It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

Still a considerable way to go on this, but the exceedingly clever @mathbug.bsky.social, @tonionio.bsky.social, and @eggtist.bsky.social all correctly identified our friend as a Green Hairstreak. Not remotely misdirected by the red (or indeed yellow) herring of the underpainting. 😁

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

new painting, Vertigo Sun ☀️

Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize after wake up call: newspapers mistakenly published his obituary when his brother died & what he read as his legacy horrified him speaking ill (factually) of the dead is literally the most effective way to curb living racist & Nazi public figures/politicians

Seems important to someone’s career if not the single most important thing they ever did that should define them forever but i guess not as relevant as “he once chaired the influential budget committee” georgiarecorder.com/briefs/judge...

The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers

Being on day three of scouring computer forums and finding somebody who had your same problem but eventually gave up is like seeing a dead body on Everest

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Look, let's get this straight, once and for all. It's DUCK TAPE 🦆, not duct tape. I brought RECEIPTS. Modern duck tape is cloth-backed, polyurethane coated, with a pressure-sensitive adhesive & a distinctive silvery color from a powdered aluminum pigment. But duck tape is much older...

FYI, this is malware. If you see this, don’t do this

Friday

New 44-track playlist from Smithsonian Folkways documenting sea shanties, nautical ballads, work songs, and other maritime musical treasures from the English-speaking world:

I once got paid to speak on a panel about housing insecurity, as someone who receives housing assistance. Most of the people were social workers and those I spoke to after told me how much my experience informed them. It felt like both a grift and a necessary service. Funny.

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One of my favorite things about mammals having to have exactly 7 neck vertebrae, no more, no less, is that to make your neck a different length, you have to change the length of your vertebrae. This has gotten very silly in dolphins. 📷Tursiops truncatus: macroscopic solutions, earth. com

hi new people and people who just noticed Memphis is occupied. Here's some useful info and keywords for you to use to do research on the small amount of reporting out there. 1) Tennessee has a Republican supermajority that despises Memphis. One of "The Justins" is a Memphis state rep now running...

The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.

Bookmarking this for the inevitable election fraud orchestrated by the GOP

I have a subscriber level on my Patreon where I’ll design you one flyer every month, FYI… So sick of this shit, too.

Update: I’ve restarted this project three times, three different methods, had Dani build a version, started over a fourth time this morning. Due in two days.

city buses should be allowed to attack and eat smaller cars before eventually moving on to larger and more powerful trucks

there's (rightfully) been a lot of attention paid to la, chicago, minneapolis, and dc, but the the joint federal-local task force in memphis is uniquely horrifying in ways not seen in other cities. this is at least the fourth person shot during the task force's monthslong occupation.

these are getting weird

If gender is a social construct & not a biologically-determined binary, if I can't know at a glance if you're dominant or dominated, if you reject & pull apart your "natural" place in the system - the supremacist ideology & power structure undergirding all of society crumbles. 5/

I have to finish building a drawing in illustrator today and I would rather…not

IT IS THE 6th OF JULY AND A MONDAY NIGHT IN A COUNTRY THAT WANTS TO KILL YOU PUT THE FIREWORKS AWAY

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

i ended up with milkweed sap in my hair, which i guess is karma for accidentally pulling a plant during vigorous gardening

As DSM grapples with state-imposed property tax cuts — i.e. budget cuts — they consider axing library branches as a fix. “Since they can’t directly control the legislature, their only option will be to channel consequences so they fall as much as possible on the minority of very wealthy Iowans.”

Hey if you’re an AFAB person with a need for masc shoes, Tomboy Toes is tragically going out of business and your time is now. There are 1,000 pairs left and no restocks www.tomboytoes.com

One way we can battle AI is by FOLLOWING AND SUPPORTING artists! When you’re familiar with someone’s work — or even with their little icon and posts — it’s easier to know their style and stop rumors like this!

so was the ice office closed, or did someone stay back to cover the phones

nobody in the press wants to address the fact that almost everybody at the upper echelons of tech is a full on eugenist nazi

Here’s an image of all 47 men who were present when the declaration of independence was signed. The 34 men who owned other human beings as slaves are marked with a red dot.

since multiple commenters are interpreting this as the state of Mississippi, no, this is the Twin Cities

Glad I saw Dread Scott speak last year as part of #RevolutionaryArt program that started last year for #250thAnniversary Dread Scott had an artwork that used U.S. flag condemned in the Senate and by Pres. Bush in 1989. Scott's took the 1st Amendment freedom of speech case all the way to SCOTUS.

"You have to have a creation myth to have a successful religion" is blowing my mind with how perfectly it explains why Americans are obsessed with the founding fathers

I think about this quote every single day and I think about how much potential we, as humans and as a country, have lost because of hate. Our Constitution and institutions would be so much stronger right now if they were also built with Natives, Black people, and women as equals.

“It’s like Crash, but with aliens.” My friend describing Independence Day

Your two options in American politics are the "let's raise taxes and give rural America subsidies" party and the "let's cut taxes and give it all to billionaires" party. I think it would be neat if there were a "raise taxes and invest in urban areas" option!

The thing about Mt Rushmore is that it's so much smaller than it looks in photos and the guy that carved it was in the Klan.

People who are unfamiliar with the UCMJ may not realize that for an active duty major to do this in uniform, the consequence can be court martial and incarceration. All of it is prohibited, but the wearing of the uniform was an intentional choice, and a likely forfeit of both his career and freedom.

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

it's not really important in the grand scheme of things, but finding out the 250th anniversary of the country was going to be a nation-wide party with infinite food and concerts in major venues and Trump canceled all of it so he could hire shady contractors and pocket the rest infuriates me so much.

This zine "50 Ways to Meet Your Neighbor" that @prisonculture.bsky.social shared a while back has lots of good ideas. Every city and block has a different dynamic so what works best where you live might not be on this list.