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Susan B. Shoppin for the holidays 🎁
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ok wow I'd never seen this one before. this is the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, designed by Frank Gehry. imagine you have problems with your brain and this is the building you're walking into for treatment
an extremely odd metal-sided building that looks like it's on the verge of collapsing.
December 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
checarina.bsky.social
it's a shame I got distracted by the rhetorical weirdness of this piece bc I actually wanted to highlight this important observation about how the internet's attention economy is driving gun violence and not just for the stereotypical white male manifesto-writer
McCoy says she’s seen street culture shift away from the rules of organized gangs and unspoken norms like no shooting in front of women and children. Now, she says, the attention people get from dissing their dead opponents and taunting their adversaries in music and videos posted online has become a new driver of real-world violence – with no one and no place off limits. “For some dumb reason, people have glorified this weird ‘diss the dead’ rap culture,” she said. “In order for us to get somewhere with this we have to address the elephant in the room: this acceptance of clout-chasing culture and how it’s infiltrated the gang space.”
December 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
checarina.bsky.social
"Color", in the sense of race, appears exactly once, in describing this person's work at a nonprofit.
Instead of dismissing this shooting and similar ones as an unavoidable tragedy in cities that have long struggled with violence and crime, Americans needed to do away with the notion of “typical mass shootings” entirely, said Cymone Reyes, a Stockton native who runs Central Valley Gender Health and Wellness, a non-profit for the area’s LGBTQIA+ residents of color. Instead, local officials, city agencies and non-profits need to coalesce and focus on reaching the teenagers and young adults who are caught in cycles of conflict and violence.
December 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
checarina.bsky.social
ok I know I said I wasn't shopping for luggage, but I might have to amend that
a set of bright yellow Lego-brand luggage shaped like Lego bricks
December 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
checarina.bsky.social
real quick
sketchbook page: HO- HO- HORRORS in red, white, and silver "Ho-Ho-" is in red-and-white striped bubble letters "Horrors" is in scratchy horror-esque letters
December 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
checarina.bsky.social
I mean, unfortunately, I think the answer we as a society have landed on is "all of them, up to and including life", but it's still a good question to ask
And, I hope you’ll think honestly about the kind of life available to a young New Hampshire family at the official threshold of poverty in America and ask yourself this question: Which of life’s necessities should we as a society be comfortable denying to those we consider poor?
December 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
checarina.bsky.social
Text message: Did check mail, only one junk and a statement to JB Suggested reply: No
December 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
checarina.bsky.social
mean!!
Taxonomy Morus is derived from Ancient Greek μωρός moros "stupid" or "foolish" due to lack of fear shown by breeding gannets and boobies, allowing them to be easily killed.
December 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
checarina.bsky.social
the linguistic shenanigans will continue until morale improves
Wikipedia: In popular culture Users of TikTok and other social media platforms have noted that the willow ptarmigan's distinctive call sounds like the expression awebo, a corruption of the vulgar Mexican Spanish slang phrase a huevo. The species has gained popular recognition as "the awebo bird" or simply the "awebo". See also Chicken, Alaska was originally going to be named "ptarmigan" in 1902, but town founders could not agree on how to spell it.
December 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
checarina.bsky.social
all kinds of linguistic fuckups with this bird
Wikipedia: The specific epithets muta and leucura were for a long time misspelt mutus and leucurus, in the erroneous belief that the ending of Lagopus denotes masculine gender. However, as the Ancient Greek term λαγωπους is of feminine gender, and the specific epithet has to agree with that, the feminine muta and leucura are correct.
December 6, 2025 at 10:40 PM
checarina.bsky.social
tweet by me: Tired: I can't have ADHD, I was such a good student Wired: either ADHD Twitter needs to stop being so relatable, or I need to see a doctor Inspired: CPTSD can look almost exactly like ADHD & the reason u don't see ppl talking abt it is bc so few ppl even know about CPTSD!!!
December 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
checarina.bsky.social
what you say when whipped cream shares a traumatic story from its childhood
A can of whipped cream that says REAL HEAVY WHIPPED CREAM
December 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
checarina.bsky.social
HMMMmmmmmmMMMmmmm

really makes you think
Police solved just 44% of reported violent crimes in Washington last year, according to statistics presented to state lawmakers on Thursday. These crimes include murder, aggravated assault, robbery and rape. “How low can this rate go before the entire criminal justice system is rendered useless?” Marshall Clement, director of the Council of State Governments’ Justice Center, said during committee testimony.
December 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
checarina.bsky.social
Ralph Wiggum "I'm in danger" meme
December 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
checarina.bsky.social
overrated Hozier but ok
My Spotify Wrapped showing my top artists for 2025: 1. Lana Del Rey 2. BANKS 3. MARINA 4. Hozier 5. Tove Lo
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
checarina.bsky.social
excerpt from Wikipedia article on Hormonal IUDs: Other effects include making the inside of the uterus become fatal to sperm "Sickos" meme
December 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM
checarina.bsky.social
oh good
Washington's ban on the sale of guns classified as assault weapons has so far held up in court. A state judge last month rejected one of the challenges to the 2023 law. But the group behind that case has promised to appeal. And lawsuits over similar restrictions are simmering in federal courts around the country. It may be the U.S. Supreme Court that ultimately decides whether people have a constitutional right to buy these kinds of firearms.
December 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
checarina.bsky.social
isn't that a yugioh
a block of cheese called Smoked Black Pepper White Cheddar
December 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
checarina.bsky.social
god, THANK YOU
highlighted sentence from Kirby's essay: "it is not the case that the grad student should have been Better At Cop Shit to prevent the student from harassing her."
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
checarina.bsky.social
actually every part of this story is perfect (the raccoon was apparently fine) www.axios.com/local/richmo...
on the left, a photo of the trail of destruction (broken booze bottles) left behind by the raccoon. on the right, the raccoon passed out next to a toilet.
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
checarina.bsky.social
got inspired
"Punish the Villains" in hand-drawn block letters
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 AM
checarina.bsky.social
it's a bouncing dreidel, get your mind out of the gutter
A battery-operated bouncing dreidel that definitely in no way resembles a butt plug
December 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
checarina.bsky.social
but wait, there's more
Grocery store display of various Hanukkah toys and accessories, including "Judah Maccabot", a robot with bendy tubes for arms and legs
December 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
checarina.bsky.social
frankly in awe of the creative mind behind "Chewdaica", Hanukkah toys for dogs
"Chewdaica Chanukah Tennis Balls", blue and white tennis balls for dogs
December 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Bob Belcher singing to his heritage turkey, which is named 'Popcorn'
November 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM