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RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Sure, why not. That'll look lovely on Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman's mantel.
In light of yesterday's harvest, today's Labor Day dinner menu has been amended to grilled cucumber burgers topped with freshly pickled cucumbers on toasted cucumber buns with a side of cucumber slaw, followed by a large slice of homemade Dutch cucumber pie and cucumber ice cream.
Sisters/brothers, let us pause today on remember it was hardworking folks who fought for labor rights and union leaders who built the middle class in America. we all have much to thank them for. Happy Labor Day.
You would think the years of practice he has wearing a skin suit and dancing to Goobye Horses in his basement would have better prepared him for imitating someone else
I'm so sorry for your loss, Dan
The footage of the incident is pretty harrowing
Praying in the asters #inverteFest
BREAKING: Brand new footage from Mar-A-Lago, definitely taken today
The menu at this Indo-Chinese restaurant that just opened has so many bizarre problems but this is my favorite.
“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.” - Henry Miller
Beautiful and inspiring in such dark times
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
It's been great having you and Matt back.
And by vultures, I mean Mike Johnson and Lindsey Graham.
We could always follow the trail of vultures gagging on the stench.
He looks like absolute shit. It's like the Corleones putting out a proof of life photo of Vito with an orange slice in his mouth about to chase his grandson around the garden.
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
Not to keep anyone's hopes up, but when I've always imagined this all ending with him face down in a bunker, I just assumed that would mean in a golf course sand trap.
Not to keep anyone's hopes up, but when I've always imagined this all ending with him face down in a bunker, I just assumed that would mean in a golf course sand trap
It must have been really funny watching people first try and eat sea urchins until they figured out the correct way to do it.
If you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring them inside
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Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay), back in 1963. I'm no sports historian, but I believe he was just told it's a three day weekend.
I'm not familiar with radon pipes/bulbs. Do they need to be regularly accessed for service? My first thought was to wrap it in chicken wire and have a clematis climb up it (something like Jackmanii), but not sure how feasible that would be if it needs to be accessed.
I wish when polls report that 39 or 40% of Americans approve of Trump they could split out what percentage approves of what he’s actually doing and what percentage approves of what Fox News and the rest of the right wing media behemoth says he’s doing.
BREAKING: Robert F. Kennedy Jr poised to surpass gun violence as leading cause of death among American children.
Remember when COVID vaccines were first available? Remember how they saved lives and helped us move toward normalcy? Remember how relieved and grateful we were? Remember how amazing our healthcare workers were? Remember how science rescued us?
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
You just convinced me to go make myself a root beer float.
HR would have a field day with that one!
Oh wow!
Maybe tomorrow I'll eat a raw fish like Gollum in the breakroom to show her it can be done and then tell her she really needs to have more consideration for her coworkers.
Oh yeah, mostly because Susan from Accounting microwaved fish in the breakroom again today.
I think about this James Baldwin quote a lot, especially now. “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
part of the reason i beat up so hard on democratic weakness is we need people who are tough on the monsters that continue to allow childrens brains to be splattered on the walls by gunshots. i dont want to make nice with these people. they're not "good friends" and "colleagues" on the other side.
"Don't just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything." George Carlin
"Were you in the shit?" "Yeah, something like that, I guess."
Derrick from IT is pretty short, and why should his songs be unfit for my hall?
We have so many cherry tomatoes from our garden I've decided to bring them to work, sit in my cubicle, and eat them all like Denethor in Return of the King.
I’ve said it before but reading all the medieval history books I’ve been reading lately has been so comforting. Makes you realize that there have always been mad and incompetent kings and they almost always die in ignominy and everyone piles shit on them for centuries after they’re gone.
D'oh!
The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumour of sadness and change. E. B. White, Charlotte's Web
Friends, we are far beyond the buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride quips. We have passed the secure your oxygen mask moment. So, allow me to say it plainly. FUCK YOU, Republicans who won't stop this mad man. You could stop this and have him out of office if you wanted. Impeach, Convict, Remove
Hummingbird Feels Like Fucking Idiot After Seeing Other Bird Gliding https://theonion.com/hummingbird-feels-like-fucking-idiot-after-seeing-other-bird-gliding/
They are air dropping in crates of Cialis to get it back up
Like he does with the word "asylum," I think numbnuts is conflating several meanings of the word "capital" 🙃
Dollars to donuts the stable genius here caught a recent airing of the movie Chinatown on late night TV.
What's even more astounding is the newly discovered jellyfish has a bigger vertebrae than the entire Republican party.
OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...
This seems like a good time to become a poet who lives in the woods.
Hell yeah, guv. ✊️
Love this photo of Monarch Butterflies in Ontario Canada probably Point Peel National that i went to yearly in Sept in my twenties as they gathered to cross Lake erie migrating south waited for the wind to change
BirdCast forecasts for the next several nights have hundreds of millions of birds predicted to be on the wing, especially in central & eastern states. Turn off all unnecessary lights at night and check your favorite hotspots for new birds in the day! #birds #fall #migration #LightsOutForBirds
I feel ya. I'm so tired of watering in drought/heat and beating back the invasives from my neighbors' yards. Although I'm still looking forward to the cooler temps coming soon so I can do some editing and get some of the discounted potted plants from end-of-Spring sales in the ground.
Next time someone asks me why I love gardening with native plants, I'm going to show them this picture. This is a first year butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) on the side of my house in my driest, crappiest soil. It's taken practically no effort to maintain it, and yet it supports so much LIFE. 🌱
We continue losing daylight for 120 days.
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
"There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water"
Happy birthday, Ray Bradbury, you were the king of dropping six-page stories a kid could read once in 7th grade English class and be haunted by for the rest of their life
His feet aren't looking too great either
I don't get the outrage these idiots are having over Cracker Barrel when the correct time to lose one's shit over a restaurant rebranding was when we lost this.
🧵PLEASE stop insisting that this is meant to distract from Epstein. An evil man with all the nation's levers of power in his hands can enlist legions of fellow travelers to hide his acts of sexual depravity against women & children **WHILE ALSO** acting on long-held dreams of military dictatorship.
To: All Staff Subject: IMPORTANT REMINDER!!! NEVER lend animals your phone to order items online. Gavin just confiscated another anvil and six rockets from the coyote enclosure.
i'll say it again, my loud and vigorous support for any democrat who calls for televised hearings and criminal charges for everyone involved in DOGE. this guy should never be able to live in peace again.
Some bootlicker painted over Superman. So Krypto showed up.
I absolutely love this painting. It breathes with calmness. Yes, it is Ukrainian art. Ivan Pylypenko, The River of Time, 2020
If you had told me 30 years ago that Michael Luttig and Bill Kristol would have a clearer understanding about what's going on than a lot of Democratic leaders, I'd have wondered whether you tried the brown acid.
Friend: "See you in the Fall." Me: [thinking] "Was that a seasonal greeting or ominous prophecy?”
History museums preserve our achievements, but perhaps even more importantly our errors, so that we may be able to learn from them and, hopefully, avoid repeating them. Despots need to destroy those lessons precisely because their intent is to take us down those wrong roads again.
Jealously guarding my nectar sources from interlopers
One of life's simple joys. #gardening 🌱
On this day in 1977, NASA launched Voyager 2, sending the legendary Golden Record—a time capsule of Earth’s music, sounds, and greetings—on its journey into the vast unknown of space.
Beautiful truth. Our gardens can become these mythic spaces—with patience and care!
Oh man…RIP Judge Frank Caprio 🙏 "Be kind to people"
If they use up all the black paint for the border wall, what's Melania going to use for her Christmas decorating?
Do not give the Gestapo a moment's peace. Do not let them believe for a second they will ever be respected, trusted, or seen as anything but invaders.
If they use up all the black paint for the border wall, what's Melania going to use for her Christmas decorating?
I believe they are biennials, or at least short-lived, so as much as I love them, I'd choose to deadhead them to control the spread vs. pulling them. As a bonus, you could get a ton of seeds for a local seed library as well.
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Ya know, we could have just kept him safely locked up in a padded room, drugged to the gills on anti-psychosis meds, and told him he was president, but noo
*All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, IL
I believe it is Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)... at least that's how Google IDed it. I was surprised to see it up here in Northern Illinois, this was at All Saints Cemetery. The red and orange flowers are striking and what drew me in.
Have a good night, all 🌱
the butterfly effect is when you see one and go ‘ooh butterfly!’ and then your day is better
No matter the outcome, I've been looking forward to overreacting to this all weekend.
Shocked and sad and amazed to see my first live spotted lanternfly in our own backyard (Chicago). Gorgeous animal—I wasn’t prepared for how beautiful it was. 🥲 Squashed and reported on @inaturalist.bsky.social
Pausing the TV to freshen up a bit before Chato's Land. #tcmparty #suts
up from yonder cottage goes a sleepy smoke
From around the garden today. 🌱
I once had a client a local prosecutor called a "career criminal." Tbh, client had multiple arrests. For stealing food. Because otherwise they wouldn't eat at all. Because they couldn't get a job because of previously being arrested for stealing food. A society has the criminals it creates.
Saturday Sunrise Panorama. This morning in Chicago.
[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Child’s Favorite Restaurant Also Dad’s Favorite Bar theonion.com/child-s...
Just for those who may be a little confused: This is how an American president should treat Putin.
