“I’ve had wildebeests, I've had water buffalo, I've had monkeys, I’ve had zebras, all go missing,” Johnson said. “Sometimes we recover them, and sometimes we don’t.” Can we not?

idling my diesel truck at the sonic as a favor to everyone around me

you too can have a giant soy sauce fish

on that (polyphonic) note, the Tuvan Internationale goes *way* harder than it has any right to

remember those textured shirts that shrunk way down when you took them off? that was sure a thing we did in the oughts.

digging into that weird polyphonic Russian ethnic minority shit youtube.com/watch?v=EJtU...

I had never heard Romani music outside of flamenco and gosh is this beautiful youtu.be/KAx88Z0T_9A?...

I wish I could tell y'all about this case because it's very good but also not my project. There are tons of errors (typos, ¿writos?, though, and I keep accidentally typing 9sic0 instead of (sic)

you've Beethoven-ed your last Camper Van

you’ve stomped your last, Tom Connors

a certain percentage of bri*ish people believe frankly magical things about their homeland

how I have come to hate the word priorities

every previous iteration on computer technology was at least putatively about making and creating, improving upon “the bicycle of the mind,” as steve jobs put it. this latest generation sees us as passive consumers at best, and gimbals at worst

Busy Bee Cafe DeFuniak Springs, FL

I regret to inform you that ross is habituated to his position of influence and his return to the wild was unsuccessful

El Nacimiento, a small town in Coahuila, is fighting to preserve the identity, memory and traditions of its ancestors, who came to the area from Texas fleeing slavery

a certain percentage of bri*ish people believe frankly magical things about their homeland

What's currently being posted on waspsky

I shouldn't be surprised that Puritans have no idea how indie film productions work, since Puritans don't work lol

shrimp is vastly overrated

some of the dwarves called him Bilbao Baggins, for his love of hard cider and shrimp pilpil

I could see making kids read Job in school, but that book isn’t exactly comforting to people of wobbly faith

eloi, eloi, lama sabachthani

one exception: no cars on the beach. if car beaches wish to remain so, they can charge a simple fee of $200 per car. $100 for running-over-children insurance and $100 for wear and tear.

I have pretty standard lefty politics for this site but public/publicly available land is the one issue I’m really passionate about that is slightly out of the mainstream

one exception: no cars on the beach. if car beaches wish to remain so, they can charge a simple fee of $200 per car. $100 for running-over-children insurance and $100 for wear and tear.

spider_man_dinosaurs.jpeg “you can propagate rare plants and you’re not reintroducing them or conserving them ex situ? with skills like that you could revolutionize regional plant conservation” “I don’t want to revolutionize regional plant conservation. I want to maybe slow down a data center.”

it is also an ecologically terrible idea to spread an invasive species even if the target is valid

you’ve stomped your last, Tom Connors

spider_man_dinosaurs.jpeg “you can propagate rare plants and you’re not reintroducing them or conserving them ex situ? with skills like that you could revolutionize regional plant conservation” “I don’t want to revolutionize regional plant conservation. I want to maybe slow down a data center.”

It's like the word "honky" became flesh and dwelt among us

it is also an ecologically terrible idea to spread an invasive species even if the target is valid

it’s amazing how much it looks like a grass, even down to parallel venation

pro: the next generation of Liatris (probably) resinosa is born thanks to my friend’s nursery pro: their parent plants appear to have healed from what looked like herbicide poisoning con: the wild plants bloomed at least THREE WEEKS early and l missed the window completely

planted a bunch of stuff, removed a few more square feet of lawn. feels good.

nancy says “right to roam”

every hometown's got the ominous megastructure, what's yours?

let me buy consumer electronics and pursue your utopia just a little bit slower

Came by that pawnshop again. One of my favorite signs. (Need to click the short video to see the effect).

a low-stakes conspiracy theory I have is that most of the time you see FARM USE plates out and about, that is a small scam

pro: the next generation of Liatris (probably) resinosa is born thanks to my friend’s nursery pro: their parent plants appear to have healed from what looked like herbicide poisoning con: the wild plants bloomed at least THREE WEEKS early and l missed the window completely

brb writing an alternate history where the Spanish Umayyads settle the western US and everything is full of delightful little water channels

• without a connection to the landscape, it’s hard for people to connect to the living world, both practically and politically • many problems of life in the sunbelt in particular could be partially assuaged by better access to places to recreate • rural landowners need to be knocked down a peg

let me buy consumer electronics and pursue your utopia just a little bit slower

i actually don’t think it’s cool that the transportation secretary calls people libtards at a rally. i would like to have some semblance of a polite society. i’m sorry if i am a prude. i’m actually a really fun guy. i think that shit sucks.

every hometown's got the ominous megastructure, what's yours?

I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide

not only things built by people who desired beauty but *what* their ideas of beauty were, not gold and dominant imposing forms, but water and light, dancing shadows, cool rooms of intricate mosaics with poetry written into stone opening into gardens

it cannot be overstated how beautiful the alhambra and granada are and how immediately I understood that you can do everything differently, that the way it was done where I'm from sucks in a way that wounds the heart