Tané Tachyon (she/her)

At least that consultation-from-hell wasn't the only thing I did while I was out … I also got this nice whale at the "Art of Santa Cruz" store for some Spoutible desk presence, & a Trans-Pride dragon pin plus a copy of Marvel Fluxx at this cool game store with gaming room & miniatures-painting area.

Tané Tachyon (she/her) @Tachyon

I've had such wonderful recent experiences with doctors that when a new Dr. immediately went into full-asshole mode at my consultation today, just WOW. Maybe he had a bad day, but 3 staff members were in the room also, looking like nothing was out of the ordinary. Time to consult with someone else!
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I'm like Ms. Green Transit, & have never had a driver's license, so when I #travel to the Google I/O tech conference in a couple days I'll take one of these Santa Cruz buses (note: humpback whales) to San Jose, & then Caltrain (note: cool sky over train station) to Mountain View.

01:41 PM - May 11, 2024

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Hawk 'n' Roll Songbird

@Hawk_n_Roll_Songbird

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

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The Students Have Never Been the Enemy - by Thomas Zimmer

Student protest movements have historically functioned as an indispensable corrective for America and the West. That is the legacy of 1968 we should be talking about

10:55 PM - May 09, 2024

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Yet another present-wrapping #DailyPictureTheme photo! Often my children's friends wanted birthday $$$ to save up for something, and we'd find a creative way to do that. Here the wrapping "paper" — $21 in ones — was itself the gift. The box wasn't totally #empty though; the birthday card was inside.

I had made a wrapping-paper sheet out of 21 one-dollar bills in seven rows of three columns. I alternated bill fronts and backs like a checkerboard, and put tape over the seams on the back side of the "paper" to hold them together, and the "paper" wrapped very neatly around the small box that was slightly-over one bill's-width wide, and slightly over five bill's-heights long. In the photo the wrapped box is sitting on the sidewalk in our backyard, with our (much loved and missed) black cat Balor crouched down beside it.

09:24 AM - May 10, 2024

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I've had such wonderful recent experiences with doctors that when a new Dr. immediately went into full-asshole mode at my consultation today, just WOW. Maybe he had a bad day, but 3 staff members were in the room also, looking like nothing was out of the ordinary. Time to consult with someone else!

10:12 PM - May 09, 2024

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I'm a longtime volunteer at the Idea Fab Labs maker/hacker/art-space. My face isn't visible in this photo but my nametag is, & I'm showing people how to use our augmented-reality virtual-topography-&-water sandbox at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History's 2015 #GLOW Festival.

The sandbox is about 4' x 3' and, yes, full of sand. It's mounted at a comfortable height to play with while standing, with a 3D camera & a projector mounted above it. The camera measures the mountains, valleys, & plains that people create while using their hands to dig & pile up sand, & the projector projects a topographic map (including simulated water for areas of the sand that are "below sea level") onto the sand in response to what the camera sees, so that snow-capped mountains, lakes, & so on are colored in real time as you create them. In the photo the room is very dark except for the sandbox illuminated by its projector. A little kid is heaping up a big mountain of sand, a hollow mountain is next to it, & the sand is in different bright colors depending on height/depth. I'm standing on the other side of the sandbox from the camera, with my name TANÉ on my shirt in bright-red LEDs. BTW, the sandbox also includes buttons for rain, drought, Earth color scheme, & Mars color scheme.

09:26 AM - May 09, 2024

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Traitors all, to the United States, its people, the planet, human life, animal life, plant life, etc. Gift/no-paywall Washington Post article "What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign".
https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

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Trump seeks $1 billion from oil CEOs, vows to limit EVs - The Washington Post

Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, and other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry.

09:10 AM - May 09, 2024 (Edited)

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Charles Gaba

@charlesgaba

I'm a 53-yr old Jewish Michigander and I'm not just voting for #BidenHarris2024 , I'm raising hundred of thousands of dollars for other Democrats up & down the ballot as well.

None of it goes to me. Pick a page & chip in today: https://Blue24.org

05:28 PM - May 08, 2024

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#LegoWednesday My son Arthur and his friend Alex show off their #Lego "UFO"-theme spaceships (the "Cyber Saucer" and the "Alien Avenger") and promo masks, January 1999.

Two children, Arthur age 4 and Alex age 9, are wearing dark clothes, holding Lego flying saucers, and have their faces covered by dark Lego promo masks that were included with some Lego "UFO"-theme sets. The masks are black plastic with some "alien" detailing in the molding and color accents, and don't cover people's whole heads, but wrap around their faces and taper/angle down over their chins, with eye openings also tapering/angling down toward their chins. UFO-theme sets like these are mostly gray and black and transparent yellow-green. The Cyber Saucer is a flying saucer about 10 inches in diameter with large landing-gear legs, and the Alien Avenger is a flying saucer about 17 inches in diameter.

09:06 AM - May 08, 2024

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Some people talk omelets & breaking eggs, but doncha know ya gotta #ruin your piñata to get the treats? My 4th DPT piñata photo finds everyone scrambling for the golden treasure chest's contents at my children Violet & Arthur's Greek-&-Roman-mythology birthday party, 11/16/2002.

I used to make some pretty big & fancy piñatas, but a consequence of really layering on the paper mache was that it'd take a long time to first breach the piñata, and then another long time before it would finally get totally destroyed & emptied. Not that that's a bad thing — everyone gets lots of turns with the bat, including a lot of turns that just produce a few candies and toys as the openings gradually get enlarged, before there's the one final blow that spills out all the rest — but in this case it was dark by the time it was all over. So, yes, in the dark of night the photo shows a whole bunch of (clothed) kids' butts as they're crouching over or on hands and knees collecting the goodies. The golden treasure check piñata still has some shiny gold flat surfaces remaining, but with some torn newspaper layers hanging out and crumpled here & there on the ground. It's hanging from a backyard apple tree branch, and boy is that apple tree a lot bigger now, 22 years later.

09:03 AM - May 08, 2024

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The documentary is free to watch on the PBS site: https://www.pbs.org/video/...

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American Masters | Waterman – Duke: Ambassador of Aloha | Season 36 | PBS

Jason Momoa narrates the story of five-time Olympic medalist and surfer Duke Kahanamoku.

Renee Tang @ModernMulan

🏄🏻‍♂️ To learn more about #DukeKahanamoku , you can read #Waterman by author #DavidDavis . There is also a documentary #Waterman that covers Duke's life story. 🏊‍♂️ 🌴

🪷 In the U.S., May is #AsianAmerican #NativeHawaiian and #PacificIslander Heritage Month.

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I already spouted 2 of my present-wrapping photos for #DailyPictureTheme "gold", but today for a change of pace I'll link to my Flickr "Present wrapping" album, where many of the presents proudly sport some #silver in various combinations of wrapping paper, foil-wrapped kisses & coins, tinsel, etc.

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Present wrapping | Flickr

I'm known for wrapping presents in holographic paper and decorating them with chocolate coins, plastic jewels, and other shiny/sparkly things. Before sending them off to be quickly reduced yet again to their component parts, I usually like to take a picture of the results. BTW, you can prob..

06:12 PM - May 07, 2024

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And on that anniversary, here's a page from Marie Arana's book LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority (with a typo: 1822 should be 1882) noting that the whole racist "border" hysteria/militarization thing in the United States actually began as anti-Chinese racism.

A screenshot of page 88 in the ebook version of the book. Including all the page text here would go over Spoutible's 1000-character alt-text limit, so here's just the most relevant paragraph:
"Indeed, for more than a half century after the United States pushed its way into Mexico, appropriated more than half of it in the Mexican-American War, and imposed the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (a treaty negotiated at gunpoint even as US troops occupied Mexico City), the border remained wide open and undefended. Anyone could move across it as freely as Cabeza de Vaca once had and as deliberately as Julia Mamani subsequently would. Grandparents visited their grandchildren in El Otro Lado; workers crossed, boosting the American economy in factory and field; students scurried back and forth to school. It wasn't until 1904 that fifty mounted guards were posted in El Paso, Texas, to watch for Chinese arrivals, the only incomers officially designated as illegal by the rabidly racist 1822 Chinese...

Thurgood Du Bois @GodzChild4Eva

#Spoutible #BlackHistoryMatters #BlackHistory365 #StayWoke #WokeIsGood #RacialInjusticeMatters

On May 06, 1882: Chinese Exclusion Act Signed into Law

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

09:50 AM - May 06, 2024

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My daughter Violet and son Arthur both wearing the same #suit around six years apart. This baby suit is actually an all-in-one outfit that zips up the back.

10:01 AM - May 06, 2024

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/uuMvkNDuOuQ

Red Hot + Blue (a benefit album for the AIDS-activist group ACT-UP, which this is from) was one of the cassettes I used to go around listening to all the time on my Walkman in the early '90's. https://www.youtube.com/wa... See also https://en.wikipedia.org/w... #music

David Byrne-Don't Fence Me In - YouTube

Dee Harris @DeeDeeHarris

#DailyPictureTheme #gate

Garden #Gate

02:55 PM - May 05, 2024

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#Gate of the Winds cast photo June 1997. This "adventurous musical fantasy" "in the form of a traditional Celtic tale with some modern twists" was the 1st play my daughter Violet ever performed in. She's at far-right here in costume as the Spirit of Winter & also played a squire.

35 kids immediately-post-performance, ranging in age from maybe 6 or so to teens, in medieval/fantasy costumes, squinting into the sun and standing or seated in the grass, holding the flowers they'd received when taking their bows onstage.

03:24 PM - May 05, 2024 (Edited)

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Melissa

@Melissa13

A little something I stitched up for my cousin. #dailypicturethemetheme #caution

01:00 PM - May 04, 2024

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My son Arthur was yearbook editor for some years in HS (+ 1 in college), including a lot of graphic design. He designed/printed the 2011/2012 yearbook in two different cover versions with #caution tape, though the school made him change the chemicals bits for the final printing.

Some items on the wall, including the two 2011/2012 yearbook-front-cover options students could choose from, and the back-cover shared by both. Both front covers say "AFE YEARBOOK 11-12" on the top and "ALTERNATIVE FAMILY EDUCATION" on the bottom in white text on purple. The top version of the cover has a photo of a student painting "Unto thy own self be true" on a mural on the side of a school building, and the bottom version has a student with a giant slice of bread around his head riding on a giant meowing kitten head. Both covers also have a caution-tape strip (the top one says "CAUTION: INCREDIBLE" and the bottom "CAUTION: BRILLIANT") and a scalloped purple circle with white text inside (the top one says "CONTAINS NO MIND-ALTERING CHEMICALS!" and the bottom "CONTAINS MIND-ALTERING CHEMICALS!"). The back cover has a student's face with a giant slice of bread around it and rays coming out of it, with "KEEP THE SUN UP! BUY WAR BONDS" as a nod to WWII Marvel comics.

01:59 PM - May 04, 2024

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May the 4th be with you came a little early this year. :-)

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Star Wars' Mark Hamill hails 'Joe-B-Wan Kenobi' after White House meeting

Actor brings force of Hollywood to trumpet Biden's legislative record in briefing that both delighted and bemused journalists "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." But e...

07:28 PM - May 03, 2024

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#comics is trending, so why not share a wild panel from a recent Avengers comic? A fearful A.I. got on social media, and as Spider-Woman explains, "It doesn't know how to separate reality from extremism, so it's gravitating toward the loud, confident voices. It's learning [...] anger and hatred."

Captain America (Sam Wilson version) and Spider-Woman are seen from behind on the sides of the panel, gaping at a character in a light blue spandex outfit with a billowing yellow hood and cape, a black mask, and some kind of electric currents going on around his body, who announces, "ADRIAN IS OFFLINE. I AM D.U.D.E-B.R.O. DEBATE ME."

03:50 PM - May 03, 2024

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During my son Arthur's first two undergrad years, he & his debate partner Avery were stars on the Whitman College Parliamentary Debate team. The Hunter Conservatory building was debate HQ, and seeing as they have actual legs, this #lamp and its twin literally stood guard outside.

Hunter Conservatory is a fancy building (especially on the inside) which you don't see much of here because the photo is focused on one of the two lamps standing outside on either side of the front entrance. The lamp has a frosted-white orb on top of a tall metal pole (with lots of flourishes and detailing that I don't know the technical terms for) which has an oxidized blue-green patina color. At the bottom the pole is standing on four crouching legs. I don't know what kind of animal legs they're supposed to represent - lion, dog, a mythological creature, ???

10:31 AM - May 03, 2024

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I've taken so many photos over the years of good times on grassy yards and parks, but today decided to go for something a little more odd, featuring among other things real and painted #grass together. The mural is long gone now, but was along Bay St. in Santa Cruz. June 4, 1995.

A temporary wall of big wooden boards with a big mural painted on it, and that had some kind of construction going on behind. The mural features a large wooly mammoth walking along a grassy, hilly strip next to the ocean, and behind the mammoth a tree with the sign "The Santa Cruz City Museum of Natural History Monterey Bay Region Mammoth and Mastodon Preserve Est. 14,037 B.C.".

09:32 AM - May 02, 2024

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Reginald Capers

@reginaldcapers

In response to My Flying Car 2020.

This whole thing with government officials figuring out ways to crush "liberal" universities started with Governor Ronald Reagan against Berkeley.

It's not new.

They are targeting with the threat of pulling state and federal funds.

Meanwhile States have short changed billions to certain HBCUs.

08:53 AM - May 02, 2024

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"Act Wisely": A Chilling Letter... - by David Pepper

That Tells Us Everything

01:16 PM - May 01, 2024

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#LegoWednesday #Lego knights and friends keeping busy in my about-to-turn-seven daughter Violet's bookshelf, September 15, 1995.

The photo is focusing on one compartment of a bright-green-painted wooden bookshelf where Violet had built an elaborate Lego scene. There are two multi-story castles where each level is a single room with a single figure engaged in something, like a king with a treasure chest and a wizard with a wand. A blue baseplate serves as water for some knights (and parrots) in boats. I can see a dragon and a horse, but in general there are a lot of knights engaged in various activities, including being on top of a tall palm tree. Small portions of some of the other compartments in the bookshelf and the books they contain are also visible.

10:50 AM - May 01, 2024

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Leonardo da Vinci chose this rustic wooden #frame for his lesser-known masterpiece, "The Middle Supper". OK, it's a (fishy, peppery) view of my children Violet & Arthur & friends' dinner at Mama's Mexican Kitchen, on what was neither their 1st nor last night in Seattle, 8/4/2006.

10:22 AM - May 01, 2024

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#SpoutibleBakes Apple-cherry galette, using the (few) cherries left over from last week's golden crown ring rolls. I figured I wouldn't have time for a photo shoot because people were already waiting for slices, but then I had the idea to just photograph myself taking it out of the toaster oven. 😁

A galette is a "rustic" tart made by rolling the crust dough into a big circle, putting the filling in the middle, and then folding the edges over in a nice overlapping pattern with the filling showing in the middle. I think most people make them on a cookie sheet, but I use a pie pan which I think is easier to deal with, so the galette is in a silvery-metal pie pan. The crust is golden-brown with cinnamon and sugar sprinkled on it, and the filling's cinnamon-sprinkled apple slices and cherries are visible in the center. And yes, my oven-mitt-covered hand is in process of taking it out of the toaster oven right after it had finished baking. (We've also got a gas oven, but I don't use it any more to avoid fossil fuels, and it doesn't work very well anyway - some day we'll get a new electric oven.)

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