So this just happened.
Not quite. Morris minor.
Hotel.
13 is lucky: When on your 13th anniversary the garden you planted offers up for dinner 13 morel mushrooms you did *not* plant. Butter, heat, we’re there. #gardens #food #mushrooms #luck
More crabapple blossoms a-fallen. #flowers #gardens #spring (at Le jardin)
What the rains done to my crabapple blossoms. But I forgive them. #gardens #spring #flowers #vermont #timesinevitablecrueldestructionandrenewal
6 a.m. and already scored the loons. #birding #vermont
Gay man shot dead in Village after gunman shouted homophobic slurs: authorities
A gay man was gunned down in Greenwich Village early today by an armed bigot who hurled homophobic slurs at him — and claimed to be the Newtown, Conn. killer before the murder, police said today.
The 32-year-old Brooklyn victim, whose name has not been released, was walking with a pal on Sixth Avenue near West Eighth Street about midnight when they were approached by three Hispanic males, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
One man snarled homophobic slurs at the men and asked them if they were “gay wrestlers,” Kelly said.
The men continued moving and made a right onto West Eighth Street.
One of the Hispanic men left and the other two continued to follow the victim and another man.
Both the victim and another man with him were wearing tank tops, cutoff shorts and boots.
“Do you want to die here?” the shooter asked the victim.
He pulled out a .38-caliber revolver and shot him once in the cheek.
“It was a quickie. He shot him and he went straight to the ground,” said a bouncer at a nearby club. “Half his body was lying on the sidewalk and half was on the street.”
The man died shortly after at Beth Israel Hospital.
I am incredibly saddened by this story. This is the fourth hate crime committed against a gay man this month, the second just steps from Stonewall. There will be a candlelight vigil tonight in front of the Gray’s Papaya on 6th Ave and 8th St where the shooting took place. Please come if you can; reblog this even if you can’t make it. We should refuse to live in a place where we can’t walk down the street without being afraid of this happening to us. It’s disgusting and unbelievable.
JFC this is absolutely horrid.
Horrid doesn’t begin to describe it.
Very brave grasshopper. Maybe a half-inch long, utterly unintimidated. #gardens #insects #olympusem5 #macro (at Le jardin)
Second in my sex pistils garden series: poppin’ poppy. #gardens #flowers #vt #vermont (at Le jardin)
Apologies for so many garden pics. I can’t get over that it’s spring. (at Le jardin)
Well. (at Le jardin)
“Volunteers were briefed not to get pulled into debating “politics” of arms dealing or the fossil fuel industry, lest it distracted from the science. I’ve since heard similar briefings have been issued for science events running over the summer. It’s also a line I heard all too often when I worked at Imperial College.
It’s bullshit. Simple bullshit. Politics doesn’t distract from the science. An over-emphasis on decontextualised science is used to distract from the politics.
It is often assumed science is somehow above political issues, but just because disinterestedness is an aspiration doesn’t mean it’s true in practise. It can be hard to spot ideologies you’re part of, so decent public engagement – which is honest about the uncertainties and arguments in science and actively invites questioning – can help science uncover itself more clearly. This is vitally important, because if you don’t recognise how routinely political science is, you just get played by those who do.
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Make that a double, please. #spring #vermont #flowers #gardens (at da house)
Did we break the Internet yet? Official Top 4 BBQ Joints in the World, according to us, and we logged 33,168 miles and ate at 658 places so yeah, WE KNOW. #tmbbq #roadtrip #texasbbq (at Texas Monthly)
