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GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking. www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...

The Texas Tribune has a good list of ways you can help flood rescue efforts in Central Texas or get help if you need it: www.texastribune.org/2025/07/05/t...

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

A front is pushing into the Houston metro area this morning, kicking off a week-long period of much colder weather, with hard freezes likely on multiple mornings, and a probable winter storm that will significantly disrupt travel around the region on Tuesday and possibly Wednesday. #houwx #housky

Faith Humphrey Hill, US artist and knitter who creates knitted and mixed media portraits #WomensArt

Rothko Chapel https://www.wikiart.org/en/mark-rothko/rothko-chapel-1967

Here is a @prisonculture.bsky.social vetted GoFundMe for those with the financial means to help those affected by the wildfires in California. As of this morning, they have received 43% of their gofund.me/1edf34af

Los Angeles teachers, if you lost your classroom library in the fire, I am a HS English teacher and YA author and I will get you books whenever you're ready for them. The bookish community is here for you. There is no expiration date. tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...

Do You Know This Monkey

I had a lot of people asking me so I wrote an explainer: Here's how you can help the incarcerated firefighter battling the blazes in Southern California this week: www.latimes.com/california/s...

texans-chargers is currently at 32-12. if this holds it will destroy the tetris, arguably the most iconic formation on the entire scorigami board

If you are displaced due to LA fires, we all want to help. I have room for 8 people in Salt Lake City. It’s a 9 hour drive. I can pay for gas or flights. We all feel helpless and want to do something. Please reach out. Will help if I can.

LAC 12 - 32 HOU Final That's Scorigami!! It's the 1091st unique final score in NFL history.

want to signal boost a gofundme only about 50% to their goal -- the wallaces have lived in their altadena home for three generations and are rebuilding. just gave, join me if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/cccmnt-hel...

ERMAHGERD the sun came out Two! Days! In a! Row!

Drinking alcohol raises the risk of developing seven types of cancer, according to a new advisory from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.

They did the thing

It seems unlikely that we’ll hit 5k before the end of the year, but if we did, that’d be pretty cool. youtube.com/@oldhumbledi...

omg she’s six months old but has the head of a kitten. She ate a can of wet food in no time. She has insane ferret energy.

Don't rely just on social media. Sign up for recall emails: www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/Sub...

New from me: “The way I see it “woke” combines the experience of having an awakening (“something or someone woke me up”) with the alertness that follows (“I can’t or won’t go back to sleep; I’m awake now.”) In that way, “woke” is an incredible concept, right?”

It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’. ‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.

Absolutely loved this piece in Slate on the centrality of salespeople to the economy, and what that means for our society: slate.com/life/2024/12...

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick heads into the 89th Legislature in honey-badger mode, heedlessly pursuing ideological goals regardless of public opinion. Like the honey badger, Patrick “don’t care” what people think. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col... #txlege @houstonchronicle.com @expressnews.com

It decidedly did not feel like the holidays this weekend in Houston, and we’ve got a few more warm, muggy days before a front arrives to bring seasonal weather back into the forecast. There will be plenty of drier air and chilly temperatures this coming weekend. But what of Christmas Day?🎅 #houwx

Daniel Perry turned to the digital world before he killed Garrett Foster. What his phone reveals today after his murder conviction and pardon by Gov. Abbott. houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...

🧵Daniel Perry turned to the digital world before he killed Garrett Foster, an armed Black Lives Matter protester, in Austin in the summer of 2020. Here's what his phone reveals today, in the aftermath of an incident that has reverberated in national politics ever since.

Right so after several recent incidents at work it seems like it's time to tap the sign again: Never apologize to me when your cat crashes a video call. Your cat is perfect. I understand that the begging for attention is not charming to you but it is to me and I wish to see your cat. Thank you.

In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

When you can't let the cat go out because he might invade Poland

lots of my Fight Like a Princess swag (which includes shirts, hoodies, onesies, etc) that I sell for charity is on sale! and they make great holiday gifts! and all proceeds will benefit animal charities! ** get 25% off using the code SightSound25 ** cottonbureau.com/p/HK6J7C/shi...

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

After five generations, a family returned a headdress, moccasins and other clothing to a descendant of a Lakota leader. “We looked at each other and we said, ‘Is this real? 144 years?’” said Tamara Stands and Looks Back-Spotted Tail. “We were just kind of in awe.”

You’re online betting. I’m organically freaking out about the outcome of a sporting event in which I have no rooting interest as a displacement for allowing myself to feel emotions. We are not the same.

When the mask mandate was lifted from Mass General Brigham in May '23, hospital transmission of resp virus went up. When the mandate was re-instituted in Jan '24, infection rates went down. www.news-medical.net/news/2024052...

This quilt is called Fibonacci and my mathematician husband designed it. I've been working on writing the pattern and need to test it by making another one. #quiltsky #quilting #quilt #quilter #quiltingismytherapy #patchwork #quiltlove #quiltersgonnaquilt #fibonacci #fractal

I’ve made it, y’all!

SAFE has an urgent need for sponsors for around 75 families in need for the holidays. We may only have five followers here, but we'd love for each of you to share this request! Sign up here to support a family who has experienced domestic violence this holiday season: signup.com/go/wHhOZLe

Inside the only class in Texas to help prepare inmates for life after prison. More than 250 Texas prisoners are on the waitlist to join the Lee College reentry class. Programs like these prepare students to find jobs and help lower recidivism. www.texastribune.org/2024/11/26/t...

"TV’s Frank has written this wonderful short novel hilariously describing a cosmic observer’s attempt to mess with Earth history by manipulating 1960s sitcom casting, game shows, and Dylan going electric. If you love D-list celebrities both on and behind the page—and boy, do I—this book is for you."

I say this with love: use alt text, and READ alt text even if you aren’t visually-impaired. It saves me and other herpers from having to say our pets’ species a zillion times and provides context during slow load times! Alt text makes this place better for everyone, and part of Bsky culture!