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Photo showing an American toad pushing itself on its legs to look taller, while puffing itself to look larger. This is a typical defense mechanism against predators such as snakes, that eat their prey whole. The logic there is: if I'm too big for your mouth, you better not eat me! Watermark identifying photographer as Geneviève Laurin.

"Who goes there?"
I met this little guy while watering my potted plants last summer. He was NOT happy with my attempts to take his picture.

There, there, lil'buddy, I am duly impressed by your size and attitude.
#DefenseMechanism #Herps #Toads #Amphibians #Animals #GardenFriend #SciArt #PhotoHour

I need to borrow $10 if anyone can help

Dozens Of Women Allege Unwanted Surgeries And Medical Abuse In ICE Custody More women are coming forward to say they were pressured to have reproductive surgeries they did not want or understand, offering a glimpse into alleged medical abuses at an ICE detention center.

"They tried to shut me up by deporting me."
www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...

I got federal charged for dancing across the street from ICE in my neighborhood on Indigenous People's Day. Here is the feds evidence photo they are using against me in court.
I really really need a good lawyer but I cant afford one.
Cash app $cozca
Venmo @cozca503
Working on a go fund me.

A crowded New York Subway car with the diversity of citizens and Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani in the center holding the horizontal rails.

This week’s cover of The New Yorker. 🤘🙏❤️ Mayor-Elect Mamdani!

unironically best premise for a sitcom istg

as for real life pls god no don't subject someone to that

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

Cuddled up and sleeping cow~

#Bovember #cows #cowart #bovineart #ungulates #drawing #sketching #sketchbook #coloredpencils #prismacolors #animalart #animalillustration #art #illustration #critterart

Uffington

Over the hill

1 second power outage

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

Realizing the "we poisoned you all with lead for decades" generation was immediately followed by "we fucked up teaching you how to read, now you're bad at it and hate it" generation to be followed by "Mandatory AI will fry your cognition" generation. Well, shit.

www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Illustrated comic by Yeppenny Doodles of a cute bunny saying they feel they’re not doing enough, and their cat friend reassuring them that their best is enough.

your best is enough 💙 #art #comics

A graph depicting Americans' support for same sex marriage, determined by political affiliation. Democrats' support has steadily increased, maxxing out most recently at 88%. Same goes for independents, but at 76%. Overall support has remained around 67-70% in recent years. Republican support used to be around 55% until around 2022, but suddenly dropped afterwards, most recently measured at 41%.

Ah, I see that it's only fallen in the conservative circle-jerk in the past couple of years. That's actually kinda hilarious that they think they represent the whole of the population. It's at 68% and has remained steady for all Americans.

I know these people are stupid, but do they really believe that support for same-sex marriage has fallen? If anything, it's higher than it's ever been. My parents, who used to be firmly anti-LGBTQ, aren't homophobic anymore. Transphobia is another can of worms, but yeah. They're living under a rock.

Senate Democrats: what just happened under our current leadership is a total travesty

Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem

ADHD death gambit

When you accidentally kick your pet but they can't understand your apology

you know how the saying goes,

"If 9 people sit down at a table with 1 Nazi without protest, there are 10 Nazis at the table."

You’re trash @shaheen.senate.gov and this will be your legacy

@shaheen.senate.gov @hassan.senate.gov as a voting dem resident of your state, just know you two are getting primaried to hell next year. i dont trust you two anymore, as im sure many others do. you two always end up voting in the trump regime's best interest. i'll be letting all my friends know.

6 panel comic P1: An impossibly buff Garfield knockoff (with distressingly visible nipples) towers over Jon, who is cat-sized, and lying on all fours on a table surface. P2: Same, only now Buffield points at Jon with their right hand, and reaches for him with their left. They boom: "HUMAN" P3: Brofield lays their left hand on Jon's back with such force, the latter begins to deform. Masculinifield demands: "I PET YOU. INITIATE THAT SOUND WHICH PLEASES ME SO" P4: Crushing Jon even further, The Garf lowers their head menacingly to stare at their quarry. P5: Closeup on a panicked looking and sweating Jon, as he starts shakily singing the chorus from "Hero" by Chad Kroeger. P6: As Jon continues belting out that absolute tune from off-panel, we go to a closeup of Garry Field, their face dramatically underlit. They let out a satisfied "bueno"

This is like saying "we're replacing banks with DraftKings", any journalists treating it seriously and not screaming their heads off about how totally deranged it is should be sent to the gulag

Altman has been quite clear about his strategy.

From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply.

What he's selling is unaccountabilty.

It's all "AI is the future" and "you can't get the genie back in the bottle" until the public don't like it and then it's "nooo this was handmade by real humans, it has a heart" and you try to fabricate a process that was never there.
My dudes, if AI was so great you wouldn't need to lie about it.

attempt #3 to get this physical done. she just hit me with the "when was last menstrual date?"

"never"

"you've NEVER menstruated?!"

I take a beat to assess, see if she's fucking with me. "I'm trans"

Silence for several seconds as she stares at me. "Wow"

Anyway I'm beaming

i haven't used steam in years but i have like 4-5 people friended on there from circa 2011 and every once in a while it'll pop up like "dongmaster87 is playing goat simulator." i have no idea who that is

I do really think these folks are underestimating how bad the AI backlash can get if the industry needs a bailout

people are still furious about the 2008 bailout and that was almost two decades ago

Make them illegal within 25 feet of any door

Claim: My uncle says Mamdani will abolish the entire NYPD. True: Your uncle does say that.

theonion.com/fact-checkin...