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Honestly? Enjoy the meltdown, but stay locked in. That Big Ugly Bill is still on the table, and it needs to go. Call your senators and light up the phones. (202) 224-3121

The only good thing in the world today is that I learned about "banana pose" which is just something seals do when they feel safe and content. Just happy seal things.

Speaking of Bananas. Some of our subantarctic fur seals also exhibit the banana pose like the image below.

Because when life gives you no bananas, became a banana! (*and don’t tariff other people bananas)

The Real Reason You Love Trader Joe’s Isn’t What You Think Trader Joe’s is beloved because of great products, quirky branding, and Hawaiian shirts. But it’s also loved because the grocery chain mastered the art of restraint—offering fewer choices, smaller sto...

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A still photo of Dolly Parton in the movie "9 to 5" in which she is an office worker sitting at a desk, holding a phone. Photo credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Courtesy Everett Collection

On #DollyDay, we're returning a little bit of the love that Dolly Parton has poured out during her lifetime.

As an employer, she has championed fair labor practices. Did you know Dollywood is consistently named a top place to work and its management theme is “lead with love"?

Finland Didn't End Homelessness With Magic. They Just Didn't Treat It Like a Business Plan. You can still run a café. Start a band. Sell socks online. Capitalism still works in Finland. But they decided that housing people didn't need to turn a profit. Because sometimes, the moral thing is the practical thing. And no one thrives when their neighbour is sleeping in a tent by the river. You can't KPI your way out of a crisis. Sometimes, you just have to give a damn.

You can’t KPI your way out of a crisis.
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DOGE Days My experience joining the United States DOGE Service as a software engineer, and what I learned along the way.

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‘My heart’s pounding’: Australians wade into ocean to save great white shark stranded in shallow water Three-metre shark was found on sand bank near the coastal town of Ardrossan in South Australia

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... 🦈 💕

A bunny rests its paws on a small green watermelon.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about NASA's budget

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Take it from a red stater. Stand up and talk back.

- enact open primaries and ranked choice voting

A large bouquet of golden grow upward from the leaf covered ground, one above the other, their gusseted gills lining their undersides. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

A telescope's powerful new tool may offer a better way to predict solar storms The Daniel K. Inouye telescope snapped a clear image of sunspots.

The Daniel K. Inouye telescope snapped a clear image of sunspots.

What’s the name of this Album

Can we please rename HHS to FFS

Former heroin addict turned HGH guy with worms in his brain who plays around with roadkill and only drinks raw milk: Everyone else is stupid and, frankly, their teeth work too good.

Pete Kegsbreath’s Signal Chat Group Callsigns:

White Russian: POTUS
Screwdriver 🛋️: VP
Moscow Mule: Steve Witkoff
Rum & Coke🎱: RFK Jr
Old Fashioned: Ron DeSantis
Jagermeister: Elon Musk
Manhattan: FLOTUS
Long Island Iced Tea: Don Jr
Dark & Stormy: Tulsi Gabbard
Spicy Margarita: Marj-Greene

we need to spend more time with @repdangoldman.bsky.social's clip.

not a single penny toward disaster relief but TONS OF YOUR CASH to "protect" drumpf's golf habit

🧢 @mrsquirrel.bsky.social @zentrixter.bsky.social

These caring people joined together to help a group of baby ducks that were following their mama off a rooftop nest 🥹

Be kind to all living things
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NGC 5335, 200 million light-years away, in the direction of the constellation Virgo, is a barred-spiral galaxy w/ flocculent arms. Relative to other galaxies, the central, barred region is particularly prominent. In the background are thousands of other galaxies. Image credit: HST, NASA, ESA, STScI

NGC 5335, 200 million light-years away, in the direction of the constellation Virgo, is a barred-spiral galaxy w/ flocculent arms. Relative to other galaxies, the central, barred region is particularly prominent. In the background are thousands of other galaxies.

Image credit: HST, NASA, ESA, STScI

A young Pete Buttigieg shortly after 9/11. Yes, he was brilliant as a teenager, too.

A row of orange and white Stereum lobatum mushroom shelves grow like a row of ears in the side of a dark log wet with rain. Green algae grows at their basses and forest debris is scattered through the scene. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

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On Thursday, immigrant workers plan to walk out in hundreds of cities across the United States.

The mainstream media is ignoring this movement.

Help us cover it!

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We’re in a reflective mood today. Here’s a thread of ten of the most insane and idiotic things that Elon Musk and DOGE have done in the last 100 days.

Pritzker/Cuban 2028? or Pritzker/AOC 2028? Pretty Please?

The Project What is Project 2025? You kind of know. But what is it really?

So what does Project 2025 actually say? @dgraham.bsky.social wrote a book to help everyone find out. blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-project