A good thing for friends...

Seconded!

As you may know I keep tabs on the Moms for Liberty shitbirds as a side quest, and they are currently all het up about a lib-owned brewery in WI because the owner has worked to keep them off local school boards So, good people of Bluesky, please find a way to support the Minocqua Brewing Company

Time to abandon Amazon

American Kestrel deep dive. Toronto, Canada, April 17th 2026. Photo by Jose Raposo

I somehow didn't post this here earlier Today's Friday Ryeday video is about a special release from a special distillery (because it is my favorite), @catoctincreek.bsky.social ! youtu.be/27nF4C7fYsE

This eyewitness account of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire always brings me to tears (read the whole thing trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/index.html)

Really excellent paper on the genetics of caterpillar butt ornaments journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

This guy gets it.

“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

utterly.

A superb owl with crowned skull. Vanitas in silver, Paul and Eugène Massat, after Jean-Baptiste Clésinger, Paris, c. 1865 www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/... #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

I mean, I was underwhelmed by the "Guinness Factory" in Dublin, except for the charming staff. Diageo doesn't have a sense of fun, certainly.

Thanks for sharing - here's a toast to independent distillery survival!

Deploying emergency kitten videos Sound on

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

I never do "Here's what I wrote this year," because you only have to go to our site and scroll through the roughly 4,000 posts I write every year, but nothing will make me prouder than reintroducing the fabulous Harlow to the world. It's the best thing I've written in years share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9

Iowa friends, if any of you might be up for a little post-Christmas road trip, we're trying to help Cheri at American Black & Tan Coonhound Rescue pull off a minor miracle here:

Consider where you're shopping this holiday season - let's throw all our money to the small retailers who are hurt here, and to the small manufacturers who are shut out of opportunities by this crap.

This sounds really great!

I hate this kind of predation by companies.

There is tons of easily available data on how many people in rural areas - especially those burdened by costs - are renters. The rent is too damn high. ruralhome.org/wp-content/u... shelterforce.org/2019/08/26/t...

Rental affordability is a nationwide problem!! I love the NLIHC's Gap study for Guys Like This. The data don't lie and, as you note, the number of first-time homebuyers is plummeting esp with interest rates where they are lmao.

Tonight’s progress. From the last picture to this took 3 hours #art 🧶 #diy

This is brilliant. Do not skip the alt-text.

trump may be snatching innocent brown people off the street and traumatizing kids and communities but at least he’s making a notorious sex trafficker “happier” and “more comfortable”

great place to celebrate the sandwich verdict is YOUR ONLY FRIEND where the sandwiches are too fucking good to throw at a cop

Why are these meetings always happening to me???

Halloween costume ideas for birders.

And this is Thor, he's a pug, not a parrot.

Meet Otto - he's a sweet boy who likes nothing more than a snuggle.

Middle aged guy think piece: There is no such thing as monoculture anymore Every kid across America right now: Six sevennnn!

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

The most important skill/habit to develop in the age of the Internet has been and will always be the willingness and ability to click the "Discard Draft" rather than "Post" or "Send"

Important 🧵!!!

This i had not heard of before - this may be relevant to my followers...

This is just such a no-brainer win for everybody that I hope that it gets rolled out in a much bigger way.

"Spooky Socks"

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

This will be forever one of my favourite garments in the V&A. It is a late #1890s coat from Marshall & Snelgrove, featuring hand embroidered sweet cicely flowers with white felt petals that float on top of blue velvet, V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Have been for months.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Hmmm.

Poster I made for the Great Midwest Crane Fest!

This made me laugh 3 times today

This only happens to you once

Finished @kashana.blacksky.app The Payback last night - loved it! A fierce new take on atheist novel which would be an awfully fun movie...

🏺 This thread is cute but also so useful to remember what Ötzi teaches us about dynamic temporal lives of prehistoric people: he died on an epic journey, carrying a huge range of kit with tools part-way through being made, and with embers and medicine in anticipation of his next fire, & his future.