north america's smallest bird of prey

As a rule of thumb, if you have to dig it up it's a crime, but if you can just yoink it then it's a-okay.

literally yesterday. all because someone called the police about DIAPERS being shoplifted.

Black children deserve to live and be safe around ALL people, around the world but something so simple is routinely denied to us on the daily by people more concerned with making sure their group doesn’t become the next underclass in which the entire modern world operates on its dehumanization.

im so sorry to this baby, their family, and every Black family dealing with the horrors of antiblackness, having our freedom or lives stolen from us every day.

meanwhile, LAPD shot and killed a Black woman’s dog after being called by her neighbor for being “too loud” during the Knick’s game, one of the biggest basketball event in years.

i seen more comments by nonblack ppl showing sympathy for the dog than the Black woman in the video literally hugging her beloved pet’s dead body in tears while a mob of LAPD officers stand around and watch her dispassionately.

Just a bit of tug

Or some keep away bitey face

Just wish he wanted to play

It's not a particularly plot driven adventure. My wife wanted to be surprised when I proposed, but she also wanted to know what day I would propose so she could wear a cute outfit and get her hair done and all those things. My solution to that was to buy the ring, and then also buy a dozen more ringboxes.

Then we just did a sort of mishmash of all our first dates. We went to the Desert Botanical Gardens, and I proposed three times, which she was flabbergasted by, and then we got lunch, and I proposed twice, which she was less flabbergasted by, and then we went to the Japanese Friendship Gardens, where I continued proposing to both her great amusement and mild annoyance. Then we went to the Phoenix Art Museum, and she'd peeked in my backpack enough that she knew I still had about five more boxes left, which meant that her guard was down. Rookie mistake - she was expecting me to only propose on the last one. Gave me one last chance to surprise her. So I beelined straight for the firefly room

and when we were walking there I told her about how that room had surprised me the first time because it looks like a Mormon Temple's sealing room. Mirrors in front of mirrors, designed to make you look like you're standing in front of eternity. A strangely loaded cultural symbol, even to a merely former Mormon. How it was jarring it was to just be laughing and looking at art on a third date, just having a silly time, then turning a corner and more or less immediately standing in a sort of scifi version of my culture's wedding altar. That the first time I'd actually considered what spending the rest of my life with her had happened almost involuntarily that day. That I'd been surprised, even then, by how unscary it had seemed. Even as mostly strangers, I knew she was special.

Then we went inside the exhibit I opened my backpack, and I let her see all the other boxes before handing her the real one, and she opened it to humor me and was instead met with the real ring.

anyway we like pacing around together and ranting in the attic but sometimes instead of pacing one of us will just hang on the pole and spin, and the other person will watch on the beanbag, which makes for these really goofy conversations where the person on the bag will say something that gets the other persons goat, such as, hypothetically, that xylophones do not belong in rock music, and then the other person will go on a tirade about this, but they'll actually only be facing the Hot Take Speaker half of the time, what because of the pole, so the response will sound something like

I can't believe

you would even suggest such

a stupid opinion. You've

been to a Danny Elfman

concert! How can you

have heard Oingo Boingo

live and say with a straight face

that they alone do not justify

rock and roll xylophones

and then that person will continue until they get too dizzy, then they'll get off the pole, and by unspoken agreement, the person on the bag will get up and trade places with them to deliver their rebuttal while also spinning and it just creates this sort of crazy strip-court lawyers debating absolute nonsense for no reason kind of vibe that frankly just really does it for us.

fifa kills whales 💔

Wyland has said any financial recovery from the suit would support public art, ocean conservation, and environmental education through his foundation.