Trylon and Perisphere

W. (and I say this as someone whose family developed successful phonics and play-based reading programs in the 60s and 70s) T.F.?

Looks like someone is looking for The Rich variety of Churu.

Looks like a ringed map turtle and a red-eared slider. Beautiful patterns on both of them. They're probably descendants of released pets, as they're native south of where you are, but given how temperatures have warmed, their range could be expanding. 🐢🐢

Most who get power/money by being in government want to stay there more than to help people. All of the things in the original post would be great. But with a two-party/non-ranked voting system, the electoral college, and the hold of billionaires and Super PACs on the government, we're screwed.

Adobe walks in Gets laser exploded by blue fly

Adobe situation was pretty funny

I see every new piece of art or fiction as a small miracle. We live in a society where most people’s time is eaten up just trying to survive and pay the bills. We are told art has little value. Yet artists persevere and still find ways to create. That’s incredible.

New:

DOGE's spending has been secret.

No longer.

My colleagues have uncovered it.

www.propublica.org/article/doge...

History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way”

Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??”

History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”

Passing on a note from a colleague: People with federal student loans should download their files IMMEDIATELY. These files are currently on the studentaid.gov website, which may get deleted if Trump follows through with his EO to shut down DOE

Well, seeing her is certainly improving my UX.

Outstanding mix on this! Side note: a lot of us had no babysitters in the 80s. We were raw dogging it parentfication style. 😏

Fabulous! 😆

I believe my cat sees me as warm, entertaining, a good massager, a loving if flawed caretaker, and unfortunately slow and forgetful about important things (like mealtimes). Seems about right.