SofawolfOne in Occupied Minnesota ⏏ 🧊 ‼️

you also need to unmute this for the perfect song / visual combo

Schumer: ball’s in your court

Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain

Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls

Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families

Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules

Still thinking about the the “two” Super Bowl halftime shows. My final takeaway before I shut up about this is that there is so much value in the concept of joy as resistance. Conservatives will never win by being perpetually aggrieved losers. Be happy, love, and have fun where you can. We will win

Always been one of my favorites. Glad to see it get a re-release!

Meet "the Werewolf" !

I spent most of last year making this life-size beast and his many many details ! A lot of them were so tiny that I had to hand-sew them (which is kinda crazy on a 1m70 tall plush !)

He's huge he's fully made of faux fur he got claws he got teeth he got many many stripessss

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

It's a once in a lifetime chance. They've spent, in most cases, dozens of years training for this, dedicating their lives to this moment, because the difference between gold and nothing may be a 1% difference.

There's nothing "extreme" about not wanting to lose a gold medal because you had a cold.

Congrats to @dieworkwear.bsky.social for getting the Amber Glenn Olympic Gold Medal Seal of Approval:

Heck, imagine what our world would be like if ANY of the "PROTECT THE CHILDREN" theatrics actually did anything to protect the children from the people actually intent on harming them.

But the theatrics were, alas, all being driven BY the people intent on harming them.

Again my lack of being "with it" saves me from being inconvenienced when "it" inevitably becomes enshITtified.

Professional marketing firms do this kind of thing (albeit curated specifically for you) for tens of thousands of dollars.

Here it is for free.

All marketing is about finding connections between you, creators similar to you, and the people most likely to want to know about what you make.

This is an absolutely incredible marketing tool for indie creators!

1) Find yourself.
2) Find people near you who you don't follow
3) Start following and interacting with them and their followers (authentically, please).
4) Repeat with accounts in other nearby clusters.

bsky.app/profile/theo...

Kinda proud that I had to scroll through my BlueSky feed for a half hour of joy about the halftime show before I saw any mention of the winner of the Super Bowl...

And that was an Onion piece about drunk Seahawks fans climbing the Space Needle.

💯👇

Here's what the background effect on the pins looks like in real life!
The background patterns all refer to the animal in a specific way, some are pretty deep cuts. This one isn't, haha.

The binturong pin is €570 away from being unlocked, and we're 15 backers away from getting stickers of all pins.

We're watching Biathlon and someone in the audience is using a squeaky toy enthusiastically and all I can imagine is a Golden Lab watching the action with a rubber squirrel in his muzzle.

I am sort of amused that this year is Super Bowl LX, which I presume means it costs $12,000 more and comes standard with a sunroof, premium tires, and HID headlights.

A Great Gray Owl poses impossibly closely and patiently in a dead tree on a roadside in the Sax-Zim Bogs of Northern Minnesota. We were able to drive right up under the bird and take photos through the sunroof.

Intending no shade on folks who enjoy the Super Bowl (good on you), here is my most Superb Owl photo: 2015 at the Sax-Zim bogs northwest of Duluth, MN.

Great Gray Owls are not particularly secretive, but they also don't usually pose right next to the road and allow you to drive right up to them.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Tonttu and Jeff lead the way, skijoring down a roller-packed snowy trail through deciduous woodlands. Zeena follows, pulling the photographer, whose shadow can be seen in the lower left.

The skijorers pause on a flat area where the trail curves to the left. While it has been roller packed, there have been many winter hikers trampling the snow. Zeena now leads Jeff, investigating something in the snow with her nose, while Tonttu hangs out with the photographer.

The Baker Park Reserve winter trail map. The park is a vertical blob with wider parts at the top and bottom. The upper blob contains a number of short cross-country ski loops around small lakes, while the lower blob has the skijoring-friendly trail on the right hand side. It's a long parallel track that loops around on either end, looking like a rubber band curved in a wobbly reverse-C shape, with a larger lake on the left between the ends.

One last day for skijoring before a long period of melting is expected! We drove to the other side of the Twin Cities metro to Baker Park Reserve, which we'd never been to before.

3 of the 5 mile dog-friendly trail were groomed. Snow was a bit slow as it warmed up...

#Skijoring #Huskies

YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran You Don't Need Democracy If You Don't Have People: Quinn Slobodian's Warning

You Don't Need Democracy If You Don't Have People.

@quinnslobodian.com and I discuss the tech billionaire dream of "capitalism without democracy."

Quinn's work helped inspire my own, so it was great to finally chat! He's been leading the way on this topic.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1om...

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

YouTube video by Wajahat Ali The Epstein–MAGA Billionaire Alliance Explained

If you understand the concept of Epstein Island—territory where the rich escape reality and law—you understand the Network State.

Crypto, eugenics, fantasies of global control.

Was Jeffrey Epstein a godfather of tech fascism?

w/ @wajali.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0dM...

My favorite of the last year was Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. A bit heady but fully awesome.

Sure this can happen in the bisexual socialist paradise of Iberville Parish Louisiana but what about Real America?

Politely asking for pets

The worst fictional character to entrust with the task of taking the ring to Mordor would have to be Sonic the Hedgehog

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

Success! After a brief struggle with ancient video codecs, I have recovered a cleaner copy of at least the broadcast TV edit of the Moviefone spot from my personal backups.
With an added bonus bumper that not many have seen before. 😉

Enjoy