Scouting America says transgender kids are still welcome after Pete Hegseth claimed they weren’t- "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” the group's CEO, Roger Krone, said. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

If I wasn't already a communist the process of having a baby in an American hospital and then getting health insurance for that baby would instantly radicalize me

could a dying empire do THIS

i am of course in favor of cramming as many people as possible into the city for environmental and social reasons and massive quantities of infill housing and social housing, just population maxing, but i would like to request that all the new residents have different hobbies from me

for the galanthophiles of bluesky

check this shit out

@spindlypete.bsky.social i found the 1981 radio adaptation of lordyringy archive.org/details/lord...

It’s alarming the CIA/NSA is running candidates like VA governor who knows that CIA “natsec” account everyone is reposting and her husband and his brother (VA congressman) who were both also spooks Like I’m sure many politicians are intelligence agents but they’re just out and doing it now in open

my little baby wants his donut dipped in milk and he's yelling DEEP IT! EEN YOU MEEELK! DEEP IT! EEN YOU MEELK!

lmao lights out guerilla gardening plant that shit up

2 seedlings from the badgersett complex, a Chinese chestnut 🌰 , and Marigoule Chestnut 🌰

East Portland really has changed so much I used to just plant whatever I wanted anywhere and it didn’t matter bc there was literally no one around But now there’s people all over and my clandestine extra-territorial gardening has to be much sneakier Anyway, I hope they like those chestnuts 🌰

I may have hit the seed catalogs pretty hard to tether myself more firmly to this mortal coil this winter. Surely, 5 is a totally reasonable number of different varieties of string beans to grow in one season (to say nothing of the tomatoes and brassicas).

East Portland really has changed so much I used to just plant whatever I wanted anywhere and it didn’t matter bc there was literally no one around But now there’s people all over and my clandestine extra-territorial gardening has to be much sneakier Anyway, I hope they like those chestnuts 🌰

iran is a country where millions of people are born, live, fall in love, have children, make art, read books, play sports, doomscroll, cook, build homes, care for one another, fight, argue, complain, and die. iran is a place with real people and we pretend like theres two sides to this shit.

Where is the lie?

Your opposition to war can just be that war is evil. it doesn’t have to be more complicated than that.

nobody sells toddler size shirts that say tiocfaidh ar la either. leaving money on the table

“We’ll say yes to the war, we just want to be asked first!?” What a bunch of sniveling pathetic people

is there a coffeeshop in maywood park? i just passed a sign on 102nd pointing down failing street towards the river that said coffee and cold drinks! but then i turned to find what it was referring to and there's nothing down there but houses

this is not a super duper good system of organization i'll be the first to admit

out of nowhere the big baby just looked around the living room and smiled and said "it beautiful. my house is beautiful."

Small prophets is really good en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_P...

Today was about trees. I planted 2 Bing cherries near the western fence line, and 2 European plums, Green Gage and Imperial Epineuse, varieties recommended by @billhookunion.beanyear.com, behind the house to replace last year's failed plums. I also did some minimal pruning on my older cherry trees.

They call it gardeners Christmas 🪴 🎅 When all the seeds, plants, and bareroot trees and shrubs you bought in an emotional or drunk or drug addled state that you don’t remember begin arriving at your door just before spring

check this shit out

Not to mention previously cheap bits like tongue, oxtail, less fatty cuts, etc spike in price once they become faddish bc of their relative scarcity. I remember in like 2015 ish when tongue for tacos became faddish and it drove up the by like 10X

“Training a human takes 20 years of food”

Ok, I went with Bank’s The Algebraist as a follow up, I’ve listened to all the culture books so this is my first non culture book and I must say God it’s nice to be listening to a book that has a plot and where stuff happens again

for a long time it didn't matter because nobody could see into my backyard but now we have a whole housing development right over the fence who might call the cops. what do you think of LEVITATE THE PENTAGON

Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.

i love how our actual whole plan for most of society is just "some woman will probably do it for free if we refuse to for long enough"

oh my god wait a minute. this is fucking simple. break it up over two days. start at noon, eat 6 tacos and drink 6 beers, jog 5 miles, eat 6 tacos and drink 6 beers. SLEEP ALL NIGHT. 6 tacos and 6 beers for breakfast, jog five miles, last 6 tacos and 6 beers for lunch at 11:45am

I first heard the word meme in 2002 It was in an article in popular science or something explaining the Richard Dawkins genetic like unit of ideas that pass down through society I had totally forgotten until I just read it again that Dawkins popularized the phrase and now I no longer like them

I don’t know if the time cube guy counts as a meme ?? But I’ll add YATTA to this But also geocity background and midi music gifs arguably count too youtu.be/KUOwbcdZozQ

i don't care for the modern soulless version at all. what's its thesis, elmo can use the potty? the thesis of the early show was ALL MAY WORK TO BUILD UTOPIA IN ONE GREAT CITY

you can picture this, can't you. i can picture it almost as clearly as if i'd actually already seen it

today is nonidi 9 Ventôse in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV, celebrating willow

oh a garbagemans a person in your neighborhood! in your neighborhood! he's in your neighborhood! yes a garbagemans a person in your neighborhood, a person that you meet each day!

real "god i wish that were me" hours

Those are the two things St. Peter asks about. “Was your ‘fruit’ mostly clean? Did you speak to anyone else’s?”

My least popular opinion is that @billhookunion.beanyear.com should add less listeria to the frozen berries.

I have a coworker who moved here from China a couple decades ago, Last year her brother and each member of his family in China each got $10,000 from their town as a dividend from the rent they charge a factory using community land …

Sandy Blvd from SE 7th to NE 97th - Portland, OR 2027

iggy: look a baby! me: oh it's a baby marmoset! iggy: yes it's a baby mama said! me: no, a marmoset iggy: yes mama said it's a baby! mama said! iggy said too! me: no i said that creature is called a marmoset iggy: yes mama said its a baby! yes!