Local bathroom window spider Cherelle molted the other day but at first I thought something terrible had happened and that she had split in half. Once I realized what was happening, I thought it was cool. She now has longer legs and looks extra elegant.

Really? When I go on Bluesky I play game where I scroll until I see a post about Doctor Who and then I leave. It usually takes about 3 seconds.

Corn on the dog

Eating a corndog like its corn on the cob

tour de france out of context

With all the pressure from the UK to add Nuclear in Scotland, the latest figures for renewable generation in the first quarter shows just how little Scotland needs it. They want it here to help power England, because Scotland won't use it.. www.thenational.scot/news/2624071...

“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” —James Baldwin

Happy 100th birthday, Mel Brooks! Here’s some great advice he gave me back he was a wee lad of 95. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

A key point though is that we don’t NEED a single town square. In fact different people are going to respond better to different ways of presenting a message. Once we realize that then we can strategize. 2/

Analyzing flawed media from a political perspective should be about understanding society. Analyzing it for aesthetics should be about teaching people to write better. If you read something multiple times in detail and your only goal is to tell other people not to read it, that's just hypocrisy. 1/2

just saw a mexican guy wearing a t shirt that said “Guns, Titties, & Freedom” speaking spanish with his son. that’s what america SHOULD be about.

Deborah Sandidge Photography "A Roseate Spoonbill and her mirror perfect reflection on a calm sunny morning in a quiet lagoon. Double the fun as she preens, freshening up to keep her feathers in top shape. Filmed with my Nikon Z9, NIKKOR Z 600mm f/4 TC lens."

However much we might laugh, I think the screen capped conversation may illuminate the key to many of our current confusions in building movements. Namely that there is no single "town square." There are multiple metaphorical porch and house parties. I'll make this a thread when I feel like it.

A recently fledged Red-tailed Hawk practices his/her balance by perching on a small branch.

"Pokemon" is short for "pocket monsters". "Digimon" is short for "digital monsters". Therefore, "salmon" is short for "saltwater monsters". (You might object: salmon spend a big part of their life in freshwater. But pokemon spend a big part of their life outside pockets too!)

I may save this to use.

Today's frog is the grubby shrub frog.

Yeah it's funny, but it's up to us to teach the kids our history, cause CisHet people don't know it and don't care to teach it. Also.. a lot of us grew up without queer elders to teach us about it all, and it feels rotten to not rectify that for future generations while we're still here.

As late as the early 2020s it was common among some YouTubers (many of them divisive figures so I’m not naming them to avoid derailing the discussion) to discuss this usually in the context of similarity to J.K. Rowling’s novel Troubled Blood. That’s why the screen capped discussion went as it did.

Online discussion of these issues follows trends and algorithms though and often stay within their circles which is one reason why they keep resurfacing as though they’d never happened, hence the screen capped discussion. Troubled Blood‘s publication led to a sudden interest that faded afterwards.

I blame the fact that in order to bring it to a mass audience and get it to fit the algorithm, people have had to conflate cultural analysis with thumb up or down reviewing. The two can overlap but don’t have to.

People on Bluesky will really be like "helping DSA primary challengers in blue districts? That pales in comparison to my strategy of helping Democrats in swing state general elections." And then not help Democrats in swing state general elections.

This is the problem with any discussion about film and other cultural artifacts. People get so distracted by "is it morally right to watch it?" which I find honestly a tired line of reasoning instead of "what does this say about us?" which is the actual question we need to ask.

it's genuinely wild how the right wing and radical centrists (with cooperation from scotus) have manipulated the public discourse around birthright citizenship to be mostly a discussion about birth tourism and not the thing that conservatives actually care about (children of undocumented immigrants)

Too cheap to meter. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Yf you wisshe to trulye "builde-a-bear," you must firste create the universe.

The Ducktails ducks were pretty nonchalant about rewriting history

Maybe just make a spinoff show about Ming. He is the most popular characte.

trying to channel this energy every time someone is mean and wrong at me online

Anybody going into the daycare camera-first is uhhhhhh

If my kids daycare, which is also locked, let in some YouTube creep to gander at the kids, they would hear my complaints about it through an attorney

Rolling up at a preschool and demanding to see the kids is the most suspect shit imaginable. Cops should lock you right the fuck up

And a White MN bitch ultimately was the kingpin of all of the daycare fraud...Aimee Bock... Nick didn't address her and her fraudulent "earnings," did he/it?

I consider Nick Shirley, among people in related professions to my own to be the model of how to do everything wrong, and the fact that people still look up to him bothers me. Going around to daycares unannounced and expecting to see children and then not finding them proves nothing… 1/

The Clinton Rotary Club gave a $2,000 scholarship to Rotary Interact Club member and Clinton High School graduate Isabella Worthington. www.mycouriernews.com/articles/202...

Our country keeping birthright citizenship fills me with more patriotism than any event Trump had planned.

The Clinton City Council has voted to provide $197,400 in funding to nonprofit organizations and Anderson County agencies. www.mycouriernews.com/articles/202...

The Clinton City Council voted to limit the number of shops focused on vape devices and other specialty products, such as cannabis derivatives, in the city. www.mycouriernews.com/articles/202...

It took me a while to realize a lot of libs define “leftist” to just mean “people who didn’t vote for Harris” meaning they’re having an argument that doesn’t even involve me or most of the larger accounts they’re arguing with and the best thing I can do is ignore. 2/

What I’ve noticed is that both self proclaimed libs and self proclaimed left often define the term that isn’t theirs as “people I don’t like” and their own label as “people I like” which makes these discussions more difficult. 1/

Young Frankenstein will survive, unusually for a parody because 1. Its characters are their own people despite also being parodies. 2. Frankenstein and the Universal horror aesthetic are just so tied up with annual Halloween celebrations that most people still at least know of them as concepts.

anyway I am pretty exhausted by complaints about libs being cringe. After this past winter, seeing dishwater libs out there standing against ICE alongside the leftists, all I can think when I see “ewww look at this” re: some harmless theater kid stuff is “you need a hobby that’s not the computer”

pins I made recently! Yes one of them includes Byzantine weave. I don’t despise it utterly, it’s just Not My Thing as far as what I’d personally wear

Lycaenidae. A family of diurnal butterflies. It comprises over 5,200 species worldwide.

This beautiful butterfly eating from a flower at the #Butterfly exhibit at the zoo. I love butterflies! #Photo #Beautiful

Working now on the giant pencil Shortfin Mako (Isurus oxyrinchus). ✏️🦈 Because it's one of my favorite species, not the first time I've illustrated one. Here are a few of the others. 🤘💙 #shark #MakoShark #nature #sharkweek #animalart #marinelife #sciart #fish #fishart #animal #mako #ShortfinMako

⭕️ Quote-post with a circle ⭕️ #art #sciart

Dumbo Octopus Not sure which species. #sciart #animal #invertebrate #art