This morning our cat dug a discarded piece of plastic out of the trash and dropped it on me to wake me up for breakfast. Buddy, I get you think this is just as cute as dropping any of your other toys in the bed, but come on…

Anything that didn’t come out one end or the other and wasn’t killed isn’t that bad overall, though.

Guess who signed Trump’s favorite law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798?

His treatment of indigenous peoples is more complex, but it’s not really what you would call good either. He certainly had racist views of them, even though he opposed slavery.

Oh, that’s mine, thanks man

Mail carriers die from heat stroke in similarly spartan vehicles every year here in the southwest, no question in my mind the same will happen with this.

Pass that shit, ‘Squatch, you ain’t the only one.

Why waste all that room in your freezer when you can just dehydrate it instead?

Legitimately shocked it wasn’t Huntington Beach.

Physics

The US isn’t uniquely evil among settler colonial states, but it is a settler colonial state. That’s inherently going to be worse than a non-settler colonial state.

This only has legs if they’re developed without being largely government funded, which to my understanding isn’t true for a lot of drugs.

Truly what children don’t experience enough of: blame!

(I get the divorce one is fake, the rest are presumably real)

Lincoln committed the largest mass execution in American history, as punishment for fighting back against mass starvation imposed on the Dakota by the American government and the accepted, continuing theft of dwindling tribal lands by white settlers. It was part of the ongoing genocide against indigenous peoples.

There are no hero presidents.

Given that it’s much quicker and easier, all states should secede from the fair.

IIRC the original experiment used broth? Or maybe grape juice, I can’t remember. Anything that spoils would work.

They call him the 5 cent cat

The highest reward:lowest memorization ratio has got to be introducing people to Pasteur’s spontaneous generation experiments, and it’s not even close. That kick started the modern understanding of germ theory and revolutionized healthcare, and all you need to demonstrate it is someone that knows how to blow clear glass.

Calico body and tuxedo head? What a prize!

I assumed it was a humorous way of talking about a normal vacation activity, getting on a boat with a tour guide and being out of cell phone range.

Moderately surprised that the branch of Christianity devoted to preserving slavery didn’t already ban women from being pastors.

Homophobia and transphobia are much more western values rooted in Christian tradition, lol. They were imposed on hundreds of cultures (often through the imperialist legal system) that previously tolerated gender and sexual diversity prior to European colonization. If you want to learn more, The Gender Binary is a Big Lie by Lee Wind is an accessible introduction to the breadth of cultural understandings of gender and sexuality.