It's also amazing to consider that this virus has plagued humans for at least 45,000 years and now we have a vaccine. Science, it works bitches!

WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

Merry Christmas to Mr. Workwear Dude, and many thanks for unleashing this delightful thread of replies featuring dogs of all shapes and sizes in sweaters for us all to enjoy.

I am going to tell a story as small and close to myself as I can, before I go set luminarias outside. These lanterns, brown paper bags with sand and candles, are part of the recieved culture of New Mexico, the place where my family moved when I was 1.5 and have now lived again for nearly a decade.

So good 😂😘

Same here.

Stealing all of this to use as responses to certain 'phobes in my orbit. Thanks for the ammunition.

Frankly, there's a whole lot of movie actors who just play themselves in every role. The trick is choosing the right role so that it works for the character. Not every actor can be Gary Oldman, after all. Or Daniel Day Lewis (thank heavens)

Welp. There goes the Bosque del Apache here in NM. Bitter Lakes, too. Migratory birds on the Rio Grande Flyway, millions of them, can just get fucked, I guess.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

When the Department of Justice blatantly violates the law to protect wealthy and politically connected pedophiles, then we have no Justice Department and we have no justice.

Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time. Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

So what, he's gonna do the Hunger Games for real?! Who TF is showing him this / putting these shiny stupid beans into his already rattle-brained head?!

Jeez. Just *imagine* what it must be like, living in a civilized country. The mind boggles. I bet they even give folks health care, too. Dammit.

Sure. Of course. Why *not* now? Everything else is on fire, why not just toss this into the mix, too.

Thank you so much for once again throwing trans folk under the bus, @heinrich.senate.gov & @lujan.senate.gov in today's NDAA vote. I'm sure you'll couch it as "it's good for NM's defense contractors" to the local press. Fu ck both of you. Sideways. And preferably with a dull, rusty chainsaw.

Just saw a Target commercial with Fake Santa extolling some Target app to two Black characters and oh how I laughed. The boycott still exists, it's killing your brand, and I 💯 support Black folks in doing that to your sorry asses.

1. Thank you to all the folks out there sharing cute cat and dog photos -- you're doing the lord's work out here today. 2. Can somebody remove the orange menace's phone from his ridiculously tiny and useless hands, please and thank you. Oh, and HIT HIM UPSIDE THE HEAD with it, too? Kthxbye

As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.

All of this.

Neither is the IRS data. We rely on self reported data, and data from 3rd party financial institutions. All data is entered by humans, and may have errors. This is how you know that the Administration has no idea how the government works.

🚨🚨🚨I’ve talked before about how our records are NOT the most up to date and should NOT be used in this way. It WILL result in citizens being denied their constitutional right to vote. You can submit public comments until 12/12 and I urge you to please do so!! Spread the word!! #AltCitizen alert🚨🚨🚨

I just wonder why The Roots haven't jumped ship on Jimmy Fallon. I'm sure they've got other, better opportunities to chase. Fallon is just such a brainless idiot it's gotta be painful to go on every night.

Ordered a Fitsleeps alarm band. There are NO instructions at all, just a QR code that takes you to their store page that says "watch Dominique's video, she shows you how to set it up." Where? Where is this video? It's not on the site. It's not on YouTube. WTF? 0 of 5 stars, Do Not Recommend.

Spouse is trying to get me interested in podcasts he listens to. I'm just not a podcast person apparently I'm because all they do is annoy me by talking over each other and going on random tangents. Is this a neurodiverse thing, a trauma thing, or an "I don't like people in general" thing?

Every damned time.

The old lady in front of me in the checkout waits until cashier has rung up everything in her cart & handed over all the bags to her, THEN finally opens her purse, digs out her wallet, and pulls out her card. I'm mystified by this. /1

Damn. Those Denver Broncos uniforms are ORANGE. Like, needlessly, aggressively orange. Like "might need to adjust my tv" orange.

From the Larchives. Wishing my American friends a Thanksgiving dinner that can't be beat! Maybe two!

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

"Uncle Bob, the only reason you got your ozempic is because a scientist was curious about Gila monster venom." 🧪🩺🌱🐀🐙💅 ... And more found here.

My connection: Spouse works there. Also, I suspect they were filming something at the abandoned battery plant/Superfund site here in Socorro last week (yikes! 😬) Wonder if they have waivers for that signed?

Christmas is invading October (and even September in some stores!) in Australia, and I find it so demoralizing.

A reminder that when Christian Nationalists in the Republican Party lecture you about the importance of "religious freedom," they are not talking about YOUR religion or YOUR freedom. They are talking about THEIR freedom to impose THEIR religion on you.

I'm glad that at least this crappy timeline is the one where we got to have the thagomizer be a real thing.

Ah, Democrats. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory once again. Christ on a fucking pogo stick.

(chef's kiss)

Watching Colbert from last night and watching him geek out with Robert Plant over Tolkien is hilarious. And that wasn't even the best part: his other guest was Michelle Obama.

I hope Mamdani has adamantium-level security in place already. Those with power & money don't play nicely with anyone threatening to take either away, and they have deep pockets & dark connections. (And please let me be 💯💯💯 wrong in my fears, but I remember the 60s too well.)

Why -- What -- WHO has gone off and left The Reality Dial set to 11?!

"Allow us to triple your health insurance premiums or we're going to ruin Thanksgiving" does not seem to be a winning political strategy, but who am I?

Exactly.

But of course. Everything now is all about The Grift. S'what happens when billionaires and private equity run all the systems. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

FWIW: Clooney can fuck all the way off, reach the edge of his fuckwittery, and then keep on fucking off. This chaos? He's part and parcel of its creation.

Video 2/2 Post 2/3 We have not been this far from civilized since water hoses were used to take out the eyes of black people fighting for basic human rights.

Who needs Halloween when America is an actual horror-show?

Another great thread here.

This year's jack o'lantern for the cats: The Flea.

Love this!

Excellent 👍