John Heisel

What is a half-kiss from a rose?

Facebook post with a photo of Alec and contact information: MISSING: Alec Luhn, last seen July 31st in the afternoon. Was headed from Odda, Norway on a solo backpacking trip to explore the glacier @folgefonnanasjonalpark. Planned to stay at DNT Holmaskjer and DNT Breidablikk and finish Monday morning at Årsnes Kai bus station. Red Cross search with volunteers and dogs and helicopters is underway in the area. PLEASE SHARE AND TAG AND REPOST THIS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. If anyone has seen him or has information please contact Drew Avanell Gaddis or Veronika Silchenko

Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing in Norway's Folgefonna National Park after a backpacking trip to the glacier there. Please share if you're in the area or know people who might be. Come home safe, buddy

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What is “sixteen!?”

Find it out, write it down, get it out there. Leonid Bershidsky remembers pioneering journalist Derk Sauer — Meduza Derk Sauer, who died in Amsterdam on Thursday at the age of 72, was a figure of rare consequence in the history of post-Soviet journalism. A former reporter and editor in the Netherlands, he departed ...

Leonid Bershidsky, Vedomosti’s first editor-in-chief, pens an obituary for pioneering Dutch journalist (and pillar of the Russian independent press) Derk Sauer. (This is my translation of Bershidsky’s text.) meduza.io/en/feature/2...

What is a schmuck?

What are “golf gloves”?

Voters’ Voices on Trump’s First Year The Times is checking in with Americans from across the political spectrum to document their impressions of the Trump administration and the Democratic response for the rest of the year.

It seems like this is a series where they check in with the same voters over time. That seems like a normal thing to do ? www.nytimes.com/series/voter...

6 bands, 6 PM, 6 bucks

I literally moved from Moscow to NYC six weeks before the golden escalator. So I feel you.

What is “you had me at hello”?

How do you get Donald Trump to change a lightbulb?

You tell him Barack Obama installed it.

I certainly wonder what the fine will be….

What is “Right between Boston and NYC”?

What is Bom Trady?

So they pay it out and let him record shows as a lame duck? Why not just pay him severance and call it an end? It would seem if it is truly political it doesn’t make sense to give him a whole year to talk about it daily!

But if that is the case why give him another year ? Why not just shut it down and cancel it effective immediately?

But if that is the case why give him another year ? Why not just shut it down and cancel it effective immediately?

What is Onlyvans?

A comic in black and white, with rainbow accents. It's a wide shot in a big store not unlike Target, with shirts, flags, accessories, and packaged food sporting various LGBTQ+ Pride colors and slogans. Every person walking through has a different response. Pissed off young tattooed woman: "Corporate hypocrites. They fired a trans woman last year for speaking out about harassment." Young college kids: "[gasp] Is that a non-binary scarf?? Oh my god, back home you'd never see this kind of stuff in like, a mainstream store!" "I know they're just trying to take our money, but you gotta get it!" Guy wearing a button down shirt and slacks: "Well... this at least proves that businesses see our acceptance as good for their bottom line." Two chuds mocking the merchandise: "Check it out, Tr---y beer! Doesn't your dad drink that brand?" "Oh, ha ha, yup." The second guy has a sheepish look and thinks: "Even if Dad won't accept me, his BEER is on my side." A Mom who looks like a Karen: "You can't go anywhere without seeing this propaganda! Let's go to Chick-Fil-A." Her young kid thinks: "All these rainbows... I"m not so alone after all, am I."

"Across the Spectrum."

Corporate Pride is always tenuous and conditional, but it still sends a message.

Tampa Bay announcers were slightly less enthusiastic about @redsox.com walk-off home run than the Red Sox announcers.

What is a Boomtown Rat?

What is Russia?

The Floodwaters Are Rising | Defector It’s easy to forget that God’s covenant is limited. God makes a solemn promise to Noah that He will never flood the whole Earth again … however. “Never again will I let floodwaters destroy all life,”…

"In the light of day, all we are left with is the misery of tragedy, the shocking reminder that we all survive only upon the whims of the Earth and men, and the dreadful fear that mercy is in shorter supply every day." defector.com/the-floodwat...

speech is at its freest in a society where your speech may make people dislike you and decline to associate with you, but even if it makes you lose your job it never makes you lose your healthcare or your access to the food supply and never gives the government permission to incarcerate you

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

What is the MC Hammer?

This election provided valuable financial support for local NYC tv stations, as well as the postal service. And uhh I guess anyone who makes money recycling paper.

I didn’t take it, because the company would’ve only compensated me at the minimum required level, which was significantly less than my salary. So I just used paid vacation days instead. If parental leave had been compensated at 100% I would’ve taken that, but alas.

What is a Polly pocket?

Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice