Today in low energy, disability friendly cooking, we're comparing pre-prepared beets from Great Value, Del Monte, HyVee, and Love Beets. Tasting Notes Great Value: Metal, sadness, dirt, actually spit it out. Del Monte: Weirdly, suspiciously firm. Tastes like sugar. They added sugar.

Tiny green and gold knitted and crocheted baby sweater with leaves in a border around the waist.

Like if ANYONE should be like "the moon landing was fake, space travel is fake" it would be me cause I'm a space hater. And I'm not because I'm not a fucking weirdo and I like my hate pure and unsullied. Facts just make my hate stronger.

Again, when I worked at Popular Science one of the most popular stories was 10 ways you can tell for yourself the earth is round.

someone listened to my halloween album and told three friends about it, and they lucked into a stash of magic anklets. someone else didn't listen or share and they were waylaid by skeleton warriors, died, and lost half their gold. just repeating what i heard

A federal judge in Boston indicated that she will intervene in a high-stakes fight over the Trump administration’s decision to not tap into billions of dollars in emergency funds to help cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November.

Montana - the Blackfeet Nation is culling their buffalo herd to feed their people. In the meantime, the millionaires representing us refused a stand alone bill to fund SNAP for 77000 Montanans-1 of every 14 people in this state. The cruelty IS the point. #MTPol flatheadbeacon.com/2025/10/30/y...

It makes me feel feral when someone posts a disability friendly recipe and starts by getting out a cutting board, so here's an actually easy one: I get a bag of chopped kale and put it directly in the freezer when I get home from the grocery store. It doesn't go bad and can be used when needed.

Trump is quite literally the biggest union buster in American history. Every single Republican who supports Trump is anti-union, including Vance and Hawley and the other mythological “we love workers” ones. You are all lying rat cowards.

I see the purges are running right on schedule:

If your sweatpants have a hole in the knee, you can just mend it with a bunch of little sparkly beads. There are no rules!

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

The White House says it’s going to use procurement dollars to illegally pay the troops for rather than do it the legal way of enacting a military pay bill. You cannot w/ a straight face tell me using procurement dollars to pay the military adheres to the purpose statute and the Antideficiency Act.

This is evil. It's cruel and unusual punishment. Prisoners should not have to pay at all to be able to speak to their loved ones.

This is literally half the people I grew up with. One kid used to steal cars every day, but also would pick me up from the bus stop and drop me at high school every day. In a stolen car.

It's been a long, long, LONG wait, but the Portrait in Cells scarf - based on this artwork - is back in stock in two weights of silk, yayyyyy! #sciart www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...

Just can’t identify with people hating cats. Are they too soft? Too warm? Too cuddly? Purr too loudly?? Their paws are too small??? Too sleepy????

Ok in fairness to the media, "Man has extremely normal life experience, yet wants to become mayor of New York City, a job fit only for madmen and sex offenders" kinda is a story

"There's a manakin wearing the sweater you're wearing, somehow raised and glorified." —Harrison Lemke

Blue peafowl. Ink on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 85 × 133 mm. Not so happy with this as I'd hoped to be. A combination of tiredness and my not managing the ink consistency well enough, resulting in quite a few areas of unsightly patchiness.

how can you not be romantic about slowly losing the will to live

I have experienced extra innings World Series games three times in the last 8 years and two Trump presidencies the human spirit was not meant to withstand so much

I'm actually anti-information, but pro-polio. you've never met someone like me

check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby

Kelvin Kiptum would have been the first two run a marathon in less than two hours, and that he never got the chance to try before his death is devastating.

Median voters approximately five minutes after Donald Trump is sworn in:

Glory be to God for appled things

Pancetta is Fruit-by-the-Foot for grownups.

I want a restaurant that perfectly replicates the experience of the first time you go to a school friend's house for dinner. A plate of food where everything is just ever-so-slightly wrong, at a table with a family that is politely falling apart.

SNAP is not why your taxes are high. I *wish* it was why my taxes were high. We are a rich nation with a lot of food. We should feed people. I don't care if they "deserve" it or "worked for it" or anything else. Feeding people is an unalloyed good with no downsides.

Grant to thy faithful people pardon and peace, that we may be cleansed from all our sins, and serve thee with a quiet mind.

My portrait of Twigs is officially done!

hey so for once there's an actual happy update to something our local ice cream guy came home and he's getting a green card

Whenever I hear that Chappell Roan song I think “My Neighbor Hottogo”

while you're here for the uncles, do check out the great work of NIJC. able to donate? send me an email, and I'll mail you a little thanks!

This is the blueprint, the archetype even, of the modern masc lesbian.

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

Changes to Oklahoma’s curriculum rules make it so teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists. ➡️ Full story: https://propub.li/3WXTkFm

They SURE F-IN DID.

I tried a kind of gimmicky new sewing needle and broke one within two hours. I won't be recommending it. I also tripped and fell holding said broken needle and cut my hand open and hurt my wrist, though that was more the fault of my feet than the needle.

All my projects are running out of yarn, and I'm trying to be cool and just make changes to my original plans about it.

It's so pretty www.etsy.com/listing/1600... #sciart

A little green crocheted baby sweater with yellow leaves in progress.

Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law. By @richardawebster.bsky.social

Reading some old family documents the other day, in which the Bolsheviks are mentioned, accompanied by ‘God curse their name.’ Thinking of adopting this as a general practice for a few well-chosen targets. Starting here. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...

The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed

I could easily see myself voting for someone who runs on abolishing ice and prosecuting every single one of them and the entire administration free campaign idea to good home

I know every corporation has its thorns and there's no ethical consumption under capitalism etc: but just dump Spotify. do it now. Apple Music is great, I've heard Tidal is solid, Deezer, whatever. you can transfer your playlists. it'll be ok. they can rot.

A sashiko chore coat would fix me