I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

The crunchy cromchy sounds are faint, but they are there.

the nyt style section vs. der spiegel

Worse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c 1. continuing, not 1 off. 2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it 3. literally at hand of federal government, which is 4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.

you better stay covered up, buttercup you have no idea how many honest, serious, good people you've chosen to make your enemies, or how many of the people you think are on your side will abandon you in a heartbeat because you share no principles worth anything god help you when you find out

Literally 10 days ago, this hypocritical jackass introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re...

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

A cuttlefish in a cup #gili #giliislands #lombok #diving #scuba #trawangan #diveandstay #giliair #pets #ocean #sealife #marinelife #padi #fish #cuttlefish

I got to play with it (and sorta broke it) when my anthropology class* took a road trip** to Houston. It was being used for training for the Hubble telescope repair. *Astroanthropology & Futuristics **never road trip with vegetarians in the 90s in the South

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A life without #dogs is possible but pointless! A tiny yet marvellous figurine of a dog (height 1.6 cm) made of blue glass and decorated with yellow and white threads. The unique figurine was found in a Celtic burial at Wallertheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, dating 2nd c. BC. 📷 Landesmuseum Mainz

That's a one-finger salute from a reading lady of the 1770s with a fancy headdress. 🖕 #skystorians

I had no idea they had that kind of technology

my kingdom for some motherfucking lacunae in the narrative, like can authors please stop writing novels like they're intended to be second-screen viewing as that is Not a Thing

I have gotten not one, but TWO recruiting emails from companies with pretty explicitly Nazi names or descriptions THIS WEEK.

A note about aurora colours, because they are so insane. I haven't adjusted the colours in any of my photos. They simply don't need it. It is true that it doesn't look like this to the naked eye. That's due to human eyes being terrible at seeing colour at night. Cameras don't have those limitations.

The aurora tonight from Fairbanks, Alaska filmed in real-time (not sped up). Insane show!

So I guess today’s Bluesky discourse is $15.64/day for food (“three full meals and a snack”) and, as someone who cooks a lot from scratch and appreciates frugality alongside flavor and nutrition, that’s just ridiculous.

Soup lunch! A cross between German and Italian kale & sausage soup — onion, celery, carrot, and yellow mustard seeds sautéed in bacon, then simmered with potato, Italian sausage, and kale and then finished with a splash of sherry vinegar.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

The final meal - short rib ragout over polenta with roasted carrots.

After 3 1/2 hours, braising in a tightly sealed Dutch oven (pic 1) they were flipped over and put back in for another half hour for steps 4 & 5.

Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/

Step three - putting it all together to go in the oven for 4-5 hours.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Step two - reducing a half bottle of wine (a Montepulciano d’Abruzzo because I don’t have a Barolo and probably wouldn’t use it for this, anyway) to 3/4 cup.

Step one of tonight’s clean out the freezer and fridge meal. Going into the oven to roast as the base for the sauce.

OK. Green smoke. Coloured smoke grenades have existed for decades. They are for signalling purposes. They are not meant for riot control purposes. As with any smoke, they are irritating, but they are not meant for that purpose, so use as "riot control" agents is an off-label usage.

WOW! This late Roman blue glass cup made an epic 12,000 km journey! Made in the eastern Mediterranean, it was excavated from the Cheonmachong Tomb, a royal tomb of the ancient Silla Kingdom in Korea! 🤯 Early AD 500s. Gyeongju National Museum, South Korea. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each. If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.

I think if you don't want to be a sociopath it is worth asking if a thing is unpopular because it is bad. You don't want to be a libertarian contrarian crank. But hurting people is bad. Kidnapping people off the street is bad. Shoving people into conditions not fit for human life is bad.

This DHS post on X about their new drone program, touting "American Air Superiority," prominently features a Chinese-made DJI drone. Which are the exact same drones that the Trump administration recently banned from import into the United States.

“Taking orders from a draft-dodging coward” is good rhetoric. We can fight about de-militarization of civic functions later.

I meant to post the verdict for this, too: Will also make again. Similar to a bruschetta topping, but the cumin and caraway seeds as another dimension.

Extreme close of the matbucha to go with the lavoush.

Lavoush from Honey & Co. for tomorrow’s cookbook club at the library. Verdict: Will make again. (The potato bread recipe, on the other hand, has some errors and is unworkable.) #breadsky

The world feels rough right now So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery. 🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta

never forget

Still checks out.

As many others keep noting: the rhetoric & the actions of congressional Democratic leaders, to quote Fall, "just do not match." Far too often that is also the case of Democratic state & municipal leaders. This is incredibly demoralizing. 21/

Protestors have set ablaze the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Complex on Boostan Saadi Boulevard in the Central Iranian city of Isfahan, according to BBC Persian.

One thing you should know and forever remember about January 6 is that it’s the birthdate of abolitionist Charles Sumner, a champion of pro-Black equality and forefather of the 14th Amendment, which gave us equal protection of the laws and forever barred insurrectionists from public office.

Something I'm definitely running into lately with LLM chat bots taking over translation is that it's getting significantly worse. An icelandic word like "Þor" used to be accurately translated as "daring" but lately these services just kind of... guess in English based on look? And it gave me "pour"

Roses are red Plots sometimes thicken. I think that I’ve drawn A monstrous chicken.

The evolution of the cozy nest he made for himself on the bed.

Congress could, and should, impeach, remove, and convict by the end of the day.