Emily Axford mentioning "fission-fusion social structure" on D20 brings me an inexplicable joy

Taŋyaŋ owapi, de táku óta sdodyemaḳiye. Well written, and I learned a lot from this!

@notalawyer.bsky.social fyi

Trump administration targets bison on federal grazing lands • South Dakota Searchlight Acceding to anti-bison grumbling from cattle ranchers and Republican politicians in Montana, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum proposed canceling leases for buffalo grazing.

The American #buffalo — those ornery, hairy prairie beasts that reign as the official mammal of the United States — have joined wind turbines, electric cars and climate researchers in the cross hairs of the Trump administration, reports @insideclimatenews.org.

Does it have to do with the fact that at a school, one is presumably amongst one's peers (and thus maybe more beholden to norms/judgement), while a subway is, in many ways, fairly anonymous?

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

Transformation Project Advocacy Network The Transformation Project Advocacy Network advocates for the dignity and wellbeing of transgender South Dakotans. Through social and political action, we partner with all South Dakotans to confident...

Today being Trans Day of Visibility, if you'd like to support trans people living and fighting alongside allies for their rights in South Dakota, consider donating to the Transformation Project Advocacy Network. As a board member, I can attest it's often an uphill battle, but a critical one!!

Big change for California small businesses: No more SBA loans for non-citizens Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.

Green-card holders no longer qualify for loans from the Small Business Administration, eliminating a longtime source of financing for immigrants that advocates say will discourage job creation and harm the economy.

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Nah bro, I'm fine, I just got caught in the listened-to-a-song-that-brought-tears-to-my-eyes-then-got-even-more-teary-eyed-thinking-about-humans-creating-beautiful-things-out-of-pain-so-we-feel-less-alone spiral again, ya know?

Legislature's property tax relief creates a burden for everyone • South Dakota Searchlight That slurping sound you heard in early March was coming from Pierre. It was lawmakers drinking the Kool-Aid of property tax relief.

"Lawmakers seem pretty pleased about offering relief for property taxpayers. There’s a real lack of concern on their part that all of us — regardless of where we live — will end up paying more at the cash register."

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‘Their Power Feels Like Mine’: A Dog Sled Racer Says Goodbye To Her Pack

It's hard to think about retiring from racing, because mushing is, and will always be, a huge part of my life. So I took a journey with my older dogs, who have retired themselves. They've taught me so much over the years; now, they're teaching me to live with change.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/m...

I have an anaphora joke, but it only makes sense if you know the context.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

A quilt: Two sleeping colobus monkeys cling to a branch of an African cherry tree. Leaves of the tree and power lines are quilted in the dark blue background in relief. The monkey are shades of blue/white/tan/purple.

The colobus monkeys are quilted and off the longarm. This piece is based on a photo by Mark Luther. The tree is an African cherry trees, as are the leaves in the background. Power lines are also quilted in relief - they are a major cause of falls/death for the monkeys.

Two goals in 15 seconds !!! Hinaḣ ohiyab okihipi do
#MinnesotaWild

i actually think it's lowkey problematic to joke about stabbing caesar bc for some low income senators becoming tyrant is literally the only route out of poverty

But another possibility is that toddlers have concepts of 'same' & 'similar' that are very different from adults. They often require things to be identical before considering them similar, and don't generalize as adults do. So that may be a factor if she interprets "se parece" as an identity copula?

I've only seen a brief excerpt of the book and haven't read it, but I bet Luiz Lopez's Bilingual Grammar (2020) could have insights. In it he makes an argument (among others) that there's consistency in gender agreement across code-switching boundaries, and uses Spanish–German speech as an example.

Lovely thread on some very cool research 🧵

Never before has the time change left me trampled like this. I am nothing before the hooves of arbitrary time. I am dust, and so sleepy

Honestly I never realized Kr*sti N*em ever came back to South Dakota, and now that I know there's a small chance of seeing her in public, I hope [REDACTED]

Please help me write a business plan for a midwestern-seafood fusion restaurant 1. MAKE REALLY GOOD FOOD 2. YELL AT THE STREET TO GET PEOPLE TO COME AT THE RESTAURANT 3. EAT ALL MONEY 4. Good to go! What else may I help you with?

Incredible work, thank you

Why is this so funny 😭

A cursed Before and After puzzle on Wheel of Fortune at the very least

All of DHS too actually

Lmao Kristi Noem get recked

“When I saw her smile after coming home from work, all my pain disappeared. Now I don’t know what to do with this pain. I don’t know how to live with this.”

“There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned.”

Rohollah recalls how his daughter wanted to become a doctor.

“She used to tell me, ‘I promise I will become a doctor so you won’t have to pay medical bills anymore.’ I would hold her and say, ‘You are already my little doctor’,” he said.