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Let's go vote, Pennsylvania!

Golden-crowned Kinglets frequently call to stay in contact with each other. This wee one is giving the high pitched "see see see" contact call.

impossible to overstate the degree to which we are being governed by people whose formative politics is gamergate, but DHS posting Halo memes to recruit for ICE is pretty close.

a burnt orange ish color vase that is cone shaped with two legs at the bottom (the wider side), and a smiley face at the top. a mirror behind the vase reveals a frowny face on the other side

got the best vase ive ever seen at ikea yesterday

a simple pencil drawing of a creature with pointy ears and a big eye walking in tall grass. below it, a cross section of the dirt has worms, skulls, and another creature sleeping in a den

The Beast That Walks

the local sandlot guys were set up for a “nine innings, nine hot dogs, nine beers” party tonight. i dread to think

I keep thinking about the symmetry of Hades 2 and Hollow Knight: Silksong both being second games where the original had an emo sadboy protagonist and then the sequel being about a girl who is just incredibly task-focused and direct and probably shops at Athleta

Both ends of the line are exposed

these are a different set of republican racist texts than the previous set of republican racist and nazi texts

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

Pittsburgh #NoKings 18-Oct-2025

Pittsburgh #NoKings 18-Oct-2025

It's a cell phone so it's not a great shot, but I still love it. Of course it helps that I love curlews.

We have nihilistic 8chan edgelords in charge of our nuclear arsenal because 30% of America still isn’t over the fact the South lost the Civil War

ICE now surveilling US citizens who disagree with the Trump regime

Goodbye old friend

putting in 70 hours a week and i'm still at the bottom of the escaping samsara leaderboards, what the fuck

peter thiel (clutching chrome plated human skull) tell me oracle... does the world end in fire, or ice? the passionate flames of the activist thunberg, or the frozen doom yudkowski demands?

chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨

Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:

at least we still have the sky

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It. Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

This story is about the report that hasn't been published - but it's also about IRIS, the part of EPA that wrote it and has been assessing the toxicity of chemicals for decades.

Of 55 scientists who worked on recent IRIS report, only 8 remain in their posts.

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

none of these works are on the bible

yeah

I don't think Trump is anywhere near the floor of his support considering the trajectory of the economy but there will always be the people for whom "marching naked children out of their homes at gunpoint" wasn't the final straw

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

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Masters in Female Education ……?

a small black and white shorebird keeps one eye on the photographer between bites of crab claw.

pulled some pics off my camera at long last. enjoy sanderling

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this:

“These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview

open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...