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I just discovered Nexcare acne patch and I will spread this good news forever.

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Today I went out wearing a t-shirt that says “No Human Is Illegal”. We live in a MAGA-heavy area, and my husband teased “decided to poke the bear today, huh?”
Yes. Yes I did.

The beautiful thing about Musk’s “Epstein files” tweet is that it makes him look as bad as Trump. “I had no problem working with and covering for a pedophile until I didn’t get what I want.”

Showbiz Prime Directive: Give the people what they want.

I stock NA beer alongside other in my fridge now because you enlightened me that having the option for a guest might help someone trying to make a personal change. Thank you for educating and advocating. Acknowledging that it’s not a bump-free road is part of that.

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

free kobold hoard with $250 minimum purchase coupon code: sparkle (image is of cabochons on the top, on the bottom, bauble the kobold is drinking a hot cocoa out of a heart mug)

black and white dragonskin fused glass pendant

firey fused glass pendant

pile of glass guys (cabochons with silly eyes fused on them)

hello everyone! i am nora and i run a cute little shop at nora.jewelry!

i specialize in fused glass jewelry but i also do kobold hoards (little collections of fused glass bits and bobs that feel nice in the hand) and glass guys.

Thanks for this - I’ll have some on hand for my guests!

Photograph of river otter tracks in dry sand, framed by a left hand with an inch ruler tattooed along the index finger and thumb.

Does this count? I have a measure on my hand for tracking. It's a bit art-deficient, but useful! (Imperial measurements though, so sorry.)

Here's one example: if you think it's good to have new treatments for cancer, and you are competent enough to understand that the profit motive will never fund basic research into these areas, then you know why RFK Jr. gutting HHS is going to devastate health progress for the entire world.

Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:

Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47

Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429

Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3

Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2

Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0

Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.

An insect that looks just like a dead leaf. She has her raptorial forelegs curled against her body with dark purple eyes above them. There is a leaf in the background.

When we found this insect I said, "oh my gosh, it's the most amazing thing I have ever seen!" It's a phenomenal dead leaf mantis. I love her eyes, purple with flecks of white. Leaf mimicry is fairly common in insects, helping them hide from predators and prey.
(Acanthops erosula) Ecuador

the turkey 'pardon' implies that turkeys have, by virtue of their very existence, committed a sin worthy of capital punishment. this is of course theological nonsense because there are no intrinsically evil birds, except for swans.

These are two guitars made by Johnson. One looks like Gumby waving, and the other one looks like Pokey, his horse friend. I would pay good money to see a band play these in concert.

Johnson Gumby guitar & Pokey bass

Statement from President Jimmy Carter on the passing of his beloved wife Rosalynn:

“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished. She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”

I watch PBS’s Nova religiously and learned last night that Oxford has developed a new vaccine for malaria that has 70-80% efficacy and it just got approved by the WHO and will save millions of lives in the years to come. Sharing some good news bc it tends to get lost out there.

Photo of a container of liquid isinglaass for sale on Amazon.

A 19th century advertisement for fish glue.

Fish Fact of the Day. 🧪

Isinglass is a substance obtained from the dried swim bladders of fishes. It is a form of collagen used mainly for the clarification of some beers and wines, and can also be cooked into a paste for specialised gluing purposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isinglass

a robot from the show futurama, flipping a switch on his side to change his emotions from "irreverent" to "maudlin"

me walking into oppenheimer after seeing barbie

Javier Bardeen as Anton Chigurh in No County for Old Men

Apropos of nothing, I truly believe Anton Chigurh would’ve been at least 80% less evil if he’d had a decent haircut even just once in his life…

Hey everybody bookshop.org has free shipping today and tomorrow in response to Amazon prime day, and it supports your local independent bookstore.

Adrew's home office plant collection. There are a lot of plants of many different genus and species.

hey PlantSky! I wanna see your houseplant setups! Here's some of mine that are in my office. 🌱

*book cover*

*puts on glasses* technically, all toads are frogs, so they're also covered.

("True toads", the Bufonidae, are part of the frog family, and some are colloquially called "frogs". Some "toads" are not "true toads". And then there's Pseudobufo, the false toad, which is a true toad.)

Extreme closeup of a white, fuzzy moth with reddish-pink legs and antennae, and brown spots. Two bright-yellow spheres made of tiny bubbles frame its head.

TIL that there are moths that froth! This is Amerila astreus, found in India, Sri Lanka and New Guinea. Some species in this "frother" genus release bubbly secretions from glands near their eyes; the sizzling sound warns off predators. 📷 by budak https://uk.inaturalist.org/taxa/126085-Amerila 🧪

RFK Jr.'s anti-vaxx views also reinforce damaging autism stereotypes, advocates say RFK Jr. says he advocates for the marginalized, but built his career spreading harmful lies about autism

Why RFK Jr.'s lies about #autism are so damaging to the vulnerable people and families that he claims to be defending. Important piece by #autistic reporter Matthew Rozsa at Salon, with quotes from me and others. Please spread this link!

one would think that with the end of affirmative action in college admissions we’ll finally also see the end of people blaming black students for why they didn’t get into their preferred university, but i suspect that will continue all the same.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Inside Job How a conspiracy-spewing literal Kennedy posing as a populist outsider jolted the Democratic Party.

I’m not sure if I’ve posted one of my own features here yet and it feels sort of strange that this is the one, but….I wrote a profile of RFK jr. and his presidential campaign.