Tonight marks Seattle’s final 9 pm sunset of the year. The sun won’t set in the 9 o’clock hour again until next June.
And so the slow crawl toward darkness begins! 🧛♂️
Happy Birthday @wsu 🎂🎈🥳! 133 years of making a difference in education 🎓, research🧪🎶📕🍷, extension🍎🌷🍞🐟🚰 & outreach across Washington, the US 🇺🇸and the World🗺️! #CougFamily making a difference! More great things to come too! #GoCougs
Republicans in Florida want to stop girls from talking about their periods in school.
In Idaho, they’ve rejected a bill that would have funded free menstrual products in public school bathrooms.
And in Virginia, the Governor has made sure authorities could issue search warrants in order to seize a young girl or woman’s menstrual data.
All of this, while they seek to criminalize abortion & deny a woman’s access to contraception.
If this isn’t an all-out Handmaid’s Tale style assault on women and girls, I don’t know what is.
The lighter penguin is an elderly female whose partner died this year. The darker one is a younger male who lost his partner two years ago. Biologists have followed them as they meet every night to comfort each other. They stand for hours together watching the lights. ❤️
I've been asking my male friends to do something - *watch if the first response to everything a woman tells you is to refute, say no or something negative*
One texted me later: Holy f*ck
The problem is, constantly putting up with unwarranted resistance is bad for mental health.
Today in the Starbucks drive-thru in Uvalde, the barista asked if I was taking time to take care of myself. I told her I would keep trying and returned the question.
She said she actually works in San Antonio, but is working here so that Uvalde baristas have time off to grieve.