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.

I'm sure @scohar70.bsky.social already has his front-runner, but...

I finished painting my house today

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

The New York Times on pardoning the biggest drug dealer of all time and an accused murderer vs the NYT on pardoning a guy who filled out his application for a firearms permit incorrectly. It makes you think is all I'm saying!

I'm thrilled to be part of the 2026 American Craft Spirits Competition. It's a great opportunity to taste the latest releases and support the continued growth of craft spirits nationwide. Enter your spirits by Oct. 20, 2025, at americancraftspirits.org/programs/judging.

Dig if you will, this felt ornament.

Tech startup idea: instead of starting your car with your key, you get in, turn on the display panel, enter your password, get your phone out, open the authenticator app, enter your pin, enter the timed passcode, then open the start menu, then helpdesk, then "request engine start", then submit a tic

A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.

That's like $10 a bottle off! Not insignificant!!

replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names

me, after i said i didn’t want anything to eat 😌

Steak and sparrow pudding anyone? Here's what people were turning to for food in Britain 1917/18 as food shortages began really to bite: sparrow, cormorant, seal steak, and cakes made from ground up bracken root. Continuing my project on food journalism in times of crisis.

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

To me, this is Digital Humanities

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

here's a death you can actually mourn www.whec.com/top-news/roc...