Keep hearing stories of loved ones in Iran going about their days, doing their part to make life continue for their communities despite these unhinged proclamations. The entire US political establishment that lets this continue isn’t worth a single hair on the head of a Red Crescent rescue worker.

i think if you tweet "a whole civilization will die tonight" you shouldn't go to the hague, the hague should get to come to you

it also has this one

really this whole country should be under papal interdict

ah, the stupid stupid look gen X’rs get on their face when I respond to their “I saw it blow up on tv” with, yeah, Columbia blew up over my then house and the 2 minute long roar of a million pieces of shuttle breaking the sound barrier was horrifying, as was living in the debris field for months

Eel smuggling was in the news again yesterday, and I got some questions. Like: "WFT?" & "Why? & "How?" So let's take a look. Eel smuggling is maybe the biggest wildlife crime going. It's a c. 4 billion a year black market industry. Interpol has called it "Europe's ivory trade." 1/7

huh, fucking wild that Oxford, Mississippi had sushi before any place in California

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

I don’t think people who haven’t met Lauren understand, this is one of the kindest people in Oxford, the University was *lucky* to employ her and we aren’t friends really, I’ve just seen and heard of her being generous and genuine for twenty years straight

your honor, i had the sillies

ooo, I have an incomplete list •a trainee priest 3 days away from ordination said, “Nah,” and jumped ship to New Orleans •the founders of the Methodist church’s dad lost all of his brother-in-law’s money •potato famine •being a Jewish tinker was no longer advisable in that part of Barvaria

Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires. Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess. Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining. Documentarian: Exactly. Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?

im so scared but we have to keep loving each other

Two days ago, 7 democrats voted to fund that execution

beyond words, but fuck these fucks forever

what a legacy

This is basically Andor

Ian Dunt blocked me because I said he has a fitting surname

I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.

The Great American Pyramid

this is why I can never log off

Merry Christmas, friends

We don’t hear much about the West Pole, where Cowboy Santa lives. Probably because of all the people he’s shot

of course it’s in Mississippi

I found this like 10 years ago, and it's one of the funniest deep-dives into local lore you can get about an absolutely cursed area. I think about it more than I should. misspreservation.com/2015/04/01/m...

Hey sorry, I can't come in for my shift today, there were some omens. Yeah, like signs and portents. What? Of course they were fell, I wouldn't be calling out otherwise.

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. The Cherokee were close observers, and some of the plant names are peculiarly apt. Thus the mistletoe, which

"that's a cool old jug with a ship on it this antique dealer just listed, i wonder what cheerful twee nautical verse is printed on the other side"

Too Many Noises Thursday

The existence of a Chattanooga Napoleon implies the existece of a Nashville Talleyrand.

SONGS STUCK

"To achieve mesmerizing and ethereal tunes like 'Tape Bowing Ensemble,' the group attaches bows to the analog tape wound around a reel, and they’ve been known to strum the tape like a guitar, tap suspended lengths with drumsticks, or spin reels like DJ turntables." Meet Open Reel Ensemble:

these are clothes for emaciated bodies

People will say anything on here. “We used to be a proper country,” no we didn’t. That’s not true.

[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy

We belong in a museum

My investigation into traffic and crashes around the Meta data center site in Richland Parish, Louisiana (what Meta says will be the largest in the world) aired on @npr.org Morning Edition today:

why? besides profit, which is why, but fucking why?

“You’ll be visited by three spirits.” The three spirits:

this is how europe is

snail friend

man I wish perjury were a crime

dale gribble for a peaceful society

real knock-down drag-out bout with insomnia tonight, good times