dracaena marginalia
@opheliainwaders.bsky.social
Arts, progressivism, nature, shenanigans.
Photo: NOAA. Opinions: my own.
Photo: NOAA. Opinions: my own.
My friend made an *excellent* mocktail this evening, so here it is just in case anyone else is in the market:
- 4 oz fever tree elderflower tonic water
- juice of half a lime
- 3 dashes angostura bitters
- sprig of rosemary
- 4 oz fever tree elderflower tonic water
- juice of half a lime
- 3 dashes angostura bitters
- sprig of rosemary
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
My friend made an *excellent* mocktail this evening, so here it is just in case anyone else is in the market:
- 4 oz fever tree elderflower tonic water
- juice of half a lime
- 3 dashes angostura bitters
- sprig of rosemary
- 4 oz fever tree elderflower tonic water
- juice of half a lime
- 3 dashes angostura bitters
- sprig of rosemary
Moose
Black bear
Snapping turtle
Pigeon
Giraffe
Black bear
Snapping turtle
Pigeon
Giraffe
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Moose
Stoplight parrotfish
Box turtle
Elephant
Wild horse
Moose
Stoplight parrotfish
Box turtle
Elephant
Wild horse
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Moose
Black bear
Snapping turtle
Pigeon
Giraffe
Black bear
Snapping turtle
Pigeon
Giraffe
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Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Reading letters from the Princess Liselotte of Palantine, the German sister-in-law of Louis XIV, and it's wild because she had this super informal writing style that almost sounds like modern texts
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Like at one point she goes "wish to god my son didn't love holding chunks of bread like a peasant"
Sixty years ago, my in-laws met at Thanksgiving dinner. At Art Garfunkel’s house. My MIL tells me “he said he had just recorded a record but we all thought it probably wouldn’t go anywhere, and then later we heard it on the radio and said ‘wait, isn’t that the song Artie was talking about??’”
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Sixty years ago, my in-laws met at Thanksgiving dinner. At Art Garfunkel’s house. My MIL tells me “he said he had just recorded a record but we all thought it probably wouldn’t go anywhere, and then later we heard it on the radio and said ‘wait, isn’t that the song Artie was talking about??’”
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Calgon, fuck me up
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Calgon, fuck me up
From what I understand, the division is that half of them think Americans don’t deserve health care because if they’re sick it’s their own fault, and the other half think it’s because no one should care for their neighbors unless they’re rich and white?
A health care proposal circulated by the White House in recent days is running into the reality of Republican divisions on the issue — a familiar struggle for a party that has been trying to scrap or overhaul the Affordable Care Act for the past 15 years.
https://to.pbs.org/4p0RWy9
https://to.pbs.org/4p0RWy9
Health care proposal floated by White House runs into familiar GOP divisions
It's a familiar struggle for Republicans, who have been trying to scrap or overhaul the federal health care law for the past 15 years.
www.pbs.org
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
From what I understand, the division is that half of them think Americans don’t deserve health care because if they’re sick it’s their own fault, and the other half think it’s because no one should care for their neighbors unless they’re rich and white?
I assume Part 3 is a doozy (a Duzzi?) but I’m not willing to pay to pollute my brain with any more cursèd images.
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I assume Part 3 is a doozy (a Duzzi?) but I’m not willing to pay to pollute my brain with any more cursèd images.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
A client once referred to me offhandedly as “The Wolf”
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A client once referred to me offhandedly as “The Wolf”
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This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Running for president on a platform that consists in large part of “I’ll turn this godforsaken ballroom into public housing.”
As any architect knows, there’s nothing worse than a nightmare client.
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Running for president on a platform that consists in large part of “I’ll turn this godforsaken ballroom into public housing.”
Legend has it that when I was a baby our pets (a semi-domesticated former barn cat and a large, overprotective malamute) went out on Thanksgiving and returned, together, with an entire cooked turkey.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Legend has it that when I was a baby our pets (a semi-domesticated former barn cat and a large, overprotective malamute) went out on Thanksgiving and returned, together, with an entire cooked turkey.
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this reminds me that I love telling the story of the first time I went to Confession as a kid and very gravely told Father Harrington that I had picked the whole crust off the pie my mom had baked for guests that night and ate it because I was mad at her, which made him laugh so hard he cried
When I was a kid Ma was known for her desserts. Her Thanksgiving job was several pies, fruit and meat, all with homemade crust. One year her crusts were ruined in a baking accident and she had to use frozen store bought. Did 10-year-old me announce that fact to the whole family? I sure did.
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
this reminds me that I love telling the story of the first time I went to Confession as a kid and very gravely told Father Harrington that I had picked the whole crust off the pie my mom had baked for guests that night and ate it because I was mad at her, which made him laugh so hard he cried
It’s not often that I wish I were a lawyer
1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them
'Suddenly exposed' DOGE employees fear prosecution after Musk abandoned them: report
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
www.rawstory.com/doge-employe...
November 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
It’s not often that I wish I were a lawyer
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I bet Zohran just Remembered Some Guys with Trump. Crazy Eddie. Dr. Zizmor. Jacoby & Meyers.
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I bet Zohran just Remembered Some Guys with Trump. Crazy Eddie. Dr. Zizmor. Jacoby & Meyers.
So like, do we think Mamdani went straight to one of those chemical showers, or…?
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
So like, do we think Mamdani went straight to one of those chemical showers, or…?
Ooh, in the bathroom of a Chinese restaurant in Papeete. (It was not the restaurant’s fault; I was pregnant.)
what's the most exotic place you've ever puked? mine's not exactly exotic but i did once have a hangover at the nyc facebook office and barfed in their very nice bathroom
Got food poisoning from Fogo De Chao. Puked out the side of a moving cab along beautiful Copacabana Beach. The most exotic place I'll probably ever puke!
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Ooh, in the bathroom of a Chinese restaurant in Papeete. (It was not the restaurant’s fault; I was pregnant.)
I’m a lunatic who actually really likes public speaking, and this is the way.
The single greatest skill in public speaking is in being able to walk onto a stage and immediately identify who in the audience is going to be your sympathetic listener and then just talking to them
Be the person in the audience who smiles and nods.
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I’m a lunatic who actually really likes public speaking, and this is the way.
Oh, so will they be serving food?
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Ah, ok. Free luggage then?
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Seats where your knees don’t touch the seat in front of you?
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Right.
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Ah, ok. Free luggage then?
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Seats where your knees don’t touch the seat in front of you?
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Right.
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Oh, so will they be serving food?
…
Ah, ok. Free luggage then?
…
Seats where your knees don’t touch the seat in front of you?
…
Right.
…
Ah, ok. Free luggage then?
…
Seats where your knees don’t touch the seat in front of you?
…
Right.
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[googling] does using a VPN negate the implicit bargain made when downloading the Fae
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
[googling] does using a VPN negate the implicit bargain made when downloading the Fae
JCO cannot stop winning 💀💀💀
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
JCO cannot stop winning 💀💀💀
Someone tried this on me once (like 20 years ago) and he was so incredibly flabbergasted when I called him out and started laughing, it was amazing.
The biggest think pickup artist culture didn't/doesn't understand is that negging only works on the kind of woman that negging would work on!
It's the dating version of this
It's the dating version of this
November 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Someone tried this on me once (like 20 years ago) and he was so incredibly flabbergasted when I called him out and started laughing, it was amazing.
Immune system not working well?
Problematic phage gap.
Problematic phage gap.
Your tiger is out?
Problematic cage gap
Problematic cage gap
Your thanksgiving stuffing doesn’t taste right?
Problematic sage gap.
Problematic sage gap.
November 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Immune system not working well?
Problematic phage gap.
Problematic phage gap.
It wasn’t even the only river to catch on fire! Just the most notorious! It also caught fire *multiple times*
Literally just lectured about this!
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.
November 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It wasn’t even the only river to catch on fire! Just the most notorious! It also caught fire *multiple times*
So I stole a pair of my husband’s socks for hiking last weekend, and somehow that resulted in a GNARLY blister despite my boots being extremely broken-in, and now it’s healing and my heel is SO ITCHY.
November 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
So I stole a pair of my husband’s socks for hiking last weekend, and somehow that resulted in a GNARLY blister despite my boots being extremely broken-in, and now it’s healing and my heel is SO ITCHY.