zzzeee's thoughts

Ramblings of a knitting, cooking, music-loving biologist in Wisconsin

[zzzeee]

I’ve decided I’m going to rock a Lyle Lovett look.

[mma-gifs]

Sean O'Connell still has the best weigh-in stare downs

[mma-gifs]

You guys, he’s back!

[harcules]

I didn’t know that I needed to see this until I saw it.

[jaxblade]

To put it simple. You DONT have to act tuff. To be a tough guy.  haha

[nudityandnerdery]

So I looked this guy up. First, not shown in the first gif is the fact that he’s just wearing regular pants:

Also, he’s written a sci-fi novel and has spent time in Africa building a school and orphanage for abused teenage girls. So, good for that guy.

[michuno-blog1]

Good guy mma dude.

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@warriormale Think you’ll like this guy.

[warriormale]

Yeah he’s a really good Man.

He just retired from UFC so he’ll be spending more time promoting his book.

WarriorMale

[zzzeee]

New ink. Delta plus infinity. Constant change. I like :)

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[zzzeee]

Yes, yes, yes!!!!!!!!

[thenib]

Read Bianca Xunise on Josephine Baker: Dancer. Icon. Spy.

[npr]

A critical new report from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General finds the department’s student loan unit failed to adequately supervise the companies it pays to manage the nation’s trillion-dollar portfolio of federal student loans. The report also rebukes the department’s office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) for rarely penalizing companies that failed to follow the rules.

Instead of safeguarding borrowers’ interests, the report says, FSA’s inconsistent oversight allowed these companies, known as loan servicers, to potentially hurt borrowers and pocket government dollars that should have been refunded because servicers weren’t meeting federal requirements.

“By not holding servicers accountable,” the report says, “FSA could give its servicers the impression that it is not concerned with servicer noncompliance with Federal loan servicing requirements, including protecting borrowers’ rights.”

The Education Department’s independent watchdog reviewed FSA oversight records from January 2015 through September 2017, a period that includes both the Obama and Trump administrations. Among the Inspector General’s findings: While FSA did document servicers’ many failures to follow the rules, it did not study these isolated failures to identify broader patterns of noncompliance that could have hurt many more students.

Federal Watchdog Issues Scathing Report On Ed Department’s Handling Of Student Loans

Illustration: Hanna Barczyk for NPR

[thenib]

Who owns an asteroid? Read Maki Naro and Matthew Francis on how some are looking skyward for natural resources to exploit.

[zzzeee]

Great read

[alwaysbewoke]

UNMUTE!! UNMUTE!! UNMUTE!! UNMUTE!! UNMUTE!!

[efbombmom-deactivated20190105]

THE PEANUT BUTTER WAS HERE LAST WEEK GOD DAMMIT! WHERE DID YOU PUT IT NOW ????

[ropeandcoffee]

Our Target is completely rearranged and I’m all kinds of jacked up right now.

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I would challenge anyone to find powdered drink mixes (Kool-Aid, etc.) in my local Kroger. 

[zzzeee]

I swear the Whole Foods in Alexandria did this every month. I think they actually moved things around on purpose to get people to check other aisles. It was so infuriating going through that store!!

Recently, our local Pick N Save was bought out by Kroger and was all sorts of updated and rearranged. I literally took the store map home and lined up my grocery list categories to be able to go to the store in one swoop. Nope! Still end up realizing I missed an item because “now it’s all the way back there instead of over here! AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!”

Oh, and also, they manage to do restocking in all the least convenient locations so that you’re stuck in the store forever, blocked by palettes and searching for that one item that you really need..... actually that sounds like a potentially successful video game... 

Anybody want to help me build it?

[sdzoo]

Mkhaya melting hearts. 

Photos by Shelby Asch

[zzzeee]

I saw some political things that I wanted to reblog, and then I saw this. I think I need this more right now, and I think everybody needs a little of this more right now.

Awwwwwww! Look at how cuuuuuute! My heart melts.....

P.S. You better fucking vote.

[winelandcounty]

Really Useful Life Hacks

[pvwitch]

THIS WAS REALLY JARRING TO MY BRAIN AND I FORGOT WHAT DECADE WE ARE IN

[zzzeee]

I actually still print out directions (from google nowadays) if I’m driving somewhere remote just in case I lose the phone signal...

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[teenagerposts]

When someone just repeated themselves for the third time and you still have no idea what they said

[zzzeee]

The caption speaks to me. I’m seriously starting to think about looking into hearing aids.

Also, omg that face is too cute!

[pastperfectcontinuous]

Jeanette Winterson

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from “Imagination and Reality”, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstacy and Effrontery

[schmenchy-in-schminneapolis-dea]

FYI that The Current is streaming all Aretha right now. You can listen anywhere with THIS LINK

[rollingstone]

Aretha Franklin, legendary Hall of Fame soul singer who influenced countless vocalists, has died at age 76.

[zzzeee]

Um. Pretty breakfast/brunch 😊