Lin Rice

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Appalachian Ohioan in the big city. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him. Former reporter writing fantasy about magic, merfolk & rock ‘n roll.

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Those interested in extinction and the people who inadvertently cause it might be interested in "The Cactus Hunters": www.latimes.com/entertainmen... And if you're in central Ohio, the author, my cousin, is giving a talk tmrw (7/5/24) at the Bexley library.

What can we learn from the cactus thieveswww.latimes.com Jared D. Margulies' 'The Cactus Hunters,' unearths the global trade in stolen succulents. What these thieves might have to teach us about saving our plants

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I’m sure other people have already posted about how the rest of the world is also not it, but like, are you a person who looks at the people around you and decides to fight for them, to sustain for them, to build resilience with them, or are you a person who sees yourself/your family as an island?

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It's done! This might be the best thing I have ever made! Also, thank you so much to everyone who gave me suggestions. The list of characters and who suggested them is in the alt ☺️.

EVERY BITING INSECT IN THE WORLD CAN DIE IN AN INFERNO

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shout at the dark and listen for the sound to collapse in on itself muffling the sharp edges of your pain the things you left undone those tender words you couldn’t utter no matter how much you tried

It’s been the best 15 years of my life.

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It’s been consistently true over the last fifteen years that people, relatively calmly, sounding the alarm about an incoming political or social catastrophe have been quite rudely dismissed by what you could call the Sensible Liberal Class and then immediately proven right. Few learn a lesson.

Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.

Hello, Gorgeous.

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?

the combination of Ohio, Chevron, and Jarkesy is to tell the extraordinarily rich “there’s no one who can hold you accountable for anything if you can afford a lawsuit”

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The project is complete. The feline has expressed her satisfaction.

I gutted an old CRT TV today. It's eventually gonna be a cat bed. 3

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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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I’m making cute little jokes. But this is actually absurd.

Well... fuck.

Etsy to ban sale of most sex toys, explicit content, and moremashable.com Policy changes go into effect next month.

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Clarence Thomas the last 20 years: 2005 - Chevron is correct 2005-2024 - receives $4 million in secret gifts from real estate developers and polluters and other right-wingers who’ve made reversing Chevron one of their highest priorities 2024 - Chevron is wrong

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again, today's the last day to try to opt out of facebook/instagram's AI bullshit. follow these instructions. If they refuse or something you can keep that email as proof when they inevitably get got for this deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/11-steps-t...

11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AIdeborahcopaken.substack.com You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.

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Access to history and its art and culture creates a (relatively) well-informed, discerning populace. Take it away (say, by robbing people of access to film archives or nuking websites) and you create undiscerning ignorance, which is fertile ground for both fascism and capitalism.

the erasure of 20+ years of news stories here is yet another sign that future generations will have much richer knowledge of the 1930s than they will the GW Bush and Obama years. The wayback machine is carrying a lot of weight these days. If that goes, adios: variety.com/2024/digital...

MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offlinevariety.com The website of the already-defunct MTV News has been fully pulled offline.

Tonight's 🎶

Chevelle - Closure (Official HD Video)www.youtube.com Official HD video for "Closure" by ChevelleListen to Chevelle: https://Chevelle.lnk.to/listenYDSubscribe to the official Chevelle YouTube Channel: https://Ch...

Anyone know what these little critters are?

Betcha wish you had a rainbow cat

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EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING, NEW AMERICAN DINOSAUR JUST DROPPED www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

A dinosaur from Montana had huge blade-like horns. It's been named after Norse god Loki.www.nbcnews.com Lokiceratops rangiformis is an entirely new dinosaur previously undiscovered by paleontologists, scientists said in a journal Thursday.

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My wife: please don’t talk about mushroom stuff at dinner Me: okay *one ice water later* Me: did you know oyster mushrooms are partly carnivorous

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If you rewatch M*A*S*H this weekend, a neat bit of trivia is that Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin are in this shot

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Ohio Rs are so fucking corrupt: Now-indicted FirstEnergy executives allegedly worked with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and his team to pass legislation that was the result of the largest corruption scheme in state history, according to newly released text messages ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/06/20/n...

New texts show FirstEnergy allegedly working with Gov. DeWine to pass House Bill 6 • Ohio Capital Journalohiocapitaljournal.com Now-indicted FirstEnergy executives allegedly worked with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and his team to pass legislation that was the result of the largest corruption scheme in state history, according to new...

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From last week's trip to the Smoky mountains, a few minutes of synchronous fireflies (Photinus carolinus) in the forest undergrowth.

My golden raspberry finally made berries!

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Remember when we banned TikTok because our autocratic adversaries might use propaganda to try and undermine faith in institutions and erode trust in the very idea of objective truth - using covert, subversive tactics on social media?

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccineswww.reuters.com The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.

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New commission: a Muppet version of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai: SEVEN STABBY GUYS! Mixed media on 9 X 12" watercolor paper. #MuppetMonday

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It's increasingly clear that the people who make generative AI don't like films, don't like books, don't like art of any kind, and don't understand why anyone else does.

This isn’t a movie, it’s a screensaver bgr.com/tech/movies-...

Movies may soon use AI to change the story each time you rewatchbgr.com Filmmakers are experimenting with a new type of filmmaking called generative film, which uses AI to change the film each time it's watched.

Fathers Day comes with too many feels. Make it stop, please