Flee

The Pillsbury doughboy ominously looking at the camera

he knows what you did

Trying to explain social media to my Mom..
When She suddenly says, "but if you're following them and they're following you, isn't everyone just going in a circle, not really going anywhere?" and OMG, she finally gets it.

This day in history. 1852. Disraeli wrote of Canada as "these wretched colonies", "colonial dead-weights", full of "skipping, jumping, wild-flower-pressing, cross-dressing barfly lumberjacks."

Imane Khelif wins Olympic gold

Imane Khelif sold scrap metal to pay for her boxing training, is a UNICEF ambassador, stood up against horrific bullying, and is now an Olympic champion.

Refugee Olympic Team waving flags in a boat at the Paris Olympic Games Opening Ceremony

Extremely symbolic seeing the Refugee Olympic Team enter the Games in a boat

If you like the work of an artist, a writer, a reporter, anyone creative, TELL THEM. Email, skeet, Instagram comment, or even a note in the mail. I can remember so many times when I received a positive message about my work and it felt like a buoy during deep moments of doubt and struggle.

A person is lying in a bathtub filled with green peas, wearing headphones and cucumber slices on their eyes.

rest in peas

Sign on a glass door: Please remember you're shopping bags

your identity in a capitalist society

Kind of ironic that TikTok is where legitimate discussion of Project 2025 is happening while the New York Times is where you go for weird screeching bullshit

Even if you choose to be in denial about the large continuing burden of COVID deaths and Long COVID, allowing the majority of the population get sick with COVID twice a year has a hugely detrimental impact on society. We need long-term and sustainable COVID protections.

um everyone knows its because all cats are Muslim

a sheep and a cat putting their foreheads together

this will occur in our lifetimes

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.

A pic of a cat on the news. Text: URGENTE Gato Miau miau miau miau miau miau miau miau miau miau miau miau miau miau LIVE CHANNELE 01 02 DEC

Urgente:
Gato

bad things keep happening in the world but at least you can keep scrolling on your phones to find a few things to chuckle at

We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

Just learned the Spanish version of "righty tighty, lefty loosey" translates as "the right oppresses, the left liberates" and holy shit that goes hard.

Toni and Candace, the feminist bookstore owners from Portlandia. Candace says "Toni it's so hot" and Toni responds "it's the heat"

🫠

Tips to beat the heat:
💧 Drink water
👕 Wear light and loose clothing
🏡 Stay indoors
✊ Dismantle the fossil fuel industry

Black and white photo of a white and tabby kitten crouching on a glass table, seen from below so that you can see all of its polydactyl toe beans pressed against the clear glass.

Superb bean salad. Photo from a book in my collection: The Book of Kittens, edited by Brant House, 1951.

can I offer you an Orange in this trying time

'the elder scrolls' yeah i sure do

stop mean to me

I want to live in a universe where you exercise one time and then you’re good and fit for life

Minneapolis Uber and Lyft drivers say they’ll start their own rideshare co-op Based on a Co-op Ride in New York, the driver-owned rideshare campaign announced Friday is among a parade of ideas to fill the void if Uber and Lyft leave Minneapolis.

A group of Minneapolis-area Uber & Lyft drivers who pressed the companies for minimum-pay requirements announced a campaign to start a driver-owned rideshare co-op

Lyft and Uber said they would stop offering services there after new minimum wage law

4 panel comic where momo gets convinced by his computer to watch random internet videos instead of being productive

Where was I