Marc Criley

The mortals dealt with it.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

This is Albie. He was so touched by his family singing happy birthday in his native language that he didn't notice the cupcakes with his face on them. 13/10 hbd Albie #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: _sallyv)

Superheros brainwash our children out of the idea of collective action and mythologize powerful man thank you for coming to my TED talk

If you ever fly into Huntsville, AL (home of Redstone Arsenal, Missile Defense Agency, many other military orgs, and Space Command--coming soon!) the whole terminal is plastered with military weapon system ads.

Then there's the vendor hall(s) for the annual Space & Missile Defense symposium...

In the last couple decades a fair number of people advocated "just give the GOP control, let them ruin everything, and that'll burn it out of the system for good."

First W, then first term Trump, and what we learned instead was that a great number of people shouted, "MOAR PLZ!"

I never read a Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew book, but I devoured every Three Investigators one.

it seems so simple

Well, this is some serious timeline synchronicity!

@indyfromspace.bsky.social @nameshiv.bsky.social

Small yellow blossoms descend from a newly budded branch.

Eastern leatherwood blossoms on Cedar Gap Mtn, Alabama.

Very small, and bloom only briefly.

Aerial view of five rows of graves being prepared by people and digging equipment, with vehicles on the left side.

Once you see this image as a grim American flag you cannot unsee it.

These are the 4 things AI can do well:

•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday

You can see why we need to base our economy around it

No shit Sherlock.

Black and white photo of four kittens spilling out of a basket that seems to be partially full of sticks or vines or something. They’re all short haired, and there is a black haired tuxedo, two tabbies, and what looks like a white and calico. Two of them look remarkably grumpy, and the other two seemed kind of blank and possibly confused.

Historians agree that the real Pandora’s Box was likely a basket of grumpy kittens. Postcard from my collection, mailed 1904.

Last Saturday, when news of Trump's attack on Iran became known last Saturday, I went and gassed up the car.

Checked the price when we went shopping this morning and saw it had climbed 40 cents/gallon in the six days since.

If your public or university library provides Kanopy (free and ad-free streaming shows and movies), I Saw The TV Glow just went up.

www.kanopy.com/en/product/i...

So say we all. 👍

Limited edition benefit sweatshirt for The Trans Continental Pipeline from Bikini Kill Limited edition benefit sweatshirt for The Trans Continental Pipeline from Bikini Kill

Up to 350 now! Let's keep it going. All profit from any sales on our Bandcamp today will be donated to the Trans Continental Pipeline. This will be the only day this sweatshirt is available: bikinikill.bandcamp.com/merch/limite...

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

it's almost like the consultants should be focus grouping mamdani instead of their racist aunt

the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics

this is what it feels like to post on bluesky

FISH POEM Stella Sacco My best friend in Catholic grade school, Tony, Lived on one side of the highway to Pittstield And between the sets of lanes, Set deep down a sharp incline, There was a little stream Running from one corrugated pipe to another And when I'd come visit we'd cross the road And we'd climb down And we'd get our hands and shoes wet And we'd hunt for cool rocks. But one day we found a big fish instead.

It was in a pool slightly deeper and wider Than the rest of the stream And we were mystified. It was big, much bigger than we figured A fish in a stream that narrow should be. Not that we had ever seen a fish there before. It was alive and so still That we were able to reach into the water And stroke it And feel its slick scales And so we sang songs to it And we called it a gentle giant And it didn't swim away And we thought it was a miracle And we wondered where it would go from there And we went back inside.

The next time I saw Tony I brought up our gentle giant And he looked at me with a sort of bladed pity And said "It was dying, dummy." He explained he had talked to his mom And his mom had said The fish came from somewhere else And had gotten stranded in that stream somehow And had nothing to eat anymore And not enough room to swim And the reason it didn't swim away from us Is because it couldn't swim away from us. It couldn't swim anywhere. We were the giants, not the fish, And we had played with it As it was dying.

I got sad. Maybe it was able to go downstream, I offered. Tony countered with a "How?" For which I did not have a great answer. But I just think If I was dying, As l am every day, I would like someone Who thought I was miraculous To touch me And feel my soft skin And sing to me While I went.

Fish Poem

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a construction worker's outfit. The other shows her in a police officer outfit.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a nurse's outfit. The other shows her in an electrical worker's outfit.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a military outfit while riding aboat. The other shows her in a firefighter's outfit using a firehose.

Two photos. One shows Kristi Noem in a Westernwear outfit. The other shows her in a police officer's outfit.

good news. kristi noem has already found eight new jobs

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

Tomorrow's Bandcamp Friday fundraiser will be for The Trans Continental Pipeline, helping trans folks leave hostile states (ahem, Kansas) for Colorado.

Did you know?
- certain trees get important nutrients from human bones
- other trees collect souls and trap them in their ring labyrinths
- most trees agree that squirrels are jerks
- 3% of trees are named Dennis

don’t let anyone rob you of your joy about kristi noem getting fired. we get to have a day.

noem's dog looking down from heaven

1 HOUR of sewer sludge cake bin live cam with lo-fi beats YouTube video by Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District

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So you'd like to think it'd be "NOEM's OUT! PARTY TIME Y'ALL!!!"

But no, not in this administration.

It's just another day of god damn dumber'n a box of rocks stupidity and callousness.