We just started watching Starfleet Academy and I just yelled “oh my god, it’s one of the black and white people from “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield!” which proves that I am so very old and very geeky.

👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The proliferation of mobile games where your character opens a small business with almost no money and quickly becomes a millionaire is a capitalist tool to devalue labor and promote the myth that low-income workers can easily “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.” In this essay I will

What the right wing never mentions about Sparta was that if you couldn't get your wife pregnant, you had to go find another man who could. Also it was not common but also not uncommon for groups of men, including brothers, to be married to a single woman. Yeah that's right Spartan women had harems

“Nobody wants these ding dongs in our fucking city.” Nate Pischke has found a uniquely Minnesotan way to protest the ICE surge in Minneapolis, using his platform as a fishing influencer to call attention to what he describes as a federal siege of his hometown.

I suspect I had a very stereotypical view of the South until I moved there, but once you learn the uses of “bless your heart,” and that the default tea is hummingbird food, it’s really pretty normal unless you bring up BBQ sauce. People have some very weird notions about what it’s like.

Goddamn ninjas cutting onions in the vents…

I wanted this mari to be inspecting a strand of fate, but you can come up your own story

Attempted to explain the Spongmonkeys to Stepkid today. I had emphasized that they were crudely animated. I do not think I emphasized it enough.

AMERICA! "A Sorceress Comes to Call" by @tkingfisher.com, is on sale for $2.99 for Kindle this week!

Stepkid just toasted some naan and slathered it with French Onion dip. ME: …is that…good? KID: It seemed like a good idea so I tried it. It’s heaven. ME: … *Five Minutes Later* ME: Oh shit, this is kind of amazing. KID: I KNOW RIGHT?!

This is some serial killer shit.

I’m not sure if I have ever explained this, but the official record of where plants live is based on what samples have come from what counties. So there is no sample of galax from Dinwiddie County in any repository, and I have to fix that.

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

see this is why, as much as many national dems suck, I think there is room for optimism this didn’t used to be the response from blue states! that a number of them immediately grabbed the baton and went for their own aggressive gerrymanders is very encouraging! some of our democrats are learning!

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

I strongly feel that fundraisers should rely more on pettiness.

Violets are blue Roses are red Someday it will happen And he will be

Murgatroyd, fetch my ear trumpet. And a Werther's.

ICYMI, this thread and the quoted post document my descent into madness re: anthropomorphic cow mascots.

OH at next table: GIRL: I got 165% on the project! BROTHER: No you didn’t. GIRL: Yes I did FATHER: sigh BROTHER: You can’t get more than 100%. GIRL: Maybe you can’t, but I did. Want me to show you? BROTHER: Then your teacher graded it wrong. FATHER: *wearily* That’s enough… MOTHER: 1000-yard stare

another guy who never protested before radicalized to the point of tears by watching masked ICE agents terrify children in his neighborhood the Republicans are not ready or mentally capable of comprehending the backlash they have generated

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

I regret to inform you that I have gone further down the terrible rabbit hole that is Elsie the Cow. If you squint at enough eBay listings trying to read the words, you find a saga of a marriage gone mad.

“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing

… do we know a martial arts school near there . That’s a warrior and I need the baby trained up in the way they have valiantly chosen to go .

Conversation that I really hope happened: PARENT: Yes, Principal, we have told him never to resort to physical violence. Of course we’re disappointed. He’ll be grounded for a month. *five minutes later, in the car* PARENT: Ice cream before or after we go get you that new PS5?

“You realize it’s an hour and a half until dinnertime and you don’t need to sit there the whole time and stare at me, right?” “I got nowhere to be”

Seriously, gang, GO BUY BROTHER ETHAN’S BOOK

Checks out.

being an artist is just decades of going "ugh I wish I knew how to draw" over and over again until you die

This morning, I got distracted while eating cheese because I remembered that the laughing cow is named Elsie and is married to Elmer the cow on the glue labels. To doublecheck that I hadn’t hallucinated that, I looked it up and fell down a dark internet rabbit hole.

As always, donate if you can and boost if you can't. Detainees are walking out in t-shirts and pajamas in the MN winter, unable to speak English, with no money, I.D., or resources, and Haven cares for them. gofund.me/608979105

okay that's quite enough external world for me today. good night yall

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

A pre-cooked rotisserie chicken from Safeway is $9.99. If I bought one every day for a year, that's $3,646.35. The average price of a house in the United States is $400,000. It would cost about 109 years of daily rotisserie chickens to buy that house.

Poor Hound had a cyst removed and is now wearing the Cone of Shame. HOUND: SORROW ME: It’s…ah…not that bad? HOUND: WOE ME: It’s a fashion accessory? For very beautiful hounds? HOUND: *walks into corner and is trapped like a lost Roomba* ME: Oh dear… HOUND: NO ONE HAS SUFFERED LIKE HOUND SUFFERS NOW

If you want to know what we are doing here, contact me. I made this quote post so anyone can interact. Let me know here and we can move the convo to more secure channels. Please learn, prepare, and get ready.

Yesterday was the 2nd Wednesday of the month, which means it's ORCHID CLUB MEETING SHOW AND TELL TIME! You're welcome. #orchid #bloomscrollling #flowerreport 🪴🌱 Let's start with a couple of mine because DUH. This is Miltoniopsis Morris Chestnut. I have been growing it wrong but it's forgiving me.

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

You know you want one!! My glow in the dark Mothman shirt!!! Everybody who buys one tells me “wow kory these shirts rule and also glow really good”

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

This one is so good.

Lawyers, can you tell me where “Horsefeathers!” is on the judicial rage map?

This does not go in the expected direction.

we know this, but a reminder: anytime ICE CBP etc says they’re drawing down their presence in a city, it’s bullshit. whatever their numbers, lawless federal agents remain behind & still cause havoc & kidnap people. Also relocated agents just go somewhere else to destroy lives. Abolish ICE end DHS

This is one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said about me. *sniffle*

Note to non-Minnesotans: St. Paul is not Minneapolis

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

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