A black border Collie mix pants in the grass and wears some dried grass on her snout

Trying this place again since Twitter is officially a hellscape

A tattoo artist said he wishes all his clients sat like me, and I almost wept

Reorganizing and rotating my skincare for winter and being absolutely miserable that it's time for the heavy hitters 😭😭😭😭😭

this is something conference organizers should take into account for planning! I don’t want to attend events in states where some of my friends can’t safely travel

I'm a huge college football fan if you couldn't guess, and all of the tributes to and photos/videos of Ben still make me sob.

I'm a huge college football fan if you couldn't guess, and all of the tributes to and photos/videos of Ben still make me sob.

I have great news for you if you want to get better about adding alt text but struggle to remember:

Bluesky has a setting where your pics won't post until the alt text has been added

Go to settings > accessibility

Then switch on the toggle for "require alt text before posting"

That's all! 🤗

Black camera against floral blanket showing a male runner in green and blue, a female runner in purple and black, and a third female runner in blue and black.

I have started taking photos at a local free 5K park run, and it's an absolute blast going through photos and seeing my fiance and my best friend running it

FYI newbies

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay

Update: made my header my pill case, which is an accurate representation of my mental health

I literally forgot I had this until @lookitup.baby said they were migrating here

I need to drive to Portland soon. I have a ticket to see a show tonight.

But I'm so weepy and furious at the world that I'm not sure I have it in me.

This might be my biggest waste of money yet.

I've been off of social media for so long that I didn't realize there was a message limit