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Why does β€œI’m up for it” mean the same thing as β€œI’m down for it”?

I am a macro wildlife photographer, jciv on Flickr & iNaturalist. Spiders are my favorite subject, but I also like flies, moths, & butterflies. I am not an expert, but I like sharing what I know.

I am a founder of #Arachtober, a celebration of spiders during October, starting in 2007 on Flickr. It spread. I really loved the interaction with entomologists and arachnologists on Twitter. Read about Arachtober at LiveScience: livescience.com/52555-arachtob

#selfie #introduction #spider #macrophotography

@thehill

I think this is misuse of the word "allegedly"
-The kid was shot, no question
-The guy said he shot the kid, no question

How is this "alleged"?

Innocent Humour 

From FB:
Finally my winter fat is gone, now I have spring rolls.
#haha #humour #funny #weightloss #health #winter

I’m reposting this. This long poem I wrote yesterday is the best thing I have ever written. I love it so much that I want the whole world to read it. Please boost! And I would love to hear comments.

The Day We Laughed at Colin’s Funeral

The day we laughed at Colin’s funeral
The truth I saw was bigger than us all.
It was Billy who began it with that face
Recalling Colin mocking old Miss Grace...

medium.com/@glennmitchell_9746

#poetry #LGBTQ #NaPoWriMo

@jocelynbosse @design_law

When they were doing above-ground nuclear explosion testing, they'd tell the surrounding population to go out and look at the pretty sunsets, as the radioactive cloud passed over. They later collected medical information about the cancer clusters in those areas and used them to develop modern radioactivity exposure guidelines.

Better living in the nuclear age!

@design_law You laugh, but this was a whole thing after WWII, during 'Atoms for Peace'. Super seeds for your atomic garden, anyone?

Our rights are being stripped away and Feinstein is blocking judges from being confirmed

Resign. Whatever legacy you had is gone.

@scalzi

When they're playing your jams as background music at the airport, you know you're getting old. When they start playing them in the elevator, you know "old" is in the rearview mirror.

Extremely lukewarm take based on hearing a song over the airport speakers: The Sammy Hagar era of Van Halen is underrated. Did it hit the highs of the David Lee Roth era? No. Was it super-consistently listenable, with really catchy rock singles? Yes. FIGHT ME, or don't, if this opinion matters to you we're both old and will get winded after ten seconds of exertion.

So, now we’ve got police going to the wrong address and shooting innocent civilians, and white civilians shooting innocent black kids who ring the wrong doorbell. The persistence of hate narratives and shoot-first-ask-questions-later knee jerk reactions show how absolutely dangerous an #NRA fueled gun society is. Their answer: More Guns! Because β€œguns aren’t the problem. People are the problem.” My question: So why in God’s name would you give guns to the problem?
#guns #guncontrol #gunviolence

@breadandcircuses

I moved to California in the '97 El NiΓ±o, and my most vivid memory was standing at my office window in Santa Barbara, watching another employee's car float down the street. He hadn't moved it fast enough to get out of the rising water in the parking lot.
We've already seen Tulare Lake come back, what else will happen with even more rain?

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