Dan the Gnome

I mean... where DO they expect to see gay sex, if not a fantasy detective story?

An image of Marco Rubio (Sec State) with the text "Trump Administration designates Iran as a state sponsor of wrongful detention" in the bottom right is the CNN logo.

I... this is... not satire.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/p...

Being a creator of any sort right now is mindbogglingly surreal.

DITTO

H/T @effinbirds.com

it’s wild how everyone hates Fetterman (correctly) and there’s a guy running who’s basically holding a huge I’m The Next Fetterman sign and it hasn’t slowed him down at all

An expressive watercolour painting of a Chaffinch

Following yesterday’s painting of a Chiffchaff, here’s a Chaffinch (male). They’re part of my expressive birds collection :)

#watercolours #birdart 🪶

a green creature with trees on its back seemingly slowly moving forward. Maybe an old woman. Has a bird mask.

Man... Forest Goddess is 20 years old now.
Tea stained paper, watercolor. I painted this after moving to Illinois (the shadows on the hills looked like the moved)

(prints> fallenlights.net/tea-painting... )

What are you looking at?... Early morning. Pepe The Pine Martin, checking out his territory. He always has his eyes open. A true predator, he's known as nature's most adorable assassin. Very handsome. 📸🇨🇦
#AlgonquinPark #PineMarten
#Mammals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #OntarioParks #Canada

And yet they do. I'm so fucking tired. Why is it too much to ask for candidates who aren't, haven't been, and don't pal around with Nazis?!

The Iranian Voices America Isn’t Hearing We need to listen to those who oppose both the Islamic Republic’s authoritarianism and foreign military escalation.

#Iran expert @sinatoossi.bsky.social is right:

"We need to listen to those who oppose both the Islamic Republic's authoritarianism and foreign military escalation."

He explains, in detail, @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

It really does!

It's really crushing

At least the Napoleon plan came from a random customs house official. He hadn't promoted said random customs house official to head of the Admiralty, unlike our current admin.

Yeah, as if the rest wasn't enough it REALLY shows their tryhard cosplay for what it is.

If only their insecurities didn't also affect the rest of the world.

Sorry but I love it every time that the fraud betting apps go health insurance mode and find the smallest discrepancy to justify not paying out to the inside traders who are its core customer base. Eat shit.

Operation Overcompensating

One actually impressive thing this administration has done:

Managed to make the already overblown military operation titles somehow even more overblown and overwrought. At this point they're approaching "florid."

Like "Enduring Freedom" was bad. "Epic Fury?" Ridiculous.

Disabled people get screwed over again.

"Our goal is... Not his job."

What? Lindsey, really?

a close up of a man 's face with a mustache wearing a black jacket . ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a mustache wearing a black jacket .

What if we told all the petrostate oligarchs trying desperately to prop up the profit margins of an obsolete technology--and who are willing to kill uncounted children to do it--that they could just retrain for a new economy?

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.

you have until March 23rd to comment.

i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

Go forth and nominate whatever works helped you through the last year!

MAGIC

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

That sounds cool! I'd certainly share it around!

GAH. Paying NJ sales tax is always a pain but they've changed their whole system now and it doesn't recognize any of the information... I'm going to have to actually call them tomorrow. ARGH.

But since they've also made it so you can't STOP doing business there without a call, I guess it's ok.

Very funny to me, also, that "The Arsenal of Freedom" is the name of an episode in Star Trek TNG where autonomous AI weapons killed an entire civilization and there's a sales hologram still on the planet trying to sell them. it was originally a commentary in the sale of F-14 Tomcats to Iran(!)

And even if vindicated in the end and released, likely a lifetime of harassment an hate. Historically, bad enough to result in things like suicide.

Like you said, worth considering when you think about it all.

This administrations "plans" largely look like this.