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View of a long path bordered by trees which are unfortunately all leaf-less

Meme saying “this is where my fall colors would be - if I had any”

Might have miscalculated the timing of my trip.

I think both approaches fucking rule, of course, but I really appreciated how the movie seemed to emphasize the importance of the latter.

Surprised not to see more discourse about ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. What I loved most about it was how it contrasted Bob’s bombastic, violent, immediately satisfying activism with Sensei’s quiet, plodding, unglamorous but utterly crucial community building and mutual aid infrastructure creation.

If you see this, post a pic from your device with no explanation.

Beholder Purple Purple Worm Goblin Skin Otyugh Brown Fair Skin Skeleton Bone Ruddy Skin Rosy Skin Cambion Crimson Kobold Red Owlbear Brown Minotaur Hide Rust Monster Firenewt Orange Pixiedust Pink Troll Skin Feywild Emerald Green Flame Grung Green Zombie Flesh Dungeon Stone Lich Skin Orc Skin Silver Dragon (Metallic) Merfolk Turquoise Underdark Indigo Frost Blue Ghostly Blue Ethereal Blue Gelatinous Blue Dwarven Bronze (Metallic) Ki-Rin Gold (Metallic) Flesh Wash Shadow Wash Brown Wash Glistening Blood (Effect)

This is an extract from a list of colours for Dungeons & Dragons figurines. Some of them could be makeup shades (Pixiedust Pink, Green Flame)...

... But that's the deal with Skeleton Bone? Lads. All bones are skeleton bones.

Still from Patrick Bateman in American Psycho saying “That’s bone” with the word skeleton drawn above

Don’t miss Hanif Abdurraqib’s essay about it in his book “They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us”, which starts with this incredible first page -

That being said, I hope everyone had fun at the Life of Agony show last night 🥲

Eternally shocked by the number of South Asian Trumpers. Man, I stopped going to see my favorite *band* bc their singer hates me (we were friends until I criticized their antivax posts and they blocked me). Cannot imagine the cognitive dissonance of *voting* for someone who definitely hates you.

Screenshot of Hulu cancelation message

Good fucking riddance, Disney+/Hulu. Can we get a spinoff streaming service just for watching Bluey?

Kallas suggested she did not support attempts to exclude Israel from Eurovision, after Spain became the latest country to say it would boycott the song contest if Israel took part. Asked about the issue, she said EU measures were intended to put pressure on the Israeli government to change course on Gaza, not to punish Israel or the Israeli people. “All these steps that go to the direction of punishing Israeli people, I think are wrong and we are not really proposing them,” she said.

SORRY, YOU'LL FORGIVE ME FOR ASKING, BUT HAVE WE ALL OF A SUDDEN DECIDED THAT IT IS WRONG TO COLLECTIVELY PUNISH A CIVILIAN POPULATION FOR THE ACTIONS OF A BODY THAT CLAIMS TO SPEAK AND ACT ON THEIR BEHALF?

Undocumented father killed by ICE agent in Franklin Park shooting had no criminal background, lawyer says The undocumented father shot and killed by an ICE agent in Franklin Park, Illinois, only had a history of minor traffic violations, not a criminal record, according to his attorney.

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

Wild to read Jennette McCurdy’s “I’m Glad My Mom Died” last week, a book about coming to terms w/ the fact that you are under no obligation to canonize someone in death, especially if their existence jeopardized yours - and then see so many (esp those in power) fail so spectacularly at exactly that.

Two, actually.

Watercolor painting of a tufted titmouse.

When it’s your bird-loving sister’s birthday. #watercolors #tuftedtitmouse

I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that I came across said exchange in @whysharksmatter.bsky.social’s eponymous book, Why Sharks Matter!

Close-up photo of a great white with the following tumblr exchange below: the-rain-monster At any given moment there is a shark behind you. It might be a thousand miles away, but there is a shark behind you. friedcherryblossomprincess And that shark is totally behind you. It is supporting you in whatever you do and wants you to succeed.

A dwarf lionhead rabbit with a black-speckled white coat

Ah, beat me to it!

Maybe I should! 😄

Selfie sporting a six inch bleached blond Mohawk, stark black eye makeup akin to Pris in Bladerunner, and a cutoff Harms Way shirt with a guillotine on it.

Before the @nin.com show tonight. There is some universe in which I didn’t buy that cassette of The Downward Spiral in India back in 7th grade and in that universe I probably look very, very different 😅

#nineinchnails #girlswithmohawks #eldergoth

Good Morning

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So happy to hear that!! There are three more books in the series so far and they’re all a blast.

The Rook by Daniel O’Malley is an absolute delight.

ALIEN: EARTH gets an A+ for creepy crawly things moving in the background and also for making me forget for the horrors of the world for 2 hours.

Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.

A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:

My pizza is shaped like a vulva for some reason

Lots of men on this flight complaining they can’t find dinner idk

It's very clear now that if Nazi Germany had restricted its extermination campaigns and invasions to West Asia, the entire world would have bent over backward to accommodate their genocide, with an occasional murmur of concern every several months.

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

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