Reading some history to remind myself, America has always been a fucked up country. From Robert Caro's bio of Lyndon Johnson, vol. III #BookSky

This summer's tornado beginning to appear in the streetview postings

idk if they are DC unit, but there’s something so infuriating about people who don’t even live in the neighborhood showing up and patrolling everyone else’s behavior where they live. Especially when all they can really do is the same thing I could, which would be call other police

Paul Revere riding through the night to warn us that the Vengabus is coming

Living in the 21st century may have its drawbacks (authoritarianism, a dying planet) it also has Wikipedia, so on balance it's pretty good

This one sure took its sweet time to bloom, but WOW

In 2018 I attended a county Democrats meeting in northeast Missouri led by a state rep who opened with the Pledge of Allegiance but invited anyone who wished to do so to kneel Kaepernick-style instead of joining in. A big dude in overalls with no shirt underneath immediately took a knee

Someone should make a vape that’s also a kazoo

Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Earth, Wind & Fire tonight

Got the deep-fried watermelon at H Street Festival. Shoulda called it hottermelon, burned my mouth a little

ICE is openly, physically, attacking anyone who protests them

I have never in my life as a white person had any desire to say the n word apart from being able to tell people about the “this n word eating beans” tweet

[Sound system from street festival literally rattling the foundation of my house] maybe I'll take a nap

There's a real story behind this photo by Laurie Wolf of a nesting box in her back yard & I'll share a NatGeo article by @bittelmethis.bsky.social A mama eastern screech owl (Megascops asio) hatched a wood duckling (Aix sponsa). This is likely a case of brood parasitism. Let's talk about it.

I need to inform you of the Australian owlet-nightjar, or moth-owl (photo via tumblr)

Our enemies are cowards, and we are going to defeat them. 🪶

Steve's psoriasis has miraculously become the stigmata. Reporting this to the pope

We need to bring back dubstep remixes

starbucks looms large in these peoples minds. it is a location near their massive suburban home and inside it is a LEFTIST YOUTH who will look at them haughtily

Dudes rock

Just had to move one of these lil dudes and got blasted with their defensive odor. Put that osmeterium away buddy, I'm trying to help you

Someone on tiktok is asking where they can buy basics like TP and shampoo if they're boycotting Target and everyone is replying Costco. Do we not go to the grocery store anymore? What is going on

We're inches away from a sitewide meltdown about whether or not it's problematic to compare Trump to Kim Jong Un, I can feel it in my bones

as we stop and reflect in this holiday season, I just want you to think about one thing: cul-de-sac is French for ass-of-bag

As someone who makes this sort of thing with strawberry jello several times per year: yeah, I'll 100% eat that

Overheard MPD officer on my street chatting with a large group of feds: "if they're under arrest, they give you any kind of resistance, even verbal resistance, that's all you need..." dude wtf

I am once again asking to smoke the $500 NIST cigarettes shop.nist.gov/ccrz__Produc...

Discarded in the alley behind my place

if you want to see a screenshot of a big paragraph of white text on a black background that probably says a lot about society... bluesky is the place to be

We gotta keep making medical dramas so our nation's best character actors can each have 15 minutes of screen time to say something like "I never thought an important social issue like drug addiction would affect MY daughter"

Ah, my birthplace

It wants to be our friend

also it seems like everyone is trying to get this woman killed despite the fact she had nothing to do with it and is helping the police

My brother is a criminal defense attorney who specializes in Spanish-speaking clients. He just had a client abducted by ICE while they were at the courthouse in Des Moines

I've been reporting people on tiktok for making openly racist comments just to get "no violation found" notices for months, but was just myself notified that my comment had been removed for suggesting violence against house centipedes

What are the odds that Ulysses S Grant ever called someone a silly goose? Not zero, turns out

They don't know how much of my mental health situation they hold in their stubby little prolegs

Yukon, a black-footed cat, greets the day. [via Kansas City Zoo]

Hey, at least somebody thinks I'm a winner

turns out there is one kind of reaping you can do without farmworkers

Learning that my brother-in-law used to have a cat named Mr. Cookies, which is an all-time cat name

Been feeling a bit too beige lately, just impulse bought some big obnoxious glasses frames

we are sinking way too many labor hours into creating software to summarize zoom meetings and way too few into adding translation features to the Merlin app i KNOW that's a blue jay what is she HOLLERING ABOUT

My reading list the last few years has been really heavy on movement conservatism, Civil Rights backlash, the failure of reconstruction, etc which has the dual feel-bad power of being unpleasant in and of itself AND making me feel insane watching supposedly knowledgeable pundits show their asses

It was a truly gorgeous apartment with the worst case of Landlord Special I've ever seen

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

Somebody in my neighborhood drives a lifted Smart car and it cracks me up every time I see it.