Jake Varn

Ironically, they talked about changing the federal poverty definition in this same hearing.

Seahawks? More like Land-men. (this post brought to you by Taylor Sheridan)

Our block organized a mass snow shovel session this morning. I'm the cluster of pixels in the back here admiring our progress. Now for 6 ibuprofen and a nap.

Sometimes I struggle to still feeling like an Iowan after over a decade living out of the state, but when I'm pushing my DC neighbors' cars out of the snow I can feel the corn coarsing through my veins

You don't turn the Titanic around overnight, we're building the Hindenburg while we fly it.

Donald Trump is waging war against human conscience | Osita Nwanevu The Trump administration’s assaults on liberty are the kinds of abuses that spurred the American revolution that the nation will commemorate this year

"Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Get in loser" meme from Mean Girls

Get in loser, we're going to put our bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, to make it stop

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

It's gonna be a close one this year

Knocked out 2k words on my WIP today thanks to this group. (Embarrassingly, one of my most productive writing days of the year. But better late than never)

Proud of this chonky lil whale I carved for a Christmas gift this year

So it's only certain boats that get blown up, interesting.

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

HR has informed me that I can't veto an Escape Room for the company's holiday party just because "it feels like every meeting I'm in is an escape room."

We just witnessed a Big Ten Championship Ouroboros:

Ohio State defender from Greenwood, Indiana beats the Indiana lineman who transferred from Ohio State.

damn, this is a great read

a combination urgent care and taco bell

I'm at the combination

We have to start taxing ads like cigarettes

"What is a leash but a symbol of subservience.

The history of dogs is one of pain. Once a wild wolf, they have been genetically selected, bred into toys.

This poor creature that man now mocks by calling his best friend.

Werner Herzog's dog leashes, for the obedient good boy."

Got a new dog leash and you wouldn't believe who they optioned for the naming rights

Me Toö

The in-laws started heckling me for putting on Train Dreams because it was too depressing. Excuse me for having TASTE

I've held a grudge against them since their student section chanted "State School" at the me when I was in the UI marching band. Like, yeah man, I'm paying my own tuition over here, fuck me right.

putting gravy in my coffee

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

I just passed 15k on my shitty little thing and 50 feels like a lifetime away, congrats!

idk about you but I've always wanted to get increasingly unhinged push notifications from my dead AI relatives when I haven't opened their app in a week

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein but the monster is the cobbled together corpse of the Iowa Democratic party

I'm a complete sucker for Callan Winks nature descriptions. From his new book Beartooth:

“They crossed the river on the Cinnabar bridge, the water low and clear, a gray line on the rocks like a bathtub ring where the water had receded since the early summer snowmelt.”

And this whole page really: