a Google search that never fails to cheer me up is "overweight birds"

okay I do recommend renting a studio apt that used to be a gas station on the main street of a tiny town tho, I'm lying in the bed watching the American flag on the post office flap in the wind, this is so actually a e s t h e t i c, this would kill on Tumblr

we wanted to understand "the Real America," so we went to a 97% white town in a 83% Trump county, but then when we went for a walk we noted the presence of groups of 3-6 teenagers just as our edible was hitting and got the vibe they'd discussed hate criming us but decided it wasn't worth the laundry

excuse me, Google, do.... do you have a citation for any of this shit????

thanks for the birthday wishes! I had a very Taber one, spent the day rooting around Nebraska back roads and jamming out then got the Friday night Prime Rib special at an American Legion post and have retired to the yassified (complimentary) former gas station in a tiny hamlet I rented for the night

pales in comparison with, e.g. leukemia of course, but one of the more harrowing things that can happen to a person is finding yourself driving a car on a two-lane highway behind an LEO that is going *exactly* the speed limit

Dame Shirley Bassey

Calvin Harris - "Bounce (feat. Kelis)" appreciation post

Nebraska's Sandhills have everything wrong for human settlement. A vast, arid area of shortgrass-stabilized dunes, some interdunal depressions are flooded with water bubbling up from the Ogallala Aquifer below, but potassium salts rolling downhill make it alkaline. Also? There's real quicksand here.

This rock face in Northwest Nebraska has a secret if you know how to look for it. The difference between fissures and cracks and what we're looking for is that animal tracks don't occur randomly. These are of a four-legged, two-toed entelodont (giant pigs) from ~30m years ago

morning coffee walk in Chadron, Nebraska

mountain time is fake so I can go to bed at 7:52pm if I want to here

when you're in Nebraska, do yourself a favor..... go to a place with fluorescent overhead lighting and get a steak and baked potato. it'll come fuckin correct

home for the night is little Chadron, Nebraska, the ten block downtown of this railroad town in the northwestern panhandle has more retail than I expected, a first-run movie theater, and better marked crosswalks than some cities five times its size

drove like 20 feet into South Dakota just so I could take a pic with the Nebraska welcome sign

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if you have been texting me from an iPhone Telephone over the last month plz know that @magiikm1ke.bsky.social just helped me solve a mystery, after I went back to Android I had to go to some web page and "deregister my number from iMessage" so I am not ignoring you, Apple just was eating my texts

hanging out with the Cherry County Sheriff's deputy while we wait for a cattle drive to cross the highway, hashtag just Nebraska things

the Bryan Bridge over the Niobrara River here at Valentine, Nebraska is a unique in America pin-connected cantilevered arch bridge. Named "Most Beautiful Steel Bridge" for 1932, it's also a National Register and Civil Engineering landmark

this gal really fuckin knew how to work a beat that would have swallowed anyone else whole

This sign in Rock County NE nods to the state's license plate numbering scheme. Counties were numbered 1-93 by their rank on a list of counties by registered vehicles in 1922 — so Rock had the 81st most cars then. 1 was Douglas (Omaha), 2 Lancaster (Lincoln). Those two now have three letter prefixes

Niobara Confluence WMA, Nebraska: as the wind whips the drying rushes and other wetland grasses here in the slow, murky waters where the Niobara limps into the Missouri, you can see even in this video how the millions of seeds move along. Just standing here for a minute left me with seeds all over

Wynot, Nebraska

At the time of Lewis & Clark's expedition, the Missouri River ran directly under this incredibly steep bluff, and seeing steam, they identified it as a "volcano" here at Ionia, NE. In reality, erosion was exposing fresh layers of iron sulfide bearing rock to oxygen, generating the heat and steam.

gm from the "Pump & Pantry" in Jackson, Nebraska

running this over in my head today and I think I got them all: States Whose Flagship University Is In A City That Borders Another State: Maryland (UMD, College Park borders DC) Delaware (UDel, Newark borders PA) North Dakota (UND, Grand Forks borders MN) South Dakota (USD, Vermilion borders NE)

why do people not know that by choosing to take a phone call in the hallway of a hotel so as not to disturb your companion, you instead disturb 8-10 different guestrooms worth of people because the doors can't be sound deadened

I have terminal gay brain disease so I took this photograph on I-29 in South Dakota and am releasing it into the gay public domain

Sioux City, Iowa: the intense Christmas light mesh of this place, Buffalo Alice's, drew me in from walking the city's sweet few blocks of handsome commercial buildings, and it was meant to be — REUBEN PIZZA is a stroke of genius, on a soda bread crust with squeaky mozzarella, corned beef, and kraut

America has place names written "Sault," "Sioux," and "Soo" and they are all pronounced exactly the same. English orthography, man

briefly jogged off course to explore Sioux Falls, S.D.; meth reeeeally never went out of style here huh

ewwww South Dakota still has that wicked lady's stupid face on their official state highway maps

Rock County, Minn.: Touch The Sky Prairie is a small remnant of the tallgrass sea that used to cover a vast swath of North America

Minnesota personal injury lawyer billboard

starting the drive to Sioux City with: it was too far ahead of its time for some people

worth mentioning that the Republican delegate who leaked those Jay Jones (Dem AG candidate) texts where he was mean to the National Review, Carrie Coyner, lost re-election last night

jews witches 🤝 full of tips for cleaning up candle wax

every web page is always fucked up at the exact time that I have a time-sensitive reason to use said web page

64 fucking 36!!!!, People's Republic of Virginia mode activated

just to be crystal clear, there is absolutely no basis in halakha (Jewish law) for being Like This. some people are being Like This but it is of their own free will and accord and without any textual support from the sages of our tradition. it is optional to be Like This and they could stop any time

my 20-something neighbors moved in two months ago and have not collected their mail once, not one time, do zoomers not know what the mail is

this time tomorrow I will be vacationing in the US state of Nebraska

cool result from Minnesota's second city: Duluth voters approved a "Right to Repair" law that allows tenants to, if repairs are not made in a reasonable time period, arrange for them on their own and deduct the cost from rent

Incumbent mayor of Minneapolis, human barbiturate and moderately weaselly centrist Jacob Frey, has a plurality in the first round; people are saying he's pretty much got it, but we won't know for sure just yet.

50?!?!?! CALIFORNIA!!!!! XOXO

much better acknowledgement of concession than I expected from Mr. Cuomo, one of the faintest "you have to hand it to him"s imaginable but it really is good

sorry I have started recording the crowd in the camera view at the Andrew Cuomo election night watch party feed which is running live right now bc it is obvious they are not aware that the room is streaming live on YouTube and they keep doing weird shit

watching the Cuomo election night watch party live stream and there's something really fucking funny happening

this is the slate of candidates running for every single municipal election in outstate Minnesota. it's always these three guys

we here at my disinformation desk stand corrected: this is the *second* outing for the nonpartisan maps, they were used in 2023