Tané Tachyon (she/her)

I previously featured my Storm Lego X-Men minifig & others in my April 10 non- #DailyPictureTheme spout shown here, but as you can see I have a much larger #Storm too, here riding Xena's horse Argo. No, they're not usually in front of my monitor like this, but rather on the right side of my laptop.

Definitely a busy photo to describe. A large (maybe Barbie size) action figure of Storm from Marvel's X-Men series is riding a large Breyer version of Xena's palomino horse Argo in front of my external monitor, which is connected to my laptop which is partly visible on the right edge of the photo. Storm as a character has had many costumes and hairstyles over the years, but this action figure has her original look of long white hair held back by a black tiara, a gold-trimmed black cape which also attaches to gold bracelets on her wrists, black boots going to above her knees, and a black bathing-suit-like outfit of which only the very top is visible in the photo. Also seen around the monitor are lots of Lego minfigs along the top and left edges, lots of Android figures below it, and Star Trek Discovery's Michael Burnam (in her Science Officer days) riding a "Spectral Dragon" Windstone Editions figure at bottom left.

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Tristan Snell

@tristansnell

Again - STOP calling it "the hush money case"

It is the CAMPAIGN COVER-UP CASE.

THAT is the crime here: Donald Trump's coordinated cover-up of campaign finance violations -- over $400,000 in unreported contributions to his presidential campaign.

06:40 PM - Apr 26, 2024

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In 2011 Santa Cruz Pride (50 years strong next year!) got moved indoors due to thunderstorms, which made for an interesting change of #pace , like the whole Civic Auditorium was a giant queer clubhouse with a nonstop party, + more going on in all the little rooms off the halls.

I walked up to the top of the bleachers in the back of the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium to take this from-above photo of the Santa Cruz Pride Festival in its unusual location in 2011. Onstage is the opening band "Kissing Cousins" from LA, with some attendees sitting in folding chairs watching them. Organizations and vendors have tables instead of their usual outdoor booths, and there are lots of people standing around talking and so on. The Civic Auditorium also has a lot of bleacher seats on both sides and in back -- a little of this is visible on the far edges of the photo, but it's pretty dark

06:44 PM - Apr 26, 2024

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Yep, this was one year ago today, and yep, I just donated again at https://joebiden.com/
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11:47 AM - Apr 25, 2024

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I already used my best #shower photo for a previous #DailyPictureTheme which I'm quote-spouting here, but for bonus content documenting some of the same antics 4 months earlier, I now present my son Arthur & friend Juniper in versions 1 & 2 of the acclaimed painting American Hose Gothic, 5/20/2009.

Tané Tachyon (she/her) @Tachyon

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Some nice subtle light effects in the #spray here as my son Arthur & one of his best friends were dousing themselves (with water and repent!) on the trampoline back in 2009. Jumping with water balloons of all shapes and sizes until they burst & sprayed everyone was also popular.

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#LegoWednesday My almost-nine-years-old daughter Violet at the Santa Cruz County Fair with her Lego-contest entry "Planet Mechanicai", September 7, 1997. She won first place in her age division.

Violet and her entry are front and center in this photo I took in one of the big buildings at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds. Violet has long dark-brown hair with bangs, and is wearing a white "LEGO CLUB" T-shirt that Lego had been selling at the time. "Planet Mechanicai" features a lot of robot constructions, some on dark flat Lego space-theme baseplates, and some on a long raised baseplate that might be from a Megabloks desert theme or something like that, but also looks fine as a moonscape sort of thing.

11:17 AM - Apr 24, 2024

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Live Oak Grange Hall has 10 wonderful 15-foot #long tables that fold out from the wall like Murphy Beds. I'll be back there again on Saturday for a "before" celebration of life for a very-long-time friend who just got a horrific surprise very-late-stage cancer diagnosis. 😢😢😢

One of the ten fifteen-foot-long fold-out tables at the Live Oak Grange Hall in the unincorporated "Live Oak" area of Santa Cruz County, just covered with containers of all kinds of food. (What looks like panels or doors between the windows visible in the photo are actually more of these tables.) The table, floor, and much of the walls are a beautiful medium-brown wood. I took this photo at the July 12, 2014 Santa Cruz Regional All-Day Sing event.

10:24 AM - Apr 24, 2024

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My dalmatian-costumed son Arthur gives a big #hug to my daughter Violet, spring 1998. 6 years apart, they were pretty much joined at the hip in lots of ways until Violet left for college, & have remained very close (though now living on opposite sides of the country) ever since.

The photo shows Violet from behind, from the mid-back up, her long brown hair hanging down over a white sweatshirt, and Arthur, probably on tiptoes, in a furry dalmatian costume, peeking over Violet's shoulder with his arms around her in a big hug.

10:44 AM - Apr 23, 2024

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Happy #Earth Day! Here's Oswald with one of the shirts I got at Saturday's Earth Day celebration here in Santa Cruz. Huh, I still have a bunch of characters left in this spout … well, OK then, here's a second photo of him, um, drinking from the earth, back on February 18, 2019.

10:01 AM - Apr 22, 2024

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#SpoutibleBakes My childhood-fave "golden crown ring rolls", each roll as usual dipped in butter & cinnamon-sugar, each roll not as usual having two cherries hidden inside. I didn't photograph the hot-out-of-the-oven full pan, because people (but not sleepy cats) were waiting to eat them right away.

Our tabby-and-white cat Oswald is lying on the bed with his mouth open in a small yawn (i.e. the part of the yawn either right before or right after the super-giant-yawn-full-of-fangs part) and his eyes closed. Right behind his head and back is a 13-inch by 9-inch metal pan with seven of the original fifteen rolls still remaining. They had been rolled into balls when I had put them in the pan, but expanding to fill space as they rose, each one basically became a cube. A lot of buttery cinnamon sugar is visible on the top of each roll.

09:59 PM - Apr 21, 2024

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There are a *lot* of Little Free Libraries here in Santa Cruz, but this "LITTLE #FREE NURSERY" (seen on yet another one of my early-pandemic early-morning social-distancing walks back on May 18, 2020) was a new one to me. Note also the fairy garden at lower-right.

The corner of a fenced-in area of someone's yard, with weathered wooden fence posts and wire mesh between them. "LITTLE FREE NURSERY" is painted on a board at the top, and inside there are various plants growing in the ground and a large galvanized container of various plastic pots labeled "POTS". The fairy garden at lower right is set off by a miniature white-picket fence, and contains some tiny perhaps-ceramic-or-resin figures of a fairy sitting on a round yellow squash, a mushroom house and other mushrooms, and a fox; plus some real pinecones.

11:20 AM - Apr 21, 2024

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#DailyPictureTheme #Caturday #CatsOfSpoutible

Obviously our-much-loved-and-missed Mustache Cat had no interest in smoking or vaping this #weed , though he did enjoy getting high (up into the raised bed), and he loved loved loved the edibles he could get here - gophers, voles, rats, and mice.

Longhaired "Mustache Cat" peacefully snoozes in the dirt in a raised garden bed full of tall marijuana plants, his right hind leg, tail, and right front paw hanging over the edge. Usually he looked like a black and white cat, but in some light/photos, like here, a lot of brown shows up also.

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Milla Mélomane

@Britpoptarts

Ursula LeGuin:

02:35 AM - Apr 17, 2024

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When possible, I love to #sit front-and-center everywhere, which means I show up in a lot of audience photos, like this one that's been on the Santa Cruz Works home page since 2019. OK, if I'm apparently supposed to be "Community. Collaboration. Inspiration.", I'm fine with that.

A phone screenshot of the Santa Cruz Works home page, which has featured this promo image since 2019. It's a view of the audience at one of their monthly Santa Cruz New Tech meetups, which has me sitting front-and-center with the text
"Community.
Collaboration.
Inspiration."
placed centered on the photo so they're right above my head. I've got streaky wavy pink-and-purple hair with bangs, a black T-shirt with a large image of the moon with the silhouette of the Google Android mascot on it, pink-and-purple-striped leggings, and stompy black boots.

10:07 AM - Apr 19, 2024

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A lot of #tense stuff going on in my Spanish 2 class right now. I alternate between "Wow, lots of things I haven't been understanding in the more-immersion-centric Duolingo are really clicking for me, I can do all this!" & "Wow, how am I ever going to be fluent in conversation?"

A screenshot of page 322 of the online version of the "Panorama" Spanish textbook. Including all the page's text here would go past the alt-text 1000-characters limit, but it starts out like this, followed by a lot of tips on when to use the preterite and imperfect tenses in Spanish:
"The preterite and the imperfect
Now that you have learned the forms of the preterite and the imperfect, you will learn more about how they are used. The preterite and the imperfect are not interchangeable. In Spanish, the choice between these two tenses depends on the context and on the point of view of the speaker."

09:37 AM - Apr 18, 2024

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Truscha Quatrone

@TQDemocrat

https://open.substack.com/...

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The Small MIracle That Is Trump's Trial, And The Challenge It Poses To His Authoritarian Personality

Being held accountable and forced to abide by someone else's rules are intolerable outcomes for authoritarians,

08:56 AM - Apr 18, 2024

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Halloween 2000! 1. My son Arthur casts a #spell , filling the living room with #Lego enough for many #LegoWednesday spouts. 2. Hours later in the kitchen, the magic continues with post-trick-or-treat candy trading, my daughter Violet on the left & Arthur in the back-right corner.

09:30 AM - Apr 17, 2024

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ALIS ITLATOL

@Alis_Itlatol

I wrote a lesson for 5th-6th graders "Tapestries Around The World" w the intention of re-connecting american students w their original Cultures thru the histories & meanings of color, weave & design. #DailyPictureTheme
Ribbon #Skirts make the Circle Stronger
Lakota Times

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Ribbon Skirts Make the Circle Stronger - Lakota Times

Indigenous ribbon work was thrust into the spotlight when Interior of the Secretary Deb Haaland wore a traditional ribbon skirt for her swearing-in ceremony in Washington, D.C. Made by Agnes Woodward/ Plains Cree, her vibrant skirt featured imagery of corn and butterflies, was covered in colorful ri..

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Today's theme is #Skirt

Please Reply or Quote with your picture

Or Spout with #DailyPictureTheme

Tomorrow's theme will be #Spell

Have fun, like and echo each others posts, most importantly be kind!

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I made my daughter Violet this gathered #skirt and some other ones out of old dresses. Standing among the redwoods outside the libraries where she works, she captioned this photo, "This is what Robin Hood did, right, hung out in the forest with a bunch of bows?"

Yes, Violet is standing among some redwood trees. The skirt in question is kind of a dark pink velour, and she's also wearing a black velvet vest over a gauzy shirt with a leaf pattern. The bows in question are two pale-pink ones (with matching mask over a KN95) in her long dark-purple hair, and a bright pink one at the top of each black stocking.

10:25 AM - Apr 16, 2024

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1. 2007 TurboTax trying to download my entire state (which contains my computer) onto my computer. 2. My son Arthur on LinkedIn re his 6th year as IRS-certified volunteer #tax assistant - his interest in income redistribution includes helping low-income people pay less in taxes.

09:58 AM - Apr 15, 2024 (Edited)

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#SpoutibleBakes Hot-out-of-the-oven blackberry cake amidst the raindrops-bedecked front-yard calla lilies on this on-again-off-again rainy spring day here in Santa Cruz.

The cake is in a 9-inch-square metal pan, golden brown with a lot of blackberries visible through cracks in the top. I'm holding the pan with one hand in an oven mitt that is white with a pattern of different kinds of fruit on it, in front of some white calla lily flowers with raindrops on them and their greenery, in front of the front of my house's yellow wall with red brick wainscotting.

03:48 PM - Apr 14, 2024

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1 What the back of my head looks like after I bleach my roots to a supposed " #pale lemon" color. 2 Neighbor-kitten Beatrice — #pale silver tabby with black stripes on her head/shoulders/tail, but brown stripes on the rest of her body — takes my son Arthur for a walk, 4/23/2006.

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lorraine aylward

@oldbabylonianwhore

The biggest driver of homelessness is Global Warming. After floods, hurricanes, etc. ppl don't have the money to rebuild or move on. They become homeless
As the water dries up, food can't grow, temps are too hot, ppl move

By 2030 there will be 1.2 billion climate refugees

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Climate Change Is Already Forcing People From Their Homes — ProPublica

The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

07:19 PM - Apr 12, 2024

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My Flying Car 2020

@Flying2020

Faith Ringgold, Who Wove Black Life Into Quilts and Children’s Books, Dies at 93

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Faith Ringgold, Who Wove Black Life Into Quilts and Children’s Books, Dies at 93 - The New York Times

A champion of Black artists, she explored themes of race, gender, class, family and community through a vast array of media and later the written word.

05:49 PM - Apr 13, 2024

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Each day = yet more sic transit gloria mundi.😢 I've got some of Trina Robbins' books & comics, & am now having fond memories of spending time in the more "adult" back section of Atlantis Fantasyworld comic store when I first moved to Santa Cruz in 1981. Gift/no-paywall obit: https://wapo.st/3Q2UfkZ

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Trina Robbins, cartoonist who elevated women’s stories, dies at 85 - The Washington Post

She put out the first American comic book created entirely by women. Years later, she wrote books chronicling the work of overlooked women in the industry.

11:44 AM - Apr 13, 2024

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#DailyPictureTheme #CatsOfSpoutible #Caturday

Balor in Tieland, March 11, 2013. I #drape ties and other clothing onto the living room futon being used as a bed, our much-missed black cat Balor (we got him at a time when my children were in a Celtic mythology play) drapes himself onto them as well.

A queen-sized bed with a cloudy-sky-patterned comforter next to a window has two heaps of clothing on it, and a tie rack full of ties draped over the foreground one. Balor, a black cat with golden eyes and graying fur around his face, is lying on it as well, looking back over his shoulder at the camera.

10:28 AM - Apr 13, 2024

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And for a more-upbeat second-scoop of #DailyPictureTheme today (plus #SpoutibleBakes ), I have a lot of cookie stamps, and with any rolling-pin-and-cookie-cutters cookie dough/recipe you can just roll the dough into balls & #press each one with a cookie stamp instead! Some examples with alt text:

09:00 AM - Apr 12, 2024

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Last July the #press key options/procedures didn't help.😢 I combined parts from my laptop & an old broken laptop of my son's to make 1 working laptop, but his nonupgradable motherboard had ½ the RAM, & as all was 8 years old anyway I decided to move on to a new Framework laptop.

Just what you don't want to see when you open your laptop! A photo of the top-left corner of my previous laptop's screen, saying
No bootable devices found.
Press F1 key to retry boot.
Press F2 key for setup utility

08:38 AM - Apr 12, 2024

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Cynthia Williams

@BLACKSTEMUSA