Jeremy Yoder says no war

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Screenshot text: Acosta said she doesn't want to park in the parking lots because they're "always full," and the side streets are off limits, too, because "there's like a hundred signs, so then you have no fucking idea and you get a fucking ticket and you can't fight it because there are a thousand signs." (The underground parking lot near Rite Aid was practically empty that afternoon, and the posted parking restrictions on nearby side streets, which typically have ample curb space, are fairly standard for the city.)
A bilaterally symmetrical pale lavender flower with red-purple markings on its central labellum, photographed amidst linear green leaves
A dragonfly with big dark eyes, wings marked by alternating dark and light splotches over near-transparent membranes, and a sky-blue abdomen, perched on a twig
Screenshot from ANGELS IN AMERICA Millennium Approaches, act 1 scene 9: RoY: So say it. HENRY: Roy Cohn, you are ... You have had sex with men, many many times, Roy; and one of them, or any number of them, has made you very sick. You have AIDS. ROY: AIDS. Your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words, on labels, that you believe they mean what they seem to mean. AIDS. Homosexual. Gay. Lesbian. You think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with, but they don't tell you that. HENRY: No? RoY: No. Like all labels they tell you one thing and one thing only: where does an individual so identified fit in the food chain, in the pecking order? Not ideology, or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call, who owes me favors. This is what a label refers to. Now to someone who does not understand this, homosexual is what I am because I have sex with men. But really this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who in fifteen years of trying cannot get a pissant antidiscrimination bill through City Council. Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody knows. Who have zero clout. Does this sound like me, Henry? HENRY: No. Roy: No. I have clout. A lot. I can pick up this phone, punch fifteen numbers, and you know who will be on the other end in under five minutes, Henry? HENRY: The President. ROY: Even better, Henry. His wife. HENRY: I'm impressed.
Screenshot text: James, who works as a civil engineer in Orlando, Florida, and requested to withhold his last name out of professional concerns, offers a similar assessment of Grant as a direct, accomplished, and brilliant man without the off-putting arrogance. “Sam Neill’s character and how he responded to everyone with confidence but also kindness really stuck with me,” he says. “It’s clear he knows his shit, but he’s not an asshole about it. Simple enough but shocking how uncommon that is.” While James may not have pursued his childhood ambitions of becoming “a paleontologist, or an archaeologist, or volcanologist, or some sort of ‘-ist,’” he aims to bring Grant’s values to his engineering work. “I get to use my brain and also try to be decent to people,” he says.
Screenshot text: Between May 29 and July 9, roughly 51,000 comments were posted to regulations.gov (and over 200,000 more had been received but not yet published). The verdict on public sentiment is clear and lopsided: about 94 percent oppose the proposed rule and only 6 percent support it, with fewer than one percent marked as unclear. The opposition is overwhelmingly grassroots rather than orchestrated. Form letters make up only about 16 percent of all comments (roughly 8,400 comments across 210 distinct campaigns), and only about one in eight opposing comments came from a form-letter campaign. Support for the rule, by contrast, was almost entirely organized: nearly nine in ten supportive comments (about 2,500) came from a single form-letter campaign. Opponents mostly wrote their own comments; supporters mostly signed the same form-letter.
A thrush with dark head, back, and wings framing a deep red-orange breast, standing on a wooden bench in three-quarters profile with its head cocked to watch the photographer
A small thrush with white underparts, orange-golden breast and flanks, and blue head and wings, perched on a twig with its head cocked to one side
Green leaves with three prominent parallel veins like ribs, framing loosely spherical panicles of small white flowers
A chipmunk perched on the end of a log, giving the camera a sideways look, viewed through out-of-focus foliage and twigs
William Daniels as John Adams in 1776 (1972), making a two-handed gesture of resignation and dismissal
Screenshot of the profile page for biologist077 dot bsky dot social, an account with an AI-generated avatar of a woman in safari gear and flags from two moderators for Suspected Inauthentic Behavior and Unfollowed 1000+ in the last month; the profile bio reads, 100% organic, biologically sourced woman
Title slide: Population genomics of local adaptation to climate in an obligate pollination mutualism
Photo over the heads of a lecture audience to a slide displaying tetrapod skeletons on a cladogram
The Self Help shelf in the Widow’s Bay bookmobile
View over the Reflecting Pool towards the Lincoln Memorial, the sky is hazy-cloudy and the water is basically flat green
Pearblossom Highway, a desert landscape dominated by a two-lane road with signs for an intersection with state highway 138 and lots of western Joshua trees
A coyote looking up from a sunlit, closely mown lawn, facing the camera almost square on
Agnes Moorehead as Endora, standing imperviously in Sam and Darren’s living room in a glittering dress and headscarf: So from now on, watch your step, young man.
Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha, describing Darren: He’s a sweet, wonderful, perfectly marvelous man.
Screenshot from the Target dot com Pride page, featuring a guy in a much too large button-down polo with rainbow piping and a femme in a rainbow-striped tube top and maybe-skirt that look like they're made out of plastic?
Bags of frozen meatballs and mashed potatoes and a packet of Savoury Sauce Mix
The ghost of a prior Prior Walter, fading away as he says, The twentieth century! Oh dear. The world’s got so terribly, terribly old.
Title sequence from the 2003 HBO miniseries adaptation of Angels in America: the name Meryl Streep floats over the fog-shrouded Golden Gate Bridge
Peter Capaldi as the Doctor, struggling to step out of a half-scale TARDIS
Screenshot from a Notice of Award email: AWARD INFORMATION Award Number (FAIN): 2536007 Award Instrument: Standard Grant Award Date: 06/01/2026 Award Period of Performance: Start Date: 06/01/2026 End Date: 05/31/2029 Project Title: RUI: Temporal analysis of reproduction distributed in space to characterize plant populations' responses to environmental variation Managing Division Abbreviation: DEB Research and Development Award: Yes Funding Opportunity: NSF 14-579 Facilitating Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions: Assistance Listing Number(s) and Name(s): 47.074 Biological Sciences (Predominant source of funding for SEFA reporting) FUNDING INFORMATION Amount Obligated by this Amendment: $814,012 Total Intended Award Amount: $814,012
Screenshot text: And we've done some marvelous things with Al, especially in the biological sciences, where simulations of complex processes like protein folding have gotten cheaper, faster, and much more sophisticated. Exciting possibilities exist in a host of fields. The problem is that our expertise, about Al and everything else, is not respected in the other parts of our job that are more directly supervised and that, at the end of the day, provide the infrastructure and revenue to support our research.
A ballot envelope about to go into a ballot drop box
Four panels: Projected flowering area under factual and counterfactual weather for the fourth quarters of 2018 and 2025. In all panels, Joshua tree's geographic range is green and purple shading, with purple indicating projected flowering. The counterfactual projections look basically the same as the projections from factual weather.
Maps of Joshua tree's range in each quarter of 2016 through 2025, with areas where flowering is projected colored dark purple. In most years, flowering shows up in Q1 and Q2, the usual flowering season, but there's also visible purple in Q4 of 2018 and Q4 of 2025, which are highlighted with orange boxes.
A western Joshua tree against a blue sky, a single inflorescence of white-yellow flowers at the end of its highest branch
Same stage, the cloud shapes lit in shades of red and blue, a cast dressed as Germanic deities taking a bow
Interior of Walt Disney Concert Hall, the audience and orchestra filing in for the third act of Die Walküre, behind the orchestra there’s a set with lots of natural wood and big cloud like shapes and now …
Walt Disney Concert Hall, a Gehry design of giant swooping silver ribbons, under sunset light
Walt Disney Concert Hall, viewed from the rear terrace seats, there’s a big set, mostly natural wood structures with large cloud like shapes above them, all behind the orchestra
TOS: Backlot Apocalypse
DS9: Oops, All Combs
TOS-style: Let the mountain come to Mentzelia
Screenshot from the Academic Technology newsletter, an item headed Academic Technology Helps Bring Commencement to Life illustrated with an AI-watermarked image of a person filming a commencement ceremony at an outdoor stage setup that looks like a generic southern Californian college campus but definitely not like the CSUN University Library quadrangle, where commencements actually happen
Screenshot report text: 94% of Irvine residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park. Nationwide, 76% of residents of the 100 most populous cities live within a 10 minute walk of a park. Nationwide, 57% of residents of urban cities and towns live within a 10 minute walk of a park.
Werner Herzog, with a downward-pointing speech bubble that encompasses the quoted post
A nascent pineapple, mostly the dense inflorescence with a couple of open, blue flowers, but still fully recognizable as the shape it will be when the flowers mature into fruit, on a stalk surrounded by tough linear leaves
Western sycamores shading a rocky streambed with low, flowing water
Post by user ApplesHardcoreYo, which is solely a pretty obviously AI generated image of Snoopy sitting on the roof of his doghouse with a fishing pole, the line of which somehow goes straight down into a stream running behind the doghouse. Snoopy is saying, not thought-bubbling per Peanuts canon, I DON'T WANT A CITY ON MARS. I DON'T WANT AI IN EVERY APP. I DON'T WANT DATA CENTERS IN SPACE. I WANT CLEAN WATER. I WANT AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE. AND I WANT BEES TO SURVIVE.
Errol Flynn as Robin Hood, filmed at the heroic angle, in a green doublet and cap with a pheasant feather over ear-length curly hair, and with the most precise little 1938-era pencil mustache and goatee
Alan Hale as Little John, dressed in green doublet and hose, perched on a stout branch of a hardwood tree with the small roundish green leaves of a Californian, not English, oak
A slender branch, with striking smooth pale bark, with a clutch of bright green ovate leaves, a cluster of almost spherical green-and-red fruits, and a raceme of tiny pale blue flowers
Lwaxana Troi, Q, and Elon Garak seated as the Drag Race judging panel
A rocky ridgeline with multiple peaks under a cloudy sky, above a quiet lake, all framed by conifer branches
Racemes of small white five-petaled flowers, at the end of a twig with some dark green leaves with very holly-like toothed edges
A branch with many dark green palmately lobed leaves and tubular bright yellow flowers
A small variegated brown waterbird with a small triangular beak marked by a vertical dark stripe, floating on rippling water
An American Crow perched on a railing, looking at the camera over one shoulder
Screenshot from a larger table with three columns comparing 1978 NEPA regulations, Biden Admin implementations, and the Trump Admin; includes mention of a "45-day-sment comment period" and "DOI treats as discronteed comment window"
A raceme of purple-and-white papilionoid flowers, framed by palmately compound bright green leaves
Acton brittlebush, Encelia actonii, an aster with radiate yellow flowering heads, growing along a trail under a cloudy sky
Screenshot block of text about the wildlife trade and spillover risk, with one highlighted sentence: For instance, a person buying three Finlayson's (variable) squirrels (Callosciurus finlaysonii) in a Laotian wildlife market has been estimated to have an 83% chance of getting at least one leptospirosis-infected individual.
Two flowers with white, five-lobed corollas like stars, framing long tubular yellow anthers with pores at their tips, closely appressed to narrow styles
Ralph Fiennes as M. Gustave in THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, stepping forward and raising a hand diffidently
Screenshot of a quote post of a post by Chuck Schumer, cropped to anonymize the quote-poster Schumer: Each Republican who refuses to join us in voting against this wanton war of choice owns every consequence of whatever the hell this is. Quote post: Chucky has been engaged in bloodthirsty yapping about Iran for years. Now he's caught the car and doesn't know what to do. Resign, motherfucker. Get out of the way finally, you feckless, bought and paid for piece of shit.