They managed to piss pretty much everyone off politically and they think they can fix it with “buzzy brands”? Good luck with that 🙄

I have just had some flashbacks to like two weeks of junior high. I think I may still have a couple of those around somewhere. I was always a sucker, as a smart kid, for smart kids take over and he may have cured me of it? It should have been Orson Scott Card but it was not.

It feels very silly that I spend so much effort to be a person who is interesting, kind, considerate, funny, thoughtful, informed, curious, smart and good looking but men won't go to therapy, the gym, or ask what books I'm reading.

Folklore may be open source but dealings with the fae often have hidden fees

I had a birthday movie night a couple years ago to rectify having never seen Karate Kid

I always say that if I won the lottery one thing I would do would be 'hire' a bunch of people I know to sit around together and make cool things

I loved the Girl With the Silver Eyes! I'm going to guess Wrinkle in Time was my first but I can't be sure. Ender's Game might have been the first 'adult' SF, or maybe Zenna Henderson, as I remember both from my parents' shelves. And then I worked my way through everything in the local library.

Ugh, I have to ask about allergens sometimes and I also
hate it.

I think there’s a path that goes: poor artists do something because it’s cheap and it works for art (live in a converted warehouse with lots of open space), ‘cool’ people think it’s cool and copy them, ‘normal’ people want to be cool and copy the cool people, capitalism turns it out wholesale.

I would totally sit like that 😂 My friend once referred to me lounging on the couch as the human equivalent of a Frank Lloyd Wright building

Note that she's working from home after probably a full day in the office, given the skirt and kicked off high heels

First best use of okra is sticking it to your forehead like tiny horns

There’s always tricks with that stuff, like I think you put a comb headband thing in and then flip the hair back over it somehow?

Oh good it’s not just me

Chop wood carry water

“Absolutely,” she thinks, hitting the heart button.

It seems so ridiculous but also worrisome.

Tribbles

Having used one for the first time this year, it was actually remarkably effective and almost as much fun as power washing, but ours plugs in. Raking our steps takes forever and the leaf blower was like, boom, done, they’re all in the yard and can moulder in peace.

In the US Biden created a BUNCH of new blue collar middle income manufacturing jobs and it got very little attention, whereas I have heard a lot about tech company layoffs, but that might be because I’m in tech.

A bar chart showing 12-month price changes for September and October 2024 in Canadian price categories including increases of 2-4% in food, shelter, health and personal care, and alcoholic beverages/tobacco/cannabis, and a 2-4% decrease in clothing and footwear. Transportation went down in Sept but up in Oct.

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo... has lots of fun info. According to them the increase in food prices peaked in mid2022 and has settled a little since then

I feel the same way about neoliberalism. Have learned everything neo is just bad. Except the matrix.

I feel like this can’t be right because Canada, like the US, measures inflation with a consumer price index that does include food. But I can’t read the article because Google broke how advertising works so now quality journalism is only for people with money

I would like to believe they just have the wrong number. I yearn for simpler times.

MyChart tells me but my doc doesn’t even mention Covid or flu shots

The kind of pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine used now is actually less good at preventing disease but also less risky side effects. So now small uptick in pertussis every ten years when younger gens vaccines wear off. Good for us older people to get too, tetanus prevention is also nice.

I looked into it when some friends had a baby 11 years ago. Some of the vaccines we got as kids changed since then, that’s why our gen got boosters in high school.

Got mine day before yesterday. Wish I got less side effects but guess my immune system works.

Why are your vaccine supply chains shady? Can American capitalism money fix for you?