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Garrett dug his index finger deep into his right nostril, felt for the biggest, crustiest booger there, dug out the oozing grey-green lump, and flicked it at his older sister.

My kid is the age where he uses both Axe body spray and kids' bubblegum toothpaste

a man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt is sitting in front of a shelf and says brilliant . Alt: Moss from IT Crowd shakes his head and smiles while proclaiming "Brilliant"

I have successfully tricked certain algorithms into only showing me ads for day planners and journals

Signs at a No Kings protest. One reads, “Are we great yet? ‘Cause I just feel embarrassed” and another reads “I take my whiskey neat…F*CK ICE

Working a Saturday shift at the ol’ library, but nipped out during my lunch break to quickly join the No Kings protest happening on the Main Street in the suburb where I work

Just like in June, I’m scheduled to be #SaturdayLibrarian during a #NoKingsProtest. But I’ll wear yellow, I’ll know local protest locations to point patrons to (should they ask), & will focus on providing quality fact-checked info as always. My damn job is an act of anti authoritarian protest ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

No passengers in a single one

Now spotted 6 Waymo vehicles in my suburban neighborhood in under 40 minutes. I hate this surveillance state

4 now 😭 please make it stop

Literally saw 3 in my neighborhood while walking my dog & I am beyond pissed my county agreed to this nonsense

Waymo spotted in my small suburban area and I am RAGING

So, if you have plans to visit a National Park site during the #shutdown, even if they say it's open still- please, don't. The best thing you can do for parks right now is to stay away. Many of us have worked a shutdown before, and we know first hand the damage it causes. #ProtectOurParks

Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dare not check thee

There are way more folks in that group who know how government is supposed to work. And they fully cow-towed & scraped & bowed & capitulated this entire shit show of a so-called executive branch into being. American (& world!) citizens are paying for their small-minded cowardice & greed

The list of names in this administration could go on & on. These are all fully incompetent folks who know nothing about good governance, diplomacy, public service, or even common sense. But the hands-down WORST group is every GOP person in legislative or state levels who yes-manned this into being

Hegseth is a no-nothing loser who has no place in gov’t

RFK Jr is a no-nothing loser who has no place in gov’t

Linda McMahon is a no-nothing loser who has no place in gov’t

Brendan Carr is a no-nothing loser who has no place in gov’t

Every Trump is a no-nothing loser who has no place in gov’t

Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave this world,
Thou cacodemon, there thy kingdom is.

Make battery to our ears with the loud music:

Antony and Cleopatra II, 7 #ShakespeareSunday

It really is a grim ritual that we have so many acts of violence that evolve into another grim ritual of everyone waiting to see what team the maniac played for, and half the time that has already been decided by the grim ritual of everyone speculating before anyone has any clue about it

hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

As it is, when I saw the preview for the week-long release of Apollo 13 (later in Sept) while seeing Jaws, you best believe I secured my tickets right after leaving the theatre 🔭🚀😭

Took my oldest kid to see it! I wish studios did this more, like how they would show movies from the 40s/50s in theaters in the 70s. Not just paltry weekend release, but solid 2 months of 30+ yr old films would pander to the older gens’ nostalgia w/o wasting $ on boring/expensive franchises

It’s my dream 🥰

"The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball" The Assistant (TV Episode 2025) | Animation, Short, Adventure 11m | TV-PG

The kids & I are stoked that Gumball & his family are back. And WHOA the 2nd episode (The Assistant) was one of the greatest commentaries on big tech & AI interference in daily life that I have seen yet: www.imdb.com/title/tt3698...

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

Y’all need hope & action? Please look to local government — city & county level, school boards. Go to their websites & learn who is working for you. What do they stand for? Use your library, go to parks & local events. Vote in your local elections. Change starts there

Ah, summer 2025. Living through the most corrupt, amoral, asinine presidency while a gerrymandered spineless Congress just allows him to mow down the country. What a time to be alive

We Can Still Save the Institute for Museum and Library Services Act now to help save the Institute for Museum and Library Services and ensure the well-being of public libraries nationwide.

We can still save the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Here's a practical guide to what to do right now to save not just the agency's funding but its future all together: bookriot.com/we-can-still...