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Good at words but bad at Twitter. Hair of a mermaid, mouth of a sailor. Jokes on @McSweeneys @thisisrobotbutt @The_Belladonnas @slackjawhumor #binders

[nap mistress @PrincessSnarkle]

My first piece for @SlackjawHumor is the natural result of climate change rage colliding with my daily diet of Condé Nast Traveller and PureWow articles. https://t.co/SRSiaVvQ8e

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@AnAbyssWatcher @HONEST_7G I don’t know what his dad did, but his mother was my first grade teacher. I still remember decades later how kind, patient, and engaging she was. She was a wonderful person. What a fucked up assumption for you to make when you know nothing about this family.

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@FreyaVikingGirl @micah_erfan I hear you completely! That’s exactly what I mean—I can’t stand most of the commercial bro country, but ZB and several of the other roots artists have been putting out music that would make Johnny proud. ✊🏻

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@FreyaVikingGirl @micah_erfan Honestly, give it a listen and it might surprise you. The man is a poet and cannot write a bad song.

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@WhiteHouse This is literally what the founding fathers were trying to safeguard against, you treasonous assclown.

[Party for Socialism and Liberation @pslnational]

Let’s be clear: the government is actively threatening to wage war on its own people.

Chicago is not enemy territory. Immigrants, Black people, poor and working class communities are not enemies.

This isn’t a threat to bat an eye at. It’s a call to action for us to stand up and fight back before Trump and his gang shred every single right we have.

[Bunsen, Beaker, Bernoulli & Brix @bunsenbernerbmd]

In 2003 I stopped on the side of the highway.

I got out of my car.

I looked up.

I can’t really describe the feeling, but dumbstruck awe is as close as possible.

I was on my way home very late from a school event and suddenly I was surrounded by green, red, and purple fire.

The night sky was enveloped in them.

Honestly I thought I was having a medical emergency.

It was the Northern Lights, but unlike anything I’ve ever seen.

I stood for 20 minutes looking up as twisting and chaotic lights spun around me, in the middle of nowhere, without any light pollution.

I also HEARD them. It was a crackling and twinkling sound, like wind chimes made of breaking tinfoil.

Nobody else I knew saw them that night. I also wasn't believed that they made sound - which has been proven to be true.

That was the last MASSIVE geomagnetic storm the Earth experience and it was like what we saw last night.

We got warning thanks to social media that one was coming and the weather cooperated.

Little cloud, and a warm wind.

We sat beneath the sky initially in blankets but then 1:00 AM rolled around.

Gorgeous dancing beams of light blasted overhead, with the same greens, reds, pinks, and purples I saw so many years ago.

It got so bright, it was as if Mother Nature had turned on a nightlight across the night sky, to ward off bad dreams and spooky shadows.

I had tears in my eyes.

I felt so small, yet I was experiencing something so large.

I had VERY big feelings - just like Beaker gets (our golden) when she has so much joy.

This time I got to experience it with my family AND see the joy and excitement across social media as so many people who had never witnessed them before, got a glimpse.

We were all so very fortunate last night.

BUT: What causes this?

This cosmic spectacle is caused by a massive sunspot, a behemoth as wide as 17 Earths, hurling solar flares towards our planet.

Imagine the sun as a giant celestial disco ball, occasionally sending out bursts of energy in the form of solar flares.

When these flares reach Earth, they interact with our magnetic field, creating geomagnetic storms.

Normally our magnetic field yeets these storms to the poles, eliminating all but the most extreme latitudes from viewing them.

In Canada we consider it pay back for our long and brutal winters.

This energy excites the gasses high in our atmosphere and depending on the gas, different colors are produced.

Oxygen produces greens and reds. Nitrogen produces blue and purple.

And if we are very very lucky, Helium and Hydrogen produces the white and pinks we saw last night.

The recent storm escalated to Level 5 "extreme" conditions, creating a celestial dance of colors in the night sky.

Even SpaceX's Starlink service experienced "degraded service," a reminder that while we marvel at the beauty of the Northern Lights, they also remind us of our reliance on technology vulnerable to these cosmic events.

Our internet is powered by Starlink and we have NO SERVICE during the peak - and it has been knocked out at times yesterday and today.

However, this isn't just a spectacle; it's a reminder of the power and unpredictability of our sun.

This Level 5 geomagnetic storm is the first of its kind since 2003, where a much younger me stood dumbfounded at the side of a rural highway, looking up.

There is talk that this Saturday night we might get a repeat performance.

You can bet our family will have front row seats.

You can’t miss this kind of cosmic show.

It is just the universe telling us that while we are small , we are part of something so much bigger.

We are in the universe, but the universe is also within us.

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@JC99WHIT Watching them from Montrose right now! They’ve died down for now but they are visible tonight.

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@dog_rates My space is Maple’s space.

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@morgonn “I’m not going in there” right after going in there. With a camera.

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@rockcandy87 I got the email 👀

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@rockcandy87 Oh man if I didn’t have to be back in Chicago that day

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@dog_rates She’s checking in on Dino friend first to make sure he’s really okay 😭

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@rockcandy87 👀

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@smileystylist @Karnythia I need the answer to this before I decide whether today is a good day to go to the library. Or all of them.

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@rockcandy87 Girl remember that I had to splint my wrist because I popped a tendon trying to scan a bar code at Target. ☠️ we should start a club

[nap mistress @PrincessSnarkle]

Hot Second City decor tips for @AICEunion

[Onion Inc Union @OnionIncUnion]

Our union welcomed management’s representatives to in-person bargaining today with some custom onion union decor!

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@rockcandy87 We out here

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@rockcandy87 Bish I barely post there either but we can talk to each other

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@rockcandy87 Wait you’re on bluesky?

[Steve Martin @UnrealBluegrass]

If Trump becomes president again, after all we know ,and you supported his campaign you will have participated in the end of American democracy.
You will not be rewarded by your leader beyond a rush you might seek for upending civility.
You aren't part of his plan.
He is the entirety of his plan and the future will belong to him.
Not you.
You won't get a thank you or a knowing nod.
He will allow you to buy trinkets with his image and name emblazoned.
Trump is a despicable example of human kind.
Devoid of compassion.
Devoid of any respect for knowledge and education.
Trump is the fully realized Id.
He will have no guardians , no guard rails and no shame.
He cannot tell the difference between what he is and what he wants.
There is none when you analyze the situation.
He flunks Descarte's building block syllogism automatically.
He can't think so no therefore.
Ego driven rage and revenge.
If you're inclined to assist him please rethink your reasons.
#Trump