Pearl, watching out for yellow butterflies

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TIL –

“Glurge” refers to stories, often shared via email or online, that are purportedly true and uplifting but are actually fabricated and sentimental. The word imitates the retching or feeling of revulsion that these stories can evoke, as they are often overly saccharine and manipulative.

Day 20,538

We had a lovely morning – the weather was nice, so we grabbed bagel breakfast sandwiches and then walked by the river a little, and read books next to the water for a bit before coming back home.

Upon returning home, we sat on the back porch, and read a bit more. Can’t beat that.

According to the USDA, approximately 80 percent of the world’s flowering plants require pollinators to eproduce, including three-quarters of agricultural crops.

A 2021 study on nocturnal pollinators that was conducted by the University of kansas led researcher Stephen Robertson to call moths “unsung heroes of polination,” indicating that, as an under-studied group, moths could potentially beat out butterflies and bees in pollinator importance globally.

But just as we’re discovering how important moths are, they’re disappearing.

My favorite bread recipe has four ingredients.

Water. Flour. Salt. Yeast.

When the loaf is ready, I often think, “this seems like magic.”

Then I recall, of course simple things produce magic.

I have internalized too much of the marketing fiction that worth requires complexity.

RFK: “Autism is a preventable disease.”

Diseases are something you get, autism is a neurodevelopmental condition and a natural variation of the human genome that you are born with.

Autistic people are not broken. Autistic people are not damanged.

Autism is not preventable. Autism is not curable.

You know what is a preventable disease?

Measles.