Wendy Sparrow

I wish for all this too.

A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

I regularly end up on those places for research, and it feels like the opportunity to embrace the fantastical and examine the possible. I really enjoy my time there. It's like time outside of time in fact.

This was a lovely story. Read the whole thread. ❤️

A farmer bunny with a small farmstead has a bunch of hay set aside. A cowboy bunny, on a horse with a saddle, trots by nonchalantly

Daily bunny no.3267 has been making hay

I can be having the worst, most-painful existence ever, and all I have to do is pet one of my dogs, and suddenly everything becomes tolerable again. Sometimes, I think about the whole of human history, and it stands out that we've always found animal companions.

Speaking of weird shitty AI bros; GenAI is not conscious. But like. Why do they want it to be so bad. Why do they want total dominion over something sapient that’ll do a bunch of unpaid labour for them at their whims to make them money. Oh wait lol

They used a fucking *chatbot* to suggest targets?!? And 175 girls were killed when their school was bombed. Trump and Hegseth belong in the Hague. 🤬 #Trumpland #USFascism

Proving that AI cannot be trusted in war anymore than it can in peace, or that the US government cannot be trusted to take responsibility for its actions.

And using maps eight years out-of-date? This is yet another classic attempt to replace experts who know the area with a tool that makes assumptions of what's on the ground. Which doesn't appear to have worked out well (see the civilian casualty list)

A crazy person does indeed have nuclear weapons, and bad things are happening.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

existennialmemes The Ides of March approaches and it's making me very sentimental for the concept of large scale organizing to address a shared problem.

Close to 650 federal agents remain in Minnesota weeks after border czar announced end of operation There are still more than quadruple the 150 agents Tom Homan said there would be in the state by the end of last week.

They’re still lying to us.

www.startribune.com/close-to-650...

If you thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail anytime after 2002, you hiked on rock stairs that I built during the summers of 2001-02. This involved digging up huge pieces of granite, flying them through the woods on a winch line, slicing them with a rock drill, & fitting them onto the hill like a puzzle

Iran-Contra happened 40 years ago! It *literally* involved the US selling weapons to... Iran.

So, the argument is we were funding the armed forces of a country we were at war with?

Bari Weiss reposing a CBS News stories that says the current war with Iran stretches back to 1979

Story at the The Free Press: Our 50 Year War with Iran

Bari Weiss is pushing the “50 year war” narrative at both the Free Press and CBS. The erases both American culpability for the current war (since Iran started in 1979!) and the reasons why a theocratic anti-American regime took power in the first place.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-reason...

The painting "Night in the Steppe" shows a vast plain under a bright full moon, the light being distributed over the landscape and the water in an almost magical way.

This work is made by the renowned Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk, who invented the unique painting style called "plyontanism" (from the Ukrainian word plyontaty, meaning "to braid"). This technique consists of hundreds of fine, intertwined lines that create depth and an almost textile-like texture.

we protected my mom from COVID for 5 years. She caught it at the hospital during an outbreak in the dialysis ward (!!) and died 5 days later.

we will do nothing with this information as a society

NOEM: I would disagree with the judge

CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree?

NOEM: A what?

CROCKETT: A law degree

NOEM: No I do no-

CROCKETT: Okay

A notebook with a written account of a breakfast eaten along with a sample of the beef eaten.

Do you like breakfast? Do you like breakfast so much you'd stick samples of it in your notebook? Joseph Thomas Fowler would!

The worst-kept secret in the entire U.S.

And of course she refuses to answer.

Vanuatu's 'barefoot volcanologist' stands at ash- and sulfur-spewing Mount Yasur in award-winning photograph Elle Leontiev's image of Philip, a self-taught volcanologist who has lived on Mount Yasur his whole life, has won the Portraiture category of the Open competition of the Sony World Photography Awards ...

Vanuatu's 'barefoot volcanologist' stands at ash- and sulfur-spewing Mount Yasur in award-winning photograph | Live Science share.google/k0D7egQHwTml...

That's awful. I'm sorry.

"I asked God to forgive me, which he has."

Honestly this is the biggest perk of serving in Congress. Most people have to ask forgiveness and wonder. If you're in Congress you get a same day answer from the big guy.

AOC: We already have multiple American service members who are dead for an illegal action that the president has pursued with no plan out. They don’t know why they got into this war. They’re talking about a hundred different reasons, and they don’t know how they’re getting out.

This is one of the curlers on the USA Paralympic curling team and I told him today that he should post about his Paralympic experience on BlueSky because people on BlueSky get very excited whenever anybody doing anything cool in the world posts through it on BlueSky instead of other websites

Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

This will go down in history with My Lai, Kent State, and Czechoslovakia 1968.

Killing little girls at a school in our name. What a dirty and war criminal government we have. They must face consequences. We must work to make them face consequences.