I sent this to one of our rescue chats and most people got it and a few thought this was a current thing happening locally and we needed to go get the duck.

Lesson learned 😬

100%

Spite can help. As does the thought, "well at least it won't be as bad as that piece Jonathan Franzen wrote about Edith Wharton in the New Yorker" and suddenly there is confidence about much.

assuming everyone has already read this but if not: please be advised that the first time I read it I was at my desk at work and I had to go for a little walk halfway through because I thought I was about to die from quietly laughing

Good friend of mine had their catalytic converter stolen, so I might buy him this bumper sticker

Or Merle Haggard

As the daughter of a Marine Corps veteran, I can attest to this. The quiet part that politicians won’t say out loud is that denying everyday Americans things like college tuition benefits, subsidized housing, and healthcare is a military recruitment tool. They don’t want everyone to have access.

Instagram keeps telling me my location is off like that’s a bad thing. Why would I want people to know where I am. I don’t even want them to know I inhabit a physical form, let alone that it occupies space at coordinates isolated to any specific portion of this globe.

Outlander tried to warn you, that the past is no playground. Not for women.

Tree law! TREE LAW

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

Bluebird posting will continue until morale improves 🪶

I am so sorry. I am ashamed to say I am avoiding the political for my own sanity. I need to find a cave somewhere.

I need your joy.

Almost every weekend for the last 10 years, I have put up a post on social media where I ask people to share one good thing that happened in their life that week.

I missed a lot of weeks this past year while going through things of my own - and I missed this past weekend.

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oh..

Sydette outside in the sunshine

Hi

Polish man arrested following undercover CNN investigation into online rape networks | CNN Polish authorities have arrested a man in connection with the alleged rape of an “unknowing victim” that was recorded and shared online, the District Prosecutor’s Office in Lublin said Thursday.

It's interesting to me that a story about online rape networks doesn't seem to have broken through?

The story's inception was instigated in part by Gisèle Pelicot's rapes. Her husband drugged and and raped her and then invited dozens of other men to rape her while she was drugged.

“What’s going on in the world?” “He’s not dead yet.”

Spotted this lovely Northern Cardinal flitting through the Black Cherry trees near Central Park's Green Bench this morning. A pair nested here last year--maybe she's part of the same couple! 🥰🥰🥰 #Cardinals #CentralPark #birding

the venn diagram of people obsessed with immigrating "the right way" and people who put up sheds in their backyard without a building permit and then blow their tops off when their nosy neighbor reports them is a circle

Sings " I just wanna cowboy" to accordion like St. Judy Tenuda

My generation is why I don't have many regrets at all. Yes, I miss 1980s music and pop culture, but I do NOT want to go back in time to the 80s, 90s, or early 2000s. Hell no!

I am not interested in reliving PK through 12. I don't want to go back to my HBCU days! For me, life got better around 30.

SAME

it just gets worse. i didn't know about this.

This is Rex. He found a missing child in 12 minutes on his first tracking mission. "He’s kind of a triple threat," his handler said. He's trained as a therapy dog, explosive detection canine, and missing person tracker. When the girl was safe, Rex shifted to comfort mode. 14/10 (IG: arapahoeso)

I can't believe I actually have to say this, but apparently I do: someone who is buying compromised Bluesky accounts from an account reseller marketplace is directly funding identity theft, fraud, and international crime. #BadActorBingo resurrection for an explainer of why:

a weird belief that is held across basically all sectors of American life is that boy dollars and boy votes are better than girl dollars and girl votes and so if you have a lot of the latter you need to be constantly trying to exchange them for the former

If you recognize which unnamed woman is talking because you're asked for comment and the comment makes it clear which of the woman's rape stories match your memory of events, and you text that specific woman and say "stop telling people I raped you," that is.... sure an admission of something.

YUP