Photographer, gamer, software engineer, deeply disappointed optimist. Tell the ones you love that you love them. Some day they'll be gone (or you will). Also at: Mastodon: http://sfba.social/@thechrispaduan The Bird Place: same handle as here
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The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Man, what inspired Wes Anderson making The Life Aquatic? Such a strange, strange film.
Enjoy the therapy bills! 😀
Great lead headline right now, @nytimes.com.
Yiiiiikes!
Won't you take me to......
Hard feels today…✌🏽💜✊
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
*I* did not add the nose tubes this time #dune #memes #dunesky #sietchposting
Boo!
Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
These are not serious people.
OMG, me too! This is fabulous news!
Oblig
Thank you on this labor day!!
yes. tasting fabrics is one of the easiest ways to test fiber composition. natural fabrics, such as wool, cotton, and linen, breakdown in the digestive tract. synthetics such as polyester will not. so to test fiber composition, eat the garment. if fibers appear in your poop, it was synthetic.
Last days of summer scenes, Kenai River Alaska.
I think the part I didn’t like was where the ultrasound tech failed to tell me what was going to happen in advance.
Presented without context:
Look at her, isn't she pretty? Female ruby-throated hummingbird in my backyard. September 01, 2025 #Birds #Photography #Hummingbirds #NaturePhotography #Texas #BirdPhotography #Birding #BirdWatching #Migration
Poor Winchester had to have seven teeth removed because of his stomatitis. I’ve been hand feeding him for a month now and he’s finally getting to the point where he’s asking for food. So glad he’s finally feeling better. 🥹
That is the worst pain I ever had in my life. Felt like someone turning a knife in my guts. Throwing up in the ER while the duty nurse tried to take my insurance info. Surprise enema before getting an ultrasound in ER. Fun times.
I like Psalms 109, myself.
Is that CCCC?
Is this reality?
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“Somehow Palpatine returned.”
Did you find out by developing acute pancreatitis? That’s one way you can find out. Ask me how I know. 🤪
When I was a younger man I visited a high school friend who was at Dartmouth with a mutual friend from high school. She took us to a frat house on a Saturday night and I was horrified at the smell in that place’s basement. Like a sewer.
Fuck yeah.
This is my 95-year-old neighbor. He's been living alone since his wife passed away from cancer, and not long ago, he also lost his loyal companion dog. Now, every day, our chicken Hei Hei escapes the yard just to visit him. She sits with him, accepts treats, and lets him pet her like an old
Drop an old person you are going to turn into in the future.
Wow: 78 year old congressman Jerry Nadler decides not to seek reelection, saying Biden fiasco showed need for "generational change." “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that."
Description of labor conditions in early Anchorage from the April 1917 International Socialist Review. Poor food and freezing cabins for workers while local railroad brass practiced their sharpshooting skills, an open threat. #alaskahistory #alaska #anchoragehistory
I mean, that’s how supply and demand is supposed to work, isn’t it?
More shit I can thank Reagan for.
At Lowe’s, for instance, every one of their 273,000 employees could’ve gotten an annual $28,456 bonus over the past six years with the money the retailer blew on stock buybacks. Lowe’s median worker pay was just $30,606 last year. #LaborDay #EconomicJustice #ClassWar
I hope Shae Moss and Ruby Freeman sue him for it.
Hulu just added Death of Stalin and Weekend at Bernie’s (and is featuring them on their main page this weekend)… it’s just very funny.
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
Cautiously optimistic about this guy, although I’d like to see the speech in Skowhegan or Bangor. First district is the starter level for Dems in Maine for statewide office, afaict.
It is amazing to me how much the real prosthetics look like Adam Jensen’s.
Aug or wrench.
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.
Hey, ho, way to go, San Diego!
I would never say LMR, don’t worry. Probably Superman. Or Begin the Begin.
Life’s Rich Pageant offers so many choices. I guess Superman, but Begin the Begin is right up there.
“Come to Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” ~ Matthew 11:28 #happylaborday
Smedley Butler on boots on the ground in Venezuela.
A beautiful orange rock posy lichen (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca), from my time in Yellowknife, NT, Canada. #lichen #fungifriends
It’s not so much that we cannot comprehend it so much as we reject it.
Could have been a killer crab, you don’t know.
put your kid on the fucking bus this shit is so stupid
Central Coast Farm workers wish you a happy #LaborDay Campesinos de la Costa Central les desean un feliz Día del Trabajo. #WeFeedYou #SoyEsencial
Hope she recovers soon!
Let's give a shout out to the men & women who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay. Mandemosle un saludo a los hombres y mujeres que trabajan en el campo para poner comida en nuestras mesas. Thank you Ignacio Gomez for letting us use this art
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Earthsea?
Muir Woods?
If there's anyone who could take my cats, or even just one, in western MD please let me know. I don't want to have to leave them at a shelter, they'd be so scared and sad.
Buried lede: judges can in fact turn planes around
Went outside
Sequel!
I’m very up in my feels over this boy again this morning. 44 days ago he was returned as a cat labeled as “unfriendly, unhappy, untouchable, unsocial.” Ever since he figured out he could jump on the couch to ask for pets & belly rubs, it’s basically all he’s been doing. My whole heart for this cat.😭
this one-eyed wonder named Koala is seeking the perfect home to settle down in. she had her eye and some teeth removed by our vet team. could you give her a chance? 🐈 meet Koala here: bit.ly/4n0KkKM
Watching The Death of Stalin for no particular reason.
‼️ Mainers our voting rights are under attack‼️ 🗳️ SAVE ABSENTEE VOTING IN THE GREAT STATE OF MAINE and keep our trusted voting laws strong 🗳️ ❌ VOTE NO ON QUESTION ONE ❌ ➡️ 🌟 November 4th, 2025 🌟 ⬅️ ✅ Please help spread the word this referendum question ISN’T just about Voter ID. saveabsentee.me
The California Highway Patrol will provide protection to former Vice President Kamala Harris after President Trump revoked her Secret Service coverage, according to a report.
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia? Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie. (Seriously, that’s the answer)
Thanks to everyone who came to our panel. Another full room for @noclipvideo.bsky.social - we hope it was a good show. Also my two favorite detectives turned up.
Astrid Johnson
What a spectacular idea!
😞
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
Thank goodness ICE is saving us from this dangerous *checks notes* concert violinist.
How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording
𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 If you have a home security system, you have this woman to thank for inventing it. #Pinks #WomenSupportingWomen
TIRED: using AI to spy on citizens WIRED: using AI to spy on LEOs
Needs the Benny Hill music.
ICE leaving no stone unturned, no remote hollow unsearched in their quest to be the shittiest humans the US has to offer.
The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records.
I love how we are all paying attention to this matter.
I have heard this song before, but I didn't really know a.) that it was a "Christmas" song or b.) what the context was. Wow.
Uplifting to see these clips! I particularly like the one at 0:46 - 1:00 where the Republican is asked who pays the tariffs & then when he doesn’t answer the audience starts chanting “WHO PAYS THE TARIFFS?” then (not sure if same clip or quick cut to another “SHAME! SHAME!”
Maybe L7 could mix up the lyrics a little bit, like Bernstein did with Ode to Freedom.
Live your life so that people don’t consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
Keep going.
Tarantula activity peaks in late summer and early fall, from August to November, in the Mojave desert. Mature males leave their burrows in large numbers to search for females, making them highly visible on roads and trails. The Mojave tarantula (Aphonopelma mojave) is the most common, like this one.
Welcome to the PDX metro! And congratulations on missing the egregiously hot weather we had a few days ago.
American patriot.
Well, we all are going to have our political careers die
