BREAKING: Today Vancouver City Council voted to EXTEND the massively successful Granville Street people-first transformation/pedestrianization until September 7th! With budget, which is key. Now the key is to DO IT WELL post- #WorldCup. Also direction for next year, & a November Christmas Market.

He has gotten too much air time. He got empowered with that podcast mic & too many people insisted on taking this bigot seriously, now he up & got the nerve to found a new political party. See what happens when we keep assholes viable instead of not letting them suck attention? They become monsters.

Never forget about Diadie Camara, a young man so desperate not to be returned to slavery that he tried to plead asylum in one of the most corrupt countries on the planet (even worse than ours under Trump). www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Something like 19,000 people have been subjected to third-country removal so far. And I've only got basic biographical info about maybe 200 of them. All unjust, but I probably feel worst for the two Burmese people imprisoned in South Sudan and the Mauritanians sent to Equatorial Guinea and Uganda.

tfw you’re gonna throw up ten minutes later

This could be my Outer Hebridean great grandmother (it isn’t) but it could be, if you know what I mean. I’ve seen this film before but this clip has been colourised, not terribly well, it’s nice to hear them singing though.

Saw some people wistful for this tradition, but there's no reason to feel low. These women are engaged in a process known as waulking, in which weavers soak freshly woven tweed in vats of stale urine. Then they beat the cloth until it softens and shrinks. The work songs help keep rhythm. 🧵

Title text: "If you're thinking 'Wait, a giant crystal cave in Mexico? What's that?' then I'm SO excited for the image search you're about to do." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3266#Transcript

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In addition to being gorgeous, our Plains Prickly Pear cacti are hotspots for pollinators, like these Red-Blue Checkered Beetles #invertebrates #pollinators

DC’s been experiencing an overdose spike over the past week! This has effected the whole city, but hardest hit neighborhoods are: Chinatown, Union Station, NoMA, H Street Corridor, K Street, & Carver Langston CARRY NARCAN You can get it at your local pharmacy or text LongLiveDC at 888-811

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REPENT TO YOUR WEATHER LORDS!!!!!!!

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@artologica.net Squirrel of the Day #Baltimore

The Branch Manager would like to remind everyone to stay cool and take your dogs swimming

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

THE WHITE HOUSE HAS BEEN OBLITERATED BY AN ATTACK BY THE SPACECRAFT OVER D.C. FLAMES ARE HUNDREDS OF FEET IN THE AIR. THE CAPITOL BUILDING HAS BEEN FLATTENED.

WIP featuring babygirl Sephie

SERIOUSLY WHAT FUCK THIS GUY IS CASUALLY LIKE "OH JUST STICK IT WHERE YOU WILL INEVITABLY BURN YOUR FUCKING HOUSE DOWN I AM ENGLISH THIS IS NORMAL HERE"

Should be a career-ending scandal, will be out of the news within hours.

How To Do Your Part To Fight Climate Change So Major Corporations Don’t Have To thehardtimes.net/blog/how-to-...

If you know someone on the fence on the Markey/Moulton race, this video dives into all the issues with Seth Moulton’s record of votes and statements. Makes very clear why he cannot be trusted.

Sooo... "Dr. Acton said she agrees with the law prohibiting transgender women and girls from participating in women's and girls' sports. 'I do not support boys playing in girls sports. This is already settled law in Ohio, and as governor I will enforce and uphold the law,' Dr. Acton said."

i keep seeing this, but the contractor they hired to do this are a pretty well known, professional outfit. that doesn’t mean they can’t be corrupt, but it’s not, like, trump goons running this particular show, and the company is gunning for a guinness record

Its extra brutal when something like this happens during a heat wave because you know people are turning to convenience foods because it's too hot to cook

I've said it before, & I'll say it again & again: When people have their first epistemic & ontological shocks— those shocks to what they thought they knew & thought was real— you have to guide them CAREFULLY to get them to move *Toward* prosocial consensus reality & *AWAY* from, e.g., conspiracism.

In San Francisco they built the Palace of Fine Arts for an exposition in the early 20th century, and it's still there. It's real. 100 years later this is the best we can do? Pathetic. We used to actually do things

We had planned this, which would have been a great combination, but this week sauce that they gave us preempted it. festival.si.edu

Imagine a day like this: Browsing indigenous clothing and artwork from Arizona & Alaska. Photo galleries of National parks in Utah & Washington. Lunch: both TX and NC BBQ on 1 plate (if that’s too much, have a Chicago hot dog) Take a museum break …

Was coming here to say just that! Each state has a “house” filled with food and small businesses from that state. It’s hands down my favorite part of the Big E, esp the food options - lobster roll in the Rhode Island house, maple syrup stuff from VT, and so on…so fun!

Malignant narcissists have to be the Bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral.... Trump is ALWAYS the Birthday Boy

Apparently for the 250th the Smithsonian was working on a "festival of festivals", that would highlight the world's fair, burning man, Woodstock, etc. Sounds pretty awesome.

Instead we have open spaces...with no shade...during one of the worst summer heatwaves. We have $25 pretzels TWENTY FIVE DOLLAR PRETEZELS WHAT THE FUCK The lack of people would be more shocking, except Trump ruins everything. And people have a reference point for what this SHOULD be. Sad.

But the idea of having all 50 states do a booth, and highlight their state holy shit that could've been GRAND having all 50 states compete in like quilt competitions and such HOLY SHIT THAT WOULD'VE BEEN BALLER

I think the one thing that really has people reeling about the 250 celebrations is that the State Fair idea was actually a REALLY GOOD IDEA. It could've been SO much. It could've been so much with minimal fucking effort. ANYONE who's been to a state fair, and even I have been to one...knows ...

Trump appears to have at least two different editions of “Library”. Clearly a collector.

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

i’m so sorry but as a jew i fear this is the catholic version of the classic @averyedison.com post

We HAVE to keep trying. Please do NOT let my monthly five be one of the only donations this family ever gets. You all know Wolf. They need help to stay housed & fed. It's as simple as that. Read their story and act. Anything helps, especially clicking “weekly” or “monthly”:

Third places are fewer and more expensive. And a generation ago, work didn’t follow you outside the office because you didn’t have a smartphone.

I'm not in the US but I haven't set foot inside a bar/nightclub, bowling alley, or movie theatre since covid began and without some impactful changes (HEPA filters! N95 mandates!) I likely never will again. Also wages are stagnent and everything is overpriced so (almost) everyone broke

Hell yeah we are

12:30 and one of the kidlets came back for lunch. BT, I think. 1- contemplating having another 2- after snacks, up in the clay seed bowl showing off iridescent feathers 3- looking down the slope, a zoomed view shows some of the colored skin patches behind each eye #birds Greater roadrunner SoCal

I just found out that the Supreme Court justices get paid $300K a year and now I’m mad all over again.

This is part of what I remind people regularly is that you have to have a safe place to go to. Our HOA literally sawed down the basketball hoop cause the president “didn’t like kids cussing behind his house”. Now it’s a patch of cement and invasive weeds and I’m annoyed.

AI to make a grocery list.

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