Rachel Dean-Ruzicka (She/Her)

I had a reply saying I was wrong but now I'm not seeing it. However! I was wrong! But I was also apparently thinking of not a whistlepig or a woodchuck, but a rock chuck (or slightly different species of marmot).

How much rock could a rock chuck chuck if a rock chuck could chuck rock?

Yellow-bellied marmot - Wikipedia

Yellow-bellied marmot - Wikipedia share.google/YHqK9udH9On9...

Huh! My prairie dog assumption was wrong. However, I was apparently actually thinking of the yellow-bellied marmot or rock chuck (thus the altitude/rock comments). Fascinating thing about them: antifreeze is not poisonous to them so they will absolutely chew through your hoses to get to it.

Ok, marmots and groundhogs are definitely different. Marmots are much chubbier and love at higher altitudes. They also like rocky areas and not creating warrens underground. If, that is, a groundhog is like a prairie dog, which was always my interpretation.

I thought whistlepigs were marmots? Maybe it's a regional nickname thing.

MIT president rejects proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump's politica...

The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4qadGZG

YOLO - you oughta love oatmeal

Also, did you know Birmingham, AL has a surprisingly good Japanese gardens that you can visit for free? Now you do!

I've been reposting too much and saying too little about Steven STEVEN. Let's fix that a bit. Here he is holding down vampire book #1 for the month (Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil) and crashing out on the extra blanket (finally kinda fall in atl!)

Wow what a surprise, who would have imagined Jewish practices would get swept up in eugenics policies masquerading as protection of children?

The "set aside the art from the artist" thing in this case is moot. Harry Potter money now goes right to destroying the human rights of trans persons. A billionaire who got her ass kissed for two decades got a rebuke and now she's got to wreck the lives of others.

Cultural Regions of the US

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

Socks that won't stay up
Mayonnaise

If you see this, post a pet.

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

It’s unfortunate that the general aging population doesn’t get as much interaction with curious, hardworking young people as college professors do. They really will give you hope about the future on a daily basis 🤔

There's some Lynch DNA in Blood Feast (1963) as well, particularly in how Lynch represents cops.

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

My book takes up my entire purse. #booksky #hardbackproblems

With so much wrong about this 'Ed Gein is bringing sexy back!' take, I'm still going to focus on the historical detail that he couldn't possibly have owned a chainsaw.

It's gonna be fall soon, Atlanta, I swear. Steven STEVEN and his blanket are making all the cool weather promises.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

“In our house, we have a strict ‘no hallucinatory parasocial relationships after 9 p.m.’ rule.” Shannon Curran, Systems Analyst

OpenAI Introduces Parental Controls
https://theonion.com/openai-introduces-parental-controls/

one of the through-lines of this administration is that it is ideologically pro-rape

Trump suggested that the military be used to wage war on the enemy from within.

If that's not authoritarianism, I don't know what is.

Isn't this just nostalgia for being a child? Everything he mentions is just things that were fun for kids. I bet if you asked a kid now what was fun about Walmart they would also have answers that they will be nostalgic for in 2045.

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

There are only 41,000 coal miners in the United States. By way of comparison, there are 100,000 **registered** yoga teachers, 361,000 Starbucks baristas and 265,000 faculty and staff members working for the University of California system alone.