomorrow morning.)
Me, this time 7 years ago, eagerly awaiting Autumn. Gosh, I look so slender before I discovered baking during lockdown.
After years of putting his paintings up around Hackney, homeless artist Bradley Foxwell has his first exhibition – on a canal boat
Meet the homeless artist showing off his work on canal boats
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Let sleeping bees be. I LOVE going out early and finding them in my beds. By caryopteris and nepeta are ALIVE with bumble bees at all times. I saw more honey bees in spring. I wonder where they go.
"With the bicycle and the Siccea multiplier one goes faster with less effort." Siccea ca. 1922 🎨Henry Tajous
Funny moment: a student visiting from Illinois said she saw my doppelgänger there on Match. com. Pulled up photos & I was: I think that’s me. The second photo I knew very well. Opened my FB & pulled up the same 2 photos. On Match, I’m divorced, str8, 2 kids, younger, thinner, shorter. Out…..
"Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook." ~Harry Truman, President of the United States
Proud teacher moment. Student made sink, plate, in front of works inspired by the American potter, George Ohr
Tyson: “How sad it must be to believe that scientists, historians, economists, journalists, & scholars have devoted their lives to deceiving you While a reality TV star with decades of documented fraud, bankruptcies, & failed businesses is your sole source of truth”
Honestly is anyone surprised? I'm not. This is what you get when you elect a criminal who wants to be king to be President. Project 2025 told us exactly what was going to happen. And here we are.
SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏
The Seattle library levy is on track to pass with 80% voting yes. The Seattle Times came out against it and was resoundingly ignored. Seattle voters want nice things and are willing to pay for them.
So far, voters overwhelmingly approve Seattle library levy
A property tax levy to fund the city's public library system over the next seven years is solidly ahead after the first release of vote totals Tuesday evening.
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Oregon On The Record talked with Mike Rogoway of the Oregonian about how the city of Hillsboro - once a champion of data centers - recently voted to stop all new construction on these controversial centers. It could be a harbinger of more prohibitions of data centers in Oregon.
Just say no to data centers: Oregon city does a 180 on big data
On this edition, we talk with Mike Rogoway of the Oregonian about how the city of Hillsboro - once a champion of data centers - recently voted to stop all new construction on these controversial cente...
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