Good morning! A promo offer for the weekend: Wild Inks & Paints is out of stock, so I've opened pre-orders to fund its re-printing in late November. As thanks for waiting, anyone who pre-orders by Nov. 30 will receive the e-book for free by return email. #inks #dyes See here: payhip.com/b/4a9we

Sharing this on behalf of George Kiraz: There will be an introductory Syriac course at Cambridge in the winter term (January 2026). Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Keep 'em coming! these clubs keep signing up! I feel like I'm in one of those movies that takes place in a submarine where the alarms are all going off, and steam is blowing out the pipes, and everyone's running around in wet shoes trying to stop the sub from sinking.

Will always re-post

300 lwft to go, i'm obviously overdue, and well, need to get whatever I can deposited before the weekend's out. Ugh.

As we enter fall, it's so important that we tell everyone to leave those leaves! Mads Torres designed a poster to help us. Lightning bugs are one of the most charismatic insects we've got. Actions we take to protect them protects many insects! Get some to hang in your neighborhood! Squidfacts.net

The president of the United States is a rapist. Like even without the Epstein files, the president is a rapist.

Oh my goodness, all the delicious soup recipes!!

I love how they call it the Rose Garden Club EVEN THOUGH THEY DEMOLISHED ALL OF THE ROSES

This makes me so sad. :(

Yeah, don't do this. Don't do ANY of these sorts of memes and "quizzes."

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

My new book, A House Between Sea and Sky, is an Amazon First Reads pick for September! If you're a Prime member, you can acquire it for free; other people can get it for $1.99! So, what's it about? Well... amzn.to/4lb2R73 [promo link]

Spare some good thoughts for one of the feral cats in my care, because he is most definitely not feeling well. He's huddled under the big juniper, and did not come out for the warm, gooshy food this morning. I even put a bowl slightly under the bush for him, and he made no move to get it.

it is, in fact, a difficult question because SCOTUS invented presidential immunity and defined it broadly enough to make it difficult

A reminder that "But what if people on YOUR side are on the Epstein list?" is a bullshit argument, EVERYONE who was raping children needs to get into the bin right now, that's the deal here and it ain't exactly complicated

PROTIP: Ending the vaccine mandate means insurance companies in Florida will no longer cover the cost of our childhood vaccines. This means dead kids if you are poor

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You absolutely can have thriving native plants in containers! Look at this gorgeous garden.

Snowden is exactly the person all the shitlibs claimed he was and like every time the shitlibs turn out to be right about one of these guys all the cool kids have just memory holes their years of support for him and pretend they never defended the guy.

Republicans and union-busting brands will post “Happy #LaborDay,” knowing damn well that they were the types of people Labor fought against to bring us: - minimum wages - overtime pay - 8 hr workday and a 40 hr week - end to child labor - workplace safety Support unions.

Rescue network- anyone have rescue friends in Edmonton who can do a solid and help with some on the ground searching?

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

Reminded me of: www.youtube.com/shorts/D92Df...

What's even funnier is that these things aren't even the pretty, sparkly stuff they used to make. That's what makes me shake my head. The AB finish, the sparkle the jewelry components had... all gone. For things like this.

"Snark feels like resistance if you are terminally online." -Scalzi SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE SNARK FEELS LIKE RESISTANCE IF YOU ARE TERMINALLY ONLINE If you are terminally online, snark feels like resistance.

I regret to inform you that any country deploying its military to police its own cities is already an autocracy

I can’t believe how insane this redistricting thing is. There is no Historical precedent for a president calling a governor and saying you need to get me five seats. We are now in a literal arms race for the House of Representatives. Trump knows what he’s doing is not popular and he knows this is….

Presidents are supposed to be like your underwear. If you’re thinking about them at all over the course of a normal day, they’re either fabulous or something has gone terribly wrong.

Mongolian draw vs modern archery (vs the rest)

Pasteurization is a godsend, for the simple reason that anything that comes from a farm is filthy, and should be thoroughly cleaned by any means you have. In a similar vein - wash your fruits and vegetables. Always.

When I was quite young (probably 8 or 9) I was staying with some friends for a bit, and they gave me a sip of milk that had just come from the cow. I assure you, it was the NASTIEST, thick, mouth-coating, gag-worthy stuff. Just absolutely awful.

Flight attendants work long hard hours, many of them unpaid, doing work that has lost the social cachet that was supposed to counterbalance the poor compensation. And we need to address the industry’s broken paradigm, which one strike and one arbitration cannot resolve.

So - if the flight is delayed at you sit at the gate with the door open for two hours and the flight attendants are trying their best to keep everyone calm and happy? That is unpaid labour.

When I became a Senator, I started flying a lot. Back and forth from Edmonton to Ottawa - not to mention flights to conferences and events. I had never before understood the archaic way that flight attendants are paid. The clock only starts when the airplane door closes. 🧵

Mark Zuckerberg has spent $110M to buy 11 houses in one Palo Alto neighborhood. He's turning the homes into a compound. That's on top of his 30 bedroom, 30 bathroom compound in Hawaii and another in Lake Tahoe. I don’t want to hear that billionaires can’t afford a wealth tax.

Wow, so the person who stays at home full time caring for a father or mother with dementia because they can’t find or afford alternative care gets a *whole hour and a half a week* of respite. Recognize what this is: an attempt to look like they’re helping when they don’t want to actually help.

One of the most important things we can do right now is keep Epstein front and center. It's making the Republicans lose their minds.

Everyone should follow Scott's Rules of Engineering It's better to create buffer time and be a miracle when you come through early, than for the constant expectation of a fast job well done.

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

It was an LGBTQ+ award, which included transgender, nonbinary and intersex authors. That was the purpose of the award. Our issue was not with Boyne as a person, but with his statements about transgender people and those who support them. 4/

George Carlin once said that Germany lost WWII, but fascism won. That fascism occurs when corporations take over. When the transfer of wealth happens from the masses to the rich. He said we don’t have rights, we have privileges. They can be taken away at any point. Carlin was a wise man.

Some numbers I just dropped in one of the threads about "Itch should have already set up a high risk payment processor and been using it": these numbers are from 2010, but to the best of my knowledge have not substantially changed.

Armed Trump administration agents wearing masks just showed up outside of Gavin Newsom’s press conference. This is what rising fascism looks like.

Wow, wild. Anyway, here's a photo of Atlantic Owner Laurene Powell Jobs having a nice time with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

Democratic state representative Melissa Anne Hortman of Minnesota was assassinated less than two months ago and the news cycle was over it within a couple of weeks. Violence against people and institutions perceived as "liberal" aren't newsworthy in Trump's America.

This seems bad... *shudders* DermaRite Industries Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of DermaKleen, Dermasarra, Kleenfoam, and Perigiene Products Due to Burkholderia cepacia Contamination