At the grocery store, 4 siblings, aged 12-ish to 4-ish, are peering into the frozen desserts. No parent in sight. 12yo: “Bruh. BRUHS. Here’s the strat: we all ask for ONE thing. If we ask for different stuff, she’ll say no. But if we ask for one, she’ll be so happy we agree that she’ll buy it.”

I shouldn’t have to say this, but don’t buy animals with medically significant venom because you saw one in a cartoon.

I also did not know until yesterday that Bridgette Bardot was a fascist. Then again, I didn't know she was still alive until yesterday, either. By which point, I guess she wasn't.

I learned about this a couple of months ago. There is a caveat, however. If you take your mail to the counter during PO working hours, you can ask the clerk to postmark it in front of you. This is hardly a solution, but might be information worth tucking away.

As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.

You FUCKED UP, your LEFTY politics have ALIENATED the BILLIONAIRES who run the CHILD BONE EXTRACTION FACTORIES and now they will do a MASS EXODUS from your STATE or CITY. Don’t CRY to ME when you no longer see their CHILD CATCHING VANS in your STATE or CITY, YOU IDIOT

please do not teach the goats italian

the existence of nonbinary people gently expands the pool of people who can kill witch kings

But tell me again why we need to support him?

They put in the newspaper that I got mad at Mike Bobo @sethemerson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/692...

We could do this, as a culture, bluesketeers.

Reqs? Help? My oldest will be 14 next month & recently expressed interest in alternate history as a genre. She likes sapphic romance, Danganronpa, Delta Rune, Ruby, Murder Drones, & rock band AUs (OFC she reads a lot of fanfic). She also loves Brooklyn 99 (don’t worry, she knows it’s copaganda)

DO NOT FALL FOR IT. MTG peeling off the right to continue their internal backstabbing party? Go to it, lady. The left handing it to the Jewish Space Laser Lady? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

I still think that the singular for ravioli should be raviolus

Good morning. How about 2000 words about the state of the US oil industry? "Hamm admitted the Bakken is 'tapped out.' The reason he is buying shale assets in other countries is because the reality is that the U.S. oil industry is tapped out."

The most important post on Bluesky today

One of the most successful propaganda campaigns of our time is the right-wing claim that liberals dominate the media. The right has pushed this myth for decades on Fox and other outlets. You know about it because RIGHT-WING MEDIA HAVE A HUGE MEGAPHONE. My thread. 1/10 🧵

Sauron??? They named the company Sauron??? What is it with tech bros and starting companies named after the villains of Lord of the Rings??? They really think the hobbits were the bad guys and the outcome of the story was tragic, don't they?

I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.

Marx had many things to say about this, but it boils down to this: pushing AI onto the general populace is intentional, the GOAL is alienation - to unhook that link in your brains between labour and product. It's why fast fashion is made where you can't see it.

The tech losers want you to think that their slop can replace human creativity so they can sell you slop, and so that you stop thinking about the hours of learning and practice that may have gone into creating a piece you admire. Notably capitalism has no intention of charging you less for the slop

it will never stop being funny that this post *still* gets new people to discover or remember the game

No bigger than a lanky dwarf rabbit, the Lesser mousedeer is one of the world’s smallest known hoofed animals. I heard a crunching sound coming from the gloomy undergrowth. Peering through the foliage, I found this little guy cracking open seed pods.

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John Oliver is so good he makes jokes about Gandhi with that accent and the whole of India cheers

Still a few days to go, but as of right now the Baltimore homicide page shows 133 homicides for the year. It was consistently around 330/year until four years ago, when it started its steep decline. It is now well under HALF of what it was. This is a miracle.

"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.) www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...

Yes. Boil it down, and the paper argues that the folks dreaming of technologically malleable morphologies and cognitive diversities have consistently shown a disdain and loathing for actually existing diversities of bodies and minds, regardless of what those diverse peoples could teach them.

I really really really really dislike the new thing of calling staying in bed or being non-productive “rotting”.

imagine we had a way to tax assets and property we could call it a property tax

Reminder that if you still have FSA funds to spend this year, you can spend them at FSA store: fsastore.com - you can purchase menstrual products for example to donate to your local pantries and homeless shelters. I have $130 left and that's what I did yesterday.

A small victory for people and direct services organizations who help their unhoused neighbors in California: As of January 1, it should (theoretically!) be illegal to punish people for offering outreach and support.

Eritrichium argenteum, our Pale Alpine Forget-Me-Not, blooming above Weston Pass Friday #nativeplants #FallbackFlowers #Fallback to June 28 🌿

"The concept resonated in Bay Area circles, where crime had become a constant topic during and after the pandemic, despite San Francisco Police Department statistics showing property crime and homicide rates declining last year."

I spoke with @carlzimmer.com about our terminated grant on wildfire smoke and homes:

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.

One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background. The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.

This is a very promising line of research, I hope it goes to human trials

Had some questions on #alt4me People volunteer to go through that feed and do alt text for you. It’s not perfect, but if we spread the word, we’ll get more volunteers to start helping. If you want something to have alt text though, I will willingly do it for you if you DM me the post link.

Perfect example of advice that works in one context being terrible in others.

There are a few really fine common names for birds out there - and near the top of my list are the "Go-Away Birds" from Africa. While many birds do indeed go away as soon as birders arrive, these don't seem to do it any more than most. The name is onomatopoeic for their call. #birds

Thread, as a matter of principle you should at least be aware of options besides "you can't get an app on the phone you own unless Google gets its cut"

bluesky really summarizing the bills fan experience with how it's showing this thread!

This is about people who are being held pretrial, without a conviction, and yet are blocked from accessing ballots… until Colorado required polling places in jails.

OPINION: "AmeriCorps work is service work. It gets young people who could do any number of things into neighborhoods and communities that could use a bit of help," Kevin Edwards writes. buff.ly/N5M6RLH

For everyone who has admired my pull down kitchen shelves but has cabinet sizes that won't fit them: Rev-a-Shelf now has an adaptable-size that will fit from 14.5" to 34.75" listed as coming soon rev-a-shelf.com/5pdyo-series

This is what I’ve been talking about for months now: GOP lawmakers are trying to figure out how to reclaim their power after ceding it all to the White House. The problem? They’re cowards, and most of them are just going to resign instead. thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter