suenitos.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." — Terry Pratchett 🌱📷

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Monochrome Monday. 📷

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." — Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Yancey, Jan. 6, 1816. 📷🌱

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Speaking of trees: This time of year you can see why Spanish-speakers call the Royal Poinciana the "Flamboyán." As Merili McCoy, a late champion of our rich canopy, said, "When Royal Poincianas are in bloom, the island looks like it is on fire." 📷🌱

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

little tree... put up your little arms... every finger shall have its ring and there won't be a single place dark or unhappy.... — e.e. cummings 📷🌱

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"The idea that we can enjoy the benefits of society while owing nothing in return, not even a minor sacrifice, is literally infantile. Only children owe nothing." — Sebastian Junger 📷🌱

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I've been a regular donor to RAINN for years. Complying in advance means I won't be doing that any more.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Is it legal to say, write or even read this in America anymore?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

These big, bold fellas, 4 inches across, are now punching up the porch. I figured it was time for a colorburst. 📷🌱

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

So much winning you can't believe it.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

"As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practice or neglect to practice the primary duties of justice and humanity." — William Henry Seward (1801-1872) 📷🌱

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Poor choice, Jim. History says you get a pardon if it's a noose.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Brought to you by the letter S, as in slither or shameless, to mark a trip though countries that murdered an American journalist, prosper through slavery and bankroll terrorists. 📷🌱

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” — Woodrow Wilson 📷🌱

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

#tbt: Once, on the very fauncy Atlanta Garden Tour, we visited the home of Ryan Gainey, horticulturist to the elite. A big dandelion grew in one otherwise impeccably sculpted parterre. "I like to f*ck with people's heads," he said. 🌱

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

All in favor of nature, raise a leaf. 🌱📷

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." — Dante Alighieri 🌱📷

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Politico says Chief Justice John Roberts just told a group at Georgetown U. that the rule of law is "endangered." In other news, a mugger complained about stubborn stains a victim left on his shirt cuff.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I'm rotating the orchids by the door, and these, with the slightest blush of pink, are great as the tall kids in the choir. 🌱📷

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are possible.” — Thomas à Kempis 🌱📷

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Tufted coverlet: Viewed from underneath, the decorations are coming along nicely up there. 🌱📷

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"The fish never discovers that it lives in the water. In fact, since he lives immersed in it, his life goes by without noticing its existence. Similarly, behavior that is normalized in a dominant cultural setting becomes invisible." — Michel Foucault 🌱📷

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Haitian? Um, you mean Black? Regrèt, men non. Venezuelan, Mexican, Cuban, Ecuadorian and other... Brown? Cuidado con los matones. But look at all these pretty people. They're so... white they almost glow!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Monochrome Monday. 🌱📷

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

"If you view religion as necessary for ethics, you reduce us to the ethical level of four-year-olds. 'If you follow these commandments you'll go to heaven; if you don't you'll burn in hell' is just a spectacular version of the carrots and sticks with which you raise your children." — Susan Neiman 🌱📷

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Vast corruption. A new report from Public Citizen finds that, as Elon Musk reportedly prepares to step back from his governmental role, he has had a direct business interest in over 70 percent of the agencies and departments targeted by DOGE since its inception. www.citizen.org/news/new-rep...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Vultures.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

One for Mom, who killed them with kindness, and by the dozens. 🌱📷

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." — Howard Zinn 🌱📷

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Berberis aquifolium / Mahonia à feuilles de houx / famille Berberidaceae #FlowersOnFriday .

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

New Bond gonna be from Chicago too.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Quack, said the duck.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Much of my old home Chicago appears to be nearing the Six Degrees Singularity on Facebook

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

When a pygmy date palm feels fruitful, it gets fancy. 🌱📷

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' " — Mary Anne Radmacher 🌱📷

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

This is how to fight these folks. You do everything you could have always legally done, but didn't because we were "better than" that. The only "better than" that counts in this fight is the win/loss column.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

A Black woman. Next question?

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Backlit at dusk, it had touches of russet that didn't quite register. You'll have to trust me on that one. 🌱📷

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

"Once a government is committed to silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." — Harry S Truman 🌱📷