A tan colored pitbull with a white spot on her nose lays on a round dog bed while a small stuffed Christmas-themed bear leans against her face. In the background is a densely loaded bookshelf, and surrounding the dog bed is the kind of white carpeting that loudly screams “The previous owners of this house had zero interest in either children or pets!”

New! Dog! New! Dog! New! Dog

Everybody meet Pebble the Pibble and the emotional support stuffie she claimed as soon as she walked inside. Now begins the process of convincing a 6mo puppy who was a wandering stray last week that pee only happens outside and that stairs are not face-eating monsters.

Oh goddamn it. With how they’re treating Black and trans folks, the leadership here is doing a speed run in turning this place into post-Elon Twitter. I thought we’d have more time. Turning my back on all social media and walking into the lake is looking better and better every day.

Unicycling Darth Vader upgrades to Flaming Bagpipes - Keep Portland Weird - The Unipiper *Official* YouTube video by The Unipiper

Ask YouTube and ye shall receive - although for best effect, I recommend coming across him completely at random.

Mustn’t forget his Darth Vader costume!

Place names from the frontier days are often inappropriate. My industry often uses geographic features as site names. Today, I performed remote maintenance on a site that fits both criteria, and I am now dead from saying “whiskey dick” in a work-appropriate context more times than I can count. 🥃🍆🤣💀

Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91 Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Just this week I was talking with my partner about the polio vaccination efforts with her chimp colony. She once came to visit my school, and while I was too starstruck to remember a single damn word of our exchange, I do remember her genuine kindness and patience. Farewell to a dedicated scientist.

For some (🧊) reason the vendors who used to set up stands at the vacant lot up the road haven’t been there for a while, so I feared never finding her again. But today was the perfect combo of seeing her, having cash, and being able to buy her last ones so she could go home.

I FOUND THE TAMALE LADY AAAAAAA

I don’t think LG is good at things with moving parts. A constantly-breaking washer is why I’ll never buy another of their products again. Mine kept shaking its wiring loose and eating control boards, and later I learned that model would sometimes throw its drum and kinda explode.

Me: *has a bad POTS day*
Me: *overdoes it while cleaning*
Him: “You know you can’t bully your way out of your disability, right?”
Me: “Shut up you don’t know meeeeeeee”

If it were Amazon or one of the delivery companies, that’s a legit concern. But this one came USPS, and it wasn’t our usual mail carrier’s day off.

You are not bad or wrong for wanting to burn the whole f*cking world down, especially when your "fight" trauma response is triggered.

Lots of people probably have no idea how heroically restrained you've actually been this whole time. Respect.

It’s day 3 and there’s still no sign of my haint bottle. While it does have personal meaning, it’s more due to folk art appreciation than belief — but I certainly hope whoever has it now really needed it and/or has the day they deserve.

A package was supposedly delivered today, but there’s been no sign of it. Inside is a haint bottle, hand-decorated by a fiction author who is also a spiritual practitioner in New Orleans. I wonder if was taken, and if so, whether it’ll show up on my doorstep later tonight with an apology note?

I had my doc halve my cyclo dose because it was *too* good at sleep. Even at 5mg I need to make sure I fall asleep in a good position or I can wake up more sore than before I took it - sometimes I won’t move all night.

Shingles vax immune response is no joke, y’all. Two hours later, all parts of my musculoskeletal system are trying to declare themselves sovereign citizens & my glasses are too heavy to tolerate. Going to bed now before Nurse Borkyface starts yelling at me. If anyone needs me, check under the dog.

A small black and tan dog in a jumbled mass of body pillows and bed linens anxiously side-eyes the person behind the camera because she’s afraid they’re about to do the unforgivable crime of leaving the room without the dog.

This is Sera, who unmakes the guest bed to build a nest for supervising my workday, pines & mopes when I leave the house, and if I overdo it she YELLS AT ME and herds me to bed. Even though she lived with him 90% of her life, I should stop calling her my partner’s dog. She says she’s mine now.

Yep. Also in Seattle, with good insurance, in the highest tier plan my company offers. I still can’t schedule a physical with my APRN PCP less than 2 months out.

Update: Experiments with fluticasone pretreatment still a success, down to 2 layers of tegaderm, no hydrocolloid. My allergy is bad enough that I won’t risk direct contact with the adhesive, but if I can get to 1 layer of teg, I can likely tolerate the newer sensor models with the same prep method.

I woke up swinging at 3am, ready to fistfight a god & win. In my dream I kept trying to go back in time to save a high school classmate I haven’t spoken to in 30+ years & was never close to. It’d be way too weird to contact them & ask if they’re ok - we’re only connected on LinkedIn, which, ew.

Tell me where you are from using only two words:

All y’all.

We Have AI Now YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

We Have AI Now

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Update: Someone in my house reports that it was the state patrol buzzing the neighborhood at let-me-go-the-fuck-to-sleep o’clock last night. South county cops, ISTG.

To be clear, I called the airport. If they’re not screaming past the house with lights & sirens to go harass the homeless, our local PD is totally out of their comfort zone. My partner once saw our Keystone Kops haul out the helicopter to buzz a neighbor swimming in the lake with a resistance buoy.

It’s 1am & a small plane is making tight low circles between my house & a nearby municipal airport. Found their emergency # since I’d rather be the 20th person to report a problem than ignore it. I hope this turns out to be a nothingburger & everything turns out ok. 😢

No new pictures, where are you at mentally?

Important update! My partner used to work with the dude, and says my read is entirely correct!

This move absolutely screams tech-bro shitgibbon with an unearned sense of superiority. *I* know where to change the setting - I’m a professional computer-toucher who has been using MS operating systems since Windows 2.0. - but I have empathy for people who aren’t experts. Unlike that douchecanoe.

Whoever put the start button in the center of the screen in Windows 11 is an ableist sociopath and the biggest dipshit on the fucking planet. Only someone who fundamentally hates all users who aren’t on the “correct” level of computer literacy changes default functionality at such a basic level.