Melissa R

@502eire.lol loving the donation to St J option when closing out at Ten20 😍

There are so many things we could be doing!! A few government-level things:

• More sick leave
• More support for vaccination
• Way better public messaging about prevention
• More long covid research
• Indoor air quality & ventilation standards
• Mask mandates in high-risk places (health care e.g.)

If you don’t have an animal I can talk to, I’m not coming to your party.

Really important to note that Andy Beshear VETOED an anti-trans bill, the legislature overrode it, and Daniel Cameron is defending it in court.

photo from @breakingmews.bsky.social of the office shiba wearing a cowboy hat and shouting into an orange and white megaphone while standing on the office desk being watched on a zoom call by your friend darth the red panda

"ABORTION, POT, AND TRANS RIGHTS MR PRESIDENT"

The ACLU of Kentucky, on behalf of Kentucky parents, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up and overturn the Sixth Circuit ruling upholding Kentucky’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Along w/ TN challenge, this will be the first case the Supreme Court takes up on these laws.

Would def give unicor-Nora all the treats 😍✨

Breaker Box xkcd.com/2848

🗣️EARLY VOTING IN KENTUCKY is this Thursday-Saturday from 8am to 6pm. Jefferson County locations are below and you can use whichever you prefer or find your county here elect.ky.gov/Voters/Pages...

You can also get different fruit from mystery islands once you’ve unlocked the airport!

This piece gets the whole way through without mentioning the religion of the murderer, or what religious institution he was radicalized in.

Prince stands before a beautiful autumnal tree showing a wall of yellow leaves, in a photo by Herb Ritts from 1990.

hello it is autumn now

Kentucky Activists Step In to Deliver on the Promise of Voting Rights Restoration After the governor restored hundreds of thousands of people’s rights in 2019, a coalition led by formerly incarcerated Kentuckians is working to inform people of their rights.

Kentucky's gov in 2019 restored voting rights of more than 200K people, with one stroke of pen. But the state has done little since to reach out & inform them.

Formerly incarcerated Kentuckians have stepped up to fill the void, & organize.

A critical story on ppl toiling in shadows for democracy:

btw highfalutin requires neither a hyphen nor a concluding apostrophe

as you were

A list of the best names for the @ symbol from various languages:
 
8. Alpha twirl (Norwegian)
7. Strudel (Hebrew)
6. Cinnamon roll (Swedish)
5. Little duck (Greek)
4. Monkey bracket (German)
3. Meow sign (Finnish)
2. Moon’s ear (Kazakh)
1. The ‘at’ symbol (English, the language of Shakespeare)

The choir, newspaper staff, chess club, Christian kind 🤓

ESPN Fantasy Football app report on Travis Kelce, citing the presence of Kelce’s gf (Taylor Swift) as a contributing factor to his success

no, someone else in my league drafted him. even ESPN is giving into the hype, though. 🤦🏻‍♀️

this is entirely fair and I too hate how this PR is being handled. on the flip side, I’m part of a massive group (1900+ people) of fantasy football leagues made up of all Swifties 🤣🤓🏈🤷🏻‍♀️ Tbh I’m (v selfishly) glad that the Kelce news didn’t break until after the season started.

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:

Stuffed animal sales associate
Clothing sales associate
Music festival PR intern
(College) newspaper section editor
Home decor sales associate
Help desk technician
Training consultant
Software documentation specialist

Urban Planning Opinion Progression xkcd.com/2832

Yes I know them, we went to Twitter together.

Kentucky GOP Candidate Backtracks on Abortion As Polls Show Him Losing After getting heat for an anti-abortion questionnaire and trailing in the polls, Daniel Cameron (R) is now flip-flopping on exceptions to an abortion ban.

Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron has sworn up and down for more than a year that he doesn’t support adding exceptions to the state’s abortion ban. But today—50 days until his election against popular Gov. Andy Beshear (D)—Cameron did a big ole flip-flop

This is so good. Even if you only skim the post, make sure you scroll to the end and savor these last two grafs.

When did the badger badger mushroom song come out? 1 September 2003 It consists of 12 animated cartoon badgers doing calisthenics, a mushroom in front of a tree, and a snake in the desert. The Flash cartoon is accompanied by a bass line, above which a voiceover sings the names of what is shown on screen. This Flash cartoon was published on 1 September 2003.

this is the oldest i've ever felt in my life

There has never been an organized effort to apply or ask the Department of Education to use its legal authority to cancel your student debt—until now.

Today, we're rolling our NEW Student Debt Release Tool:

FILL OUT HERE:
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Pronunciation xkcd.com/2819