That’s not a poop joke, ma’am, it’s a highly sophisticated anti-communist joke. DoD paid Northrop Grumman $200 million to contract that out.

Alt text isn’t displaying for some reason. Video shows the new baby lion at the Knoxville zoo looking right at the lens through the mesh of its temporary shelter.

Baby lion knows what you did it just doesn’t understand why

Some of the bees from yesterday’s bee truck crash on I-40 have taken refuge directly in front of the Knoxville zoo main entrance. Are they asking to be let in?

Robert Reich saying "I liked RFK back when he sounded more like me" should prompt more self-reflection than it probably will.

RFK never stopped peddling his woo woo pseudoscience conspiracy theories in superficially left-coded anti-corporate terms. He still does that! Which political party that puts him in has changed, but he's not some radically different guy. There was never a time when he wasn't a malign kook.

This is the exact same RFK saying the exact same stuff he does now. The big bad corporations are doing vaccines and stuff to make you sick and all the experts and agencies are corrupted by them, and they're like Nazis really, so I'm gonna go clean house and stop them. It's the same shtick.

Cenk

Yeah but that’s a sociological theory of events, not a theory for doing politics. Cenk is, at best, cynically co-opting the sociology into a destructive political and/or entrepreneurial technology. At worst, he’s just dumb enough to believe this way of attempting politics will work.

One time this guy didn’t like an article I wrote so he sent his people after me and I feel less and less like I may have deserved it. I suppose I would think that.

Bluesky error message: “Forbidden!”

I have tasted the forbidden skeets and there’s no going back.

I’m generally opposed to any carceral state, but..

Three weeks growth, first trimming was five days ago. The Nymphoides hydrophylla on the top left is starting to shed old growth in favor of new, will prob look smaller before it looks (much) bigger.

“If I can’t have you, no one will.”

Gas station in Knoxville, Tennessee, selling regular unleaded gasoline for $3.99 and 9/10ths of a cent.

Well at least we still have three dollar gas.

Those look killer.

A big red bowl of Golden Grahams in milk with the little firm mini marshmallows for cocoa sprinkled on top and a spoon.

A big bowl of Golden Grahams in milk with those firm mini marshmallows for cocoa sprinkled on top and a spoon. You have the technology. All you need is the will.

Respect you and your work, but please, no slop here. (Also there’s an “artist” credit in the bottom right corner.)

Two weeks of growth, time for first trimming soon.

Prepare to be disappointed.

He’s a pro’s pro for sure. I just think he deserves to be razzed about leaving his fingerprints so heavily on literally everything. Can you imagine choosing, as he did, to make The Beatles sound like Jeff Lynne and not like The Beatles??

Especially considering we all know Jeff Lynne secretly tracked almost everything that ended up on the record, per usual.

The Garden style expands on the Dutch concept of a "street"-a band of plants laid out in forced perspective to suggest a path leading into the distance. The Dutch style takes the concept somewhat literally, often hiding the origin of the street behind a taller species to imply the road goes ever on.

Why yes I did sneak a Tolkien song lyric into my article in the aquascaping journal also mom I lost my retainer.

A red dog sits on stone pavers in front of my greenhouse. Iron fence in the foreground, green grass and red maple in the background.

Green grass red tree red dog

The other day I wrote something and thought “I should google that to make sure it’s right” so I did, the AI summary at the top confirmed what I’d written, but on closer inspection, the AI’s source for this claim was me in an earlier writing. Then I went and ate my own butthole.

The other day I wrote something and thought “I should google that to make sure it’s right” so I did, the AI summary at the top confirmed what I’d written, but on closer inspection, the AI’s source for this claim was me in an earlier writing. Then I went and ate my own butthole.

We still have real wilderness! Just not much east of the Mississippi.

My favorite is when I take the dog to her favorite swimming spot and it’s like watching someone who thinks there’s more stairs to go down but they’re actually on the landing.

Today, the TVA is one of the best-run utilities in the whole country, and it’s still public. The dams present a lot of environmental problems but they manage them with way more sensitivity than your typical private utility would.

I try to focus on the political miracle of it all. The Tennessee Valley was one of the poorest parts of the country until FDR and the New Deal spent the tax dollars of robber barons to wrestle control of the river, mostly for the benefit of poor farmers.