In an ideal world, the Antichrist and the President of the United States would be two different people

Aha - another Penric and Desdemona novella by Bujold - just in time to save me from doing any further work today 😀

SMITE!

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Edward Gorey "Books seem to me to be pestilent things ..."

Much like magnets, no one really knows why the aurora borealis happens. Some say it’s because the gods are angry, some say the gods are joyful, still others say the gods got super high at their friend Kev’s house and then went to a laser show.

The biggest problem in the Dem party are the people who attained positions of power and influence due to their connections to the Clintons, Obama, and Pelosi. This has allowed them to continually assert they know the secret to winning when all they do is accommodate and lose.

Pause a moment, and read... • Brendan Kennelly •

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this..." Reading Pablo Neruda tonight, to remind myself that I am not the only one to have loved so fiercely.

Thou shalt remove all the pedophiles from thy government. Seriously humans, it’s such a low bar to clear.

Northern lights right now! 😍

living/have loved will love Wanda Coleman

Jellyfish have more spine than democrats and the Democratic Party and chuck schumer. What an embarrassment.

CHUK collects bagasse, the fibrous residue remaining after juice extraction from sugarcane, which is typically a waste product in sugar production. chukusa.com/products/ #environment #sustainability #climate #science #technology #business

Born in Geneva in September 2011, Lucas Chiche is a young concert pianist whose passion for music began at the age of 4 with Evgenia Pilyavina. #MondayMotivation

These corrupt cowards can’t even let us be happy for ONE week.

This is the apple dumpling recipe if anyone wants to make them. Super easy to make! Although coring the apples was a challenge for me. I should invest in a doodad to make it easier. www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/bake...

You don't know me but I'm your brother I was raised here in this living hell You don't know my kind in your world Fairly soon the time will tell You Telling me the things you're gonna do for me I ain't blind and I don't like what I think I see Takin' it to the streets

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!?!

Ennio Morricone and Sergio Leone, a unique film-making partnership, two school friends who grew up in the working-class district of Trastevere in Rome, together revitalised the American Western genre and created some of the most powerful and recognisable moments in post-war cinema

Definitely 🤬🇨🇦

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

Well done, humans!

For my chocolate spread enthusiasts: This is infinitely better than Nutella.

"You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance." Eckhart Tolle

It's #marxistmonday time again

2026: Before the midterm elections…

The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.

"I am so tired of waiting. Aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife and cut the world in two-and see what worms are eating at the rind." Langston Hughes #ImageAndVerse

What is the point of a political party that will not fight for the people?

I was most definitely not a fan of Cyndi Lauper in the 80s, but I always thought this was a beautiful song. Glad to see she made it into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdQY...

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Remember when some of us said the Democratic leadership would take all the wrong lessons from the blue tsunami and squander all the goodwill? Here you go.

Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."

Thanks to @mostmuscle.bsky.social www.opensecrets.org/orgs/america...

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

Republicans were overwhelmingly getting blamed for the shutdown. There was no reason for the Democrats to cave to Trump on healthcare, except for the fact that they are wholly owned and operated by the health insurance lobby.