Ooh, what do we have here?

@WikiAdam : pictured is a bleu balsalmic endive salad

@jaymayday Would eat

@jaymayday Would fight @WikiAdam to the pain to beat them to it!

> Much of the time was spent painstakingly erasing stars, to reveal the satellites.

Inverse modern astronomy

Literal sky net

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

I've been taking night photos since 2007. I have seen a notable increase in satellite streaks the last few years. And then there's the ever-present air traffic.

No Sparrow Shall Fall

I *don't* smoke a pipe, man.

god it's been awhile since i've disrupted u

This is my "Bob"

Grunkle Stan?

I don't recall owning a tie…

I too am an old.

We should all make a screaming gif with audio, FFU.

She’s incredible and I hope to see plenty more of her. I do think Talarico was the better choice for the general - just in terms of not having to overcome the racism and misogyny that regrettably appears hard baked into the electorate - but she has so much to offer Texas and this country.

She's miraculous and we must protect her at all costs

She’s so good

I can hear this gif and I don't like it.

@samh every parent who's taught their kid how to use a manual transmission knows that sound.

@ardgedee yeah, my mum knew it well. She had two kids learn to drive in her Volvo 345, and we went through two driveshafts and two clutches.

(from what I remember, the 345 was an odd DAF-derived design that had the gearbox and clutch just in front of the rear differential)

Since most cars in the UK were manual, you had to learn in a manual unless you were going for the simpler automatic-only licence

LOL before I read the text I was thinking "the noise"

: )

Mazel Tov!

Go, kid!

Congratudolences!

Conga Rats 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀!!

The irony of photographing an EV at a gas pump is not lost on me

^lol

Back in 1999 - some friends and I decided to have a Guy Fawkes Day celebration where we burned a tiny straw man in effigy. The neighbors got freaked out, called the cops, and it ended up being reported as a comedy bit in a local paper called THE STRANGER: https://www.thestranger.com/news...

Anyway, we made up a Guy Fawkes Day song (sung to This Old Man):

Once this Guy was alive
But way back in 1605
He was tried and hung for Treason 'gainst the Crown
For trying to burn the whole thing down

See this Guy was in a lurch
He didn't like the Anglican Church
Or the way the Government made him pay a fee
If he didn't go voluntarily

Guy thought this was a crock
'Cause he was of Recusant stock
So he got together with 12 other drunken sots
And fomented the Gunpowder Plot

This plot had just one hitch
Someone went to the cops and snitched
Well the cops heard the tale and they were just aghast
And they got medieval on Guy Fawkes' ass

The big trial was no fun
In the end just 8 were hung
And so that Guy's name will live on in infamy (note: sarcasm!)
Now we burn him in effigy

Goooooooooooooooo FAWKES! (everyone cheers)

THE END

Make up a Guy to get mad at

Nothing like good old sectarianism, eh? What could go wrong with that!

Much of the Gunpowder plot was hatched in Northamptonshire (my neck of the woods)

We used to celebrate Guy Fawkes Night here in Oz, with a big open fire in a safe(ish) spot.
The government put a stop to that in the name of Public Safety.
I didn't see any injuries but there must have been enough idiots about to tip the balance. So fireworks were banned.

Turboencabulator. You can tell from the manifolds.

Maybe, but I don't see any unilateral phase detractors.

Ah yeah, once the Canudenshpringle paper came out, everything changed overnight.

Its definitely going to kill us.

out of blinker fluid

Just tightening up the widget arm.

Yes, but is science really real?

@MackReed IN THIS COMMENT WE BELIEVE

SCIENCE IS REAL
REAL IS SCIENCE
IS REAL SCIENCE
HFUCISISOKFNFNSK

I Still Believe

That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the gales of November came early

It looks like that imagines it made whitefish bay by putting 15 more miles behind her

Aw man I did not get this choice at my locality

Are you...a cat?

And Carl can play the bagpipes!

Cat for scale. I wish I knew more about music so I could make a better scale joke.

Catatonic

@ba +

And those pasty-faced descendants of German immigrants will never understand that. They think they too are part of the elite by accident of birth.

man, that game always hits SO hard. every time i've gotten to this conversation, in every iteration, it hits me like a ton of bricks

Oof 😢

I've seen other photos from that corner this morning, the number of stickers is growing fast

Kate Bush *and* Mountain Dew

@BooBounder and I think that’s even a glass bottle

@jive_t nah, that is the first generation of plastic 2 liter bottle, note the plastic overcap on the bottom. Pre-1992ish.

I haven't been able to quite articulate it enough (in my head) to post about it here, but it made me weep last night thinking about how much we owe Minnesota for standing up to ICE the way they did last winter (and still do!). A lot of other people have stood up and shown up, and worked hard (godDAMN, Georgia!)- don't get me wrong - but by fighting back so forcefully and publically "ordinary" Minnesotans just galvanized the country in the way it really needed and they deserve some credit for what happened nationwide yesterday.

@williwaw I think Minnesotans recognized that simply caring about your neighbors in this day and age has become a radical act, and we made the most of it that we could. There were dozens (maybe hundreds) of small groups organizing help for people here, so while the cartoonishly evil of ICE helped make it a national story, the roots of support and connection went so much deeper. Even farther out from the Twin Cities, ICE was abducting people and disrupting communities, and that helped those more isolated parts of the state both recognize the problem and find support networks in ways that cut through their haze of right-wing media. MN Isn't uniformly blue, but this election pushed the state as a whole back toward the left.

Also, much of this goes back further to George Floyd and the networks of support that grew from those killings. ICE focusing here just reactivated that feeling of being under siege and the need to band together.

hell yeah

💙

Watched it three times!

also every day

Make Aryans Grimace Again

I imagine it's pretty wet.

Flood warning

@wjcstp and @poorusher +++

Lots of big blue waves last night

Please, someone tell me that the Sunshine Preservation Bill is a joke.
I saw a reference to TFG bemoaning the lack of evening sunshine.
I looked for a punchline or a reference to The Onion, but there was no hint of irony. That I could see, anyway.

I'd start with a whiskey amuse bouche.

For the appetizer, whiskey.

For the main course, a large tumbler of whiskey with a side of whiskey.

For dessert, whiskey. Something sweet I suppose, like a nice bourbon.

I'd totally do that, on an empty stomach too.

@mikenmar : on empty!! i used to only be able to drink busch ligjht on empty

@mikenmar : i worked not attended

I think I love you too!

@waldopepper : omg! why??