"All I know is [they're] hard-workin' tax-paying people like you, and [they] don't take shit from nobody, you got that, asshole? AFSCME! The fucking union that works for you!"

Link to the research paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Didn't have my camera on me, but while clearing up some soil for Asarum caudatum on the heavy shaded side, I saw a I think a little geophilomorpha; those guys have so many legs!

Yet another day of jury duty limbo

The attack on public employees is first and foremost an attack on Black folks who got a professional foothold in a sector where discrimination is a little harder to do. For PG county and places like it, DOGE was a generational blow.

Something I've thought about that's been entertaining me while I've been playing Dave the Diver is that there's a reason why a lot of these critters aren't eaten

"This week on Japan's Top Inventions : Meth!"

If the Fifth Element was made today, I feel like we'd get some sort of drone-based vtuber/artificial intelligence/streamer instead of Ruby Rhod

oh my god he admit it!

you crack open an unusually large acorn and these guys all come tumbling out

Yeah, anecdotally those numbers don't math from what I've seen; also something I have seen is out in the avenues a lot more people sleeping in doorways where I didn't before

It’s gardening season! Do your friends and neighbors know about the positive ecological impact we can have by planting native plants?? Help get the conversation started with our Native Plants t shirt! (Modeled by our buddy @wowthanks.bsky.social) Get one at squidfacts.net

Chilling out and listening to the lo-fi chill play list and Is that a cover of a Chrono Trigger track

Day three of jury duty limbo

I wonder what's the easiest way to pick up a used wine or spirit barrel to use as furniture Maybe Urban Ore in Berkeley will have something

I cannot emphasize enough how bizarre it is to me to have extra accounts where you follow people you hate I do the fucking opposite; if someone is prone to getting into online fights or arguments, I mute them, if they are prone to saying bizarre, inflammatory or awful things I unfollow and block

I just remembered Mystery Flesh Pit NP and was thinking how interesting it would be for there to be horror video game which centers on working at a dangerous anomaly, but rather than the horror and violence being something going horribly wrong, it's terribly normal

Dave the diver is pretty good, also I wonder what makes a fake language sound like more or less like a real language, but it's very obvious the simulated language in the game sounds Korean, the famous Prisencolinensinainciusol sounds like English but Simlish doesn't sound like anything

If you call your second property a "pied-à-terre" you should be glad we're taxing you instead of fetching "la guillotine"

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Easy way to release stuck on egg in a pan is to have a bottle of the cheapest wine you can get on hand (two buck chuck though no longer two bucks is good) and do like a deglaze Except unlike with a deglaze that slurry that is left behind goes into the sink

DOES THE SUIT JACK THEM OFF Master Chief: yes Spider Man: no Gizmo Duck: yeah but it’s a whole fucking contraption Frog Mario: no need, frog too fuckable already Samus: no (operatic upgrade song) yes

Enjoying watching City Council of Darkness and seeing the plot emerging that the far right Republican Douglas family and the liberal Democrat Whittakers regardless of their surface political differences end up still voting in lockstep in the city council

🔈 TONIGHT! A Make Some Noise cut-for-time special, featuring all of the best bits from the latest season that were left on the cutting room floor! The special launches tonight at 7PM ET/ 4PM PT, only on @dropout.tv 🤪

Uh oh! So apparently Calbee is switching to monochrome packaging because of supply strains on naptha solvent for inks because

けっこう衝撃的だった。“ナフサが高騰するなか、印刷インクなどの調達が不安定になっているためで、5月25日以降の出荷分から順次変更されます” / “【独自】カルビー「ポテトチップス」　“うすしお”や“コンソメ”などパッケージが白黒に　25日以降出荷分から（FNNプライムオ…” htn.to/pj9gyinU7N

Huh I guess all of you weren't all that mad about Crunchyroll pushing AI subtitles on their platform given the hype about the WHA anime that rolls out whenever a new episode comes out...

God I am so sick of the local term "moderate democrats" none of them a moderate, if you're actually as far to the right as one can go and still be a Democrat you're not a moderate or center by definition.

The reason why centrists of all kinds (including "moderate" liberals) act like this is because above all else they idolize the idea that moderation and balance is the smartest and most nuanced political ideology, and the reason why they attack the genuine left so hard is because the left *reads*

Reference discourse just makes me think of one of the funniest parts of Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga

Not enough people do fanart of Noi in her hottest outfit which is the skirt suit God I love a Big Woman in a suit

Reading the paper and getting mad at the Berkeley econ professor being like "Oh I totally believe billionaires should pay more taxes, but that should be done at the federal level 😏" Knowing damn well that's not going to fucking happen

One animal you won't see in any lists of animal photos for mother's day is the coot

Opened up the back of a electrical machine in a dream and there was nothing inside, just cotton batting no wires nothing

...that's a lot of ambulances

For the people following along at home the faults responsible for the horrid tastes described; TCA, oxidation, acetic acid, iron/metal contamination, DMS, hydrogen sulfide, butyric acid

"Hops are what bad brewers use to cover up shoddy work" is literally the modern version of "medieval people used spices to cover up rotten meat"

Seattle come pick up your trash

The thing about Artisan is even beyond the inflammatory rhetoric in the advertising the claims and promises it makes all seem like a fucking scam

god i hate radish, fuckers grow like a corkscrew in the ground and you have to *excavate* those fuckers

Mystery! The dishwasher popped an error at me and spilled a bunch of water when it was off and has been sitting idle for hours

One downside of cutting out terrestrial meat is god my cuticles, hair and nails have gotten so dry and brittle Costco sells marine collagen online so (didn't see it at the business center when I went), fingers crossed it'll improve things once it gets here

I really wish more people would read Linda Zou and Sapna Cheryan's 2017 paper on the white supremacy being defined by being a racial axis as opposed to a spectrum between a binary of white and Black depts.washington.edu/sibl/wp-cont...

Update: I am dumb, they still have the old kiosks, but for some bizarre fucking reason they lock up the kiosks when the station is not open?

Pushing another mosquito trying to feed gently away while saying "please don't"

White woman holding a leash in one hand and a coffee in another is such a sure sign she doesn't picks up her dog's shit And you know they think it's slick

San Francisco question: so is MUNI phasing out adding cash to plastic anonymous Clipper cards, or is this a part of a broader push for the Clipper card

dont be scared. mitzi mozzarella singing hot to go www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRoW...

Just remembered I finished painting the little odd alcove in the house hallway to make it a Guanyin altar The wooden offering bowl is the wood borer bowl from @cengaldre.com