BluMercury

I sure hope no one is still teaching information literacy and/or research skills with "you can trust sites with .gov" addresses because you sure as hell cannot.

A guitar amp with six pink stickers with a word each on them: text reads: “TRANSPHOBES EAT SHIT AND DIE ALONE”

Now, then, forever

Honestly if a snake slithered up to me and told me to eat any apple, let alone the forbidden apple, there's just no way I'm doing it. A talking snake? Come on, man.

go ahead, change your clocks this weekend. or don’t. nothing is real.

wt-actual-f

“Ohgoddammit” - a salmon the moment they jump out of the water to see a big fat bear waiting for them

HB 549 bill text (summary, filed by Rep Porras): Requires state agencies to update geographic materials to reflect new federal designation of "Gulf of Mexico" as "Gulf of America"; requires district school boards & charter school governing boards to, beginning on specified date, adopt & acquire specified materials & collects that reflect new federal designation of "Gulf of Mexico" as "Gulf of America." Includes the following three titles that could be impacted because of their references to the Gulf of Mexico: A Land Remembered, The Help, and Duma Key.

HB 549 would be a huge waste of taxpayer dollars.

Social Studies and Science textbooks just went through the approval process in the last two years- millions were invested, and now this bill would require replacements.

We didn’t do this when Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet.

Why now?

Keep calling! Yesterday, Sen Murkowski (R-AK) noted the U.S. Senate phone system had around 1,600 calls/minute, in contrast to the 40/minute usually received.

I have a cold and I would get any number of vaccines if they would prevent me from ever again waking up at 3am gagging on post nasal drip.

Bit of a reverse Black Friday tip. Go buy a book from an independent bookshop. While the richest companies in the world have another bonanza, put a smile on the face of a struggling writer and bookseller. Thank you x

I’m rereading The Great Gatsby, and I’m happy to see that even in 1920s literature, “rich white football player” was synonymous for “huge piece of shit”

i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between

This is the mindset that keeps people tolerant of others behaviors because "it's not affecting them directly" - ignorance will not be bliss forever

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Since moving here from the hellscape that is X, my feed is somehow now full of posts about how awesome libraries are and I am HERE FOR IT! Support your local libraries, they provide a warm space safe for everyone and the free gift of knowledge!

RFK Jr.’s only previous experience doing government public health work was in Samoa in 2019, and resulted in a measles outbreak that killed 83 people, including dozens of children.

Books save lives. 🌈

Congratulations Duck! Happy you view this as the same safe space community the rest of us seem to have found!