Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

patron: do you have any books like Eragon? me: oh ok, so fantasy with dragons? sure (gives options) patron, returning: do you have any books about lichens me: like werewolves? patron: LICHENS me: L Y C A N? patron: the moss? me: OHHH sorry i was still in fantasy mode

Still a need! 👇🏻

🚨I hate having to write this. He was scheduled for surgery this morning, but our family vet found his red blood cell count had dropped. They told us if he bleeds during surgery there, he could die on the table because they don’t have blood products.

I just sneezed and a man LOOKED at me but did NOT bless me, I am putting a counter-hex upon him this very moment

If you’d like to help Twin Cities’ pets stay fed and safe during the federal government’s terror campaign, please throw a few bucks to The Bond Between. Tell them Petra sent you. www.thebondbetween.org/donate

It is Bandcamp Friday.

Hi friends - Sara, a former iSchool student in the Chicago area, is trying to arrange for additional hotel nights due to the cold. Her Paypal is saschmidt8 @ aol . com if you can help with $$$. #mutualaid

This cost almost $400 that I don’t have so if anyone would like to donate to our found cat, here’s my info. We named her Saja, after KPop Demon Hunters. It means ‘lion.’ venmo.com/u/pixiedane

I called Duarte a "siwwy wittle guy" and it activated Siri?? Siri, you so siwwy

I am accepting this challenge and raising $1200 for one Minneapolis family to cover their overdue rent today. Venmo me at nkkritzer and I will send the money to that family once it's raised. I believe in us. Cat photo because you know who likes cat photos (everyone, everyone likes cat photos)

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

Remember how I said we had plans to try to reduce Amazon wishlist dependence for our whistle printers? We'd love to get enough polymaker gift cards so we can do a bulk buy directly from the manufacturer and get a stack of filament for an entire urban area.

WHOA. An amazing deal on some amazing books for an amazing cause.

“The first line that a lot of these moms say when they call is, ‘I’ve never asked for help and the only reason why I’m asking for help is because I love my kids,’” In response she’ll tell them in Spanish: Vergüenza robar - no pedir. Or roughly, ”Shame on those who steal, not those who ask for help.”

I took a long weekend trip to Las Vegas with a friend (which yes meant that on the day of national strike/boycott/whatever I was unfortunately in America's #1 place to spend money, sorry my political purity is compromised) which was overall an extremely pleasant and fun trip!

A pleasingly symmetrical solve for me today Wordle 1,690 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

“are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” has been knocking around my head all day

patron: does your library have a jetpack I could borrow? me: I'm sorry? patron: a jetpack? Maybe that's not what it's called...for internet? me: oh...a HOT SPOT?

a wholesome anecdote for the day: I helped an older man set up his new iPad, which he got because the old one was "full of pictures of grandkids so it didn't work anymore." He was excited to use it to be able to send photos TO the grandkids, including one he had recently taken of a pot of soup.

Hi. This is Lulu's, one of my neighborhood restaurants. They were broken into the other night. They are supporting the Jan 23 action by closing for the day. They could use a hand to do so, since they were just robbed. Can y'all pitch in a bit? www.gofundme.com/f/support-ou...

There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.

So moved by the people of Minnesota who—drawing on LA, Portland, Chicago, DC etc—are writing a shining new chapter in the history of nonviolent resistance. The rest of us need to be taking notes—and helping them! www.standwithminnesota.com

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

i think this gets at something important which is that normal people are rightly pissed off that they’re having normal time stolen from them by this ravaging horde of jumped up mall cops. everybody has to work in the morning! why is it THEIR job to hold their community together in such a basic way!

I don't like it when people say HR to mean Heated Rivalry. Sorry babes, that is human resources and it is not sexy. perhaps it can be HeatRiv. No that's bad too. maybe we can just call Heated Rivalry "hockey" and then real hockey can be "real hockey." I hope this helps

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

me: Hi I need to schedule a breast MRI for [date range] receptionist: Sorry we're not booking that far in advance me: Oh ok, my PCP told me to schedule early bc it can be hard to book receptionist: (completely deadpan) Yes, breasts are always popular. so true

This is why they could never make me hate you, Emily Henry.

I’m so happy Ron Funches is on this season of the Traitors!! Love that dude!!!

For those outside Chicago: we have an Amazon wishlist! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

oh no, on top of all the other problems in the world, people are already starting to ask me for tax forms at the public library

If you’re looking for some way to help.

I want to build a world where every day can be a Grinch toilet day. I never want to make a serious post again for the rest of my life

once again I am saying

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

I’m late to the party but I started watching Somebody Somewhere and this is now a Fred Rococo stan account

Here's some old Venezuela lore this here is El Ñigre, a shitty statue of a tiger located El Tigre, Anzoategui state The govt replaced it with a "better" statue after it went viral, but the people rose up against this injustice and they were forced to restore it to its rightful place He's perfect

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

per annual tradition, my "WHAT'S IN AND WHAT'S OUT" list is up....YES.... johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/whats-in-a...

me rolling up to the Upside Down

physically i am at work mentally I just spent an hour reading various recaps of Stranger Things, a show I have not watched since season 1

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.