Tiaratum

Well, well, well. If it isn't our old nemesis deadly heatwave.

frog game out now!!!

it’s so great when the baby keeps looking over her shoulder at the darkness beyond the empty doorframe and crying. it’s so cool when she looks back at me with a terrified expression silently begging me to help. thank you for doing this at night

A baby standing in their crib. The crib is full of pillows, stuffed toys, and padded crib bumpers. A small jazz band of embroidered animals parades next to the baby. They sing get all the stuff out of this crib! Why is this crib full of stuff? Get all the stuff out of this crib! This child’s life is in danger! Doop doop a doop doop a doop. The text reads: bare is best. Keep pillows, blankets, toys, padded crib bumpers, and everything else out of a baby’s sleep space. In the corner, is a baby sleeping safely in a onesie that says safe sleep baby.

Doop doop a doop
Doop a doop

A bunch of poisonous mushrooms next to a button battery. The text reads: both deadly when eaten, but only one is already in your home. Button batteries can be deadly if swallowed. Keep remotes, electronics, and products with accessible coin cell and button cell batteries away from children.

Keep button batteries locked up out of sight and out of reach of kids.

Gonna be pedantic for a second on this (for a reason, I promise): civil disobedience has a very specific definition.

Civil disobedience is INTENTIONALLY breaking a law because you believe that *the law you are breaking* is unjust.

Since this has come up repeatedly in the last few days—no, you do not need to take down your bird feeder because of avian flu. The USDA is not worried about spillover from songbirds. The wild reservoirs are WATERFOWL.

In the Miami airport. Oohh… Aahhh.

God ought to be very small, and afraid of getting his feet wet.

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

full text of the poem “You’re” by Sylvia Plath

O high-riser, my little loaf

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row.

“Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

baby wearing overalls standing in a pot, surrounded by vegetables. a turkey hat covers their face.

merry turkeyday 🦃

"Is the Challigator Kosher" - the greatest tractate in the history of talmud, locked by rabbinic repudiation of divine revelation after 12239 pages of heated debate,

cds scratched up long before I uploaded them to a digital library

how every disk burned from my pc had tracks that skipped in the same spot

(hearing the same flaw in an mp3 on a friend’s playlist, a decade later ♥️)

thinking about scratched CDs

the ones that skipped in the same spot on every listen

car rides predictable enough that skips get linked to the landmark passing by

Bugs in Books Even the most cursory glance over the pages of medieval manuscripts will reveal a plethora of insects. Bugs are everywhere – although we hasten to add that we are extremely vigilant about avoiding the...

Ok I looked it up, I found it, it is from ‘a prose treatise on the Seven Vices, Italy (Genoa), с. 1330 - c. 1340, Add MS 28841’

blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

#Museum30 day 16: bug

I have absolutely failed as a registrar because I can’t find the shelfmark or folio noted down but we do have this absolutely sick manuscript with hella rad bugs

manta-shaped xylophone bathtoy reflecting rainbow light onto a white bathtub

🌈

A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

Heads up: don't trust links in notices of electronic filing, visit PACER directly and look up the case (details of phishing emails in thread)

What should I do when a debt collector contacts me? | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau First, determine important information about your debt—including if it’s legitimate and if you really owe it—and then use our sample letters to respond appropriately to the debt collector.

Reminder: if you get a notice from a debt collector, even if it's for a tiny amount, make them work for it! Send them a request to validate the debt and prove that they have the authority to collect it. The CFPB has sample letters: www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/wha...

If you are not already aware that the little owl antennae are called “plumicorns” I would like to be the one who shared that information with you.

opossum trying to eat some kind of orange gourd or pumpkin

opossum trying to eat some kind of orange gourd or pumpkin

Hot girl summer is over. It's time for opossum autumn.

peach-faced lovebird on a pile of art supplies. her name is Pretty Bird.

here we go!