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Went to the Texas Renaissance Festival this weekend and a woman working there handed this to me and said, "you've just been boned in public." 😂

a calico cat sits pretty on a wood-like floor, her eyes wide and dilated. her paws are white like socks against the black of her legs, and she has a white spot underneath her neck. her tail is a blur but every other part is in focus.

thinking about Her™

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My baby is sassy 😂

Nearly a Century Ago, American Chestnut Trees Died Off. Now, Hikers Can Walk Among Them Again. Efforts to restore the American chestnut comprise "one of the most epic conservation stories ever told.”

Oh hey, a reason to be hopeful: groves of American chestnut trees have once again become self-reproducing in the wild.

Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.

There's gotta be a third option between "300 years old" and "SS tattoos."

In shot across Big Pharma's bow, California will sell its own insulin Delivery of the state-branded drug makes good on a longstanding promise by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

California to make and sell its own low cost insulin…a 5 pack will cost around $55

No one should have to ration meds

No one should fear financial ruin because they need meds

When Frederick Banting sold the patent for insulin, he made it $1

A Canadian, he said life saving meds were for everyone

I'm just trying to pay my bills, not re-learn how to use your site. PLEASE 😭

What do you MEAN a website I visit regularly changed its UI in a way that does nothing to improve user experience????? IT WORKED JUST FINE BEFORE, WHY ARE YOU FIDDLING????

WHAT 😳🤬

Suspending Jimmy Kimmel over alleged Charlie Kirk comments, only for that suspension to immediately become the free speech crisis conservatives tried to spin Kirk’s death into, is maybe the most succinct demonstration of poetic irony that I have seen in a long while.

My sort of crank, not thought through theory is that as MBA brain has proliferated, management of businesses has gotten more and more divorced from the particulars of the businesses they’re managing, and CEOs’ jobs are “business” in the same way Ken’s job is “beach.”

If you mourn your own oppressor’s death, there is a lot of work you need to do to free yourself. Not mourning is not the same as celebrating although celebrating wouldn’t be inappropriate.

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Sara Jacobs: "Filler is gender affirming care. Boob jobs is gender affirming care. Botox is gender affirming care. Lots of my colleagues have received gender affirming care and let me be clear, I think everyone should have access to the gender affirming care they need."

Nancy Mace: *screams*

GOOD RIDDANCE TO SMELLY GARBAGE

Thank you to the anonymous user on the Microsoft forums from a year ago who opened their post with "hello bro" and broke down the solution to my exact problem in 5 easy steps. May both sides of your pillow be cool 🫡

A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant.

Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed.

This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

The appendix is gone and I am free 🥳 couldn't convince my surgeon to take a pic holding it up like a fish though 😅

Thanks, me too but I'm glad I made my husband take me to the ER at 4am!

PSA to my fellow girlies with tummy issues: get a CAT scan because you just might find out you have appendicitis and need surgery 🙃

Flower time 😀

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The President—who uses antisemitic slurs—is building concentration camps and an enormous secret police force.

Ya know, maybe this is just because I’m Jewish, but I wish the political opposition and the media made a bigger deal about it!

All of you gloating about the Texas floods because they happened in Trump country want to believe that it can’t happen to you. But it can, and likely will, and when it does, other people will fall all over themselves to figure out reasons why *you* had it coming and they don’t

I always say I love my country the way Anthony Bourdain did, not as a benevolent state or one founded in innocence but as vast, beautiful place full of discrete people and cultures such as has rarely been attempted and worth fighting for.

I may have ✨too much✨ anxiety but some of y'all don't have enough and it shows

A picture of an upright, leafy plant called Lone Star hibiscus

Our usually cool spring stunted my suspicious hibiscus (Lone Star hibiscus) this year. Usually by now it's several inches taller than me and has bloomed at least once but this year it's only like 2 ft tall and hasn't bloomed at all. It does have one bud now so hopefully flowers soon!

In case you're wondering how humid it is in Houston right now....