my sass level can be accurately measured by my use of alliteration

OK - pie discourse - best pie story: In 2016, we were living in Andover, in the UK. My wife was assigned as an exchange officer at the Army Air Corps base at Middle Wallop (yes, really).* The US Army has a tradition: senior leaders, in dress uniform, serve junior troops Thanksgiving dinner. /1

i cannot imagine being more viscerally repulsed by a sitting president, though to be fair, i wasn't alive for a lot of them and many weren't featured in auto-playing video clips on every informational resource available

I recommend always offering drink options without booze up front. I tend to lead with "we have beer, wine, soda, seltzers ..." and let them tell me what they want without having to decline alcohol in the first place. Also, think ahead about sober friends and try to have some options.

me when the alarm goes off the second time

this is true about podcasts as well. really. "like and subscribe" is a tiresome phrase for good reason: it helps in many industries how much and in what exact circumstances? no one knows, lol, in fact lolol

i don't have a lot of personal experience with most of these, but hognose snakes are so dramatic about it, i love them so much

just pour the coffee in my eyes, i do not need to see any more

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

oh, just crying about the time odo and lwaxana were stuck in a lift together because majel barrett is so good that the scene fixes something in me i didn’t realize was broken, how are you?

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

oh good, the neighbors' lawn care team brought a wood chipper today

sentences that could either mean you're a serial killer or an infotainment podcaster: "i love talking about skin!"

no one creates tapestries and frescos depicting my deeds anymore

I am truly and genuinely so glad you asked! This site is a one-stop shop for reasons why ULINE sucks ass, and a massive link list of handy alternative companies AND a short blacklist of ULINE-alikes to avoid! refuseuline.com

an important thread here on milvish contributions to society

small-restaurant owners who name your restaurants sex-related puns: why though

So cool! OK so basically when you overdose on opioids, the drug is blocking up your nervous system and your body forgets how to breathe. Naloxone is a reversal drug that knocks the opioid out of place so you can start breathing again. It's HARMLESS if you're not on opioids.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

i have never meant “hookay that’s enough emails for today” with quite this intensity

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em dashes are the commander riker of punctuation and i shall not be letting go of them

AUTHORS!! Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON? Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen. More here:

hello i would like to share an artist’s shop with you. i have the iridescent centipede earrings and they are so shiny and cute. looking at this art makes me happy, maybe you will like it too electriccat.ninja/collections/...

bread is so good ;____;

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

can't believe it took a typo for me to put this together, but BrainStuff absolutely implies the existence of BrawnStuff

okay so WE WANT YOU TO HAVE THIS my gifts for trans people program will be open for applications in just a little over 2 hours, at 9AM Mountain. if you are trans and want something in my shop but can't afford it for any reason, this page nora.jewelry/pages/we-wan... has the info and links.

we used to have a proper antidrug campaign, which only murdered innocent people in our own country

another fall season, another time i almost got help-i'm-stuck while halfway into my edwardian mourning gown

link to submit public comment to the Federal Register at end of thread, read the thread it is good, also here's the link again: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

I just learned that Robert Picardo played the swamp hag Meg Mucklebones in Ridley Scott's Legend and I don't know what to do with this information so I'm putting it here.

Call for trans zine recommendations: my Trans Studies students are going to be doing a unit on zines next month, and one activity we're doing is looking at as many physical zines as I can get my hands on. If you know of cool trans zines that ARE PURCHASABLE ON PAPER, please let me know!!!

Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it - Sounds confident even when factually wrong - Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf - Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases - Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…

proud to say i know several people for whom Sexy Owl Pellet is basically daywear

politics. is. not. a. fandom.

"you've read your last free article" is an intense way of saying it, food magazine website

For months I've been following what happened when a company forced AI into the world of craft beer. Legal threats, people quitting, and beer judges in revolt over being told to use AI. "It is attempting to solve a problem that wasn’t a problem before AI showed up" www.404media.co/what-happene...

i promise that unlike this administration, autism doesn't care about your medications or your dick

This is shameful and these people should never be able to hold office again.

oh rad, this is a free book and it is full of solid advice about how to cook when you absolutely don't want to cook

i have been avoiding scheduling an episode of @savorpod.bsky.social about al pastor because its story is pretty similar to shawarma, and my brain says we covered shawarma recently our shawarma episode came out in 2019

Vicetober day: 6 ( UNCANNY ) RESERVED #vicetober #vicetober2025 #inktober #art #horror #manga #horrorart

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for any @savorpod.bsky.social listeners, this is absolutely one of the local places i was talking about in our southern cafeteria episode. an institution. our offices got priced out of this neighborhood, which is what i'm guessing happened here

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it is always ocktober when ock lives in your heart