Na na na na na na na Bat Stamp!

@bezt ++

Pulled, no doubt, from a box that is prominently labeled "BAT POSTAGE"

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.

I don’t even have a TV

: )

Mazel Tov!

Go, kid!

Congratudolences!

Conga Rats 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀!!

wooohoooo!!

big for a Dingo tho

We’re gonna need a bigger baby

Reg Mombassa vibes

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

I dunno... she seems like a liability that won't get much push forward.

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

^lol

Oof 😢

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

Incompetent Militant Papist Clown Passe

I see no reason.

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

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.

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

Musk you be so coy as to who you mean?

also every day

Make Aryans Grimace Again

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 +

meow

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!

I think I love you too!

@waldopepper : omg! why??

:hugs everyone: 😁

I imagine it's pretty wet.

Flood warning

@wjcstp and @poorusher +++

Lots of big blue waves last night

I've been trying to assemble just a capsule biography of all the Dems who flipped a seat, and reading about Teresa Benitez-Thompson—the first Democrat elected in Reno since it got its own seat in 1981—I saw that she was a former Miss Nevada (finished 4th at Miss America that year). It turns out that she seems *wildly* impressive. https://thenevadaindependent.com/article...

Here's her doing a monologue from The Laramie Project, about the murder of Matthew Shepard, as her talent performance at the 2003 Miss America pageant. 2003! https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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.

@roonie the city of Darwin has entered the chat

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"

People! You’re slacking!
“This really grinds me gears” was RIGHT THERE!

She’s so good

She's like Keenan in that she can pull a lot out of a little.

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