Chitinous Exoskeleton

Gonna be a looong year

Née Dan, I presume

Frances the cat rolling around on a pair of jeans

Frances wants to help me fold laundry but she isn't very good at it

Iowa's motto is "Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain"

This bill spits on it, the spirit of civil rights law to be expansive and flips limitation of state power on its head, with state power used to narrow municipal power to *expand* and protect *more* rights

I had hoped to one day retire my "Protect Trans Iowans" t-shirt but these ghouls just keep making it more relevant

So the point of the bill is that Democrat-majority counties had in fact established these protections and the state decided to dismantle them

Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends

Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends https://theonion.com/crab-just-happy-to-be-in-bucket-with-all-his-friends/

A tern in flight with a fish in their beak

Wonder what this fish is up to. 🪶

A bright spot in a dark time: you can buy Cholula brand chamoy peach rings at Safeway now

The local northern mockingbirds are going manic about this 80° weather. Birds: they're just like us!

The comment section felt like everyone finally admitting the emperor had no clothes. God bless that era of the internet

I felt so guilty about not being able to get through the adjustment period, then snapped out of it when the Hairpin ran an article by a woman who wanted to show us how much better her hair looked after switching to dousing it in vinegar for a year and it objectively looked like trash

I was an absolute minesweeper champ at about age 12. Clearing a big grid in under a minute type stuff, really cool and popular adolescent. In case anyone needs me to save the global economy

very awkward to find out that the human afterlife never actually received any significant update patches after homo sapiens speciated. yeah it's mostly a mixture of open savannah and lightly wooded areas with plenty of fruit.

Bugguide photo of a "Thief weevil" (Attelabidae: Pterocolus sp) by user Metrioptera. He is a jolly iridescent turquoise and sort of rectangular in shape, with an unusually wide stance.

let's all take a moment to consider the Thief Weevil and his outrageous pantaloons

I suspect this is more common than the popular narrative suggests (true for my grandmothers as well). And a generation before that, a lot of farm labor gets elided as housework

Back on my bullshit (cutting my own hair even though it always turns out kinda bad)

KIRKSVILLE MICROPOLITAN AREA MENTIONED 🙌

Today we celebrate twine

Map of Iowa watersheds (8 digit HUC?) by @theswinerepublic.bsky.social . Each watershed is labeled with the city sewage production equivalent to the pig waste nitrogen input into each river system. For example, the Upper Iowa River Basin (NE corner) has hog waste equivalent to Prague (Czech Republic) sewage.

I always liked @theswinerepublic.bsky.social 's map of iowa watersheds and the pig waste/city sewage equivalents:

Post from r/steelydan: (Graph showing red line snaking down) Dubai market crash looks like Aja

Lmao

There's a baptist denomination exclusive to coal country whose defining belief is "you can't go to hell after you die because we are already in hell" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primiti...

Today we had lunch with Steve's aunt, who is blind, and when discussing Kristi Noem we realized she didn't know about the plastic surgery. "How bad is it? Describe it to me." There are still pleasures to be had in this world

D.C. statehood isn’t just about two senators, it’s about having to put up with this crap.

you didn’t lose an hour you just have no control over your life or things that happen around it

Yeah it's always kind of jarring to hear about the evangelical vote at the Iowa caucus every four years bc when I was growing up there it was like wall to wall Methodists and Lutherans

Wait isn't there an episode of Maintenance Phase about her

Too many boxes of t-shirts in there

I've worked on too many campaigns headquartered in rented office space to find the backrooms concept particularly scary. What are they gonna do, make me update VAN data in there?