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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I am reminded of this article I found in the The Derby Mercury, published 29 Aug 1734, about an inheritance dispute after someone "changed her sex":

The following being a very extraordinary Occurrence, please to take it in the Words of our Correspondent at Paris. "The Daughter of a famous Attorney of this City (Paris) who was christened as such, and whose Sex was never questioned to the Age of Sixteen, has since changed her Sex; and having thereupon made Application to the Parliament to be confirm'd in the Priveleges of Manhood. The Courts, after due Examination, issued last Week their Arret, that the Person heretofore a Girl, shall be henceforward deem'd a Man; that the Baptisimal Name shall be chang'd at the Font to one proper to Men; and that she shall take Place in the Inheritance of her Father's Estates accordingly. But to this last Article of the Sentence her Younger Brother has entered an Appeal, alledging, that he is still the Elder Son.

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Reposting with alt text. Didn't realize Stephen King was also a piece of shit, but I guess we learn something new every day.

Two posts from Stephen King about Platner, in response to rape allegations against Platner: "Tell you what--if you knew the whole truth about everyone in the Senate and House of Reps, those chambers would be dead empty. Jesus said Let him who is without sin cast the first stone."

2nd post: "Graham Platner may drop out. (I hope he doesn't, but.) Meanwhile, the Abuser in Chief just keeps on keepin' on."

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The Feb 23, 1902 issue of the Minneapolis Daily Times has three ads in a row for them!

Three newspaper advertisements in a row euphemistically offering different formulations of abortion pills. The top one reads:
LADIES SAFE REMEDY
APIOLINE (CHAPOTEAUT)
Superior to Apiol, Tansy, Pennyroyal or Steel.
Sure Relief of Pain and Irregularities Peculiar to the Sex. Apioline Capsules for three months cost $1. Druggist or P.O. Box 2081, New York.

The second reads:
La Due's Tansy, Pennyroyal and Cotton Root Pills. Positive Regulator, Guaranteed to relieve: the most obstinate case of suppressed or irregular menstruation or money refunded. Price reduced. $1.00 box; mailed in plain sealed package. E. H. WEINHOLD West Hotel, cor. Hennepin and 5th or 528 Nicollet, cor 6th. MINNEAPOLIS MINN.

The final one reads:
CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS. Original and Only Genuine. SAFE. Always reliable. Ladies, ask Druggist for CHICHESTER'S English in RED and Gold metallic boxes, sealed with blue ribbon. Take no other. Refuse Dangerous Substitutions and Imitations. Buy of your Druggist, or send 5c in stamps for Particulars, Testimonials and "Relief for Ladies" in letter, by return Mail. Sold by all Druggists. Chichester Chemical Co. Mention this paper. Madison Square, Pa.

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

He's actually only the second largest man so it's probably fine, definitely winnable i.redd.it/2684yuglqwre1.

Screenshot of Alan Ritchson looking very small standing beside Olivier Richters

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Uhhh..... who the fuck sent this email to Epstein? Yikes.

Email from redacted name to jeffrey epstein, sent oct 25 2018. Text reads just "I have a child"

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

There are some other really gross emails from him as well.

Email from Robert Trivers to Jeffrey Epstein, text too long for the alt text but the full email is available here: https://epstein-emails.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/docs/HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020660.pdf

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

He's just a little guy! Running around on the slime mold I was trying to photograph!

A juvenile globular springtaail. Appearance is very tiny and pleasingly round, with a translucent amethyst-purple abdomen, yellow head and legs, purple antennae, and burgundy eye-spots.

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

You've reminded me of this piece I did years ago:

A drawing of a snowy hillside studded with green conifers. A green slug is riding a sled down the hill, grinning widely, with an orange scarf around its neck. A black-shelled snail whizzes past in front of it, steering with a pair of ski poles. It is also grinning.

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The details of his dad's crime are disturbing - the man had no insurance because a prior DUI made it "too expensive". He had "2 or 3" 6-packs to drink that night, and said he'd gotten drunk because he had a fight with his wife... about his drinking. Lots of "poor me" attitude in the interview.

Mike Bovino has some advice for New Year's Eve partygoers - if you drink, don't drive. You could kill someone, as he did. Bovino, 37, is serving an 18-month prison sentence in the N.C. prison unit in Huntersville killing a woman with his car last June near Blowing Rock.

Bovino was drunk. "I wouldn't wish what has happened to me on anybody,' a conscience-stricken Bovino said Wednesday. "Getting dead drunk just isn't worth it." The woman he killed, Jane Mitchell, 24, never knew what hit her. It was just after midnight last June 5 when Bovino started driving home from a friend's home, where he had been drinking beer since 7 p.m.. "I had two, maybe three six-packs of beer. I don't remember how many. I turned onto the highway and just drove down the wrong side," he said. "I saw the lights from another car, but I thought they were in the other lane. Then, it was over so fast." Bovino's 1978 Dodge four drive pickup hit Mitchell's Datsun sedan headon about a mile north of Blowing Rock on U.S. 321.

Mitchell, who had gone on a drive with her husband to get doughnuts, was killed instantly. Her husband was seriously injured. Bovino was thrown into the middle of the highway but received, he says, "only a few bumps and bruises." "I didn't think I was drunk, but I blew .18 (on a Breathalyzer test)," Bovino said, struggling awkwardly with his handcuffs to smoke a Marlboro cigarette. Under N.C. law, a .10 blood alcohol content reading is considered conclusive evidence of incapacitation.

Bovino, who owned the Library Club bar in Blowing Rock, pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge of death by auto and DUI rather than be tried for felony manslaughter.

The intense, articulate Pennsylvania native insists he isn't a crusader. "Naw, I'm not that type," he said.

"But I've had a lot of time to think since I've been in here and it got to working on me that no one's doing anything about liquor and the men here say it's the cause of 80% of them being in here with me."

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I've never seen such pretty snails as these ones I found in England (Cepaea nemoralis and Cepaea hortensis)

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Possibly Punctum californicum. I like tiny snails.

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Genus Ferissia, idk the species. They're called "freshwater limpets" but they're actually ramshorn snails in disguise, since they're in Planorbidae. I find them clinging to fallen leaves in a local creek.

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

And, of course, it can produce distressing quantities of slime bubbles which pour out from under its butt shell. I found this one when I was digging around in the dirt at my local cemetery, for reasons.

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Another excellent feature: the head is FULLY RETRACTABLE!!

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

It has a bright peachy-orange underside, and its head is on a skinny little "neck" that looks very disproportionate to the rest of it.

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Not quite a "snail", but what is a snail besides a slug with a shell? Meet Testacella maugei, which looks like a fat slug with a clam shell glued to its butt.

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

For size reference, here is one on the tip of my finger

A similar snail as the previous post, this time on the tip of a person's finger to demonstrate how tiny it is

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Please enjoy my small friend Vertigo rowellii

A tiny snail about the size of a pencil lead is climbing on bright green moss

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Scales, courtesy of an unusually cooperative (and cold) western fence lizard. Traded the heat of my hand in exchange for some photos - I think we we were both pleased with the deal.

Closeup of the scales on a western fence lizard's side. They are white and brown, with a sharp spine at the end. In the central area of many of the scales is a patch of vivid blue or teal coloration.

Closeup of the scales on a western fence lizard's belly. Some are white with a teal-colored patch in the center, becoming entirely blue lower on the lizard's underside.

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Higgins and his ilk see this as an opportunity to try some eugenics. He's the guy who voted for David Duke for Governor, after all...

Nazi image 'a real problem' But Louisianians who voted for Mr. Duke for governor say it will be a lot easier to cast ballots for Mr. Buchanan for president. "Duke won't get the vote; Pat will. Pat represents much of the same positions," said Clay Higgins, 30, an Army military policy officer attending a Buchanan rally in Baton Rouge last week.

"Regardless of the fact that David's a homeboy and all that, the boy's a Nazi, and that's a real problem," said Mr. Higgins, who nevertheless voted for Mr. Duke in the governor's race..

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

He invited a neo-nazi on his show to spout antisemitic stuff, but that's nothing new - Carlson has always been pretty openly pro-Nazi. I think what most of the fuss is REALLY about is this bit of the interview.... you can see how it might upset a few of his regular audience:

Clip from Mother Jones article, which reads as follows:

But perhaps the most widely shared moments of the discussion had to do with Carlson and Fuentes’ shared distaste for Christian Zionism, the popular evangelical movement that calls Christians to support Israel. The conversation began with Carlson and Fuentes musing about the origins of the neoconservative movement—populated by such notables as William Kristol and Irving Podhoretz—that they blame for interventionist US foreign policy.

“It arises from Jewish leftists who were mugged by reality when they saw the surprise attack in the [1973] Yom Kippur war,” suggested Fuentes. This explanation didn’t satsify Carlson who countered, “But then how do you explain [US Israel ambassador] Mike Huckabee, [Texas senator] Ted Cruz, and [former national security adviser] John Bolton?” Carlson then went on to include, “George W. Bush, Karl Rove— all people I know personally who I’ve seen be seized by this brain virus. And they’re not Jewish. Most of them are self-described Christians.” He continued, “And then the Christian Zionists who are, well, Christian Zionists. What is that? I can just say for myself, I dislike them more than anybody, because it’s Christian heresy. And I’m offended by that as a Christian.”

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Exodus After The Flood (aka I watered the raised bed and now the isopods are mad)

A group of about two dozen isopods climbing up the wooden wall of a raised garden bed to escape the spray of the watering hose

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I set up trail cams on some of the trails I frequent, discovered I share them with this guy. He seems to only be using them after dark and I use them in the daytime, so the division seems fair

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

We'd be better off as a society if raccoons were eligible for public office. I'm not sure my yard-raccoon has the experience to be a senator, but she's a hardworking single mom of 5, and I'd probably support her in a bid for mayor at the very least.

Black-and-white nighttime photo of a mother raccoon gazing off into the distance while her babies play in the leaves around her feet

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

If you're a Californian, please consider picking a favorite Democratic candidate for Governor and helping campaign for them. Because this is one of the guys running on the republican side.

Screenshot of image posted by Kyle Langford, candidate for California governor, from his official campaign account. It is a selfie of himself standing in front of the gates of Auschwitz and smiling. He has added text reading "My 0% Unemployment Plan" followed by a document emoji, a factory emoji, and an american flag emoji.

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The Crows Say "ICE Delendum Est" @crowtalk.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Found my new phone wallpaper for when I next cross the border.

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