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The Prtizker family in Halloween costumes with JB dressed up as Fred Flintstone.

JB Pritzker was born to be Fred Flintstone. Top tier Halloween game from the big guy.

Take Hunger off the Table At Gleaners Community Food Bank, we believe hunger can be solved. That’s why we’re always finding new ways to make every dollar go further, partnering with others to connect people with nutritious foo...

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Bats are the primary pollinators for agave plants.

Commercial agave, used to create tequila & mezcal, is increasingly being propagated via clonal "pups", because the flowering stalk is cut to increase the rate at which the "heart" (piña) grows.

This decreases genetic diversity....

so the news is that i have done the unthinkable and... started a podcast.

"American Medieval" - because if we've never been fully modern, maybe it's because we've always been a little bit medieval.

the trailer has now dropped! please have a listen -->

patreon.com/americanmedieval

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speaking of Halloween pumpkins, Scandinavia And The World Comic gave us an awesome history-based giggle here

Sorry but going onto your third campaign manager in under one quarter and trash talking your first one on live tv instead of talking about the issues makes a candidate what we call in the business 'a messy bitch'

He's Marjorie Taylor Green Beret

On the bus to the final day of the squid conference, I can hear people speaking Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, & English in 3 different accents. And we all work on squid octopus and cuttlefish 🥹

I know this is literally how international conferences work, but I just think that’s so wonderful.

The automaker says the president’s claim that "they’re gonna spend $10 billion, and they’re gonna build new car plants,” is unfounded.

Trump was either making it up or mixing it up with a deal from his first term nearly eight years ago. trib.al/zqGCiNM

Hospital gets low-carbon heating from data centres 1 day ago Share Save Tony Fisher Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire

Take out the data centre, and use the electricity to heat three hospitals instead

Greedy industries offer scraps of their own waste to underfunded and undervalued public services all the time, as a way of greenwashing their public image. You don't have to accept it.

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The punishment for accepting a golden crown from another country should be to have it melted down and poured down your throat.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Anyway, a reminder I run an 11 person shop with 11 LGBTQIA+ artisans and we offer handmade jewelry for the gender spectrum with resizing capability and we'll have oodles of nice things for all income brackets, with flat fee shipping of $4.

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Just a lovely evening in, from a book of hours Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1520.
A roaring fire, family playing cards, cosy benches with pillows, child playing with a hobby horse, chased by a puppy, a late visitor arriving.
Lovely.
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This is the problem, right? "Struggles to get ahead of controversies" instead of being accountable and taking responsibility.

If he was serious about being a leader, a representative of the people, he would have done the work beforehand to correct course, make amends & build community trust.

Some clown stole @madisonswart.bsky.social's video. He claimed authorship, changed the captions, and made up a story that the guy in the video is a cop. Not true. He's not a cop! See: bsky.app/profile/madi...

Raider rarely gives a source or verifies. Just pumps it out to 67K followers. Wrong!

The more evidence mounts that Platner is lying, the more convinced I become that he is lying not only about his past but also about his current views.

People saying that you need to garden, that your back yard garden will allow you to be self-sustaining and even feed other people, that you can do a full time job while having this self-sustaining garden, that you can do this gardening while disabled:

Wildly fucking unhinged. Cartoon fantasy shit.

A harvest bowl in blue-grey ceramic filled with grapes, beans, salad, greens, shisito peppers, four kinds of heirloom tomatoes in varying sizes and colors from pink to red and orangey, yellow and green-brown ombre

My neighbor Lucia passed 2 days ago. Neighbors stood with ambulances in her driveway next to her tiny yard garden where she grew corn, tomatoes, peppers… we sobbed and hugged. It dawned on me that we all smiled and hello’d, but most of us didn’t know one another’s names.
We all knew Lucia. 🌱(1/3)

"Oh so there's no path to redemption?" Sure there is. Most paths to redemption don't run through the U.S. Senate, though. Go, live a good life. Farm oysters. Diminish and go into the East and be an always improving Graham Platner. Do not be a Senator. And remove that fucking tat.

I honestly don't think centrists believe anything at all. Just as I don't want to see a "mainstream" presidential candidate who hounds homeless people and abandons trans people, I don't want a "progressive" Senator with a Nazi tattoo. The uprights aren't narrow here. This shouldn't be hard.

You work here long enough you move past the fear that comes from understanding the frailty of human life and replace it with taking joy in the small things that make life worth living.

ADHD is just one continuous parade of doing your best to keep up with everything and every week you learn you've forgotten to do something crucial

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Last year one built a large web over one of my two sliding glass doors and watching her eat every night was way better than anything on tv. They’re usually so skittish, but having a sheet of glass in between let me get very close, it was like a private nature documentary. Wonderful to watch.

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.