My wife and I are building an $80k $85k 2000 square-foot addition onto our house- and we’re doing it completely by ourselves. Framing, sheathing, roofing, doors, windows, flooring, plumbing, electrical, housewrap, kitchen, stairs, tile, trim, reverse bathtubs- everything but the concrete and siding

I will use any excuse to bring up Dürer's self-portrait again when talking about his drawings.

Isn't Verity a dog's name? Something stirs in the old SA part of my memory

Gotta block ‘em all! Here’s the one-stop shopping blocklist to disappear the Trump regime accounts that swarmed Bluesky yesterday. Flush these turds HERE - bsky.app/profile/did:...

Knowing how to do basic maintenance to everyday objects, like sewing on a button, sharpening a knife, or patching a hole in drywall, is actually a moral duty.

important note from libcrusher:

one thing that's interesting about tech is the very stupidest people rise to the top. and the middle and bottom

We need UN observers dog

Republicans always make the strongest case for Democrats. too bad this version of the party doesn't exist

Honey, I shrunk the 177th Independent Guards Motorized Brigade!

Don't give up on Gaza! Motaz's family still needs help. Pics to preserve the post due to this site's genocidal erasure of Palestinians. gofund.me/f9406823f

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

man this country is awesome

AI must be destroyed if humanity is to survive. I'm not even joking.

Because of where I work, we look at runaway ads for descriptions of clothing. There one from 1776 that describes an indentured servant as "as great a rogue as ever trod the earth" and I use it to describe one of my cats.

It's truly embarrassing the sheer number of Americans who sincerely believe the US is devolving into a fascist dictatorship "to distract from the Epstein Files". A 5 year old child has a better understanding of how the world works.

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

Liberals and Democrats will call for "funding local police" as a way to solve the problem of DHS/ ICE and no one will think about the fact that this is how we got here.

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today is Snoopy's 75th anniversary 🥲

Little cats is bugs

Reminder that @theguardian.com has a partnership with OpenAI, and has of late published a spate of asinine articles that are uncritical in framing, and just read as press releases for the company and for "AI" in general. The headline/implicit framing of this article seems consistent with its biases.

all mammals share an instinct to destroy their ancient enemy, the loathsome gourd

6 hrs until sunrise in Gaza, after which the IOF will retreat because they are cowards who only come out under the cover of darkness. we just need to keep all eyes on the flotilla until then.

it's possibly my least favorite thing that so many people keep saying "the military will save us" or even just "they won't comply!" this is fanfiction. the US Military blew up fishermen (and double-tapped their boat) just last week and published a snuff film. they send missiles to Netanyahu.

What was everyone saying a few minutes ago about the tyrant's unpopularity among generals being a positive sign? Posse comitatus is the test. They keep choosing to fail it.

HEGSETH: *points to general's ribbon bars* "What'd you get that one for? Fucking your mother?" GENERAL: *sternly* killing vietnamese children

From the Caribbean to Gaza to Portland this whole administration’s posture is basically that they are *encouraging* the slaughter of civilians because to them it’s a sign of toughness and good war fighting. No wonder this is likely to be the first administration that uses AI to automate weapons.

Coming up later on NPR's All Things Considered, a sonic journey of eastern Connecticut's porches.

What good is power when you're too wise to use it?

This peanut butter paste was specifically formulated to help end famine and starvation. This is genocide.

Quoting to pin with the link www.gofundme.com/f/arch-motaz

It is fascinating how the powerful in the anglo world are now just comprised of cheats and grifters who recognize their main constituency as other cheats and grifters.

It hasn't been online for many years, so for today's newsletter I reposted my Big Bang Theory "spec." Tell your friends. kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-end-resu...

Anti-ICE? Hey, you’re nice. Anti-trans? I’m throwing hands.

this is the important first step towards

It seems that Kaleb Horton has passed away. A devastating loss. One of the best writers of this generation. Kaleb was a friend for ten years and in all our conversations I was trying to convince him how good he was, something he seemed to know but also never fully believe. I am going to go cry now.

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Qassam vs IDF in Tel al-Hawa: Elevated Yassin 105 strike vs IDF Merkava tank in southwestern Gaza City; IDF acknowledged the death of a company commander in the 7th Armored Brigade's 77th Battalion in Tel al-Hawa Monday when his tank was hit by RPG fire. [Qassam Brigades 24/9]

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What the fuck. Somebody in a truck, which people on scene think they recognize as an ICE vehicle, DROVE UP ONTO THE SIDEWALK TO RAM PEOPLE, and then ICE AGENTS LAID DOWN SUPPRESSING FIRE WITH PEPPERBALLS SO POLICE COULDN'T INVESTIGATE. What the fuck.

the biden administration suspecting and proving that homan would take a bribe and then being unprepared to take the next step and just letting him walk away with $50k for doing nothing is so on the nose it just doesnt feel real

My first use was inspired by this story www.vice.com/en/article/e...

There's something very pleasing about a store that is entirely no frills, but stacked with material.