i mean!!

i want to burn everything to the ground

It has come to my attention that not everyone knows about BEAR CAM! And just in time for Fat Bear Week! Log off of this website, put on Bear Cam, and let it carry you through your day: explore.org/livecams/bro...

For a second I thought this HAD to be political satire and then I remembered that no one is ever kidding these days.

It's the 1-year anniversary of Helene, which devastated my city. Know what I don't need? A million pics of the wreckage all over my feed. So PSA if you ever live through a disaster & feel compelled to post pics every anniversary: Put up a cover with a CW and let people decide if they want to swipe.

If he were a student, he would have been arrested for saying this

lol yeah like ron fucking fillipowski and george conway are going to save us from fascism

man, people are really making rapture jokes today like there's no tomorrow

Almost a year after Hurricane Helene, our section of the Blue Ridge Parkway is finally open again. Good thing too, because this is the spot to find the very best sticks.

How about a BIGGER stick?

How about a BIGGER stick?

Almost a year after Hurricane Helene, our section of the Blue Ridge Parkway is finally open again. Good thing too, because this is the spot to find the very best sticks.

You all did NOT adequately appreciate this cute lil spider in her camouflage. If you only saw a flower, LOOK AGAIN. This is better than anything in the news today.

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me.”

Please take a break from the doom and enjoy the MOST ADORABLE camouflage.

1/3 I can't stop thinking about the employees who are actually carrying this out. I worked for the Park Service for a long time (& wrote a masters thesis on the agency's institutional voice). NPS's own messaging was often pretty nambypamby but rangers were passionate about ecology, history, science.

We've gotten CRICKETS from this man the entirety of Trump's term so far, and THIS is the thing that makes him take off his air pods and look up from his book and say something? Fucking coward.

An extra special “what the fuck is wrong with you” to all the theoretical Democrats who decided they needed to put on a holy performance grieving their good friend the KKK-level racist. You can express sympathy and/or disgust at the violence without groveling! Flags at half-staff, good god.

Years ago I had a student from China in one of my community college classes and he put Pepe into one of his PowerPoint presentations. Thankfully he sent me the presentation in advance and I correctly surmised that he had no idea what Pepe stood for and when I explained it to him, he was horrified.

But also!

EXACTLY WHOSE ASSASSINATION ARE YOU COMPARING THIS TO, COX??? jfc

If the graphic nature of the Charlie Kirk murder upset you, I hope you realize that children are being subjected to that same kind of violence. The ones who survive school shootings? That’s what they witness. The people of Gaza? They’re watching horrific violence every single day.

There's a word for the kind of society you're in when every single institution demands that you cry in mourning over a guy who repeatedly and explicitly called for your death at the hands of the state and vigilante mobs

With so many pieces of shit out there, the law of large numbers dictates that this post will continue to not miss.

I went to grad school at the University of Utah. Like Utah Valley University, UU is a public university in an open carry state. I saw dudes w/ AKs walking across the quad all the time. My students had them in my classes. It felt like only a matter of time, like it always is. I was glad to get out.

I think this might be my first time quoting scripture on Bluesky, but hey: "He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword."

We don't can her Ol Crazy Eyes for nothing

I have to admit that this is the first graphic novel I've ever read. It made me think and feel a lot of things. About American history, our present moment, and maybe a little, like, hope? Or something? Anyway, highly recommend. bookshop.org/p/books/trou...

They also do not understand how to use commas.

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

And here's Abby eating a stick in the now-heron-free creek. Volume up for peaceful creek sounds.

This is Abby's creek. And this is the face of a girl with zero compunctions about trying to chase down a 4.5-foot-tall great blue heron from said creek.

Okay I'm gonna be that guy again. Please admire this caprese salad I made entirely with homegrown tomatoes and basil, mozzarella I MADE MYSELF because I'm in my cheese-making era, and balsamic from the farmers market.

May no adult human reading Harry Potter ever get laid.

Hey, wow, isn't it crazy that I'm not THAT worried about dying of Covid but still take tons of precautions because I don't want long Covid or the vascular damage that comes with literally every Covid infection, including asymptomatic ones??

I'm so freaking tired of everything. Mainly because we do this shit and nothing ever changes and nothing good ever happens. Oh cool, we'll hear all about RFK's unhinged eugenicist brain-worm thoughts and then nothing will come of it and he'll just keep killing people.

Oh, have all your y'all about these peppers? Putting the Peter AND the pecker in "Peter picked a peck(er) of pickled peppers."

Backyard corn report!

I regret to inform you that my lovely and progressive but always cringy church did Dolly's "9 to 5" today for special music in honor of Labor Day. They did it last year too. I am starting to worry it's a tradition, or that the music minister doesn't know about other labor songs.

I mean, Mussolini was still Italian. Those people can't do anything on time. The Germans, however...

You took a (long) break from wearing a mask, right? You got away with it. But, guess what? There's a *lot* more Covid around again. And, access to vax is up in the air. Just put a (good) mask on again when you're out and about and you'll be much more protected as well as protecting others. ✨✨✨

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Tonight's theological concept

its almost like the whole anti trump stunt last week was to shore up support so he could do his absolute favorite thing, brutalize homeless people

might have to get into sports now

Regarding Burning Man: I just need to tell you all, but especially @lyz.bsky.social, who wrote this sentence, that my friend's terrible boyfriend Rick is at Burning Man this week, and he very seriously and non-ironically goes by Spaghetti. He's not a tech bro, but he IS a professional landlord.

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

Masking has been at least as effective as the vaccine (probably more effective actually) for quite some time now. If you haven't been masking indoors for the last few years, now is the time to start. You won't be alone, I promise.

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I literally cannot think of a better use for any military apparatus than picking up actual garbage.