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The fact that I was happily surprised by the verdict in the Chauvin trial says a lot. The bar is literally on the floor; I’m glad we cleared it this time.

That a family had to lose a son, brother and father; that a teenage girl had to film and post a murder, that millions across the country had to organize and march just for George Floyd to be seen and valued is not justice.

And this verdict is not a substitute for policy change. https://t.co/tiDkhl9Dk4

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 20, 2021

These are 2021 stats, from Mapping Police Violence:

Like AOC says, it’s time for policy change. You can read more about concrete solutions that do work in this thread (from the creator of Mapping Police Violence).

Time to get in touch with my city council members.

Here I am again posting about how cops are bad and we shouldn’t have a system–racist from its inception–that allows for people with the literal power of life and death to make a goddamned traffic stop.

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Forget “hot girl summer,” the first thing I’m gonna do when I’m fully vaccinated (by Memorial Day!) is this:

I am also looking forward to emerging from the shell of my former self and spending all summer outside screaming https://t.co/TypS2ft2SB

— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) March 19, 2021

Friends, the last few weeks have been rough. The pandemic wall, spring fever, not enough help at work….everything is such a slog right now. I’m deeply uninspired for any posts here, too, but these are the three videos that will always, always make me laugh. You might need them, too.

NAILED IT:

It me on the ice:

If the last year had a theme song:

Last week I reached the “let’s scroll through pictures of fantasy bathrooms and dream about taking a bath there instead of in the house we’ve been stuck in for a year” stage of pandemic. Want to see?

This is vintage, from a super nostalgic Instagram account (it has pictures of malls! remember malls?)

This is a Phryne Fisher dream, via Flicker

This is a real hotel in Paris you could stay at….someday. Sigh.

And this is a hot spring, not a bathtub, but it too is a real place that you could visit. (Sob.)

I saw this phrase on Instagram regarding a winter garden and had to look it up. According to this master gardener column,

Elliot Coleman, author of many books on organic gardening, uses the term “Persephone period” or “Persephone days” to describe the time of year when the days have 10 or fewer hours of light.

After about January 25th in our latitude, we start getting a little more than 10 hours of light–helpful if you’re planning spring seeds or just so, so over the dark and cold.

I keep going deeper into Mental Health Instagram and I am totally fine with that. I found The Female Warhol account last week and I really love seeing these therapist words photoshopped on billboards and public signs:

That last one was posted at the end of 2020, and yeah…it really did. Anyway, things to think about for the week ahead, in case you were looking for a sign (HA).

I saw this on Twitter yesterday and it’s so good. The dodo part about a minute in is just great acting–all of it is, really.”You’ve given us a lot to think about!”

The Galactic Federation interviews Earth for membership pic.twitter.com/okgC7L0IuH

— Vinny Thomas (With Eggnog!) (@vinn_ayy) December 8, 2020

We’re stuck in the loop of sunny days and winter pollution, even up on the trails.

Of course, I’m not too mad at the warmish weather–I’ve decided to try making some softshell snow pants, so this gives me some time to gear up.

It was unseasonably warm, then it snowed and we had January lows, now it’s warming back up again. I felt this New Yorker piece: Welcome to Fall, the Two Days Between Summer and Winter

Yes, it’s finally that autumnal season! Gather the harvest for the cornucopia! Roast butternut squash and braise pork shoulder with good friends ’round the hot wood fire as you—O.K., is that sleet? It’s sleeting now. And it says that tomorrow it’s supposed to be in the eighties. Then it’s going to snow. How is that possible?

…Now on to that cozy, warm, wondrous holiday season! Cold, wintry nights full of family and roaring fires and stockings and candles and cookies and—oh, that’s over now, too. Great. Get ready for five months of February!