Dr. Roar

@amazonmilkfrog @anotheranarch Mustelidification, ophiufication, and eel-ification are just shades of the true goal: Vermification!

@anotheranarch it was mostly facetious, but the fact that rodents, shrews, mongooses, and mustelids evolved independently is amusing.

friendly reminder that carcinization only applies to arthropods. mammals turn into mustelids, reptiles turn into snakes, and fish turn into. fish ("fish" is itself a paraphyletic grouping)

Colima spider-shaped vessel, Late Pre-Classic period, ca. 300 BC–300 AD, crafted from terracotta with a reddish-brown slip. Previously part of private collections in New York and Florida. Photo Credit: Bonhams.

And then you look at the median wealth and everything makes sense.

If facebook/instagram/icloud go down how many of you will have any physical records of your existence over the last 15 years? When’s the last time you printed a photo album?

St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Missouri, July 1, 1922

BREAKING: world enters era of "Global Water Bankruptcy" • "water stress" no longer sufficient description of IRREVERSIBLE damage • global water cycle now BEYOND safe planetary boundary • risk landscape fundamentally altered • priority: prevent further irreversible damage

For some reason the otters decided they really wanted to grab the leaves on the tree. 🤣🤣

its 2027. Britain has been devastated by mild rain, with tens of thousands dead. The NHS is a cryptocurrency. Foreigners are shot on sight. The Starmer government is threatened by the "Kill And Eat The Parliamentary Labour Party Party", which is rapidly gaining votes

ICE has revised its rules to say that detainees who work in custody aren't even required to get $1 per day, after a request from private prison giant Geo Group. Geo Group also asked ICE to remove lines saying contractors needed to follow state and local laws around the treatment of detainees, asked ICE amend language to support its legal position in these cases, and asked that the standards specify that detainees are not employees of the facilities where they work. In addition to removing the dollar per day minimum, ICE's new national standards complied with several of Geo Group's other requests, for instance the document now says detainees are not employees “and are not entitled to wages or benefits under applicable wage laws or labor regulations.” washingtonpost.com/business/2026/…

NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xai in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing, more here wired.com/story/doj-lawy…

@KStimmeGenozid Is Gaza a genocide?

Illinois Department of Natural Resources is ending its 23-year targeted deer culling program designed to contain the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease. Further hastening my untimely demise in the drainage ditch behind the Casey's.

The FBI cut the phone lines during the 1977 disability rights sit-in. Then they turned off the hot water. They locked the doors from the outside. One hundred and fifty people were trapped on the fourth floor. Half of them used wheelchairs. The government assumed they would leave. Kitty Cone was thirty-three. She had muscular dystrophy. Her muscles were failing, but her logistics were flawless. She knew how to organize people. The federal government had promised to sign regulations protecting disabled Americans from discrimination. The policy was known as Section 504. They printed the promise on paper. Then they stalled. Without a signature, it was just typography. The protesters entered the regional Health, Education, and Welfare building in San Francisco on a Tuesday morning. They took the elevators to the director's office. They brought sleeping bags and catheters. They informed the staff they were not leaving until the law was signed. By sunset, the police surrounded the exits. Kitty sat near the windows. She organized the floor plan. She assigned committees for security and sanitation. She kept her medication in a small cooler. According to federal memorandums released decades later, the strategy to end the occupation relied on medical attrition. The building was not equipped for long-term habitation. The FBI calculated that a population requiring ventilators, specialized diets, and daily medical aides would voluntarily evacuate if the environment became sufficiently hostile. They instituted a blockade. The blockade went into effect immediately. No food deliveries allowed. No medical supplies permitted through the lobby. Guards stood at the main doors checking identification. Kitty's muscles deteriorated faster under the physical strain. She couldn't walk. When the phone lines went dead, the fourth floor lost contact with the press. The government waited for the quiet. Kitty dropped to the floor. She realized the barricades were designed for standing adults. The police had blocked the hallways at waist height. They hadn't blocked the linoleum. The floors were covered in cigarette ash and spilled coffee. She dragged her body through it. She crawled under the barricades to reach the restricted elevator shafts and unguarded offices. She carried notes in her pockets. She found a single working payphone the FBI missed. She called the local news desks. She called the mayor's office. She crawled back. When her arms failed, someone pulled her by her ankles. The Black Panthers heard the news reports. They crossed the police lines with hot meals. The FBI could not stop them without a riot. They shut off the elevators, so she crawled. The occupation lasted twenty-five days. It remains the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in American history. On April 28, the Secretary of HEW signed the regulations without a single alteration. The protesters left the building the next morning. They went back to their apartments. The Rehabilitation Act regulations laid the groundwork for every accessibility law that followed. The HEW building still stands on United Nations Plaza. The elevators run on a schedule. The doors are heavy glass. Kitty Cone: the woman who crawled under the barricades.

@willmenaker For the second option, see Graham Oakley's Church Mice books

This project broke down because no one could decide if they were human-sized mice living in a human-sized abbey, mice-sized mice living an human-sized abbey, or mice-sized mice living in a mice-sized abbey

there's just So Much Happening right now, but this really should have been a much bigger story

@adamjohnsonCHI Turn it into a springtime halloween! Give people a reason to get together and have April 1st parties!

Another brilliant “prank” that’s some version of Just Lying and/or Playing On People’s Trust. Don’t look for a joke because there isn’t one! We must end this humorless and pointless holiday designed entirely for unfunny people once and for all!

USFS turned over to a logging CEO, HQ moved to anti-Fed Govt Salt Lake City, all 10 regional offices closed, all research labs shuttered, all the science lost, public lands handed over to corporations for logging, mining, fracking. Our country is being raped, looted, stolen.

Breaking news: A committee led by the interior secretary voted to exempt oil and gas companies from complying with the Endangered Species Act when drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, which could threaten species facing extinction. wapo.st/4tjQcSA