I hope your day brings you moments of beauty! #InverteFest #art

cleaning headstones seems like it should be easy but it's deceptive! especially stones that are already in bad shape (marble melts like sugar over time) or have biological growth like lichen

The common denominator in all of these stories--predetermined outcomes, iffy data and bogus metrics, the torching of campus communities--is consultants, most prominently the rpk group. There's only one reason these firms are engaged by admins. They only know one "solution."

Note to authors, @draft2digital.bsky.social (who until now I *have* been using as an ebook distributor, and who *have* been doing a good job, and who also own Smashwords) have a survey about "AI" use at at draft2digital.wufoo.com/forms/d2d-ai... I think you should fill in. Like this.

"While other states were banishing books in our schools, we were banishing hunger from ours" Clip it and run it as an ad in every battleground

Absolutely INSANE to watch Democrats get football in the national divorce over the past year!!

corn fed boyz for walz

No thoughts, just thinking about Slimey, his adventures in Paris, and him getting to meet the GOAT herself

We should attack transphobia head-on simply because it is a disgusting ideology, but if that's not enough for you, it's a system of control that stems from a patriarchal assumption about what a woman "should" be whose natural end is rigid gender roles upheld by state violence. Which seems bad!

Garter Snake in the Coral Bells. Available as a print in my store

"People are saying I was robbed. Thats not true. The wallet inspector will return any minute now."

Not being able to get Adderall since December '23 caused issues with my other meds. In a domino of side effects, this caused an infection that slowly ate away at my upper jaw. Repeated misdiagnoses meant 6 months of pain, 6k in dental bills. Not so hard to imagine a timeline in which I went septic.

Listen, I don’t particularly like Hillary Clinton. But the image of her standing on that DNC stage and listening to a thunderous chant of LOCK HIM UP? Yeah, I enjoy that, I unironically love that for her

Started playing Fields of Mistria (shoujo Stardew clone), wanna shout out both this game and also original Stardew for agreeing with and validating my belief that 2AM is a perfectly reasonable time to go to bed and will definitely give you enough sleep to keep your stamina up

It's kind of funny how many senior staff and columnists at two legacy newspapers are super mad the Harris-Walz campaign won't grant them interviews while so many other people are like "I bet the Hot Ones interview will be super interesting, Tim Walz will probably just be dying the entire time"

nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember: - how many squid facts you knew - if you offered others squid facts - how you made people feel when you told them a squid fact

Hey, science fiction writers. A request to make. Normally it's unethical to discuss a story we didn't buy. But years later, there's a "one that got away" I still think about, and I REALLY want to know who wrote it. Did YOU write about space snails taking over the anglican church? (Read on...)

the biggest fairy tale adults tell themselves on the daily is they're not one medical emergency or layoff or divorce away from being homeless

Harris-Walz campaign economic proposals: —$6,000 tax credit for newborns —cap insulin cost at $35, out-of-pocket Rx costs at $2,000 for everyone —work with states to cancel medical debt —encourage building 3 million housing units —eliminate incentives for corp landlords buying homes in bulk

I hope, as we unearth all these rocks and find JD Vance writhing underneath them like a long, many-legged serpent, we spare a thought for what we’re going to do to make Chris Rufo persona non grata.

I will convert to your religion if and only if I am given the power to necromance 1 (one) pterosaur into existence at a time and place of my choosing. Sorry, but those are the rules.

Related: Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones obviously draws plot inspiration from the War of the Roses, but I really think the “sweating sickness” that plagued the British Isles should’ve made it in. Unknown virus (hantavirus?) that killed able-bodied adults in 24 hours? Brutal plot potential

An elegant duo of green heron at daybreak. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 4500, f10, 1/640s) 🪶 #birds #birdphotography #wildlifephotography

UPDATE: Linda stopped by to spill all of the tea. Buckle up, folks. So Linda is sweet and means well, but is a bit of a trainwreck. She keeps a small chicken coop and is constantly giving everyone eggs whether they want them or not (I do not). She also has 2 dogs. Dana also has 2 dogs.

penzey's latest marketing email: all spices beginning with L, F, or G, as in "Let's Freaking Go!" (as the young say) are 50% off with the code "VOTE" 😂 I love all the weird little things they do, tbh penzey's might be the most impactful political thing reaching grandmas rn, grandmas LOVE penzey's

a fun fact is that not only do i have purchase authority… … but “refrains from blatant misogyny” is one of the criteria i factor in people can get mad at me for it, but successful vendor-customer relationships are predicated on mutual respect i can’t trust a partner who doesn’t see women as human

When a director hires me "for my expertise" to train a larger puppeteer to do the Audrey II role, there is a certain bitter satisfaction that comes from watching it dawn on them that they've made a mistake. They should have just hired me to do the show. I'm not too small. I'm a fucking expert.

I just consulted on a production of Little Shop & the director said, "I wish you'd been available when we were casting." I was. He'd forgotten I'd applied. Everytime this happens, they cast a dude assuming I can't lift the plant. I've done 7 different productions. I can lift the fucking plant.

Golden-crowned kinglet looking all angry and borby

Also: we MUST move abortion into normal healthcare. If you need one, you get the pills from your regular doc, not a standalone clinic. You need a surgical one, you go to the same place your friend got a colonoscopy, or in your doctor’s office. Making it separate makes it look shameful. That ends.

Hungry friend

Oh you actually wanted to read the article? Sorry, you’re now entering a sweepstakes to win a miracle cure for belly fat, good luck getting past paragraph two next time

It might be, but it has very pointy parents! (This is what I was photographing this morning when the jaeger got in the way)

Round up of the current fuzzy bird situation in the north: 🪶

Imagine flying across a literal ocean not once but TWICE in the same year just to lurk in the vicinity of a nerd convention that kicked you out. Lol, lmao even.

I was just away for 4 days & the day I left, I wanted to visit the marsh 1 more time. I’d heard voices from deep in the reeds and thought “maybe, just maybe”. It’s spent its entire life in the reeds, but this was the morning it peeked out at the world. This is a baby Sora🪶

2024 and we're finally getting "let's see if this is actually incredibly painful, like the patients claim"

look, I'm sure we're going to have more stuff come out at some point that make people disappointed in Walz, every politician has flaws but doing this, at that time, is the sign of a fundamentally decent human being

Just

before anyone discusses "the opiate problem" in my mentions or decides who to blame for what this thread is required reading bsky.app/profile/raha...

Love that they’re like “we’re not weird! But goddamn Harris is pretty freaking normal.”

I was fooled by some very successful people for more than a decade. They needed me to be fooled. That’s always part of the plan.

My cats are Evil and Ninja and by god do I have regrets.

@eriophora.bsky.social thinking of your Ninja and Evil 🤣

ridiculously cool orange moth with poofy pants www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Targeted regulation of abortion providers is quietly working behind the scenes to make sure that even when abortion is legal, it may not actually be accessible.

ICYMI in the avalanche of news, evidence is mounting that Shingles vaccination has some protective benefit against Alzheimer’s Disease, strengthening the hypothesis that reactivated herpes viruses play a role in some forms of dementia. www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/h...