The little jumper that invited itself into captivity has already built itself a hammock (first sign of being comfy), and taken a meal.

I've decided to name it Birch.

What a take down! Lucky he'll eat something other than flies, mine wanted nothing to do with the xs mealworms i already had, naturally.

My Freddy keeps trying to escape his enclosure and he has zero chill but he also immediately built himself a hammock and he tucks himself into bed every night. I'm going to build him a bigger enclosure and see if it helps.

Henry on the other hand is very chill and will sit in my hand for a bit when I let him out. I just thought he escaped though while trying to give him a fly. Thankfully he turned up and with a little head poking out of his chompers.

"Bonjour..."

^ thats the original image, in case you want to see exactly how fucking vile these bastards are.

(those are signs they confiscated from homeless people they arrested for "panhandling" during the holiday season)

Holy fuck the original is worse

Packing just the necessary basics

I’m a huge fan of yours (requested by Anonymous)

For context: In that production of King Lear by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sir Ian McKellen, playing the titular character in a scene where Lear has essentially gone round the bend, strips completely naked right there on stage. New York critic Michael Portantiere, noted in his review, “Special note for those who care about such things: In a brief nude scene, McKellen amply demonstrates the truth of Lear’s statement that he is ‘every inch a king’.”

#wow go ian mckellan #also a+ flirting there taron

The above scene is amazing but I also feel we need to take a moment to appreciate the fact that a respected theatre critic took time to mention in their review of this production of King Lear that Ian McKellen has a truly impressive penis

@bucklikethedollar why would you hide poetry like this in the notes

THE LICE ONE IS MAKING ME FUCKING CRY OH MY GOD

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE

My own addition:

A lovely social media friend I barely! Knew! came to visit me for the first time. Like you do, I put them in my car and took them out for Chinese food and on the way home almost swerved into a truck.

I absolutely panicked trying to apologize and indicate I was glad I hadn't harmed them and wound up shouting "I'M SORRY I DIDN'T KILL YOU!!!"

I was mortified but they fortunately found it hilarious.

I was mortified

but they fortunately found

it hilarious.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

^Euthanasia for "undesirables" like the infirm and mentally ill is literally just nazi shit.

The way euthanasia is implemented in the Netherlands is a good thing, thanks for this pro-life website news item though. I personally knew several people who have chosen euthanasia, and I'm very glad they had that option.

Pretty cool to frame it like some doctor is just randomly deciding this about a person because the government wants to get rid of them, instead of people seeking this option themselves and there being a hugely involved process with multiple doctors to see if it will be allowed. Great to see the Republican "Death panels" scare from the left.

A lot of people are pro-choice when it's abort or not to abort but are still squeamish about the realities of death.

Valuing life is obviously a good thing. But people don't want to face the reality that often prolonging life is simply prolonging suffering.

The reality that sometimes it does not get better is one we do not want to face. And while it's a nice choice for you to choose life over death no matter what that is YOUR choice.

top tier dad shit

we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?

this fucking problem is how they caught the unabomber

hey you should uh. elaborate. for my own personal satisfaction

the unabomber was pedantic about idiomatic phrases like "have your cake and eat it too" and rephrased it to "eat your cake and have it too" (which to be very fair makes sense). fast forward to when he starts writing manifestos. he uses the phrase word for word in his pedantic style and his brother (who has been keeping his eyes on the unabomber shit for obvious reasons) notices the phrase and is like "oh fuck that's my fucking brother no one else fucking says that" and calls in an FBI tip

Well you can't deliberately speak in a way nobody else does and also stay anonymous you know. Can't eat your cake and have it too.

i hate when top wildlife predators are just lil babies teeny tiny babies

. that is a serial killer

They called him a liar. He posted the receipts.

Shit is flying.

an article from PBS that only has a snippet, but is not paywalled

Edit: here's MSN, which has more details

Fully unpaywalled Atlantic here. Finally.

I'm really glad they unpaywalled it.

It is a HELL of a read. There are screenshots!

The comments over at the Fox News site, of all places, are overwhelmingly upset and angry at Hegseth & Co. I fully expected to see them supporting the "it wasn't a war plan" lie, but they are laying into Trump White House staff.

This makes Watergate look like a kid accidentally telling mom what dad got her for Christmas.

Daring Fireball's latest today shares an observation from Hannah Arendt about how the ranks of authoritarian governments inevitably wind up being filled with “crackpots and fools” because they’re the people whose loyalty is most assured:

The Fireball article goes on to say: "When The Atlantic’s initial story hit, everyone responsible in the Trump administration, right up to the president himself, just immediately began telling bald-faced lies about what happened, despite the fact that they knew Jeffrey Goldberg literally had the receipts to prove otherwise. That works, until it doesn’t."

Keep yelling the truth, folks. Keep showing the difference between real and false.

It may seem obvious and not worth mentioning, but apparently it is.