Dr. Sarah Parcak

THE VIBES ARE OFF

I am on the road but I heard from my husband who is *begging* the government to send in troops to Birmingham. He couldn't get reservations next week for our favorite restaurant, the leaf blowers were once again too loud on our street, and the dept. copier jammed again. It's chaos and bloodshed.

When Stephen Miller hijacks the Major League Baseball social media account

Taylor is lying. WineMom™️ chats are LIT with Travis bulge fact checks. Ain't no way. More like a Bonsai than a redwood.

Gorgeous white sandy beach with ocean in the background

I cannot share where I am but it is gorgeous and a long long way from home

nun looks at a computer and prays

two pink stuffed animals are standing next to each other with their mouths wide open . Alt: two pink muppets with yellow lips and big eyes are standing next to each other with their mouths wide open singing with a weirdo bearded muppet in glasses

If you are a weirdo muppet dude and you like to interrupt pink creatures minding their own business singing thats called Manamanasplaining

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Buhgs

Thanks Carl!

“I’m Mexican, I’ve tasted spicier”

protect him at all costs, Portland 🥹

This applies to multiple platform heads!

Putting a toddler in charge of a platform means you get tantrums, drama, and crash outs. They need a nap, a snack, and to have the device they never should have been allowed to use taken away permanently.

wizard frog is insane

She said lots of other amazing things too but she led with that energy.

Imagine you are a 90yo world famous person- the most recognizable living explorer/scientist- and you film your "don't release till I am dead message" for Netflix, and you say "Eff off into a remote planet Donald Trump, Netanyahu/cabinet, and Qi, with Elon Musk as your captain."

QUEEN

Wow

Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

green and red caterpillar cake on a brownie sheet

i made a very hungry caterpillar for my baby’s first birthday 🐛

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

National Guard will be in a live gunfire battle against ICE soon. I'm calling it now.

if bluesky fails, i will just stand in the street corner yelling my posts

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

America is currently a giant experiment to see how long we can keep stuffing a year's worth of news and outrage into every single day before everyone's heads explode

RFK Jr. fires NIH vaccine whistleblower Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo RFK Jr. fired infectious disease specialist Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who told CBS News she was put on leave after questioning actions taken by Trump appointees.

I know Jeanne from UAB and she is not only a brilliant researcher, but is one of the kindest, most generous, ethical, warm humans I've ever met. She is BELOVED on our campus. I wish RFKjr the same fate as the etiquette minister in the Dune prequels (IYKYK).
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

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

Hey FYI the main reason women get stress fractures in the Army is that the heavy rucksacks they carry WERE DESIGNED FOR MEN. They do a shit job of distributing weight to the hips (where we are stronger w our builds). It's a design flaw. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Vance doesn't thank the couches he's fucked so I think he needs to set an example as our Vice Presidank

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...