Erin Blakemore

This is so asinine!

The massive (TM) on the MAHA background just says it all.

Yup. One of my first jobs was at a dealership. Everyone is scamming and being scammed by everyone else.

Yup. I’m here for a recall sadly. It’s so ridiculous, very much a captive audience situation

Thanks. My skin is crawling!

I am at the dealership having my car serviced and let me tell ya, I’m convinced dealerships are truly the worst and most American of institutions. It is CRAWLING with ambient dudes with a variety of grifts.

Truly a prime example of "know your audience"

My grandma was in a skilled nursing facility a while ago after a fall and it was sheer chaos, exacerbated by a massive in-hall AC unit to replace a broken one in full summer heat and a best of Tom Jones album on repeat and volume 11 at the nurse's station. I couldn't stop laughing

I must say that the hope of climate scientists has been sustaining over my years of reporting. It's nice to have people who get it holding hope

EW. I saw protein ice cream the other day and like...we could just not

I am convinced we're in the midst of a meat industry waste product reclamation bonanza with the current protein trend.

Epstein is often the most casually dressed person in the photo, but the body language tells you who was perceived to be in charge.

One thing that stands out when I look at photos of Epstein and his rich friends is the submissive body language of his male counterparts and friends. They so obviously wanted to impress him, despite and probably because of the blackmail power he wielded.

Marsh Clubmoss (Lycopodiella inundata) shoots creeping across a wet, bare substrate. The shoots are bottle-brush like, bright yellow-green with narrow, untoothed leaves sticking out from the main stem.

A series of Marsh Clubmoss shoots criss-crossing the flush, looking like a group of yellow-green centipedes running across the muddy ground

**BREAKING NEWS** - Marsh Clubmoss refound in Dunbartonshire, at a site where it was last recorded in 1854!

Being more-or-less evergreen, clubmosses make great botanical targets all year round. With that in mind, I set out to hunt for Marsh Clubmoss near Inveraran on the shore of Loch Lomond 🧵

Adorable of Haribo to put a ziploc seal thingy on this bag of gummies, as if there were a chance in hell I 'd eat this entire bag of candy slowly instead of immediately and with great vigor.

*picks up balalaika*

The cuter a historical story the greater the likelihood it is bullshit

Nice of him to advertise his unfitness for reproduction or romance so boldly!

Calling @langealexandra.bsky.social

bless the museum sector for this sentence

CU Boulder clears banned student journalist of charges, records show Moving forward, Ašiihkionkonci Parker plans to continue to work as a student journalist on campus, the same as always. “It’s frankly motivated us to continue to report the stuff that th…

"The University of Colorado Boulder has found student journalist Ašiihkionkonci Parker not guilty of any student code of conduct charges after it banned Parker from campus in October after covering a pro-Palestine protest, records show."

Each year, February 19th brings us back to a crucial date in 1942. On that day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, a decision that authorized the forced removal and incarceration of over 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of them U.S. citizens.

My mom had mumps as a child and told us about her experience when we were little. I remember thinking "thank goodness we have vaccines now, it's like a miracle" and not much has changed in my thinking since!

Black-and-white headline reads: Opinion _________ The 2028 Democratic Presidential Contenders, Ranked by Nate Silver 9 MIN READ

I learned this phrase in an "anonymous" program:

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Stoppp, the flames of my guilty crush on young Orson need no fanning!

I think the relentlessness of visibility/consumption/performance in our culture has smashed the shit out of The Artistic Impulse in general. Which makes secret art—or any art—cringey enthusiasm—massive nerdery—more important than ever.

I hate you/this/him/them/us/everything

We do have very robust evidence for the terrible sanitary condition of the town; the Brontë father Patrick commissioned a report on parish conditions during his daughters‘ lifetimes and it was pretty bleak. BUT TB was also very common and the fam arguably had the most sanitary location in town.