Mo Ryan

"BUTTERFLIES remember being caterpillars despite being turned into GOO before they emerge from the chrysalis!!!"

"Ma'am this is a Menard's, please pay for your garden gloves and leave"

Exactly! HOW DO THEY KNOW TO DO ALL THESE THINGS? I've read books on it and it's still a total miracle. (also often scientists are like, dang, that's wild -- we actually do NOT understand that part of it)

Fantastic! I love hearing about any sized pollinator garden. Makes me really happy!

The more you learn about butterflies, the more your brain explodes in a good way, I am totally serious. You know how Moby Dick is basically one dude losing his shit about Whale Facts? That's me with butterflies. They do all this ⬇️ THEN FLY THOUSANDS OF MILES TO THE RIGHT PLACE FOR BREEDING WTAF

ALSO I will come over and help plant them if you want! (I love doing this.) Also also, I just ordered 64 plugs, in case you want some of mine. (They'll be pretty small year one-- but the butterflies still lay eggs on them & they're still useful as food for the caterpillars). 🌸

No that's a great question! Some plants are major spreaders (I am always fucking up plant spacing). With milkweed, IMO you can plant them pretty close together. Esp year 1, each stalk takes up less than a foot. You can cluster them, I think! Could fit a dozen or so in a smallish space, I think!

Oh I have to go to that one! It's a hike from where I live, but I should go. I have been to the nature museum in Lincoln Park recently -- they have a butterfly room and it's so, so lovely! thanks for the reminder re the other spot!

No matter how metal other animals may seem, how many are "just ate my own former skin" metal? that's fucking hardcore. I respect it.

Very very cool! They are sooo fun to watch. Love it!

they eat, they eat, they rest. They shed their skin--then eat their skin (as one does)--then they eat more. Rinse & repeat. They rest hanging upside down in a J. Shed their skin 1 last time, sit in a chrysalis, soup-ify themselves & emerge as a TOTALLY DIFFERENT THING THAT CAN FLY. Never gets old.

Not kidding even a little: Watching butterflies fly around is so good for my mental health. Even better: Listening to & watching them them absolutely house entire milkweed leaves. My favorite thing in summer is watching caterpillars just go wild on those leaves. I find it calming & restful! 💚 🐛

Would you like to think about 🦋 butterflies 🦋 rather than literally anything else? SAME!! Great org @monarchwatch.bsky.social Milkweed Market is open--preorder small plants (plugs) for spring delivery. Note: schools & restoration projects can apply for FREE plants🦋 💚 monarchwatch.org/milkweed/mar...

In a recent interview, Cillian Murphy officially spoke out about the reports that he has been cast as Voldemort in HBO's #HarryPotter TV series:

“I’m categorically not. Can you make that the headline?”

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A Crosstitch kit that says “nobody thought the revolution would start in Minneapolis… Except Prince “

A Crosstitch kit that says “what a fucked up time to be alive. “

A Crosstitch kit that says “roosters wake up and scream because they know “

They cross stitch kit that says “this too shall pass, but like holy fuck “

We’ve restocked several styles and added a bunch of new styles of Subversive Cross stitch kits!!!

Find them at hartfordyarnworks.com

#Crosstitch #Subversive #SubversiveCrosstitch #crafts #shopsmall

The world sucks, so you get a cat:
Javier Mayoral, Sleeping Cat, 2021

In the style of an industrial warning sign — WARNING Cognitohazard: Do not think about it

I kept needing this, so I finally made it.

I don’t care what they say this is a good website

I am going to try to capture this to some extent for my book, which is about Battlestar Galactica (which def did a lot of commentary on those times & war & torture etc), and it's like... I think unpossible to truly describe it. fucking "freedom fries," man.

we also got this shit, including People naming him one of the sexiest men alive

I really cannot overstate how completely bonkers the Iraq War era was if you didn’t live through it

!! I don't recall that but you may have!! anyway ooooh boy that is def not a plane movie (unless everyone in your row is Ok with many tears)

impossible to watch the documentary about him without 1 thinking he's a saint/bodhisattva & 2 crying

I was radicalized by a kind elderly Presbyterian minister in a brightly colored cardigan who played with puppets and told me that people could like me exactly as I am and that everyone is different and that's great and we should like them exactly as THEY are.

Bold black text on a pastel gradient background reads: "hands off our rights. 03/03 FEDERAL PLAZA. SOLIDARITY WITH THE KANSAS TRANS COMMUNITY. 6 P.M. 219 S. DEARBORN ST, CHICAGO, IL. SHOW WE WON’T STAND FOR TRANSPHOBIC LEGISLATION.

Tuesday in Chicago - Hands OFF - Solidarity With the Kansas Trans Community

Best painting title ever:
Men fighting and women ignoring them
Mughal, 18th C

I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

Timeline clense

It’s that kind of attention to detail and quality control that brings back repeat customers!! 🔥👊🏻

At the Rocky Horror Picture Show in Minneapolis, they’re throwing out ICE whistles shaped like dicks.

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.