I'm going to start a Libro.fm membership & was asked if someone referred me at sign up. Does anyone have a referral code they'd like to throw my way so they can get whatever benefit comes from that?

this is more important than maybe 90% of what anyone talks about on this site

As a haver of a condition that makes it so what used to be pleasant heat now absolutely body slams me, this is good news on my end.

We've cycled back to taking turns choosing what to watch for our family's Pizza and Movie Night. Tonight, my 18-year-old picked #TheAdventuresofBaronMunchausen. I'm so proud it hurts.

The best part of this is all of the comments are like "pretty much" "accurate" "<extended quote> lololllll true"

ADHD people with their mobile tab count like

With the substantial caveat that I don't watch any main-network coverage, I'd wager that the point's gotten across pretty well to anyone who watches/listens to/reads anything that's not FOX & its ilk.

Hello + welcome if you have just found us! We're a podcast of #SlowRadio sounds from real places. Explore 280+ episodes of sea, country and quiet whenever you need. This is a good first listen. Episode 89 - The birds of the leafy ravine (37mins) A dawn chorus from Cheshire in June > bit.ly/LenPkD8

FWIW, the version of #TheWitches which had been rather unceremoniously removed from its streaming platform now seems to be free to stream on YT: youtu.be/zeWzSlf_tDE?...

I'm a sucker for putting off doing what I'm supposed to be doing to extend my chix supervised free ranging, especially when they're obviously having a good time. Even our accidental roo, Rusty, got in on the action.

Stories like this make me wonder if I was in possession of a monkey's paw at some point and've blocked it out.

A family of extinct camels (Camelops hesternus) is relaxing in the tree lines of Pleistocene North America. Made for the Ice Age Fossil State Park, Nevada, Las Vegas Copic Marker and colored pencil on Fabriano paper #paleoart #paleoillustration #camelillustration #naturalhistoryart #animaldrawing

hallo bsky pals, I'm trying to get the view/ comment count up on our new show reel so that we don't look like billy no mates, it's for an application thing, please check it out if you feel like it! it's here! youtu.be/gSFMCxV9nZw?...

Mesozoic Art II finally properly out later this month - news on events to be announced soon!

It's like a ham-fisted cautionary tale of an 80s movie...

This is the stupid shit I complained about a few weeks ago. People at real publications doing news reports based on the vibe-y narrative about a future action that may or may not happen given by the freaking White House Press Office of the Trump administration. You credulous fools.

Tossing aside public health measures can't possibly go wrong in a sub/tropical environment, especially with rising water levels on tap (NO PUN INTENDED) to do so many exciting things for viral cultivation and spread.

So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?

My non-expert search turned up that this is likely a Black-Staining Polyphore (Meripilus sumstinei). I don't know if that's right, but it looks neat. #FungusAmongUs

The people are doing yard work and no one's playing fetch with Babs even though Babs keeps finding sticks and hitting the people with them. This is stupid. #dogs

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A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."

A lawyer for George Mason University President Gregory Washington told the board the leader had done nothing unlawful and would not apologize for his diversity, equity and inclusion policies, despite a call from the Education Department to do so.

The US Department of Health and Human Services indefinitely suspended the expert medical bodies responsible for reviewing compensation claims from nuclear workers for radiation-related illnesses, leaving many in limbo reut.rs/4oTfoOs

from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

ALERT: Former Justice Dept official to CBS News - "The rules don't exist anymore" ====>

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee released a trove of documents Thursday that back up a whistleblower’s claim that Emil Bove, a senior Department of Justice (DOJ) official, crudely told subordinates to defy court orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Trump regime forces attacking innocent farm workers and families in California, the "protestors" are concerned US civilians standing up for human rights amid the regimes ethnic cleansing campaign. #3E #StopICE

Your 🚨final reminder🚨 that we have a new Murderbot short story coming out right here at Reactor, tonight after the season finale! Okay ty enjoy hehe #Murderbot

ITS OFFICIAL. MURDERBOT SEASON TWO. #Murderbot reactormag.com/murderbot-ha...

This is just sick. via @ktla.com: Footage obtained by KTLA shows a young man crying, saying his mother had just been taken, and children and protesters running from tear gas that was deployed when a crowd gathered at an immigration raid at a Ventura County farm this afternoon

What a weird leap for him to make.

TN Holler banned from all boot licker Zucker fuck platforms

This is a reminder that if you subscribe to Disney+ and have children you can show said children the finale to the show Dinosaurs in which it's made clear that all of the featured characters are about to die. variety.com/2022/tv/feat...

America: “we need to regime change you you don’t do things right” Also America:

I remember when his son, Richard W. Smith and his three frat buddies selected a random UVa student and beat the hell out of him on the street while they laughed, back in 1997. UVa didn't expel them, thanks to Fred Smith's intervention. Today, Richard W. Smith is a COO at FedEx.

"I'm voting for Trump because he'll keep us out of war." Fuck You. Assholes.

*the inhabitants of Hyrule watching me fiddle around with the controls for a Divine Beast for half an hour* "I...I don't think Link knows what he's doing..."

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

I've spent all morning with my Switch 2 and then I jump on here to

Wal-Mart included gifts w/ my #Switch2 😂

what this is a total surprise, completely came out of nowhere /s

there is a lot to unpack here, none of it good

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

I haven't caught the Cyberpunk comics in the bundle but've read & enjoyed most of the Witcher on offer here. Not a bad selection for $24 USD. www.humblebundle.com/books/witche...

I'm going to have a mental breakdown my spouse just used the kitchen (food) scissors to cut hair out of the vacuum and

Watching Rogue One: The Empire is actively against worker safety measures. If you can't survive the dynamic razor sphincters and the complete lack of railing you simply do not belong in the Empire.

BREAKING: Kyiv comes under a massive Russian drone and missile attack with explosions heard throughout the city.