Dude, you've got something stuck in your teeth
Hot damn! It's the Soggy Bottom Boys!
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Dude, you've got something stuck in your teeth
I've tried to keep the records of my time in the trenches because I know *I'm* getting it scrambled
The couple next to me on the plane earlier today threw a huge fit because one of their in-flight entertainment screens was "stuck in Spanish! I'm not trying to watch Spanish TV here!" And when I looked over to see if I could help it was on a screen that said "Bonjour!"
My same-aged father has been brushing up on trombone to play in a seniors' community band -- who knew he could be a freshman instead
Iowa in September is a little chillier than I remembered but on the plus side, there's an owl in my parents' backyard
1957 #cassowary #birdphotography #birding #NaturePhotography #nature #bird
I once got into it on Twitter with someone who insisted that Missouri is a Western state bc otherwise why would the gateway be there
the msm at this point is complicit in hiding what’s happening in dc from the country. such a startlingly few number of people on our tour so far even know what’s happening. i’m having to educate concertgoers about the checkpoints from the stage
Regret that I can't be there today!
Gotta listen to Music for Airports at the airport. I don't make the rules.
To me this feels symptomatic of a larger inability to get away from “state goes blue on map = my friends and comrades, state goes red on map = every adult and child in it can kick rocks” thinking—like red states must secretly be blue states for anyone to owe anyone there anything
There are a lot of very good Iowans but unfortunately it's only like 45%
I'm from Iowa, where the lines are drawn by a computer program designed to produce compact, squarish districts, and people will still argue to their last breath that the only reason someone like Kim Reynolds is in charge is gerrymandering
I think we should be able to make the argument that people who are outnumbered still deserve rights!
No, I'm agreeing with you. If someone has to imagine that they're actually in the majority in order to feel that they deserve rights, what does that say about genuine minority populations?
Feels like an unspoken assumption that if we counted up everyone in your geographical area and 51% of them really *did* suck, you would deserve whatever came to you
Oh no, they're multiplying!
Got to my destination on time with a stern recommendation to read Parable of the Sower, A+ ride
Chanced upon the Protest Taxi on my way to the airport
They would do better typing these fantasies into ChatGPT. All they really want is a funny picture of an epic own
Slice me off a piece of that loaf 🍞
Let Gregory ride the train! wtop.com/alexandria/2...
The *rise* of ethnic enclaves, as if two dozen American dialects of French and German didnt die out in the 20th century
My first American ancestors arrived in 1850. When my grandfather was drafted 90 years later he spoke only German. I can't imagine that *ever* happens today
trump has also been an undercover FBI agent workin as a mole inside the trump agency this whole time. once he gets all his collected info to robert mueller it's over for those guys
Part of my job at the garden center is ensuring that the bees from the hive on the property have little bowls of water to drink from, but for all my work they never touch the bowls. Instead they crave the water that drips from the HVAC system
A national ban on child marriage is such a perfect wedge issue. It's almost better if the courts strike it down
Proving their superiority by adopting a mode of communication that makes them sound like gibbering lunatics to anyone who isn't waist-deep in 4chan
Thanks! I'll post more as I go (slow work so far)
here’s the Job Report i care about: it’s friday
Thanks, I've been worried it's a little too Fisher-Price? But then I often give these to children in the family
I'm really enjoying this new NPR freed from having to worry about Federal funding.
The U.S.’s largest estuary is showing signs of revival. Once written off as a dead zone, water clarity in Chesapeake Bay has improved, underwater grasses are expanding, and crab populations are steadier thanks to decades of pollution controls. Nature buff.ly/morNFth #ShareGoodNewsToo
Inspired by this, from octopurse quilts on instagram
On a lighter note, I finished the first slice of a sort of deconstructed lone star (realized I didnt have enough fabric to do rainbow all the way through) #quiltsky
I don't mean to bombard my bsky followers with every neighborhood ICE sighting, since there have been a bunch lately, but I'm shaken up about it p much all the time and I don't feel like anyone has much urgency about this!!
We saw it happen again just a few hours ago. Noticed flashing lights behind the house and opened our back gate to people yelling "they're taking a woman!" and "don't answer their questions! Don't consent to a search!" I am not sure the broader public knows we're at this point in some places
The implicit message of "it's a distraction" is that we should not grant these things our attention, but I cannot think of anything that more desperately needs our attention than people getting shoved in the back of vans for the crime of looking Latino
4219 GROVE ST, ST LOUIS, MO, 63107
"Go on, git!"
I thought that running outside to film the occupying force a couple times a week would feel like "✊️💪" but actually it feels like standing on the porch with rollers in my hair shaking a broom at a stray dog
A lot of "oh yeah? Maybe we should send them to St Louis, then 😏" and as a former STL resident who remembers how they handled BLM protests, uhhhhh
To the extent they'll be spared from federal intervention it's because the state governments are already doing the things the feds would want to do, and in fact have been for a while
Red states, famous for their warm feelings and political goodwill towards the urban and ethnic minority populations within their borders
Destroying a huge chunk of your state's economy is to republican state officials as lamps are to moths
the way I think people need to start understanding red state governments, using Missouri as an example, is that they are very explicitly signaling the objective of establishing republican party dictatorships that, once successful in the legislature and courts, then takeover blue cities.
Did a little frogtography today. Turns out they're easier to photograph than birds
I spoke with a group of photographers on the trail this afternoon who were all looking for a barred owl. Guess what I heard literally seconds after watching them pull out of the trailhead parking lot looking dejected
Nice job!
I met her at a march recently, she rules
I am too much of a wuss to really heckle these guys while filming but what I want to say is "you're going to be unemployable when all this is over"
Rural Missourians hate St Louis with a heat they could never muster for California (and St Louisans have suffered materially for decades because of it)
so the key here is red states hate blue metros and want to punish them for not voting like the rest of the state they view NG occupation as a means to do so
They moved on to the east, couldn't see where they ended up. But they've been popping up around here constantly
When I worked for the health department we sometimes had to scramble a big immunization drive when a particular school couldn't start the year due to rates below the legal threshhold; these were always poor schools in neighborhoods with limited access to health care
Former Autozone on H St NE
H Street NE
We've got masked Border Patrol out here writing tickets for loitering
Oh god I recall that there was some other main character situation where this came up as a "this u?" or vice versa but I'm blanking on some of my cursed knowledge
Always a good sign
He handed me my diploma 😮💨
But seriously, who do I contact at my alma mater to express my desire that this man never speak on campus again
Ah great, do I need to bring out Laser Eyes Sigel again bsky.app/profile/plum...
One of my most enduring dreams is to see Jefferson City collapse into a gigantic sinkhole
Don't sleep on their locals and state reps, either
I know your people and your way of life. It's about barfing in the alley behind the Wooden Nickel
Your heritage and destiny? Buddy, you're from North County and went to Truman State, settle down
the funniest thing would be if he was actually fine but only until 1:59pm
A lot of people are simply uncomfortable being in the same space as strangers. Mostly you'll get over that by about the 10th bus ride, but you have to stick it out to that point
"Zero tolerance for loud phone calls" would make him sound petty but it's also what any regular bus rider actually wants
Ooh, the have the same coloring! Love her little ear tufts 😻
One of my favorite genres of tiktok
It's infuriating how they'll do anything to report on this except TALK TO PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE
So I've got a bunch of homegrown tobacco leaves left over from my tomacco grafting experiment -- if I just hang them somewhere to dry can I smoke them?
"Islamophobia bad" was one of my big takeaways from living through the GWB years and I'm (naively) still surprised when I see self-described liberals who somehow didn't get the memo. Like what did they think we were protesting about back then
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
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I checked it out under the assumption they were British or something and -- huh. Huh.
Preparing a bindle as we speak
Important to remember that during COVID a lot of people primarily experienced the world online and so when you hear them resurrecting their gripes it’s actually just them getting mad again about the things they saw *on social media*
Will do!
Generally late, this was at least 10:00 last night, but not necessarily-- this is the same spot around noon last week
I'm in the H Street corridor and have seen a ton of activity lately (pic is from last night). I think they're using the parking lot between 12th and 13th NE for staging -- I've seen unmarked vehicles there on multiple occasions
This morning (9/1) at 8 AM feds pulled over a couple at 18th & Park NW. They smashed the window, dragged the husband out & arrested him. When a community member stopped to record they were grabbed & threatened w/ pepper spray by this piece of shit. @mayorbowser.bsky.social do you welcome this too?
I've been texting, unfortunately it seems like I give a location and ten minutes later they're onto the next block
I've been trying to report all this stuff to the Migrant Solidarity hotline as I see it, but if the sirens in my neighborhood are any indication the location to avoid at this point is just "everywhere"
Oh she's always getting pets (not treats though, she's on a special diet)
Lmao I have a Frances Perkins (cat, not human). Thaddeus would be a good cat name too, come to think of it
Short guy this time
Bartender says "let 'em know I've got a sandwich in here for em"
Ha, I'm at the Pug and half the bar emptied out to go rubberneck
Snapped pics of a few more unmarked car plates, dunno if that's useful to anyone?
Regular night out I guess
Is every Zach Cregger movie going to have Justin Long show up about a quarter of the way in, or just Barbarian and Weapons
If they're gonna send in troops to solve DC's problems they should train them as WMATA drivers because where the fuck is the bus
I'm familiar with Das Racist but didn't recognize the guy as it's been, like, 12 years since they released music
Hold up -- this guy is, in fact, Das Racist. Presumably doing a bit
Lol what? I've seen this man in concert *twice* and didn't recognize him
Just because no one's said it yet, I'll go with Kid Cudi hanging dong in X
