From a total time of 24 hours, this post presents frank discussions of the birds, the bees, and the flours (without violating our contract of course).
Activism, Ineffective
When people have gathered for the express purpose of proclaiming hate and defiance for what the Bible teaches, reading the Bible at them is provocative. It's like going into a bar in a miniskirt, propping one foot up on the bar stool, and purring "Hey, handsome, buy me a drink?" There is no excuse for taking advantage of a drunk and there is no excuse for tearing up someone else's Bible, but, er, um, Christians are not told to go out looking for persecution..
So, "Is the Bible still relevant?" I think so. I think the sneering, gibbering haters who harassed the misguided Bible reader could have engaged him in a Scripture-quoting contest and made him admit that the Bible condemns only one specific same-sex act ("lying with mankind as with womankind") as an "abomination." The Bible says no word against same-sex friendship, or love, or touching. Probably the scenes of same-sex love and touching in the lives of Bible heroes celebrate sex-free friendship rather than bisexual lust, but hey, as long as they're not doing the thing that really is an abomination because it spreads AIDS...
Anomals, Adoptable
Even more shelter cats. These are in Louisiana but no worried, there are kittens up for adoption near you, because some of all those people who adopted animals in 2020 neglected to have the animals sterilized, even though they didn't want kittens or puppies and didn't know anyone who did either. That is irresponsible. If you don't have a clear plan for the babies, you should have your pets neutered.
(This serves as official notice to the owner of the little red Manx tomkitten who's been calling on Crayola lately. (Serena and Silver are still yelling at him, a lot, but they're clearly only teaching him the rules.) Crayola has had enough sorrow in her short life, and does not need to have to give birth to a lot of Manx kittens and watch all or most of them die of Manx Syndrome. Take care of that little fellow now, or I will.)
Birds
The Roads End Naturalist is on a road trip out West...not all of the other pictures in his post are as informative as this one, but several are.
Bees
Well, insects generally, in Britain Warning: most of the animals the East Sussex Wanderer has photographed in this post aren't as pretty as this Peacock Butterfly:
Alana Mautone visits the largest, and some say the nastiest smelling, flower known to humankind:
Glyphosate Awareness
You knew glyphosate damaged the human liver. Here's a study quantifying how badly...yes, it can "cause" liver cancer.
Green
For those who need to look at it...
It looks just a bit like my spring branch, and probably like several other creeks in Virginia, but Google says it's of Chinese origin.
Climate skeptic Judith Curry has a new book out:
Poems
The writer known as Ysabetwordsmith or Elizabeth Barrette has done hundreds of these things by now. They identify as poems. I hear them as prose but they're nice, succinct stories that mix goofy fantasy with serious real-world skills and information.
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