ICYMI - Samuel L. Jackson (!!) narrated this powerful video for Saturday's No Kings rally about the strength of Minnesotans protesting ICE:
"When your neighbors are being attacked and your communities are being targeted, you don't give up. You don't look away. You don't back down. You showed up."
A No Kings protest sign in the form of a giant Wordle grid reading FELON THIEF LOSER CREEP FRAUD TRUMP Not entirely accurate in terms of gameplay but close enough.
Good one in NYC.
What started as a meetup to learn and play the popular tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons has grown into a community of 2,500 people offering friendship, refuge and mutual aid as immigration enforcement ramps up in Minnesota.
Dreamhaven's Greg Ketter, folks. A real life comic book hero.
Yellow lemon pig 2026 receiving his penny from desiccated lemon pig 2025.
Lemon pig 2026 has received his coin from lemon pig 2025. Thank you for your service, '25; we don't blame you! #lemonpig
Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.
That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Some of the best (I think) material in Five Came Back is there because a librarian saw what I was working on over 3 days and asked me if I'd like to take a look at a box of old George Stevens papers that had not been catalogued yet. So no, for a ton of reasons, AI cannot "do the research for you."
It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
Hey, I want to offer some helpful tips for coping with the cold for ICE folks who might have come from warmer places.
1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. The Enterprise D gang is in Ten Forward standing around a beautifully decorated banquet table adorned with exotic flowers and lots of food. Seems like a fancy party is happening, I'm guessing some light chitter chatter is in the background, dishes and flatware tinkling and clanking, maybe some nice soft harpy music, but this is a picture so it's tough to say. Ok, back to the story, so Captain Picard is carving a large round turkey. Bev Crusher, Geordi, Data, and a very very tall Klingon, all in uniform, stand and observe. Closed caption reads, "I shall try some of your burned, replicated bird meat." 🦃
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Jack-o-lantern with a wide open mouth, triangle eyes and a candle.
RraaaaaAaaawr!!*
*Happy Halloween!
Shout out to the top 5 kings in the world, Martin Luther, Larry, Don, Stephen and Americans don't have a motherfuckin'.
Black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby up on his hind legs with his forepaws braced against the outside of a brick building, seeming to sniff and investigate the tip of a small stick that a white person off camera is holding against the wall.
Before laser pointers we had to just point at the wall with a stick. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Ignoreland! “I know that this is vitriol…”
Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.
This is great
Contrary to what RFKJ yelled in the hearing today, COVID vaccines will not be free and available to everyone due to his decisions. Here’s what you can do to get one, and how annoying it’ll be.
What better way to give him a big🖕 and protect yourself for respiratory virus season than getting a 💉?
A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year. The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive. threads.com/@unapologeticallyzae
Prosper with Dragons card game and note.
Excellent mail day! Beautiful Prosper with Dragons card game and note from @nickydrayden.bsky.social and @suyidavies.com . Can’t wait to play!
Sandy the Sandhill Crane
Salem Sue, the world’s largest Holstein.
World’s Largest Buffalo
Megafauna of North Dakota.
I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
A one-page comic of Milk and Cheese on a city-wide rampage, yelling "Merv Griffin!" louder and louder in every pane as they pummel people and destroy property. The name of this comic is "Merv Griffin". It is art. Don't judge it, love it.
A refresher course.
Warning: High art.
From the 1982 MDA telethon, I challenge you to keep the surreal dissonance of this performance of “Jessie’s Girl” from burrowing deep into your brain…
Mon Mothma's Wedding Death-Dance is The Song of Summer.
How "Niamos! (Chandrilian Club Mix)"🎶 from #Andor went from a moment of bleak catharsis to a social media phenomenon. It's now growing far beyond the #StarWars fandom.
We went from 94% funded to 106% funded today! 💥
Many happy dances have been danced. Thank you!!!
