Mike Wood

except about how to run for president.

Louis Tully is my favourite Sith Lord

A macro image of the backside of a sleeping bee, whose head is not visible because it's jammed down into the center of a yellow flower. The bee's abdomen is dark with thin light-colored bands of hair. The flower's petals surrounding it are smooth, and the flower's fuzzy stigma is next to the bee, like a yellow pom-pom.

Guess what
Bee butt

A small (under 1 cm., way smaller than a honeybee) male Dufourea sp. bee sleeping in a sun cup (Camissonia campestris) flower in the Mojave Desert last week. Males of many solitary native bees sleep in flowers or use their mandibles to clamp onto thin plant stems. 🐙🌿📷 #BugSky

"Honestly, the plan is to keep bombing until Christ returns."

Gwenwayne Stacy

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

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

Because it was hard to build

Good news: I am not feeling anything secondhand, not even imagining if the senior manager is replaying the pithy defence as smoke billows on the horizon

"on-demand talk radio"
That's exactly it! Thank you.

SPOILER ALERT: ... because Doug Ford took a thing that worked (was once the envy of the world!) and broke it.

Did the Coliseum ever feature an act like this? With nobody to root for? Just villains and chaos and overspray in the splashzone?

I will not rest until I've seen every FTSE100 CEO bite into a juicy hamburger

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Now is the time for LIVE entertainment in small venues.

Thanks. I found it on his blog just now.

I hope they don’t use enough rope and he dangles for a while

Next do tap water in Flint

Incredible. I love it.
Where's that from?!

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"The most effective consumer boycotts in history share two qualities: they are narrow and they are easy," writes @rutgerbregman.com

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Got it. I'm sorry for your loss. To clarify: You want a eulogy for your father that's 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲, sounds 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁, and captures the 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗺. I get it. He wasn't just your father — he was your Dad. Here a few options I came up with:

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE

Wealthiest nation in history.

What do you get when you cross Wag the Dog with Idiocracy?

Blackmailer: I have compromising photos of you--
Me: OMG, are they cute? Can I see?
Blackmailer: Uh...and I will release them--
Me: Seriously?? When? Can you let me know so I can repost? 11 am is a great window. The dramatic cool filter looks hot on me btw.
Blackmailer: You know what never mind.

unnervingly erotic phrase

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to