Fun fact: kids never DO read the manual! (Mine started getting easier around, oh, 25. And they are amazing superheroes who are some of the best humans I know, and absolutely worth everything it took to get them there.)
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Fun fact: kids never DO read the manual! (Mine started getting easier around, oh, 25. And they are amazing superheroes who are some of the best humans I know, and absolutely worth everything it took to get them there.)
When the canary in the coal mine kicks, you don’t shrug, keep working, and put in an order on Amazon Prime for more vulnerable birds. You get the fuck out of the mine, and work on fixing whatever the issue so that it’s safe for canaries.
That we would end up with Trump setting himself up as a dictator for life with the blessing of conservatives was clear as far back as 2021.
Genocide. We all need to keep collectively calling it exactly what it is. Especially us cis folks. When they’re done gunning for the most vulnerable groups they’ll just go after the next most vulnerable and won’t stop because they never stop. Thats what hatred is. It’s Genocide, plain and simple.
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
I think you may be looking at a foster fail with him and Chicory; he's really let down his barriers to establish trust with you!
Oh it was! People who aren't taught critical thinking skills and who are uneducated in terms of history, scientific reasoning, etc. are MUCH MUCH easier to manipulate. That's why the GOP / the evangelical right have had a grassroots effort to eliminate teaching those things for several decades now.
Heading to bed. Hoping we all wake up to the very best news tomorrow. Like better than we ever dreamed possible. Just The Best News. Goodnight.
It's "extravagant" the way good boots are - you're spending money to make things cheaper.
I just showed this to my husband and his eyes lit up! Looks like we'll be getting one too. :-D
The Loopy Whisk is my go-to for gluten free baking recipes!
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It's definitely worthwhile to stay on top of your pain management; you'll actually heal faster as well as being able to rest better etc.
Blocked and reported! Imagine having to live inside a skull filled with that much poison.
I'm kind of assuming he ran off with Laura Loomer for the weekend, but that's not going to stop me from coming up with wishful daydreams.
I’m just practicing the lyrics to “yub nub” in case it turns out to be true
Yeah but I'd be shocked if you don't end up breaking the news anyway, mid-shitpost.
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Devil takes Trump to keep. If he should die before I wake, I hope the timeline celebrates. Manifesting. ✨
It looks like that was PM, not AM... but we don't know that he ever *stopped*.
And if you have spare spoons and the people around you don’t because they’re ill or have a new baby or trying to survive grad school or anything that’s making them short on time? Chopping an extra zucchini doesn’t take much effort and doesn’t cost much. Talk to your people. Help where you can.
So, just saying, now would be a really good time to buy frozen produce and preserve fresh produce when you find it on sale. Blanch and freeze brassicas and roots; dice & freeze squashes, dry/can/sauce/freeze tomatoes; can/freeze fruit. Chop & freeze onions, celery, peppers, parsley, cilantro.
Vance wouldn't need to do anything, though. Anyone *else* would need to.
I frame it in the old Soviet joke Every day shopkeep sees man run up, look at front of paper, then scurry off Finally stops him and says "comrade every day you do this. What are you doing?" "looking for an obituary" "but those are on page 8" "not the one I'm looking for"
Basically a lot of people trying to figure out the shape of the negative space, as far as I can tell. Plus maybe all the powerball daydreaming is spilling over?
Just folks trying to figure out what the shape of the negative space is, really.
Keep in mind, if he does, Vance will not be able to contain himself and we'll hear about it probably 5 seconds later.
Seems bad
If it happens Vance will be crowing all over the place. He'll only be able to keep it secret for like 5 seconds. We'll know.
40) Some people are online and in your face explicitly to waste your time. Learn to recognize and ignore them.
May I suggest @coyotewallace.bsky.social who has been taking JD Vance to the Appalachian woodshed in the most glorious way?
And here’s where to search: publicrecords.copyright.gov
After the first five versions they start selling the opportunity to ghost write additional versions to their coworkers. Then their family. Then their friends. Then strangers on the internet.
BOOM. The federal appeals court rules Trump's tariffs illegal, because they are. There's no national emergency, and so the power to tariff a country rests with Congress. Trump admin has lost at every stage of the process, but stay tuned for the Supremes to chime in.
“The CDC you knew is over,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis told me today. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
I've been getting the feeling that what he's been doing is the kind of posturing and shit-stirring you see in professional wrestling. Especially after that 90-minute phone call with Trump; it feels like they're coordinating with each other, which seems incredibly gross.
May I suggest Squirrel Terror by @lilithsaintcrow.com? That's my go-to book when the world is overwhelmingly stupid. Just, uh... pee before reading.
Or a Subaru wagon - those last forever!
Guess you have to upgrade your equipment now or something. 😉
Honey as one white woman to another, please remember that there's a reason you have two ears and only one mouth, and STFU before someone sets up a take-a-number machine next to you for lights-punching purposes. Also? Imani's right.
I'm honestly fine with *anyone* trolling Trump, even if it's just professional wrestling type performance. It doesn't change the fact that Newsom sucks ad a human being and also as a governor for anyone who's at all vulnerable.
And yersinia causes plague, including the Black Death!
Fairfax and Arlington schools sued the Trump administration today over its anti-trans funding threat policies and actions. The @washingtonpost.com broke this news but was apparently unable to link to the lawsuit. Here is the Fairfax complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I love these books!
THIS is what happens when only Democratic AGs have the guts to take on the Trump administration. Republican AGs are too cowardly to fight back, and the people they’re supposed to serve will end up paying the price.
The other day, our rescue’s only car died. Because it also doubled as my personal vehicle, I struggled with the decision to ask for donations to replace it. But the fact is we need a car to function. No rescues, vet appointments, adoptions, NOTHING can happen without a car. donorbox.org/crits4cats
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When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault
Hey lawsky, is this usable in ongoing and future court cases as evidence that Tesla lies in court? And is someone on Tesla's legal or engineering team possibly in trouble for perjury?
They literally want to reduce the population of the planet by several billion, and don't particularly care who that includes as long as it mostly isn't them.
It's probably people being really happy that they're professional level paints. It might be that the paints granulate, though some of us like that!
And people think there's no way Vance would manage to hold the Presidency if/when Trump kicks off. I feel QUITE certain Thiel has entire books worth of plans for what he'll do.
Can you somehow set your computer to play a loud alarm when it's done?
if you too would like your very own, never-before-posted cat photo, call your reps tonight — tell them enough is enough, and that RFK must go. just post your call history in the thread as proof :)
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
Oh no
This might be the greatest speech from a living politician I've personally heard youtu.be/Q04p3OJdhpU?...
Good question! Here’s the spot!
There's a semi-controlling portion of the GOP and the machine behind it who are working to significantly reduce the world population. Not *them* of course, but their definition of acceptable methods and acceptable damage is REALLY broad.
Got interviewed by @marisakabas.bsky.social, check it out!
Here's where to do it. bsky.app/profile/chri...
Reuters repeating a falsehood here. Most of this money was already granted to intel under the chips act passed by Biden. The rest under other pre-Trump programs
This effort involves 9 Senators and 50 Reps. I'm sure certain pundits will claim in 4 months time it never happened.
Okay, but... "dreams of being a Silicon Valley techbro" doesn't on the face of it sound like a great qualification, particularly these days. What kind of human being is he?
I think this debate is really welcome. Two things I haven't seen. First, there is a VERY high likelihood of multiple predictable catastrophes: financial, health, extreme weather, supply chain. What happens when those catastrophes hit? In both 2008 and 2020, the GOP needed Dems to bail them out.
Completely aside from how insulting it is, it's objectively a terrible impression of you. That's not how you talk!
I don't like things super hot but I'm grateful I only need to avoid gluten and soy and can manage most nightshades. My life would be so sad if I couldn't eat the tomatoes I grow!
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
First the people who can actually do something have to recognize and acknowledge that something needs to be done and they're going to have to do it.
Umm... That's going to be painful hyena like delivery.
🎼 I am the very model of a modern web administrator I’ve driven off the hackers, spammers, various discriminators I know the law in several states, and battles all historical, The basement trolls, the Russian state, the ins and outs rhetorical 🎵
Covid brain damage is a very real thing, and a whole lot of people haven't really figured out yet that their brains aren't working like they used to.
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
So, uh, guess who has a non-zero number of thumbs and is #9 on the NYT bestseller list? www.nytimes.com/books/best-s...
Tor just straight up didn't register the copyright for two of our books, even though they were contractually obligated to do so. One day I will FULLY describe that shit show. But not today.
IIRC, with photographs you can register a whole lot of them for a single fee if you send them all in at the same time. Is there something similar for books?
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Jernigan is big. That's a ton of institutional knowledge.
Black Panther resurgence in 3.. 2..
🫂 I'm so sorry
Occasionally I post an invitation for people with crowdfunding appeals to put them in the comments of a post, and guess what: This is that occasion! If you have (or know someone who has) a crowdfunding appeal, share it here. Everyone else, check them out and it feels right to you, give a little.
EXCLUSIVE: The new CDC director is being ousted weeks into the job. @lenasun.bsky.social @ddiamond.bsky.social report www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification:
You cannot fight fascism by supporting "only some" fascist policies. Nor can you fight fascism by going along with sacrificing "only some" vulnerable people. That's actually kind of the opposite of fighting fascism.
FDA is authorizing anybody with a risk factor from this list to receive the vaccines, as well as anybody 65+.
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
Reup: One thing many are missing abt Social Security whistleblower complaint is this: DOGE--including Big Balls, who has ties to criminal hackers--put ALL American Social Security data on an insecure AWS site AFTER SCOTUS GOPers intervened and let them do that. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
Periodic quest for assistance: at work, we use CircleCI & CMake for our macOS product, I would like to be able to use fastlane to manage certificates & profiles, but this is *just* enough out of the box that I can't figure it out, and could use help. I'm willing to pay some small amounts for help.
Hey I named our black polydactyl cat Hex, and he's *incredibly* sweet and one of the best cats I've ever known. I'm sure everything will be fine for Shiva and her babies!
Welp. That's a WHOLE lot of people who are going to find out that the rabies vaccine HURTS.
Anthropic has settled its lawsuit with authors who sued it for downloading 7 million pirated books from LibGen & PiLiMi to train their AI. Since Anthropic was facing damages up to $150K per book, they had no choice but to settle what was essentially an open and shut case.
Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast
The Overton window has shifted so far that this Huffpo headline is now about Democratic voters.
If he does I bet he'll run into @wilwheaton.net and the entire internet will squeee.
BABY!
OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...
I know multiple Gen X men who are utterly convinced that the women who abused them when they were children were doing them a favor.
He pretends to be a reporter but pretty much everything he posts is about how people can buy the merch.