Air brakes deployed: a great blue heron flairs its wings while landing on a rock outcrop along the # UmpquaRiver today in SW #Oregon #birds #photography #wildlifephotography

My mother has refused getting her dinner because "I'm waiting until he's dead". I was baffled but obviously she's watching a murder mystery. "Death has priority!"

...awake for 30+ hours, then crash.

...or you took fertility-boosting drugs. However, by then, the party was rewarding you for outing other people. I woke up after outing someone who was sick, entirely by accident. All I'd done was sanitize my own touch-screen equipment, & offered them tissues. This is what happens when I'm...

...with strategically placed agricultural & craft supplies. Those stopped working when the party started doing fly-overs, & using FLiR cameras. -then, it was, "hide on your own for as long as you can." Maybe you took forbidden medication to hide whatever your condition was, including trans-ness...

In the dream, there were various ways of hiding people: -first, it was just, "be where they're not looking, stay off their radar." That stopped working when people realized you weren't a 100% True Believer™ in the party line. -then, it was, "organized shelters w/ camouflage," like farm communes...

I just had a Handmaids Tale style dream. The govt wasn't just killing disabled & non-white ppl. They were killing off anyone who had expended their fertility, & had a compromised immune system, & therefore "kept getting sick all the time."

The Christmas season is here, and that means food drives and charitable giving. Here are a few pointers for people who plan to donate to food banks or client pantries.

As a musician who quit playing because too many men were given a pass on their sexism, partner abuse, sexual assaults, and bigotry, please pay attention when artists are horrid humans and avoid giving them new money. They continue to abuse because they believe they are allowed due to your support.

oh my god, this just makes me sick. I had no idea this was up there. What a travesty. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/

I have a confession to make. I may be pilloried, but I don’t care. I must speak my truth. Suits look frumpy. I don’t like how they look.

I'm not really a "this is a distraction" guy, but I would absolutely believe the macaroni is an intentional troll in the hopes people talk about it and not how she had her nephew's mother abducted and deported or that it seems we're about to go to war against Venezuela

ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join. NYPD arriving with barricades.

calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for

Blue stain fungus. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.

Exhibit A at the War Crimes Tribunal questioning defendant Pete Hegseth.

ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather. NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.

Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.

I saw this account on YouTube, and something about the videos made me uneasy. I couldn’t put my finger on it. Now I know why, thanks to @birdhism.com — the AI cockatoo was inducing an uncanny valley reaction in me.

My fellow autistics, THIS is why some people fear and hate our autism. We notice things. We see through social constructs. We point out that the emperor has no clothes. All of those traits are sorely needed right now. Suit up. We’ve got work to do.

Content Ginger and Spritzer #cockatiel

I’ll think of her when the blue bonnets bloom.

Lolo reached up from my hand for kissies before the vet came. She passed in my hand gently, getting cheeky rubs. I know each bird will leave me heart broken, but the time spent together is worth it. I’ll miss my sweet goth bird. We are never promised a tomorrow, so remember to spoil those you love.

:: screams :: A restaurant in the Playground for Obscenely Rich People is using AI to create its dishes. I thought human creativity was what made fine dining great? www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fo...

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A third infant in Kentucky has died of whooping cough this year. Reminder: The best way to protect against whooping cough is to get vaccinated. Adults should get a Tdap booster every 10 years, so please check, you may be overdue!

NSVRC: Food Access is Vital for Survivors and Sexual Violence Prevention www.nsvrc.org/blog_post/fo...

Miss Piggy FTW

My pent-up rage has to go *somewhere*.

Jelly Ear fungi growing on Elder #WildWebsWednesday

The 2025 UNAIDS report is out and it is a stark reminder that the HIV epidemic is not over. After a decade of progress, the global HIV response was shaken this year by abrupt, deep cuts in international funding. Clinics closed. Community programmes collapsed. www.unaids.org/en/resources...

Sure someone else already did the monsterfucker meme with them, but I just had to #Entrapdak #Entrapta #Hordak #SheRa #Spop

Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K

Ice is gassing neighbors in St. Paul this morning g during a paramilitary fascist raid on the city.

Happening now in Minnesota: Protestors were sprayed as ICE launched yet another federal raid in St. Paul. Communities are standing their ground while agents escalate force. Photojournalist @DPet_KARE11News captured these scenes in real time.

Campbell’s Soup VP mocks ‘poor people’ who buy its food in secret recording

Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, millions of Americans will be donating to food banks and small client pantries run by nonprofit. As someone who volunteers in the client pantry of a domestic violence organization, and who has donated to other pantries in the past, I have a few pointers. 🧵

I tried mackerel for the first time, after reading that it was an oily, meaty fish. It’s absolutely oily. After baking the fillets, I needed to pat them off with paper towels. The flavor is … not bad. It’s strong and meaty, and would harmonize well with lemon, garlic, and/or strong seasoning.

This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.

This reminds me of GlaDOS's cake recipe. which calls for things like "fish shaped solid waste"

I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes

A pair of Gang-gang Cockatoos have stopped by a few times this week! The male is camera shy, but I managed to get a few shots of the female. #birds

Wow! I just tried sour cherry pierogies for the first time, and they’re delicious.

I once had to do a 5 min mindfulness meditation at a freaking work conference and it really fucked me up. I started spiraling into the Bad Thoughts and panicking that I would have to get up and leave the room and everyone would notice and know I had Bad Thoughts and hate me forever.

this would be why I don’t meditate I am told by actual professionals that traditional meditation can be harmful for those with CPTSD so I feel like less of a failure for noping out of it after a terrifying experience when I was 13 that made me change my PE class from yoga to ballet

Many people treat talk therapy, yoga, mindfulness, and meditation as universally positive. Yes, some people draw benefits from them, but some people do not. In some cases, they can be actively harmful! Everyone’s mental health journey is unique. No tool is good for all people.