California: We have leveled the playing field after the Texas GOP besmirched our electoral system!
Virginia: BLOOD IN THE WATER WE FEED ON THE DEATHS OF OUR REPUBLICAN ENEMIES FUCK YOUR CARTOON DOG
Speaking as a Texan, I'm *very* excited by the prospect the Repubs shot themselves in the foot with that redistricting...
After building the best public education system in the world brought us the Counterculture and the Anti-War Movement, conservatives in the US began a 50+ year assault to destroy public education.
Between the night of April 21 and the early morning of April 22, those looking in the right place will see the sky light up with 15 to 20 meteors per hour.
Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”
It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.
Thanks!
There is an irony in that red states had been more effective in preventing legal abortion by a constant barrage of restrictions and hoops to jump through. Once the legal pathway was removed entirely and women had to choose to break the law to seek abortion, more have been able to do so.
That's the living room. The same shade of blue was used in the kitchen, the home office and the hallway leading to the main bedroom.
No, that's the point of the article: Safe effective medication abortion has become so easy to access even in red states that abortion rates have gone up, while women in hospitals with complications requiring medically necessary abortions are dying.
I was able to start WFH 4 shifts out of 5 a couple of years ago and that saves me at least a hour and a half each day. To say nothing of only gassing up my car anout once a month. But I imagine it would have been suffocating if I couldn't leave the house at the end of my shift.
This. I work for one of the two medical testing companies that were doing Covid testing so after a brief slump in business before the tests were developed we were putting in overtime. My mother was able to start WFH (before retiring within the next year or so) and I was horribly jealous.
Fireplace with brickwork painted royal blue, ashy grey, lavender and pale blue. Note that the light blue matches the living room, the royal blue matches the front door and entryway tile, and the lavender matches one of the hallways. A large white rabbit is on the bricks in front of the firewood cubbyhole (wondering where her cage went - disassembled for the fireplace repairwork) and a Siamese cat surveys her from the endtable.
Seafoam green tiles with a stripe of Greek key patterned tile extends into the shower cubicle which replaced a leaking tub. Wall includes a mermaid print, a "Blackbeard's rugged tampons" print, a robe hook, a towel bar, and a makeup mirror mounted to the wall (for inspecting the back of my hair in the cabinet mirror on the opposite wall).
Opposite corner of same small bathroom displays French colonial vanity, crown molding where the walls meet the ceiling, and bell-shaped lights over what I seem to recall was the largest size of mirrored medicine cabinet Lowe's sold in February 2019. Also a fancy silver-plated light switch (and matching electrical socket on the wall just above the countertop, hidden by toiletries) and matching crystal doorknob.
Note: We've been in this house sine 1999 and could only afford remodelling since 2019 or so. Here's what we did with the fireplace and guest bathroom (aka my bathroom):
My bedroom is still white but as soon as I get around to cleaning that last quadrant of the room and scheduling some contractors I'm going for deep teal on one wall (white closet kit mounted to it) and lighter aqua on the other three. Floor in patterned black-and-white tile, white doors.
Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Tim Curry in Clue
Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers
Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island
Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.
Telling people about the good, useful use cases for AI is kinda like telling people about the 30-50 feral hogs you need your AR-15 for
It is entirely true and yet so completely divorced from the lived experience of your audience that you sound ridiculous
I came nearly 2 weeks past due, making me a Scorpio instead of a Libra.
I said it before and I'll say it again:
Giving a pack of Epstein associates a comprehensive list of all children in the country with home address and school listed, sortable by various traits that indicate vulnerability to exploitation, is the literal diametric opposite of keeping kids safe.
LOL did not know about this, glad I'm not the only one
Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.
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for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.
Maybe search on yarn weight + yardage and filter out project types like socks?
Black kitten draped over photographer's knee waits for the phone to be put down and petting to resume. Other black kitten sits on coffee table watching for his chance for attention.
Ninja got her name because she spent her first day or two in the house hiding, while Superdave (adopted the same day) was climbing on people getting to know his new digs. A few months later, here she was on my knee.
EBay may have come up with an even more annoying variant, in that now when I open the app it tries to get me to resell something I bought on there a year or two back. No, I bought that teacup to drink from, I have no intention of flipping my collectibles!
what is the charge. what crime has been done
I've heard of someone building a greenhouse and putting a TARDIS door on it to get that "bigger on the inside" reveal. (With big bushes or small trees on either side of the door to help hide the actual small building it led into.)
We're also going with the "various plants on a table" look in the back. And your herb table is very close to what we painted our front door.
bsky.app/profile/fyrd...
In the foreground is a patio table covered with potted plants. Most are miniature roses, but also 2 lavenders, a mint, a plastic tub of acorns, a pot of long trailing leaves from something unidentified that hasn't bloomed yet, and two long boxes at the far edge of the table filled with strawberry plants. To the left a wrought iron holder supports dangling terra cotta pots holding miniature roses that bloom variegated red-and-white. To the right of the terra cotta pots a tilting shepherd's crook holds a pair of hanging planters, purple callibrachoa to the left and catnip on the right. (The catnip is the whole reason I had to get hanging pots - Loki will eat a catnip plant to the roots if he can get to it.) Behind the table are seen a purple tomato cage with a bit of the top of the tomato plant, and to the right of that a full sized rosebush in a pot at the corner of the patio. Further back in the yard two raised beds stand against the wall of the garage. The new smaller one holds delphinium, columbine and bouganvillea planted a few weeks ago. The old tiered bed still has a mass of mugwort I need to rip out so it stops blocking the sun from my sprouting potatoes.
A few steps forward from the other photo, showing one of the three grow bags standing on the patio edge east of the table. Two different kinds of potatoes and yams in the third. Also in the yard a small white muttadoodle enjoys being outside after a rainy morning spent in the house.
So here's what our back garden currently looks like. Details in alt text 🌱
Well, the good news is it'll be easy for me to replace the Pendleton mug some cat (probably Dave) broke last night. The bad news is, it'll probably run me close to $30. (I did another round of searching for the moose mug a cat broke during the Snowmageddon. No luck.)