Marc Criley

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You can’t talk seriously about gun violence in Chicago without talking about where the guns come from. www.pbump.net/o/the-red-st...

Harriet Tubman was alive at the same time as Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan. (That's my all-time favorite.)

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Or deciphering the poor penmanship of a 240-year-old deed.

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

What's your sign?

Fabulous (and long, bear with it) comic on the topic of AI “art” from Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Wearing the Lion Check out Wearing the Lion - <b>"This novel effortlessly ascends to the heights of Mount Olympus. Tough and tender and bittersweet. <i>Wearing the Lion</i> establishes Wiswell firmly on the new fantas...

Bookshop has free shipping today and tomorrow! It's a great time to pick up my latest, Wearing The Lion! (But only if you want to see Heracles adopting every monster in Ancient Greece.)

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy

New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard

Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy

One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

Oh, this *hits*.

Concrete “battery” developed at MIT now packs 10 times the power New concrete and carbon black supercapacitors with optimized electrolytes have 10 times the energy storage of previous designs and can be incorporated into a wide range of architectural forms.

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A black cat lying on its side with his head stuffed in a pink Croc.

This doofus

I once again beg all y'all not to screencrap nonsense from the former Twitter and bring it here to dunk on it, that's like inviting a vampire in to tell them their fangs look stupid, maybe you're right but they're still going to fucking eat you

(also "screencrap" was a legit typo but I left it in)

holy shit..a master class in de-arrest (especially from the would-be arrestee, he is a KING 🥲)

Bluesky, thinking it was building a protocol, stumbled into running a platform filled with a highly active user base.

All they have to do is not fuck it up and they got a business here!

buy shoes with good support. barefoot shoes can also be great. just don’t cheap out on the shoes.

if you never had a slutty season, it’s not too late.

don’t let your past broken hearts make you afraid of love.

see your doctor and get all your screenings.

try to love the normal days.

Old man rocket-dog laying on the floor with his socks on.

Old man dog socks.

My very, very old dog has been slipping and falling so I got him grippy socks for his back paws and its adorbs. All old men deserve socks.

Today's community drabble is, "Chernihiv Gubernia, October 9, 1905" by Rachael Rosenberg. The theme was "crash."

Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl

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I assume that some significant portion those 57% are fine with “Obamacare” subsidies going away but are extremely attached to their ACA subsidies that they’ve allowed themselves to be convinced are something different

1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."

Look what we have here then.

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

“Instead, the Democrats might want to ask themselves: What would Bad Bunny do?”

"Walking On Sunshine" - Katrina and the Waves

QOTD: Giving poor people some money makes crime go down better than giving cops more money.

Says science. We did the science. We keep doing that science. Nobody in a suit ever cares tho.

Yes, it’s still murder. But the simple fact is that you cannot trust a single word out of this administration. They are all depraved liars.

If a magical being offered some Americans the choice of being mega-billionaires in our present society, or by forgoing that, everyone in the country got excellent health care, housing, food, education, child care--i.e. met all one's basic needs, I cynically believe there'd be more billionaires.