Blocking is so liberating!

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

Gift article: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

In case anyone missed the custom kicks first time around:

How Big Tech Lobbied the EU to Hide Data Centers' Environmental Toll The European Commission has adopted industry-drafted language shielding data center emissions data from public view, report Nico Schmidt and Ella Joyner.

Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their data centers, Investigate Europe reports in collaboration with Tech Policy Press and other media partners.

Jesus welped.

Alternatively, the NLT renders this verse as “Welp, said Jesus.”

Senator Wyden can’t say it plainly without losing his security clearance, but this raises the alarm that Kash & crew have decided they can illegally surveil Americans without a warrant.

Exactly one year ago today:

Platner's working-class aesthetic makes people assume that he joined the military and Blackwater out of economic necessity, rather than his admitted desire to go kill brown people.

DOJ Rapid Response • O @DOJRR47 X.com Yesterday the Department of Justice filed a motion to vacate the convictions of several Americans who had received clemency from President Trump. This ends these years-long, Biden-era weaponized prosecutions. President Trump demanded we stop the two-tiered injustice—and we are delivering. No more rigged system. 1:32 PM • 4/15/26 • 6.7K Views

The individuals referenced here are adjudicated terrorists.

They were found guilty of conspiring to use force against their own government to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.

A conservative, Trump-appointed judge applied terrorism enhancements to their sentences.

Think about this: The leader of the Senate Democrats just voted against 85% of his caucus all to keep sending bulldozers to Israel, so it can continue to demolish Palestinian and Lebanese people's homes.

Oof!

I’ve seen them debate and have already voted for Meyer, but actual info about their differences around climate change etc. would’ve been useful. Like, if they all back science and evidence what was the lack of consensus around climate change?

In major win for voters, judge blocks Indiana GOP’s student ID ban While Indiana argued the ban was necessary to protect election integrity, the court found no evidence that student IDs had ever posed a problem.

BREAKING: In a win for Indiana voters, a federal judge blocked a GOP-backed state law banning the use of student IDs as an acceptable form of identification at the polls.

The ruling means students can once again use their school IDs to cast ballots in the 2026 midterms as litigation continues.

this is art, truly beautiful

“Fisher-Price Brutalism” LOL

The Trump administration will cure us of our woke obsession with…dry land.

Yeah, precarity, man, dunno why the quants don’t seem to get it

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy:

There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

A line of Nazis at the Nuremburg rally, throwing Nazi salutes. Their backs are to us. Facing them is a hand-tinted group of child laborers from the early 20th century, squinting suspiciously at them.

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Orange you glad it’s Caturday?

Yellow woodland poppy growing up between tree roots

A pair of yellow trout lilies on the forest floor

Eagle Creek West again

The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing

Yeah not many people happy about pop-ups and “microactivations”…

Alert rough green snake warms itself in the sun on a natural surface trail

Ssssspring!

Born in southern WI. Left in ‘93. In 23 years, never heard “Sconnie” or “Wisco.” Seeing Wisco more & more on tourism merch the last several years visiting family. Still have only heard “Sconnie” on Bsky.

Bloodroot flowering amidst dead leaves and branches

Light yellow bellwort flowers hanging out in the understory

Two trillium flowers blooming

A small cluster of squirrel corn growing up from forest litter

Spring wildflowers, Eagle Creek West. Hadn’t been back to the park since we completed the trunk trail and ADA loop. Looking forward to getting to work on a small addition.

A dark green mayapple crown is bound too tightly to unfurl because it is constrained by a dead leaf, a hole in which up thru the plant grew

A dark green mayapple crown is bound too tightly to unfurl because it is constrained by a dead leaf, a hole in which up thru the plant grew

Time for my annual mayapples-in-desiccated-leaf-bondage post