If you'd like to buy Uniqlo's cheap "Colorful 50 Socks" and are a men's foot size 8-9ish or women's 4-5ish, these will end up being too big for you despite the listed size fitting you. And they're line-dry only, so they won't shrink to fit either. FYI.

You have discovered a planet. The inborn sunrise watches on its coordinated rivers. If there are choke cherry trees there, they could teach love.

parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole

When Whistler showed 'Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket,' in 1875, he outraged the chief moralist of art John Ruskin: 'I... never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.' And so a lawsuit began.

Nice work, NYC, VA, NJ and anyone else who came out today to tell Trump to eat shit.

Sadly there will be no Mariners vs Pilots World Series.

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Had a dinner. No wine expert, me, so the recommendation of a chianti to go with this (frozen) lasagna was one I had to look up. Not a fan of reds, so buying this was a risk, but it wasn't bad.

My cat refuses to understand what a historic season Cal Raleigh is having.

Highest praise I can give a review is that made me buy a copy of something rather than wait three or four months for the library to get it: @scumbelievable.bsky.social's "best yet," from @eruditorumpress.com: www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/review-...

I am wasting my life.

John Singer Sargent's 'An Artist in His Studio,' (1906) depicts Ambrogio Raffele; he's shown here in his cramped bedroom at Purtud in the Val d'Aosta, Italy. Sargent’s rendering of light on the rumpled sheets of the unmade bed fills nearly half the canvas.

📷 Raúl Urbina.

trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether

These are the weak points. You know what to do. First thing tomorrow, use 5calls.org and raise hell.

Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4

While I'm aware that you're not supposed to rinse after brushing... I've always done so. It feels odd not to. But I'm lying here in bed with a mouth full of toothpaste even after spitting out the excess. Am I not supposed to swallow?

Yesterday we released our cosmic treasure chest...and now it's yours to explore! With ✨~10 million galaxies✨ in the image, there's plenty to find. Pan, zoom, and hunt for gems in this treasure chest using Skyviewer - and be sure to share your favorites with us! 🔭🧪 ➡️ skyviewer.app/explorer

Kitchen by Natalia Zourabova, 2018. Russian, b. 1973 - Oil on canvas

Read the whole thread for a comprehensive fisking.

NEW ESSAY: rather than reading the legalese SCOTUS used to justify Skrmetti, learn about how conspiracy theorists hijacked mainstream discourse on gender-affirming care: on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid... & Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...

seven years on the dot.

Yeah. Wrote about today's horrendous decision at The Evening Constitutional, not just to rant but to make a jurisprudential point: there is simply no way to craft a law of equality that does not take account of social meanings eveningconstitutional.net/skrmetti-sho...

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Skrmetti's gentility, like everything else from Roberts' pen, is on a spectrum with naked evils like yesterday's order from the HHS to kill their contract with the Trevor Project LGBT suicide hotline. They're the same thing.

transition care for trans people is life saving healthcare. the only regret with my transition is that i didn’t start when i was younger. fuck everyone who is cheering on the destruction legal trans healthcare, and fuck those indifferent to it

Though the Skrmetti court did not overturn Bostock, disingenuously claiming that today's decision doesn't address B's Title VII claims, this decision's damage to sex discrimination law will inevitably impact trans adults in a near-future case.

Obama's Iran deal was good, fair, was working, shouldn't have been abandoned and is proof that we always have other options. We can choose not to go to war. We don't have to do this. But it feels like 2003 again where *all* the political machinery is pushing us toward this.

Song of the day is this Monica Zetterlund/Bill Evans performance of "Some Other Time" www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR11...

More than 2,200 people lined one of the Yakima Valley’s busiest intersections Saturday to protest President Donald Trump and voice their support for democracy. Coverage from @donaldwmeyers.bsky.social‬ at the Yakima Herald-Republic.

The sign I made for today's march includes four of Woody Guthrie's New Year's resolutions for 1943: Don't get lonesome. Beat fascism. Love everybody. Wake up and fight.

For anyone going to the No Kings events today: remember to turn off face recognition on your phone and put it in airplane mode. Good luck everyone!

Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.

Thank you to everyone hitting the streets today for #nokings rallies! Be safe and watch out for each other.

Do lend Jack and Emily a hand if you can.

It was this hot in here the other day

In the red for the past month. Made some mistakes and impulsive purchases. "It's not a problem if I just don't think about it" is one of my worst traits.

shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

Why is it that no matter which broadcaster is carrying a slam final, be it NBC or ESPN or TNT, I have to listen to John McEnroe on all of them?

In the third straight slam between Sabalenka and an American, Gauff wins her first French Open and her second slam. A day of poor serving on both sides (15/34 games were breaks of serve), but Sabelenka's 70 (!!!) errors undo her.

This is much more thrilling tennis than watching some sacrificial lamb lose to Iga 6-2 6-1 in 50 minutes.

Sabalenka is a reminder that things can go right for you one minute, wrong for you the next, right for you again, wrong for you again and then, finally, right for you again.

Roland Garros 2025 fun fact #1: 2013 (the US Open) was the last time both the men's and women's singles finals at a major were contested by the top two seeds. Today, #1 Sabalenka vs #2 Gauff. Tmrw: #1 Sinner vs #2 Alcaraz.

Sarah Thibault (American, 1980) - Still Life (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (2018)

is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

This should have been obvious but a moment ago I learned omega literally means "big O" and omicron means "little O"

Would really like to see a Dr Who showrunner who writes for people who don't have 70s/80s fanbrain and for whom callbacks to episodes that happened before most of them were born are meaningless. Oh wow, it's Upsilassilon from the 1971 classic The Tendrils of the Mabinomicron!