From the Larchives: Someday I'll hopefully write a story to go with these characters :

Keep in mind the sale hasn't gone through yet so this is the "only site that allows leftist content" people said it was wrong to shut down.

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

The ceasefire has taken effect in Gaza but my friend and brother Mohamed's land is lost to the nearly one mile "security buffer zone" it provides which of course comes from Palestinians' land. So he remains at Al Mawasi camp. chuffed.org/project/help...

I literally stole book 2 of a series from the library of a ship that was getting decommissioned because they only had book 2 and I'd never been able to find it.

Also I bought the Discworld books on port visits in Australia back in the day before they were easily findable here in the US.

My wife, who is from the frigid Northlands, KEEPS TURNING THE HEAT OFF IN THE BEDROOM AT NIGHT

Every time I hear someone on a podcast read off a URL I think of this guy youtu.be/HD33rlVwXtU?...

I was born and raised in CAs Central Valley and I'm voting #YesOnProp50. Farm workers and people of color are suffering under this administration's racial profiling. Prop 50 gives us the opportunity to fight back on the power grab that TX Republicans and Trump are attempting.

Jess it's so cold here I'm dying

I legitimately said “Oh…” out loud. Thats a hard ass yikes and a bug-eyed WTF

I don’t even dare to say “this is a lot” because this is, simply put, disgustingly too damn much.

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

Leopard?

I HAVE ANOTHER SPOOKY READ LINED UP FOR MID OCTOBER BY ONE JORDAN L HAWK YOU KNOW

I’m halfway through It Was Her House First and it’s great.

(of course it is, it was written by @cheriepriest.com)

October Spooky Reads: What Stalks the Deep by @tkingfisher.com

The latest Alex Easton book sees the sworn soldier arriving in the US to help out an old friend, but frankly nothing is what it seems.

This is the most Ursula of books: creepy, gross, horrifyingly pragmatic. A+ plotting and dialog

@pastures.myatproto.social Festuca idahoensis and F. ovina for real don't have the endophyte that causes fescue foot and reproductive issues???

Actually, I'm going to throw my hat out: would anybody like to have me on their podcast/newsletter to talk about Appalachian pulp, folklore, witchlore, and the benefits of weirding historical fiction? I think these stories are good, and I want to talk about them!

What middle and upper class cis het white people need to understand is that they only have as many rights as the most vulnerable do. You have only the rights trans people and immigrants do.

In a world of battleships at rest, be a rotating turret.

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

The actual turn radius is 2280 feet which yields a half circle circumference of 7159 feet. That turn radius happens at 20 knots which is 33 feet per second. It takes 216 seconds to make that turn, or 3.6 minutes to turn an Iowa class battleship around in ideal conditions.

Also instead of being 80 feet long and 8.5 feet wide, it is 887 feet long and 108 feet wide. It weighs 61,000 tons. And its tightest practical turn RADIUS is half a mile.

Now picture a semi that did not have a joint behind the cab but was instead rigid along its entire length trying to turn right.

Now imagine that actually it's rear-wheel drive.

Also the road is icy. And its tires are bald. It can only steer by changing the angle of a steel beam it's dragging.

Turning a battleship is such a great metaphor but one I feel people don't really understand viscerally so let's do a little mental exercise. We've all seen a semi turning right, yes? We can remember that?