Northern lights in interior Alaska.

northern lights in knoxville! northern lights in knoxville!

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really need to remember to listen to chaka khan more

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

‘Nickname’ is not ‘nick’ + ‘name.’ It was originally ‘ekename.’ ‘Eke’ was the Middle English word for “also” or “in addition.” Since ‘ekename’ began with a vowel, people used ‘an’ before it. Over time, 'an ekename' became 'a nickname.'

ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web" bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first

oh, I had it wrong. our health insurance is actually going up 486% not 385%. 🫠

Does any on here work for The Orchard or know anyone that does?

the heat is still broken so i will be spending today drying the peppers I picked before the frost. up first are the habaneros and I am already warmer just smelling them.

a lot of us are about to lose insurance and we are still in the middle of a pandemic. mask it up, folks!

our furnace broke (it will be 25 degrees overnight). I just...*sigh*...blarg.

The absolute fuck???

no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it! info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

for funsies I looked up what the federal poverty level is and what the average rent is where I live. honestly, how is anyone surviving right now?

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I really can't get over the optics here. They were cool with letting SNAP lapse but not ok with planes being delayed?

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

Once they were in the shutdown though they could have made it about anything. Put clips of ICE abducting children on endless loop and say “do we keep funding a govt that does *that*?” Then you might get federal workers clamoring not for concessions but a strike. Again, requires believing in things.

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

My family is fucked without ACA subsidies.

LET'S DO THIS BROOKLYN! 9 Prospect Park West, 8:30 pm!

never occurred to any dem at all including dems from illnois to attempt to condition reopening the government on ending the military occupation of chicago btw don't think we didn't notice that

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

I am begging anyone that has a dem senator to call. I am repped by Blackburn and Hagerty, they hear from me a lot and know my stance already, and obv calling them would be pointless here. Maybe your rep will listen?

Dear My Senator, if you end this shutdown without ironclad protections for the American people I will dedicate all of my energy to ensuring this is your last term as my representative. You will not be elected dog catcher if I am still on this good earth.

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

"Trump is the man responsible for it. He’s fucking with your airplanes, he’s fucking with your time, and he’s fucking with your money. He’s the reason you’re a caged animal right now. I wouldn’t want to be him if you ever get loose." and it's only going to get worse from here

Heritage Foundation is a fascist white supremacist organization

From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays

Why stop at a 50-year mortgage? Let's go full dystopia and make it a 150 years, with your debt lovingly passed down like an heirloom of financial despair. Generation after generation, working not for wealth, but for the privilege of almost owning drywall. Why own a house, when you can haunt it?

I do hope that everyone is OK with democrats being different in different places because, as internet-brained as I am, I’m also a Montanan and Democrats used to win big races here, and I would like them to again.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

The Democratic caucus trying to stop Chuck Schumer from agreeing to a CR with a nationwide abortion ban attached

THIS is the sort of stuff we can all do. I know a lot of people don't know where to tap in, I get it it's hard to know where to start, but you can't go wrong meeting like-minded neighbors and supporting the communities most at risk.

Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District. And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:

Everyone commenting that nobody wants this — nor does it address the reasons people no longer shop there — is obviously right! But I wanna point out another thing: This very nefariously transfers ~blame~ for the company’s performance (ahem, repercussions for its choices) onto store employees

Also, if you don’t need free food and are looking to support some great local businesses consider frequenting one of these fine establishments.

NEW: Experts say that any lags in protections like security updates and network monitoring caused by the government shutdown could lay the groundwork for future breaches. @lhn.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/the-go...

While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too. If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole. apnews.com/article/pets...

The U.S. didn’t add sex markers to passports until the bicentennial