🧵From St. Paul, MN. The last few nights have been different. ICE kidnappings seemed like a daytime event until this week, but now ICE is active after sundown. The shooting of a civilian by ICE in North Minneapolis is also a grim sign for anyone who lives here. (art by @hot_yaga on Insta) 1/5

why would you ask someone this do they really think people are out there recing HOSPICES to each other???

Delightful new addition to my tiny tape collection from @dcellgames.com :) And thanks to my Seattle friend who got it (and a chicken shirt!) for me! 🥰

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I applied for a safeguards position with the IAEA and I didn’t realize just how badly I wanted it (and had gotten attached to the idea of it) until they reopened the posting a few days later. 😭

Eleven American Samoans in Alaska face serious prison time for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. Theirs is a wild story of colonialism, cops, “voter fraud” panic, small-town beef, and family. I spent months on this + am so glad to now be able to share it: boltsmag.org/prosecuted-f...

roumd (photo by Marcus Conway, found here: www.birdguides.com/articles/pho...)

Congress has had *multiple* opportunities to ban government agencies from buying data like this - data that would require a warrant to get, under any other circumstances. The Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act passed the House with a bipartisan majority in 2024. The Senate never took it up.

You're going to hear a lot of lies about what the law allows after the Trump Regime's murder of Renee Good. States can prosecute federal officers, they've been doing it since the 1800s. Trump cannot stop it and cannot pardon it. Here's the legal analysis www.patreon.com/posts/147687...

Something very simple that you can do right now instead of watching a queer woman die is to read the words that she herself put out into the world for you to read. poets.org/2020-on-lear...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

I made a Cat Rapier for my werewolf friend @capsaicincoffee.bsky.social to help fend off the other wild beasts at home

From 3 months ago

A very good and relevant essay on the function of images of violence and suffering.

It’s National Bird Day! Here’s a few things you can do to help the birds in our homes, in the wild, and on farms. Shares are appreciated. 🪶

i’m obsessed with this bird game (tori note) by the neko atsume people i mean just look at these guys

Detox Doodles! This is one of a series of daily sketches that I've been doing to curb my mindless scrolling! This page is all about Califiornia Quail, my state bird! #art #bird #quail #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt

whoever did the stucco on my parents' house made a stucco lizard on the roof. its just hidden up there. you only see it if you have to check the air conditioning or something. i don't know if they did it to delight a child that lived there decades later but it's like a hand extended from the past

I've waited 3 years to make this post

Ughhhhh I did two car repair things for my mom and both of them are improved but not fixed 🥲 I should have known. When does replacing the purge valve EVER fix the “purge valve fucked” error code?

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Apparently my great granduncle published a book of argumentative poetry

I am reminded of when someone observed that reactionaries really think that everything, all social change and culture, is top-down directed. It's not that you've torpedoed your relationship with your kids and/or are an anachronistic bigot - it must be that they are listening to "internet chatrooms"

Since it is the season of toys with batteries, and those batteries are sometimes small and shiny and tempting for little mouths If a little one (or anyone) swallows a battery, make them eat 🍯 HONEY 🍯 and go straight to the hospital www.poison.org/battery/guid...

Old fish boxes set up for kittiwakes to nest, Vardo, Norway. #birds

Begging dems to be as morally clear-eyed on trans issues as the liberal spice company

I bought this bottle of mead to drink when I finished the paper that was to become my master’s thesis. I never did open it because it’s a limited edition seasonal or something and I never did quite feel like I had truly earned it.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

I emailed the (very kind & helpful) Indiana State Ornithologist (bc I’m that kind of weirdo) about the Pulaski Sandhill cranes & she got back to me! tl;dr: it got cold super quick & they didn’t stick around. There might be some population loss from avian flu last year but they’re healthy this year!

I’m looking for 100% Filipino people who are willing to submit a cheek swab test in hopes for a genetic match to my aunt, who is battling blood cancer. The registry for stem cells doesn’t have many Filipino people in it, and joining it could help many. Please share/reach out to me! bit.ly/4aiUIKQ

damn I need that scotch egg gyoza sando someone in portland please get me one and have it shipped straight to my mouth

I hate when it’s this cold, but I am grateful, at least, for all of the dogs in front of space heater photos

My parrot was just talking to herself, & my dog apparently forgot she does that, so she's running around barking, & the parrot is nothing if not a fan of chaos so she started barking too & now the dog is convinced there's definitely an intruder because why else would the bird be barking?

Bought some lights to decorate the new demo fuel bundle at work :3

It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

A personal favorite Waymakers throwback for today's #ArtAdventCalendar, this Willie Wagtail is so full of personality! The entire group of fantails are just the best birds ever. 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

For the #ArtAdventCalendar, it’s your daily Merp! Merp was busy in the suet all day as light snow fell, popping in and out as I worked near the window. Here’s Merp saying screw you, gravity. #birds #HellYeahNuthatches

I’m so hyped about unbeatable but I’m stuck at work >:(

EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too. Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.

Everyone always asks speakers at nuclear events “what’s your favorite SMR?” but no one ever asks “which SMR fills your heart with spite?”

Surely THIS will finally be the thing that fixes my adult acne

New #letterpress reduction #linocut print For a wonderful, brief part of summer the creek is lit up with the songs of Red-winged blackbirds. The males flit from different stalks of marshy plant life while looking for that perfect love interest, doing everything they can to get noticed.

Starting a new thread because I started dunking on the guy quoted in the article instead of making the point I actually intended: Look at the way the article described the actions taken by a parish lead by an actually ordained representative of the Church…

I looked up the guy quoted here because I’ve never heard of the “catholic action league.” Turns out, their homepage is just a collection of articles written by this crackpot (C J Doyle) quoting himself 💀 Here, he’s mad someone wanted to name a pub The Hail Mary and is ready to do a schism about it

This morning, after 4 years of chasing them down, I got 2 in flight female bufflehead videos. I thought I got THE VIDEOS. I didn't. Of the 1800 or so frames between the two videos only these couple were useful, BUT the advantage of having so few usable frames is we can make a gif! Still a W. 🪶

Robins warming up for their festive shift... It's 1st December! #MondayMotivation 📷 Vicky Outen

Here are some recent pics I took of my buddy Muscovy duck. I thought you might like to see him.