This is Violet - isn't she beautiful? For some reasons the other outdoor ducks all picked on her and no matter what social combination we tried she ended up hiding, so we brought her indoors to live with the bunnies and special needs birds.

Well, that was a funny conversation. Weeks of vague miscommunications, and we just realized that despite our job titles, we are each informally "the lawyer" at work. We were both trying to translate legalese into numbers and business jargon, but it turns out we could just speak lawyer to each other!

Forgot the 🐋📖

I saw we had a cat on the surgical roster named Nuno Gloop this morning and was not at all disappointed by how great he is. And he is going to be available for adoption shortly too!

"God keep me from ever completing anything", I say as I stack the 7 books I'm in the middle of, start a craft project before I finish that quilt I've been working on for 3 years, and clean up a cold, half-empty cup of tea. 🐋 #adhd

"Hey Siri, how do I talk to my 6yo about masked secret police assaulting their elementary school?" (Don't @ me about AI. I don't even have an iPhone. this is a joke, random stranger.)

Do you know how hard is was for these folks to not utter the words "You just have to rock it out, back and forth. You got this."

I'm not sure people who live outside of snowy Northern regions understand the level of hostility required to ignore a stuck motorist. It's almost like the hospitality taboo in the desert, where you know it could be you some other day. This basically means ICE is being completely shunned.

Ken Burns Announces New 10-Part ‘Mr. Biscuits’ Documentary After Adopting Cat https://theonion.com/ken-burns-announces-new-10-part-mr-biscuits-documentary-after-adopting-cat/

Speaking of narwhals, have you seen the narwhal that adopted a beluga? 🐋📖https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/adopted-lone-narwhal-traveling-among-belugas-may-produce-narluga-calves-180979695/

Fork-marked lemurs and African needle-clawed galagos are a classic case of convergent evolution—they’re both small, nocturnal, primates with strikingly similar looks and lifestyles. The twist? They live about 3,000 miles apart and aren’t closely related 📷: Guilherme Siniciato Terra Garbino

Don't ever do business with someone who's weird and defensive and lashes out about money. Not even if you're both supposedly anti-capitalist types who are supposed to be focused on the art or the cause or the mission. Maybe especially if you're both those types.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

It really do recommend making your shitty day the problem of your shitty senator's voicemail every night, it doesn't have to be a chore. It is a actually cathartic

DEEP. SEA. SHIPWRECK. 🐋

By request: an baby

Good morning here is your emergency sloth

I see that Cybertruck Guy is the kind of person who only clears the snow off his windshield and lets the wind take care of the rest. For everyone else's sake, I hope the rest is gone by the time he gets to the I-70 ramp.

Important context to "more/better training" arguments: the murder of Renée Good was a product of that training by someone who has trained others. (I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)

Adult black-footed cats only weigh around four pounds when fully grown! This means kittens are only a few ounces at birth 😻

New Riley Black book! New Riley Black book!

I've told myself more or less the same thing at 7:59 AM on the due date of the term paper, after 8 cups of coffee and zero sleep, no longer fully remembering everything I wrote. 🐋

A lovely line.🐋

This line makes me laugh as a really good zinger and makes me want to gently pat Ishmael on the back as being himself a citizen of The Kingdom of the Long Words. 🐋

🐋 couple days of reading where i forgot to post — every man in whaleworld has a philosophy of Whale. none of them agree.

anyway good night

CETOLOGY is the book promised to us by the wicked academic satirist who wrote ETYMOLOGY and EXTRACTS. The whale is a spouting fish with a tale, that is to say, a book. Some writers will essay a dolphin, yet though it sell by the superpod, they have not wrestled with the whale. In this essay, Ahab ca

Speaking of the zoo - while I was there one of the sand cats was sleeping in a hammock and another tried to climb the branch above them and fell into said hammock. The sleeping one was like WTF bro and batted the other on the face. I got a great pic of his expression after but it was out of focus 😭😭

Stress Break, Behold!

Excited to re-read the legendary, magnificent "Cetology" chapter tomorrow. To whet your appetite, please enjoy Rockwell Kent's appropriately bizarre illustration from the front of the chapter. 🐋

Ishmael taking bold new taxonomic stances 🐋

I love Matt Kish's illustration of the merman from Stubb's dream. 🐋 everypageofmobydick.blogspot.com/2010/01/moby...

Chapter 32 is what happens when you ask ChatGPT to do your homework. 🐋

Month of Dick readers when we encounter a BIG OLD CHAPTER O' WHALE FACTS 🐋

I've seen people say that the officer who murdered Nicole Good should be charged with murder, and to that I add that every officer who kept medics from arriving, who barred doctors from helping should also be charged under conspiracy doctrine.

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

I don't know which way round is funnier 😆

Hoary bat munches! Hoary bats are some of the floofiest bats we see, they even have some fur along their wings. They have a long, fluffy tail that they use to keep warm by wrapping it up over their abdomen. 🦇 #bats #arizona #asmreating #cuteanimals

If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Stress Break, gossip girl

ICE murderer IDed.

Hey, a quick hint for anyone trying to follow the news in Minneapolis from out of state: if you add ?utm_source=gift to any Star Tribune URL, it'll let you read it. Also, some reliable local outlets that are both better and free: www.mprnews.org www.minnpost.com sahanjournal.com

A fun thing about the #monthofdick is that you can post something like, "Had chowder for lunch! (Clam.) 🐋📖" and get like 37 likes and two RTs.

An alternate perspective on the CETOLOGY chapter: it's my favorite part of the book. I think it's hilarious and awesome and a good character insight into Ishmael. If you are a hater, by all means skip it. Not everything is for everyone. But if you're a first time reader, give CETOLOGY a chance! 🐋

The AWFUL nonsense seems like a weird attempt to double down on the GOP view of all rural and exurban people as "normal" and all urban and suburban people as rich. Because I do not see a lot of signals of affluence in what I know about Renee Good. I'm sure her murderer gets paid more than she did.

Today, I need beauty. This quilt was designed and made by Venita Aldrich. Done on the bias, which made it extra tricky. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAbstract #Art #quilts #creativity

Checked in with my sister in Minneapolis. Nieces' schools aren't closed because of location, but she's curious whether some kids will be skipping today. Big Niece's school is 60% POC, most of them Somali. ICE pepper sprayed high schoolers yesterday and had their weapons drawn at a grade school.

As with many other things, estate planning is especially necessary if you (or your child) are queer, if you're part of a blended family, and/or if you or your partner have a parent who you absolutely do not want to be guardian of your child.