there are bulldozers spitting distance from Santa Elena Canyon, preparing to build a wall through a national park whose beauty stems, in large part, from its proximity to the border

Border project contractors arrive in Big Bend National Park as Texas lawmakers call for a pause

Texas Democrats are urging the Trump administration to delay its plans for building border barriers and roads across the West Texas park. Bulldozers and trucks bearing the logo of the contractor award...

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my freshman year of high school, one of the songs the band performed for the drill team to dance to at a game was “The Tide is High” the year was 2005, and us band kids were horrified when they said at the game that they were dedicating the performance TO THE VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god I think I found the video.

my high school theater department is lucky this never occurred to me when I was playing French horn in the pit orchestra for Bye Bye Birdie (and covering the tenor sax and cello parts as well as my own) I would have at least considered this to get out of the Sunday matinee and give my face a break

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d ago

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

not now, new untreatable tick-borne virus!

The News & Observer@newsobserver.com · 2d ago

A confirmed case in New York has brought national attention to a tick-borne virus first discovered in Kansas.

[whines] “sorry, buddy, I can’t make the sun come out or make your bed take less time in the dryer” [indignant sniff] “you’re just gonna have to find a comfy spot on the floor and play with your toys” [grumbles, picks up chew toy]

maintaining military trainer jets is the coolest of my options, but office manager is probably the most realistic

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

hot chicken loaded waffle fries, Geodis Park, Nashville, $13.99 #FootyScran

I have Oak Ridge Apostles lore

Holly Anderson 🍇@hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4w ago

my favorite thing about the church we’re rehearsing in is this gallery of paintings of the apostles where they all look like the Oak Ridge Boys

🎵 when questions reared their ugly heads Sir Paxton turned his tail and fled brave, brave, brave, brave Ken Paxton 🎵

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Wow -- Ken Paxton and his team abruptly shut down a news conference and bail after journalists try to ask him about his various scandals

someone technically won that match, sure, but you're both getting Ennui Huskied for that performance

Hot Tub Time Machine 2 Alamo Drafthouse was doing a special screening with commemorative pint glasses, and now my mom, my brother, and I have a game where we try to hide all the HTTM2 glasses in each other’s homes

Defector@defector.com · 3w ago

What's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...

ooh, big stretch

Good Trailcams@goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 3w ago

first thought: good, it’s simply too damn hot in Texas in August to not have these rules second thought: oh God, there was nothing stopping my high school band director from sending us outside in 115° heat if he’d wanted to

it would take me a lot longer to figure out the nuances of metal fabrication processes and standards than it would take my brother to figure out Jira

Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thought experiment- if you were suddenly appointed to do your sibling’s job, how badly would you suck at it?

brothers, can I get an “amen”

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3w ago

what i'd like to contribute to the ongoing masculinity discourse is that the truest sign of a fella's manfulness isn't his strength or his height or his successes with women. it's not about his job or how he dresses. it's about whether he has a cell-level desire to dig a big hole at the beach

1. steppe nomads’ campaign logistics 2. Mansa Musa’s retinue for his Hajj throwing around so much gold that they caused a distinct drop in the value of gold in Egypt 3. Tenochtitlan floating on the lake at the height of the Aztec Empire

Scott “bell beaker” Cave@hellabarnes.bsky.social · 3w ago

what is the reverse historical dorito? the thing from the past that would blow our minds in a positive way

treat-seeking missile

good morning to the driver who backed into me at a stoplight on Saturday, admitted as much in the police report, and then told our insurer that I rear-ended her

Liar Why The Fuck You Lyin

Alt: GIF of the “why the fuck you lyin’” meme.

static.klipy.com

y’all read Sarah’s thread and be safe out there today

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · last mo.

Farmer & farm worker tips on working outside in hot humid weather: First, the normal stuff. Stay hydrated. Take breaks in the shade. These are the basics! They'll get you pretty far & you won't make it without them! They are also not enough to get through a day on the farm IME!

Cape Verde played like they’d never heard of the concepts of fear or giving up before, and it’s been an amazing thing to witness

Thierry Henry: "The story is, was, and always will be Cabo Verde. When you believe that you can, that's what can happen."

having watched a good chunk of the 2014 WC group stage on Univision, they’re right, it doesn’t matter you may not always understand what’s happening or what they’re saying, but it’s gonna be fun and you won’t hear Alexi Lalas

Preston Adams@meetthepres0709.bsky.social · last mo.

Telemundo announcers saying “welcome, doesn’t matter if you don’t speak Spanish” in English. They know that they have a TON of people watching them because folks are just refusing to watch Fox.

the rare piece of advice that works for both goalkeeping and fending off mountain lions

Chris Kluwe@chriswarcraft.bsky.social · last mo.

Just get as big as possible and pray to whatever you believe in for deliverance

I’m still dripping in sweat from taking the dog outside an hour ago

Zach 🐷🤠@zrau.bsky.social · last mo.

Everywhere is Louisiana

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

it amazes me that there are ever bicycle kicks that DON’T look like this

SickosFC@sickosfc.bsky.social · last mo.

So I know we’re fully involved in USMNT posting but you have to see Memphis Depay’s bicycle kick attempt.

the three cement plants on the outskirts of town

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · last mo.

Every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure, what’s yours’?

Uzbek soccer fans are my new favorite type of dude