Tariffs just hit my coffee habit

five seconds of talk radio: "economically we are China's masters" - so the authoritarian communist regime exists to serve us? They are really saying the quiet part out loud.

My run of the mill not at all fancy drugstore moisturizer went up $4 since I bought my last bottle in late summer.

$10,000 in mutual aid for food goes much farther than $10,000 in mutual aid for health services.

Health care is a lot less visible than airports in the holiday season.

Air Traffic Controllers strike at Thanksgiving is on my bingo card

I'm just glad someone liberated the frog who has been forced to be a far right mascot for a decade. Viva la frog.

Accurate. I am pretty sure Antifa has complicated why we can't be together-ships and not girlfriends.

trust in the frog

anyone want to write their senator about the stuff my senator is doing?

will we buy a plastic see thru bags for this venue or stuff everything in our bras?

kind of day when a park nap or car nap would be strategic but that's illegal now

kind of hating this moment in which I want to celebrate someone who died free and loved - but social media feels like a trap

Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk, named new CEO of Turning Point USA Late co-founder previously expressed that he would want his wife to lead in the event of his death, organization says

Erika Kirk is going to turn up the volume on the right's efforts to win young women in a way I don't think any Democratic party or movement org is ready for. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Democrats want to overturn Citizens United with an amendment - which they could have done during OWS in 2011 when Obama was President - js

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

local graffiti

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have revealed a synthetic glycosystem -a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle- that can BLOCK SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells, REDUCING infection rates by NEARLY 99%. Acting as a decoy, the molecule BINDS to the spike protein, PREVENTING it from attaching to real cells.

Driving one night in the swamps of NC, I saw a roadside bear. Animals are first noticed because the light hits their eyes and you see the eyes and slow down. My passenger, who was from a ONW city, insisted it was a dumpster not a bear.

when you want to donate to flood recovery but you can't because you just paid your flood insurance

I like Richard Powers. Y'all are holding down the straight American guys space on my bookshelf.

Thank you. I am reading nature memoirs right now because I need to remind myself I am part of something bigger than the tragedies of this week.

How does that even happen?

Calling some people monsters is a disservice to monsters

The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he's building a 19th pool. Maybe he's buying himself some formerly public land! Maybe he's taking a Supreme Court justice on a dream vacation! Maybe he is reupholstering the Statue of Liberty to hide the poem.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

guess we'll all be watching the EURO (weather maps not currency)

well darn - someone though of Alligator Auschwitz before I did - at least now I can be appalled at them instead of myself

What If Every Roadkill Had a Memorial? Road ecology meets community science

Absolutely staggering numbers of wildlife killed by vehicles every day. nautil.us/what-if-ever...

I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget

I tweaked my algorithms years and years ago so my social media has been fairly chill - but the spread across platforms piece is wearing me out.