finally saw some ducklings yesterday
it's just been goslings goslings goslings for weeks

i fully understand why gefilte fish is such a divisive food (I adore it), but one of my favorite bits of concrete applied food history is the Gefilte Fish Line, which maps the sweet vs salt gefilte fish divide precisely via the historical sugar beet trade www.npr.org/sections/the...

it also pretty precisely maps differences in yiddish dialects that have no other clear division than the gefilte fish line

yeah that dog made me three suits

A large ginger cat lying next to a food bowl. His face is in a sunbeam and he's fast asleep

Post-breakfast flump

unrelated:

it's rained all evening here, so the cold breeze coming through my window right now smells like wet trees/moss. I don't even want to go to bed so I can keep smelling it

‘Just noticing birds improves your health’ - High Country News #iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.

#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.

dayenu

rigatoni supremacy. no spaghet, only bucatini. #bucatinigang

like, you do not need to be gender dysphoric for that idea to resonate. I've been thinking about body dysmorphia lately and how wild it is to have come of age in the 1990s when eating disorders were en vogue and to be almost 40 now in this particular era. That sentence stopped me in my tracks.

I just realized that sounds like a humblebrag. It's not. Just adding to the point the OP was making - yes, you can make positive changes in your community. I know it, because I've done it.

there’s a part of my leg that doesn’t grow hair anymore. i like to think that’s god giving me something to bond over with bald men

Susan Collins called the cops because of sidewalk chalk. The woman behind it is running for US Senate. Bangor resident Andrea LaFlamme is publicly identifying herself as the sidewalk chalker as she mounts a longshot campaign for US Senate.

For those who may not know, yes I am the person who chalked on the sidewalk in front of Susan Collins’ house. Not only did she call the police to erase my work (violating my 1st am right), but she’s since moved to a house without a sidewalk. She’s already made it clear that she’s intimidated by me.

ed ruscha's Elysian Park and the Stone Quarry Hills (2023)
is great

he's a cat

Anyway Americans are fine with concentration camps and that’s becoming more and more blatantly obvious.

that movie was so bad

Andrew Koji is so fuckin cool and I hope the Street Fighter movie is good and successful

beef loggginoff

Assommelier

everyone here hates me bc I drive the speed limit in school zones and I yield for pedestrians. and I know how to zipper merge

Meh not feeling it

"whatever makes sense"

no. too tired

front cover of dawn chorus zine...

this is a spread from the zine

this the back cover of the zine

holding dawn chorus zine in front of the game loading screen lol

zine i made today that i'll be handing out at alt:games. way better than business cards i reckon.

no it layoffs is huge in a way that would have had enormous yet semi invisible ripple effects

seiulocal99 education workers united 1/2 SEIU LOCAL 99 TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED WITH LAUSD AFTER INTENSE MEDIATION WITH LAUSD, WE HAVE REACHED A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT. BECAUSE OF YOUR UNITY AND READINESS TO TAKE ACTION, WE SECURED MAJOR WINS FOR OUR MEMBERS-INCLUDING SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS TO WAGES AND HOURS, STRONGER PROTECTIONS AGAINST SUBCONTRACTING, INCREASED STAFFING, AND WE SUCCESSFULLY STOPPED LAYOFFS FOR IT WORKERS. THIS IS WHAT COLLECTIVE POWER LOOKS LIKE. FOR TOMORROW: ALL MEMBERS SHOULD REPORT TO WORK AS USUAL. WE HAVE SPOKEN WITH THE DISTRICT, AND THEY HAVE INDICATED THEY WILL BE UNDERSTANDING IF SOME FOLKS ARRIVE LATE GIVEN HOW LATE THIS PROCESS WENT. PLEASE GET TO YOUR SCHOOL OR WORK SITE AS SAFELY AND QUICKLY AS YOU CAN. WE WILL BE SHARING MORE DETAILS SOON ABOUT THE AGREEMENT AND NEXT STEPS. THIS VICTORY BELONGS TO YOU. SWIPE TO READ MORE DETAILS ABOUT OUR → TENTATIVE AGREEMENT

seiulocal99 LET TO STA education vorkers inited SEIU LOCAL 99 WHAT WE WON! • 24% WAGE INCREASE OVER 3 YEARS (INCLUDING 12% IN RETRO PAY) • PROTECTIONS AGAINST SUBCONTRACTING • NO LAYOFFS FOR IT WORKERS • MINIMUM 4 HOURS FOR ALL UNIT B EMPLOYEES BY JANUARY 1, 2027 • MINIMUM 6 HOURS FOR FOOD SERVICE WORKERS BEGINNING JULY 1, 2026 • GUARANTEED ONE 6 HOUR COMMUNITY REP AT ALL SCHOOL WITH MORE THAN 200 STUDENTS • MINIMUM OF 4 HOURS FOR ALL UNIT G EMPLOYEES BEGINNING JANUARY 1, 2027 • MINIMUM 4 HOUR ASSIGNMENT FOR BEYOND THE BELL EMPLOYEES ASSIGNMENTS AFTER ONE YEAR • TASK FORCE TO ADD MORE HOURS FOR WORKERS • HEALTH BENEFITS FOR MEMBERS WORKING A TOTAL OF 4 HOURS IN MORE THAN ONE ASSIGNMENT • SP. ED TRAININEES AND HAS INCLUDED IN • MINIMUM 7 HOURS FOR SEAS & HAS NOW A PERMANENT PART OF THE CONTRACT • INCREASE IN UNIFORM AND FOOTWEAR ALLOWANCES FOR UNIT C • 8 HOUR BUS DRIVER POSITIONS NOW A PERMANENT PART OF THE CONTRACT • AND MORE!

SEIU Local 99 now announcing that the strike has been averted and a tentative agreement has been reached with LAUSD with what look like some big wins

back to bed... we're going to school