but just looking and seeing some truly cosmic stuff in front of your unassisted eyes hits different.
It's so true. I've gotten to see them before, way up Maine, but not as brightly as this evening and it was breathtaking. Our whole dead end street was all out at the same time, we could hear each other marveling at it all
I'm so glad you got to catch it this time!
From my wife's coworker who lives nearby:
[Image description: the Aurora borealis painted the night sky with streaks of red, purple, and green all the way down to the 43rd parallel this evening]
Tbh I'm fine missing out on it if it's as dismissive as the reply to @alyaza's direct firsthand experiences working with a local politician who faced issues campaigning which are completely germane to this conversation.
That's fantastic! When did you make it, in relation to that workshop you went to? Seriously, your yard makeover plans deserve their own post 
that's great! Our cat kills windowsill plants so you're way ahead of me there.
Keep in mind that I'm incredibly fortunate to have space in an agricultural district of a rural town and have neighbors who have years' worth of gardening experience and collected plants that they've shared with me
They’ve had the power several times over the last 16 years to make life better for the working class and the poor, and they seem to always elect to protect and promote the lives of the billionaire class.
Someone took the time to politely correct this misconception a few days ago, their reply from then is pasted below:
In the past you have stated that the Democrats had control of Congress and the presidency under Biden and Obama, yet they were unable to do things like get a public option in the ACA or codify roe v Wade. However this continues to be a misunderstanding of the situation.
While I can agree I am disappointed in the inability to get these things done, and Obama saying it was no longer a priority, I don’t see how you can pin this all on the Democrats as some kind of monolithic entity.
The fact of the matter is during Obama’s terms, there were anti abortion Democrats. These Democrats were enough to keep abortion access out of the ACA and prevent roe being codified.
Fast forward to Bidens terms, and we now have a filibuster rule that requires 60 senators in order to pass stuff in the Senate. There were not 60 senators who supported roe codification when the Democrats “controlled” the Senate.
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The fact that there are still anti choice democrats in our legislatures is a failing on the part of all the left-leaning voters in their districts and states (myself included) to organize and replace them with people who will advocate and vote for our policy goals. Alternative parties could capitalize on those races by representing the wants of those left leaning voters in off election years but choose not to.
I, and many others, do not blame other parties when the dems shoot themselves in the foot, we blame the dems for their poor decisions. Likewise, we blame the green party for running a quadrennial grift on the disaffected leftists who know enough to be upset but who wrongly believe the extent of their voting power is only this one race.
Most local candidates have to work to live, and making outlandish statements to these effects weaken a person's rhetorical standing. From the article you posted:
While they have little infrastructure in the county, within the last decade, Madison has nevertheless elected 10 Green candidates to different sorts of local office, more than almost any other city of its size in the nation.
Across the country, the Green Party barely has a footprint. It has little money or political organization, no members of Congress or statewide officeholders and just a few local ones. Every four years, though, the Greens run a candidate for president
In fact, they’ve [the Greens] pursued the opposite tack — they’ve directed efforts toward close battleground states where the party is sure to get more attention.
The Green party could clean house in Maine where we've actually got Ranked Choice Voting and they could win seats, but we're not a swing state and the greens don't act like they're interested. Neither does the Socialist party, or SocDems for that matter. But I do see their campaigning in battleground states, promising things out of their presidential candidates that are squarely the purview of congress, in which they're clearly not interested in having representation.
Being frank, the Green Party and Socialist Party do so little organizing when it's not a presidential election year that it ought to be a joke among all leftists. They aren't doing the outreach or work necessary to implement any of their grand promises made every four years, because they're not getting local party members elected in downballot races. I've been on both party's mailing lists for 22 years and in three different states and have almost never seen anything come of it. Well... besides fundraising emails every four years.
[Image description: text which says "You're a 10 but it's on the pH scale". Underneath is a picture of a woman whose face suggests she is dropping hard truths. OP has since learned that this is a character from a show saying "You're basic" and that the post is accidentally self-referential]
[Image description: small black seeds attached to white fluff have taken the place of the purple flowers that adorned this Sweet Joe Pye Weed]
I'm out collecting seeds from some Sweet Joe Pye Weed (Eutrochium purpureum) with our newborn in a wrap, rockin' that Kuato vibe pretty hard.
If you haven't yet, pop over to this pinned thread to shout out a nursery that you've had a good experience with, possibly even one that's local to your area.
What's growing on with you all?
[Image description: a three-panel meme with text. The first panel shows a person marked "caterpillars" asking "Hey, why'd you plant all these native plants for us?" In the second panel the person marked "me" replies "I want to feed the baby birds". The third panel has no text but shows the person marked "caterpillars" looking at me with surprise and alarm.]
[Image description: a four panel meme of fictional character Poison Ivy dancing, science-ing, and smiling with a beaker in hand. In the middle of the image is text that reads "POV: When I successfully propagate those expensive cuttings"]
[Image description: a half-inch long caterpillar takes a break and enjoys the breeze on the tip of my big toe]
It looks similar to Galgula partita, the Wedgling Moth (at least to me)
The newly listed company warned in its initial public offering (IPO) paperwork that its unique approach to content moderation can sometimes subject it to disruptions like in 2023, when several moderators protested against its decision to charge third-party app developers
I seem to recall over 8000 subs going dark but sure, just a handful of people protested.
"As a result of this criminal act, Amazon's license to operate within the U.S. has been suspended until executives can provide the communications they were legally ordered to preserve," said an FTC spokesperson while smiling wryly in my fever dream where laws matter.
Did they talk to you about solarizing next spring using tarps? Given what I know about your rough geography, that might cut down on your time between weed seed germination and die off. In the meantime, check with the pet store you're a regular at and ask after their pallet slips for your cardboard sourcing. Because their use might be on food bearing pallets, they have stricter rules than other shipping box cardboard and also don't have flaps to worry about overlapping.