I lost my mom to pancreatic cancer when I was 29. I'd researched a story I was plotting about a serial killer who had a terminal disease, so as soon as I got the call I knew it was months, not if. This news breaks my heart all over again, because I'd give anything to have had this for my mom
There were seventy some years between the invention of toilet paper and the invention of 'splinter-free' toilet paper, if you're looking for more historical accuracy in either your fiction or your nightmares
If I ever were to become master criminal, I would have a file on my computer labeled Ill-gotten Gains, and it would just have photos of me getting fatter. As a misdirect
Poverty nachos. I'll be dropping shredded cheese on tortilla chips and popping that shit in the microwave till I'm buried
Time for the classic game with any longitudinal graph of American, ah, anything where we try to spot When Reagan Happened
Time for the classic game with any longitudinal graph of American, ah, anything where we try to spot When Reagan Happened
Longitudinal graph of the Wealth of the top 0.00001%, as a share of total US wealth, highlighting that the Reagan administration is where it began surging
On any longitudinal graph of American, ah, anything, I always try to spot When Reagan Happened
If there is One Thing I hope readers get out of the series I'm trying to start publishing this year (that I've been working on for 15 years), it's that we, humanity, ARE everything we need in order to have everything we can imagine. It's the most defiantly humanist thing I've ever written
Mom's side most probably came over the landbridge from Asia a couple dozen thousand years ago. Dad's family came homesteading with the rest of the Scandinavian wave after the Homestead Act of 1862
I just broke the last gift my dad gave me before he passed, and I'm physically sick about it. I don't know if I've ever been so angry at myself. Fuck me, I miss my dad so much
The exquisite Ana de Armas, sitting in a deep black booth in an electric, glittering red dress open to reveal a black bra. The look on her face is elegant but challenging
How the word 'bemused' looks at me when I want to say 'wryly amused'
Guilty
Slightly diminish a band:
Third Eye Astigmatism
Apparently I missed that we're doing age verifications on here now? Cool cool
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
Y'all, I don't think I can be a GI Joe. I just can't go around calling myself Cream Gizmo
Unless you publically call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader, all votes are purely performative
I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.
And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.
I've also been shifting to a media server of ripped DVDs for the same reason
A green shirt saying 'well behaved copper ingot merchants rarely make history'
New favorite shirt just dropped
This is it right here
I'm Victor Hugo. Sewage systems are sexy.
I could not possibly be more strongly in Camp Article
The part where the Europeans bust out a rousing rendition of Sweet Caroline at the Pittsburgh-Minnestosa game is always a highlight for me
Gah, I too find this infuriating
Went to load up on vaccines today, and they wouldn't give me the shingles shot (too young) to my disappointment. Ever since @quinncy.bsky.social sounded the alarm about shingles back on the old place I've been eagerly awaiting my shot. I so very much don't want shingles
I heard we're talking about unnecessarily sexy statues. I'd like to invite everyone to consider my Big Boy in downtown Seattle
This grammarly ad boasting that their AI tool that changes your style and tone will 'help you find your voice' is so weird considering replacing your voice is literally what's happening
Tbf, I also got the trains from him, too
Only a good guy with autism can defeat a bad guy with autism