added chapter 3 because I love you (or possibly because it's a better stopping point, idk 😉)

Friends, wear sunscreen and a hat. As a vampire person, I am telling you it ain't fun to be burned.

Since I’m on my shit again lemme be 100% clear. Southern culture is largely black culture. The music, literature, and food of the American South was greatly influenced by African slaves. Black folks shaped my culture despite not being accepted in it and they deserve recognition and respect for it

"Intelligence is something I try to avoid!" Maj. Frank Burns, 4077th M*A*S*H

Vestibule from the main theatre at the Auditorium Building, 1889. Sullivan-Adler.

The Trump administration has repealed the Public Lands Rule, despite it being widely favored among Americans and providing net positive results for our treasured lands.

Results over rhetoric. This ain't gonna get 'em...

Louder for those in the back. The good shit ain't free, and we need to value that!

Here are the videos of the hen this morning: Video 1: 6:33am, the hen is just past that large tree with the dead limb up against it. My husband is sitting against the tree facing the hen. Video 2 in the replies.

Without daily doses of hydrocortisone, I'll die in about 3 days. Julian Percy is the reason I'm alive and I'm so very thankful for him. H/T onemichistory.com

Trying to get my PMP cert this summer. Will it actually increase my salary in govt? Probably not. But I want forward progress skill wise at the very least. Has anyone here without a technical degree successfully leveraged a PMP to advance in public sector work? I'd enjoy hearing others' opinions

Great Blue Heron Mukbang 📍 Jay Meiners Wetlands, Nachusa Grasslands #birding #birds #heron

#writing #food #author #booksky #outdoors Appropriate post considering I just returned from catfishing one of the best lakes in my state. Always a pleasure to read about this cultural heritage.

Ah yes, time to watch the hummingbirds rumble on the porch. Fiesty lil fuckers

Like geology wise I think Utah/Colorado wpuld be cool... but it feels so....rich white people-y. It mentally icks me out.

Utah looks so bizarre. Like for such a strange landscape it appears to be populated by the whitest waspiest people who are like outdoor bros. I am both fascinated and bewildered.

Secrets of the Internet #2: It's okay for people to like different things than you, and for them to not like the things you do.

It’s why this election matters, gerrymandering or not… hate, racism or not… women’s rights, racial equality… or not It will take decades to defeat a full tilt authoritarian oligarchy, history has proven that… there’s no American exceptionalism in throwing away our republic

I'm afraid my schedule is full today. Rules are rules 😽

Important thread on hantavirus by someone very much in the know. Also, SNV genomes paper!

I need to stay away from the antihistamines. They give me wild dreams. Like cutting off my own hair and then washing two cut off braids of hair in the sink. I can't even braid my own hair. Bizarre

After last night's torrent of strange dreams, I have to say I've come around to the idea that dreams too are basically mining tailings dumped into the river: the effluvia sloughed off during maintenance sessions isn't extra important just because it glows red and smells like sulphur.

Here's what I won't watch any more. Videos of woodworkers, lapidarists, hobbyists etc. who buy $70,000 of the best equipment to produce high quality pieces of art and furniture, sped up to high speeds. It mocks everyone. Give me someone with Harbor Freight tools at real speed. I'll watch that.

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I wish I could have a weekly coffee or walk with some of the folks I follow on here. The company and conversations would be excellent.

🌱🌳Michelle Wendling of Joliet took this photo at O'Hara woods in Romeoville. She won an award in the Preserve the Moment photo contest the Forest Preserve District of Will County sponsors.

I tell my kids that I didn't spent 20 years in uniform and transfer my GI Bill to them so they could be working class, so they might as well not act like it now. Also: "Stop acting like a redneck; you're getting a lacrosse scholarship for shit's sake."

I still think Catcher in the Rye was a stupid book. And Wuthering Heights. One was an exercise in insipid foolishness and the other drawn out misery.

Odysseus got his crew turned into pigs because he was fucking a witch who wasn’t his wife. He put them in danger because he wanted to hear the Sirens. Don Quixote fed his squire and his horse before himself.

I am against purity testing, but I think there is a difference between dismissing a potential leader for a mistake that does not match their overall character and there being one too many facts that don't line up. newbies with no voting record to scrutinize their character under pressure= scrutinize

Sooo what are you supposed to do when your blood pressure has been pretty high all day? Other than being able to feel my own heartbeat under my skin, and being unable to focus, I don't really have symptoms of a hypertensive crisis

👀 None of this is “new” or “original”… 🤷🏻‍♂️🙄🙈

And the reason the vast majority of D electeds don't sound like normal people: they sound, for very good reason, like 1) consultants, 2) rich people, 3) cowards, and 4) dissemblers. Not college professors.

Good thread on pharmacology and doctors knowing so little it is funny in this regard

Practicing. Medical. Doctors. Know. Nothing. About. Pharmacology. Your pharmacist has forgotten a billion times more about pharmacology than your prescribing physician has ever known. Doctors do not get taught pharmacology in ANY detail in the slightest.

The spec as listed vibes like a Coolpix Af.

It feels under-commented upon that an American public dumb enough to vote in Trump nevertheless NEVER supported the Iran war. Iran has been a reflexive American hate object since 1979, and a temporary "rally round the flag" effect is always simply taken for granted... but it never came.

He is asking the Iranians to toss his golf ball back into the fairway for him after he hit it into their backyard, and they're not doing it.

*taps the sign*

"If we do the nigh-on impossible without a massive ground invasion, we can return to the status quo" is not something that could be water-boarded out of me.

She spits golden truths and >'m keeping er

I swear Ezra Klein has got to have a massive trophy room for all his Fell For It Again awards.

Good morning, Cinco de Mayo is a good day to remember that the same ICE and Border Patrol folks who will “celebrate” today will also trample on human rights and continue to be vile against children… because racism Today is a day to remember in our “now” … this is a Regime of Hate Good morning

Silverada’s “You Look Good in Neon” Is a 21st century get off your ass and shoot your shot with that girl you’ve been trying to watch without being a creep song. If they’re really bringing back Urban Cowboy culture and this song isn’t on the playlist they’re fucking up. youtu.be/G02P-mqZ5kM?...

Hello handsome. #TrailCamTuesday 🦃

The people that shout there’s no such thing as structural racism, that get worked up over DEI, and that get very upset when they’re called racists are specifically disenfranchising black communities right now.

Get your pills this week!

Leading an attorney through a semi scientific subject/industry term that is a bit grey is like pulling a stubborn dog past a patch of grass they want to sniff