On a related note, one of my little pleasures in life is responding to performative hysteria over spiders with, "You know, on average, every American is within five feet of a spider and less than 15 feet from a venomous spider." Yes, that's who I am.

The awarded damages should be much, much higher - the rapist is still being defended by Uber's lawyers - but this is still a positive development. Note: In the highly unlikely best case scenario, 3000 victims at 8.5 million each would justifiably cost Uber $25 billion.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

About 30 years ago I had a customer who was a stylist and worked for a big Seattle interior design firm. His job was to buy shit tonnes of books for rich people to fill their bookcases. Every 5-6 weeks he would drop $30-50k for books no one would ever read. Sometimes it was for a yacht. 1/3

In case it wasn’t ALREADY blatantly clear!

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A little privacy, please? [A glimpse into the off-leash poopin' and peein' area this morning. They're using the snow piles for self-taught agility training and staying safe from roving bands of critters looking for a snack. Yes, I know the space is small and the temporary fencing is hideous.]

It's always good to know whose side God is on.

And it never occurs to the psychopaths and the shortsighted responsible for this, that this damage to research will hurt *them too*...

Statistics for Christian Nationalists to Ponder NUMBER OF TIMES YOUR HERO DONALD TRUMP IS MENTIONED IN THE EPSTEIN FILES: Over 38,000 times. NUMBER OF TIMES JESUS IS MENTIONED IN THE US CONSITUTION: Never. Not even once.

There are so many things wrong with this ridiculous clickbait I don't even know where to start.

I mentioned last night in a for-fun thread that my psychotic stepfather changed my first and last night name when I was three years old. Thirty-five years later I was about to renew my passport and it occurred to me that I should legally go back to my birth name. So I did, with a minor modification.

So many of you guys have not the slightest idea of how Section 4 of the 25th Amendment works and it shows.

Part One - I'm doing a massive purge of my personal library. From about 8000 volumes to about 2000. My very small new farmhouse was built in 1880 and cannot support the weight of 8000 books. I've spent weeks going though every (still packed) box, touching every book, making tough decisions.

Introduce yourself with the name your parents almost gave you. How about if you got the name they planned but then had your stepfather delete that name three years later and give you a new one?

7:44 of sanity. Vikingur Ólafsson performing the first movement of GLASSWORKS (1981) by Philip Glass from 2017.

THEY WANT TO TAKE OVER ELECTIONS WHILE EXECUTING CIVILIANS! WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!

I think all these men who benefited financially from proximity to Epstein POST CONVICTION OF PEDOPHILIA should have to pay reparations to his victims, whether they abused women and children or not. They all knew what was going on, and help legitimize him with their association.

❤️ MELIA is looking for a home after her training. A home with no small kids. Teenagers are fine. If you have a dog, you can do a meet & greet with Melia. She's at K9 Rehab in Watertown, Connecticut. Contact @pawspathtofurever.bsky.social if you have any questions. Thank you ❤️

It's Fairy Tale February on #FolkHorrorFriday. The lineup: 2/6 THE LURE 2/13 THE HATCHING 2/20 GRETEL AND HANSEL 2/27 THE HALLOW All movies are free to stream on Tubi. We start at 9pm ET every Friday and post using the hashtag.

It would have only taken two votes. Two votes. Republicans - 21 Nays Democrats - 21 Yeas Apparently @housedemocrats.bsky.social CAN get things done when it comes to enabling the gestapo.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Talibangelicals everywhere are accomplices in keeping a child-rapist in the Oval Office. You will all be known as fake Christians and vile, deplorable people for the rest of time.

Rotten Tomatoes is publishing endless fake and AI "user reviews" of MELANIA. Leaving them up when they are so obviously fake undermines any and all credibility. But also, they are hilariously bad and probably do accuratey represent the fan base's intelligence and education. #RottenTomatoes

Quick reminder: The ability and desire to look things up - phones and computers have access to search engines these days - before demonstrating one's gullibility and lack of knowledge is a great life skill.

We haven't been above freezing in three weeks. Four of the last six nights have been sub-zero. There is a live, fully mature wasp in my bathroom.

So now we're on Bluesky commanding others not to post video of gestapo violence and the extermination of constitutional rights and executions on the streets because those videos might scare some people? Who paid you to post that? PS - Kristi sends you her best wishes.

Trying to calculate how much concrete inside the skull is required to hear this: "The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting." And reply with "Another Epstein distraction." (More than a dozen times tonight.)

"Gabbard provided guidance to 'support the eventual transmission of appropriate details to Congress...' a spokeswoman for Gabbard’s office said." You know who could give it to Democrats in Congress? The whistleblower who's been sitting on it for nine fucking months.

Ira Glass' repeatedly breaking voice during just the first ten minutes of THIS AMERICAN LIFE while talking about DJT's lawless gestapo was not what I was expecting this morning.

This is the person who runs this account.

Why are trail cam shots where nothing is happening just the scariest thing? #FolkHorrorFriday #HowardsMill

Couldn't get the (white) locals to work the fields. Hmmm. #FolkHorrorFriday

Always a good idea not to mess with graves. #FolkHorrorFriday

Dwight's mom knows a few stories. #FolkHorrorFriday

I said it the day Eric posted the photo on Twitter of Maxwell at Chelsea Clinton's wedding - it was already known that he'd flown with her but no family members - and I'll say it again: If he wasn't a longterm knowing and willing lure, I'll eat my Dr. Martens. It's why he's so pathetic and broken.

Catherine O'Hara. Are you fucking kidding me?

Bold choice, sir.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

WOW! 👏Philly DA Larry Krasner: “This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will. We will find you. We will achieve justice.” #ICEoffOurStreets

"It's 9:00 AM and I've decided to work on my tan today," he said while noticing that it only *feels like* -25º F.

Cartoon by Rob Rogers | Andrews McMeel

So many of you guys have not the slightest idea of how Section 4 of the 25th Amendment works and it shows.

Our military leaders are failing miserably to protect and defend the Constitution.

Hello! I've finally made a decision about tomorrow's #FolkHorrorFriday movie: HOWARD'S MILL, a mockumentary that is far better than it has any right to be. Join us tomorrow at 9pm ET. The movie is free to stream on Tubi!

Until the Trump/Epstein victims go public en masse and name every name there will never be any consequences for the child rapists and sex traffickers. It's a fact. And don't come at me assuming I don't know how difficult and terrifying it is to publicly name your sexual abuser, past or present.

Seems like a good video for his trial

Well, that went about as well as could be expected.

"Trump is using the ICE raids to distract from the Epstein files." Still blocking every last one of these people on sight. They are deliberately trying to avert your attention away from increasingly irrevocable actions and the long game of Stephen Miller and the Project 2025 architects.

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...