Notices by Melody Wainscott (melodywainscott@zirk.us)

@GottaLaff

Watched Maddow’s A block on shaming members of Congress.

I mean, really, is there a more uncomfortable and undesirable emotion than shame? Public humiliation? Embarrassment?

Guilt is a powerful negative emotion as well.

I think Maddow is spot on.

Pounding officials daily with questions designed to promote feelings of guilt and shame is a great idea.

I’m going to talk to my therapist about provoking shame through questioning next week for resources.

My Word of the Year/2024 is #AuroraBorealis.

From: @MelodyWainscott
https://zirk.us/@MelodyWainscott/112421159526579585

Happy #Caturday from #Seattle 🐈

@evacide

Rebecca Solnit all over again, having an idiot male explain her book to her. He didn’t realize she was the author and she kept telling him “I am the author and that is not what that means” but he could not listen or hear.

“Nearly half of the world’s largest downstream rivers— 44% — saw a drop in the amount of water flowing through them each year, according to the research published Thursday in the journal Science.”

From CNN article:

“Scientists mapped the world’s rivers over 35 years. They found shocking changes.”

Research Article:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl5728

#Rivers

@GottaLaff

81 spineless democrats voted to throw trans children under the bus.

More ink on my hands composing my outrage.

If they’ll do this to children they’ll do it to all of us.

@GottaLaff

My elder kid is an openly trans naval officer who teaches at the academy.

They’re 41, badass, an Olmsted Scholar…and I am fierce about them.

And yet I know I can only imagine how military parents of trans kids denied their care must be feeling. This kind of trauma can be paralyzing so we civilians must bombard our congress with letters demanding they stop caving to peer pressure and give a damn.

I’m going to confer with my kid this weekend.

@johnzajac

CDC was a mess long before COVID.

They refuse to allow for testing people with penises for HPV and insist they can’t be tested for it when in fact it is much easier to test them than testing people with uteruses. Testing was done for HPV vaccine trials!

And now the HPV vaccines are a huge success but there is a whole generation of humans who can’t get their partners with penises tested and have to play Russian roulette to be sexually active thanks to CDC.

It’s deadly.

Science* isn’t something you “believe” in.

Science is something you think in.

There is a huge difference between belief and knowledge.

*Science is answering questions by measuring observations in a manner that is repeatable.

My son and I made the spookiest jack-o-lanterns we could design.

His is the one with the text 💀🎃👻

#Halloween #JackOLantern

@bmacDonald94

The #Lakota #Singers and #Dancers in this video make my hair stand on end, I would LOVE to see more of THEM.

All of it is fantastic. Such a production!

The need to label an entire “generation” as flatline “all the same” divides us and is counterproductive. Please stop it.

“Generations” aren’t real.

Also please review bell curve distribution.

No more disposable masks for me.

Do you mind sharing your favorite non-disposable masks with #NIOSH #N95 or better rating?

Thank you in advance.

#Masks #MaskUp

These lacecap hydrangeas are perfection.

#BloomScrolling #Florespondence #Flowers #FlowersOfMastodon #PhotoMonday #PNW #MySecretGarden

Sunrise from Olympic National Park, today. ✨🌲

#Forest #Lake #OlympicPeninsula #Mountains #Sunrise #Today #Coffee #AltText #Nemophilist #PNW #LandscapePhotography #Landscape #OffTheGrid

✨Bridges are portals.✨

📍Barnes Creek

#Bridge #Footbridge #Portal #Nature #NaturePhotography #Mosstodon #Tree #Creek #PNW #OlympicPeninsula #Bryophilia #Nemophilist #ALTtext #WordHoarder

Meet the mighty Elwah River out on the Olympic Peninsula. It’s not just another pretty place but also the sight of the world’s largest dam removal project.

*Update March 2023: Work officially began on the Klamath River Restoration, now the world’s largest dam removal project.

#River #Elwah #Fluviophile #Forest #Tree #Mountain #OlympicMountains #Rewilding #Watershed #OlympicPeninsula #Landscape #Nature #Photography #Nemophilist #WordHoarder

If you have ever gone
to the woods with me,
I must love you very much.

—Mary Oliver

#Mosstodon #OlympicPeninsula #PNW #NationalPark #Nemophilist #ForestFriday #Poetry #ALTtext

I consumed raw goat milk for a few weeks many years ago to help gain weight but it was from a friend’s tiny cheese operation and she had incredible sterile technique and a few well tended goats.

There is no way I’d drink from unknown animals but I grew up on a tiny farm and know better. I don’t consume any dairy, now.

I resent that FDA are not monitoring/controlling the raw milk industry in this era of cross species pathogens. 😳

We’re being setup for contagious Darwin Awards.

#H5N1 #RawMilk

If I could see ANY live musical performance of living artists right now it would be Tedeschi Trucks Band.

No way to keep from crying when it’s “Midnight in Harlem.”

*lyrics mostly written by Mike Mattison with Derek Trucks

#Blues #BluesRock #TedeschiTrucksBand

https://youtu.be/6GkdCiqsFUI?si=abK-GZa40PnzWj-J