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A honey bee inside a white bottle gourd bloom.

A gulf frittilary enjoying the same gourd blossom.

A black cat rolls wildly on the ground in front of raised beds.

It's getting cooler, but there are still pollinators out enjoying the garden. And Zagreus.

An orange cat sits with his back to a grey tabby who is sitting the same way but symmetrically. They are on a low sitting couch cushion in front of a window.

Your handsome Marcus reminds me of my Artie. Here he is with his brother Indiana this morning.

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

Jean, one of the four yellow garden orb weavers inhabiting the garden. She arrived around the same time as Lady, and oversees the indigo black chocolate and rosella tomatoes.

Hopper on the left, and Lady on the right. They protect the principe borghese tomatoes. Hopper arrived a few weeks after Barbara, and Lady arrived in the late summer.

Barbara, the first yellow garden orb weaver who appeared first in the spring. She watched over the squash/gourd tunnel.

After noticing she and her web were looking pretty rough, we lost the last yellow orb weaver, Hopper, on Sunday. Jean, Lady, and Barbara all disappeared shortly before then. I know they're spiders, but we grew attached. Tonight, I noticed a newcomer, a spotted orb weaver (pic 4). Name pending.

Dapper black cat sitting on a blue blanket

My baby boy is named Zagreus because of this game!

PSA: Half mast means a flag flown on a ship. Half staff means a regular old flag pole on land.

"so many girls, so little time"

It's telling that all these birthday wishes reference consuming girls together. I hope it isn't lost in all this horror how men bond with other men over the consumption of women (& even girls). Epstein is only extraordinary bc he & his "friends" were so wealthy.

Okay at this point you have to ask yourself “If I was actively collaborating with Trump to make sure he stayed in power while pretending to be in opposition, what would I do differently”

Hmmm, this Republican Senator's speech at the National Conservatism Conference sure has a lot of similarities to the antisemitic "great replacement theory."

And by similarities, I mean it is word-for-word identical.
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Alt text: A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) dated August 21, 2025, at 12:22 PM. The post reads: “President Trump is going out on patrol tonight in DC. Shock and awe. Force. We're taking our country back from these cockroaches. Just the start.” Below is an embedded post by Todd Starnes (@toddstarnes) from 2 hours earlier, stating: “JUST IN: President Trump tells me that he's going out on patrol tonight with DC law enforcement and the military. Listen to my full interview with the president at 12P ET on The Todd Starnes Show…” The post has 171.1K views.

This is genocidal rhetoric calling people cockroaches. This is exactly the language used in the Rwandan genocide.

He has a tenuous grasp on the English language, much less chess. But he does know the word "treats."

Apparently, it's an outbreak of the not so rare Shope papilloma virus. Many rabbits recover from it and the growths go away, unless they stop the rabbits from eating. Then it's not good news for the bunnies.

A handsome grey tabby cat stands in front of black's side of a wooden chess board on a coffee table in front of a couch, looking at you as if he's waiting for you to play.

The grey tabby studies white's first move, pawn to e4. A dapper black cat looks on from behind the grey tabby, laying on his red satin pillow on the couch.

The grey tabby looks up at you pleasantly, as if offering a draw because he is very cute but does not know how to play chess.

Artie's first chess game.

cool & fun to live in an era that constantly promises magical scientific solutions to every problem, and then when there actually ARE magical scientific solutions (mRNA vaccines, renewables) they're like lol no fuck you

Attorney Says Byron Black Was ‘Tortured’ in Painful Execution Experts warned Black’s heart implant could shock him repeatedly during lethal injection, but the state killed him without deactivating it

What happened here is almost unimaginably grotesque.

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“Nothing lasts. We all die. You and I are going to die.” - the guy who just came to my house to change a broken lock.

ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY

ROLL THE CLIP

this is genuinely one of the most cruel and evil things i have ever read in my life

Glass gem corn with mostly yellow kernels with some lavender, pink, and cream

Glass gem corn with dark pink, orange, yellow, purple, brown, blue, cream, and red kernels

Glass gem corn with purple, lavender, pink, orange, and dark blue kernels

16ish cobs of glass gem corn with the husks still on, with various levels of corn worm damage and pollination issues

Look at the pretty corn I grew!!! This will go nicely with all the winter squash on my mantle.

Eight winter-aged zuchinno rampicante in various states of curviness, eight spaghetti squash, one candy roaster, and one butternut squash are laid out on a concrete porch. The tips of gold glitter crocs are visible on the left side.

The squash lay in front of a red-haired white woman holding the largest, curviest of the zuchinno rampicante squash.

A hand for scale next to an ali baba watermelon on the vine in grass

The same watermelon, rolled over to reveal a pale yellow bottom with some dirt on it

So proud of my first winter squash harvest. Also, does anyone know how to gauge when to pick watermelon? I'm wondering if this Ali Baba variety is ripe.

You do not. In fact, I would suggest not putting worms in the compost tube because they all die when it dries out.

I do! It's nifty, but if you live in an area with hot summers, I wouldn't recommend it. It gets so hot and dries out very quickly.

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

A "blue alert" from the state of Texas for an injury to a cop 250 miles away from where I live.

Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

A hand-sized melon with lobed segments and a rough exterior, just starting to turn from green to orange is held in a white woman's hand. Melon vines are in the backdrop.

A view from the top of the same melon. The rough webbing and protrusion at the center give it an almost flower-like look.

A 14ish foot tall sunflower eclipses the view of the sun, which casts a light halo around it in a beautiful blue sky with very few clouds. An oak tree and white house are in the near distance, with a chaotic overgrown garden in between.

First melon of the season, a Golden Jenny! Can't wait to cut into it later.

Two symmetrical garden beds in a backyard with small green things sporadically placed in some areas. Not a lot of green growth. A small plot of bare soil sits to the left of the beds. Various potted plants are visible at the edges of a porch.

An explosion of plant life has overtaken the same garden beds. The prepared plot to the left now has 10 foot tall sunflowers, tasseling corn, and squash trailing from it. Cucumber and melon vines threaten to take over the front of the yard. The trellis has turned into a verdant tunnel of gourds and squash. Chaotic bliss.

April 1st to today. Can hardly believe what's possible with full sun and plenty of spring rain!