Irene of Lauvenberg

I love this and have been thinking about it all week. Is Flambo explaining there is a category called “dog,” he knows it when he sees it, and Rupert is not in it? Is he bullying Rupert for being small and pointy? Is he cracking a joke about how Rupert must be a cat because look how small and pointy?

Nurse leaves.
Me: sonofabitch
Nurse comes back. "Yeah, we're gonna put you in a private room since you're here most of the day."
"Oh, thank you. I'd even share if you put me back by the window so people aren't walking past me all day."

*shows up to infusion
*points out wrong doctor
"Well, who ordered your iron infusion?"
"Uh, I'm not here for iron. Ocrevus."
"Oh. Yeah okay. Have a seat."
*gets shown to room of recliners
*audible sigh and my face was talking (you wanna spend 7 hours in a hospital recliner? No, you don't.)

The absolute nerve it takes to know this to be the case as you are launched 80km

I could never

Trump is not an aberration. He is a symptom of a much larger disease.

You do not get to Donald Trump and American Fascism without George W. Bush and if you find yourself trying to paint him in a positive light you have absolutely lost the plot.

When the the proponents of No-Child Left Behind, who still read at 2nd grade level as full grown adults now, are dominating youth conversations around history/education, what do we expect?

Contrary to what doctors seem to think, you can't live, laugh, Lexapro your way out of an economy and government that is depressing

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

My grandmother had one copy of the National Enquirer when i was a kid. It dealt with Diana and Fergie. I read it a couple of times each summer out of boredom. John Bryan, the Texan millionaire, that era. It's like cursed lore. There's no reason i should still know that shit. Just saying.

hr: you need to be more respectful to your colleagues
me: who reported me — horse teeth or the mouth breather?

We have this discussion on occasion. "If only (ancestor) didn't get on the boat,"

And then what, Maureen? We'd be in Russia or Poland or Ukraine, depending on the ancestor & borders at that time. And you're going to visit? With the husband who jumped off a boat and swam ashore? Okay, good luck.

Top left, earrings: gold moons with amethyst and plum blossom tourmaline. Silver moons with labradorite and gray quartz. T-Rex with labradorite, chrysoprase, African turquoise. Bottom left, charm bracelets: shell theme with blue pearls and AB clamshells. Fashion theme with plum blossom tourmaline and pyrite. Right side, stretch bracelets; top - clear quartz, lava rock, aquamarine and iolite. Bottom - sunstone and moonstone.

A gold enamel goddess pendant with space themed charms - moon, star, planet, moon

All in a day's work. 🧶 #Crafting #jewelry #DIY

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

When does the bad shit start happening to the bad people and the good shit start happening to the good people?

I literally saw a post two weeks back in which a guy with two jobs was flagellating himself because he was short on rent, lamenting that had he donated plasma more, maybe his rent would be on time. This system is deeply fucked. Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.

I can hear my journalism teacher screaming. I bet the big vein in his forehead would be throbbing. And one of my other IB teachers going off about how "um, like and uh" aren't filler words. I'm having Suncoast flashbacks. This was A Deliberate Choice by the NYT.

A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy

Nah, i figure we're a 24/7 live broadcast to the universe of Survivor: Earth - What Not to Do. 🤷‍♀️

6 raku vases in a grid with a white background in two rows of three. There is a vase name in black text under each image, from left to, to right bottom, the names are Lagoon Nebula, Draconis, Skyfire, Pinwheel, Persueus'Cloud, Tethy's Tide.

A closeup of 3 vases glowing in the reduction firing of the raku process.

The world feels very unsettled, and art isn’t always the priority in these trying times. Even so, I'm here and keep on making.

These are my latest one-of-a-kind raku vessels available now. A share or like to help them find their people would mean a great deal. 🙏

That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse. Jason CO @jasonc_nc. 2/8/25 I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist. • 24 L7 1.8K 15K Ill 399K ... Max Dubler @maxdubler True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

sorry Pink Floyd, turns out that we needed education. a lot of it. all of the education, really

the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this

every plantation owner should have been put to death

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY IS LISTENING TO THE RADIO ANNOUNCER…EATING BY CANDLELIGHT IS SOOTHING TO THE NERVES -- P2- RADIO ANNOUNCER CONTINUES— - - AND IT PREVENTS INDIGESTION P3- NANCY HAS WENT OUT AND BOUGHT A HOTDOG FROM A STREET VENDOR ON, THE MAN WHO IS SELLING THE HOTDOGS IS WONDERING WHY NANCY IS HOLDING A LIT CANDELABRA WHILE SHE IS EATING THE HOTDOG

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
February 15,1950

“nothing is real until it hurts me” slogan replaces “don’t tread on me” slogan on a Gadseden flag

how we got here

I had a guy yesterday tell me his daughter was on the verge of divorce because her husband was $20k in debt to DraftKings. Ban this shit.

A black cat loafs on half of a desk. Her cat tree is next to the desk. Alas.

Some days i feel like Tom Hanks in Turner and Hooch. No writing with my pens, no chewing on my books, no scratching at the door, no smoking of my weed. Don't eat the car! This is not your room.

American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.

Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.