Squidocto 🦉🎶

I have the first volume and it is GORgeous and i can’t wait for the next volume. Highly recommended! (and you can get both volumes at the kickstarter)

A hotdog and pretzel stand with large hanging bottles of mustard, ketchup, and mayonnaise. The bottoms contain squeeze tubes to dispense the condiments.

I have been traveling and today I present to you...the thing I saw in the Frankfurt airport.

Is it efficient? Undeniably. Does it probably work better than the normal way? Oh certainly. Produce less of a mess? Probably?

But the existence of Condiment Udders gives me a deep, aghast disquiet.

I implore you, do not engage with any of the government accounts (or their troll entourage) that have shown up over the past few days. Don't dunk or quote or reply. Just block them.

They are baiting people. Engaging with them is *what they want.* Do not give them what they want.

Looking north on a four lane avenue. On one side of the street many people are holding protest signs, and you can’t see the end of them as the street curves away

The beginning of No Kings in Poughkeepsie NY. The line of people stretched for about a mile along the road

Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater

This is an interesting idea, a blue state inter-state compact, basically a constitutional convention. As a way for the left to make some noise, and publicly hint at a break with the federal gov
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is super cool

OM*G*.

This is the single best homeopathy zinger I've ever seen. Hall of fame stuff!

Occasional reminder that one of the best things you can do to help musicians is to stop using spotify 🎶🦆

How the Data Rescue Project is protecting data from political attacks - The Skeptic The Data Rescue Project's team of volunteers is keeping at-risk data alive in the face of US government attacks on information and data access

Learn about, and maybe get involved with, the Data Rescue Project
www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/09/how-...

I have never once regretted buying art from an artist

Painting of two girls drawing various images - a castle, a sun, a ship, a flag, etc. - on a city sidewalk

Photo of artist Jacob Lawrence

A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of the great American artists of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. First up, one of my favorite paintings by him: Sidewalk Drawings, which celebrates visual power of human mark making with two girls exuberantly drawing in chalk on a city sidewalk

Look At Them Fly Away, by Matthew Schickele 6 track album

Hey it’s Bandcamp Friday. You could get this, my EP from earlier this year, which my mom said was “interesting”
matthewschickele.bandcamp.com/album/look-a...

Fascinating thread 👌

A small sticker on a lamppost has a drawing of a frog and reads “LOST FROGE, have you seen him do not bother him he's figuring shit out I love him

Spotted in Portland OR by @unmitigatedgaul.bsky.social

Three big boy monarch caterpillars on a milkweed plant

r/changemyview the cure for male loneliness is milkweed hangs

did you just call me a window crank

Matthew Schickele Matthew Schickele organizes sound: chamber music, vocal music, songs, and electronic music for ensembles, bands, and the stage.

Oh darn yesterday was bandcamp Friday I forgot to post my bandcamp boo, oh well, here’s my bandcamp
matthewschickele.bandcamp.com/music

with all the anti-trans fuckery happening in higher ed rn, I can't stop thinking about how my undergrad institution had co-ed bathrooms in the dorms and it was absolutely fine and everyone was normal about it!

Near Philly? Go!
Wish i could but I’m way far away

Since consumer protections have been removed by our government, I thought I’d make a list of companies I trust not to screw us over or harm us.

This concludes my list.

Millions of us first listened to classical, opera, and other music genres via PBS and NPR.

The right yells about the destruction of Western civ and culture, but aren't really interested in cultural preservation. If they were, they'd support funding for public broadcasting, the arts and humanities.

Fabulous thread

Trans people can obtain accurate passports again. Here’s how The 19th spoke with experts about the window of opportunity — and risk — that exists while the State Department complies with a court order.

For most of this year, trans and nonbinary Americans have been blocked from obtaining passports that match their gender identity,

But now, at least for a limited time, trans people can obtain accurate passports again.

Please don’t use spotify. It’s a disaster for musicians

Tove Jansson and the Moomins: The Door Is Always Open | Brooklyn Public Library Brooklyn Public Library invites visitors of all ages to the first-ever U.S. exhibition dedicated to Tove Jansson, the beloved Finnish artist, writer and creator of the Moomins.

Moomin Midsummer is in Brooklyn this summer! An extensive exhibit of Tove Jansson materials including an early model of the Moominhouse. www.bklynlibrary.org/exhibitions/...

This year Independence Day is aspirational

Here's the proof: Republicans are only looking out for their millionaire and billionaire friends – and they're willing to gamble with your lives to pay them off.

Now is a good time to do it. They’re not moving in lockstep in this: there’s significant internal discord and twitchiness. Let’s get the pressure up

Jon Favreau on Twitter: “Shocking how bad this bill is: - 17 million would lose health care - 30% higher electricity costs - Millions of manufacturing and construction jobs destroyed - Biggest ever cut in food assistance for families, kids, veterans - $4 trillion in deficits - $1 trillion in tax cuts for millionaires & billionaires People should be on the phones, in the streets, and telling everyone who'll listen”

A Senate vote on Trump’s Tax Scam, which would gut Medicaid to fund billionaire tax giveaways, is expected late tonight or early tomorrow. We need GOP senators’ phones to be ringing off the hooks today.

Call now: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Or send an email: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-cutt...

Here’s How Plastic Bag Bans Are Working Data from beach cleanups show that banning or taxing single-use plastic bags makes a difference in ecosystems

plastic bag bans work yall
www.scientificamerican.com/article/here...