Don't send your coins to the wealthy trolls that live in high castles this holiday season. Shop in your local forest and share them with the witches, goblins, and other moss draped horrors that create sparks of light in the darkness.

Flurries starting to stick as the temps have been dropping while the sun is coyly hiding in the fluffy layers of passing clouds. Should be a little over three hours 'til sunset, and I'm curious to know how long the flakes will last.

"Isn't that lovely? It's my favorite program-fifteen minutes of silence-and after that there's a half hour of quiet and then an interlude of lull. Why, did you know that there are almost as many kinds of stillness as there are sounds? But, sadly enough, no one pays any attention to them these days.”

Ozark Trail Tabletop 1-Burner Butane Camping Stoves Recalled Due to Serious Burn and Fire Hazards; Imported and Sold by Walmart; Manufactured by China Window Industry Co. | CPSC.gov share.google/rKCxoQpcV2Ge...

You know, it's a slap in the face to have corporate Black Friday before Small Businesses Saturday, while also expecting the small businesses to give you some deal on Friday. How about forget all these idiotic named days and just shop small every day.

Today is Octidi the 8th of Frimaire in the year 234. Frimaire is the month of frost. Today we celebrate honey.#JacobinDay More information on honey

#EconSky Alexa. Show me interventions similar to what National City did in 1929 to stop the oncoming crash... which failed miserably.

Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!

Most artists started on lined school paper and used ballpoint pens, #2 pencils and crayons. They became artists because they stuck with it, not because Sennelier oils and squirrel brushes were bestowed upon them in preschool

The Pentagon announced an investigation into Mark Kelly, but there is no need to waste taxpayer dollars. He has already confessed he is guilty — guilty of following the law and Constitution and encouraging others to do the same. He doesn’t even show remorse for his loyalty to the Constitution!…1/2

Pardons for sale, get your fresh hot pardons for sale... Yes, you have to pay the convicted fraudsters to get your presidential pardon, but that's how the United States of America sells 'em now: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

ICYMI, the Utah State Legislature will consider a bill that will force data centers to disclose how much water they use: www.fox13now.com/news/great-s... #utpol #Utah

"Pardoned by George H. W. Bush, 1989. Currently serving a life sentence in Leavenworth Penitentiary. Gobbler was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder, both committed during a botched robbery in 1992."

Flurries...earlier than expected. Otherwise, most of the plant matter in the backyard save some stubbornly still green grasses are various shades of warm browns dotted with grays--the latter mostly milkweed seed pods.

A recent episode of NPR’s CodeSwitch mentioned an NEH award to Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College and the University of North Dakota which preserved archival material and oral histories related to the history of North Dakota’s Indigenous population. www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...

Choose kindness. Choose love. Choose books, both fun & powerful. Choose a vehicle capable of outrunning the law, and fill it with banned books and friends who excel at a certain kind of mischief.

Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses, as hate symbols. The fuck? wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed. We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.

Here is my weak, and admittedly deeply cynical, attempt at parodying this Act in our national Theater of the Absurd.

Visited the local university campus. Look at these so called scholars, what a bunch of turkeys.

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

“But that’s just as bad,” protested Milo. “You mean just as good,” corrected the Humbug. “Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things.”

The best time to plant a tree in your yard was ten years ago. The best time to build a wizard tower in your yard was five years ago. The best time to brew moonshine and invite the old gods of moss & mischief to share a drink in your yard is this very minute.

While they roll out the next distraction story, watch what's being said on the side. They now claim they "defeated" the shutdown. Let that sink in. He "defeated" healthcare and fought against food for the vulnerable. We the people are the current administration's enemy.

Oh hey, I found the war on christmas

'tis a rare day indeed when both boys are lurking in the hallway at the same time, silently glaring an unspoken reminder that it's time for breakfast.

“By royal command the pastry chefs have worked all night in the half bakery to make sure that——” “The half bakery?” questioned Milo. “Of course, the half bakery,” snapped the king. “Where do you think half-baked ideas come from?

Inside the Internet Archive, home of the Wayback Machine as they save one trillion web pages and prepare themselves for the future: "Libraries have always been under attack, now more than during my lifetime, but let's go and live up to the moment." www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...

Vibe of the day: “Life is very short. What we have to do must be done in the now," ~Audre Lorde The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action. 🌸🌸🌸

These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two

Love this so much. 💜

All the snow that fell yesterday is already gone. As I type this, Oggers sleeps in his basket by the window, completely unbothered by this fact.

You pay fuel duty. Why don’t billionaires? This week, we launched WeWingAnyCar.com to help you qualify for the same tax breaks that private jets get. Because tax loopholes shouldn’t just be for billionaires. They’re for everyone.

Micro bee-fly. Silly tiny chonky Lump 💛

“We’ll banish them from the kingdom forever.” And so they were taken from the palace and sent far away to the Castle in the Air, and they have not been seen since. That is why today, in all this land, there is neither Rhyme nor Reason.

First significant snow of late wetly clings to all the flora outside. (It's 24°F/-4°C.) If the meds I just took help my eyes stop watering and halt my need to continue to use up a new box of tissues, I will try to put some decent AltTxt together in the hope of posting a pic I took earlier today.

Under the Big Ugly Bill, Alphabet gets $17.9B in tax breaks. That could pay for SNAP benefits for 7.5 million Americans. Amazon gets $15.7B. That could lower ACA premiums for 2.4 million people. Microsoft gets $12.5B. That could cover Medicaid for 3.8 million children.

“Today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.”

Yet another example that no journalist should ever believe a single thing that comes out of this adminstration. Relatedly, it's really not great that we are watching this administration claim anyone and everyone is a terrorist at the same that they're blowing up boats in the Caribbean Sea.

Neighbor could not get anyone to come today to move the fallen fence that was still blocking our driveway. So I thought the best way to deal with it was just put on dirty work clothes and get it done. Sometimes, it's what one has to do. (Totally worth it!)

Flurries again. Hope tomorrow is a bit warmer for a local street tree feeding volunteer effort. Time will tell.

When seasons collide. 🍁❄️ #Bloomscrolling 📸 Photo of Cosmos spp. flowers taken by the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC (just across the NE Georgia state line)

Important thread for authors about the Anthropic class action and scammers.

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound up)🧵1 DAY 11 NOVEMBER 2O25 🇺🇸VETERANS DAY 🇺🇸 In case you missed this or if you've seen it'sworth seeing again Our VETERANS Deserve Better They should be honored & given the best Healthcare & Benefits Here is President Obama today THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE 🇺🇸

We are Fortune's Fools. Winds just blew down what remained of our neighbor's old wood stockade fence into our driveway. Had spouse's car we just bought a few months ago been there...I don't even want to think about having to make that phone call to our insurance.

Another one to add to the idiot list.