Brenna Fawley ❌️👑

Stop the Trump Shutdown

Republicans shut down the government to gut healthcare and bankroll Trump’s illegal power grab. We must hold the GOP accountable for causing chaos just to appease a wannabe king. app.sosha.ai/s/7QqVyCKd

My husband is at the Quackkitch Cup, which is apparently a magical rubber duck race. I am getting updates. 199 ducks are about to race. THE SUSPENSE.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

Done!

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My husband teaches swordfighting at our school, and the two trans girl shieldmaidens are ✨️phenomenal.✨️

Do not underestimate the soft spoken, the kind, the gentle. It takes strength to be those things, sometimes more than you will ever know. If you look closely at someone who conducts themselves honorably, you will find something fierce inside.

In my house, the minis roam free across the majestic sweep of the floorboards. But freedom has its price, and the unwary are mauled to oblivion by the four-legged household Gods of Floof and Vengeance.

OMG YES mine once moseyed off into the desert and wound up in the ER.

And also

I got an emergency alert because my mom's phone pinged a distress signal while they were out of town. Frantically texted and called until my dad finally responded "oh yeah her phone has been doing that for weeks."

FWIW i’ve switched to @bookshop.org for ebooks and Libro for audio books and with very few exceptions had the exact same experience as Amazon without the greasy aftertaste. Highly recommended.

I feel like not enough people in this country know basic scientific facts like you can’t fight infectious diseases with guns.

Always characters! If they aren't compelling, nothing they do, no matter how exciting, will ever pull me in.

Home-grown rules, win condition is apparently end the whale.

Here's everything we know:

He's going to look it up for you

Close-up of a tabletop strategy game showing Moby Dick, bristling with harpoons, and with a tiny human figure stuck to his side.

View of a tabletop strategy game based on Moby Dick, depicting the ocean in blue felt, with tiny whaling ships dwarfed by a replica of Moby Dick at the center.

My husband is at Historicon, a gaming comvention in Lancaster, PA. He just spotted this giant tabletop strategy game based on Moby Dick and I feel this is something @premeemohamed.com needs to know about.

Whoa it’s Amazon Prime Day! Yeah I’m into PRIME.

P - Purchasing
R - Right from
I - Indie bookstores who
M - Make our communities
E - Even better places to live

Shop indie, shop local.

Thank you so much for sharing this!

amongussexgif ... Instead of being in settings its in the google app. Also, google, not chrome. Icon is a G, not the circle thing. Click on your pfp to open a menu From there, go Settings > Gemini > Digital Assistants > Switch to Google Assistant. This disables Gemini, google's Al assistant, and switches you back to the old one. We aren't done yet. Go back to Settings. From there, we go Settings > Google Assistant > scroll to find General > Google Assitant on/off > turn it off They really tried their best to make it a pain, but you can eventually disable it. Holding the power button on your phone still pulls up a menu and asks you to turn it back on, but this is the least intrusive you can make it. Applies to all non-apple phones afaik. For sure Samsungs and Pixels but idrk about others Edit: thank you my friend @/teeth-kid for confirming that this also works on Motorola

Here's how you remove Google AI from your mobile devices.

OMG this is also *exactly* how it works with human teenagers - I too had dryer balls once...

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

My mom used a sock and a softball as a visual aid for childbirth. She grabbed a pair of canning tongs to show how doctors sometimes used forceps, and for the longest time I thought babies were extracted with canning tongs.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

I don't know--I think this emu is too feral to have a name. Legend says it escaped from a farm years ago and occasionally ventures into the outskirts of the downtown. But we also have a guy who dresses like Spiderman and perches on walls, so it's a pretty quirky town.

This is amazing! We have a local escaped emu who lurks in the woods on the edge of town, but who is not nearly this sociable.

SING OUT FOR HIM!

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The book SCATTER, ADAPT, REMEMBER is great, too--the author, who set out to prove humans wouldn't survive a mass-extinction event, changed her mind in the process of researching and came away with a really interesting take.

Right? This is utterly cartoonish. She has become one of her own villains.