loathsomecowboy @loathsomecowboy@wonkodon.com

What did the insufferably pedantic owl say?

Whom! Whom!

#PunAnything
#HashTagGames

https://www.wonkette.com/p/public-school-tried-to-ban-a-kids

Graduating students at VCU were seen walking out during Virginia governor Glenn Youngkinn's address to the class.

The protesting students made comments to the press indicating their strong disagreement with Glenn Youngkinn's goals to limit Black History curriciulium and general anti-Black and anti-Trans policy goals.

📸 TW: @BradKutner

#RVA #VCU #Richmond #VA #Virginia #BlackMastodon #LGBTQ #FreePalestine

#cats #caturday #cartoon #NewYorkerMagazine

First cats to be domesticated by Carolita Johnson for New Yorker magazine

A lesson on critical thinking before posting stupid things on social media.

'What are you losing? “You can’t say anything anymore.” What do you want to say? Shut the fuck up. And by the way, the people who talk about anti-woke are the biggest fucking pussies you would ever find.

I’m just so tired of it. The woke shit, you lose nothing. I’m a comedian. I’ve lost two words in 35 years. Honestly, are you that fucking unimaginative that you can’t figure it out?'

Jon Stewart roasted his fellow comedians who claim 'comedy is dead.' 😅

#JonStewart

#cannabis

Regulations are written in blood.

Unoffensive Animal: **Utah Fur Farms Vanish By The Dozen.**

"via: NAALPO. “Recently, aboveground activists visited Utah to determine the operational status of known fur farms in the state. 25 fur farms were surveilled, and only 1 was confirmed as currently in operation. This is the grim state of the U.S. fur industry. Activists found dilapidated sheds, piles of rusted and decayed cages and nesting …"

https://unoffensiveanimal.is/2024/05/06/utah-fur-farms-vanish-by-the-dozen/

#anarchism #bot

Utah fields nearly 4,000 “bogus" reports in first week of trans bathroom ban. A form for violations of a trans bathroom ban in state-owned buildings got nearly 4,000 fake reports in three days

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/04/utah-fields-nearly-4000-bogus-reports-in-first-week-of-trans-bathroom-ban/

It’s Trump’s Party Now
Following the installation of Trump’s daughter-in-law, the #RNC has hired a 28-yr-old fmr bikini model as its new spox. Elizabeth Pipko, who has posed for SportsIllustrated, Maxim, & Esquire, a longtime admirer of #Trump, previously worked on his 2016 campaign. “The things he’s been through have been unreal. A lot of people look at what he’s up against every day & see his real character”
[I can hear her eyelashes batting in that quote]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rnc-hires-ex-bikini-model-as-its-new-spokesperson-report

Sandhill Crane
📸: @jazzyrobn
By #NatureAndArchaeology
#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photographer

No worries doggo’s! I can help

The Baseball Man

Steel produced prior to World War II is highly sought after, and usually sells for a premium. The reason why may surprise you. It's not due to any perceived higher quality than steel produced later -- not in the ordinary sense, anyway.

The issue is that steel smelted after WWII pretty much all contains tiny amounts of radioactive contamination from above ground nuclear tests, which were common until the signing of the nuclear test ban treaty in 1963.

While the amount of radiation in that steel is extremely low, it's high enough to interfere with some very high precision instrumentation. So manufacturers of some affected equipment want that "old steel" to use instead.

Since the global atmospheric contamination levels associated with those tests has been dropping over the decades, it's a decreasing problem for newly produced steel.

Still, a large find of old steel, like a sunken pre-WWII battleship for example, is still much valued due to these issues.

So now you know.