Angry Rutabaga

"Fraternity" seems apt (yes there are women implicated too, but proportionately few).

POSSIBLY THIS WORKED:

bsky.app/profile/bibl...

This is a family with young children. The kids need to eat. They're out of food and desperately need groceries. Even $100 of it would help, but the whole $250 would be better.

C'mon. We don't countenance hungry kids.

They only have CashApp: qvueencherylanne

Let's do this NOW, please?

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And I thought cougars were concerning!

The focal stone is a perfect square of banded malachite in emerald and forest greens, the stone domed, the corners beveled, and the finish glossy. Wings turned it 90 degrees t form a diamond shape, evoking the Eye of Spirit. It's held by a jump ring and pattern-wire bail in a hand-formed loop.

this “chicago bail fund” and the entire network of newly registered bail funds are all scams. illinois made cash bail illegal in 2023 thanks to the incredibly hard work of many people, some of whom i know personally, so this is especially stupid

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I practice in Suffolk county mass and have never heard of the Boston bail fund.

The Mass Bail Fund is the only reputable bail fund for the greater Boston Area: www.massbailfund.org

It's important to *have* the warm clothes! You can take off your hat & open your coat but you can't make them magically appear if you left them at home!
(Grumbles at my friend who's always complaining his hands are cold yet NEVER HAS MITTENS…)

a red and pink cross stitch on blue fabric. "everything I love causes carpal tunnel" surrounded by hearts, a needle and thread, and a skein of embroidery floss.

relevant to many of yalls interests.

Satellite image showing ice on a lake with many different shades and patterns of open water.

Ice on Lake Superior in Chequamegon Bay, also Jan 27. Ashland, Wisconsin in the lower left, mouth of Bad River and Odanah to the east, Washburn, Bayfield, and Madeline Island to the north

Giant floofy brown and white cat sticking his tongue out

Thbbbppppt

A tiny plant, potted in basically a Chinese restaurant tea cup. Ballpoint pen for scale. It has a couple of of green spikes, one of which is just starting to unfurl a proper leaf.

congrats to this little Calathea for surviving a roller coaster of different types of neglect

Sustainable mischief!

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Kind of glad to be in relatively low-prestige, low-profile areas of science right now.

If a corgi is 25-30cm at the shoulder, then the snow is ~1 stoat-height to 1 stoat-length in depth!

I want the monstrous goons that did that, and that beat Mondragon and then told this ridiculous "pee on your leg and tell you it's raining" story about it to go to prison, like that MN cop that kicked the guy in the head.

That's one of my "so hungry I don't even want flavor" foods, though usually halfway through I add seasoned salt or chili crisp or something.

Just to re-iterate the point, these figures of THOUSANDS of children being sexually assaulted in custody, this reporting came out during Trump's first term. We don't know the scale of it today, how much worse it's likely gotten since.

Oh @timberdoodlydoo.bsky.social we've got someone for you to evangelize to…

They have been doing this for years.

And when you say you want “violent immigrants” deported, you’re just saying you want them to be violent somewhere else.

Worth noting that “violent” is also not an objective, immutable category

Why people insist on lard or crisco for pie baffles me. Butter crusts are so much better! And yes, they've gotta be deep dish.

From an everything-goes-pear-shaped perspective the fact you can pick it up on the back 40 is also attractive. That farm is old enough that we've got all the kit to hook a couple of the cows to a wagon & fell trees with a whipsaw.
Would really prefer NOT to, but we CAN.

Luckily their rural electric coop has already invested in solar & wind, so their bills aren't egregious.

My fingers are strongly crossed that my dad can use what's left of the business subsidy for solar to put panels on the farm, & then I'll start working him over on heat pumps. He's 73! But he loves his chainsaw & my brother does the lifting…

Yeah, there are more efficient designs (I worked with a prof in undergrad researching wood heat pollution) but they're a little more expensive.

Oh yes, but for some reason people discount ongoing costs vs initial installation. Or at least my neighbors do. Which is also where grants come in!

And I say this having grown up with solely wood heat: Lissa is 110% right on insulation. My parents finally got decent insulation in the attic when the roof was destroyed, & for the first time in 100+yrs the upstairs bedrooms stay *warm* in winter! (Dumped-in cellulose exposed to leaks = garbage)

Ooh, yes, I had a Brazilian coworker who brought in cheese-cookies, but I didn't want to presume. And argh I used to know the *name* for the things but…

The upside is you can sell people on "heat your house with heat pumps & have this cute woodstove for backup and ~ambience~" when "keep propane for backup" runs into "why not just keep propane for everything?"
And if you're not plumbing in gas, gas stoves go bye-bye.