Chalcedony, Sardonyx, Agate

Yes.

On the right is someone NFL doctors say is 6’3, 230 lbs with 5% body fat

On the left is someone White House doctors say is 6’3, 224 lbs with 4.8% body fat

If the White House is THAT dishonest about something so clear, why should we believe anything they say about anything?

Tiny bit of good news for the day

Donate to Assist Kat in Keeping Her Car and Moving, organized by Katherine Koehn Heyla, I'm Kat. Looking for assistance in keeping my car and getting some bil… Katherine Koehn needs your support for Assist Kat in Keeping Her Car and Moving

Signal boost or a couple bucks much appreciated, if anyone can help. I know her, and I owe her so much for helping me get out of hell back in the 00s.

I am absolutely crying

How cool!

Wowza! What's next in its life?

Anyone got recs for tutorials on VBA for Excel? I need to write a normal human useable UI for a small multi-table database that I am half-assing in Excel.

nb please note that this is NOT an invitation lecture me on why this is bad programming praxis. I am WELL the fuck aware, thanks.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

+delighted shrieking+

Glad to see the Target Boycott is trending. We’re urging our members, & our communities to shop local, not Target for Back to School. Target has not supported Minnesota,the place they got their start, so we are shopping elsewhere
www.aft.org/resolution/a... @shanembailey.com @aaronblack.bsky.social

Reminder to all that taxes are due today and also your quarterly payments if you are self employed

Beautifully written, thank you!

+happy sigh+

ossoff has led on fighting corruption for a few years now. as we just saw in hungary, that’s how you successfully build a coalition against authoritarianism. (he’s been building one in georgia!)

he’d be a formidable candidate for president in 2028. i will be knocking on doors for him this summer.

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+hands you a tissue+
+or several+

To all who celebrate!

This. And if I understand correctly, this was explicitly a big part of WHY the US tied health care access to employment, and why conservatives were so angry at the ACA.

My diagnosis can literally bankrupt a small employer, should they employ me. The big ones aren’t so happy with it either.

I have encountered every single type of person in this screenshot and I despise them

They're a small farm in Miami that pays their workers fairly; that's what small-batch produce should cost if it weren't subsidized by a lot of human rights violations!

Shop Smart, Shop S-Mart!

I've watched videos with ATC conversations of pilots who ask to deviate from flight plans if a launch is taking place to show it to passengers and it is based

WATCH: Artemis II is set to orbit the moon. Here’s what to know In a throwback to Apollo, NASA's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around.

Artemis II is humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972. https://to.pbs.org/411ctbM

I have instructed the relevant authorities that Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch, be granted full and immediate access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Over the past several days, Iran has repeatedly targeted the holy sites of all three monotheistic religions in Jerusalem with ballistic missiles. In one strike, missile fragments crashed meters from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. To protect worshippers, Israel asked members of all faiths to temporarily abstain from worshipping at the Christian, Muslim and Jewish holy sites in Jerusalem’s Old City. Today, out of special concern for his safety, Cardinal Pizzaballa was asked to refrain from holding mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Even though I understand this concern, as soon as I learned about the incident with Cardinal Pizzaballa, I instructed the authorities to enable the Patriarch to hold services as he wishes.

Netanyahu just posted on FB that oops, they can do it now. Given that it's after 5pm in Ohio, this seems like a horses/barn door type situation.

Happy No Kings Day, everyone!

No war.
No tyrants.
No kings.

See you in the streets, comrades.

PS: fuck TERFs, fuck JKR, and as always, the SPEECH Act means I can call her a transphobic bigoted genocidaire as much as I want and she can't do anything about it, the transphobic bigoted genocidaire.

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened. - Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

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