Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?

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Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· 26d

Oh nope. My bad. The NUMBER GOES UP but the needle does not go any further. Heh. airnow.gov

AirNow.gov now showing hazardous level of particulate matter of 703. The needle on the virtual dial is still as far over to extreme right as it can go.

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· 26d

Oh shit it doesn't go any higher

AirNow.gov showing hazardous level of particulate matter of 626. The needle on the virtual dial is as far over to extreme right as it can go.

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· 26d

On a clear day

Cityscape from a high vantage point with Lake Erie visible to the distant horizon

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· 26d

The sky was the color of a primeval forest, set to a distant burn EarthCam Live: Terminal Tower Cam (Cleveland, OH) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHqq...

A cityscape view from a high vantage point with thick reddish-gray haze

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· Jul 12

Yeah, for reference:

WaPo Sports section front page from print edition online with a pic of a baseball player in a jersey with Aggies across the front. Headline below is Homegrown Talent.

Close up of previous pic showing date of July 12 2026

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· Jul 3

Completely agree.

A weather app screenshot showing temperature of a northeast ohio suburb as 83°F. I accidentally cut the time off the pic, but it's 12:37 AM!

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· Jul 3

FYI: Tomorrow, July 3rd, the US Post Office is OPEN. But it IS a federal holiday. Most banks WILL be open, but most government offices will be closed. Saturday, July 4th, the US Post Office is closed; no mail will be picked up or delivered. www.today.com/life/holiday...

A new 2026 Forever stamp from the USPS. it has an illustration in red white and blue on a dark blue background depicting 1776 made of feather quills, arranged vertically on the stamp

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· Jun 29

Wasn't looking too crowded on a Sunday afternoon, according to the live need feed from the administration's favored new source. Maybe they got 50 people milling about mixed up with about 50 million people.

The area of the Mall with the State Fair pavilions, with less than 50 people milling about. That is a generous number for what can be seen. The Ferris wheel, the mini-arch and the Washington monument are visible in the background.

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· Jun 24

A black and white Aubrey Beardsley illustration from Salome. A woman dressed in a black gown stands staring down at a severed head on a table. She grips some of the hair in one hand. The table has a pedestal leg that appears to be made of plaited hair, or a thick plant root.

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· Jun 24

Is it covered in.... paper? Or house-wrap plastic?

Close-up of a corner of the "sample arch" showing the wrinkles and waviness in the white surface that you might see if it were covered with thin plastic or a paper layer.

Close-up of the opposite corner of the "sample arch" showing the wrinkles and waviness in the white surface that you might see if it were covered with thin plastic or a paper layer.

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· Jun 23

No, we cannot recommend it, as it really did not help us. Also:

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· Jun 20

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn't look right.

A long-dead Elven warrior floating just beneath the surface of the green and murky waters of the Dead Marsh in the Peter Jackson movie version of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· Jun 14

One day this will be in history books that people have to try and comprehend.

An ad from Paramount± streaming that lists various fighter match-ups. At the bottom, there are three logos: "UFC FREEDOM 250" on the left, Paramount+ on the right, and in the center a photo of The White House with these words partially covering it: "UFC AT THE WHITE HOUSE SUNDAY JUNE 14".

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· Jun 13

Still there

The front of a triscuit box, with the glob of some sort of seeded spread on the cracker. It looks like Trump because I drew yellow hair on it and it has a sort of face in the seeds

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· Jun 10

Not sure that most recent name is official but it should be.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlio...

First paragraph of the Wikipedia entry for the screwworm fly with the world elonfly underlined in red.

"Cochliomyia hominivorax,[a] the New World screwworm fly, New World screwworm (NWS)[2] or simply screwworm or screw-worm, or more recently elonfly is a species of parasitic blowfly whose larvae (maggots) feed on living tissue of warm-blooded animals.[3] It is present in the New World tropics (and also currently found in the United States as of recently).'

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· Jun 10

Image with alt text for posts below re additional cases of screwworm in NM and TX

USDA Confirms First Case of New World Screwworm in a Dog in Lea County, New Mexico, Fourth Case in Texas

The New Mexico case was previously reported in Andrews County, Texas

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 8, 2026 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is sharing additional details about the epidemiological investigation into the case that was reported earlier today in Andrews County, Texas. While the veterinarian who reported the case is located in Texas, the dog resides at a household in Lea County, New Mexico. Therefore, the location of the case will be reclassified to be the first case detected in New Mexico.

This is believed to be an isolated case; however, because the dog's recent travel and exposure history remain unknown, USDA and state partners have initiated inspection of additional animals in the dog's home and increased outreach in the area while continuing to investigate the animal's movement history.

"This situation is evolving, and we expect new information to emerge as our investigation continues. USDA is committed to sharing what we learn quickly, accurately, and transparently so animal owners and local communities have the information they need to stay vigilant," said Dudley Hoskins, Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs. "We are working closely with our partners in New Mexico, Texas, and across the region to ensure we identify, contain, and respond to any potential cases as swiftly as possible."

New World screwworm (NWS) poses a serious threat to livestock, pets, wildlife, and in rare cases, people. The larvae feed on living tissue and can cause severe wounds, animal suffering, and significant economic harm if not detected and treated quickly.

Additional Case in Texas

In addition to the reclassified case in New Mexico, USDA's National Veterinary Services Laboratories confirmed a case in a goat in Gillespie County, Texas.

info re future govt actions cut for length of alt text

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· Jun 5

It's not their fault, they're just reporting the facts, but no, no I don't.

Variety subscription ad at end of the article that say "want to read more articles like this?"

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· May 28

They THINK they're building an arena, but the plans were altered by Aliens before the crew got them, and they're actually building a Stargate. It's not for an invasion, though; the rest of the galaxy thought we needed an intervention instead.

The very odd-looking UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) fight arena being built on the boarded-over front lawn of the White House. So far it has two large metal arches that cross in the center top. They are for holding lights and cameras, I think, and other rigging. The structure and the cranes building it tower over the White House. The destruction pit of the East Wing is visible on the right. This is a screenshot from CNN this morning.

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· May 24

So I had to know: Why is this whale, which appears to be a very very dead whale, leaking? Fortunately, Wikipedia has the answer - even for that question! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOBO_(w...

"Blue whale bones are extremely oily, and while the skeleton was being prepared, the oil caused the bones to turn yellow and smell unpleasant. To account for this, the bones were soaked in a biodegradable leather-curing solution. Nevertheless, the skeleton has continued leaking oil, even years after the whale's death"

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· May 24

A title card for Deep Space Nine that reads "STEWING WITH SISKO: THE COMFORT FOODS OF WORMHOLE SPACE"

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· May 10

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyc...

Le cyclope, c. 1914
The Cyclops
Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
Oil on cardboard mounted on panel
65,8 × 52,7 cm
Text from article:
A symbolist painting by Odilon Redon that depicts the myth of the love of Polyphemus for the nymph Galatea.

Galatea is shown asleep on the lower right, her naked body blending into the flowery hill slope. In the upper half of the painting, the head and shoulders of the cyclops Polyphemus tower above a mountain ridge as he turns his one eye in the naiad's direction.

It appears Polyphemus has hidden himself from the nymph behind the rocky terrain, too shy to directly confront her "helpless" form...

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· May 9

Gee, AI is great! 🙄#medlibs

In 2023, 1 in 2,828 papers contained one or more fabricated references, but in 2025 that number had reached 1 in 458 — a sixfold increase in frequency. During the first seven weeks of 2026, the rate reached 1 in 277 papers.

Nina🐀🌻🇺🇦🌻 WTF America?@ratgrrl· May 5

So comforting to hear that the position of White House A.I. czar is currently filled by that winning high-tech combo of "Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/t...