vernie, the bone hydra

i am sure this man and i would disagree on many things. but goddamn "i guess i've done everything i wanted to do." hits so fucking hard every time

a black and white photo of a white man in dark pants and a slightly lighter jacket, smiling faintly at the camera. his name is Ed Cox and the picture was taken in 1984

Ed Cox once again in 2007 in another black and white photo. he has a white shirt on and overalls and a camo hat.

I USED TO LIKE TO GO COON HUNTING. MY dad started me out when I was four. I taught my own boys how to coon hunt, too. Farmers used to hire me to run their balers. I've hauled lime, rock, and sand. I also farmed. I grew corn, oats, and beans. I've done mechanic work, too. I once drove a semi. Nowadays, all I do is mow, rake, and bale hay. But I keep busy. I work my son's farm. He's got sixty-five head of sheep. The wife and I have been married for sixty-one years. We argue once in a while, but you've got to have 'em every now and then. We go to church every Sunday. We have six kids, and no one has left the church. I'm on oxygen now. I think it has something to do with all the bean and hog dust. They say it's bad on your lungs. Sometimes I go down to the Sale Barn and have a cup of coffee with some of the guys. I also like to have a beer at Old Roy's. I guess I've done everything I've wanted to do.

so i'm back in the town where i went to grad school and there's this art piece there that fucked me up so bad then and i saw it and teared up. irl the text is between the two pics but i think presenting it here like this makes more
sense

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

California license plate with text "BUNTA 2".

Customer: BUNTA FUJIWARA IS A JAPANESE CHARACTER IN A ANIME CALLED INITIAL D WHO DROVE A SUBARU WRX STI. BUNTA 2 STANDS FOR BUNTA NUMBER 2 SECOND VERSION
DMV: (not on record)

Verdict: ACCEPTED

California license plate with text "GAY".

Customer: (not on record)
DMV: ?

Verdict: ACCEPTED

Of course not lmao Generative AI is entirely built on the of stealing art and prose you did not create and throwing it in a blender to make something that vaguely resembles what you want. That's literally the type of user base you've cultivated. You want thieves to pay to steal? Are you serious?

John Darnielle just gave a shout to Chicago for showing the country how to turn up when the fascists show up. ❤️

To be clear: I already believe that the Roberts court lacks legitimacy, and that enough members of the court have engaged in open corruption that none of its opinions should be given precedential authority.

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say.

If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court.

I do not say this lightly.

New article alert!

Join us in exploring a phrase from Ibn Saʿīd al-Maghribī’s 13th-c. geography. He refers to the Damādim of northeast Africa as “Tatars of the Sūdān.” Hannah Barker interrogates the racializing discourses at play in such comparative claims.

[image: British Library Or 1524]

"Something happened in Northeast Africa in the early thirteenth century.

It was swift, violent, destructive, and perpetrated by non-Muslims.

It might have been accompanied by an outbreak of disease; it might have had apocalyptic overtones; it might have been several events rolled into one."

The title page of a calligraphed manuscript, with text in capital letters within a box outlined in blue, surrounded by a thick border of flowers and butterflies, predominantly in blue, red and green against a gold background. Around the very edge of the illustration is a much narrower border of alternating red, green and gold diagonal stripes.

Title page to Cinquante octonaires sur la va [sic] vanite et inconstance du monde … 1607, calligraphed & illustrated by #EstherInglis (Franco-Scottish, 1570/1-1624). Held in the Royal Collection Trust, rct.uk/collection/1... #womenartists #artherstory

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

The fight for trans rights and the fight for our planet are one in the same

This a beautiful and accurate recount of what these past weeks have been like.

was rooting for canada at this point for the rugby world cup so i'm pretty bummed :( watching them play this tournament has been amazing!

i can't afford therapy so i just shovel Oreos into my mouth as i stare into the middle distance

errant

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

ok at this point I'm about 99% sure that trump is the main character of the Epstein files

nanalan frowning really hard

when the youtube video says "now don't worry if you weren't chronically online enough to understand all of that" but you understood all of it

Well don't I feel stupid

YOU WILL LIVE YOU WILL LIVE YOU WILL LIVE

I refuse
I refuse
I REFUSE

The United Nations was created in 1945 to replace the ineffectual League of Nations after it failed to prevent the Holocaust. Here we are 2 years into a full blown live streamed genocide and they invite Hitler to the mic. Who gives a shit that some people walked out...he should have never been there

I actually want people to express moral shock at horrible shocking things. I don’t think that’s naive, I think that’s a sign their heart still works

4PM Today (Friday, Sept 26): Protest at the Neil Smith Federal Building in downtown Des Moines in support of Dr Ian Roberts.

Dr Roberts was detained by ICE in Des Moines and, apparently, driven to an ICE facility in Council Bluffs.

This is handled and I’m grateful to everyone who kicked in. I could not tolerate this local musician being penalized for doing something brave and beautiful—not when they helped make music that kept us strong while ICE fired less lethals and drove cars into us.

fuck ICE actually