This will absolutely make your day better. Apply as-needed.
Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 4mo agoJuvenile kestrels surprised by a butterfly. Original post
Fred W-J
@fredwj.bsky.social
Environmental scientist, wine mom organizer, watercolor & textile artist, enthusiastic dancer, gaming when time allows, strangely fond of bugs. She/her/ella. Profile pic art by @sumrow.bsky.social.
Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 4mo ago
This is a cat checkpoint! Relinquish your most recent cat pic here. This is Annie.
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈@nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your recent photo of a cat. 😻😻😻POSEIDON!😻😻😻 (he merped and rolled over & began writhing on the floor when I came home today)
Pick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone
Captain Awkward@captainawkward.bsky.social · 5mo agoPick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone
Today, the University of Maine's Vice Chancellor for Finance and Strategic AI Integration (who made $243,000 last year) sent UMaine campuses an announcement that we have partnered with OpenAI with a contract for ChatGPT Edu. I sent him the following questions:
@fredwj.bsky.social and I went to a multi author book signing at Books on the Bosque! I got a signed copy of Marie Parks novel Flightless, which I did the cover art for, and we got to meet @maryrobinettekowal.com ! It was a delight. 💙⚔️🎨
My first convention playtesters for The Clearwine Caper, my very first scenario of my very own. Will I ever write it up and sell it? I’m cautiously optimistic. #GenghisCon #Chaosium #TTRPG #Runequest #Glorantha
"I know I wasn’t alone in my top priority being the lack of craft store gold belching a gleaming brine over the full oval office."
Why Is Everyone So Angry? This Is What We Voted for, Right?
I don’t get what everyone on all sides is so angry about. Isn’t this exactly what the country voted for? Do we not remember the affordability cris...
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Slob on my knob was made by teenagers in a Memphis bedroom and everyone loves it
Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈@danifroom.bsky.social · 8mo ago"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
The great irony of this moment is, due to the rise of fascism, I’ve never been more angry at my fellow humans. But, due to the rise of AI, I’ve never appreciated my fellow humans so much.
they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
IGN@ign.com · 8mo agoXfinity has just released its Jurassic Park-themed Super Bowl ad that features a digitally de-aged Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. https://bit.ly/4rmRhrK
“House Speaker Johnson finds it challenging to show the barest hint of moral fiber.” Fixed it.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 8mo agoHouse Speaker Mike Johnson faces tough days ahead trying to muscle a federal funding package to passage and prevent a prolonged partial government shutdown. Follow AP's live updates.
White women out here doing free emotional labor for exhausted senate clerks tired of getting 400 calls a day about ICE funding. (I am, in fact, the white woman in this scenario.)
Things DOJ & the FBI did this week: -Threatened continued violence in MN if voting files not handed over -Raided a GA election office for voting files -Lost a suit in OR trying to access voter files Things they did not do: -RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES. See the pattern here?
NEW: The FEMA official in charge of a multi-billion-dollar compensation fund for Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon Fire victims and his wife personally received more than $500,000 in fund payments for smoke damage and business losses, according to documents Source and NM PBS obtained. buff.ly/tobJRCU
FEMA official overseeing NM fire victims fund received six-figure payout, documents show • Source New Mexico
Hermits Peak-Calf Canyon claims director Mitchell received six-figure payment for smoke damage at his Angel Fire home
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Somehow with everything else going on it didn’t cross my mind that we’d still have to do taxes this year.
Penstemon Inflorescence and Pollen Wasps. (2026) Watercolor and gouache on 8x10" cotton paper. Commissioned work. It was a delight to paint this delicate botanical piece as a gift for a client’s grad school supervisor. 🧪🪲🪳🎨🌱🌸 Where no crawly is creepy! LindZeamays Illustration Lindzeamays.com
"Amanda reported on tactical fashion. It is harder to pull your hair if it is in a neat mom bun. Light layers keep you prepared to flee. She’ll find out where the soccer coaches get their whistles."
Wine Mom Gang Meeting Minutes
“What we are seeing across the country as organized gangs of wine moms use Antifa tactics to harass and impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
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A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate
You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof.
What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.
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I want to tell you about what's happening here in Minnesota.
baby beluga swam so wild and swam so free that now he’s leading a liberation army. he grew up and he has a rocket launcher now.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 9mo agothey've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.
Signs of a loggerhead shrike near Albuquerque. Shrikes save larger food items by sticking them on cactus spines, or, in this case, barbed wire.
Guys, it’s the poverty. Stop throwing money at symptoms, please.
Source New Mexico@sourcenm.com · 10mo agoNew Mexico’s rates for violent and property crimes have fallen since a 20-year high in 2018, but still remain above the national standard, according to a new state report.
History rhymes HARD sometimes. What an ancient rebellion-- and a medieval midrash featuring ancient surveillance & a desperate bride named Hannah bat Mattisyahu, a heroine kindling revolt-- can teach us about not only igniting, but winning, against the moral evils in our midst today:
Moral Kindling
how the Maccabees -and we- ignite in the face of tyranny
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The problem with asking abolitionists how to prevent violent and sexual crimes is that it presupposes that the current system actually addresses sexual or violent crimes when it categorically does not. The United States has the lowest clearance rates for violent crimes in the developed world.
