John Larson

Hey, I want to offer some helpful tips for coping with the cold for ICE folks who might have come from warmer places.

1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!

This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. The Enterprise D gang is in Ten Forward standing around a beautifully decorated banquet table adorned with exotic flowers and lots of food. Seems like a fancy party is happening, I'm guessing some light chitter chatter is in the background, dishes and flatware tinkling and clanking, maybe some nice soft harpy music, but this is a picture so it's tough to say. Ok, back to the story, so Captain Picard is carving a large round turkey. Bev Crusher, Geordi, Data, and a very very tall Klingon, all in uniform, stand and observe. Closed caption reads, "I shall try some of your burned, replicated bird meat." 🦃

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Jack-o-lantern with a wide open mouth, triangle eyes and a candle.

RraaaaaAaaawr!!*

*Happy Halloween!

Shout out to the top 5 kings in the world, Martin Luther, Larry, Don, Stephen and Americans don't have a motherfuckin'.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby up on his hind legs with his forepaws braced against the outside of a brick building, seeming to sniff and investigate the tip of a small stick that a white person off camera is holding against the wall.

Before laser pointers we had to just point at the wall with a stick. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Ignoreland! “I know that this is vitriol…”

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

This is great

Contrary to what RFKJ yelled in the hearing today, COVID vaccines will not be free and available to everyone due to his decisions. Here’s what you can do to get one, and how annoying it’ll be.

What better way to give him a big🖕 and protect yourself for respiratory virus season than getting a 💉?

A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year. The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive. threads.com/@unapologeticallyzae

Prosper with Dragons card game and note.

Excellent mail day! Beautiful Prosper with Dragons card game and note from @nickydrayden.bsky.social and @suyidavies.com . Can’t wait to play!

Sandy the Sandhill Crane

Salem Sue, the world’s largest Holstein.

World’s Largest Buffalo

Megafauna of North Dakota.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

A one-page comic of Milk and Cheese on a city-wide rampage, yelling "Merv Griffin!" louder and louder in every pane as they pummel people and destroy property. The name of this comic is "Merv Griffin". It is art. Don't judge it, love it.

A refresher course.
Warning: High art.

From the 1982 MDA telethon, I challenge you to keep the surreal dissonance of this performance of “Jessie’s Girl” from burrowing deep into your brain…

Mon Mothma’s ‘Andor’ Wedding Death Dance Is the Song of Summer It was designed to show a revolutionary’s emotional spiral after consigning her dearest friend to assassination. Now it’s a party meme.

Mon Mothma's Wedding Death-Dance is The Song of Summer.

How "Niamos! (Chandrilian Club Mix)"🎶 from #Andor went from a moment of bleak catharsis to a social media phenomenon. It's now growing far beyond the #StarWars fandom.

We went from 94% funded to 106% funded today! 💥

Many happy dances have been danced. Thank you!!!

Kickstarter funding chart showing a steady climb towards our funding goal, just 22% to go in 4 days!

A group of people having fun playing Prosper with Dragons in a gastropub.

Glamour shot of the Prosper with Dragons card game, dragon cards and decks laid out on a diagonal.

Just a lil graph showing how close we are to bringing y'all an incredible card game! We just need a few strong days!

If you want:
- An intense co-op game
- Great Afrofuturistic art
- A chance to befriend dragons

Keep spreading the word!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...

#cardgame #kickstarter

@prosperwithdragons.bsky.social has now crossed $8k of funding! Thanks to the 213 backers who have gotten us here. @nickydrayden.bsky.social & I deeply appreciate your support.

Will we reach our $12,500 goal in the 8 days we have left? 🤞🏿 Share with friends & help us get there! 🙏🏿

Prosper with Dragons banner: Face of an enourmous green dragon with a child and elder perched on its tail, feeding it. 47% funded on Kickstarter with 2 weeks to go. A cooperative, post-apocalyptic, Afrofutures card game...(with dragons!)

Hey y'all, let's show some love to Black creatives on Valentine's Day! We're closing in on being halfway funded, halfway through our campaign. I know we can do this!

Spread the word! Spread the love! ❤️🐉❤️

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Lemon Pig 2025 is ready to face the new year. Thank you for your service, Lemon Pig 2024!

Michael Stipe posted this on insta. He said he met President Carter doing human rights work & got this after. He was floored.

A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election (Gift Article) A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.

Remember the right-wing plot to sabotage Jimmy Carter’s re-election by urging Iran to hold American hostages longer? You don’t? It’s a shocking example of the American right’s treachery that more people should know about. (Gift link to 2023 NYT story.)

The Tick Had the Perfect Action-Packed Take on Santa 30 Years Before Red One - Reactor They're sugar plums, Arthur! And they're DANCING IN MY HEAD!

Look, the best Christmas action movie already happened before Red One and it was a 1994 holiday episode of The Tick. @leahschnelbach.bsky.social will prove it to you:

reactormag.com/the-tick-chr...

Think of anything actually GOOD the government did or does. Vaccine development? Food safety regulations? Emergency weather alerts? Project 2025 Rs are going to try to destroy it all. Yell at your D reps when they talk about working with Trump. Make sure they don't give it all away.

Western WI checking in: at our high school it was "hey hey what, get laid, get fucked".

The MN Bookstore Guide to Black Friday and Small Business Saturday 2024 Check out the many Minnesota independent bookstores offering sales and specials this Black Friday and Small Business Saturday!

Our annual guide to #BlackFriday and #SmallBusinessSaturday at Minnesota's independent bookstores is here! See what your favorite local shop has planned.

Featuring @wildrumpusbooktore.bsky.social, @redballoonbookshop.bsky.social, and many, MANY bookstores not yet on Bluesky.