This is the best thing I’ve seen in ages!

I guess my doctor’s office just doesn’t respond to messages left for the triage nurse anymore which is…certainly something. Be nice if we had a government that would deal with the huge healthcare crisis we’re in, but they want us dead so…

This is the legal defense fund for the 15 anti-ICE organizers who were recently arrested in Minneapolis. Please contribute generously. They are going to have millions of dollars worth of needs. chuffed.org/project/1865...

do birds experience spring like we do? i like to think so. at least a little bit. read how the comic was made: beccagoesoutside.ghost.io/comic-signs-... #birds #illustration 🌎 🌿🦉 #wildlife #nature

Okay, it's time for a Moist Owlette™ timeline cleanse. Today's moist owlette is "Owlfredo" at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts. She's an Eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) & Animal Ambassador with a big personality. (📷: @zoonewengland.bsky.social via IG)

organized crime? babe I don’t even have organized desk I’ll consider crime piles

Knitting. Crocheting. Old records (and other old dusty things). An unexpected queer love story. Folklore. The sea. Walking. A hyper-intelligent semi-aquatic cryptid. Abandoned buildings. Community. Silliness. Crows. If you like all, or even a couple, of these things, you might well enjoy this book.

It is impossibly hard to get an indictment for stalking when the stalker is an abusive ex. It makes my blood boil that the DOJ indicted Minnesotans for observing ICE as a form of stalking. These laws do not protect us. But they can be weaponized against us.

for iphone users, if you very suddenly regret NOT turning off biometric unlock, press the lock button on the side 5 times in row - this will lock your phone and require the passcode before biometric unlock can be used again, preventing police from using your face to unlock it against your will.

✨️🪲🐛🦗 X 🍅🥕🍓✨️ #myart #art #garden #bugs #pride

Just met guy in Hope with a sign on his bike saying "83 years old and cycling across Canada. Ask me why." So I asked him why and he said "No reason." 😁 Lovely.

This massive Gunnera is totally failing in its attempts to be inconspicuous while trying to sneakily move this old Cornish bridge to a new location.

Tiny person alert 😍🐸

Shaka, when the letters fell.

A small, random thing I love about my Kobo is that it starts me at the cover & I page through to the beginning. The Kindle app would always dump me straight into the first chapter & it was very off-putting. Like knocking on a door & suddenly finding yourself sitting in the living room,

When this bumblebee sounds as though her buzz has inhaled helium it’s because she’s using floral sonication to gather pollen-she increases her wingbeat frequency to ‘buzz’ the pollen from the poppy anthers on to her body.Listen out for this-many bee species use this brilliant way to gather pollen 💯:

I will forever think of this comic any time someone mentions that song.

[Inside the gates of Troy] This horse looks great but it stinks to Olympus, what the hell is inside. [Outside] AGAMMEMNON: Our Trojan Hearse isn't working ODYSSEUS: Trojan...horse AGAMMEMNON: Hearse ODYSSEUS: Horse, filled with men AGAMMEMNON: Hearse, with dead ones ODYSSEUS: no. no no no.

There are 49 other fucking states in the union & many of them have elections for you to obsess over. I promise you are helping the world in precisely zero fucking ways by harassing Mainers about a vote we’ll be making many months from now. Fuck. Off.

Your regular reminder from the Western Meadowlark #birds 🌿

Also a PSA for Mainers who need to go to Portland and may have notions of having a stroll around before they leave. I wouldn’t have thought to check for cruises before going, but I will now!

Relieved to release my ballot to the box & be done with this part of this interminable election. (Okay, I actually released my ballot to my aunt who will place it in the box for me, but whatevs)

The problem with yogurt is that I want a bagel.

I’ve been hanging on & plowing through whatever I can manage the last few days, but I think my allergies are finally fully kicking my ass today. My inhaler is only just managing to help with the breathing situation.

*sighs in British ancestry* Will the French be dressing up as Normans?

Despite all the political angsty shit, the actual thing keeping me from getting to sleep is Thoughts of Crafting. That’s not a podcast, I’m just really excited about making things & kinda want to get up and start making even more things.

Maine! You have options! Join me in one of my final virtual town halls before the primary. Ask me your questions and hear about my platform and why I believe that I'm the best candidate to beat Susan Collins. See you there! #mepolitics andreaformaine.com

Graham Platner trying to explain away his behavior as *living a regular life* really evokes *locker room talk* for me. The normalization of men’s abuse of women has to stop. Abusing women is not regular or normal or in any way okay. I hope this gets called out by lots and lots of people.

What stood out in Platner's interview with @chrislhayes.bsky.social is the way he uses progressive language about community and solidarity and accountability and openness to soften his image. As if to say, 'could a man this aware *really* be capable of doing such horrible things?'

“There may be.” FFS. Forget the flags. I have a literal masters degree in public health, I’m an actual union leader (in my second term as chapter president,) I’m a college professor, and a reproductive health advocate. And people are quibbling over if he abused his exes enough to be disqualifying.

The best thing about starting this huge cross stitch SAL is that I really need to close The App of Enragement and get to stitching.

Once a-fucking-gain: The Maine primary is not until June 9. There are two whole-ass progressive candidates to vote for that are neither Platner nor Mills. If you are going to blather on about something COULD YOU LEARN ABOUT IT FIRST?!?!

They’re larding everything with AI bullshit & meanwhile all I want are appliances that actually work & a self-cleaning toilet.

I assume he is arguing that we should just hoist the reflecting pool up on end to make it more impressive. That seems like the next underpants gnomes step that would occur to him. I have reached the ‘Sure, whatever,’ stage of this ongoing hellscape.

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

It’s well past time we mended a broken Washington. Before Trump it was endless gridlock. Since Trump, it’s been increasing chaos, incompetence, and corruption. To fix Washington, let’s start by replacing “concerned” senators like Susan Collins with REAL CHANGE reform advocates like me! #MEpolitics

I need abled people to recognize the following pattern: 1. these "symptoms" aren't a disease 2. patient advocacy 3. ok they're a disease, but it's super rare 4. patient awareness campaigns, more diagnosis

Ordered an overdyed fabric for the SAL I’m rather late starting on, it got here today and…is waaaay too light. So now I have an expensive chunk of unused fabric & my project is going on Michael’s aida that I emergency RIT dyed. Whatever works, man.

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

If you’re going to condemn everyone in a whole state for voting for a guy, you might take the time to find out if they’ve even actually voted yet. I’d also suggest you consider that some of us aren’t voting for him at all, but I think that’s too advanced a thought process for assholes.

LOL all these companies sent me ads today related to ‘staying cool’, meanwhile it feels like 25 degrees Fahrenheit with the wind chill right now. Welcome to Maine, marketers!

I've been using the No AI version of DuckDuckGo and am impressed with the results. It seems to favor reliable sites and has a clean interface: noai.duckduckgo.com

Your reminder that this starts Black American holiday season, as Memorial Day emerged from formerly enslaved people tending Union graves in South Carolina, Juneteenth is…Juneteenth, and July 4 became a Black holiday after the Civil War, while many white southerners rejected patriotism.

Corgis: for when you need a dog who can drink water AT you, disapprovingly

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Per my calculation, I have to sell about 1100 shirts to fund our insect mural series. Which sounds nuts, ok? I know. That sounds nuts. However... We already sold 132 so... I dunno, maybe we CAN make good things happen with silliness joy and art? I kinda think we can.

It has a leetle hat!

And the thing is, cameras only stop some people speeding some of the time. Far better to fund traffic calming infrastructure, especially around schools - less surveillance & a larger reduction of tragedies.

When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.