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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 4h

i recently took this lil monster on her first road trip and she was pretty freaked out by the car

she made it tho

she spent a lot of time hiding down under the dashboard so i just tried to keep her comfy 😩 😂 😭 💔

a photo that is, vertically, about half taken up by the black of a dashboard, with the other half made up of blankets. in the middle, a tiny brown dog face pokes out from the blankets, unhappily

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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 6h

@ai6yr

“Taping PDF patterns together is hazardous to my health. It reduces my will to live. I would rather mop the ocean than do that.”

LMFAO i feel that!

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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14h

Grand Cayman, 7 Mile Beach, June 2013

#travel #beach #photography

a wide shot shows an expansive white-beige beach, and placid, crystalline turquoise water stretching to the horizon under a sky full of fluffy white clouds. to the left of the frame, a small stand of trees grows on the beach in the distance

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

[Fascism Is Here, Big Brother, ICE Stingrays]

TechCrunch: ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/ice-bought-vehicles-equipped-with-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-phones/

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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

[Movies, Sex, What?]

@ai6yr

lmfao wut

even after reading everyone's explanation in the comments -- i'm like

'Every James Bond Movie': a bisexual awakening (????)

"Barbie" - horny-ass Hollywood and their fuckable actors (??????)

One Upon a Time in Hollywood - no clue what that was about […]

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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@kmmich @ContamClub

looks like some type of yeast to me (i may not be telling you any new information, just commenting -- i do not know what type)

interestingly, it's not unlike this colony grown from cultured hand prints, shown on this blog […]

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Numerous yellow yeast and white Stahpylococcus spp colonies. Interesting yellow basket shaped growth in the upper corner, possible yeast or Bacillus spp,

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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

cool. cool.

just more Boeing problems

(expecting someone to drop in at any second and tell me how great boeing is like the last time i posted something like this...)

#aviation #news

https://apnews.com/article/air-india-rat-crash-india-birmingham-amritsar-7631aad0381602a3c239d667759468d2

Air India's midair emergency sparks new alarm over the safety of the Boeing Dreamliner

India's leading body of pilots is asking the country’s civil aviation regulator to investigate the Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet for electrical issues after one of the planes abruptly deployed an emergency power system midair over the weekend.

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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

there havent been many good people.

but we lost a real one here.

screenshot from the Guardian: Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space

Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship

these lines appear above an image of her in portrait

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Spo0000opybirb :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Pritzker pointing out that ICE lies first and immediately, knowing journalists will catch up later if at all.

Coming from a sitting US governor, that’s an amazing breakthrough […]

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Or, as I heard a martial arts teacher say once... in a street fight, don't fight fair.

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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@ai6yr

a public service announcement from the streets of Baltimore: :ablobcatattentionreverse:

it's important to know, street fighting is nothing like the choreographed stuff you see on tv and in the movies, unless maybe you have seen jerry springer.
it's a wild free-for-all

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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@ai6yr

yes!
they'll take next year's farmer's market by storm! 🥴 😂

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 3d

LOL don't overdose on fresh berries, per the folks in Madrid.

"The liqueur we know today is thanks to the famous artisan Cruz Palomo, who created his recipe in the mid-1940s. As he told in an interview in 1984, it all began as a result of an «overdose» of the berries.

Cruz Palomo was in his […]

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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@ai6yr

lmfao
interesting

this summer i grew basil and twice, when handling the plant, became overcome with dizziness and felt like i was gonna pass out.
i've had anaphylaxis once, and it kinda felt like that.
so i guess i'm allergic to the aroma or oils of basil plants now?
yeah. weird.

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LiteralGrill @literalgrill.sakurajima.moe.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Ya know, right now would be an AMAZING time for Mastodon's leadership to break bread with the Black programmers that really wanted to help make this place less racist.

Bluesky just banned a prominent Black user from basically being seen by anyone. **Because Bluesky's CEO is mad about their […]

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

ICE has been paying private security for 24/7 guards to watch a guy with no record whose leg they fucked up so badly he has been in a hospital for over a month, and we wonder why people were handing Tom Homan bags of cash.

Via @kyledcheney.bsky.social

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

On August 27, 2025, Petitioner was arrested at the Carson Car Wash in Carson,
California by uniformed Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) officers and unidentified
plainclothes federal agents. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 48; Santiago Decl. ¶ 3. During the arrest,
Petitioner sustained severe leg injuries. See Pet. ¶ 48; Santiago Decl. ¶ 5. He was
handcuffed and transported by CBP to the emergency room at Harbor-UCLA Medical
Center in Carson, California. Id.
At the hospital, Petitioner was admitted under a “blackout” procedure for patients
in law-enforcement custody and was registered under the pseudonym “Har Maine UNK
Thirteen.” Santiago Decl. ¶ 7. Federal agents remained at Petitioner’s bedside during
admission, transfer to non-public treatment areas, and throughout his stay, keeping him
handcuffed to his hospital bed. Id. ¶ 6.
On or about August 27, 2025, CBP transferred custody of Petitioner to ICE. See Pet.
¶ 48. He remains detained at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center under the supervision of ICE,
which has contracted with Spectrum Detention Services (“Spectrum”) to provide guards.
See Santiago Decl. ¶ 8; Pet. ¶ 48.
Since that date, two to four uniformed guards—either Spectrum employees or ICE
agents—have been continuously stationed in Petitioner’s hospital room, monitoring him at
all times, including while he sleeps, eats, uses the restroom, or receives medical care. See
Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 9–10.

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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 4d

upcoming forecasts for the Arctic look a bit crazy \

there is a 7-day outlook shown on the left and a specific day (still a few days out) on the right that looks like it could be 20C (!!!) over normal in some places

Arctic amplification run amok, and it's […]

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7 day outlook for the Arctic shows temperatures wildly above normal in virtually all of the region except North Asia and South Greenland .... some places as much as 20C above - for a 7 day average

one day for a very above average tenperature week is shown here. N Asia still cool, S Greenland cool as well, everywhere else like N North America and the Arctic Ocean are above nornal, vast regions 20C above normal

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Tropical Storm Priscilla in the Pacific #tropicalwx #hurricanes

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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Flaming Gorge National Monument, USA 2025

#USA #travel #photography #nature

a landscape photo from a vantage point - the red, white, brown, beige layers of the earth are revealed in a cliffside that rises high above a water filled gorge, under a sky full of variegated grey clouds. the view stretches for many miles into a hazy blue distance

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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 5d

i love you, Stephen Colbert
you found the only good use of AI

#uspol #news

screenshot from a late show with Stephen Colbert episode on youtube - AI generated video of couchfucker JD Vance fucking a couch, with a bouncing sombrero on his ass

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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@futurebird

so would the bands Chicago, Ministry, and Smashing Pumpkins be 'flyover country?'

😂

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

WRDW: SAFETY ALERT: South Carolina confirms full-blown outbreak of measles

"...COLUMBIA, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) - South Carolina health officials have confirmed a full-blown measles outbreak in the Upstate.

As of Wednesday, eight cases had been reported in that region of South Carolina. Five of them […]

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Anne Ominous @rustoleumlove.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Off the Beaten Path, a Skynet Art Installation - by Patrick Shearn of Poetic Kinetics, in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, USA 2025

#travel #art #photography

below a mostly cloudy sky, and above a manicured park with fir trees, grass, and bushes, a wave of fluttering colors curves and bends about 20 feet over the ground, appearing to float and fly. the colors are individual strips of tent fabric, seemingly snaking through the air

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8d

Today your voices were heard. We will need to be loud throughout the shutdown and continue to put pressure: No anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in the final negotiated bill. Only clean bills that don't throw trans and queer people under the bus.

Kicked butt today y'all. Good work.

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