Allergies?

Meowster of the House. Drink with Me(ow). Empty Chairs at Empty Food Bowls. Basically all of Eponine’s songs unchanged

It may or may not be useful to note that this survey purporting to describe all Americans is based on roughly 3000 respondents, or roughly one ten thousandth of a percent of the actual population

Happy slightly belated anniversary, @named4wool.bsky.social and @mathofsecrets.bsky.social !

Alita Battle Angel Food Cake

That’s how the rhyme goes, right? “Wednesday’s task is full of claws, Thursdays task will give you pause…”? Something like that

I hope that wasn’t the task

I'm not really in that scene, but from listening to other people talk, my impression is that most of those pedals are the result of other people trying to recreate the sound of a particular artist who had an unusually crappy guitar/poor technique/mis-wired amp/insane post-producer/etc.

I am sick with guilt over how glad I am that this was Tehran and not, say, Minneapolis

Man, another day where I don’t even want to bang on these drums

I just used the phrase “hot fudge sandwich” as part of a legitimate work conversation. Sometimes I really love my job…

I now live in the Payload Too Large area. This tracks

5 bucks on “when you go to throw out the new one’s packaging”

Repetitive stress injery?

Finally watched The Life of Chuck, and now I’m all melancholy and whatnot. Good movie, but phooey.

I think our dog is forming a parasocial relationship with a baby sloth

You just need to say them, oh, six seven times

Combining sushi and cinnamon rolls is a crime unto itself

To be clear, it's not meant as just a facile snark-- depending on what part of American history you're looking at, the answer to _both_ of those questions could change.

I said this on the original thread as well, but-- my family is Jewish. I am reasonably certain no one in the family is a Nazi. Does that make us lucky, or not white? Think carefully.

Some of us are Jewish and have Jewish families. Does that make us lucky, or does that make us not white?

Onion ring to rule them all and in the darkness bind them

I keep writing responses, but by the time I edit them to fit they feel like I’m trying to “win the argument”, and I’m trying really hard not to do that, so I’m just going to shut up now. Ttyl

So, a little while ago a friend had someone try to break into their home in the middle of the night—like, kick the door in style. Now they have a ring. I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but sometimes you have to make a choice between two shitty things, and sometimes the immediate takes precedence.

I seem to recall that the trick is “lots of butter”.

Used to think they were awesome, but it’s been a while.

A shallow bowl filled “artfully” with chopped lettuce, tomatoes, pickled red onions, hummus, feta, and some pita

My lunch, notable mostly only because both the pickled onions and the hummus were made from scratch; the hummus completely from dried chickpeas (a first for me).

A purple origami tower (“pagoda”) standing five stories tall

Decided to unplug for a while this evening, and this was the result. It’s pretty lopsided, but aren’t we all

Making all your own socks?

A close up of the ear of a gnu.

Happy Gnu Ear!