If you eat pickled jalapeños, here’s a tip: when the bottle’s done, the spicy pickle juice makes an excellent base for a marinade 🌶️🌶️🌶️

🌊 A Historic Moment for Marine Conservation! 🌊 We are thrilled to celebrate the official designation of the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, now the 3rd largest #NationalMarineSanctuary#NOAA#oceanconservation#ocean#Chumash#California#Indigenous

A national social transition ban is slowly working its way through Congress. While the bill is framed around parental consent, this means that any child with unaffirming parents is legally barred from social transition, and teachers are prohibited from being affirming in *any* way.

This sculpture I just made is so hard to document but think it is cool? The rope slowly moves the water from the glass to the paper, and when it finally hits makes a picture. I like that it seems static, but there is actually a lot going on. The piece makes one picture per day, like a clock.

Hey, as a person who is also worried about the election and has found a way to volunteer that takes up all my spare time, I’m going to post a thread of the opportunities I’ve been emailed about that I don’t have time for … but you might.

I’m 100% that burp

If you’re in NYState, please consider signing this petition in support of the newly introduced bill the make Central Hudson a public utility. CenHud is currently *wildly* mismanaged by its Canadian owners, and they’ve been warned for years to clean up their act actionnetwork.org/letters/hvpa...

"No one complains of the flexibility and strength of female gymnasts—it is merely amazing. A powerful triple axel on the ice is perfectly feminine when done in a skirt. But a powerful punch? A cheetah-fast sprint? Variation is suddenly of deep concern." www.scientificamerican.com/article/spor...

Sports Celebrate Physical Variation—Until It Challenges Social Norms

Human anatomy is delightfully varied, but female athletes are heavily criticized for not conforming to socially accepted bodily norms

Since NaNoWriMo is ruined now, I suggest we do OctoWriMo, a month where we teach an octopus to write a novel and eventually it rises up and rules over all of us.

Oh look, Supervillains “Private equity firms are using US public sector workers’ retirement savings to fund fossil fuel projects…” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Private equity firms ploughing billions into fossil fuels, analysis reveals

US public sector workers’ retirement savings invested in projects that pump out a billion tonnes of emissions a year