I think a lot of what’s been on my mind lately is that plenty of small towns or suburbs can pull off #nokings rallies, but the people involved don’t always seem good at navigating local politics in meaningful ways…

ahh, maryland-style pizza. america's most rightly unremarked upon regional pizza. famous for its motto "just like that one so-so chain used to make it"

Another of that beautiful fungi

Surviving the snow. Stinking Orange Oysters #scape #fungi #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #mushrooms #nature #photography

🤖 image processing for #JWST 🔭 data (HH288_offset). RGB Filters: 470, 356, 150 PI: McCaughrean, Mark J., program 04548. CRVAL: 9.293072, 64.062915 Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

Winter colour on #FungiFriday

I swear if the people who spend all their time “analyzing the pathologies of the modern left” spent anywhere near as much time building their own movements instead we’d be in a better place.

I made and deleted some cranky skeets about this, but Dan says it way better. I would like to emphasize that if you’re not currently living here I don’t care about your opinion on this and I don’t think anyone else should either

Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk's flight On the empty sky.

what’s astounding about this is not only the incredible cruelty but the complete lack of even the most basic public relations instincts they kidnap a five year old and generate national outrage and rather than do some basic window dressing to treat him nice while abusing everyone else they do this

Solidarity with every single person participating in today’s general strike against ICE’s terror campaign. You’re changing the world ✊🏽❤️

I know pointing out hypocrisy from these freaks is useless but I’m doing it anyway

Congratulations! You imported to the US a form of “feminism“ the Epstein Island folks are on board with. I’m sure that makes you proud.

I’ve harped on this for years but the reason there’s a seemingly (or at least relatively) “low” amount of corruption in US politics is because we’ve legalized all of it.

Since further comments are disabled, I‘ll say here that the OP may be confused by leftist ”lesser evil“ voters who I’ve noticed more enthusiastic Harris supporters seem to have a difficult time understanding.

Will Stancil’s importance really started this year. I predict that he will mostly appear positively in history analysis as a primary source due to his footage and rightly so. But any role as a theorist or philosopher or candidate will likely be a footnote.

If the only time you bring up Gaza is in the context of the 2024 presidential election, I’ll just assume you don’t have anything valuable to say about it.

Our friend the Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad is a small toad who lives in the eastern United States from Maryland to Florida! They love to eat ants and have developed a fold of skin on their back that can extend to cover their eyes to protect from bites while feeding! (photo by Dominic)

ESA/Hubble photo of a distant stellar birthplace, region of the N159 star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud, approximately 160 000 light-years away. Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Indebetouw Link for more information: esahubble.org/images/potw2...

Another shot of the kestrel from yesterday. #birds #photography

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #EyeContact as set by @alan678.bsky.social This Wood duck was coming in closer to see what I was up to. The Gadwall was giving me side-eye.

No it’s true. That movie will absolutely drag.

My nickname for times whenever people talk at a County Commission meeting about an irrelevant culture war issue to their business is “bathroom breaks.”

I work covering local government for a newspaper in a mostly red district and my focus is on letting people, Republicans, Democrats and independents alike know about local issues and decisions they might not otherwise know about…

I know all this isn’t at the top of our minds for obvious reasons, but it’s exactly as bad as you might imagine. theintercept.com/2026/01/21/g...

A random assortment of pterosaur skulls 🐊

Anti-woke scolds (as in “kids these days and their pronouns” types) are worse than woke scolds. In fact I’ve seen more annoying comments complaining about people sharing pronouns than about people not sharing them.

new pinned post time, since 75% of the pieces in my last pinned one sold! CHAIN CHAIN CHAAAAIN (I make chainmail) excidiummetals.bigcartel.com

You care whether ICE agents get high? (Yeah I make typos too but I reserve the right to make fun of them if they’re funny).

Do you think “Zionist” means ”apathetic towards Israel/Palestine issues”? Look I know you’re just doing this for engagement bait. But I’m wondering how you’re going to keep engaging.

If your point is that the Democratic Party establishment are so bad at communicating that people don’t even know what their actual platform is, just say that. But I refuse to center debate around points that aren’t even true.

People who want to push the Democratic Party left usually cite real things like military funding for Israel for instance. People who want to push it right meanwhile tend to complain about things that never actually happened like “candidates in swing states saying defund the police.”

Name one Democrat in a swing district who campaigned on defunding the police.

What are your thoughts on these bills? Do you feel like any will work? tennesseelookout.com/2026/01/26/w...

Judge weighs detention for contractor in Knox County charged with warning people about an ICE raid. I'm going to try to keep giving updates on this. www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

I've been confused by a subset of Democrat pundits (@polphilpod.bsky.social calls them Reactionary Centrists) who say the party needs to be more conservative and quit listening to people to the left of it, but then they spend all their time arguing with people to their left. But I figured it out...

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

it reveals pretty plainly that "merit-based hiring" means "you belong to the correct class and hold the right set of identities"

Or unoriginal. But the sum effect, possibly unintentionally, was pulling off a world with a great deal more internal variety and therefore coming off a great deal more desirable to young readers (and fanfic writers) than it would have had if it had been tied to more conventional worldbuilding (4/)

Chief among them is that the worldbuilding, instead of starting with a single principle and working outward instead seemed to consist of answering almost every "does this thing exist in this world?" question with "yes." From a technical standpoint that can come off as lazy (3/)

Um you said someone assassinated by ICE “looked like a Zionist.” No one looks like a Zionist, unless you mean wearing a Left Behind t-shirt (if those exist).

A Zionist probably WOULD mention Gaza.

Oh hai! 👋🏼🪴 Adaptive gardening likely saved my life. 👀 It has been a way to process loss and grief while also being productive and allows me to move in a way that supports my physical well-being while being slow enough to teach me to rest when I need to. 👀

#TombTuesday 12 seconds of bright winter sun & a cold east wind across the ancient burial mound of Bryn Cader Faner in the Eryri/Snowdonia uplands Quite a place to have been buried or scattered 4500 years ago 😮 🎥 My own, Sunday

i think the reason kids these days aren't as into that thing that was really popular 1995 is because they were born like 20 years after that

What are your thoughts? Do you believe Google Maps and other services should recognize the communities in Anderson County's New River area? www.mycouriernews.com/articles/202...

There are ways to garden even with physical or mental #disabilities that might seem to make it difficult. That's the message of Oak Ridge resident Tina Matta who is spreading the word on adaptive #gardening. www.mycouriernews.com/articles/202...

A sign outside Clinton Elementary School’s new playground honors the legacy of James Sanderson, who served Clinton City Schools for 39 years as an art teacher, math teacher and assistant superintendent. www.mycouriernews.com/articles/202...

A contractor is continuing $1,284,500 work on the Anderson County Health Department. www.mycouriernews.com/articles/202...