Luna09

Music. Concerts. Nature. Herbs. Good Vibes. KC. Love is my religion.

[Luna09 @Luna09]

Saw a hummingbird hawk-moth today!

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Women, the reason you can have a credit card in your own name and don’t need a man’s signature to open a bank account is because of Gloria Steinem. RIP to this queen.

[Luna09 @Luna09]

Today's visitors - praying mantis and swallowtail.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

A video of James Brown teaching you how to dance. What more could you want?

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Gloria Steinem will go down in history as one of the most important activists of all time, leading a movement for the equality of half the world: its women.

She lived a long and passionate life dedicated to this vital and basic cause.

She did it with intellectual precision, emotional awareness, humour and beauty. May she rest in peace and may the cause thrive.

[Canada Goose 🇨🇦 @CanadaGoose911]

Native Americans are like hmmmmm…

[👑 ♤ Lake Ontario  @LakeOntario16]

I was given my name by the Iroquois Nation many hundreds of years ago. By 1660 my name was printed on maps by the Europeans as they accepted the Native name which means Beautiful waters.
In 1867 the Canadian government decided to use my name for their providence.

[Luna09 @Luna09]

Lunar eclipse in Pisces. Letting go of what no longer serves me.

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Tim Curry playing Mick Jagger in Saturday Night Live, 1981.

[Union Station KC @UnionStationKC]

Tonight, Union Station shines brightly in Dolly Parton’s favorite pink, with white and yellow accents as we celebrate her remarkable life and extraordinary legacy.

Her passion for education brought her to Kansas City multiple times to celebrate her Imagination Library as it expanded throughout Kansas and Missouri, including a recent trip in 2023.

Dolly Parton’s voice, stories, humor, and generosity touched generations.

From her unforgettable music and movies to her extraordinary commitment to childhood literacy, Dolly showed us that imagination, kindness, and a big dream can take you anywhere.

Rest in peace, Dolly.

Photos by Andrew McDonald, Persistent Vision Photography.

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

A message from the family of Dolly Parton.

[Far Out Magazine @FarOutMag]

Remembering The Clash’s Joe Strummer on what would have been his 74th birthday. 🕊️

[Grateful Dead @GratefulDead]

“Widely considered one of the greatest single performances of any song by the Grateful Dead.” - David Lemieux

“Shakedown Street,” live at Merriweather Post Pavilion, 6/30/85. One of seven previously unreleased shows featured on ‘Summer Magic 1985.’ Listen to the full performance: https://t.co/RJtVJmhip3

[Chef Joe Gera 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹 @redhotnerd]

I’d like to reiterate how difficult it is to have granola infected with salmonella. It’s even more difficult than chili peppers, and no, it’s not “foreign producers” that are the problem. It’s quality control and standards not being enforced.

[Sierra Club @SierraClub]

And we’ll keep fighting until we make that temporary stop, PERMANENT.

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces."

- Carl Sagan

[Stereogum @stereogum]

After 71 years, the mail-order media club Columbia House is finally shutting down

https://t.co/gu9OM7yJYS

[Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS]

April 1, 1989.
Living Colour walks onto SNL and doesn’t just play — they take over.
Vernon Reid’s guitar is pure controlled chaos. Funky, aggressive, and sharp as a blade. “Cult of Personality” already hit hard on record, but this live version feels like the band is trying to burn the studio down in the best way possible.
Most bands get polite applause on late-night TV.
Living Colour got a reaction that felt closer to a mosh pit.
Still one of the most electric SNL performances of that entire era.
Anyone else think this moment doesn’t get talked about enough?

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

PBS knew.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we hate dandelions is because of a 1950s marketing campaign to sell weed-killers made in a chemical weapons lab.

Prior to the 50s, very few people seemed to have strong opinions about dandelions. European colonists brought them here on purpose in the 1600s. The leaves were used for salads, the flowers for wine, and the roots roasted as a coffee substitute.

They were pretty much a home garden staple into the 1800s.

The shift in thinking happened after the second World War, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero "weeds."

Dandelions, being bright yellow, resistant to mowing, and tough to pull, became a visible enemy. And the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with a well-kept lawn, the signature of the middle class's American Dream.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were even born.