In the Name of Venus

Ahab’s harpoon had shed older blood than the Pharaoh’s.

Did another one with Sir Anser bcs nothing beats a pathetic man in a maid outfit.

If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

guys I saw a raccoon and it looked like 🥺 #mammals

Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can’st not go mad?

We saw young Leviathan amours in the deep.

I really have got to stop letting my get tricked into Mormon stuff by the promise of cookies. But I baked them!!!

Ouch. (Context, see up thread)

In Utah an out-of-state group is trying (with the governor's vocal approval) to build the world's largest data center. And we are in the midst of a historic and catastrophic drought. But don't worry, they pinkie swear they won't use any of our water. www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences and all the world

Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough! 🎂 In 2020, Ira sat down with him to discuss his book and documentary "A Life on Our Planet." Revisit that convo below and join us in celebrating the man who has spent his life reminding us how extraordinary our planet truly is: https://bit.ly/4u9QEUf

What i said earlier, it kept me out of the psych ward

Finally found a use for the free headphones they hand out on flights - a lady in this doctor’s waiting room was watching her phone with the sound on for everyone to hear so I reached into my bag and fished them out and offered them to her as a spare pair and she took them and is using them. 🎉😎

Accursed fate! that the unconquerable captain in the soul should have such a craven mate!

Im just saying, if I had gone into medical billing (I was good at memorizing vocabulary and the state did a big job training push) But if I had done medical billing I probably would have killed myself by now.

Tiny donkey braying says put your problems in his panniers, and he’ll carry your burdens for awhile. 📸 mine #ancient #sculpture #animals

Sucking up a dying lake, in the middle of a drought, to build a giant computer that's probably gonna blowup anyway is such a tired, kids TV plot, that I'm amazed it got so far. IT'S BEING FUNDED BY A LITERAL SHARK GUY anyway, I hope Box Elder county sends him to cartoon villain jail

In other words, they want you to think they're the Gestapo, when they're really just a modern J. Edgar Hoover. COINTELPRO-style tactics are awful and can definitely disrupt movements, but it's mostly an escalation of how feds have gone after anarchists, environmentalists, and Muslims for years

If you make every trans person afraid that the feds are about to bust down doors and put us in camps, that materially harms every trans person. That is why even threats of genocidal actions are considered international war crimes. So my advice is to not play into it. Prepare, but don't panic.

- Trump's counterterrorism director quit over Iran - I'd bet even MAGA intelligence guys aren't gonna like orders that sound to them like "stop going after ISIS, these furries are the real problem" - 'counterterrorism' efforts focus on international groups, so non-US groups should be more worried

The fear is valid, the threats are real. But also, they have been saying this stuff for months and months now, with only one court case in a deep red state to show for it (Praireville). Mitigating factors include; - the 'deep state' (eg, career staff of intelligence agencies) hates Trump..

Some science fiction writer out there feels like a real chump for not predicting this one.

The part they don't talk about when something isn't covered by insurance is not just that you end up in urgent or emergency care more often, it's that you end up on the phone all the godamn time, asking why the bill doesn't add up and how much you owe them for the thing you already did.

yeah.

Literally 5 minutes after all this, I drew the window blinds to find this guy just hanging out on my patio. It was a good time to be *reminded* of hanta virus

Thou saw’st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave

Thriving websites with a good culture are full of sex workers and furries. Generally speaking, if your online world contains ample consensually-produced weird porn (drawn, written, and starring humans), you're doing good. This is basic freedom of expression stuff.

cannot NOT mention this retelling of The Green Knight in this context the-toast.archive.town/2015/06/03/s...

see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them

floating in the lovely sunset sea and sky, sun and whale both stilly died together

drippin like a faucet

Despair Is Not Wisdom

Jokes on you, I can't remember enough of anything I love to populate a top ten list off the top of my head. The second you ask I will forget I ever even watched a tv show or listened to a song

from the unmarred dead body of the whale, you may scrape off with your hand an infinitely thin, transparent substance, somewhat resembling the thinnest shreds of isinglass, only it is almost as flexible and soft as satin

My latest paper puppet I made is a very sparkly celestial cat

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

Thou art too damned jolly. Sail on.

She sat down with Science Friday to chat about how dolphins use their signature whistles and what else they might be communicating. Listen to the podcast now: www.sciencefriday.com/segments/whe...

harder and harder, and deeper and deeper

I reclaimed the sparkles (and the slurs) It also comes in Trans ;) linktr.ee/quietmischief

I will never forgive AI for destroying one of my favorite emoji/symbols the humble sparkle

All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life

The reigning King of England came to America and quoted our constitution back at us Thats definitely a good sign

All the colors= all the personalities. She goes from loud to lazy, from dumb to deeply focused, affectionate to aloof.

Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it?

Jacob sat down with us to discuss how uncovering central structures, large meeting spaces, and circular buildings can point to a democratic society. Listen to our podcast to learn more: www.sciencefriday.com/segments/wha...

Just remembered my dream last night involved a “beige alert” siren that kept going off at times when I couldn’t even see any beige, I was so confused

Big guy having a good time by himself, more news at 9.