dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.

This is not wrong.

I once worked in a lab, managed by someone who'd worked for the org for something near 40 years. Whenever a bit of testing equipment wasn't working right, and we couldn't figure out why, we'd call him in. It would work for him first try, every time.

We just assumed all the gear was afraid of him.

A warm winter left our mountains with less snow which led to a limited supply of water for the summer. That’s why the state declared a #drought emergency.

Fish, trees, and animals depend on us using water wisely. Below are some simple ways you can save outdoor water and lower your bill 👇

fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

Good news! We found the cats a home! But they still need a foster home for the next month! Please help us spread the word so we can find a good foster home for them!

Color photo. A Red-winged Blackbird, perched on a cattail. Other cattails are on either side, and they have gone fluffy.

More from recent walks at the Center for Urban Horticulture.  The cherry blossoms are petering out, but lots of the birds are colorful...

Full post, with more photos: andrewflenniken.com/2026/04/21/a...

#Photography #BirdPhotography #Nikon #NikonCreators #SigmaPhoto #CenterForUrbanHorticulture

I did, in fact, want to watch that

For my fellow TTRPG Elders, imagine a GURPS Space campaign with two players, *both* of whom took the Weirdness Magnet disadvantage...

I'm a visual artist, not a writer, but if I *were* a writer I'd want to write more stories in Brian Daley's "The Adventures of Hobart Floyt and Alacrity Fitzhugh" universe.

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

Also, the name of my next band

Reconstructed Burrito, I think

You love to see it

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

I saw someone on here arguing the other day that you don’t own a book, you only own a license to the book and the book itself is a token of the license. I assure you, I own my books. I can lend them out. I can read them aloud to my child. I can sell them to other people. I can hit you with them

I think I’ve experienced enough lifetime trauma to justify becoming a serial killer and I’m honestly a little annoyed I turned out to be a people pleaser instead.

Toy Story - Mr. Spell YouTube video by Top Clips

I'm sorry, but this was the first thing that this made me think of. 😄

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On more than on occasion in my life: That looks like an expensive light on my dashboard. Do I have Expensive Light money? No? Right, Ignore the Light mode activated.

Needs must, when the devil drives. Or when Grimm does, apparently.

The word “scoundrel” is vastly underutilized, given the global abundance of scoundrels.

Squirrels have it made. They forage for food all day while doing parkour and when the weather sucks, they just stay in bed for days.

We need to keep lists of places that are ChatGPTing all help agents because I never want to buy anything from them again

"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess."
A. Philip Randolph, born on this day in 1889

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

I'd say I'm inadvertently taking style queues from the good Baron in my older years.

It's probably not that inadvertent.

Right? It's so good! I always know someone is My People when they also like it. :)

It also holds up. It hits different now, in my 50s, than it did as a teenager, and in a good way.

The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

post your favorite film from the year you turned 18

My favorite movie came out that year.

Chinook salmon found naturally hatching in Upper Klamath River for first time in a century The Klamath Tribes are celebrating evidence of Chinook salmon spawning in Klamath River tributary.

Good news to start your Monday: thanks to the removal of the four Klamath River dams, wild Chinook have hatched for the first time in over a century in the upper reaches of the Klamath!

This river reaches the Pacific in northern California, where K- and L-Pods spend time in the winter/spring.

Kroft, probably: The world is full of horrors. Might as well get 'em used to that early.