The wild swings in the appetite of little kids is something. Kiddo 2 devoured 8 clementines, 3 burger cookies, and two hot dogs last night. Tonight after yelling about wanting pizza for an hour she had one small slice. Idk man. Kids are fucking weird.

@mattbrown.bsky.social thoughts on this? It smells like a "new corp" for Utah style PE deal to me. www.instagram.com/p/DZF7JYaE8n...

As a frequent typo artist I should probably type out nuggets, and not nugs, when talking about chicken nuggets. Just too high risk of a situation.

Booo on the PLL making the penalty box have a chair and what not. The painted box in the ground was a great part of it. Esp when you had multiple guys in it.

Has the NCAA baseball tourney always started so late? Like the lacrosse tournament was done before the first baseball tournament game. Is that normal?

Goddamn pedicures are great. More dudes should get them.

Wort. Wort. Wort.

Yes, but not until I add in a nice kosher cut of meat to go with his vegetarian dish. Maybe a brisket, but that'll depend on the exact recipe.

There's a big Indian wedding at the resort we're at this weekend and I'm mad that I haven't found a way to get in with the uncles who've been holding court in the bar since it opened. Every time I walk past they're having a grand old time.

I'm so glad I'm spending hundreds of dollars a night for this resort so kiddo 2 can sit on my lap and eat goldfish from home at the indoor pool deck. She's in just a swim diaper for added drama as well.

In the first night at the hotel nonsense last night I forgot to put water in my CPAP. Ran it all night. 7+ hours. 100% dry. I slept pretty well tbh. I'm not sure what to do with this information ......

Weeknight swim lesson for kiddo 1 means Peruvian chicken and either froyo or tres leches for dinner tonight. And I ain't mad about that situation one bit.

One of the experiences seated into my brain from living in Perth was seeing a sign, I think at a rugby game but maybe not, saying "I want a proper rectangular stadium and I vote." Or something to that effect. My American brain was so confused by this for quite some time.

Next time the UK faces a budget crunch maybe they should look at the amount of rescue equipment stayed at Pontypandy. Surely a small seaside doesn't need that many rescue vehicles given the small population and size of the rescue department. Feels like pork maybe? Who's their MP?

My shooty bois like being colorful and feeling pretty while being terribly ineffective on tabletop.

Of course he fucking would.

New adorable moment of parenting. Kiddo 2 is no longer allowed to bring her stuffed monkey(Mr Bananas) to daycare. She apparently would take forever to fall asleep because she just talked to him non-stop. Got so animated that it was an issue for the other kids too.

I demand more representations of MY vision of masculinity—where you’re strong when you care for others and weak when you try to dominate. The one where you pass on to your children—whether they’re your own or adopted—love, knowledge, and the tools they need to succeed in life. Less guilt, more love.

Very disappointed the only punny food name at this Communist restaurant is "Red and Black Chilli". And tbh I'm not sure that it isn't referencing the color of the beans.

Did kiddo 1 talk me into pink armor for my Banished? Yes. Yes she did. I just need to figure out how to make the speed paint actually come out more pink than purple.

Minivans are superior to SUVs in every way. The far cooler vehicle.

I thought this way until I lived in Australia. There partner is the default for everyone. Gay, straight, married, dating, engaged. Everyone. It works very well in my experience. Now getting the wholesale culture change for that to happen in the US? Yeah real annoying and unrealistic. So I get it.

Regressive taxation must be fought at every opportunity. Except one very specific case. The Dad Tax. Kiddo 2 pays a much higher rate, especially on Pez, than kiddo 1 does. It's a common sense policy for our times.

An amazing thing happened today. The conservative in the group chat came in with an opinion that the rest of the chat basically rejected and he was like "yah know what, y'all might be right". Now that opinion was about the symbolism in Zootopia 2. But hey I'll take the W.

It really is so much easier to parent small children outside. One of those old wives tales that is absolutely true.

I have paid much more than this for a car. I'm a very privileged individual. And even then EV's really aren't practical for me to afford. When we got the van in the fall an EV would've been tens of thousands of dollars more than the hybrid we got. They're a premium product.

Wife is playing pickleball tonight so I spent the evening painting more Halo: Flashpoint minis and watching Dune. I told her I could feel the virginity re-entering my body. The Hazop was a color/technique experiment and likely will never see the table. I'm pretty happy with how both turned out.

This is the rare area where STEM edu makes that more clear. A problem set has already been solved. Everyone knows the point is the rep. But essays in the social sciences can feel like attempts to break new ground and introduce novel ideas. Which is possible, but highly unlikely. And not the point.

A 1 year old banging on metal bowls with a spoon while no hands drinking a milk is better than caffeine to wake you up on a Saturday morning.

"No. No. You see they have to vote for a conservative party. It's their only option. And if that party is captured by fascists, what you gonna do about it?" Fuck this. Every voter/non-voter has agency. Two party systems and fptp can exacerbate things, but it's still on the voters.

It's deeply unfair that the little cold kiddo 2.brought home from daycare just makes her snotty and a little horse when she wakes up. And on my I've got a low grade fever and massive chest congestion. I'm dieing over here, and she's just causing chaos with a snot trail behind her.

@profgabriele.com was curious what your take was on this post from a local Waldorf school. Def feels much much teaching the vibe than the history.

The clearly fake history in the Book of Mormon. Horses, the wheel, steel swords, white people. All in pre-Columbia America.

There are age appropriate ways to talk about LGBT topics at any age. Like with any topic the conversation changes as the kid grows up. If you think your child isn't old enough for any part of that conversation you're a shitty parent.

Big respect to this man's hater energy. The kind of thing we should all aspire to.

Hot take. More colleges should incorporate the school crest/academic logo into sports unis. Not all the time, but occasionally.

Me working on a theory that The Expanse and K-Pop Demon Hunters are in the same universe because of similarities in songs from their scores.

I can tell kiddo 1 feels better and probably could've gone to school today because she's doing the exhausting stream of consciousness thing currently. It's both adorable and exhausting.

We did it gang. Kiddo 2 is down and I'm now going to crawl under a rock to die/poop my pants. Maybe both.

Using my ingrained toxic masculinity for good by powering through kiddo 2's bedtime while the current stomach bug takes hold of my insides. I promise I'm keeping the sighs and obvious discomfort to a minimum. Even if my wife says otherwise.

I'm watching the Peacock series on Black QBs. And all the white talking heads are very much "this was embarrassing and wrong". There is yet to be anyone who supported the football color line in the NFL at the time. Even one who says they were wrong. Maybe they're all dead? IRK.

Happy to report I'm back on my bullshit. Aka watching sports on my phone while nap trapped under kiddo 2.

I'm way too proud of this joke I made to my wife texting about seeing a kid eating froyo before kiddo 1's swim lessons today. So of course I had to share it.

Doing the medal ceremony right after the game is such a beautiful punishment for the silver medal team. Like they just gotta chill while the winners celebrate.

Snoop Dogg has really become every white boomer lady's one black friend. It's an amazing rebrand that I completely didn't see coming.

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

And we're now negotiating a diaper change. She is holding pat with her position of "No". We might have to resort to force.

Kiddo 2 got into my wife's office this morning and is happy as a clam to sit in her desk chair and bang on the keyboard. I'm negotiating us returning to the living room so I can supervise her a bit less closely.

Is kiddo 1 going to eat the spicy ramyun she talked me into buying because of the K-Pop Demon Hunters branding. No. But I sure as shit will. And I get to be the fun dad who says yes. So I'll take the W.

Gold Zone not starting until 8am is a direct attack on me, a parent of young children. Kiddo 2 even slept in until like 645, and still nothing? For shame NBC.