houston early voting: 37,246 out of 2,681,462 harris county registered voters have cast ballots as of last night. so....just.....2,644,216 more people need to go vote.

South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu). The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us? (📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

Appreciate @umairfan.bsky.social reaching out to ask about our personal experience with flooding as part of the greater discussion of a complex economic and societal issue.

Everyone needs that friend who will call to ask if you want go on a last-minute hiking trip and between the two of you have the entire trip (complete with dinner reservations) booked within an hour.

I’ve found my people ✈️

A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean

This photo is amazing. www.latimes.com/california/s...

"Listen here, my good bitch. Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI."

My father and all four of my uncles served in WWII, one in the second landing of D-Day. Three of them became centrist establishment Republicans, and I often wonder what they would think of the GOP and the direction of our country now.

If the Texas Lege designed highways...

Regulation does not impede progress. It only impedes liars, grifters, poisoners and profiteers. The people who benefit from regulation are the many, and the people who benefit from deregulation are the very, very few who think exploitation of others is a benefit

Same, John Prine. Same.

tfw you’ve spent four months babying all the plants in the yard except for that one random thing you stuck in a corner where nothing ever grows and one morning this appears

So cool that tiktok appears to have invented a hurricane that's gonna hit my town out of thin air

I'm trying to think about how I would have reacted if shown this headline five years ago

You never know what you'll see or hear at the ballpark. The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp scored on a thunder balk tonight. Volume up:

At the Jerry Jones Entertainment District? That tracks.

Everything is terrible, so here's a doggie getting on a hammock in Yucatán

Ocean’s 12-and-under

Three of the best journalistic entities that are covering all this nonsense right are a parody newspaper, a teen mag, and a magazine for nerds, and I am grateful for them (The Onion, Teen Vogue, and Wired)

struggling bc the AI won't be horny for me

There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?" 99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.

This whole thread lmao

Anybody who thinks that Bluesky is a bubble where people just reinforce each others’ opinions should try sharing an opinion on Bluesky.

Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil. It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

Whatever your feelings about the term "latinx" are, I think we can all agree that the pronunciation I just heard in an audiobook of "lah-tinks" is WRONG lol.

There are whole movies that don’t have the twists and turns of this paragraph.

Something we can all get behind. Don’t Rafael my team.

I can't believe we're going to get subprime burrito crisis. www.ft.com/content/6c4b...

I love that now owning a Cybertruck is a recognized sign of bad decision-making. Like you paid $80,000 to get bangs

because really, what is there to say?