@ai6yr A building next to mine had a pile of tumbleweeds 10 feet high and the entire length of the wall. Every single truck/SUV had tumbleweeds caught underneath it, and any truck with a snowplow attachment now looked like it had been plowing thorns. Going outside without being armored in a car meant risking being hit in the face with a thorn bush.
@ai6yr Yes, it's interesting that tumbleweeds are a staple of the "Western frontier" look, when they didn't get here until 1873. They are, rather, a staple of the "Western frontier as seen through Hollywood lenses."
Bryce is a magical, unusual, fascinating place. May the artwork take you to this unique landscape, where you can immerse yourself in its beauty, wildness, and silence.
There's a law working its way through the legislature of #Utah that's calling for a study of how to track the purchases people make with cash. It's wanted because apparently the government already tracks purchases with cards and they want to expand their surveillance powers.
On those early days of spring, when the sun chases away the snow and invites the grass to burst forth, green and new, I want to be out in the middle of it. But with a windbreaker, because that breeze is biting!
My parents are on vacation at a bison ranch in #Utah & discovered there is 0 alcohol sold anywhere in the region. The ranch owner buys some out of state once in a while... 😳
And now I totally get where this anti-progressive fear of liberal social policy is coming from... the US has entire states that are still afraid of alcohol. 🤣 No wonder rainbow flags put them into convulsions.
A Randomized Double Blind Placebo Control Trial to Determine the Effects of Oxaloacetate on Improving Fatigue in Long COVID
Compensation: "Eligible participants will be compensated $50 for each in-person visit. At the end of the study, participants will be provided with a 45-day trial of oxaloacetate if they are interested"
"The mom said her daughter hates the attention and is 'just trying to be a normal kid.' But it’s hurt her to have her body judged and picked apart by adult.
"'She’s hanging in there,' van der Beek said. 'But she feels like she can’t be herself in her own skin.'"
Ok, #Utah. Take that empathy for a cis girl and apply it to all kids including trans kids.
Yes, there are only a handful who want to play sports, but they, like this girl, are just "trying to be normal kids."
Feeling like they can't be themselves in their own skin is what they are also feeling with gender dysphoria. They deserve the same empathy and understanding.
Stop it with the hate. Tell #utgop you want those #hate laws against trans people removed. Tell #utpol to remove them now.
Yikes 😬
The wolf is at the door now. We are at that point in time.
Via: Utah Library Association
6:12 PM · Feb 3, 2024
"If you are a Utahn concerned about ongoing threats to librarians and teachers, and book-banning, go to Let Utah Read to learn more about the issues and how you can help."
Oh, did I say this country is at the book-banning stage? I meant the book-burning stage. It's not even randos--but an elected official. She flamethrowered library books in her mama's yard. (Because they were books for gay teens.)