Nola Aycock

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

tepid traveler animal

I told the post office clerk I needed some stamps with my usual caveat: no flags, no white guys. She rummaged through the drawer and said "Is SpongeBob a white guy?" and everyone on line was like "No."

Comic. [diploma from East State University for Doctor of Philosophy in Document Forgery] [caption] If you put one of these up in your office, and no one notices, you’ve earned it.

Document Forgery

xkcd.com/3160/

A Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin’s dad is going to read him a bedtime story. First panel: Calvin’s dad, scanning a bookshelf: “What story would you like tonight? We can read anything except—“ Calvin, from bed, excited: “The Voynich Manuscript!” Second panel: Calvin’s dad, deeply exasperated: “NO! No Voynich Manuscript tonight! We’ve tried to decipher that book a million times!” Calvin, yelling: “I want the Voynich Manuscript!” Third panel: Calvin’s dad, trying to reason with him: “Look, you *know* how the story goes! You’ve memorized the whole thing! It’s completely unreadable!” Calvin: “I want mysterious glyphs and sigils!” Fourth panel: Calvin, in bed and staring wide-eyed into the dark: “Wow, the story was different *that* time!” Hobbes, also in bed and staring: (a long string of incomprehensible characters).

this is so freaking funny to me because as a political candidate Mr Zohran is actively job hunting. he is basically asking every single new yorker to please give him a job

Jucika darling don't ever change yourself for a man

#AcademicSky

it also helps my driving stress/anxiety to be prepared for emergencies. roadside assistance is big. having an emergency kit in the car. paper map just in case. just plain knowing what to do if something goes wrong or doesn't seem quite right. my anxious ass says prepared not scared.

I believe in you. driving is hard but there's nothing like being able to just casually go somewhere. look for the low-stress places to drive and practice there first. [quiet neighborhoods, small towns etc]

also, people who say this have no appreciation for how stressful and expensive it is to move house

god i want it

be not afraid 🎃

Wow, over lunch at this event, I was chatting with a woman and she mentioned how she failed Mississippi's "literacy" test 3 times, keeping her from the vote

Just now I learned there are a couple people here who integrated their schools

This ain't ancient history y'all

haha i own this t shirt too!

also while we're thinking of the children and all how come bama can't get it together with medical marijuana?? which, you know, children sometimes use and benefit from?? I get the need to make sure recreational canna doesnt harm kids but lets get a full picture here

I moved from Alabama to New York and funny enough edibles aren't individually wrapped here. They come in standard sizes/doses and sometimes child proof packages [both good ideas] but individual wrapping is just silly.

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🪴: https://www.al.com/news/2025/10/alabamas-new-hemp-regulations-cover-everything-from-dosages-to-labels-with-cartoon-characters.html 
If approved, the regulations drafted by the ABC Board (which you can read at the link) will go into effect Jan. 1, 2026. What do you think?

hmm

i grew up somewhere with no transit so maybe this isnt big news to yall big city people but i see people almost falling over on the bus all the time because they're facing forward so idk i thought maybe i should say somethin

i figured out that if you have to stand on the bus, it's way easier if you face the side of the bus instead of trying to face front. then it feels like you're on a skateboard. my big strong legs do the work of keeping me stable a lot better. #transit

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🚨 Two days to go! Our annual celebration is almost here—and we’re marking 1 TRILLION pages captured by the Wayback Machine.

In honor of that, we're sharing this #WaybackMachine look at the @InternetArchive itself! 🕰️

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#Wayback1T

find out if your local game store or public library has a game you can drop in on

hell yeah !!!

"luxury apartment" means they paint the walls gray instead of landlord beige and the rent's higher and thats it

Meme. Ad or label for Carling Breweries, showing three men at a table, having a drink together. They appear to be dressed in 19th century clothing. The man on the left is leaning back into his chair with his feet out, and his right hand is on a cane. His left hand holds a long pipe, and he is looking at you. His face is flushed, like he has been exercising or lying, or been caught thinking about his sex dungeon. The man in middle, wearing a green jacket, is older. His white hair is receding, and he is also smoking. His gaze is on the last man. This last fellow, wearing a red jacket & a blue bow tie, is standing and pointing at a piece of paper on the table. His black top hat is on the ground beside him, as if he stood up in a hurry. I would guess that he is upset about how they're splitting the bill. Why should *he* have to pay for Carter's onion rings? He barely had any! The original label at the top reads: "Yorkshire Ale." The meme text at the bottom reads: "Now with more eels!"

In c.1634 Matthew Stevenson wrote a poem titled "Upon Yorkshire Ale"...a drink he didn't like. He found it too dark & thick, and he wrote (among other unpleasant things):

There cannot but be Eels
Where there is so much Mudde.

What do you think might be hiding in your drink?
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southern politics has been based on holding people hostage one way or another since chattel slavery

my favorite is The War After the War by John Daly which argues basically that the civil war was followed immediately by another civil war. really impacted my thinking on southern politics. i have no idea whats been going on with SCOTUS btw