I'll bring the mailbox and the very interesting insect

Happy birthday from Grizzelda, who is posing just for you

I'm continuing to read The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, as well as Il Fu Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello.

It seems to have been dipped in a variety of coffee milk gradients

My feelings about the extremely unlikely conjunction of being accepted into an MFA program yesterday and today my post reaching 1.5 thousand likes and counting:

5. Plus, now because they're angry they're more likely to start doing that first thing that they weren't doing before we attacked them.

So let me get this straight:
1. We attacked a country for doing something it was already not doing.
2. Then in retaliation the country started doing something else that we didn't like.
3. We couldn't stop them from doing this new thing.
4. So we decided to do the new thing with them.

Honestly? Some of them do want to learn. Others feel like they have to go to have a chance to get decent jobs, or are setting back the time they have to enter the workforce, in the hope that four years from now, it will somehow be less of a hellscape.

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

Could you also make sure that the motion detecting light turns off while you're sitting and the sensor is actually outside the bathroom?
Thanks so much!

Jotting this down for historical detail purposes only, I swear

Wow, auto timeout on the bathroom motion sensor light, getting real judgey over here

Oh yeah, I teach at a University and my students despise AI. It's funny because the administration keeps holding courses for faculty on how to adapt to and work with AI. Whereas the students are so wildly opposed that when one of my colleagues gave them an AI project, the students refused.

This tracks

That's gorgeous!

I wonder what it's like to be a person whose meat suit matches their personality

Only two more hours to go during which you can share your innermost secrets with your friends and family and coworkers and then pretend it was all an April fool's joke

A moment of sympathy for a person with a need for large personal space being chased around a room by an oblivious person with a need for small personal space

Mason jars and clean every surface with vinegar

That's a good question! Mine just happened to me- and all I did was crew a few low budget films.

A lady riding past on a bike just yelled, "I like your jacket!" at me, and that is the kind of cat calling we need more of in this world

What a way to find out your cat has another secret family

Someday in therapy I should investigate what effect binge-watching MST3K every Thanksgiving throughout my formative years may have had on my psychology

The article says the policy is "open public consultation for 60 days" but doesn't provide a link to give feedback.

@piatpod.bsky.social I imagine you've seen this?

A TikToker did a social experiment where she called churches to get help to buy formula to feed her baby.

Every church repeatedly declined to help.

TikTok now can’t stop talking about the experiment.

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Thus do all traitors

I'm at the age where I want to be whisked off my feet for an adventure, but only if the adventure involves me being in pajamas and lying down by 9:00 p.m.

Also, there are plenty of Italians who never even participated in the slave trade or murdered a whole bunch of people, so basically any of them would be good

Well, considering the fact that Columbus never entered the area of what would become the Continental United States, didn't discover it, and that the continent itself might be named after a whole different Italian explorer named Amerigo Vespucci, I can think of at least one obvious one