virgotex
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6-gen texan* weirdo $3. She/her/y'all. Photography, wildlife, music, history, way way too much tv.
*Not the horse type texan, more the shrimpboat kind.
*Not the horse type texan, more the shrimpboat kind.
This is the way y'all. Start the new year right.
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
This is the way y'all. Start the new year right.
I nominate this from a recent fallen soldier of song, as a new Thanksgiving classic in the tradition of Alice's Restaurant but a little farther down the road.
Pass el pavo, gobble up el guajolote, CHOMP el chompipe. Go sportball! And F*ck Luckenbach!
youtu.be/Hpq_XHOcxKU?...
Pass el pavo, gobble up el guajolote, CHOMP el chompipe. Go sportball! And F*ck Luckenbach!
youtu.be/Hpq_XHOcxKU?...
Todd Snider - The Story of the Ballad of the Devil's Backbone Tavern
YouTube video by toddsniderrules1
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I nominate this from a recent fallen soldier of song, as a new Thanksgiving classic in the tradition of Alice's Restaurant but a little farther down the road.
Pass el pavo, gobble up el guajolote, CHOMP el chompipe. Go sportball! And F*ck Luckenbach!
youtu.be/Hpq_XHOcxKU?...
Pass el pavo, gobble up el guajolote, CHOMP el chompipe. Go sportball! And F*ck Luckenbach!
youtu.be/Hpq_XHOcxKU?...
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On a personal note: Sen. Winter was an incredibly kind person. She always wanted to help. She often brightened my day at the Capitol.
She didn't shy away from tough questions and she was fierce in her beliefs. She was brave in coming forward in 2018 to report sexual harassment.
She didn't shy away from tough questions and she was fierce in her beliefs. She was brave in coming forward in 2018 to report sexual harassment.
Horrible news tonight...
Colorado state senator killed in multi-vehicle crash south of Denver coloradosun.com/2025/11/26/f... #copolitics #coleg
Colorado state senator killed in multi-vehicle crash south of Denver coloradosun.com/2025/11/26/f... #copolitics #coleg
Colorado state senator killed in multi-vehicle crash south of Denver
Faith Winter, a Broomfield Democrat, was a fierce advocate for transit. She was entering her 12th and final year as a state lawmaker.
coloradosun.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
On a personal note: Sen. Winter was an incredibly kind person. She always wanted to help. She often brightened my day at the Capitol.
She didn't shy away from tough questions and she was fierce in her beliefs. She was brave in coming forward in 2018 to report sexual harassment.
She didn't shy away from tough questions and she was fierce in her beliefs. She was brave in coming forward in 2018 to report sexual harassment.
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I wonder if anyone is doing a subway Thanksgiving this year!
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I wonder if anyone is doing a subway Thanksgiving this year!
Hurry! Green beans! Boil eggs!
Cut up potatoes! Hurry!
Cut up potatoes! Hurry!
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Hurry! Green beans! Boil eggs!
Cut up potatoes! Hurry!
Cut up potatoes! Hurry!
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
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Honestly, this is one of my favorite pieces I've ever written, so go check it out if you missed it.
Featured story: On a stone slab by the cold waters of Austin’s Barton Springs, transgender Texans celebrate existence. Against the best efforts of the state, they’re still here, laughing and swimming in the heat of a late-August afternoon.
At Barton Springs, Trans Existence Becomes Resistance
Following a transphobic incident earlier this year, community members gathered to "protect trans joy."
www.texasobserver.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Honestly, this is one of my favorite pieces I've ever written, so go check it out if you missed it.
Particularly relevant lately. Y'all know why.
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Particularly relevant lately. Y'all know why.
Awesome show, new songs lovingly wrapped with more old stuff than I expected, all the way back to 2002!
Trying to relax and go to sleep...
Trying to relax and go to sleep...
It's finally Neko day!
I love it when I've seen a performer more times than I can remember.
I love it when I've seen a performer more times than I can remember.
November 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Awesome show, new songs lovingly wrapped with more old stuff than I expected, all the way back to 2002!
Trying to relax and go to sleep...
Trying to relax and go to sleep...
It's finally Neko day!
I love it when I've seen a performer more times than I can remember.
I love it when I've seen a performer more times than I can remember.
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
It's finally Neko day!
I love it when I've seen a performer more times than I can remember.
I love it when I've seen a performer more times than I can remember.
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
I very much do NOT have a problem taking Pete Hegseth's moral inventory
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I very much do NOT have a problem taking Pete Hegseth's moral inventory
Trying to imagine the WH brain trust meeting where they narrowed down best available targets and picked Kelly.
Hegseth (probably): "...fuck astronauts! <hic>"
Hegseth (probably): "...fuck astronauts! <hic>"
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Trying to imagine the WH brain trust meeting where they narrowed down best available targets and picked Kelly.
Hegseth (probably): "...fuck astronauts! <hic>"
Hegseth (probably): "...fuck astronauts! <hic>"
a bridge too far
Texas high-speed Rail 🚈
A seemingly sci-fi, nearly technologically impossible alien marvel that China and Mexico have mastered, but that Texas still dreams about as an off world perk of a mystical travel species
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
A seemingly sci-fi, nearly technologically impossible alien marvel that China and Mexico have mastered, but that Texas still dreams about as an off world perk of a mystical travel species
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Where Train Dreams Meet Reality in Texas
Dallas and Houston are 250 miles apart. But if you want to take a train between them, prepare for a 23-hour odyssey that says a lot about where US passenger rail is heading.
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
a bridge too far
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there is some amazing internet lore in this thread
Hell, even in the last few years before Usenet functionally died outside of moderated newsgroups (and by "last few years before Usenet died" I mean "shortly after Cantor & Siegel's green-card spam in 1994/Sanford Wallace era") even spam moderation was becoming largely automated (cancelbots)
1/2
1/2
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
there is some amazing internet lore in this thread
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It's up to us to make sure this story is not forgotten, because this admin will do everything within their power to make sure kids don't hear about it in school.
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It's up to us to make sure this story is not forgotten, because this admin will do everything within their power to make sure kids don't hear about it in school.
I just read a skeet by someone saying Kroger(!) and HEB are equally "awesome."
Bless their heart...
Bless their heart...
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I just read a skeet by someone saying Kroger(!) and HEB are equally "awesome."
Bless their heart...
Bless their heart...
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
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Seven years ago tonight, 11/24/18
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Seven years ago tonight, 11/24/18
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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also high key if you have access to an HEB, the concha slippers are REALLY, REALLY GOOD, buy them for everyone you know
seasonal alert: when you're out and about for the next few weeks, try to clock good stocking stuffers and scoop 'em up!
signed, a lady who always forgets about stocking stuffers until 7pm on xmas eve
signed, a lady who always forgets about stocking stuffers until 7pm on xmas eve
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
also high key if you have access to an HEB, the concha slippers are REALLY, REALLY GOOD, buy them for everyone you know
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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 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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