my beloved girlfriend has an inexplicable attraction to grotesque, almost supernaturally weird old men. guys who look like the adults from a roald dahl story. fellas who act like they were perhaps recently animals turned human through some unnatural bargain with the fey. not me though

Walk without rhythm and it won't attract the worm

"I still think environmentalism is basically bad" is just his old "sweatshop workers should have the freedom to die making my clothes" shtick but applied to climate change. Casual indifference to human suffering is his M.O. and always has been, since he became famous for supporting the 2003 Iraq War

I think, unfortunately, I do need to read the Olivia Nuzzi book

low key bummed that lizza and nuzzi will never come together to write what could be the worst book of all time

Ryan Lizza writes like Garth Marenghi

underrated bit of handwaving in the lizza blog

There's a raccoon who keeps getting into our neighbour's trash and making a huge mess and we started calling him Monsieur Poubelle. It's good to know Mr Poubelle has a short snout

A shorter snout is one of several physical traits linked to domestication. Using almost 20,000 raccoon photos from iNaturalist, researchers found that urban raccoons' snouts were 3.5% shorter than rural ones.

I’m demoniac, I am madness maddened!

The Grey Cup is on, so it's time, once again, to remember that Pierre Trudeau rolled up to Grey Cup in 1970 looking like this.

I caught up with days 13-14 of #Nudivember. Not sure if I'll get today's done or not but I don't want to get further behind.

EW!

Happy Friday to you guys

Wendy Carlos - BOTD

I recently read Kate Moore's excellent book The Radium Girls and well, not a lot has changed.

The Northern Lights were visible all the way from Anza-Borrego Desert with the eyes yesterday evening. The camera sees better in this case. This was about 9 pm yesterday evening looking towards the Santa Rosa Mountains. Note that the sun sets here at 4:45 pm, so these were not sunset colors!

this guy with 30k followers who follows 60k accounts is going to be my new best friend i can feel it

Should I ask him for a kayak? 🪶🌿

The lifecycle of a Joshua Tree. An illustration done for Transition Habitat. #art #illustration #sciart

Guys who talk into a microphone for a job love acting like they load crates down on the dock. Your job is sometimes you have to talk to Dave Portnoy. Well, I guess that does suck

Watched Frankenstein last night

Turns out they don't need to go on a cruise because they already got norovirus at the fair

Beano #1089, June 1, 1963

A smol #SundayFishSketch of a Shiny loosejaw. #kleinekunstklasse 🐡

Rose 🐕‍🦺 Adult female Chihuahua Adoptable from Pennsylvania SPCA (Philadelphia, PA) https://www.petfinder.com/dog/rose-79238950/pa/danville/pennsylvania-spca-pa190/

listen to Water Treatment, the band too dangerous for Youtube

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

You should listen to @1000000horses.bsky.social 's EP on Bandcamp because Youtube's stupid AI filter decided it's promoting violent criminal organizations and pulled it and also auto-denied their appeal, even though it's only promoting water treatment

if you didn't follow the VA governor race you didn't know that Earle-Sears ran like a billion anti-trans campaign ads and Spanberger didn't flinch or pull a Newsom. going all-in against trans people is a losing move, especially when the federal government has made harming and killing us a priority.

love this springsteen record

one last baffling song choice for the road!

i'm dying lmao

We have to hold Alan Dershowitz to his promise

He has the political instincts of a tubeworm

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

A perfect video to post today

Alton Ellis - "Why" [Jamaica, Reggae/Soul] (1967) https://redd.it/4m0l09 https://youtu.be/GTuHBcCL0LY

Just realized I've had a window with the "Dick Cheney hunting accident" wiki up for like 4 hours. That also would have been a good band name at one time. Probably too late now

If you make fun of Dick Cheney today you are really making fun of all YOUR friends who've shot THEIR friends in the face in a hunting "accident" and also all your friends who masterminded Iraq War II

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

Coming through! Important ptarmigan stuff to do! #birds 🌿

Mundane Halloween is one Japan's great gifts to the world every year