kathryn

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

A photo post by OSU Ag Research of wheat sprouting in a pot, with the text “introducing a new OSU what variety, Wyatt”

In possibly the most Oklahoma State news of all time: a new variety of wheat, named after a heavyweight wrestler. Go Pokes. news.okstate.edu/articles/agr...

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

San Miguel Sheriff @SheriffAlert • 1/27/20 Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area.

how has it been SIX years already??
that’s a large amount of time when it feels like a small amount of time

Go Pokes amiright

LET’S CAP OFF THE SEASON WITH DOINK COMPILATION

ONE DOINKING MOMENT FOR 2025

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Sean McDermott will return in Avengers Doomsday

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

A hand holds up an incredibly soft and fluffy stuffed animal jar of Duke’s Mayonnaise in front of the Duke’s Mayo Bowl game

MAYONNAISE

A grey and red transit bus on the road in a city. The bus’ destination sign reads “NO? ?? ???????”

My response to anything over the next two weeks

An important addendum to "look for the helpers" is "and then join them."

the good that you do persists in this world

Hey it seems like ten million years since Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina but unsurprisingly, folks there are still struggling. That especially includes marginalized southerners like the ones here, so lend a hand if you can.

[gestures at everything] ew

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

Buddy of mine said the reason College Football is such an excellent product is that it's basically a melodramatic BravoTV show from Monday to Friday until Saturday when they play football and they rest on Sunday and start the cycle all over again on Monday and he's right and it's a good pitch

ACC football

Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Adults need to make the Christmas magic themselves. You want cookies and tree decorating? Start a tradition of doing so with people you love! Go to holiday events! Drive around and look at lights! Kids get magic made for them; you're grown now. It's your turn to make it.

oh no, I’m about to convince myself to get another color

This is probably my favorite bag, it’s not big enough to be unwieldy but will hold a ton of stuff (I’ve dropped a laptop and books in it), and it’s comfortable to wear single shoulder or crossbody bc the strap is wide & adjustable so you don’t get tired of carrying it immediately even when it’s full

as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable

YouTube video by Christmas 365 Lou Monte - Dominick The Donkey (HQ Audio)

🎄 GOOD MORNING, and welcome back to the annual Italian Christmas Donkey Challenge 🫏

The rules are simple 🌟

You must find a person who has never heard “Dominick the Donkey” and play it for them:

youtu.be/Ca5wXojemRM?...

THANKSGIVING DISASTERS, PART 2 Podcast Episode · Shutdown Fullcast · 11/26/2025 · 1h 58m

Yes, it’s nigh on two hours of disaster yarns and other crunchy bits for those of you with long drives or long stretches in front of the stove, stay hydrated out there 🦃 🔥 🍊

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Rip Van Winkle gone off a perc

Waking up from the post dinner nap

this is a semantic distinction that is also completely pointless, but:

while Hot Fuss is the ~greater~ album (it’s a debut, it sounded unlike anything else out there at the time), Sam’s Town is actually the ~better~ album imo (it’s more cohesive, its high points are better than Hot Fuss’s)