A truckload of rhesus monkeys from Tulane university escaped after a crash. The university warned they’re highly aggressive toward humans and infected with hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID.

DON'T donate to Goodwill, or Salvation Army or other "big" stores like that. They're nearly all FOR PROFIT and have been jacking up the prices in the last couple of weeks.

The image when searching ‘avarice’ on Google is 🎯

Someone come get your dad. In a half empty train this man decided to basically sit on my lap.

When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?

I went to a fundraiser tonight. Cidny.org. Beautiful venue, incredible food by Marcus Samuellson. @geraldorivera.bsky.social was there! (My guy. 🤜🏻🤛🏼Thank you, for then and for it all) Allll that and I took only one pic… this one of @bradlander.bsky.social

Few things block out the noise of trains like rain sounds in the ear buds. Morning commutes are peaceful since I switched from music or podcasts to that.

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

“Good luck! Mike found that the white lifesavers helped to offset the taste/smell.”

$170B for ICE and Border Patrol $40B for Argentina $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" $200M for Kristi Noem's jets $98M for Trump's golf outings But no money to lower your healthcare costs.

Another weekend, another happily chilly night under the starts by a fire.

Autocrats want you to feel like pushing back is hopeless. It’s not! Trump is a paper tiger. Most Americans don’t want this authoritarian takeover.

At the office. Hearing people clip every finger nail at their desks is revolting.

"It won't interfere with the current building. It won't be. It'll be near it but not touching it, and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of. It's my favourite place. I love it." - Donald Trump, July 2025

Non-US local radio? I'm sold. radio.garden

Radio Garden app! Listening to my uni radio station from my living room in NJ. 1st pic = gist of the full interface, you can pinch & zoom to help find places. When you stop where you landed pops up. 2nd pic= zoomed all the way in. Check out that girthy river splicing Edmonton down the middle.

EVERYONE WHO COULD KNOW DID. And still it went ahead. They can all suck a turd.

This farm girl from NS does a lot around disability and accessibility. I never expect stuff like this but I’ll take the invite.

What can you do in this unprecedented moment? Go community. Grassroots from sea to shining sea.

Donald Trump just did something truly awful and is hoping you won't notice. He fired all of the special education staff at the Department of Education. What kind of person abandons kids with special needs?

Been re-watching GoT bc it’s fun to heckle (not the torture parts though, I skip past those. Once with the “oh no!” hand up was enough). You know when people talk about all the wild shit the Mad King did? There are parallels. Just sayin’.

Complaining without action is just ego masturbation. You wanna look like you’re doing something, but you don’t actually want to do the work. It doesn’t have to be a lot, but it should be something, no?

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

+ canceling SNAP benefits Nov 1 so remember that when you’re voting Nov 4. Think back to November 2, 2024 . Remember how you used to have a hospital nearby, food in your cupboard, a job to cover your bills, and didn’t live in fear that you/your neighbors were going to be kidnapped off the street.

Fuck you. Using sex work as shorthand for classy or trashy or morally repugnant or whatever this is supposed to be puts you more in line with the current administration than it does his opposition.

Not a brag or anything, but someone had to tell me about the AWS outage today because nothing I do or have depends on it. I think the universe may have provided me a smell test of my personal usage by the “hard pass on Bezos shit” and I’m good!

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

Unsolicited writing advice: no. 8075: There is no such thing as serious writing. There are only writers who take their work seriously, and those who don’t. Tragedy is no more “serious” than comedy. Children’s writing is no less “serious” than writing for adults. Good writing is wherever you find it.

I peopled way too much the past few days so took Sunday as a refill day. Re-started Games of Thrones and working on this paint by numbers to hang in the fellas house. How it started. How it’s going.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

and by and by Think that I am unking’d

No engagement. Report. Block. Repeat as needed. Be safe out there.

Cuomo had better learn how to say “Mayor Mamdani” correctly, because he got smoked last night.🔥

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

For #FindsFriday just a few of the fabulous Viking age beads discovered at Haithabu/ Hedeby - 📷 Schloss Gottorf Museum.

Whatever your plans for tomorrow: stay safe, watch out for each other, keep it clean. Everyone goes home.

May he sit in dog shit. (He takes them down when the conductor walks by. He knows better, he chooses selfishness)

Hi. Any chatter from the GOP about 670k work permits issued will likely omit how those are mostly issued to those who’s existing visas were deactivated forcing them to apply for asylum seeker status, and are not any indication of a “border rush”, like, at all.

Not this grown ass man playing Instagram videos in the quiet car like he’s a goddam child. EAR BUDS, DIPSHIT

My husband’s ballot came in the mail. Mine did not. I looked into why and… I was purged from the voting roll. PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.

🚨 Educators & parents: • Are public schools in your area losing funding or changing curriculum? • Are low-income, ESL or disabled students losing access to programs? • Are more families in your area sending students to private schools? Help us report ⬇️

I peaked on Instagram when I posted a photo of me cuddling with a friend’s dog then commented “How dare you?” on it from my own dog’s account.

this is a prime opportunity for democrats to explicitly tell their voters "they say you're a terrorist, but youre just a patriotic american who is trying to get by in this world."

If you have a candid conversation with someone on speakerphone and you don’t let the person on the other side know that they are speaking openly in a public space, you’re an asshole.

Insurance rates up $2000. Food benefits cut off. Farmers unable to sell their crops. Skyrocketing national debt. $40 billion to Argentina. America First!

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end. In the meantime: • Figure out a small way to help someone • Figure out a small way to fight back • Figure out a small place to find joy • Figure out a small way to grow and thrive And do it often.

Sharing a detailed critique of an artist you “don’t like” = investing time and energy into things that you don’t like, which is a weird way to choose to spend your time if it’s not your actual profession. Like are you really just sitting at home spending time doing things you hate? For what?

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