i needed some comedy back in my politics and mgp’s lobbying to be able to kill corolla-sized sea lions is that

20 mph never looked so aggressive.

QOTD: what’s your perfect two-Chevy garage?

Tillamook strawberry ice cream sandwiches.

good night everybody

Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family. What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory. On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers. www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/

What if we kissed in the Sears lubritorium?

DID YOU KNOW: you can sing "On Top of Spaghetti" to the tune of Chariots of Fire

twilight at Torrey Pines, earlier tonight.

Me and the regular group who like my posts

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

Huge news: FDA approval today for suzetrigine, the first new drug approval for acute (not chronic) pain in decades and, critically, a non-opioid analgesic: edition.cnn.com/2025/01/30/h...

(Grudgingly learns how to mute a word on this site)

Some rules are platform agnostic.

Me in my echo chamber

If you see this post a picture taken in the mountains.

apologies to all my new followers here for awesome piano and instead getting my cursed arrangement of Majima's cursed karaoke song from Yakuza 0 (cheery J-pop number actually a Haydn divertimento hiding in plain sight: virtuosic runs, lively allegro, sick ass I-VI modulation Mozart would have loved)

New Substack post up, for your Friday reading and enjoyment, about the market structure flaws inherent to political betting markets: quantian.substack.com/p/market-pri...

I’ve been here a year but failed to submit my original insect photo. My bad.

rescuing this video from twitter. it was made by @malteserubble youtu.be/3Dffy6CP3-A

If you have resources, please consider helping Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. They are a wonderful organization, and they need help. They’re also where I met the amazing dog shown below.

What’s your sign?

Tomorrow! Restock! Finally! Details on my site! amyraehill.com

Love the latest revision of the night sky.

ISHMAEL: (comes home) AHAB: (nervous) how was the sea ISHMAEL: fine AHAB: oh thank g — ISHMAEL: ran into moby dick AHAB: oh no ISHMAEL: he mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail

When I tell you I screamed

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Here’s a little thing that’s made my life infinitely better. It’s completely free and it gets you unsubscribed from paper catalogs

BRING BACK COMPUTER"S THAT DO WHAT YOU WANT - dashare.zone ADMIN

Birds eaten by John James Audubon, c. 1810-1835: Bald Eagle, Snowy Owl, Roseate Spoonbill, Belted Kingfisher, Herring Gull, Passenger Pigeon, Carolina Parakeet, Peregrine Falcon, Whooping Crane, Robin, Bobolink, Brown-headed Cowbird, Audubon's Shearwater. And many, many others.🪶🗃️📗

LFG.

Back in 2018 I did little watercolor pieces every day in October of Dogs and Cats as Marvel/DC characters. Here is "Thorgi, Dog of Thunder"

Dave Brubeck’s 1960’s Connecticut home was as cool as his music.

Hello BlueSky. I spent 3 days watching every frame of the animated classic FernGully: The Last Rainforest. I cross referenced lists, maps and my own approximate area of where the movie took place around Wollumbin (formerly Mt Warning), Australia to figure out a species list.

Fascinating: regret rates for trans surgery are so low compared to other surgeries that researchers are asking whether informed consent model used for trans people could help reduce regret for other medical procedures. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

the English language is based just enough on Dutch that everything you might say in Dutch sounds like someone making fun of Dutch

you: (just gave birth in a bed of straw, husband doesn’t know who the dad is, bunch of weird old dudes showed up to gift stinky cologne) well it can’t get worse me: (the little drummer boy) and-a one and-a two and-a one-two-three-four

Yes! It's time! Vote early, vote often for Finance Charlatan of the Year! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

NEW from me at Chicago Magazine! By 1983, Ken Eto had ascended the ranks of the Chicago underworld to be the only Japanese-American mob boss. And his story only begins when the mob shoots him three times in the head. https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/may-2023/the-last-gamble-of-tokyo-joe/

If you see this post a bridge

I will never recover from this student email.

YOUR LOVE: A cold and broken Hallelujah MY LOVE: The spacious, comfortable and smooth-riding Hallelujah 6000

data loss 😰

/honk

*bloke turns up at the Pearly Gates in mountaineering gear* St Peter: Another Everest expedition fail? Climber: No, actually I was attempting Gangkhar Puensum St Peter: Gangkhar Puensum? Climber: It's in Bhutan. World's tallest unclimbed mountain St Peter: Weird hill to die on but ok

Happy fifth anniversary to the time I saw a dog taking a taxi.