I just found a woolly bully caterpillar in the kitchen and let it outside 🥲 (internet says woolly bear but we always called them woolly bullies … looked them up because I was surprised to see it this time of year)

If you’re considering visiting the ice caves on the shores of Lake Superior in WI, don’t do an open water tour or use this business; it’s just too dangerous. This FB warning came from a friend who is a local cop, and the comment thread is full of folks blocked by the business for posting warnings 😳

Was behind a car whose license plate read LALOYD 😂 IYKYK

My listening age on Spotify was WAY lower than my daughter’s 😂

Someone posted four Christmas movies to know them by, which I thought was great, but I couldn’t choose just 4 … So here are four, plus 4 more! 🧵

Exactly the point

Bird’s nest in lantern, St Lucia Photo by me ☺️

Art in the port of Bridgetown, Barbados

Someone had a bad day yesterday. There was a large purse in the left lane of I-295. I’m guessing the owner mistakenly left it on the roof of the car, and it fell off as the vehicle accelerated right where the roadway widened.

Obamacare is far superior to Trumpcare, which consists of all us going broke and dying prematurely.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal) did a great comic the other day about that feeling you get when you see AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Kash was begging for a Community Note

In light of today’s recommendation on COVID vaccines for pregnant women, this 2022 piece by @deldeib.bsky.social is newly relevant. COVID-Related Stillbirths Didn’t Have to Happen

As the government shutdown continues, here are some resources for military members, their families, and other federal workers who've been furloughed. militaryfamilies.com/news/governm...

If I Ran the Media™ Fewer stories on: —How Dems Need to Change Their Messaging —How [event xx] Will Play w [voter bloc YY] —How 2028 Field Is Shaping Up More of: —Which points of resistance are actually working —What specifically GOP Reps/Sens are so afraid of —Real-world tariff/immig effects —ETC

~30 states have external review appeal programs

Go for the comments 😄

I can think of a few reasons

"Not a single Democrat has talked about wanting to fund care for people in the United States unlawfully. Instead, what Democrats have said is they want to undo Medicaid cuts projected to leave nearly 10 million Americans uninsured." A smidge different.

September 30, 2025

Photo by me Tokyo, May 2025

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Dates are hard, apparently

So frustrating

September 5, 2025

This should be on the national news

"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:

Another win for science and vaccines

What can we do? Where is the pushback? Well, ICYMI, here is what it looks like. So I thought I would do something I rarely (if ever) do… share the whole damn thing. No snark. No spin. Just the whole speech. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

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Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Her letters are always worth your time; this one lays out particularly well how we got here

I could look up what the new Cracker Barrel logo looks like, but I just don’t care

foreignpolicy.com/2013/04/05/w... Why Dictators Don’t Like Jokes 2013

Vaccines cause adulthood.

Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES! Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No. Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES! Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES! Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES! Fund mRNA research!

Saw a yellow bird on our fence and went outside to try to identify it. It was a half-eaten pear. 🤣

The 'b' in 'subtle' totally is.

Furthest I’ve been: N: Bodo, Norway E: Sydney, Australia W: Honolulu, Hawaii S: Ushuaia, Argentina

These are blooming about a month later than usual this year

In 1985, the films 'Real Genius,' 'Weird Science,' and 'My Science Project' were somehow all released within seven days of each other.

Bayfield, WI