Carly Putnam 🦖

Photo of a Townsend's Solitaire perched at the top of a juniper by Charles Gates. Text on the photo says "Unsolicited Bird Fact: If Townsend's Solitaires drank cocktails, their drink of choice would probably be a gin and tonic. During the winter they eat almost exclusively juniper berries. During the breeding season, solitaires move into higher elevation (or latitude) coniferous forests where they feed primarily on insects. If we knew anything we'd make a gin and name it after these elegant birds.

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

I’ve been saying

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

This is like sportsball dude with the physicist mom who gave a commencement speech on how to be barefoot and pregnant.

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

It's valid to tell people "I have plans" if your plans are to sit on your couch. That's a type of plans

Star Trek Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is pictured. She has a dolphin shaped metal robotic implant around her left eye because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Fun will now commence."

It's the weekend, baby

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

She's now telling us that her teacher explained that if anyone comes in he'll fight them off by throwing things at them, America is a permanent broken heart

the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity etc etc

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

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

It has been over two years since Markwayne Mullin challenged someone to a cage match in the middle of a US Senate hearing. Why won’t the Democrat Party acknowledge this?

by Hugh Hewitt

Headline is evergreen.

Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympics Games Web Results for Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Paralympics Games, powered by Bornan

DO NOT FORGET THERE IS OLYMPIC CURLING TOMORROW.

MD play starts EARLY in the morning. I will be watching the team play live and cheering on @seanone.bsky.social!

www.paralympic.org/milano-corti...

"A third U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group is getting ready to cross the Atlantic and join the war against Iran.

The USS George H.W. Bush has completed her workups just off the coast of Cape Hatteras and is expected to deploy soon.

She's expected to head to the eastern Mediterranean..."

They're going to write books about all the big brain moves of this gang of imbeciles and among them will be "Spending a year trying to kill renewable energy and then launching a war that sends oil prices soaring"

Remember how this guy lobbied hard to get a pardon for a war criminal who slaughtered children? Turns out that’s literally his entire philosophy of armed conflict

Unbearable. Wtf are we doing.

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

After spending the day talking about college football, Trump heads to Palm Beach for another weekend of golf.

This is one of the most jaw dropping moments of Trump’s presidency. Up there with brainstorming about injecting bleach and shining light up orifices to cure COVID.

i feel like this is all happening cause we stopped pumping up the jam

Worth watching the whole clip, but purely in propaganda terms it seems to me, admittedly just an amateur observer when it comes to war fighting, that it may be useful to send the message to the 91+ million Iranian civilians that we are not trying to kill them.

Medicare revisits antipsychotics policy. How much is too much? What families need to know about a renewed debate over rules for nursing homes that sedate dementia patients.

For the last decade, the federal government has penalized nursing homes over the use of powerful antipsychotic drugs to control residents with dementia.

But now, the Trump administration is reviewing whether to loosen restrictions on these medications.

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Pictured is "After hours Geordi La Forge." He's wearing a velvety cushy soft looking future space guy sweater and he's ready to chillax to the max. Also and always wearing his banana clip looking eye visor. Closed caption reads, "Maybe a little soft jazz."

ok so I can think of one ethical use for Kalshi

This appalling White House video game imagery on Iran illustrates what @teotten1.bsky.social and I discuss on today's pod: The role of fantasy, unreality and sadism-as-entertainment in MAGA politics.

newrepublic.com/article/2074...