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  1. Covering 2010-2020ish, this caught me up on a lot of the struggle I had been oblivious to before 2016 and been distrusting of various sources since. Pretty remarkable work. Bevin succeeds, to me, at detailing the process and outcomes of what seem to have been predominantly anarchist movements he’s sympathetic to.

    Cover of If We Burn

  2. Afternoon Walk

    A three and three quarters mile (six kilometer), 459 foot (140 meter) elevation walk over two and a half hours, (one and a quarter hours moving) in San Francisco, California. About 7400 steps.

  3. we have potted plans from at least three friends who left SF (and CA, it turns out), and one is an orchid that I never figured out how to do much with beyond keep alive for two years.

    so we asked at the garden center and they suggested orchid food (sticks and spray) and sure enough, when fed, the primary sprout poked back up and grew 12" or so in the past few months and now we’ve got maybe four flowers to look forward to.

    idk if/how we could have helped the first four buds which died off.

    photograph of our orchid in an white orchid pot (holes in the side in a cross pattern, with set in a dish so that you can’t over-water it) on our credenza next to a red/green prayer plant, in front of a very light pink wall. A few large green leaves spill over the pot and one long trunk clipped to a stick in two places rises 12” before bending over at 90” on a gradual arc. At the top and end are four buds, the one furthest from the tip being the oldest and largest nearing half an inch in diameter and the others smaller and younger in diminishing size

    top down photo of the same orchid plant and buds, macro on the buds where you can now see that there were three or four earlier buds which withered away and left nothing on the plant but a brown tip like a broken-off branch.