a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe | People of the First Light The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is a federally recognized tribe located in Eastern Massachusetts. The Tribe have inhabited the land for over 12,000 years and welcomed the Pilgrims that arrived on the Mayf...

Although it is also worth noting that there remain Wampanoag ("People of the First Light") communities on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard even today; their important and remarkable history is tied to far more than simply Thanksgiving.

mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov

The NSF social sciences program has funded some of the best research I’ve seen, especially at the PhD level. There really isn’t another country in the world with the equivalent funding capacity to fill this gap, and the damage from this choice will be felt for a long time.

It's a tiny amount of money ($25K, $12K when I was a student), but the consequences are huge. e.g., Years ago, this funding enabled me to conduct my PhD research, which ultimately informed the Supreme Court litigation that prohibited patents on human genes.

Talk about undone science.

bowling ball size of grease next to a man’s foot/workboot (for size reference)

a ball of grease larger than a bowling ball, resting atop a 5-gallon bucket

what we don’t have in turkey fryer explosion videos, we make up for with 10-pound grease ball pics.

vertical image of many basketball size globs of grease along a tank and safety railing.

grease floats.

when it flows in sewage and into our plants, it thickens as temps fall, separating in our settling tanks.

the churning water forms grease globs that build like snowballs, and operators remove them so they don’t clog the process.

listen. don’t pour grease down your drains.

That classic meme of the cartoon cat Heathcliff riding a ham-mobile with a helmet on that says "Ham" as two old ladies watch from the safety of a ham-colored house. One of the ladies, Grandma Nutmeg, is speaking. The caption reads, "Is it Thursday already?"

I'm going to do everything in my power to make this one of those weekly memes.

I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes

OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE P1 MR.TRUE: WHY, HELLO, JOHNSON, WHAT BRINGS YOU AROUND THIS WAYS WON'T YOU COME IN? MR.JOHNSON: YeS, EVERETT, I CAN STAY A LITTLE WHILE. I WAS JUST OVER VISITING WITH I THE SMITH'S. FOUR OF THEIR CHILDREN HAVG THE MEASLES, AND - P2- MR . TRUE THROWS MR.JOHNSON OFF THE FRONT PORCH.

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I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.

I'm ICE, boys. I love crashing cars, getting divorced, crashing cars, bargain bin jeans, texting while driving, crashing cars, OLD GLORY, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—crashing cars

please stay alive. please, keep living.

World-famous brewing institution leaving U.S. for Canada A renowned American beer brewing school is heading north and getting ready to settle in at a new address in Montreal.

Trump’s immigration policies have cost Chicago a world famous brewing school

The Siebel Institute will relocate to Montreal

“regulatory changes in the US have made it much more challenging for many of our international students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes”

Do you ever think about how English gave up the word for “a plant that is not a grass, shrub,vine, or tree”?

“Forb” isn’t in common use, “herb” has been overtaken by culinary contexts, “wildflower” is uselessly loaded, and for whatever reason, “wort” was abandoned in the late 17th century

you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.

I bet they’re at montrose too

There's something so... disturbing about MAHA using incredibly low, low rates of adverse reaction to justify putting what are obviously harm reducing medications from people

NEW: Sean Duffy frequently calls safety his “top priority” as transportation secretary. But I spent months wading through regulatory notices and found something far different: that USDOT has been delaying, weakening and killing dozens of safety rules, many opposed by the transportation industry.🧵

i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff

Note for Democratic politicians: you don't have to start your condemnations of ICE raids with "We all want to catch violent criminals, but..." Just say "These raids have nothing to do with catching criminals and everything to do with terrorizing innocent minority groups."

The Washington Post, everyone!

‘My husband and daughter went down to the garage in case it flooded. Then I heard a strange noise’ – This is climate breakdown She was sure that there would be warnings if there was any danger. But then the floods came. This is Toñi García’s story

"Now our priority is to continue fighting, for my family and for all those victims. For all those people who do not have strength, I will find it." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A screenshot from Celeste. Madeline stands by a memorial dedicated to those who perished on the climb up Celeste Mountain.

happy transgender day of remembrance

thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly

please live 💜

Starbucks can end this today: bargain in good faith, resolve unfair labor practices, and stop the union-busting.

Until then, workers are holding the line! #NoCoffeeNoContract

Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records - Harvard Law School Harvard Law School's Nuremberg Trials Project has finalized the first complete, keyword searchable online collection of more than 750,000 pages of Nazi war tribunal documents.

Timely reading: hls.harvard.edu/today/harvar...

A digital illustration of a medieval banner. It says in medieval inspired script "ye olde trans rights". It is decorated with plants and blue, pink, and white flowers.

ye olde trans rights. now and forever. 🏳️‍⚧️✨

#TDOR #TransDayofRemembrance

Page One in Iowa.

I'm not sure I fully blame them - the uni bought all these tools & is pushing them on us. Ss may not know the difference. On the flip side, the class seemed genuinely horrified to imagine any of them using this stuff to do the work, so that was encouraging. And again, the work overall was so good!

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

Had 1st encounter with Ai-generated work from Ss - in what was otherwise beautiful & inspiring work from class overall, these were clearly not their words on lone writing part of 3 part midterm (tiny essay/letter) - so upsetting, a violation. Talked in class of how it robs them of learning. A loss…

What happened in Room 22? For a month, seven people held Sam Nordquist captive in a small hotel room, torturing him to death, authorities say. How did it go on in secret?

I haven't been able to write about Sam's story because it hurts too much. The brutality of it cuts too deep. This NBC story captures it all so well, so I recommend it — but I also recommend caution for other trans folks reading it. Because what happened to Sam is truly unspeakable.

What happened in Room 22? For a month, seven people held Sam Nordquist captive in a small hotel room, torturing him to death, authorities say. How did it go on in secret?

Tomorrow is Trans Day of Remembrance. Every year on TDOR, trans people lost to homicide and violence are remembered at memorials around the country and around the world.

But the story of Sam Nordquist, a young trans man who was tortured and killed this year, has haunted me like no other.