This one's for you my dear.

Russian text:
this one's for you my dear.

RantWoman texted the image above to several people before it occurred to her to enlarge and check for the existence of text in the image. Then RantWoman misread a key word and offered a mistranslation. And here we are: Lovely irises. A vivid butterfly, and ...

Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, someone offered Volodomyr Zelensky safe transport out of Ukraine. His response, basically "Nuts. I ask you for ammunition and you offer me a ride."

During the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol, members of the Secret Service kept urging then Vice President Mike Pence to get into his limousine and he wouldn't do it.

RantWoman is receiving the following RadioLab item The Right Stuff in approximately the same spirit. 

Besides being severely charm-challenged, perhaps RantWoman's imagination has just gone AWOL. Either way, RantWoman is not finding herself interested in people with disabilities going into space because that is coming off to RantWoman like "get the pesky people with disabilities off to space so we don't have to talk about realities on earth. 

Some people cannot ride the city bus without pain. People with some conditions (speculating, like RantWoman) could easily clobber what is left of key functionality just pulling extra G's during the launch process. So unless you have a tractor beam or a transporter, miss me please with "Gee whiz, people with disabilities in space!"

There is something in the irises RantWoman is trying to keep like beauty springing from many things well-composted. Since the right words have not emerged, please hold in the Light.

Just to remind ourselves of the creepy times we live in but only tangentially connected with the above:

 Ruben Gallegos on coups