An amazing aurora taken over Lake Willoughby in Vermont
📸 Dorian Sanders

Got a similar one for Millard in Ward 10 and it put a smile on my face

Are you now or have you ever been a member of Wedge Live?

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Closeup on Elmer F. Hendrix's shit-eating grin

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#Photography, Vagheh Tower, Iran, late 19th century #art

"earners"

Sorry if this is controversial but I hate my enemies. I want only bad things to happen to them.

future children in history class are going to love studying our era because everything about it will look so stupid to them

“oh so they took all the serious bad things from past eras, and then redid them, but like clown shit?”

yes

Trying to stop my phone updating it's self like I'm trying to wrestle a pistol out of someone hand as they're jamming it in their own mouth.

I'm also noticing that the seconds are misrepresented, cool

Hey what if…

Stolen from the banquet on Nicollet Mall, one assumes

Wow it's like regular sidewalk dining but on shitty folding chairs in the middle of the street 😍

"I can say declaratively this guy is not worthy of a national holiday. He is not worthy of godlike status. In fact, I think it's really harmful." Charlie Kirk on Martin Luther King, Jr.

As above, so below

Just like anti-vaxers, people who dislike immigrants are a weird terrible fringe group and we should treat them like the weird terrible fringe group they are.

Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff

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YouTube video by mohammertime Charles Mingus - Moanin'

"Safe and soothing" youtu.be/__OSyznVDOY

Nothing made slavery’s toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper South, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. 129 With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers “learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter.” The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the “goodlooking” daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, “every private in the ranks” cursed “that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women,” according to one member of the regiment. 130 When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, “By G–d I’ll fight till hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on.” 131

from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"

Folks are terrified of the NYC subway, think DC is a gang ridden hellscape and have other often irrational fears, but here's the truth, other than disease or an abusive partner with a gun, you're most likely to be killed by a reckless driver, and we barely acknowledge it's a problem.

They just can't fucking help themselves, can they?

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people

reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous