This, ladies and gentlemen, is an Australian numbat, which I’m sharing for the name alone. Also, it’s off the endangered list, so yay! (Fix the News)
Quote: “JEFFERSON, Ga. — Marci Bakely couldn’t understand how her ex-boyfriend always seemed to know where she was. When she went to buy groceries or on a date or to the doctor, he’d text her about it, sometimes within minutes, despite working 15 miles from her home as a police chief in a small town in the Atlanta suburbs. One day in 2024, when he incorrectly suspected that she’d gone to see a man against his wishes, he messaged her, “I didn’t think you would slip up,” according to texts she shared with The Washington Post.”
Dana sez, creepier than a Jordan Peele film. (WaPo behind a paywall, or read here)
Quote: “Your paper towel may soon grow in the desert. Kimberly-Clark, one of the world’s biggest tissue makers, says it has made a “Goldilocks discovery”: hesperaloe, a spiky arid-climate plant that yields fibre stronger and softer than wood, with a fraction of the water and no felled trees. After spending $250 million over 20 years on testing 70 candidates, the firm is now building a pilot crop facility in Arizona.” (WSJ gift link)
Quote: “A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.”
Dana sez, guys, honestly. If we have to fire a bunch of career politicians to get this done, let’s. (link under the image, h/t Kottke)
Discovered last year at a TJ’s in Scottsdale. Omg, sooooo good. Bad news: No TJ’s in Alaska. Good news: You can get them in 3-packs on Amazon.
Quote for the times
Forstag rang his congressman, Ryan Zinke, over and over, and got sweet fuck-all back, not a call, not a letter, just the sound of crickets shagging in an empty office. And that’s when the smokejumper, sick of being ignored by a wanker with a taxpayer-funded phone he apparently couldn’t operate, made a decision that belongs on a plaque:
“When I reached out to Ryan Zinke, the Republican in this seat, time and time again I got crickets. So I decided if he’s going to come after my members and my co-workers’ jobs, I’m going to come and take his.” —IFLA on Substack
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