great night at Indiana Dunes

what does this mean

I love that you can pay Costco to write weird stuff on a cake for $27 and they’ll do their damndest to make it look good

Trying to do a warranty exchange on an ikea mattress but couldn’t find the purchase on my bank statements… Until my former roomie reminded me that we had multiple “they’re doing WHAT in the Capitol???” “they want to off PENCE????” conversations with strangers. While shopping for a mattress.

The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate. It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. (Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)

??? what are they doing with that mayo and a whole turkey

Hello Friends! I need your help. I've submitted a proposal to the Illinois Supreme Court, docketed as Proposal 25-05, to guarantee that undocumented immigrants, disabled people, and legal aid and pro bono attorneys can appear in court remotely. My proposed language is the underlined text below!

TAKE THE F*CKING PICTURE ALREADY!

Helsinki dog is on the tram but her ears are ready for the airport

Something is wrong with my back such that it generally hurts (one specific spot to the left of my spine), but it becomes unbearable after like an hour in an office chair 🥲

I haven't opened this app in months, i didn't expect all the notifications 🫣 hello everyone Since you guys seemed to like my other bird griffin post, here's some recent bullfinch mini griffins 🪶

The dancer of the tidal flat🪶 #bird #animalart #illustration #wildlifr #digitalart #originalart

met a cool guy on my walk

I think Catholics are on to something with confession and penance. People naturally confess feelings of guilt to close friends and partners, but it seems the default response to this nowadays (unless personally aggrieved) is reassurance & justification. “It’s not your fault.” “It’s not that bad.”

Making people with ADHD see a psychiatrist every 90 days (and then go, in person, to the pharmacy every 30 days) to get their brain juice is a waste of the clinician’s time and limited resources, and a particularly egregious burden on ADHDers.

It should not be as niche as it is, but I keep having to repeat it: If your values don't apply to *everyone,* they're not actually your values. They are simply a favor that you do for people that you like.

nother kestrel griffin scribble

Oh hell yes. I’m so proud of everyone involved

imagining an alt history where Carter, Regan, and Obama fought over a lil White House SMR

#daily 42: study

ah yes, the two genders

Hi, my name’s Iveta and I’m passionate about drawing birds. I’m open for small scale bird related projects. 🐦 ivetasaviary.com 📧 ivetasaviary[at]gmail.com #portfolioday #wildlifeart #birdart #sciart #illustration

Me, about once a week: “I should most more nuclear stuff on here” Me, 5 minutes later: “HEY EVERYONE YOU NEED TO SEE THIS COOL BIRD”

Apparently there’s a type of northern cardinal (a subspecies? idk) with extra large crests? Look at him! How is he so pointy?!??

Hen and Dragonfly. Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.

It is in the nature of due process that it is a universal right or it's not a right at all. If some people cannot get due process, how do you prove that you're not part of that group?

Thinking about geese today

🪶 If you are able, you donate here: birdpop.org/pages/do... We lost roughly $1 million in funding without warning. Projects cancelled included all of our bird monitoring work for the National Park Service & projects w/ the Bureau of Land Management on Gunnison's Sage-Grouse, Pinyon Jays & more. 1/4

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

Started reading (audio booking?) A Broken Darkness just bc I recognized @premeemohamed.com’s name from here I’m only now realizing it’s a sequel and I’m presumably supposed to know these characters… whoops

Now this is Content

Already have a scratch on my new $350 glasses and I’m kinda pissed. I got the crizal rock coating and have been super careful with them 😭 I always put them back in the case when they’re not on my face and I wear my own glasses for sports and stuff. So how? Whyyyyyy?

Oh my god Costco now sells a Costco-themed cat scratcher www.costco.com/.product.400...

Proud to announce the project I've been working on 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Had hoped to have more ready, but the events of the last week stressed the importance of speaking up against fascism NOW I'd appreciate your support in spreading the word, esp if you work in life sciences research, healthcare, or biotech

The lie is that glasses are made to liberate you from screens. The purpose of the glasses is to make sure you have no experiences except those mediated through a companies’ technology.

“For the last time, this is my spot!” See ALT for more info and settings. #birds #birdphotography #usbird 🦉 #birdsoftheworld #Cardinal #Bronzedcowbird #nature #wildlife #BirdWatching #photography

From Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free" I first read it in November and I'm rereading it now. It crushing feeling the exact same things as this academic did. It's the same process.

Tim Walz: "I've been telling people since January it's going to get worse before it gets better, but it is going to come to an end. History is not going to be kind to these people. History is going to remember them for what they're trying to do. It's not what they're going to get done."

My University has decided to close the #Statistics department along with several others. The public comment form opened up today: apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu... Please feel free to explain how problematic it is to close a department teaching #datascience #rstats #python in this day and age.

My wife makes awesome toys out of trash. Look at this Dewback.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

One of my favorite things to consider is that the pigeons we see in cities are abandoned information infrastructure

Inside you there are two birds

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Looking at “whole body deodorant” and the sprays are just… denatured alcohol??? And a smidge of dipropylene glycol

NEW: After her husband's first suicide attempt, their insurance company pre-authorized inpatient care, then it approved a request for extended inpatient treatment. Then came the $30,599.69 charge. By @deldeib.bsky.social @propublica.org