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Used to have a decent career writing about books prior to Nov. 2024. Trained as a historian. Grew up in the PNW. Dead chuffed ‘bout owt. Stop mithering.

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He's dating a Kardashian.

07.03.2026 02:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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You cannot sit there condemning one radical religious authoritarian regime while you pray for your own radical religious authoritarian regime. #iran

07.03.2026 02:36 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0
Middle-aged white woman wearing glasses and a grey watch cap and a red plaid shirt bent over pulling weeds from soil. Next to her is her familiar, a medium-haired tabby cat.

Middle-aged white woman wearing glasses and a grey watch cap and a red plaid shirt bent over pulling weeds from soil. Next to her is her familiar, a medium-haired tabby cat.

I am so overfocused on pulling shotweed and false nettle that it’s a wonder I can find anything else.

06.03.2026 21:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On the plus side, it’s also “Here’s that pair of clippers I’ve been looking for since last October” season.

06.03.2026 21:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!

06.03.2026 12:05 👍 2089 🔁 1085 💬 17 📌 22

It is 18-3.
I love Spring Training. I love the Mariners.
If we were up by 15, I’d expect us to find a way to lose.

05.03.2026 21:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

News reports said 13-0. Tuning in, it was 12–1.
That’s much better.

It’s Spring Training ball

05.03.2026 21:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Haha

05.03.2026 21:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

HOW CAN IT BE 13-0 IN THE SECOND INNING?
I am late turning on the Mariners game and WTF?

05.03.2026 21:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Seed catalog for Prairie Moon Nursery. Native seeds and plants for gardening and restoration. 
Monarch butterfly caterpillar (black, yellow and white stripes) on a pink milkflower. Prairiemoon.com

Seed catalog for Prairie Moon Nursery. Native seeds and plants for gardening and restoration. Monarch butterfly caterpillar (black, yellow and white stripes) on a pink milkflower. Prairiemoon.com

Watching the Mariners game and looking at plant porn.

Spring training isn’t just for baseball.
@mariners.com

#pollinators

05.03.2026 02:44 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Terry Tempest Williams on the Plight of the Monarch Butterfly Tell me what supernatural life / Is painted on your wings, the poet Homero Aridjis writes of monarch butterflies. He knows the migrations, the flaming butterflies, from his childhood when they retu…

“Who are we as a species if we allow monarch butterflies, a living symbol of metamorphosis, to cease to exist?” Terry Tempest Williams on the plight of the monarch butterfly.

03.03.2026 17:00 👍 22 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

I am not enjoying being stuck between two groups of theocrats in the grip of hazy apocalyptic fantasies

03.03.2026 17:01 👍 61 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0

Looking forward to an article about all the Black women scientists who thrived despite Epstein and friends best efforts to shove us out of the field including by not offering us funding that our competitors were getting

03.03.2026 16:53 👍 403 🔁 75 💬 3 📌 2

because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!

03.03.2026 16:54 👍 257 🔁 142 💬 0 📌 2
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Military Commander Tells Troops Bombing Iran Is ‘Part Of God’s Divine Plan’ One commander had a “big grin” on his face while saying Donald Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran," a service member said.

Some U.S. military commanders have reportedly been accused of telling their troops the Iran war is part of a biblical plan to trigger the end times

03.03.2026 16:49 👍 787 🔁 333 💬 94 📌 203

a trans friend of mine from kansas moved to amsterdam and got a letter over there telling her that her ks license is invalid and she made a post about the parallels to the nazis and immediately she was hounded by cis ppl yelling at her for falsely framing herself as a victim of fascist persecution

03.03.2026 14:28 👍 1408 🔁 286 💬 13 📌 9

literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back

03.03.2026 15:08 👍 8624 🔁 1360 💬 189 📌 45

the HPV vaccine is fucking incredible, period end of that's it

02.03.2026 23:25 👍 1210 🔁 384 💬 18 📌 1
Benjamin Netanyahu’s long career was built on conflict avoidance—then, October 7 transformed and radicalized him, @Yair_Rosenberg argues:

Benjamin Netanyahu’s long career was built on conflict avoidance—then, October 7 transformed and radicalized him, @Yair_Rosenberg argues:

OMFG they think we are the dumbest people who ever lived.

02.03.2026 23:33 👍 6115 🔁 934 💬 280 📌 179
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"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

03.03.2026 08:16 👍 6598 🔁 1564 💬 91 📌 45

Taking time to do this today. I grew up in an old logging town in Oregon, where I once made a lot of enemies by doing a school project on the endangered spotted owl. These forests welcome me every time I visit—I'll always associate them with home, with rest and peace. They deserve their peace, too.

02.03.2026 14:23 👍 165 🔁 69 💬 2 📌 0
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For all of you concerned about your holidays 🙄

01.03.2026 22:36 👍 230 🔁 77 💬 6 📌 8
I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai - while back home in Chichester my daughters are furious, the labradoodles are sick and, worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge

I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai - while back home in Chichester my daughters are furious, the labradoodles are sick and, worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge

new iconic meme format just dropped

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

02.03.2026 14:32 👍 2169 🔁 411 💬 65 📌 106

Do they make oscars for weather reporting?

02.03.2026 04:14 👍 91 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 1

All relief flights from Dubai should be met at arrivals with signs saying "HM Revenue & Customs welcomes you back to the UK"

02.03.2026 11:48 👍 528 🔁 111 💬 11 📌 3

There's a lot to hate about living next door to a child-killing ghoul. But what if the ghoul offered to babysit for free?

02.03.2026 14:47 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Those wishing to argue with JF about the NYT will have your chance to do so if you spend $8000 to do yoga with her in Kenya.

02.03.2026 06:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

just became aware of this--the regime wants to clear-cut massive chunks of Oregon's old growth forests in the name of timber production.

you have until March 23rd to comment.

i know we have endless fucking things to scream at politicians about--this is an important one too.

28.02.2026 18:41 👍 2696 🔁 2688 💬 40 📌 50
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US-Israel war on Iran live: explosions heard in Gulf cities and Jerusalem; evacuations in Beirut as conflict spreads to Lebanon Iran-backed Hezbollah says it launched rockets and drones at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Our government's actions are monstrous. Stop the war.

02.03.2026 06:25 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Lorraine’s Spring Cleaning Tips

In the fall, hide $20 bills in books, underneath file boxes, etc.
When you spring clean, you will pay yourself for getting a hated chore done.
(This presupposes having $20 in the fall)

28.02.2026 21:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0