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Tonight’s creek sunset 🌅 (📸: my Dad)

🥹🥹 another day, another sunset pic from Dad

Four orcas including a newborn calf surface together in Puget Sound

J-Pod has been in Puget Sound for a full week, and it has been an excitement filled visit including the birth of a new calf and a rare trip south of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge!

Read more about it here:

www.orcabehaviorinstitute.org/orca-updates...

#orcas #whaleky #srkw

Wait, there are people out there who don’t like Banana Ball?!

(Zoom to see that he’s caught his dinner) #dadwinsthisround

Robert Redford was the only trustworthy adult blonde man. Now there are none

Dear all writers: If you can't quote what the person you're defending actually said, maybe don't defend what he said?

My parents compete to take the best sunset pictures to send to me and it’s the greatest 🌅

This is my mom’s from yesterday 🥹😍 sunset at the bayou

#creek #bayou #marsh

“The Yogurt Shop Murders” - love all the old Austin / 90’s footage // holy shit this whole entire story is horrific. The murders, the cops + the investigation, the YEARS after - horrific.

When Headaches Are Ruining Your Life, Where Can You Turn? In “The Headache,” a science journalist documents his quest to understand his own cluster headaches.

“I talked to current students who say, yeah, we spend maybe about a half hour talking about headaches in all of medical school,” says science journalist Tom Zeller Jr.

Oil painting of sad-looking woman in a dark, rainy train station looking down the track

“Waiting for the Train”
Oil on canvas

Noooo!!! I’m so jealous yall met up!! And also, that pic would have become an ornament on my Christmas tree!! 🖤🖤🖤

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V into Dr. Daniel Jackson these days

Haven’t stopped obsessing about this dress since I took this picture 3 years ago. 💛🤍

Also River Song is in this show?! LOVE

Watching ER for the first time & I’m both triggered by and in love Dr John Carter.

(Lost his sibling to cancer & he was mean/mad about being sick and took it out on him…. 👀😧🎯) fuuuuck me

Various sour gummy candies assembled on a flat sheet

I have become obsessed with a personalized candy mix 🍒🍓

👩‍🎓🎁 these are grad party favors

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

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It finally happened, went to dinner at our fave little Mexican joint on Monday with my mother who came to visit & my daughter… ran into my ex fiancé (circa 2003).

Did we both see each other, blink once & immediately decide - nah, not gonna make it weird? YES. 😆 Yes we did.

3,238 people counted in Austin’s bi-annual tally of people experiencing homelessness Austin’s 2025 Point-In-Time (PIT) count found 3,238 people experiencing homelessness on that night. That includes the number of people in homeless shelters and transitional housing.

Austin's 2025 Point-In-Time count shows at least 3,238 people were experiencing homelessness on the night volunteers conducted the count.

That's nearly 900 more people experiencing homelessness than the 2023 count.

Kid decided she is NOT going to A&M for engineering (*BIG SIGH OF RELIEF for me, personally*) - never scrambled so fast to unsubscribe, get me the fuck off “The Aggie Parent Connection” email list

Ideal workout, imo

LOL well he has about 130 hours total (time in the chair under the gun) - so there’s def lots of trust but no, the artist asks lots of questions & they sketch the design, you approve before you get started or as you progress. Artist asked questions like “book-hobbit or movie-hobbit?” - (book, obvi)

That’s my husband (Dan) - he has two full sleeves and just finished his leg sleeve // the arm with Gandalf also has the shire, eagles, a dragon 😍

If you're a billionaire, then you'll barely notice a few thousand dollars a year in higher prices at the store from these Trump tariffs - plus you can count on him to get you another big tax break for the wealthy.

But for everyone else, this is a big deal, and a bad one.

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You Can Die Without Making Peace with Everyone—and That’s Okay. Peace doesn’t mean everyone gets along. Peace means you feel like you told the truth of your life. You’re allowed to let the silence stand.

You don’t have to make peace with everyone before you die.

You don’t owe closure. Or forgiveness. Or a performance.

You owe yourself honesty.

#DeathPositive #NoClosureNeeded

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.