i promise the map of salamander diversity is not what you expect

Our med clinic had a secret santa and I got the IT guy one of those plushie seals . . . Today the seal went on an adventure 😂

whatever 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

"i feel besquintled", said no one ever. because that's not a word.

"And so being a Negro in America is not a comfortable experience. It means being a part of the company of the bruised, the battered, the scarred and the defeated. Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry.

It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having your legs cut off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.

It means seeing your mother and father spiritually murdered by the slings and arrows of daily exploitation, and then being hater for being an orphan. Being a Negro in America means listening to suburban politicians talk eloquently against open housing while arguing in the same breath that they are not racists.

It means being harried by day and haunted by night by a nagging sense of nobodyness and constantly fighting to be saved from the poison of bitterness. It means the ache and anguish of living in so many situations where hopes unborn have died."

Where Do We Go From Here, Martin Luther King Jr.

Jerry Fox: not actually the cat pictured sadly

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Jerry Fox was a blind 'tiger' cat who worked as Assistant Janitor at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Working for over 25 years and making many dignified friends, when he began to go blind he was fitted with spectacles.

In 1904, Jerry found some papers burning in an empty office, and howled loudly. This alerted a nearby policeman, who put out the fire. Without Jerry, there would have been significant damage to the building and potential harm and death.

Jerry died later that year, nearly 30 years old. The New York Times ran his obituary:

"Had each of the several hundred city officeholders, judges, lawyers, volunteer firemen, war veterans, and business men in Borough Hall Square lost an old college chum, there could not have been sorrow more profound than that which greeted the death of Jerry."

Consider signing this petition to install a plaque honoring Jerry at the Brooklyn Borough Hall

Eugenicists are idiots. We don't need smarter humans; we've already got plenty of intellectual resources that are sadly lying fallow or going to waste because of how unequally our society is structured. The idea that social problems are a result of individual deficiency is child logic.

mr beast partnering with the lds church to help bring in younger people so they can marry off said younger people was not in my 2026 bingo

ICE fucking abandoned the scene in a Minneapolis neighborhood and left their battle plans and designs on the city, fake license plates, and challenge tokens which they reward themselves for arrests. Looney Tunes shit.

Imagine a character named Connie, and instead of her name being short for ‘Constance’, it’s ’Constantly Suffering.’

Is this anything? I’ve been reading a lot of discworld.

Congress is now considering the appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security, whose funding runs out at the end of January.

Call your members of Congress and tell them to vote NO on any bill that increases ICE's funding.

Please demand that the DHS appropriations bill prohibit ICE and Border Patrol agents from carrying guns and that it unambiguously declare that agents do not have absolute immunity under the law if they harm civilians.

Also tell them that any bill must restrict ICE and Border Patrol’s ability to conduct dragnet arrest operations and target people based on their race, language or accent. And the bill must clarify that ICE agents are liable under civil and criminal law if they harm civilians.

Do this as soon as you can.

To reach your representative or senator, call the U.S. Congressional Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

Tell them the state and city where you live. They will connect you to any member’s office.