how is this literally happening in real life

A northern flicker perched on the bow of a vessel

Never thought l'd take my best northern flicker photo ever offshore on the deck of a vessel! 🪶🌿 We've had some interesting bird visitors, mostly migrators likely enjoying a platform to rest on mid-journey. Highlights included a palm warbler, a savannah sparrow, and a ruby-crowned kinglet.

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

No Weezer?? No Primus???

Less pleased to see the perfidious aggies in the lead

Extremely pleased to see that LSU baseball has a gigantic Tony Chachere’s canister as a billboard perched ominously atop the outfield wall

Du Pont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain : Gerard Colby : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Award-winning journalist Gerard Colby takes readers behind the scenes of one of America’s most powerful and enduring corporations; now with a new...

If you want a horrifying long-form accounting of DuPont family crimes from pre-revolutionary france to the 80s, I recommend checking out “DuPont Dynasty: Behind The Nylon Curtain” by Gerard Colby. It’s staggering!

The NBC olympics theme blares triumphantly while showing a stunning aerial shot of Allentown, Pennsylvania

Any city in the NE corridor could probably absorb the olympics by virtue of the surrounding geography— I vote Wilmington, Delaware

I’m sure it thrilled the ESRI rep to get back to back questions about AI hallucinations and AI-related layoffs for entry level analysts

They could’ve focused on the cool stuff like generating datasets from aerial imagery but instead decided to tell a room full of GIS Professionals “we’re coming for your job! work with us or go to the unemployment office!”

Incredibly funny that the best example the ESRI keynote speaker at this GIS conference could use to advertise their AI assistant was “plan a vacation at x place for me” — totally a problem worth wasting compute on!

a listing for a "compact trumpet". a purple metallic contraption with 3 keys and a single short straight pipe that is slightly flared at one end. like if you removed the bell and all the bendy bits from a regular trumpet. and made it purple for some reason.

bringing my sawed-off to the ska rumble

Played the lottery numbers JD Vance gave me and the convenience store owner shot me

Fighting corruption*

*that doesn’t include Democratic lawmakers, “Come-on! We need payouts too!”

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

this is, definitionally, an emergency of the highest order. you'd be hard pressed to see anyone in authority acting like it.

this, definitionally, cannot stand. this, definitionally, cannot happen. that it is, unimpeded, is incontrovertible evidence that our system is broken beyond repair

To say nothing of the cretins enthusiastically committing these crimes and those who are providing them with impunity — I hope they get acquainted with a lamppost in a similar angle to Mussolini. Pretty vile country we’ve built here

Not gonna post anything that looks really bad when printed out in court, but what can you really even say? What sort of “opposition” does nothing to stop an avalanche of war crimes, threats of genocide and cultural annihilation?

This late hour in Babylon has me rethinking the efficacy of “propaganda of the deed” — won’t someone rid us of this genocidal political class full of narcissists and cowards

When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.

Be Free or Die. The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape From Slavery to Union Hero by Cate Lineberry

A black and white photo of Robert Smalls with the caption: "Fuck them boats. - Cpt Robert Smalls

There was once an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship and sailed his a bunch of families to Union controlled waters & got everyone free.

Then he fought as a soldier in the Union Army.

Then he was elected to US House of Representatives.

Robert Smalls was born 187 years ago today

Got worship out the way early so I can sin sooner. Can’t let his resurrection for my sins be in vain.

Spongebob’s hand points at a small portion of his head which appears in a local commercial for the Krusty Krab. He will go on to say “Look gary! There I am!”

Seeing the back of my head on the local news after they covered an event I attended for work

Rest easy, midnight rider 😔

Ground Swell - 1939
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