Melissa Wong

exactly what I meant, it looks like a wee green block and tackle. like the jolly green giant's little string bean. like the hulk's hulklet.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Tweet from Amy Klobuchar that reads: “27 million pounds of chicken 2 million gallons of milk 67 million eggs That’s how much food grown by American farmers never made it to hungry families because of the administration’s decision to cancel deliveries to food banks.” Below the text is an image showing trucks on a highway with a banner labeled “CANCELED” and a caption: “Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid.” The source line reads: “From projects.propublica.org.”

Trump’s tariffs and cutbacks are bankrupting farmers. He thinks they’ll keep supporting him no matter what, but his approval numbers say otherwise.

it looks like a very, very small green package.

Thank you! I am highly qualified and the interview went very well but he has two more to do, so I'll find out Friday. (:

I will find out this Friday. It is at a jeweler's that makes beautiful braided metal wire work, which is where my fiber/costume expertise comes in. I'd very much love to do that for a living AND also have money to buy beautiful bug art. Especially pseudoscorpions, which are fascinating creatures.

I just interviewed at a new job, and if I get it I'll actually have the disposable income to buy some of your beautiful articulated insect and arthropod art.

Interview for the new job went well, I will know for certain on Friday afternoon. Cross your fingers for me, friends, send prayers. Whatever you can do.

May every bite of lox remind us of his goodness.

It has been a few days since Bean learned he didn't have to endure a blood draw every time someone offered him Churu and now all it takes is the sound of the packaging rustling to get him to run up and make excited squeaks and meeps.

I wish there was something I could do, more than what I'm already doing.

Hooray for trans plants!

Mudskipper captures my inner turmoil.

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The absolutely tragic evidence that the blogging era of feminism was a catastrophic failure is that there is no specifically feminist movement pressure to be applied right now on literally ANY of the surveillance, kidnapping, incarceration, shooting, forced pregnancies of women/girls.

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

I made him a brøther

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

no worries, shit talk them from the afterlife. Pettiness sufficient to defy death!

Or annexed El Norte and Baja California.

A screenshot of a tweet from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG). The tweet reads: "Bad Bunny says America has 4 months to learn Spanish before his perverse unwanted performance at the Super Bowl halftime. It would be a good time to pass my bill to make English the official language of America. And the NFL needs to stop having demonic sexual performances during its halftime shows." The tweet was posted at 10:48 AM on October 6, 2025, has 144.4K views, 954 replies, 1.2K retweets, 7.3K likes, and 70 bookmarks.

If you didn't want Puerto Ricans speaking Spanish in the US, you should've thought about that before you colonized the island and forcefully made it a part of the US.

A cornucopia of adorable little kaiju!

It looks like those brushes mounted in front of doors to brush snow and mud off with. What people sometimes call "hedgehogs".

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

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well what do you expect, he expects to live on a diet of benzos and salted raw meat or something? It's probably some awful intestinal parasite having the worst vomiting from encountering his brain after taking a wrong turn.

The year is 2025. There are three social networks remaining. They are run by Dweeb Lowtax, Tweaker Lowtax, and Girlboss Lowtax. You have to pick at least one.

Glory!

No, shit is scary, you're not crazy. Shit is fucking scary.

They're full-on special operators. But they're also FAA qualified air traffic controllers. They go in before anyone else does to build landing strips and then coordinate air traffic so people can get there — or do air support — as safely as they can. That's FUCKING INSANE.

Yeah we need an actor with the physicality, the discipline, and the range, and he's got all three. People joke about the Air Force but honestly I feel like the Combat Controllers are more badass than people expect, they're just also quite obscure, as they prefer.