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maniraptor@maniraptor· 16d

Today’s Achievement Unlock: walked four houses down the block and back, and discovered cicadas exist

maniraptor@maniraptor· 16d

Tonight is the first night I’m sleeping outside the puppy corral since she arrived There was some Grumbling.

Puppy pretending to sleep in a crate inside a metal fenced area in what was the dining room that we actually use dfor arts and crafts and puzzles

It’s all puppy pen now

maniraptor@maniraptor· 17d

OMG ponies (playing kok-boru with girls!)!!!!!! Archive link: archive.is/Hxono Orig paywalled NYT (with A+++ video): www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/w...

A teenaged Kyrgystan girl stands on a rustic stable wall while untying her small black stallion, who is waiting in his stall. He is tacked up with a fabric bridle and has a calm but focused expression. His ears say, "I am watching the action out there, but paying attention to you, my smol human friend." They are very cute together.

maniraptor@maniraptor· 19d

Oh, so Bryan may have have really fucked-himself fucked himself, huh

From a paper posted from PubMed: “TA-GVHD has an extremely poor prognosis; the mortality rate reaches up to 90%.
Unfortunately, there are no effective therapies currently for this condition except for supportive care. There are very few cases”

This case study is worth reading; it’s a real carboy of nightofuel. Healthy 45yo woman gets a hysterectomy to stop awful bleeding (peri? Fibroids? Endo? PCOS? Unclear), gets a pint of blood kindly donated by her son, is dead twhree weeks alter from an autoimmune wipeout

maniraptor@maniraptor· 20d

The Linda Lindas continue to be god-tier rockstars

"The Linda Lindas have partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket sold on our tour will go towards supporting organizations working for equity, access, and dignity for all. www.plus1.org"

maniraptor@maniraptor· 21d

Statement from the Athens Immigrant Rights Coalition (AIRC) regarding ICE action in Athens www.wuga.org/local-news/2...

"Among those impacted is a family who has four adults taken, leaving behind their 11-year-old daughter without her parents. Across the community, ICE agents have conducted operations that have left many families living in fear and uncertainty. We had hoped Athens would be spared from this kind of trauma, but that is no longer the reality our community faces."

maniraptor@maniraptor· 21d

Incredible

worseonpurpose.com
WORSE ON PURPOSE
Cornell Capital, a private equity firm founded by a former Goldman Sachs vice chairman, bought the company in 2017 and renamed it Corelle Brands. In 2019 it merged with the Canadian company behind the Instant Pot, valuing the combination at $615 million. What it actually bought is disputed to this day. More than 98 percent of the price was booked as goodwill and intangibles, and within days of closing a Cornell partner on the new board emailed the CEO to ask, "Is there fraud going. on???"
The suspicion, later spelled out in court filings, was that Instant Pot's sales had been pumped up with discounts and channel stuffing before the sale. The CEO's own verdict was that he was running "the most poorly operated 'successful' business on the planet."

maniraptor@maniraptor· 21d

Vry tired past few days, but must pay pupper tax

A cute but large puppy with a short coat plays inside a fabric agility tunnel

Cute but large puppy with floppy ears is sound asleep next to someone

Cute but large puppy is sound asleep, partly on its side, partly on its back, with one front paw sticking out in the air

maniraptor@maniraptor· 25d

Druid is the least wise and most bold of our cats (the others will watch from afar to see if he gets eaten/smote by divine wrath/gets treats).

A black vat on one side of a steel puppy pen, with his paws on the toes of a human’s foot sticking out from under the bars

A puppy sound asleep on her side, inside what my spouse has taken to call the “sleepy time palace.” It is actually a heavy duty puppy pen, but it looks posh like one of those wrought iron fences and the pee pads look like oriental rugs

maniraptor@maniraptor· 25d

I’d forgotten until logging on that tonight was Despot, Live! night on tv. We’ve been busy with bigger things (specifically, 24lbs worth, starting tomorrow 😅)

An XL box of XL puppy pee pads with a photo of a merely-large Berner puppy on the front.

Our pupper will be…bigger.

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jul 11

There’s a whipsaw of a paragraph (PiS malfeasance is largely at the root of this problem. Again.)

From Reuters, if you want to look it up:

The organisation that runs air traffic control in Poland could lose airline fees amounting to over 80% of its income due to a Belgian court ruling in a case brought by U.S. drugmaker Pfizer against Poland over payment for COVID-19 vaccines, it said on Friday.
Polish Air Navigation Services Agency
(PANSA) said it had been informed by the Brussels-based European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) that money due to it from fees from airlines had been seized in connection with April's
ruling.

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jul 9

The article isn’t paywalled and is worth reading, btw

thedrive.com
local police.
As we all stood there shaking our heads, including my wife, who was finally allowed to join me, I connected the final dot. A lot of vehicles in JLR's media fleet have a New Jersey manufacturer plate with the same alphanumeric structure-34 ## DTM-and Officer Ganshyn observed that meant it was now a nationwide issue. Anywhere a police department has a partnership with Flock, any other JLR-owned car with the same plate structure is going to get flagged as stolen. In fact, four other 34 ## DTM cars were being tracked around Minnesota that week, according to Officer Ganshyn. I was just the first one to get nabbed. The only way to stop it would be for the LAPD to correct their initial report and update Flock's system, which Jaguar Land Rover was now racing to make happen following the phone call.

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jul 8

jizz driver

A Maryland license plate that reads: JZZDRVR

The car is white (yes, like jizz)

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jul 3

Played with some puppies this week

Two cute puppies weight about twelve pounds each and eight-ish weeks old

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jul 2

I blame the fever, but also

Episode description from wikipedia:

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the House"
Keith
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The prospect of owning a home gets scarier when Martin and Gina buy their "dream house" on Halloween, but soon find that the place is a haunted, calamity-filled horror. Guest appearance by Mr. T.

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 30

Tree-top spiderpigging courtesy of @canopycatrescue.bsky.social

Insta post with pictures of adorable black cats stick in very tall trees, waiting for the colunteer arborists of Canopy Cat Rescue to come save them

Liked by mme_perruche and others
canopycatrescue As you know, we here at CCR only rescue black cats... kidding, of course, but we've sure helped a lot of them get back to their families lately.
Zoe, from Mt Vernon, was in between 3 massive trunks of a cedar tree. Although a comfy spot to wait for help, she wanted outta there!
Knickie Bob, from Seattle, was about 30ft in a big hemlock.
Wednesday Addams, from Renton, was in a big maple tree. She was described as emotionally reserved, so was very happy the rescue went well.
Fritz, from Renton, had some big eyes when I got close to him.
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maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 29

LMAO

From that NY Post article:

nypost.com
She was allegedly known to peddle "extremely low-quality weed" out of a van after graduating from Reed, according to investigative journalist Dan Boguslaw, [emphasis added by me, because this bit is very funny] who also attended Reed College.

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 26

LFG, y'all

If you are looking for places to organize right now, please come to the next Athens Area DSA meeting on Monday, June 29 at the ACC Library at 6pm.

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 26

Some interesting, albeit vexxing, data from Tim Dendon's email in the wake of the Athens-Clarke mayoral run-off

Second, What happened? Well, the most simple answer is that 35.2% of Democratic voters who voted on May 19 did not vote on June 16. That is 6,344 Democrat voters who stayed home. Only 7.1% of Republican voters, or 740 votes, stayed home on June 16. So, even though we won around 78% of the Democrat vote, since so many Republican voters showed up (especially in the more conservative west Athens and 5 Points areas) there just weren’t enough Democratic votes.

[from Tim Denson's post-election update email]

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 25

This is weirdest reporting, even for the NYT

He answered the door at 8:45PM on a Wednesday wearing a suit and tie

Rep Kean, who has been missing with no explanation for months, "could be seen from the street...standing in a brightly lit front room" of his home at 8:35PM on a Wednesday

His wife was standing in the background, smiling pleasantly!

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 25

I need to get up and brush my teeth before bed, but find myself stuck in a similar, delightful quandary.

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 20

Everything about this stupid war is stupid and bad, but I had to laugh when this (the most predictable turn of events imaginable) hit my inbox

NYT breaking news headline: Iran's forces say they closed the Strait of Hormuz

[yes, like, within a couple days of the Trump regime bragging about the great deal they just inked. At Versailles.]

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 18

Incredible

Skeet from a person with a recent history of skeeting racist things seemingly without realizing how very racist they are:

Amanda Collins Beams
@amandacollinsbeams.bsk..
You will be taking your anger out on abused Native American children to whom all proceeds from my book are donated.
Not what you would expect from a
"racist"?
12:19 AM • Jun 18, 2026
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maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 17

Oh yeah, it went in the salad tonight (it was good, very Brandywine-in-a-smaller-package). I think the variety was Tastywine? I got the jungle finally trellised yesterday. Early days, but the signs are auspicious!

Raised beds full of exuberant tomato vines so thick you could lose a small child in them

A cluster of big, green, vaguely Roma shaped tomatoes amidst a green vine jungle

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 17

Real skeet for the bsky sickos: how deep that tussy go

An oblong, lobed heirloom tomato seen from above. There is a crack on one side where the skin has split. An absolute pervert might think, “haha, that tomato has a pussy, must be juicy!”

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 17

Nice social media post for nice people: First home-grown tomato harvested this season

An oblong, lobed heirloom tomato about four inches by two inches. It looks ripe and juicy.

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 14

I am surrounded on a rainy day

Clementine, the murder hobo with the face of a cherub, asleep and sleep-muttering on my left

Haiku, the Japanese Bobtail princeling, curled up with his back legs extended under his head, one arm draped over them.

He has a shaved band because he got his teeth cleaned this week. No extractions, though!

Druid Spiderpig, big black and glossy himbo cat, curled around my hip from behind, one arm resting on my leg, his claws gently extended so I don’t sneak off without warning.

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 12

It’s probably (hopefully) a false alarm, because “cat,” but this this himbo with a history of biliary disorder got to go to the vet because he threw up one too many times this week

A big black cat who is very shiny huddles at the back of his cat carrier in a bery aesthetic was

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 10

Silver linings, I guess

An unsolicited fundraising text from that nazi murk creep Platner, in response to which I text I’m glad I live in Georgia, where the Democratic Senate nominee isn’t not a nazi murk creep

maniraptor@maniraptor· Jun 9

*tried giving it to me via obvious body language, and, you know, PICKING IT UP AND BRINGING IT TO ME INSIDE (ah haha oh no you don’t, ma’am)