Ray Bernoff

Dakin recovers 96 cats from Hampden County home Nearly 100 cats and kittens have been removed from, what officials called, a severe hoarding situation in Hampden County.

Please adopt one of these beautiful babies.

#Massachusetts

not only does Gary Larson still have the juice, it seems to have only gotten stronger

Worcester folks, I'm so in awe of my dear friend Heather who has gone back into the fire of coming forward about the sexual abuse she experienced in the Worcester Public Schools over and over, trying to make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else. You can see her story at standwithheather.com

yiiiiiikes!! if you're drinking a daily protein shake, you should know that the FDA does not regulate how much lead is permitted in protein powder or other 'dietary supplements' and as a result there can be... rather a lot of lead in each serving

Quark wears a pink, green and orange jacket with lots of little squares on it. The lining is blue. He is wearing two HUGE pieces of gold jewelery and what loobs like a golden silk robe beneath his jacket

Quark, Rom and Nog in the most normal outfits we will ever see them in, which kind of look like a group of Soviet farmers from an outer oblast hitting Moscow to party. This isn't even a joke I'm making, in the episode they get mistaken for Soviets.

God how do I describe this. The collar and flower half of quark's jacket is blue, red and orange tie-die, and the shoulders appear to be fossil-print, I think it's fossiles? His collar is fucking huge. He is, of course, wearing a massive piece of gold jewellery. His pants are red.

Quark wearing ... paisley? I think it's paisley, I'm doing my best here. Green paisley (probably) with orange lining and a tit window.

while I'm here talking about DS9 clothes: quark has tboy swag right, I'm not imagining it

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

I also can’t have gluten and was preparing to feel left out…but: corn tortilla! I may just try this, thanks for sharing

Ooh, I will keep an eye out! I keep my thyroid meds on my bedside table in an empty Tonymoly fruit-shaped lip balm container, but that's definitely not a small business lol

A tire-size swirling loop of driftwood sitting on a floor

A weird little piece of driftwood with several whorls of various sizes

I don't like to brag, but I have excellent taste in driftwood.

MIT Rejects Trump’s Bid to Institute Trans Bathroom, Athletics Ban “A government that can reward colleges and universities for speech it favors today can punish them for speech it dislikes tomorrow.”

Good news for transgender people at MIT.

Unlike some prestigious universities, MIT has defied the Trump administration and refused its attempt to pressure the university into banning transgender people from bathrooms.

The latest from reporter S. Baum.

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A rectangular art assemblage made of art trash, mostly discarded beads and pieces of jewelry. Most of the piece is bright yellow, but a triangular strip passes through the middle where the background is purple and the trash is unpainted.

The James Library & Center for the Arts' Fall Juried Art Show Exhibition Dates October 17-November 22 Opening Reception October 17 6-8 pm Juried by Nancy McCarthy, Prof at Mass College of Art and Design and co-founder of Black Pond Showcasing the best of local and regional art

Community Trash #13 will be on view at The James Library & Center for the Arts in Norwell, MA starting October 17!

I'm always so tempted to say "I hardly know 'er" to the mispronouncers

same energy

My mom attempts to remember the Ghibli movies we've watched together:

Porco Rosso: Pig Man
Spirited Away: Spirits Ahoy
The Boy and the Heron: The Awful Bird
Totoro: Cat Bus
The Tale of Princess Kaguya: she got this one right
Princess Mononoke: Princess Nasty

Mosaic-like painting in dark colors with skeleton and snakes

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

The greatest thing I own or will ever own is this old retail standee where Dracula casually reveals a coffin full of Doritos and Pepsi.

Painting of a new Mexico sunset

16 miles from Raton, NM, 6:45 pm 10/6. Painted from the passenger seat

A relief sculpture of torn-open purple intestines. Plastic breads and pastries spill out onto pale papier-mâché flesh.

A relief painting of a surreal wound. Pale, bruised skin is torn open to reveal an oozing mass of pills and rhinestones. A smaller wound has been closed with stitches, and blood-stained bandaids speckle the edges of the skin.

Hunchback Gallery presents Creepin' It Real! A Halloween-inspired group show October 9-November 1, Fridays & Saturdays, noon-6 pm. Hunchback Gallery, 75 Webster Street, 2nd floor, Worcester

These two gory pieces are going up as part of a Halloween show at @hunchbacktravis.bsky.social's Hunchback Gallery starting October 9! Opening 6-9 on the 9th (Thursday), come see them and the rest of the creepy art through November 1. #horrorart #gore

don't compare yourself to other people or where you think you should be or where you wish you were or even to you before it happened. it's only useful to compare yourself to where you were when you were at your lowest imo. every episode is a hard reset on Everything, so don't beat yourself up 🤝

Tiled fondant Escher birds in a gradient from white to dark gray on a ball-shaped cake

Tiled fondant Escher birds in a gradient from white to dark gray on a ball-shaped cake. Each bird has a black outline and other details drawn on with an edible marker

Escher cake
Vanilla cake, vanilla bean buttercream, one layer of salted chocolate buttercream filling, one layer of salted caramel buttercream filling, fondant (modeling chocolate was too sticky for the cookie cutter)

Watch today is a Soviet-made handwound “medical watch” from 1989 by Slava. The scales help you determine the patient’s heart rate. You must wait until the seconds hand reaches 0 or 30, then count 15 patient pulses. Where the seconds hand is on the scale at that moment is the heart rate.

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Have you tried either of these search engines? Might turn up some stuff under some more obscure rocks.

www.wiby.me

marginalia-search.com

A painting of the Aurora Hotel in Worcester, Massachusetts. The sky is blue with some white clouds. There is a large apartment building in the background.

Here's my painting of the Aurora Hotel in Worcester, Mass. which has been converted to mixed -income affordable housing, with 25 units dedicated to at-risk individuals with wrap around services available.

A swaggering skeleton resting his hand on his hip, what's left of his hair blowing in the breeze. In the background a funeral procession leading to a church.

Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't be sassy

[Jan Luyken, after Cornelis van Dyk, Skeleton of a Man, 1680 etching, 139 mm × 86mm (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)🎃💀]

Paying $653 to See if I Had the Disease That Killed My Mother Written by Mara Wilson / Illustrated by Emily Flake

Some of you may remember my rant about getting surprise charged $653 for a medically necessary ultrasound to screen for the cancer that killed my mother.

Well, I wrote about it, and now my bad experience has been made into a cartoon for The Out of Network Network!

open.substack.com/pub/outofnet...

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Congrats omg!

when I worked in an independent bookstore, the owner told me the most stolen book was one about getting your first period and if I saw anyone walking out with it, I should just let them go.