If you have to worry about whether or not your government is paying attention to your actions and will respond however they please without due process, you're not as free as you might think you are. #nokings

I'm awash in growing dread. "Now, the halftime air was sweet perfume While sergeants played a marching tune We all got up to dance Oh, but we never got the chance 'Cause the players tried to take the field The marching band refused to yield Do you recall what was revealed The day the music died?"

Naysayers: "You won't have the same software options if you switch to Linux!" Me: [laughs maniacally in early-mid 90s Mac user -- because NOTHING was compatible with 90s Macs lololol]

You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

Stop doomscrolling. Look at these baby hawks FREAKING OUT at the sight of a MONSTROUS, TERRIFYING… butterfly. 🦋 “MOM! MAKE IT GO AWAY!” www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/EOixNrF

"Perimeter's scouted, Mom. Ready to go, now." 😂 I made him stay for a few more minutes after all the trouble to get here, but he was more interested in scoping the place out, then went right back to the car. 🤣 He'd have made a good working dog.

I bought this a while back, but I haven't really been in a great headspace to read it. I pretty much already know the overview of how it went in the South (the consequences still haunt us), but I don't often hear about the North. Think I'll give it a chance today.

Gaben save us from Microsoft with a proper desktop SteamOS.

Did anyone actually ask for a feature-packed PC OS, or is that just something Microsoft forced upon us? Because I really loved the original 90s MacOS, and all I ever actually wanted my computer to do was turn on and show me my master drive folder. No gimmicks, nothing hidden.

Jordy created a website where visitors can contribute $35 to “provide an inflatable costume for a True American.™” He initially hoped to collect enough to buy a couple dozen suits. But as he put it -- “This whole thing has blown up a lot.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

I had not considered this. 🤣

I started with "following" and shook things up with a few random interest feeds like "fish," "booksky," and "paleoart." I occasionally rotate my interest feeds or the order of my feeds to change the way I experience Bluesky and find new people to follow. :)

Them: Bluesky is a liberal monoculture. Bluesky liberals:

Hi hi #PortfolioDay! 🎨✨ I'm Requinoesis, someone who loves the ocean! I'm dedicated to creating a new insight into the imagery of sharks under pastel colors! 🌊🦈✨ You can see more of my art stuff here, if you want: linktr.ee/requinoesis

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

#Paleoctober2025 day 13 and 14 paleoart sketches with the early stick grasshopper Eoproscopia and the strange shaped coelacanth Allenypterus. #Paleoctober #Paleoart #Eoproscopia #Allenypterus

It just occurred to me that not only is the former map pocket in my car nearly useless for maps, it's also a drink holder that doesn't hold drinks (most of the time). My first 2 cars could do both and still function as black holes for everything else. Utterly useless! 🤣

My dream of a mini castle, which is ridiculous and not at all useful, and an inflatable dragon for the roof. The curse is broken and I get both my dream and my new curse: state property taxes. 🤣

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

Now with bonus AI data scraping for added "public safety!"

[August 3rd, 1980] Actors' strike due to unsatisfactory salary negotiations and lack of residuals from cable, satellite, and pay TV companies is causing production delays and public outrage. The strike affects 45,000 actors, with only a small percentage earning over $10,000 annually.

One of the terrible things about the conservative elites’ attacks on higher education is that they are giving their constituents the impression that the universe isn’t big, complicated, and fascinating — that it really does take this many people to work out how even a small fraction of it works

How come nobody told me about this bird? So cool! And now I'm lost in a rabbit hole of spur-winged birds no one ever talks about. ...Horned screamers are wild af. youtube.com/shorts/lzwwN...

If by threatening, he means threat to his master plan, then maybe yeah. Otherwise, wtf even. 🐸

They also took down a prominent page a few years back that used to alert members of the LGBTQIA+ community about their content shared in hate groups. The site actually went on a bit of a rampage at that time, taking down queer and ally pages for "impersonation" while leaving hate groups standing.

I finally found the perfect sticker so I can put this book on my shelf without that thrice-accursed crooked symbol staring back at me. 🤣 the cat eating their stupid mark is pure poetry to me.

These are so cool! ❤️

Major news outlets are standing together and refusing to sign. ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News have all rejected a new Pentagon policy that would impose unprecedented restrictions on news gathering.

Is it such a big ask that a few of the folks out there mass producing 3D printed dragons also maybe do custom order parts for vintage appliances? Like, folks with scanner capabilities, we send you broken plastics, and you send back cool colored replacements?

Accidentally referred to a spray bottle as a water gun, and you'll never guess what kinds of toys I played with as a kid. 😂

Today is a great day to support Native art! New items are available on my website for the upcoming Native American Heritage Month (November) 🤍💛❤️🖤 #Mvskoke #Native #Indigenous #Beadwork #IndigenousPeoplesDay

I shall not social uncaffeinated. I shall not social uncaffeinated. I shall not social uncaffeinated. [does it anyway] 💀☕️🫖🍵

This is a nightmare....

Young furries, do not buy this repulsive slop Support actual furry artists if you want silly furry merch, they're out there and they're happy to oblige, and you won't be feeding a machine looking to capitalize on your subculture Corporate shitposting needed to be smothered in the crib, istg

This workshop will initiate with people from Mexico, Latin America and Europe to strengthen the ties of stop motion and collaboration and, in exchange, education will be provided for free for one Mexican / Latinamerican student for the first ten years also.

The huge Deinocheirus in its habitat. Illustration I did for the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan In this illustration you can see a scene set in Late Cretaceous Asia where an adult Deinocheirus is scaring away a pair of young Tarbosaurus #paleoart #dinosaur #art

Sobek 🐊 #paleoart #berensart2025

Also, this man has never set foot on Southern private property. FEMA encountered angry men with shotguns in the hills of NC after Helene. A fire chief was shot in a guy's driveway in AL while looking for help. My husband was threatened for being too close to someone's land.

How can they farm our personal data and observe our every habit from dishwashers? 🫠

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Annoyed that I'm finally going to bed in a reasonable manner, at a reasonable hour, and my brain chooses NOW to ask questions about pirate treasure. Specifically Blackbeard's, because I was a coastal girl for 18 years and it's part of the regional lore. 🤣🏴‍☠️🚢

His desperation is unreal. 😂 He will have his nightly spot on schedule, no matter the obstacle.

#Paleoctober2025 day 8 paleoart sketch of the noasaurid dinosaur Masiakasaurus. #Paleoctober #Paleoart #Dinosaur #Masiakasaurus

Dance party protests might be one of the best moves right now. These make fascists look ridiculous, counter the "Portland is dangerous" narrative, and showcase joy and community at a time when those things are in short supply. Keep it up.

California residents, call your state reps and demand they override Newsom’s veto!

Watching someone in my replies on Twitter asking Grok AI questions about my work (sensible, valid questions)… and wondering why they don’t just… y’know… ask me??! Just one more way that AI is eroding the artist/audience connection.

Galeamopus 🦕

I've just now learned that Adobe's PDF signing feature is no longer standard. In a moment when I really need it. Like, today. There's a workaround so you can sign, but then you can't enter a date. Why in the hell should I pay to type a date? 😡

Taking FMLA (medical leave) for mental health after some stuff went down at work. In short, the whole work-life balance thing wasn't balancing. I'd been meaning to see if I could do this for a while, though, and I guess the lesson here is that if you can, it doesn't hurt to ask./