While enjoying a few minutes of porch coffee this morning I saw a hummingbird, monarch butterfly and bumblebee feed from the zinnias. Also - a dragonfly came to visit. Weber Wonderland must be doing something right.

At my hematology appointment yesterday HWMMS said "don't you have to go to lobotomy first?" Phlebotomy, yes I need to go to phlebotomy first. 😁

Truth.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d ago

The reason why they think their voters are this dumb and gullible is because they are.

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "should global heating melt enough of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, thaw enough permafrost, warp crucial ocean currents and turn the Amazon rainforest into a savannah, the world will career past a series of catastrophic tipping points"

Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds

Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says

theguardian.com

Every night I go to bed thinking I have seen the dumbest shit I’ll ever see in my life and every morning I am wrong before I’ve even finished my coffee

Oh yeah, Trump failed to mention that Mitch McConnell will be the one overseeing the distribution of those $5000 dividend checks he's promised everyone. #DOA

The pathetic desperation of this move only tells us that he knows that they're in trouble. Anyone who actually believes him is beyond help.

Tickets to the games are so expensive they are adding mini concert performances. 🤣

Mark Poloncarz@markpoloncarz.bsky.social · 2d ago

We have always had a strong relationship with our Canadian neighbors. It is wholly appropriate for the Canadian national anthem to be played at the home opener. Kudos to the Bills for taking this action and I'm looking forward to the Barenaked Ladies' rendition. www.wivb.com/sports/buffa...

Ha. See previous post re: depression screens.

Chronic Illness Humor@chronicillness.bsky.social · 2d ago

⚠️dark humor⚠️

Who knew? Answer: Everyone. Including advocates of the state policies. www.click2houston.com/news/texas/2...

Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It’s worse in states, like Texas, with abortion bans.

After Texas banned nearly all abortions, patients have struggled to get ectopic care. More than 300 patients here experienced substantial blood loss in 2023 and 2024, compared to 2018 and 2019.

click2houston.com

“ Three days after 9/11, George W. Bush went to an Islamic center and publicly warned Americans not to blame Muslims for the attacks.” Now it seems to be Zohran Mamdani is being blamed for everything. I hate this timeline. Rudy lied. People died. He shouldn’t go.

🤔"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wrote on Twitter last month. “I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust … I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over.”

Ian@collapseaphorisms@collapseaphorisms.bsky.social · 2d ago

Oh look .. #collapse prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...

I hate answering depression screens truthfully...

IYKYK. Brave mask activated. Do not want medical itinerary for tests and specialists tomorrow. Do not want the same no answers. Do not want the possible answer<s> either. Meh.

"Fill out this form including your email address to unsubscribe from our physical mailings" Fuck no, I don't even know how you got my physical address, I sure as shit will NOT give you my email. FuckNo@Fuckno.com was accepted by the form however :D

remember the *GOP* death panels accusations? Well here they are

There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one

⛽️⛽️⛽️⛽️

"Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the ​biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat attacks on shipping by both sides since the start of the six-month-old war." (Reuters) #collapse

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

propublica.org

So many people in the United States are in debt for spending on food, healthcare, school, and more. Basic services that everyone should have access to. Food, healthcare, and school should be accessible to everyone.

Stuart Stevens is a former GOP media consultant and campaign strategist. He does not say this lightly.

“Becoming Elizabeth” is a feel-good story becuase it begins with the death of a bloated tyrant.

The next President should change the name Trump to New Hitler.

IT’S. ALL. ABOUT. EPSTEIN.

He has to die… and soon.

Sometimes it’s really hard not to reply to every long covid newbie who posts about struggling with how pushing through seems to be making them worse & how sleep doesn’t help. They don’t seem to know about PEM or the difference between the sleep they had before & what they have now.

Why won’t it die?

Oh look, France is likely to produce one ‌of the lowest amounts of wine in the last three decades, with champagne output set to halve this year, after severe heat and drought damaged vines and grapes, the farm ministry said on Monday. #collapse