Lucid Revolution

A screenshot of a headline from ABC News posted on Facebook originally. The caption is not fully visible, but says "Ocean scientists have found dozens of new species..." followed by a prompt to click to see more. The image in the post has the headline "Dozens of new species, including 'death ball' sponge, discovered in Southern Ocean" with small credit text for the image "The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census/Schmidt Ocean Institute". The image has 11.6k reacts including thumbs up, surprised face and hearts. Below the post, a user named Riser Lincoln notes "Death Ball Sponge sounds like a 90s grunge band" which recieved 952 reacts (thumbs up and laughing) at the time of the screenshot.

Admittedly I noticed a headline about this thing a few days ago and did a screenshot because this one comment was so great.

"Death Ball Sponge sounds like a 90s grunge band"

I think the movie Sicko covered it very well and somehow people just ignored it.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

I consider some of my cousin's kids as "nieces and nephews" because I'm not calling them "second cousins" or "cousins once removed" and I have no siblings.

And plenty of muslims were scared to be ID'd as such after 9/11, I witnessed plenty of it first hand in my area & news covered assaults.

yeah I mean they don't have the best reputation when it comes to their own blood... they will make excuses just like anyone else who feels entitled to forgiveness when no one else ever merits such consideration, let alone amnesty or human dignity... colonizers starts with COLON, coincidence? nah.

IMHO: If the British Royal Family is took this information seriously (eventually) & knocked one of their own down to "normal human" status, it's clearly VERY bad. Also, we treat survivors so poorly that there is no incentive to lie about being trafficked or assaulted or abused.

I would love to get some fresh work done (it's been like 20 years for me), but my health insurance premium is going up another $150 a month next year so I probably can't even afford to see any doctors. Let alone get a new tattoo... I miss having disposable income.

A blue bubble from a screenshot of a text message conversation, with the following text "just for reference... same plan, premium costs over the years: $468.89 in '21, $520.80 in '22, $582.11 in '23, $632.38 in '24 $695.10 in '25. $862.23 for '26."

Reality has come in the form of a message telling me to go look at my premiums for my ACA plan (through NJ marketplace).

I've kept the same plan for a while now, and every year the cost increased, but this year it's far worse. this will be 20% of my net income, not including USING the plan.

If Obama had posted a video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on America the media would talk about nothing else for YEARS

Godzilla only does full-frontal under any conditions.

To further make it hilarious, I'd go to the post office the next day to get my package, and they'd never be able to find it, and claim it was "on the truck" which is funny since no trucks ever showed up with the box to attempt delivery to begin with. I think it was perhaps a prank show. or a dream.

For about 20 years, at my old apartment... there was no way to get into the vestibule, and no parking on my side of the street, so the USPS stopped delivering boxes entirely, and just brought us the slips as if they attempted delivery. I see this "approach" is not isolated to my old apartment.

Literally picked up at 4:55pm. If I had tried to do anything else today, I'm sure it would have been earlier. It's just how things go.

Guess what? It's 4:30pm in the EST and still no UPS pickup yet. Thanks for that 5hr window, it was definitely helpful... assuming what you wanted was for me to spend the whole day feeling very unfocused.

a closeup perspective image of a sea lion's face, with the nose slightly out of focus. there is text added to the top of the image that says "happy boopday" which is referencing the idea of "booping the snoot" of the sea lion. the ground is a light beige color and a strip of aqua blue pool water is seen at the top edge under the text.

I texted this to you as well but it was worth sharing. Happy Birthday to one of my favorite people, a rare find in the wilds of the twixxy drama fields.

Nothing ruins the day of anyone with ADHD quite like a 5 hour window for a package pickup. I could leave the box outside, as it's large enough to be less alluring to the pirates (it's an office chair packed in a very big box), but that would make me even more anxious despite logic/reason.

#WarRavagedPortland

I definitely still have The Stranger cassette somewhere... I don't know how many times I listened to it but I think it was on constant rotation when I was 19.

I will discuss my baked mac & cheese recipe with you whenever we are on the phone. It's not set in stone, and I generally just do what feels right, but there are key ingredients and steps to it that make all the difference. Also you can def up the texture level by adding other ingredients.

Canada Dry is the only ginger ale I really enjoy. However I haven't tried the Zero Sugar version. I don't know what to think about "diet" soda since I almost never enjoy it enough to buy it a second time. Maybe Dr. Pepper is the exception there, that's mostly the same to my taste buds.

oh, this is news to me. I don't like this news. Oh well, one less list of things to read I guess. Mostly diving into Tanith Lee lately, only discovering her work now. I hope she wasn't TERF'n either, as it would make zero sense given the nature of some of her characters.

A screenshot from an X user named @rysjour with the following text: "ticketmaster is now requiring people to opt out of class action lawsuits in order to buy tickets. lol." with a screenshot showing the "place order" screen from a ticket purchase with additional added text saying "I have read and agree to the current Terms of Use and Standard Purchase Policy, including the arbitration agreement and class action waiver, updated in August 2025."

Seriously Ticketmaster? Haven't you learned ANYTHING? We are sick of the scammy nature of this barrier between us and entertainment. Not everyone is disgustingly wealthy and the arts should not be gatekept from the middle and low income majority to pad your already padded back pockets.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

States counter RFK Jr.’s vaccine moves, but many people could be left without access Tens of millions of people could find themselves having to pay hundreds of dollars for shots that were previously covered.

Blue and purple states are countering RFK Jr.’s vaccine moves, but many people could still be left without access.

Tens of millions of people could find themselves having to pay hundreds of dollars for shots that were previously covered.

While all this happened way back in the 1990s, there is the typical documentation regarding the trials and recommendations after FDA clearance. this is summarized here: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...

There is so much history on this ONE vaccine and I only looked around for a few minutes.

Can't speak for the future as our public health system is on fire, but nothing was cleared by the FDA in this country (US) without being overly cautious & ethically meticulous with clinical trials, and you can't rec. a medication or vaccine for kids unless it was tested/effective in that age group.

somewhere between 5 and 15% of people fail to gain immunity from the first attempt at the shots, meaning it's even MORE important to get them early and follow up with titers, as there is an estimated 30-50% chance a second series of vaccinations will succeed if given. Ref: Hepb.org

you can't afford fancy vibrant "unnatural" color hair from a salon AND a bunch of sniper rifles and military gear. it's just the reality of staying on budget.

RFK Jr. makes controversial comments on school shootings: 'We had gun clubs at school' — USA TODAY The Health secretary said the National Institutes of Health will be examining the correlation between 'overmedicating' kids and violence.

RFKjr is dangerously deranged! apple.news/A6AzwS7aMQ-y...

My advice to everyone trying to work on foundation skills... get a used copy of "Drawing on the right side of the brain" and do the exercises. It really helps in ways that are hard to explain until you do it, although your original sketch is honestly pretty great so you have a good starting point.