Remember when you were a little kid playing “Monopoly” and there was that stage in the game where you one player owned nearly everything and you kept going through the motions even though it was absolutely hopeless for you to ever get any kind of a foothold on anything and with each turn you felt the urge more and more to overturn the whole fucking board and its contents onto the family dining room table out of maddening, wild frustration?

Something very familiar feeling about that phase right now for some reason.

A reminder that the journalists whom Trump served up as assassination decoys are the same ones who invited him to their fancy dinner and applauded him after a speech in which he taunted them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/trump-air-force-one-deception-democrats

The day of the Prop 9 vote draws near, yet Greystoke is torn between campaigning and longing for Aspatria. Can love thrive, both for them and queer people across Oregon?

Today’s story is the second of two parts of “Would?” by @lupestripe. This story was featured in the ‘Wild Hearts’ anthology, published by Armoured Fox Press in 2025. You can find more of her stories on her website lupestripe.com.

This concludes, for this year, our Summer Reading Program schedule. Starting next week, we return to our ordinary time schedule, during which you can expect a new episode every Monday.

Listen here: https://thevoice.dog/episode/would-by-packwolf-lupestripe-part-2-of-2/
#Writing #Furry

🇦🇺 🐨 What is the Great Koala National Park?

It’s a plan to connect 175,000 hectares of publicly-owned state forests to existing National Parks, creating a 315,000 hectare nature reserve in the Coffs Coast Region and giving endangered species, like koalas, a safe place to live.

#Australia #Koalas #Conservation
#Wildlife #GoodNews

https://www.koalapark.org.au/

pretty sunset tonight

chmod +s /tmp/bash

@catsalad

NATO's Eastern European members are offering to cut costs for U.S. troops stationed on their soil to discourage the Trump administration from reducing its military footprint there. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/22/world/politics/nato-eastern-allies-us-bases-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #nato #defense #us #donaldtrump #budgets #europe

‘The Emperor is a fan’: Darth Vader backs San Diego Flock surveillance cams
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-21/darth-vader-to-san-diego-city-council-emperor-want-flock-surveillance-cameras?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into California @california-LATimes

@johnvoorhees @viticci Geez you owe no one an apology for making a rational decision. It’s time for the tribalism to end. Proud of you guys.