Reposting this partly to share and partly to bookmark! What a wonderful resource.

It’s double donation day at my local food bank. www.gcfb.org/event/2025-n... I am directly buying some food for my church’s 24 hour walk-up food pantry, because it operates on a different scale, but you can bet I’m putting a big portion of my neighbor-feeding budget into stuff like this instead.

Need your heart exquisitely broken today? Oregon’s got you covered.

Serious TW on this video This is right here in Oak Park, MI

After years of being curious but lazy, I finally got around to documenting what's inside the black walnuts in my yard. In the process I became obsessed with the strange wasp that hunts down the pupae of the resident flies. 🌿 #wasps #diapriidae #nature #diptera colinpurrington.com/2025/11/life...

A rare “here’s what you might not know about this major national brand” post that makes you feel better, not worse!

"Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...

I got curious about the very long building in the second photo. No mention in the wiki article, so I followed the source for the pic itself. Occidental Chemical Company does have a Clearwater, KS address, but it seems to be a different site entirely. Now I’m worried about that green river, though 😳

Good news: The Michigan Public Service Commission agreed with us that Consumers Energy needs to better protect customers from the high costs of serving data centers. We demonstrated that without further protections, serving data centers could raise household electricity rates by more than 9%.

Am I going to have to add “emails” to my muted words list? I do NOT need to have these details lurking in my skyline where they keep catching me off guard.

‘It’s Not Too Late’: New Cornell Study Maps the Environmental Cost of AI and How Policy Could Limit the Damage | The authors predict U.S. data centers could annually consume as much water as 10 million Americans and emit as much carbon dioxide as 10 million cars, reports @insideclimatenews.org.

Everyone ten years ago when The Force Awakens came out: “Wow, this is dumb. Why are the fascists just doing the exact same plan again?” Everyone now: “Oh.”

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I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.

Hat by great grandma (knitted long ago for me or one of my siblings), blanket by great aunt, sweater by honorary great aunt. I love that my baby’s wardrobe needs a credits section :) (adorable face-obscuring fish sticker by @pikaole.bsky.social, also) It was vaccine day and he was such a good sport!

Reading a post from Chuck Tingle on my skyline, smiling, scrolling on, and then having my defenses down for all the other posts that are about the other, much more disappointing Chuck that all of bsky is talking about today.

Set up the playpen at my parents’ house in preparation for their daycare duties starting soon. Cat took about 10 minutes to claim it as her own, of course. Had to be bribed into leaving with a shoulder ride to the otherwise inaccessible alcove above the bookshelves so the playpen had room for a baby

Mad about the political stuff everybody else is mad about, but also mad that an hour and a half on “saute - low” in the instant pot was somehow not long enough to soften the potatoes and carrots in my beef stew, so it’s almost 9pm and dinner is still not ready 😤

I called. I hate calling but I called.

Drumroll please. 🥁 We have *forecasted* the winners of Science Friday's first-ever Halloween costume contest. They really *blew away* their competition.🌪️

I love this. In my small family, everybody who’s not in my parents’ household clears what they want to make with the my mom, and then she oversees the balance of the dishes as the cooking is split between her, my dad, and any siblings at home that year. I usually make a pie or two 😋

Hey folks. DIA workers are working to unionize! Sign the letter of support below + follow IG DIAworkersunited. My Grandpa did one of the jobs in the Riviera mural, my Dad would always point it out. I get how it's inspirational. Good on em and let's get their back. www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-d...

Some rando LLC is trying to build a huge data center in Hermantown, which just up the hill from Duluth. long suspected they’d be coming for Lake Superior and here it is. @senatordoronclark.bsky.social I hope you’ll support legislation to protect our Big Lake. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Ah crap, I just looked at my profile and realized I look like one of those fake accounts that just re-posts stuff to look legit. I promise I’m not, I just don’t have much to say that others aren’t saying better. Except saccharine stuff about my kid, but I don’t want to be A Social Media Mom either.

Shocker

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

During the era when Arabs were in the Iberian Peninsula, many words and cultural elements were introduced into the Spanish language: “calabaza” is one of those examples, from Arabic قَرْعَة يَابِسَة‎ (qarʕa yābisa) “dry gourd”, from Persian خربزه‎ (xarboza, xarboze) “melon”. mapologies.com/el-atlas/#Pu...

The Pegamoose! It lives on the back of a flatbed trailer off I65 between Lebanon and Indianapolis. Nov 4, 2020

Functional hypothalamic amenorrhea is an understudied condition. Please help me get two important studies filled by spreading the word! open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

real talk does this ever go away

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Here's a selection of some of our scariest gargoyles and grotesques 👀 #Halloween

I learned two things today: 1) I desperately need to wash my front windows 2) T/N/R is going to be more expensive than I thought, because that really looks like three kittens and not the two I’d seen with their mom before.

I learned two things today: 1) I desperately need to wash my front windows 2) T/N/R is going to be more expensive than I thought, because that really looks like three kittens and not the two I’d seen with their mom before.

And while you're at it, scroll down further to uncheck this

Any day that starts with NEORSD posts is unquestionably better.

So...he's got fuzzins?

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Leading up to Halloween we ask, Why do some gummy brands rock, and why do others feel like you're chewing plastic? 🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...

Because of the aunt/uncle/cousin discourse, I started thinking… None of my or my husband’s siblings have kids, and neither did my parents’ siblings; my baby is thoroughly bereft of cousins. But between bio aunts/uncles and godparents, he’ll have six cats from four households in that role instead 😺

Love watching two people I follow, who might not even follow each other, posting v similar reactions a few seconds apart every time something dramatic happens in this baseball game, which is apparently constantly. Half my skyline is talking about it and that’s great but the simulposts are delightful

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Spaghetti and delicata and acorn squash, and even zucchini and pumpkin, are literally all the same species. Don’t believe us? Swipe to see how Cucurbita pepo can include so many varieties 🎃

It's #NationalPumpkinDay! 🎃 Why are pumpkins orange, and what do pumpkins have to do with pumpkin spice? Here are the chemical answers in @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/articles/93/... #ChemSky 🧪

“Culturally female” may be the best gender descriptor I’ve found to date. Finally a way to encompass my closet that’s mostly flannels and dad shirts but also some slinky dresses.

Pretty normal: scary dream about leaving your baby alone for a moment and coming back to find them injured Halloween special: dream about coming back to find my baby having climbed halfway up a vertical tile wall, and looking closer to find actually it’s just his head, his body disappeared somehow

Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't. www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

It would help to have a National Day of Action re: SNAP - perhaps on November 1. It would take rapid response but houses of worship could take the lead in mobilizing their members. Educate everyone about the cuts, encourage local donations, pressure Congress, etc...

Finally done with the pumpkin carving! Derpy and Sussie are the stars of Halloween this year! 🎃