i moved to oklahoma from the bay area and the samosas at truck stops in the middle of nowhere have been a goddamned lifeline for me
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Oregonian truck driver in her intermodal era. Transitioning either for edgy political reasons or because it was just too much work to hide it from myself anymore. Meanwhile the world has one issue and one fight, which cannot wait for us to know ourselves.
Nothing wrong with that... or with the rest of us drivers being able to find a quick and decent Punjabi restaurant meal at every fourth truck stop.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 7h agothe funny thing about people in the western world being angry at sikhs for taking all the trucking jobs is that people in India are also angry with them for taking all the trucking jobs. It's not you. It's what we do. We are the Truck Guys.
Lot of cis people still dont see trans people being forced out of public spaces as segregation and i urge them to wake the fuck up and read a history book as well as a dictionary Its *literally* segregation If you think even saying it is bad, you should be angry its actually happening
I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.
Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 16h agoOne way to be safe is to never write an electability take
9/ Here is the move for Abdul El-Sayed, and he is sharp enough to see it. Go find Haley Stevens voters now, before the ads & other nudges hit. Tell them plainly. You are about to see posts pushing you to stay home or back Rogers, from the same billionaires who spent $54 million to defeat AES.
El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
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See? It does matter who moved their cheese
Prof Sam Illingworth@samillingworth.com · 4d ago🧠 Mice choose to know things even when it changes nothing Mice will actively seek information that has no effect on the reward they get and build separate signals for smell cues that predict information versus smell cues that predict water. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s41593-026-02377-y 🧪
Why did you unblock me, exactly?
Record low water level in Danube forced Hungary to shut down its nuclear power plant today, probably for weeks. It normally provides almost half the country's electricity. Companies asked to reduce demand, freight trains limited, civil servants to work from home. www.nieuwsblad.be/buitenland/h...
Hongarije legt enige kerncentrale stil door historisch lage waterstand van Donau en verliest daarmee bijna de helft van zijn elektriciteitsproductie
Hongarije schakelt zondag de kerncentrale van Paks volledig uit omdat het waterpeil van de Donau tot een recordlaagte is gezakt. De centrale levert normaal bijna de helft van alle elektriciteit in het land.
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I don't know the timescale on this, but the distance we see the fire cover has to be like 10 miles.
Zeb Palmer@zebpalmer.com · 4d agoHoly shit, y'all. The Tartar fire made a terrifying run south after sunset. One of the more aggressive movements I can recall seeing on Satellite. #IdahoFire I just keep watching that south run... Evacuation statuses now extend down to Weiser City Limits.
Strictly speaking I was only asking for dating advice. I've been trapped in a ravine before.
Truly think it’s important to have one of these for one’s mental health
Written or unwritten, what matters is whether those in power will follow it
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d agoDevolution plans strengthen case for written UK constitution, says Burnham
STA’s mutual aid today, assisting with evacuations, is another good reminder of why we should support Proposition 1 on August 4.
Kirk Hovenkotter@kirkhovenkotter.com · 4d agoToday started off with the biggest canvass yet in Spokane for Yes for Buses with Teamsters Local 690. By afternoon, it ended up being more eventful than we’d like. Immense gratitude to the firefighters, staff & leaders who are keeping Spokane safe
For Rahaeli and @elsieyork.bsky.social, who both asked: My professor was working as an assistant county attorney very early in his career when he got assigned a nuisance abatement case. The owner of property in an unincorporated part of the county was keeping exotic animals without a permit.
rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 6d agoI am asking you about evicting an emu farm as requested!
Two were following me. I knew I heard footsteps in the black of night as the fog rolled in.
The usage of the word 'festival' in each of these feels increasingly detached from anything sort of sense. 'Daily novel writing festival'? 'Female Feedback Festival'? Scattershot SEO nonsense.
Oh, one of these followed me the other day! I wondered what the point was.
Tess is Surviving the Horrors@mothmother.com · 4d agoI started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠
You’re at most 0.1% ears And even that is more than you are, metaphorically, at this moment. You’re like negative five ears right now
After all the shelving, I think that if I tell my staff I found a whole box of Seanan McGuire books, they'll be split between "there are MORE?" and "of COURSE you did" What can I say? She's prolific and I like her books.
Wow, this could be the hot-food counter at a Flying J.
Jen (they/them) says Free Link@knifeboots.xyz · 4d agoThis is a really cool thread, and it shows just how recent the "cooking at home for your family" thing really is. So don't let people shame you for buying and eating food prepared by other people. Even ancient Rome had fast food. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermop...
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cabbage and halloumi skewers
Hearty chunks of cabbage and halloumi are threaded on skewers and grilled until charred — sweet , smoky, salty — and perfect all over, brushed with an unforgettable lemony garlic and herb oil.
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The Rowe Creek complex of fires, one of two denied federal support out of five applied for, now covers close to half the area of the state of Rhode Island.
Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d agothis absolute scumbag www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.
Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d agoIt's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that
It's a small thing, I know, but there really is a difference between "palate cleanser" and "palette cleanser," and also, while we are on the subject, "pallet cleanser," and it is worth making the distinction