Trixie ☕︎
@dixie13.bsky.social
The only hell my mama ever raised. I believe in ☕, 📚, 🐉 & moxie. Here to post silly memes & various nonsense you might enjoy. Blue dot in rural red Texas.
Since screwworms are in the news again, I'll re-up this story I did a bit ago about the facility that has kept screwworms in check for 50+ years. It's a scientific marvel. And I am obsessed with it. 🧪 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Inside the program that breeds billions of screwworm flies each year
A program in Panama breeds, sterilizes, and releases 20 million screwworm flies a week to protect livestock from flesh-eating larvae. This is how it works.
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No living US president has had their face on US currency in 150 years since Congress passed a law banning it. Because that’s what dictators and autocrats do.
If Black votes didn’t matter they wouldn’t be trying so hard to take them away.
I *knew* I'd seen this before. I'd like to not live Outbreak. Great film, not a real-life scenario I'd like to live. Or Contagion, which was scarily accurate.
ian bremmer@ianbremmer.com · last yr.elon musk speaks to trump cabinet, mentioning accidental cancellation of ebola prevention aid: “we will make mistakes. we won't be perfect.”
Bezos is saying people making under $75k shouldn't pay income tax. Musk is saying UBI is coming by 2031 and we don't need to bother saving for retirement. It will be in spite of them, not because of them, and they know that. They're beginning their defense campaign. Fuck me. I didn't see that. 🤦♀️
Liz Lemon (Tina Fey): I Might Be An Idiot
ALT: Liz Lemon (Tina Fey): I Might Be An Idiot
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www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ar... I'm going to try to remember the parachuting beavers rather than the enclave of Nazis living in far northern Idaho from now on.
Idaho Once Parachuted 76 Beavers into the Wild — and It Worked
In 1948, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game pulled off one of the strangest wildlife relocations in American history: they parachuted live beavers out of airplanes. As bizarre as it sounds, the pla...
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I've never been a Bond fan but Idris Elba or Taylor-Johnson.
IGN@ign.com · 3mo agoThe casting search for the next actor to play James Bond is officially underway, with Variety reporting that Nina Gold has been hired as the casting director for James Bond 26, which is said to be looking for a "fresh face" to play 007. https://bit.ly/4dcbcWd
I think TN is great. I'll never understand why 101,000 people will happily go see the Savannah Bananas, but they can't get Blackburn the eff out. Same with TX. People happily watched two men play multiple female characters, beloved characters in Greater Tuna but still elected Abbott.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2mo agoWow
variety.com/2026/tv/news... Gotta love public access.
Stephen Colbert Follows CBS Finale 24 Hours Later With Hilarious Hour of Michigan Public Access TV, Featuring Jack White, Jeff Daniels, Eminem, Steve Buscemi and Byron Allen
Just 24 hours after his CBS finale, Stephen Colbert did an hour of Michigan public access TV, with Jack White, Jeff Daniels and a Byron Allen FaceTime.
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Tulsi stepping away isn’t random. People near the center of power often move first when they sense instability coming. Watch WHO creates distance before the story fully breaks.
The Trump administration is ordering federal agencies to install a White House app on the government phones of millions of federal employees. The FAA confirmed it this week, telling workers their IT team would push the installation automatically “as mandated by the White House.”
Brave Merida's Frustration
ALT: Brave Merida's Frustration
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2mo agoMEGYN KELLY (who helped get Trump elected): “I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as widespread. The self-dealing, lining of his and his family’s pockets- It’s shocking... I’ve never seen a family get so rich off the presidency.”
Tell us something we don't already know *that they will never pay for their crimes*. The lesson might be Massie has nothing to lose atm, which, I don't know, maybe he will use his next 7 months to name everyone in the Epstein files.....
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2mo ago🤷🏼
Memorial Day isn't for Confederate soldiers, otherwise it would be called Loser Fucking Traitors Day.
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti... Too bad courts couldn't do anything to ban the petrochemical companies from all their false advertising that plastic was actually recyclable and unharmful.
Court bans Kars4Kids ads in California for violating false advertising law
The earworm jingle is no more, for now.
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Skateboarding was a huge part of me growing up. The culture surrounding it, not much actual skateboarding. I was, am and will always be a huge klutz, but I still remember much of it fondly. It kept a lot of us out of serious trouble.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoCurbs represent the twilight of skateboarding, the end being closer than the beginning. Our reporter Conor Dougherty set out to write about a Costco parking lot whose curbs have become a hotspot for skaters over 40. In the process, he realized the piece was actually about loss.
Pope Leo XIV on Monday set out a sweeping A.I. vision in his first encyclical, warning leaders to safeguard humanity from the technology’s most disruptive effects. His 42,300-word open letter to the world’s Catholics covers a lot of ground. Here are some of the themes and arguments that stand out.
Main Takeaways From Pope Leo’s Encyclical on A.I.
In his letter, the first American pontiff called for putting care for humans at the heart of technological change.
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Breaking News: Sonny Rollins, a jazz great with a forceful and imaginative approach to the tenor saxophone, has died at 95.
Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95
Even by the standards of a music that prizes individuality, he stood out, as both a musician and a personality.
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Breaking: You know how Trump did a bunch of illegal shit when he was President? Yeah, none of it was valid and we're going to prosecute him and his family retroactively so if they'd like to flee to Saudia Arabia, now might be a good time. 🤷♀️
Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3mo agoBreaking: The Trump administration has forever banned the IRS from auditing the taxes of Trump, his family members, and his companies. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
TN REPUBLICAN ex-Senator Lamar Alexander on Trump’s slush fund heist: "Sounds fishy. It’s Trump vs. Trump. They’ll create a fund & pay who he wants a lot of💰- It shouldn't go to people who attacked the Capitol to overturn an election and hurt 140 officers. That would be wrong.”
What DEI? Is Kev freaked out b/c there are black/brown ppl in a 🎬? Have any MAGA ever read The Odyssey? B/c watching Hercules, The Legendary Journeys doesn't count. *in college some of the guys in my Classics class would use that as a reference for quizzes & be clueless why they failed. 🙄 🫠
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe right wing freakout about The Odyssey is kind of amazing. Now they're all mad that Odysseus doesn't go snorkeling off a yacht.
Just b/c my great grandmother "did it" doesn't mean she should have.
Trixie ☕︎@dixie13.bsky.social · 3mo ago