The Oreo-sized baby turtle represents a turning point in Rockalina's recovery: Spending time with her own kind.

Behind door number 20 of the Scarred For Life advent calendar... a montage to prove that public information film reaction shots are the best reaction shots of all. Emote! Emote!

Alan Parsons, who's made a project out of creating music, turns 77 today. You haven't heard of any of his compositions? I wouldn't want to be like you.

If this is true, and it seems like it is, people need to be held accountable. Impeach, arrest, I don’t even care. Accountability needs to happen. We can’t just keep shrugging

Nocturne https://www.wikiart.org/en/frantisek-kupka/nocturne-1910

Some days I just find myself in the machinery spaces of seagoing vessels. How I got there really doesn't matter.

Had I posted this video on X, formerly known as Twitter, a dozen of my followers there would masturbate themselves over it. That it gets zero attention on bsky is kinda nice and gives me hope for humanity.

I rebuilt the engine of my first vehicle on the kitchen table when I was 15 and here I am, despite decades in middle management.

I refurb the fuck out of a generator. They're solid. Treat them right and they will love you back.

Sold a refurb generator ~ 8 months ago. The customer worried that it had shut down after a couple of minutes when he was checking it a few days ago. I primed it and it started and ran like a champ. Nice guy, apologetic about wasting my time. We talked about working corporate jobs. Commiseration.

Not to mention the magazines kept behind the counter. At 14, I was buying Penthouse magazines and Hawken snuff from the Minit Market. I was six foot tall and maybe 150lbs, so I don't blame them for mistaking me for an adult.

Even discount pharmacies had twenty feet of magazines from the floor to seven feet high. Convenience stores had 8' by 4' racks of magazines, plus two spinner racks for comics.

Yep, I remember when a mall wouldn't be taken seriously without at least two book outlets in it. I remember when a whole aisle of a grocery store would be given over to books and magazines. You could buy cheap paperbacks in gas stations. They bargained that all away.

Fuck him sideways.

Having previously co-founded a nationally recognized online media org, (the Florida Progressive Coalition), I can say with complete confidence that ending section 230 would also end all free speech on the internet.

Also, Princess Bride has rodents of unusual size! Only Food of the Gods can rival that. (Night of the Lepus owns the lagomorph niche, but lagomorphs aren't rodents.)

When pedos redact...

Claims that reading my posts will elevate one's testosterone levels have not been evaluated by the FDA.

Honest to God, I'm just a shadetree mechanic with a few extra skillsets. I'm a middle management schlub who can turn wrenches. I'm a dilettante with problem solving abilities.

Already locked in this client for the business I and my fellow techs are starting.

From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.

The end goal is eugenicist. RFK and his ilk know that this will make vaccines more expensive and time-consuming — and therefore marginalized children are most likely to fall through the cracks. This is about killing kids who aren't born to privilege. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Presented without context. youtu.be/wEwouUjDTTE?...

Some days I just find myself in the machinery spaces of seagoing vessels. How I got there really doesn't matter.

At the port today I got a closeup view of a SpaceX booster getting moved.

This is part of the Trump administration’s Epstein Files release — 119 pages of Grand Jury testimony, fully redacted. This is not transparency. This is a cover-up. Follow the law and release ALL of the damn files.

Can you sweat copper pipes? I've found it to be a very useful skill over the years.

Phoebe Cates, 80s

Wonder what the payment was to get your name, evidence and actions redacted from the files.

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

*presses a big button that starts a countdown sign for "Time until a group of car dealership owners is found dead adrift in a speedboat"*

Constantin Brâncuși, The Newborn, version I, 1920 (close to the marble of 1915) https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136673

Suspect in Brown University mass shooting found dead in storage unit, apparent suicide. His last known address was in #Florida. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12... via @nytimes.com

Our local cryptid is Swamp Cabbage Man, and I would absolutely have a beer with that Skunk Ape.

There are now many reports of hunters who got licenses poaching multiple bears beyond their quota. Many allegations of rule-violations leading to orphaned cubs who will die this winter, no halt called despite it being clear the quota number has been reached, and no data from FWC at all. 2/2

Terrible to have to relate, but the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission, headed by the corrupt and incompetent Rodney Barrito (please do boycott his business interests) has allowed a free-for-all of a bear hunt with no monitoring. It must be stopped. It is clearly not quota based. 1/2

I randomly remembered the movie "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes." *** SPOILER WARNING *** At the end, it is revealed the Loch Ness Monster is actually a submarine being developed in secret by the British navy. They bring Queen Victoria to Scotland to show off their handiwork. (cont)

Postdrome from migraine with brainstem aura. Significant pain and nausea during and after the aura. Tinnitus. Brain fog. Most of the year, I average a migraine every 4-6 weeks. Currently experiencing one about every 10 days, which is typical around the holidays.

Oh God, I think we already saw this one.

"She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always—Lolita."

Sure, it clocked out at 5:30, but my mind continues working towards a solution. Even as I try to limit diagnosis and problem solving to work hours, interesting problems intrude on my personal time.

The Carbide Lamp https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-carbide-lamp-1923

And at the the same time, the management is busily burning every bridge it can with the economy in the rest of the region. It's burning up goodwill. It's actively making itself less valuable. Breathtaking, really.

The anchor stores are gone. No substantial maintenance has been done in years, and the mafia is using it to launder money.

Equipoise: It’s not just for horses anymore bsky.app/profile/wild...

Some people were taking horse drugs before it was cool

Selah.

I believe that Biblical literacy is important to good writing. This to say that _Stargate Universe_ S01E14, "Human", did a really nice job fitting the poetry of Psalms 46:1-5 into the episode.