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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

Finished up the Detective Agency book nook! Inspired by the extremely well-known "Detective Famous" agency. 😆

I'm pretty sure I hit my "WHAT THE FUCK" quota for 2026... and it's only January 10th!

Who else has hit this quota?

DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.”

(H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )

Go where the love is

Started working with watercolor markers last night. Does anyone have any tips on using them?

This

Maroon hombre background with confetti. White block text that says “Celebrating 200K checkouts on Libby”. At the bottom of the image there is a white bar with the logos for Libby and QLL.

HUGE NEWS! ✨ As of this morning, we’ve officially hit ‼️ 200,000 checkouts ‼️ in 2025! That’s like, A LOT of checkouts! That’s 200,000 stories that have circulated among our patrons. It’s 200,000 times we’ve been able to make access to queer stories available to a person searching for them. 🌈

New Releases: September 9, 2025 Middle Grade Pasta Girls by Taylor Tracy Hot-headed and energetic Romea Marino is starting ninth grade with a full plate. Between confusing social dynamics of high school and juggling extracurriculars, Ro can only find peace in the reliable comfort of her kitchen, where she’s able to follow in her dad’s culinary footsteps, whipping up Italian-fusion recipes. Thoughtful and reserved Julianna Cangelosi is dying to help in her family’s restaurant, which serves traditional Italian dishes.

New Releases: September 9, 2025

Middle Grade Pasta Girls by Taylor Tracy Hot-headed and energetic Romea Marino is starting ninth grade with a full plate. Between confusing social dynamics of high school and juggling extracurriculars, Ro can only find peace in the reliable comfort of her kitchen,…

#MossyMonday

And the challenge begins. Are you brave enough to enter?

Many starlings are sitting in a bare tree. The background is the sky. Black-and-white photo.

A bird is never afraid that the branch will break. It always trusts on his own wings. Believe in yourself 🫶

#AbstractAug #trees #BNWmacro #ClassicMono #blackandwhite #birds #wildlife #Stunday #photography #outdoors #PhotographersUnited #nature #ArtYear #ArtChallenges #photohour #EastCoastKin

A beautifully vibrant yellow and black bird perched on a sun flower, staring off to somewhere

Shhhh! Is camouflaged… #GoldFinch

A pair of smallish, wet and bedraggled polar bear cubs look towards the photographer from behind some boulders along the beach. Some pink fireweed in the foreground add a pop of colour to the scene.

These polar bear cubs are 8 months old. They will stay with their mother (watching out of frame) for another year and a half before they are ready to venture out on their own. They were so curious of us humans watching from a giant, silent, tundra buggy. 🌿🦊🐻‍❄️

Graphic announcing the death of queer poet Andrea Gibson on July 14.

Acclaimed poet Andrea Gibson passed away July 14, 2025. A renowned author, activist, & spoken word poet, they leave us with many vulnerable & honest works on gender norms, social justice, politics, & more. Find a list of their publications in our Linktree.

Graphic acknowledging Nonbinary Awareness Week and featuring three Lammys winners or finalists by or about nonbinary folks in three genres. Memoir: "Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity" by A. Scott Duane and Micah Rajunov. Sci-fi: "Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction" edited by Brit Mandelo. Nonfiction: "Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography" edited by Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt.

Nonbinary Awareness Week is the week surrounding Nonbinary People's Day on July 14. This week, we're highlighting Lammys winners & finalists by & about nonbinary folks in the memoir, sci-fi, & nonfiction genres.

This is so freaking adorable…. 🫠
Snuggles… 🥰
🐯 🐯

Great Blue Heron wading in a shallow pond.

I like shooting these guys cuz they move so slowly that you get really nice detail 😌.

#🪶 #birds #naturephotography #herons

An overturned stick is held up in the air so we can view the underside of a family of splitgill mushrooms growing off its bottom. Photo taken in April by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Picture of an owl, looking at the camera, wings pinned back and gliding above a picture of the same owl looking at the camera and raising one wing.

"Morning, Jim!"
"Hey, Tom."

When the playground bully is spinning the marry-go-round of injustices so hard that everyone on the edge is being forced to their death, all that is left to do is keep yelling how wonderful it is. I am so proud of all who are putting down their feet and trading in some soles to save some souls!

Sometimes...

Portals of the Body

A powerful, otherworldly female figure with molten, lava-like skin walks through a jagged volcanic canyon. Her body appears to be made of cracked obsidian with glowing red magma seeping through the fissures. Long, tangled black hair flows like smoke, and sharp, demonic fins protrude from the sides of her head. Her expression is calm but intense, as if she commands the fury of the earth itself. Rivers of glowing lava surround her, creating a hellish, elemental scene of mythic fire and darkness. This image was generated using an open-source model (based on FLUX.1-schnell) via perchance.org, employing a layered text prompt. Post-processing in Lightroom increased resolution, and the final JPEG reflects deliberate prompt engineering and refinement. Distribution is for non-commercial creative use only.

She doesn’t rise from the ashes—she is the volcano.

#LavaQueen #InfernalElegance #ElementalHorror #VolcanicMythos #mermaids
May 25, 2025 - Lavaflow Mermaid

Japanese snow fairy bird 🇯🇵 😃

Anyone collating a book of his gaffs? Will be a bestseller!

Verizon ends DEI policies to get FCC's blessing for its $20 billion Frontier deal It's the latest big company to back away from its diversity pledges to keep the U.S. government happy.

It's the latest big company to back away from its diversity pledges to keep the U.S. government happy.

Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet All the lefties fled to Bluesky following Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. But CEO Jay Graber says the app is for everyone—and could revolutionize how people communicate online.

As fog blanketed Seattle, @knibbs.bsky.social's waited to meet @jay.bsky.team—CEO of Bluesky. Fittingly, just before she arrived, the skies cleared. It felt poetic. Her name, Lantian, means “blue sky” in Mandarin. And her mission? Clear the smog from social media.

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I am Michael Devitt. My wife and I wrote a book about raising our transgender teen in politically-repressive Idaho.