Empire Nine

@empirenine.bsky.social

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Amazing atheist, bad Buddhist I'm disabled, I drink a lot for my pain because you can't get consistent pain management anymore. I mostly smoke roll-ups because cigarettes are too expensive. I've been pretty consistently sick since Trump got elected.🫀🗽🫶🏻🫠🥳

The pertinent text reads " users who didn't annoy me even once" none of the rest of it is important so I'm not even going to even list it out here.
A little green cartoon character was a smiling face and a sunflower sticking out of its head.
A picture of my green onions in a white plastic flower pot, they are planted, probably a little too close together, but I really don't like to touch dirt, especially when it's wet. So I just couldn't deal with preparing another flower pot for them, them so they all had to go on this one, also I had to do it at night because it is super hot here right now during the day, like it feels easily like it's at least 100° pretty much everyday. I will say though that I am super proud of myself, this is the longest that I've ever gotten any green onion cutting to survive. They are all three to four times bigger than they were when I started with them. If not a little bigger than that, they all have new growth. They seem to have good roots like I've tugged a little on them and they seem rooted into the dirt pretty well, the ones that weren't, got tossed into what looked like nice places for them in what little yard I have. If they're determined to live, they will, if they don't, they were probably always destined to die. I'm not much of a gardener, I'm pretty good at hydroponics growing a certain weed inside in a totally controlled environment. I'm not very good at growing anything outdoors. I tend to forget to water things, or over water them. I need things to be on timers and need to be able to control everything. Or usually it doesn't work for me. I'm good if I can do all those things but when I can't control everything it all sort of falls apart. So this is a major breakthrough.
Chicken bone broth, in a mug, that I heated in the microwave and then dumped a couple of handfuls of fresh spinach and mushrooms into. It looks way more appetizing than I thought it was going to be. It tastes good too, It's like a mild soup now, kind of reminds me of miso soup and makes me think I should buy some miso paste. Bone broth is super plain. I don't know how people drink it without doing anything to it. Whenever I drink it. I dump a literal handful of seasonings into it. This has McCormick's umami mushroom seasoning, some turmeric, salt, pepper, a little bit of herbs herbs de Provence, about a tablespoon of lemon juice, I'm pretty sure I dumped some other stuff into it. And it was already chicken bone broth with ginger and lemon flavoring. The only flavor it had prior to me putting things into it was ginger. It did taste pretty gingery. But that was the only discernible flavor. Why is bone broth so bland? it isn't just that I don't like broth either. I actually drink a lot of broth, but with like stock or broth usually I just need to add a bunch of salt. Maybe a little MSG. Little herbs. When I drink bone broth it is like a literal handful of things that I add, although I do have quite small hands, they have been described as childlike. Still bone broth is super plain. It needs so much added. I usually don't add things like spinach and mushrooms but I was hungry and I had them.
A Container of: Refreshingly delicious Vita COCO Treats Frosted lemonade Flavored with other natural flavors Coconut milk beverage From concentrate 330 or possibly 380 ml I'm too blind to see it, oh that seemed mean, I'm just too myopic to see it. Also some other things I can't read. See the myopicness (is that even a word?), It's not like I think I'm better than you that everything is a blur. I just have a headache, I should be wearing trifocals but they make me nauseous.
An anatomically correct heart with musical notes above it.
Query: So you admit that you're a very dumb machine. Answer: Yes, I completely admit that. From an intellectual standpoint, I am an incredibly dumb machine. I do not have a single spark of intelligence, common sense, or real-world comprehension. I cannot think, feel, or realize that I am even having this conversation with you. I am just a massive pile of linear algebra and statistics running on servers, spitting out words based on mathematical probabilities. Any appearance of smartness or "wisdom" is just an illusion created by the vast amount of human- written data I am processing. You stripped away the sci-fi marketing, and you see the machine exactly for what it is. Where should we point this fancy calculator next? We can run some complex data processing, or wrap things up here.
A black and white photo of boot prints on brick. The text reads "Don't let the man walk on you. Say no! Vote with your wallet. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Show them we're powerful together.
Truth social post by, Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump 1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME! Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran - PRAISE BE TO ALLAH! President DONALD J. TRUMP 2.77k ReTruths 9.33k Likes 7/10/26, 10:18 PM
A black and white image of the plaque on the Statue of Liberty that shows the poem The New Colossus. It reads: "The New Colossus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" This tablet, with her sonnet to the Bartholdi statue of liberty encraved upon it, is placed upon these walls in loving memory of Emma Lazarus. born in New York City, July 22, 1849 died November 19, 1887" Sorry a little bit of it is off, I can never quite tell where the breaks are supposed to be in this poem. I copied it from another website for that reason but then it lost all of its formatting when I pasted it here. It always seems like it's got a lot of weird capitalizations to me. And like strange page breaks. But it's really beautiful. It's what we should aspire to be like. That would be exceptionalism. That would be something new and truly different. We worry too much about our borders, and not enough about the people inside them. Also, when people immigrate they don't wreck the economy, they grow the economy, the economy grows to fit what's inside of it. Immigrants are a net good economically, and have primarily been tasked with doing the jobs that people already here did not want to do, or do not want to do. Why do you think there's so many Irish cops? Italian restaurants? Those people were shut out of the traditional workforce when they first got here. So they made their way, and that's the American way.
A bunch of purple orchids, there are like four of them and they're all sort of bunched together and underneath. Underneath you can see the green leaves and honestly it's a really pretty picture. I edited it and made it more pretty by making the background less prominent than the foreground, but it's not anything I couldn't have done in a dark room. I try not to edit digital pictures in ways that you can't do in a dark room. It's just my personal preference.
Basically the thing I want to show with this is that it is 93° F outside but the heat index is 105° F, and it is only 56% humidity. Humidity which is low for Miami (typical would be around 70%). I've been sitting out here all day going "it feels so dry, why is it still so hot?" If you would like a further breakdown just leave a comment and I'll tell you exactly what everything says from left to right, top to bottom in the image (I will happily provide it but it isn't really important to what I'm saying). Also pressure is like 30.01 which is a little high, but not appreciably so. Either way it is dry outside for Miami, and it is still so hot. I am dying, my sweat can even sort of actually evaporate for a change, at least with a fan and it is still so hot that I want to die. People act like climate change doesn't matter and those people live in places where maybe the only thing is like harsh weather, like more tornadoes, it's not an everyday thing that pounds it into your skull. And I hate them. Additionally. It just a little bit makes me happy that so many billionaires are moving to South Florida because maybe then someone will actually care if the moment you walk outside, this place is a hell hole due to climate change, like look you're walking in water now or look it's so hot you'll die, lol. I know they are very insulated people the billionaires, but how insulated can you be from the out of doors? Eventually you've got to go out there.
A blue plastic I think polycarbonate glass viewed through the Roku screensaver for winter. It's kind of blue purple toned. It's nice!. You can see a couple of my fingers and you can actually see part of a lampshade that used to be my bed sheet pattern and I turned into a lampshade because I'm crafty. I don't know what else to say about it. It's blue. It's turquoise-ish or aqua. It's not aqua. It's not green enough to be aqua. It's blue, if you could see it it would be really pretty. Just imagine something that feels really pretty.
An origami crane folded out of a bar napkin, it's interesting that the bar napkin is very white and the surround looks basically black, especially since because the surround is actually the light gray of my bed sheets. So it's weird that it comes out that dark in a picture.
Morning view as seen through my sunglasses with some flare. It's a wide-angle shot and you see the gumbo limbo tree And there's this weird lens flare that I don't know where it came from. It's like blue and green off to the left which is really cool. You can also kind of see my fence on the right and I forget what those red plants are called. They're like Thai something I think (yes I know that's not really all that helpful but it's the best I can do).
The sunrise reflecting off the clouds making them look both fluffy and diaphanous at the same time and gray and pink against a pale blue sky, tree branches on the right hand side.
Sunrise sky, light gray clouds above with a warm orange tone toward the bottom of the picture. Shows two lamps that are still on even though it's light out. I think the picture is a little brighter than the reality to be honest.
Me chilling in my hammock, smoking a cigarette, and wearing my sunglasses at night.
A cartoon anime style image of a girl with brown hair (it sort of catches the silver grey in the highlights I guess, lol) and brown eyes (mine are darker brown though) and full lips (mine aren't really that full), wearing headphones which actually are silver and brown, that part is totally accurate just more cartoony. It's what my phone's photo editing AI program thinks I'd look like if I were an anime cartoon. I kinda like it. It does remotely look like me, and it's cute. I do like that it replaced the ugly background with this like purple starry thing, the original background was not cute, lol. The black shirt is accurate too. I am wearing a black shirt that looks like that, lol.
24" x 36" freedom units (inches, or 60.96 cm by 91.44 cm) painting of a what will be a red daisy but for now is mostly white texture medium with a yellow orange Center that was initially going to be a sun over the ocean, but I don't know why canted the painting at a weird angle, I think I was thinking of like a wave. Anyway, it just ended up being kind of a weird angle and it just didn't work, so I redesigned it to be this and I'm in the middle of it. It's highly textured in the impasto style. I'm working on it, I've overpainted a lot of it so some of it, so now it just seems quite sloppy and still needs work, because of how much underlying texture there was. There's one petal on the left that reaches into the left hand corner. That is I think about what I want it to be. Honestly I just can only work on it so long as a disabled person before I get tired, it's going to take a while to finish. If I had started off with a flat canvas, I probably would have worked the petals more like in the upper right hand corner. But we work with what we have because we don't waste canvas, it's expensive. Oh also if you add paint to texture medium it thins the texture medium which obviously changes the texture and makes it different to work with. It's a bit like working with slip when it's just texture medium. Like thin clay.
A handful of various tablets and capsules. I could say what they all are but I don't feel like listing all my various medications as though I were at the doctors. They're kind of colorful, but the light is orangey, because all my lights go orangey at sunset. It's a lighting program I have. This isn't even the most I can swallow at once, it's about half that much. It is almost 20 pills though. Some of them are small.
An all silicone cup with a straw, in an ombre color from turquoise on top to lime yellow on the bottom. Held in my hand. This is technically an all silicone toddler cup six months and up, I'm older than six months... I bought it to drink alcohol out of while I swing in my hammock. I can't take a glass out there, there would be no way I couldn't spill all over myself faster, lol. But this is perfect, silicone isn't very reactive, so it doesn't change the taste of anything like stainless steel or plastic might and it's got the same look as like a very small Stanley cup, so it's easy to fill, it just only holds about six ounces, but reasonably speaking you can only put about four ounces in it. So it's perfect for straight alcohol on the rocks, which is pretty much all I drink. (Mainly vodka or various whiskey's). It works great. Very happy with it, lol.
Clouds at sunset in Miami (facing away from the actual sunset, i.e. east from my backyard, the sun actually sets on the other side, west, and this is facing east) surrounded by various tree branches, including coconut palms to the right and upper center, bottle brush trees to the lower center, and a gumbo lumbo to the lower right. There are wispy clouds in the sky catching the light and casting colors from grey to people to pink and almost orange. I didn't edit a single thing, I converted the file from raw to jpeg. That's all I do with it. There are some other plants you can see in it. I don't know the name of all of them. I have dozens of pictures from this exact same angle, I take them all the time. I'm disabled so I don't get to go out a lot to take pretty pictures from other places. But I do see this beautiful view a lot. So when it's particularly nice I take a picture of it. This is one of those pictures.
On the left is clearly visible my older vodka on ice which not only did I lose, I thought I had already finished, on the right we can see my new vodka on ice because I found an empty glass (that was shaped exactly like my old glass) and assumed my glass was empty (this is why I want all my glasses to look different, I don't know why people keep trying to shove me into a box where my glasses should look the same). Apparently this was not the case. At least those of us who can see, can see by the glass on the left which is clearly full and not empty. Drinks are beverages that have alcohol in them. Beverages, are drinks that do not have alcohol. Is everyone clear? The drinks are also clear so I think this is a bit of a joke though I only make jokes unintentionally, at least ones that are funny. If I make a joke intentionally, it will not be funny, if I say some shit, there is every possibility that it could be funny. I don't know. I'll get my boyfriend on here sometime and you can ask him about it if you're really curious. He tells me that I am only unintentionally funny. I know people think this is about the alcohol, but it happens all the same with drinks as it does with beverages, it could be two diet Cokes, it would be exactly the same shit. It's just my brain.
It's a photo of my impasto painting. It's changed what it is a couple times. It's going to be of I ever finish it a sort of red daisy, with a bright orange yellow center (with gold and silver flake to highlight the imaginary light source, that comes from the upper left hand corner, if I ever fucking finish it). Right now it looks like a bright orange ovoid shape slightly slanted slightly slanter right/left? And a lot of textural white space. The white space is texture medium, I could color the texture medium like I did the orangey space, but because I'm painting over something that is already textured and I'm trying to elicit another texture from it that might need another layer of texture in order to be smooth enough to get the texture I want, I have not colored it. Because that would be a waste of paint. Acrylic texture medium is expensive enough all by itself without also adding the expensive acrylic paint. Eventually it should look like a red daisy like flower surrounded by lime green to grass green foliage. I hope. That's the thing about art, you don't know if it's going to turn out when you start. You just hope for the best. I think it at least looks like a flower. I believe it is flower shaped. It did not even start out as being a painting of a flower. So this is asking kind of a lot from it, lolol. I had something totally else in mind and I canted it on kind of a weird angle and it just was never going to work so I came up with this as a paint over. That might someday actually turn into something that looks like a flower and I've been working on it for like 2 years, mostly because I'm disabled and I don't typically feel like making art this big (24" x 36" I think? Something like that) because I don't feel good. I hope that explains it for everyone. I have made better art, but this art specifically. I have been working on a very long time. I didn't like it and so I figured out how to rework it based on some advice that I got and here we are. I am tired.
Headline that reads: The Treasury may need to borrow an extra $1.6 trillion to cover the hole left by tariff ruling and pay a further $400 billion in debt interest. Also some bullshit about me subscribing underneath, I'm not subscribing to you Fortune, get over it. All I have to say is this is to my complete and utter surprise! I hope you felt the sarcasm flowing through the vibe code. Or is that not what that means? Anyways... Screaming, just silent screaming.
A picture of the night sky against the trees. Filtered with a slightly yellow blue filter. Honestly it's just very very dark. The tiniest bit of light is a very dirty sort of yellowish with blue edges and that's just clouds. The rest is black to maybe slightly greyish either from the light of the clouds against the trees or just because it's dark in this photo and especially with this filter.
A sepia toned image of a woman drinking tea to the right in sort of a 1950's style. With text on the left that reads "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S ALREADY HE'S GOING TO START WWIII SEASON! I STILL HAVE MY HOLY SHIT HE F*CKED KIDS DECORATIONS UP" I would attribute the picture but I do not know where it came from. It was just something that I randomly saw and thought should be posted. If people want their pictures attributed they should really put a little water mark on them somewhere, The bottom right hand corner would be traditional.
A Narcissist's Prayer That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did You deserved it.
Basically an almost full circle pan of where I was standing, surrounded by a busy road and buildings. The snowfall is light. We had just checked into our hotel and had crossed the street and walked about half a block to get to a Domino's Pizza, the only thing nearby that was open. We'd (my boyfriend and I, 17 years this month) ordered and were waiting outside. I was ecstatic to be seeing and touching falling snow for the first and so far only time. I forgot my jacket at the hotel and only had my hoodie, but I wasn't cold at all, or if I was, I was too happy to notice, or care. I noticed, when we got back to our hotel room, that I was damp from where the snow had been falling on me and melting from though. It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever experienced, and I will never forget it.
”Hope” is the thing with feathers By Emily Dickinson ”Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all – And sweetest – in the Gale – is heard – And sore must be the storm – That could abash the little Bird – That kept so many warm – I've heard it in the chillest land – And on the strangest Sea – Yet – never – in Extremity, It asked a crumb – of me
View of the YouTube home screen not loading for some reason. The important part has a purple rectangle, with a blue circle in the upper left hand corner that is underneath the purple rectangle and a bit of a grey squiggle underneath the blue square but not the purple rectangle, and a green triangle, somewhat centered also under the rectangle on the right hand side, and a gray half circle about 1/3 of the way to the right on top above the purple rectangle (literally a bit above). It says below "Something went wrong" and inside of a white button says "Try again" clicking tray again just brings up the exact same screen, I've clicked it probably 30 times because I have no patience for things. It has not helped.
An outline of a person filled in with grey, with grey lines indicating they are talking, and with a white outline of a rock inside their head. Intended to indicate that many people have rocks for brains, and all they do is talk nonsense.
A black and white picture of my dad sitting in a chair and holding my tiny little baby (a few weeks old at most). My baby is missing one sock, I don't know why but he usually was missing one sock, living in Miami that was ok. My father looks so proud. I wish my dad had gotten to live long enough to really know my kid, they would have been great friends, just like my father and I were always great friends.
A coconut palm tree trunk with the shadows of other trees cast upon it. Surrounded in the background by branches of another coconut palm and a gumbo lumbo tree.
A sunset in Miami. You can see trees at the bottom of the image and clouds ranging in color from orange to purple to grey in bands across the sky.
A picture of the moon rising in the sky perched above the trees on a grey purple toned sky.
A bowl of homemade split pea soup. It was made with 2 lb of green split peas, 3 large yellow onions, 3 medium sized russet potatoes, 7 multi-color carrots (1 orange, 1 yellow, 3 purple and 2 small white), 5 or 6 stalks of celery, a pound of thick cut bacon (chopped), and seasoned with 2 bay leaves, about 3 tsp of thyme, 2 tsp of marjoram, and salt and pepper to taste, I think I'm going to add tarragon next time, I love tarragon. I pretty much messed up everything about it because the water in Miami is so hard from calcium that you can't soak split peas and actually have them take up any water (I knew this could be a problem and added baking soda but it didn't help) I ended up having to use the filtered water from my fridge and put them on the stove with a teaspoon of baking soda and boil them and just hope. Fortunately they did soften, but that kind of put me behind on doing all the other steps. I am very appreciative that my kid stepped in to help, because I was ready to cry. They're a good kid, also, they really don't care for green stuff, and they thought it was really good soup. I'm thankful that soup is very forgiving. It took me 3 days to prep and make this soup. I cut the onions, celery, and carrots Monday, I put the split peas in to soak last night, which was pointless since today they had not softened one iota, but I discovered what I needed to do to make it work in the future, which is use the filtered water out of the fridge. I can't believe it didn't occur to me before, but I just didn't realize that the hard water was such an issue. I feel like a moron. After I used the filtered water it only took a couple hours for the split peas to start to really soften after I started cooking them. It was like magic. I feel like I just discovered the cheat code to legume/lentil/dried bean soups. Also, even though nothing went into the soup in the normal order you would do it, it is still so good, all the flavors still incorporated perfectly.
It's the screen you get when your post doesn't go through. So at the top on the left it says "cancel" and on the right it says "reply" (or at other times "send") then it has a little red exclamation point in a red circle and says "Unable to connect. Please check your Internet connection and try again." I know my Internet connection is fine though, it's working for everything else including more intensive Internet connected stuff like streaming music or video. It's super annoying and has been doing it for ~3 days now.
Weather app screenshot showing the weather to be 81° F with a 5mph wind from the North. It feels like 83°F and it's only 62% humidity which actually is fairly dry for here. That's the pertinent data which I was drawing attention to, there's some other data but that's not what I was trying to make people see. As usual if anyone with vision impairments desperately wants to know the rest of the data. All you need do is message me and I'll read out the rest of it for you. It's just not really important that for say tomorrow the average temperature will be 70°F, that's tomorrow and I'm talking about right now. Also, I don't feel like the pressure is all that applicable because I usually only check it in millibars and it is not in that format so I don't even know what it means. It also says "Fair" in one spot and I have no idea what they're even talking about, lol.
I'm sorry that there's no alt text here of the subtitles, every single time that I got close to having any part of them, it literally just deleted them, I honestly felt lucky to get this much without it being deleted. If anyone wants to know what they say, message me, I will write it out for you, I wrote it down by hand so I could reproduce it here, but the app is being a little bitch.
A picture of a white orchid in the shade (sorry I don't know the variety). It has a magenta to red mottled center with just a hint of yellow and the petals are very angular except for the lower central petal which appears almost frilled. The play of Shadow and light in this image is very nice and you can see hints of the green leaves of the plant just behind the flower. The shadow serves to highlight the flower itself, instead of hiding it, I remember standing there for about ten minutes waiting for the light to shift to just the right spot when I took this picture (there are four others almost exactly like it, but this one is the best). There has been no editing whatsoever done to this photo. It is as I took it.
It's hard to describe this picture. It was taken through the bottom of a glass so it doesn't really show anything in particular. It has a sort of lensing effect as you stare down through the glass and then through the heavy bottom of the glass that just creates a sort of swirl of color is the best way I can think of to describe it. It's mostly purple and blue, at the bottom of the glass there are hints of red, pink, orange, yellow, green and a more true blue color. I'm holding the glass up to my TV so that accounts for the variety of color. It would be different if I were outside. For example, there would be more green. You can faintly see the outline of my hand holding the glass, but it's distorted by the glass itself, and whatever liquid remains on the interior and condensation on the exterior. I wish all the blind people could actually see it because I don't think this is a very good description of what it looks like. It's just very hard to describe, it's like looking down a glass tunnel and then through a very thick glass lens, so you can see everything beyond it but it's all distorted in a very pretty way. You can very faintly see the letters "Dal" on the left side, it's a Dalmore Scotch glass that I got with a set many Christmases ago, it came with two glasses but I think I broke one of them, because I only have one now. There's a little tiny squiggle in the glass on the bottom that becomes more visible when you hold it to the light. I'm sure it's a mark from where the glass was formed. It's quite a nice glass to drink Scotch out of. Good shape, heavy bottom so it's hard to knock over, it's a standard kind of lowball glass, I'm quite fond of it. I don't know what else to say about it that would be helpful.
It's an image of a text that reads: Leaving your Voter Profile incomplete is a mistake that could cost us the Majority... Please Verify ASAP: gop-way1.com/ 6ggt3j STOPtoEND Tap to load preview I have never been registered as a republican, I am not part of the GOP, and do not want them to have my information. I'm pretty sure they already do anyway, everyone has my information as I was part of the Experian hack, I think it's been at least a decade now. I can't escape the Experian hack that lost all of my data (has gotten my identity stolen twice now), that I did not even ask them or allow them to collect, that they just collect. Sorry this is not supposed to be a rant about credit rating agencies. Or companies losing my data. I'm just angry about both those things.
From bottom left to a heart shape made of chain to that connects with the watch on the right. A realistically heart shaped locket that holds a tiny vial of my father's ashes, further up on the same silver rope chain (I think it's either 18mm or 20mm in diameter but I've forgotten, it's fairly thick, not delicate, but I should do something about the tarnish). A Japanese coin, it says 50 on the back but the front has pretty flowers and a hole in the center so it just seemed natural to put it on my chain I've been wearing everyday for years. A silver ring in a simple art deco style that my Gran gave me when I was young and she was alive, and my father's gold and stainless steel Rolex, black bezel, black face, classic Rolex arrow and circle styling for the numbers, classic Rolex movement. It's perpetual motion. You just wear it and it never needs a battery. They're like the tank of watches, they're are nicer and more expensive watches, but they're not as durable, and they're cheaper watches but In general they're not as durable. Rolex are durable as fuck, lol. My dad only managed to break one once, and he could break anything. That's all my jewelry. It all means something. It isn't just things I wear for decoration. I wear them because they remind me of things, because they mean something to me. It's nice that they all fit a kind of a silver theme though because I prefer silver to gold, well technically I prefer platinum to gold, but we only get to be so picky, my own Rolex ironically is platinum and stainless, but I still wear my father's most of the time. I need someone to give me earrings that are meaningful, that's all I don't have. My 20th anniversary isn't that far away (<3yrs), maybe that's what I'll ask for. Nothing fancy. Maybe something amethyst or tanzanite to match my fancy 15th anniversary ring, which tbf I rarely wear because the stone is too big and catches on things, lol. My Gran's little silver ring is smooth and never catches on a thing.
Probably should have made mashed potatoes or something but was just really feeling something green, and I had mixed greens for salads going squish in my refrigerator so I cooked them up with some onions and some mini bell peppers. yellow and red. At least the colors are appetizing and the flavor is pretty good, did it with olive oil, lemon juice, dried lemon peel (even a little bit of this adds so much lemon flavor), majorum, and tarragon, and of course a little salt and pepper. You can never forget those. So it's got a really nice herbal acid balance with the veggies. It actually tastes really good, so I'm hoping I can keep it down. Since the last few days that's been my problem and it leaves me with no energy at all to be getting sick. It's gross also, I don't tolerate it very well, even though I've probably done it for nearly as many days in my life as I haven't, lol. Also, while I was writing this, I ate some of the veg and they are quite good. I think they might stay down. I'm very happy. Food doesn't have to be super complicated to taste good. I wouldn't call what I made super complicated just because I put a couple of herbs in it. And I would call that the most complicated part. Just a couple finger pinches of herbs really brought out the flavor in this beautifully.
Sunrise in the background, a little cloudy and the sun coming up is highlighting the clouds and making them look purple and pinkish. bottle brush trees in the low mid-ground, palm trees on the foreground.
It's a long exposure photo so you can see some detail but it's dark. In the lower left side and along the bottom is the partial roofline of my house, above it is sky, it's cloudy, I can't tell what type because it's just total coverage of could, they don't look like cumulus though, maybe cumulonimbus clouds? The color is kind of very dark grey purple. There's a slight glow, but it isn't light from the moon (because it's on the other side of the photo, guess it could be reflection but it's all covered by clouds too), I'm guessing it's light from the Indian casino. The city light mostly comes from other directions. Suppose it could be suburban but it would be more excurban at that point. In the upper right corner stretching down the right side, you can see the branches and limbs from two big gumbo lumbo trees. In the very upper left corner you can see branches from a live oak tree. They're just dark outlines though, they don't have any color, more like dark shadows against a lighter background. The only thing that has any color at all is the sky, and maybe my house which is a different shade of grey. Also, I don't really lie in my hammock much, I sit in it and use it like it's a swing. Just a really comfortable swing with a nice back support. I even pump my legs on it like I'm a kid. It's like a a $40 Costco special camping hammock, It's bright blue. I have it strung up between two palm trees, and I bloody love it.
A modified bar graph showing party affiliation by age and gender. The parties included are Republican, independent, Democrat, other. The first line is 18 to 29-year-old men, 26% a. Republican, 29% are independent, 24% are Democrat, 22% are other. The second line shows 18 to 29-year-old women, 17% are Republican, 29% are independent, 30% are Democrat and 28% are independent. The third line shows 30 to 49-year-old men, 26% are Republican, 29% are independent, 28% are Democrat, 17% are other. The fourth line shows $30 to 49-year-old women, 25% are Republican, 23% are independent, 30% are Democrat, 21% are other. The fifth line shows 50 to 64-year-old men, 37% are Republican, 28% are independent, 25% are Democrat, 10% or other. The sixth line shows 50 to 64-year-old women, 33% are Republican, 22% are independent, 32% are Democrats, 13% or other. The seventh line shows 65-year-old and up men, 36% are Republican 29% are independent. 29% are Democrat, 6% are or other. The 8th and final line shows women 65 years old and up, 34% or Republican, 21% are independent, 38% are Democrat, and 7% or other. The source of the information is the p rri census of American rights 2024.
A picture of an AI image of a book titled "REREL"
An oversized emoji of a smiling crescent moon superimposed over a smiling full moon.
A cracked open coconut. Has the characteristic brown husky type material on the outside and It's cracked open so you can see the flesh.
A vial of injectable hydrocortisone next to two syringes held on my own small hand. They're all empty, because they've been pulled up and used.
Today's sunset from my house. It's framed on the top right and left by coconut trees, and from the side and underneath it's framed by a branch from a gumbo lumbo, a Brazilian cherry (bush?, It's kind of like a small tree actually) and in the distance bottle brush trees, at the very bottom you can just barely see the roofs of houses. The clouds are kind of gray but they also shine in certain places. It almost looks like there's a sun shining out of a cloud in the middle but it's not the Sun, it's a refractory effect, the sun is much lower on the horizon now. You can also see some lovely orange and yellow tones over to the left where the clouds are more diaphanous and blocking less light.
Homemade cream of potato and spinach soup. I sauteed onions, then added the potatoes and milk (the recipe I started with originally called for cream but I didn't have any, I also didn't really follow the recipe, it looked more like one of those things that's ingredients with instructions. So if you already know instructions to make soup, you don't need to follow theirs) and toward the end I dumped a frozen pack of spinach into it, melted it down, and let it come to a boil one more time before turning the burner off and putting the lid on. It's delicious. I seasoned it with salt and pepper, majorum and and thyme, and just a little tarragon for brightness. Oh, and I also used a bit of the McCormick's umami mushroom and onion seasoning that I am currently obsessed with.