Notices by U.S. Elaine (uselaine@mastodon.online)

@jeridansky
The iPhone cameras are *intentionally* wide angle, making objects *more* distant than they appear to the naked eye, and sometimes I want to SCREAM because of it.

#KelpFest on the #MendocinoCoast has been great. Indigenous food and craft at Xa Kako Dile farm was inspiring.

@spocko @ai6yr
Ah, thanks.

#BloomScrolling #MendocinoCoast
The Pomo Bluffs have Coastal buckwheat in full bloom right now. This is a great spot to escape from the inland heat.

You gotta love Bill Penzey. Special deal today is “woke”.
https://www.penzeys.com/online-catalog/woke-gift-box/c-24/p-3054/pd-gb

#BloomScrolling Santa Barbara daisies say hi.

One of the best things about Mastodon is @skinnylatte

Rahm, if you claim that enlightenment is poisonous, may I direct your attention to the Republican Party. Go fucking join it. https://flipboard.com/@politico/videos-1prljl3pz/-/a-EhKL-1V2QWeq4DKftLy4Fg%3Aa%3A3195449-%2F0

To be clear, DEI was our societal effort to get the best employees, students, leaders, etc instead of them being bypassed by lesser candidates. The myth of the exclusively meritorious white male had to be busted for the betterment of the nation. #DEI

Pinning this Global Disaster Alert website

https://www.gdacs.org/

@skinnylatte
The tiny north coast city of Point Arena has a ChargePoint charging station. I think there are various payment apps that probably have maps of locations where they work.

The courage of Zelenskyy to go into the room filled with people wanting to threaten, humiliate, intimidate and belittle him, and to then face down these mere agents of destruction, standing tall and dignified, is a day for the history books. 🇺🇦

@ai6yr
Got filtered by filter-feeding friendly beast.

@ai6yr
With nothing but a brush.

One of the best actions I took in the aftermath of the election was to join the local branch of the League of Women Voters. I couldn’t tell from their website whether they were even active in any way, but I mailed a check to the address indicated. I have since been eagerly cultivated to supply my additional contact information, and receive an intelligent newsletter of local issues and hearings, events and analysis. While officially nonpartisan, they clearly work for democracy and human rights.

#USpolitics

You may need to hear this, or it might be useful to assure someone you know.

It is not the job of your body to suit the clothes. It is your body’s job to exist.

It is the job of clothes to serve and suit your body. Clothes can fail, not the other way around.

🧢👚👗👟👖👒

@RickiTarr
I realize it’s not recommended to get a crush on candidates, but the WSJ is making it hard not to.

Or, as lifelong Californians see it, Walz is from the western part of the east. #USpol

You may conclude that I’m overreacting to the CoVid pandemic, but I’m telling you this anyway. My job takes me in and out of doors unpredictability, with a high concentration of people. I tried removing my mask when outside a few times, but because I had to stay focused and dynamically calibrate my actions, I would forget to put the mask back on each time I reentered the buildings. So I just leave it on all day. I’m comfortable with it.

I now have KN95 tan lines on my face.