thinking once again about one of the all-time great newspaper mixups, when Dennis the Menace and The Far Side got their captions swapped
thinking once again about one of the all-time great newspaper mixups, when Dennis the Menace and The Far Side got their captions swapped
This is Peter btw (my big spider plant). He’s a little droopy rn cause I just repotted him. He was my very first houseplant, I propagated him myself when I was about 14.
I do have a big spider plant, but he’s just basic and not variegated (I still love him though).
One of my coworkers gave me some baby spider plants. I’m so excited, they are variegated and curly.
Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death. But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.
2. Today, Washington Bureau Chief Eric Michael Garcia at The Independent uncovered provisions in the newly released HHS approps bill that would bar federal funding for gender-affirming care nationwide. Our further analysis also shows a sports ban tied to funding and other provisions in the bill.
With the thicker veins on her wings I’d say that’s a queen.
I saw a lot of people saying this was going to happen when Roe v. Wade was overturned, and now it is. That ruling was about medical privacy, not just abortion.
Patient identities. Addresses. Medical bills. Private emails and texts. Even social security numbers. Demanding sensitive information has NOTHING to do with protecting families and EVERYTHING to do with targeting our trans community. This is invasive government overreach at its finest.
Confederate statues are “history” but a rainbow crosswalk dedicated to victims of a mass shooting is “political.”
It's so pleasant to be able to scroll on here and not endure a barrage of targeted ads 😵💫
Beautiful, my grandmother used to take care of monarchs every year, but we haven’t seen any this year. Looks like you’ve got a female monarch, if you have any milkweed around keep an eye out for little monarch caterpillars. They’re so cute when they’re this tiny.
1. Earlier this year, Trump erased transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument webpage, digitally burning the history we helped create. Now, he's doing the same to bisexual people. No marginalized group will be safe from the admin's moving targets. Subscribe to support our journalism.
1. Stonewall National Monument took down trans flags and progress pride flags, opting only to fly the rainbow pride flag. It erases the trans people who led the Stonewall uprising. Thankfully, New Yorkers have been bringing their own and planting them. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Do NOT call the number below to report aliens but you should retweet it, skeet it, whatever, you know the drill, so others know not to call either. Seriously, what if you travelled millions of light years only to be ratted out by some toad online ?
The reason you aren’t supposed to do this is because the coins could potentially cause the train to derail (especially if theres more of them on the tracks)
The RFK Jr. version of health, where health creates health and healthy people don't get sick and the thing that keeps you healthy is /living the right way/ is very seductive to a lot of people. It also places the burden of illness back on the ill, which decreases the value of human life.
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"Oh I don't need NOAA weather stuff, I have an app!" Where does that data come from? People rely on federal scientific data. For food recalls, disease updates. Weather. Even when they think they don't. And the people who make that data are losing their jobs. www.npr.org/2025/05/06/n...
Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight
Lutnick is a stooge. They all are. They're reducing outlays while increasing taxes through tariffs. In the end they'll embezzle the surplus and add to the deficit. It's a blatant scam and there's no way these clowns don't know it. They just in it for themselves.
I have a hammock chair like that and my pup, Sadie, loves it. I’ve never seen another dog who actually likes hammocks.
This is outrageous
If you are in Montana and your rep voted against these bills, message and thank them. It’s one of the best things you can do.
Tesla loses 1/3 of it's value in 30 days. We can ruin these bastads if we just all stick together. Cut down our last few remaining forests - fuck that.
Thank you to everyone that reached out to their members of Congress to support trans people having the equal opportunity to participate in sports. Thank you to the members of Congress that stood together to defeat this anti-LGBTQ bill.
I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!
Today in history, Feb. 27, 1933: the Reichstag fire allowed Adolph Hitler to quickly dismantle democratic institutions in Germany. By blaming the communists and creating anti-left hysteria, he gained emergency powers, suspending most civil liberties including habeas corpus and freedom of the press.
Buy art from an artist instead of an AI painting from Hobby lobby. Get a book from an Indie bookstore instead of Amazon. Trade with the neighbor who has chickens instead of going to Walmart.
Something to remind you It's a world worth saving
It's can't be all doom and gloom. There is Resistance and that Resistance is working Tesla stock is down 30% in this last month. The economic boycotts have begun news.yahoo.com/economic-bla...
Hey everyone -- Moms of Liberty and Dept of Education launched a snitch line portal today to rat out teachers and anyone promoting anything DEI. FLOOD THE PORTAL Spam the hell out of it. Pass it on! It works! enddei.ed.gov
“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired. This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all. Subscribe to support my journalism.
Scammers pretending to be the USPS is really common. Here’s how you can check! Enjoy the roast of a dummy scammer!
1. We are seeing a massive amount of overcompliance with Trump EOs. Nonprofits across the board are erasing transgender people from their websites. Mira Lazine reports on several that have made the decision to do so in her latest piece. Subscribe to support our journalism.
ALERT! It just broke that tomorrow, the Senate will attempt a procedural vote on a transgender sports ban. It will take 7 Democrats breaking rank in order to have enough votes to pass cloture. Democrats held very strong in the House and only lost two votes. CALL YOUR DEMS! (info in next post)
To answer some quick questions about my latest story: - It does not apply to the Visa Waiver Program as far as I can see - It does not impact American citizens - The ban exclusively impacts transgender foreigners seeking visas in the United States - It is far more extensive than reported elsewhere
This is Zero. She's the world's first herding dog with a work-from-home gig. 14/10
Looks like another protest heading for Stonewall this Saturday, likely even bigger than the one last week.
Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.
Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.
New Yorkers showed up today at a protest planned in less than 24 hours to speak out against the Trump administrations’s removal of transgender and queer people from the Stonewall National Monument website.
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1. On Friday, protests erupted at Stonewall National Monument, the historic site of the Stonewall uprisings that ignited the modern gay rights movement, in response to the National Park Service removing transgender people from the Stonewall Website. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Who would win? One Czech Republic or 8 beavers? I really thought a country could build a dam before adorable rodents but I was oh so wrong. Here’s the weird current event news about how a government lost to animals.
Not to flex but this is what nonstop hard work and grinding will get you
1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!
You're a result of a whole bunch of really lucky accidents, I hope you feel loved and special! Here's how Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in the weirdest way which saved millions of lives!
Looks like a milkweed leaf beetle. As far as I can tell they’re native.
The far side of the moon, illuminated by the sun, as it crosses between the DISCOVR spacecraft's camera and the Earth - one million miles away. 🔭 🧪
My instinct is to make the case that USAID is extremely good, actually. But I feel like it’s more important to say, “What is happening is antagonistic to the foundational document of the nation.”
This plaque in Prague has been rubbed to a shiny gold because for centuries, passersby have touched the dog for good luck, and also to reassure him that he's a very good boy. 14/10
This administration has removed LGBTQ pages and vital sources of LGBTQ data, but they cannot erase LGBTQ people. Two data pages you can always count on are GLAAD's research hub (glaad.org/research/) and ALERT Desk (glaad.org/alert-desk). Comment below to share your favorite LGBTQ research sites.📊
This is how we stand together and resist any anti-LGBTQ and anti-American policies that are forced upon us.
An old friend of mine did this. She was engaged to a guy she had been with for, I think, 5 years. She posted about it everywhere, then suddenly a few months later she was dating someone else, and never mentioned anything about her ex.
my favorite fact about spiders is that they actually have ten legs. those little things on the front of their mouths are tiny vestigal legs! follow me for more spider facts
"The woke M&Ms have returned. The green M&M got her boots back but apparently is now a lesbian maybe? And there's also a plus-sized, obese, purple M&M. So we're gonna cover that...of course...because that's what we do."
This is just too good not to share. 🤷♀️🤣 Bluesky only lets you upload 1 minute so I cut this in two posts! #elonmusk
In fairness, “you can make millions of individual molecules but there are 13 that you need but can’t make so let’s outsource their production to plants. Also, it’s actually 12…you can make one of the vitamins…as long as the sun’s rays touch your skin like you yourself are a plant” does sound fake.
People on TikTok are reporting ICE raids happening in small cities in various states. To get past algorithmic censorship, they’re writing down the information on paper and holding up and shuffling through the handwritten signs as they talk about pretend subjects like shopping, food, and animals.
Oh, you can’t pay? Well, I do accept… OTHER forms of payment 😏 …like sharks teeth and small bird eggshells, though primarily I’m looking for a real nice geode to cut into if you’ve got one
We also say “Second World War” (at least they did when teaching about it in school) but WWII is much shorter to type.
The biggest problem is really reading comprehension, which affects other sources like podcasts too. So anything they hear just goes in one ear and out the other.
This is one of those things I've been meaning to learn how to do but just haven't yet
Remember that you will not get to fight evil. You will not be faced with people you *can* fight. You will be faced with bureaucracy and people who tell you they’re just doing their job. Your fight will not be good vs evil, it will be doing good vs doing nothing because it’s easier.
"It's basic biology we all learned in elementary school!" When I was 10, I very confidently knew the following scientific facts: 1) Pluto was a planet 2) moss was a plant 3) dinosaurs were cold-blooded, featherless reptiles "basic science" is a good starting point, not an ending one.
My puppy playing in the snow yesterday.
I love when the light does this
Orwellian.
I have a feeling someone may need this today. This is a time that will try all our souls. We must let our friends & family know we see them, we value them & we will stand up to protect everyone’s right to be themselves.
Beautiful, it kinda looks like a little snail
I'm so old, I can remember when saying "You know, Nazis are bad" was a fairly uncontroversial statement.
ACT UP, 1990
No idea, he just gets in a mood sometimes and makes it everyone’s problem.
This is so strange to me, cause I think that weather is about the only thing Fahrenheit is actually good for.
WTF?!
My dad (big maga fan) was in such a pissy mood today too, apparently nobody’s actually happy.
I have had an uneasy feeling about the cycle of TikTok leaving + then coming back today. Then I realized, the cycle the past week has felt VERY similar to what I experienced in a past abusive relationship... It's a cycle of deprivation, uncertainty, + managed control to manipulate people.
I had a friend who as a joke would push me into the street then pull me back and say “saved your life!” I never found it funny at all Anyway, TikTok is back
Here's why it would be a mistake to do anything that resists fascists, By Some Fascist
Garlic in my cooking and vanilla extract in my baking share one guiding principle: I add them with wild abandon, defying the recipe with a mix of audacity and playful disdain.
It’s just so important to have an algorithm heavy social media site designed to destroy America and drive everyone to madness while stealing all our information owned and operated by an American company because they’re more effective at it you know
Tiktok or Vine?
Whale fact: whales are not capable of sin because sin is not real and they are whales
ok but how am i supposed to fall asleep without watching one or two hundred 20 second videos
The best way to know if an author or artist you love is secretly a terrible person is... you can't. There are no magic tricks here. Awful people who successfully manage to be awful for years are good at hiding the fact they are awful. All the average person can do is deal on a case by case basis