Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.
This has to be the most delightful AltText I've ever seen. Definitely worth the click, even if you have perfect vision.
Republicans are getting more brazen — in rhetoric and policy — in pushing teenage girls to give birth.
The good news is that it won't work. Girls aren't going to fall for it.
An analysis.
www.salon.com/2026/04/20/m...
These apple trees have “root stock” trees as a strong base, with branches from trees bred for flavor or fruit quality grafted onto them.
These apple trees have “root stock” trees as a strong base, with branches from trees bred for flavor or fruit quality grafted onto them. The root stock tree makes for a strong and vigorous tree while the grafted stem control fruit features. #WeFeedYou
The flu vaccine and the shingles vaccine also lower the risk of dementia.
It's amazing.
Even if someone doesn't care about the flu or shingles, everyone cares about their brain
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/w...
The author Kevin Fedarko has devoted years of his life to exploring and writing about the Grand Canyon. He always thought he'd have the chance to see the rare beauty of the secluded North Rim. But after a devastating wildfire, he returned to a park forever changed.
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“frustrated with modern dating” you mean frustrated with treating women as human beings with agency
Deschutes has two IPAs that are great. Others available. Check their website.
The scolds on Nextdoor were outraged that the kids protested during the school day.
Old people to kids: Show us you care about the world
Kids stage protest march at school
Old people: Not like that!
tracks.
In his second term, Mr. Trump seems even less restrained and more incoherent at times. He uses more profanity, speaks longer and regularly makes comments rooted in fantasy rather than fact. He keeps saying that his father was born in Germany when in fact he was born in the Bronx. He repeats an invented story about his uncle, an M.I.T. professor, telling him about teaching the terrorist known as the Unabomber. He wanders off into odd tangents — an eight-minute ramble at a Christmas reception about poisonous snakes in Peru, a long digression during a cabinet meeting about Sharpie pens, an interruption of an Iran war update to praise the White House drapes. He has confused Greenland with Iceland and more than once boasted of ending a fictional war between Cambodia and Azerbaijan, two countries separated by nearly 4,000 miles. (He evidently means Armenia and Azerbaijan).
It’s about time we saw this coverage:
“As the president threatens to wipe out Iran and attacks the pope, even some former allies and advisers are questioning whether he has grown increasingly unbalanced, describing him as ‘lunatic’ and ‘clearly insane.’”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...
Remember Planthony? Well, we could use him again so here he is bringing us much needed levity in this growing dire times. And once again, if you’re in Seattle please visit his store
Hungarians are singing ‘We Are The Champions’ in celebration of the landslide victory of Peter Magyar
A man may rise by attaching himself to power, but if the vessel be unsound, he has only secured himself a place aboard its ruin.
Those who trade principle for position often discover too late that they have purchased a ticket to one's collapse.
Flu vaccine linked to 22% decline in risk of Alzheimer's dementia www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social
A fake image of Artemis II astronauts in a small front porch raft waving to the camera outside the capsule with a Navy recovery boat in the background and orange buoyancy balloons in the water.
This image circulating is fake. The front porch was much larger than that and held several Navy recovery personnel as well. Real images can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/nasah...
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.
Holy crap Chise, this is amazing!!
We had that album when I was growing up. Similar to Big Noise from Winnetka (which we usually played at the same time).
As aside, this is one speech Melania didn’t plagiarize from Michelle Obama.
heatmaps from the report showing tracking
BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning.
And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep.
Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones.
No warrant required.
Our @citizenlab.ca investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1
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Crosspoint works on the X3?
"This is what you get when you elect Republicans."
Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly.
Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time.
Fucking say it!
Since there's, uh, absolutely nothing else going on in the world right now, you might consider reading this late evening blog update on a potential NorCal thunderstorm outbreak over the next few days and a chaotic Pacific-wide weather pattern this April.👀
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos shouldn't be paying the same amount in Social Security tax as someone making $175,000 a year.
Billionaires are not paying their fair share.
Abstract pink fabric flower on a background of butterflies.
The back of the project, with the papers still attached. I used a piece of junk mail to craft it.
Just a little something pretty to keep myself occupied today. Improvisational paper piecing using junk mail.
#art #artshare #quilt #quiltsky #floral #textileart #epp
this whole thing is very much like being locked in a room with a guy with a grenade who keeps being like IM GONNA DO IT IM GONNA PULL THE PIN and then is like “actually nah” and then everyone sighs but you’re still locked in the same room with the same guy and he’s still holding the same grenade
the entire gist of the piece is that netanyahu played trump for a fool and the entire cabinet decision-making apparatus — all of them — sat on their fucking hands and stared at their too-big shoes rather than try to call it for what it was
