This is Finley. He has a rare genetic mutation that causes patches of different colors in his coat. It is completely harmless, but it does make him completely handsome. 14/10 (IG: jaktlabben.finley)

Someone said this year is like being awake during surgery and… yep

Sister Rosetta Tharpe died October 9, 1973. Here’s a link to a biographical essay written by W. K. McNeil & Terry Buckalew. encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/sist...

Come see us Friday evening at the @imaginewaterworks Imagination Farm for a night market and chill hang that is all kinds of beautiful (including Sista Princess’ fab new food truck)😋😋😋 #NOLAsky #NOLAtwitter #queerNOLA

The city accused Collective Impact of misappropriating public dollars and bribing a former city official, and had sought to bar it from doing business with the city.

“I’ll kill you in front of your students.” This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US. But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

How do you see this footage and not think that something's gone horribly incredibly wrong with America?

Saw a man trying to fix a flat bicycle tire in the street today, a teenage boy stopped in front of him and sang a note perfect rendition of Elvis Costello’s “Pump It Up” and this is probably the best thing I’ll witness this week.

A Grindr date that ended in a violent attack helped detectives unravel a series of cold cases. Police say the suspect, Rockim Prowell, is charged with murdering two men and assaulting a third.

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

Hey y'all... Broad Ave. Pharmacy have covid and flu shots and you can just walk in. Locally owned and excellent service... Go get ya some.

The most recent gun manufacturer to relocate to Tennessee has direct ties to a military that a growing number of experts, a UN commission and other international groups have said is carrying out a genocide in Gaza.

This is the guy who looked in the mirror and called himself “David Duke without the baggage”

This is a great first step!

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops. 📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

Just FYI, no issues with TSA at MSY. Smooth sailing at 6 am in the morning.

Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out

Since SNL is back I want to mention that short term cast member Luke Mones had an idea for a sketch they never did where a guy on death row is asked what he wants for his last meal and he says Olive Garden’s Never Ending Soup and Breadsticks and they can never execute him because he keeps eating

Also fuck you Texas for doing this, invading another state with armed troops; lone star Republic my ass

I’m sorry, I love this

Wow 🥹

I think Dems can and should do better than people who are abusive to their staff members

Disneyland visitor dies after riding the Haunted Mansion. Expert says theme park deaths are rare

Manager of historic California strip club, site of infamous death by piano, is fatally shot

If you were a Baby Golden Potato, cleaned, cut, and quartered and slathered in garlic butter at 400⁰ in the Air Fryer: How long would you expect to cook? 🤔

Be the sort of person where even the rumor of your demise sparks a global depressive spiral and not the Ewok celebration from Return of the Jedi

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

That we are at the point someone is saying this sucks because they could have stopped all this so much easier at pretty much any point in the past freakin decade.

5-tour military vet calls #ICE agents traitors and tells them to prepare for a one-way mission if they come to his neighborhood #chicago #portland Now THAT’S true patriotism 🇺🇸

What the actual fuck??? This is a really scary situation. This family is already facing death threats which is why they are leaving. Because Dr. Bray is a scholar of anti-fascism.

In case you needed some levity today, here is a penguin excited about bubbles

Thanks at least in part to austerity budgets and deferred maintenance, my (second floor!) office has flooded. Again. The pampered life of a literature professor. Again: up yours forever, Bobby Jindal and vandals in the Louisiana Legislature, for the ongoing defunding of public higher education.

Michigan Avenue right now.

Look at these cowardly fucking Nazi cunts firing pepper balls at a guy standing there dancing in an inflatable frog suit. Fuck them, they all need to go to jail.

#OutageAlert from @EntergyNOLA

I used to think this was tin foil hat stuff from the left, but then I lived in New Orleans for 16 years and learned how many "legal" ways there are to steal people's homes from them.

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks: I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company. craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

So, as part of Taylor Swift's album rollout, there was a scavenger hunt involving videos that looked *really* AI-generated. So #SwiftiesAgainstAI became a thing and now the videos are impossible to find. Fandom outrage can be good! www.wired.com/story/taylor...

The thing I wish everyone knew about canes is that you don't need a prescription to use one If you think one might help you, try out a cheap one. Does it make it easier for you to get around? Does it increase your range, endurance, energy? Congrats - you are "disabled enough." You can use a cane.

INTO MY VEINS

New Orleans vaccine update from the health department

WSJ reports that DOJ is going to charge John Bolton. In case you needed anyone less sympathetic to rally behind than Jim Comey. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

breaking news

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.