so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

this is a harmless milksnake but since people are posting the rhyme: there are some venomous coral snakes that are red-on-black! they aren't all friends of Jack! here is a better mnemonic: Don't Touch Snakes You Find On The Ground

Things That Will Erupt From Compromised Tanks And Kill You: Boston: Molasses Orange County: Toxic Chemicals Shanghai: Sharks

Counterpoint: No it fucking isn’t Both their products and their services (Starlink) are the definition of state corporate capture. HE LITERALLY EXTORTED THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE USING THE WAR IN UKRAINE TO MAKE STARLINK SOLVENT

Massie should read the unredacted Epstein Files on the House floor and then run as an independent.

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

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sorry I seem distracted just have to keep checking my phone to see if one of my freedoms is being arbitrarily taken away

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

The Seed Song

every day i find an incredible guy (from a painting scroll attributed to qiu ying called "raising the alms bowl: the conversion of hariti, mother of demons) asia.si.edu/explore-art-...

::slaps the roof::

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how are ghosts supposed to fly now

Oh no! Spirit Airlines performed a valuable service of separating 2 key customer bases!🫡 Spirit customers: "I don't want to pay a lot for this ticket, and I'm not afraid to go to jail today! Try me!" Southwest and Jet Blue customers: "I don't want to pay a lot, but I am afraid to go to jail today"

I read a very compelling argument that when this weasel chewed through a cable and unexpectedly shut down the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile particle accelerator in April 2016, that’s when our reality went haywire. I have yet to hear a more persuasive explanation. Not even really joking.

A reminder that both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris literally warned everyone that SCOTUS was on the ballot. They were right yet again.

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

Spent some much needed time last night in the land of hopes and dreams.

With so much awful news, here is something to brighten your day:

Trump told you he’d run America like a business. He is. It’s called asset stripping. You sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, and walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag. Congratulations. You didn’t elect a president. You hired a liquidator.

There's a decent chance Trump is so far gone into the dementia that he thinks he's back hosting Celebrity Apprentice and has to fire at least one of the D-list celebrities in his orbit at the end of each day.

Quick summary Commander and chief: Demented incompetent Director of National Intelligence: Russian asset Director of Department of Defense: Immature alcoholic FBI Director: Immature alcoholic What could possibly go wrong?

The defense secretary is derisively comparing the media to a maligned group of rabbinic Jews, the FBI director is denying reports of drunkenness on the job, the vice president is in a two-front theological war with the pope and Erika Kirk, Donald Trump is still president, and gas is $4. Happy Friday

If you live in the state that was once represented by Charles Sumner and you wear or fly or stick Confederate symbols on your car, other Bay Staters have the right to shake a can of Moxie good and hard and spray it in your face.

editor: you need to rewrite me: why editor: because we need plausible characters me: whats the problem editor: You're claiming its actually possible to turn the Iranian govt and the Catholic Church into sympathetic figures within 12 months???

SESAME STREET EXEC 1: kids love bright colours, so how about a bunch of humanoid puppets in red, green, blue, orange, yellow SESAME STREET EXEC 2: ooh what if the yellow one had a head like a banana? SESAME STREET EXEC 1: I love it, yes. banana head DIVERSITY HIRE GOTH: there should be a vampire

another banner day for "if you didn't know sports were real, ESPN headlines would be crazy"

Trump has potentially ended free maritime trade, a literally world-changing development that, if it lasts, may do more damage than anything else he has done so far What a phenomenally, historically evil and incompetent failure The Republican Party is a party of failure, defeat, and idiocy

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters “‘Don’t you want to die nobly for a just cause?’ ‘I’d much rather live quietly for one.’”

And, We Have Motive.

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

For comparison's sake, the entire National Park Service costs $3 billion - a year.

#Florida gas prices are in the top 10 when it comes to the highest in the U.S. Prices in FL have jumped 74 cents a gallon since March 2. Thanks, President Dementia Patient! www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2...

"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth None of them through the Strait of Hormuz" Top @billmckibben.bsky.social post here billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...

It's weird to me that GLOBAL SHIPPING SCREECHES TO A HALT BECAUSE TRUMP DIDN'T LIKE WHAT WAS ON TV isn't a bigger story. But this is a moment like early March 2020 Covid. If it goes on like this, it's going to affect EVERYONE.

A lobster. If the first two choices on the Maine ballot are unpalatable, the third-place option is ALWAYS a lobster. If the vote is split between the three, a blueberry automatically wins the election.

They literally made an entire movie about this with Matthew Broderick in it decades ago to warn us away from this trajectory and here we are excitedly building the WOPR-brand Torment Nexus anyhow

Pour one out for all the national weatherpeople having to do cold reads of Massachusetts town names

this looks like a very cool new app for cocktail lovers/bartenders jeffreymorgenthaler.com/introducing-...

Wow.

you can’t fucking dox a public official!

Even the ducklings hate ICE (Photo taken by a friend who's not on here)

While trying to convince my nephew of the magic of the Lord of the Rings movies I showed him this LOTR/Mulan mashup AMV, and now I fear his love for it exceeds his love for either property youtu.be/fMiM0O1YiMo?...

still my favorite christmas post