You are going to laugh until your stomach hurts again. You're going to be in awe of a sunset. Watch your favorite show while you eat your favorite food. Find money on the street. Discover a great band you haven't heard of before. You will find your way back.

I love when a meme gets so many steps away from its source material that it would be completely incomprehensible if I didn't know what today's date was

time to retire to my chambers (got under the covers)

the last couple of days I've been noticing way more buds than usual on the branches of trees and bushes. I think something big is about to happen

adam parrish is yet another victim of being trapped in the ya genre even though he’s obviously a freak who wants to go crazy

I feel like "trump wants to throw away literal dinosaur fossils" would really turn heads if we actually had a functional opposition party in this country to get messages out, but I guess I'll just have to get a paint pen and write it on my car. fine, I'll do it.

Trump and friends are trying to get rid of IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Science, USA Federal agency). Everyone is on leave/in admin limbo while the DOGE kids do whatever and lock people out of their emails. Already-awarded federal grants (that's how I get paid) for museums and libraries are now being terminated early via executive order. Museums are already closing (to be fair it has been bad for decades) and a lot of large and delicate fossil material will need new homes with space and funding, which almost no one has. It's bad. I don't know what to do except to keep working and occasionally scream into the internet.

Not trying to be a bummer, but this is pretty much the only thing anyone at my job can think about right now. I can only speak for museums, but specimens need periodical tending or they will decay or get lost. Grant funding is how we do everything: it's how temporary workers get paid, how we get access to subscription-based software, and it's how we buy new label paper for cripes' sake. We are still fighting, but everyone is honestly loopy with stress all the time now. People should know what they are destroying.

The ALA (American Library Association) has a page on how to help the IMLS and ways to contact your members of Congress! They even have an email form that literally only takes a minute to complete!

There isn’t a ton of news coverage discussing this from a paleo standpoint but here’s the SVP letter to the senate

that’s all there is ⋆˙⟡

"it's all in your head" correct! unfortunately I am also in there

Listen, as much as I love the boys…

​i really wanted to draw them exploaring cabeswater

you are made of dreams, and this world is not for you

Adam Parrish