Paula D

2026 nuclear family meme— featuring Fritzi as Neurodivergent Aunt, Sluggo as Sluggo, Nancy as Daughter, Nancy Jr as Woke Dog

Me: apologizing for apologizing for apologizing

That senator from Montana: oh, you’re a veteran? Let me break your arm.

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana

(Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

A YouTube thumbnail picturing a very fat old Bassett hound laying on the floor with the title of the video "No more depression. Meatball is ready to kill"

You think you don’t, but you got this. Trust me. I know. And you’ve been through and done some shit, so first rodeos and all that. Keep going.

This is the pontoon where one used to board the ferry at Eastney, Portsmouth, to cross the fast-flowing waters to Hayling Island. I sat on the beach in 1994 to paint this and I remember a goat was tethered nearby. It's unlikely that we will visit Portsmouth again but this was particularly memorable because the coxswain of the boat was my uncle Bobby Baker, one of my father's brothers. He was a lovely, good-humoured man, ex-naval. We had a chat with him but I think that was on an earlier occasion when we bought tickets and went over to the island.

My watercolour from 1994 painted sitting on Eastney beach, Portsmouth. I love the memory that it captures. This pontoon is where one boarded the little ferry that my uncle Bobby skilfully guided across to Hayling Island through the fast flowing water. See alt text.
#Portsmouth #Eastney #pleinair

this eased something deep in my heart

“we are as dark inside as the night is, meaning, / we are so beautiful most people choose / not to see us, for fear of overwhelming / themselves”

- Ariana Brown (@arianathepoet.bsky.social)

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I keep thinking about this because I have an ultramarathoner husband, and the thing I think about is that people are dying at here-to-fore uncontemplated rates in the Italian alps in part because they are asking ChatGPT for advice.

(Source: www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...)

Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…

“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

Donate to Help Saint Paul Families Provide Diapers for Kids, organized by Jill Moe Kids in Minnesota need diapers. Amid the ongoing ICE occupation, many f… Jill Moe needs your support for Help Saint Paul Families Provide Diapers for Kids

We’re all trying to do something for our neighbors in need here in Minnesota. My wife and I want to raise money to get diapers to families who need them.
Never run a GoFundMe before. Please help if you can.

gofund.me/299cbf1ff

at an event with Mahmoud Khalil and he just said America is a democracy “when it’s convenient” and …whew

A two-panel Little Bubbie Child comic. Top panel is the little bubbie child asking, "Dad, hwat was it like a livin' in the 90s?" Bottom panel is dad responding, "Sometimes you'd open a can a peanuts and they'd come snakes outta there."

I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state.

Tell them it will find your dog.

Smart people have already written about the many problems of generative AI better than I could, but I’ll tell you this about the thing I know: writing is about writing. It’s an action. A verb. It’s what we do. I write, you write, they write. Skip that and you’re not a writer.

But when it comes to her current pen names, Ms. Hart doesn’t disclose her use of A.I., because there’s still a strong stigma around the technology, she said.

Okay so it took me literally three minutes to uncover eight other likely pseudonyms of Hart's.

#PairedTexts

1. "The New Fabio Is Claude" (The New York Times, Feb. 8, 2026)

2. Romance readers on r/RomanceBooks: "Okay so it took me literally three minutes to uncover eight other likely pseudonyms of Hart's."

People: 8-Month-Old Baby Goes Viral After Hairdresser Mom Gave Her a 'Fresh' Set of 22 Inch Extensions (Exclusive)

Baby with 22inch hair extensions

This photo is funnier than it has any business being

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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

But just as I have no license to dictate the actions of others, neither do the constructors of the world in which I must live have a right to unconditionally impose their visions on me. Scientists and technologists have, because of their power, an especially heavy responsibility, one that is not to be sluffed off behind a facade of slogans such as that of technological inevitability. In a world in which man increasingly meets only himself, and then only in the form of the products he has made, the makers and designers of these products-the buildings, airplanes, foodstuffs, bombs, and so on— need to have the most profound awareness that their products are, after all, the results of human choices. Men could instead choose to have truly safe automobiles, decent television, decent housing for everyone, or comfortable, safe, and widely distributed mass transportation. The fact that these things do not exist, in a country that has the resources to produce them, is a consequence, not of technological inevitability, not of the fact that there is no longer anyone who makes choices, but of the fact that people have chosen to make and to have just exactly the things we have made and do have.

I think about this basically every day (Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976) I will keep posting Weizenbaum quotes until conditions improve

Jessa Kae is size inclusive but EXPENSIVE. 🥲 They do show up on Poshmark, sometimes. But those are my go-to event dresses when I feel the event merits a dress budget !

!!!! Get out, that’s so wild! No threat of ping pong balls in your gas tank? Or slashed tires?

Tbh, maybe a bit more civilized but damn

‘LOOKING DOWN AT HIS ENEMY, HE SCOLDED HIM ROUNDLY’ Illustration of a squirrel in a tree looking at a fox sat on the grass with his tongue hanging out, trees, sky, clouds in distance.

From Bumper the White Rabbit, George Ethelbert Walsh, illustr. Edwin John Prittie, 1922.

Three panel comic. Panel 1: the stage of the Jerry Springer show with an audience watching. A peeved looking person sits in a chair. Jerry Springer stands next to him and says, “we have with us: your ancestor who crawled out of the ocean 375 million years ago!” Panel 2: the incensed audience boos loudly. Panel 3: security attempts to break out a fistfight between the onstage guest and a prehistoric fish, the Tiktaalik.

babe you don’t have space savers like in Boston??? (Get a plastic chair out there!!!)