Addicted to wearing a full face of makeup up with a white turtleneck 🤡

insurance just paid for me to get a massage which was very nice but I do not understand the financial logistics here even a little bit

slept for like 12 hours last night oops

ordered a fancy new candle which will surely solve all my emotional problems

A bat. Big ears, beautiful wings… the whole nine yards

It is International Bat Appreciation Day. Please take some time to appreciate a bat

won a cola in my union contract that was entirely taken up by an increase in insurance costs. had to switch to a worse plan to even see a change my net pay.

A meme of a hairless rat named Neil on a grey floor sitting in front of a rainbow piano or xylophone or something. The text at the bottom says “Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006”

happy neil banging out the tunes day to all who celebrate

scent notes of a coconut solar scent

scent notes of a yellow floral coconut scent

okay this is now my scent of the day thread. layering these today

in for spring and summer:
pickled carrots
beans

finally finished the book I got for christmas. one book every 3.5 months is embarrassing, i need to step it up.

it’s genuine journalistic malpractice to frame the declining birth rate as about the job market or girlbossing or whatever when it is almost entirely driven by the decline of teen pregnancy

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extremely normal experience at work today where I met with the benefits counselor who was unable to offer me any counseling about my benefits

The dumbest most vile bloodthirsty cowardly motherfuckers on earth are in charge of the nuclear triad. And the press is going to wear special pins to the mad king’s ball. Everything is going great.

I hear Red Panda’s music in the background and ngl I kinda wish we could just watch red panda

Ooooh I love neroli

fragrance note pyramid for a solar/peach/coconut fragrance

smell like this today btw

It's TWO VAST AND TRUNKLESS LEGS OF STONE Tuesday!

I promise you whatever thing you’re mad doesn’t get taught in schools anymore (cursive, home ec, grammar, novels etc) is getting overlooked because of no child left behind and not because of a secret cabal of teachers who hate children and learning

okay as a teacher I support this (cursive is better for dyslexia!) but unfortunately unless we repeal no child left behind this is just more things we have to do with no time to do them :/

AI Hallucination? Proposed Westfield data center appears abandoned by developers The Shoestring’s investigation uncovered signs the project’s developers may have abandoned it, even after local officials spent years arranging for significant tax breaks.

this company announced one near me, spent all this time lobbying the state to legalize building it and appears to have given up theshoestring.org/2025/12/30/a...

I love this one so much

there are so many talented people doing defense contracting rn who would be doing something else

Photo of a Longnose Gar with text captions for a HILARIOUS joke: Gar swims into a bar… Bartender asks, “Why the long face?”

Gar swims into a bar…

List of Oregon state symbols - Wikipedia

It looks like Oregon already has a state crustacean but I see no reason you couldn’t have a municipal crustacean en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Demon in my brain that says get an Apple Watch :/

This is super helpful, thank you!! I know there are lots of different kinds of flu, would a rapid test (like I had at urgent care) be able to detect all of them?

calvin: HEY DAD, I'M DOING A TRAFFIC SAFETY POSTER. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS FOR A SLOGAN? calvin’s dad: SURE! "CYCLISTS HAVE A RIGHT TO THE ROAD TOO, YOU NOISY, POLLUTING, INCONSIDERATE MANIACS! I HOPE GAS GOES UP TO EIGHT BUCKS A GALLON!" calvin: THANKS, DAD. I'LL GO ASK MOM. calvin’s dad: WHY ? THAT'S A GREAT SLOGAN!

every day he’s vindicated

Was recently super sick with flu like symptoms and tested negative for Covid/flu/strep/RSV at urgent care. How reliable are rapid flu tests? Are there other viruses common in the US that cause these symptoms?