Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.
This thread is what social media is *supposed* to be for.
look if a Democrat wants me to be really fired up about voting for them, they will promulgate the Crimes Against Humanity Reparations Act which gives US citizenship to everyone targeted by the Trump administration.
My partner grew up in lake Forest park. That absolutely tracks!
Forest Service vegetation plot marker in old-growth forest near Spirit Lake, Mount St. Helens, 1979. Red and yellow striped survey pole with white sign reading "03 01 391" stands among tall conifer trees with blue-tinted undergrowth. This plot documented pre-eruption forest composition at the species level. Photo: USDA Forest Service, 1979.
Same vegetation plot location after May 18, 1980 eruption, showing complete devastation. Survey pole with sign reading "03 01 391" stands in gray ash-covered wasteland. All traces of old-growth forest erased by pyroclastic flows reaching 1300°F (700°C). Broken volcanic terrain visible in background under blue sky. Photo: USDA Forest Service, 1980.
The U.S. Forest Service documented this vegetation plot near Spirit Lake in 1979—a careful species-level inventory of an old-growth forest.
After May 18, 1980, they returned to the same coordinates and put up another marker. Same spot. Different planet.
After a historic victory in the #WALeg Senate, the Millionaires Tax to rebalance our upside-down tax code has its 1st hearing in the House!
Sign your name in "PRO" today to show your support for a future where everyone, not just the wealthiest, can thrive in WA: app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...
Well, as long as we have closure
i love how anyone who lives near a resident heron treats it like a local legendary pokemon
Super fancy folio edition of Evolutionary Witchcraft by T Thorn Coyle, art by Maxine Miller. And some stickers. And a nosey calico cat.
Super fancy folio edition of Evolutionary Witchcraft by T Thorn Coyle, art by Maxine Miller. And some stickers. And a nosey calico cat.
Super fancy folio edition of Evolutionary Witchcraft with ILLUSTRATED PAGE EDGES!! by T Thorn Coyle, art by Maxine Miller. And some stickers. And a nosey calico cat.
Super fancy folio edition of Evolutionary Witchcraft by T Thorn Coyle, art by Maxine Miller. The book is open to an illustrated chapter head: “part Four, East: Opening the Senses.”
This gorgeous tome just arrived in the mail. Kudos to @thorncoyle.bsky.social and @maxinemiller999.bsky.social . I can’t wait to dive in!
In honor of Lunar New Year, one of my all-time favorite maps:
How dumplings spread around the world
(tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)
#waleg update: There's a committee hearing tomorrow morning on SB 6002, the Driver Privacy Act, regulating Flock and other ALPRs.
If you're in Washington, please sign in OTHER (Strengthen) - and consider submitting written testimony. (1/N)
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I just wanted to say Hello! It's been a long time. Your work has grown exponentially gorgeous and mind blowing. I hope you are well <3
a fossil showing two male diictodon - their sex is indicated by the size of their tusks - curled up together; the fossil is articulated and preserved three-dimensionally, but the skulls are a little smushed
happy valentine's day! this fossil shows a pair of adult male diictodon who were discovered curled up together in a burrow 🥰
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines
It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
Black and white photo of a medium haired tabby cat standing up on its hind legs to peer over the seat into a white toilet in a bathroom setting.
So anyway here’s a new photo in my collection from one of my favorite genres: Toilet Detective.
T-shirt bearing the words "Make Delta Green fiction again."
After being becoming aware of the contents of the Epstein Files, I can only say-
Brent Hennrich is running against KKK sympathizer, MGP.
Goodbye, @gluesenkampperez.house.gov
@bhennrich.bsky.social seems to be much more aligned with our values and basic human decency.
A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”
"Just gotta get through this week," he said, every week
Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images.
This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.
A guide to safer communication with Signal. Screen readable PDF available here: https://libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/signal-best-practices.pdf
New resource from LFP and CoRD: safer communication with Signal. Our best practices based on common threat models and concerns. Feel free to share! PDF downloadable at libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/u...
Moonlit and monochrome, a graveyard sprawls beneath a heavy stone bridge and a tangle of bare trees, their branches hanging like ink drips against the sky. Between crooked headstones and leaning fences, two pale, translucent figures—ghosts in long robes—float along a slanted path, heads bowed close as if whispering. The scene is dense with shadow and silence: crosses jut from the ground, graves yawn darkly, and the whole world feels steeped in damp night and old, unfinished goodbyes. Two ghost cats arc their backs at each other on the lower left, on the lower right, another ghost couple walks away
“In the afterlife, we’ll sit around talking about the good old days, when we wished that we were dead.”
(Samuel Beckett)
🎨 A Junger “A Graveyard Romance” (attr. 1909)
#phantomsfriday
it's really good that Oracle bought TikTok, a business that only loses money, at a time when it took on $56bn+ in debt and $240bn in lease obligations for GPUs to rent to OpenAI, a company that will run out of money. This could all have the funniest ending ever
COLD WEATHER TIPS for pets and people Bring your pet inside Make an enclosure for community cats Put a sweater on your pet *Knock on your car hood to check for cats* Don't leave your pet in a car unattended Add blankets for extra warmth Limit time outdoors Clean their paws
Cold weather tips for pets.
NB: *Knock on your car hood to check for cats (which may have climbed up inside for warmth)*
This is an important thread about how the ICE funding issue is going down inside the (mostly feckless) Democratic Party.
"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"
A list of ideas!
They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
