This might be a little "old man yells at sky" of me, but buying new stuff for Christmas decor every year feels really wrong? Unwrapping old ornaments and going "grandma got this for me in '97!" is one of the fun bits, everything being perfectly coordinated and new themes every year doesn't seem fun

I am making turkey pot pie filing to freeze and the recipe says add some gelatin to the stock and I pulled out the stock and it is definitely not going to need more gelatin

It's wild to me that those restrictions are considered hard mode. I can think of over 100 movies I have seen over 6 times, including movies I don't really like! There's a couple movies I've watched 6 times this year (The Birdcage is one of them)

APPARENTLY unpopular opinion: the bags of green and red spice drops are a top tier Christmas candy and I am mad every year that not all the grocery stores agree

Shot in the dark, but do any y'all know how to make stone knives

The lights are fun, but the battery pack is really heavy and it was difficult to get it to stay put inside without conking me in the noggin. Other than that, I think I finally worked out the design I like best (only took like 9 tries)

If you normally use flavored coffee creamer, especially a mocha or chocolate flavored one, and you're not lactose intolerant, chocolate milk has less sugar and more protein and vitamins for the same volume of liquid just sayin'

Guess what is suddenly and inexplicable popular with 6th graders

My preemptive New Years Resolution shall be to listen to more samba and bossa nova music

Hi. I transcribe child forensic interviews You know who doesn’t want kids to know the correct names for body parts? The predators that put those kids in a position to need child forensic interviews. Those kids NEVER know the right words for their body parts and it is always a hinderance.

Growing up, I was in choir (alto) and my brother and sister were in orchestra (cello and viola, respectively), which meant that my household had the most boring practice sessions for holiday season concerts

I have disassembled a whole raw turkey with a 3" paring knife

I suppoott everyone having their own unique style and dressing to please themselves. However Asymmetrical eyeglasses upset my brain

Growing up is realizing that Neil in the Santa Clause wasn't that bad, his concerns were very valid, and the Hollywood boomer hate for psychiatry in the 90s was a red flag

Great duck day at the pond. I got TWO buffleheads, some mallards, a couple green winged teals, a flock of gadwalls, a lone hooded merganser, and also Fred

The movie 9 1/2 weeks was mentioned in a book so I looked up the synopsis but got Mickey Rourke and Mickey Rooney mixed up in my head and boy would that have been a different movie

Unintentionally bought 100 proof vodka and intentionally bought the high proof kahlua so I might for once experience getting very tipsy off a single cocktail

My friend sent me a picture of a baby Christmas tree hat so obviously I had to spend several hours and 3 trial runs making up a pattern for one instead of paying $7 for a pattern someone else already tested

Hi hello dinner hosts 1. Sharpen your knives. Dull knives are dangerous 2. Stove fires: extinguish with a pot lid, baking SODA, salt, a fire blanket, or a class K fire extinguisher. Turn the heat off first 3. Oven fires: DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR. Turn off heat. If it doesn't die, gtfo and call 911

If someone asked you "what time is tomorrow?", what would you think they meant?

No one that follows me is going to do this, but I'm just going to say it anyway. No, you shouldn't get an AI toy for your kid. No, your AI toy isn't a "new teddy ruxpin" and Yes, it makes you a bad person, parent and/or uncle/aunt.

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

One of the 14 year olds at the camp I worked at when I was 25 ran up to me at the last campfire, said "you're a wonderful mother", then ran off again The entrance person at a botanical garden said "yes, you looked like you would be a garden member"

I wonder how Vancy pants is going to try to square his impending divorce (lbh) with his Catholicism because I think it would be very funny if he tried to Church of England it if he can't get it annulled by the church

If your frozen turkey is over 8 pounds (and 8 is pushing it), it is too late to safely thaw it in the fridge by Thursday. There are ways to safely thaw things in a water bath if you are very diligent about temperature, but just fridge is not gonna happen

I could really go for some Guitar Hero 2 right now

Tapping the sign again

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

At least twice this season I've gone to block a shot and felt the ball graze my shin guard before going in the net and it's frustrating because it means I had positioned my body in the right spot but was literally an inch off getting my leg up and it's so annoying

I really hate the "insta love" trope in books. You don't love each other! You literally met 2 days ago! At best it's a trauma bond!

The fun thing about a colorful history of foot and ankle injuries is I have a wide array of orthopedic devices to choose from when I fuck up my feet. Today we have a walking cast because I need to keep my foot flexed but don't have a splint

Respectfully, we are rapidly approaching a point where some kids have been cheating with AI for so long that they don't have the base skills needed to do this, and they'll try to use ChatGPT to figure out why ChatGPT is wrong.

I am a very good cook, but getting that many separate dishes done and still at an ideal temperature at the same time is a very specific kind of cooking that few people do regularly anymore

Congrats to everyone who covered the obviously bad faith, unprecedentedly illegal, & wildly unconstitutional data theft & dismantling of the federal government by a billionaire criminal Nazi & his henchmen as a legitimate process of “government efficiency.” Truly, well done.

There's an uproar in the romantasy world because an author (who was very dismissive) called romantasy "conservative propaganda" and the readers are up in arms because a lot of romantasy books feature overtly pro revolution, anti oppressive government plots and the readers are so liberal how dare!

I eavesdropped on a conversation between my neighbor and a delivery guy (they were LOUD) and one said "Anyone who does creative stuff is just so admirable because they really put that time into it" and 3 sec later said "Yeah, I used AI to make the album art" like cognitive dissonance much???

My bufflebaby* is back! *bufflehead duck that has spent the winter at the pond for the last 2 years and I love him so much

A true side note: Prince cared deeply about food insecurity, and would routinely make substantial donations to local food banks and community kitchens in every town that he would play in during his later tours. Sometimes they would ask for supplies & his team would show up with huge amounts of food.

What RFK Jr. doesn’t want you to know is that in 2019, his anti-vax nonsense caused a measles outbreak in Samoa that infected 5700 and killed 83 people, most of them children.

Movie soundtracks that feel wintery or festive without being explicitly Christmas are also solid choices for this. The 1994 Little Women has some tracks that would work perfectly

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

If you have a 25lb frozen turkey (which, like, why would you do that to yourself), today is a good day to start defrosting it in the fridge

This is one of the greatest threads I have ever read in my life

I mentioned earlier that they chew on Nile Crocodiles - I wasn't kidding, baby Hippos use them as teething rings since the texture of their scales is satisfying to gum. Just this 12' long razor-toothed archosaur, sitting there going "stay calm, Clarence, you survived the asteroid, you can do this."

I just remembered that yesterday I saw a lifted Ford F-150 with "Honk! I'm A Cheater!" etched onto the tailgate in foot-tall letters

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

I wore my backup glasses today, which are a very different style from my normal glasses. A student asked me when I got glasses and I told her I'd been wearing them since I was around 2 years old and she was shocked because this entire school year she had just never noticed that I wore glasses

Don't do any of this.

If you are an able-bodied adult and you sit in the car on your phone while your partner does the grocery shopping, you are a child and should feel embarrassed about your immaturity