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Art of a pink flower character looking at two hearts dancing together.

🌸~Blossom, little souls~🌸

If Gen Z really wants to dunk on millennials, they should learn about Foursquare and go around saying stuff like, "I hear you're the mayor of this Panera Bread."

*explaining to my son my idea of having a giant dog rescue where all the dogs are trained to sniff out various diseases and you can pay $100 to walk through and have a dog diagnose you by scent*

my son: you could call it “plague dogters”

me: I have given birth to a genius

NBC News Parents are charged after their son, 7, is struck dead in a car accident. Gastonia, N.C., police charged the parents with involuntary manslaughter charges after allowing the victim and his brother to walk home alone from a nearby grocery store.

In order to eliminate any inconvenience to cars, we’ve made it illegal for children to be children

This hot bish shal coming back shirtless and all

Mina the Hollower coming Oct 31

A drawing of a sparkly raven sitting on a branch. The caption reads, "Hey, facing unknowns absolutely causes anxiety. It's not weird to be struggling right now."

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

Un immense livre en train d’être brûlé par des petits personnages avec marqué « I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books »

Good Night World

we're in a trade war with Canada over an amount of fentanyl that wouldn't even make a cop fake a seizure

Jewish groups targeted Columbia grad Mahmoud Khalil — then ICE arrested him Pro-Israel Jewish groups targeted Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of Columbia University, days before ICE agents arrested him.

As a Jewish person it is so uniquely painful to exist in a world where Jews are the ones making lists of people for the government to target.

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Scene from the TV show Twin Peaks. FBI Agent Dale Cooper is driving a car and talking into a tape recorder, saying “Diane, 11:30 am, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.”

Happy #TwinPeaks Day!

I, for one, am not reassured by the fact the German extreme right only got 20 percent.

The acceptable number of German far-rightists is zero. The 1930s taught us that.

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?

Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

Stay informed and help to keep your community informed. If MSM won't cover it, we have to be the ones to get the message out.

OPM has stated that a response is not necessary. However, if a response were required, here is their plan: Musk-directed emails to government employees, requesting details on their work over the past week, are expected to be fed into an AI system to assess job necessity.

If you’re a journalist, you should have a plan for what to do *before* something like this happens, and you should take proactive steps to protect your home address, etc.

That goes double for news outlets.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

The screens at the Department of Housing and Urban Development were playing this video this morning

Ask me something! Do you use a lot of reference materials when you draw? Do you have any suggestions for good collections?

Ref is important! I mostly use the CSP library and/or take a ton of my own pictures.

I can also recommend @adorkastock.com @animalphotorefs.bsky.social and @trueref.bsky.social

(askbox: kimmoekaki.straw.page)
(answers feed: tinyurl.com/askkim)

I’d pay for a service where an older fatherly type with a background in cars goes with me to look at used cars to make sure I don’t get scammed

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE We the Builders aims to explain why DOGE’s data access matters.

This is the United States’ immune system identifying a pathogen.

www.theverge.com/news/617014/...

Federal worker firings hit western N.C.'s public lands Staff at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and WNC national forests lose jobs in federal reductions

The situation in national parks is bad & getting a lot of press (yay!!). But the situation in national forests is actually catastrophic & not getting much airtime. Most of the employees in western NC, where I live, who were working on Hurricane Helene recovery were fired. www.bpr.org/bpr-news/202...

Americans are not remotely ready for the kind of economic downturn we face from kneecapping our research powerhouses. The scariest part is how few see what is coming and how it might take a decade or more to correct.

This about sums it all up.

The movie poster for the 1997 film, "I Know What You Did Last Summer" except this one says, "I Want To Know What You Did Last Summer" at the top, and at the bottom says, "In an email with approx. 5 bullets" The poster itself is dark and brooding, with the heads and shoulders of four attractive young people taking up most of the picture. They are shot in blues and blacks, slowly emerging from the shadows like mole people into the dusk in search of Cheetos. There are two women, and two men, and at least some of them are totally screwed, as this is a horror movie. The women have long hair that can trail behind them in flight. The men are clean-shaven so that you suspect they make squeaking noises when they stroke their chins in thought. The woman in the front, who is the largest, is showing a lot of shoulder. But don't worry; with the darkness, she's not risking sunburn. There is a smaller figure in a red rain slicker and hot at the bottom right. You can't see his face, and if you know anything about the film then he is Ominous. If you don't though, he might look kinda like a fire hydrant. And that begs the question: what did they do to/with a fire hydrant last summer?

Coming soon, to a theater near you...