Today's joy!! I took all the dogs who didn't run yesterday out; I was a bit nervous about taking a sketchy corner on the snowmobile that was fine on dogsled. But all went well, dogs had fun, made some snowmobilers' days! We have some work to do after a week off but they should bounce back quick

Today's Oarfish comes from lakesnake55 on Tumblr! To talk about commercial fishing for a minute, it can lead to ecosystem collapse, loss of biodiversity, and slow recovery of long-lived species. This can include Oarfish. #sealife #marine #fish #Oarfishdaily #marinelife #drawing #marineanimals

We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder. thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...

The main friends who watch media with me are into women. I need someone who appreciates men to watch Leverage with me because Elliot is beautiful and I love him. That is all

"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

#ArtAdventCalendar A great blue heron mini, printed this year. Five color screen print, edition of 29. 🐡🎨🪶

This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.

turning beloved creative director luis loza into a combat token

The canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about.

"The display, outside St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, Mass., includes the traditional shepherds, sheep and wise men gathered around a hay-filled manger. But Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus are missing, replaced by a sign reading ICE WAS HERE in bold blue letters." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

Looking back on my awesome Arctic fox encounter from last month. These little guys are high-energy, fast-moving foragers. This one was sniffing for snacks among the frozen kelp on the shore. They will follow polar bears onto the ice to eat leftovers from their kills. #mammals 🌿

Getting ready for 2026 like

Hey peeps, many library cards will give you free access to Kanopy! Here are some horror movies they have in their library: The Vourdalak, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Train to Busan, Exhuma, Let the Right One In, The Wicker Man, Birth/Rebirth, Titane, Late Night With the Devil, Ganja & Hess.

I don’t want to be more efficient. I don’t want to get faster. I want to be deeper, more authentic. I want to be strikingly me. I want people to have shivers when they look at my art. Even if it takes time, I want me to enjoy the process and people to wait eagerly for my art and feel amazing

It's a hard life when you prefer paperbacks to hardcovers. Mentally adding a year to all the release dates for books I'm excited about (Joke's on me, my TBR is so long I wouldn't get to them before then anyway)

Learning will continue despite attempts to restrain it because people *want* to learn. They always have and they always will. I do not believe that AI can can take this from us, and my students this year are, for the most part, proving me correct. My view? The kids are all right.

Sedum 'Autumn Joy' 🌱 #gardensky #photography #bloomscrolling

Folks, I have worked my ass off this week. I'm sure many of you have too. To that I say, we deserve more LEISURE and EASE.

❌ on mass ✅ en masse Today's #SpellcheckWontSaveYou find brought to you by @lynnemeyer.bsky.social 😁 #AmEditing

I keep seeing frustration (this is just the latest) over media only covering the horrors, not what to do about them—but they seem to miss stories about what people *are* doing. I report on that expressly because I want people to know there are people fighting back, and learn how they could, too.

Green's my favorite color. #moss #fungi #fungifriends #mushrooms #nature #naturephotography

“This helps too many people” is not actually a problem

Millennial Gray replaced by Fragile Whiteness www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/s...

Homelessness and Housing are top issues in Portland. It would be unacceptable for the Mayor and staff to not show up to address the missing $21 MILLION dollars that Council was not informed about. Council has subpoena powers and if the executive wants to force our hand, so be it. We will use it.

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

After everything that has happened this year, choosing WHITE as the color of year is REALLY QUITE A CHOICE, PANTONE.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

#copyediting The past tense of "wreak" is not "wrought." The past tense of "wreak" is "wreaked." ("Wrought" is an antique past tense of "work," as in "iron" or "What hath God.")

KOPP'S IN THE NEWS??

As your holiday shopping kicks into high gear, reminder that we're still boycotting Target until they fulfill their commitments to the Black business community. www.aft.org/news/we-aint...

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

Polar bears can go from terrifying to derpy at lightning speed. *they're still incredibly dangerous #BearSeason2025 #mammals 🌿

False Turkey Tail/Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum) we saw last week, for #FungiFriday. 💚 #Fungi #FungiFriends #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷

Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

we're going to win

I simply hope to live my life in such a way that Isaac Chotiner will never have a reason to ask me a single question

Shout-out to @mollyrookwood.bsky.social and @brennabaileybooks.bsky.social, who I learn so much from regularly! And to my fellow editors @paizo.com, who are a delight to work with and some of the funniest and most creative people I know 💜

I finished Winter Burrow 🥹 Now I need expansions for all the other seasons store.steampowered.com/app/3008740/...

Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.

I know the war is already lost, but I believe we should attempt to do something about branding with days of the week. "Black Friday deals starting this Sunday." Unacceptable. "It's a Thursday edition of Sunday Night Football" no it's not, that isn't true.

The thing where every retail outlet in the country has started having "Black Friday" sales in Mid-November in a desperate bid to get people to spend money does not fill me with confidence for the state of the economy.

Can we also talk about how a bunch of jobs that are mostly dominated by women now have had their eligibility for student loans for their education removed in the US, mostly education, therapists and other medical roles #politics

I am an Indigenous journalist working in Indian Country on beats for energy, business, landback, and more. I realize I've spent quite a lot of time on BlueSky asking for money, and I apologize, but my already strained finances will become immeasurably worse if I cannot work.

Please help my friend if you can!!

Turkey tail mushrooms in grey-blue. #fungifriends

One of the brittlegill mushrooms looking very autumnal. 🍄 #FungiFriends

I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.