Happy National Punctuation Day! I just found out that exists five minutes ago, but I'm going to claim it as my own. Anyone who has more than two punctuation tattoos can fight me for ownership, but I'm going to need photographic proof.

If you're interested in joining my monthly art-sharing video chat, let me know! This month's meeting is 9/27 at 7pm Pacific; sharing is not required, and you can choose to share your own work, including works in progress, or just any art that resonates with you. It's very chill and supportive!

Putting off my annual shepherds-pie-and-over-the-garden-wall celebration of the Autumn equinox because it's too warm today to feel properly cozy. But I'm still making the apple cake that usually goes with it, because it's also Erev Rosh Hashanah. Shana tova!

I have now seen K-Pop Demon Hunters. With my 9-year-old niece singing every song and reciting most of the dialogue next to me, admittedly...but although it's a fun movie with some good ideas and catchy songs, it was just SO full of story gaps. Given the rave reviews, I was expecting more.

I don't normally watch beauty pageants, so maybe I'm out of the loop...but do they always involve this many swords?

Streaming is nice, but I'd like at least the dang OPTION to own my own media. I want to be able to buy DVDs and CDs, and I want my fucking ipod back.

Please, if you can, help my friend Ben meet their medical needs that insurance doesn't cover 💜

Me and @hankgreen.bsky.social are on the same wavelength in re: Anna Garcia's @smartypantsshow.bsky.social presentation. 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦

This felt like a betrayal from Leverage, honestly. We trusted you to take care of Parker, and look what you did.

I'm currently on two meds I have to take twice daily: one that has to be taken on an empty stomach, and one that has to be taken with food. Have not figured out which one of them tells the truth, yet.

See if I just keep watching old episodes of Make Some Noise until I pass out on the couch, I never have to go to bed and be alone with my thoughts. Checkmate, liberals!

So we all have a plan for what we'd say in response to "Isn't that right players?" if we ever got on Make Some Noise, right? It's not just me?

Y'know what, I'm going on the record to say I don't recommend being chronically ill. It is absolutely no fun at all, 0/10.

Me: Phew, the ER is never fun but at least I have treatment now, so I'm out of the woods! The universe: 😈 u sure bout that 🤪

In the words of the old meme, I did not have an ER visit on my bingo card for today. But thank heavens for friends who are willing to keep you company at the hospital, and also antibiotics. 💜💊

Greater Bluesky Community: This was not, I REPEAT, NOT an invitation to tell me your pet peeves. Post those on your own feed, as God intended.

It has always been a pet peeve of mine when people write "100s" for "hundreds." But today I saw someone write "Ks" in place of "thousands," and I swear I went blind for a second.

"That Thing You Do" and "The Origin of Love," absolutely. And several songs from A Mighty Wind, most notably "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow." Honorable mention for the songs in Sing Street -- they're not supposed to be hits (yet), but god damn they're all so good.

I saw this clown squeeze another clown's nose, and then they got into a fistfight. I actually think it wasn't related, but everyone else insisted it must be -- post honk ergo propter honk.

Somebody read Will Shetterly's "Chimera" at a formative age and is just DESPERATE for it to be real.

Nothing gold can stay. Cheers to a tiny Michigan pizza joint that fearlessly fought against a shitty national chain stealing their name, while also shamelessly having a logo that ripped off the Pringles guy.

Every time a comedian I likes starts working for SNL I'm sitting here going "Oh good. I'm so happy for them." through gritted teeth.

Sean Astin and Matthew Lillard, best known as the two leads of the seminal 2000 surfer movie "Dish Dogs."

God, has it been 10 years of Juptember already?

As always, I hope that those people who think Labor Day has something to do with the military get educated this year.

Last night I was like "Say, I better check on when the @dropout.tv sub my friends gave me for my birthday last year ends and make sure my payment method is ready to go for next year." This morning, I woke up to an email from them saying "Happy birthday, here's another year of Dropout for you!"

This song is good for hyping yourself up when you need to feel unstoppable, even if it's just on your way to a stressful doctor's appointment.

without downloading new pics, where are you mentally

Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY. Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.

I need to know if a single human being using Focus Friend understood right away that there's a difference between "focusing" and a "break." What is the point of breaks? They seem to just be focus sessions where you don't earn anything.

Just saw someone criticize a Game Changer episode on the grounds that "it was fun as a one-off, but I don't think it's a sustainable concept." Like...yes. That's it. That's the show.

Looks like the EBU discovered free templates on Canva.

My entire childhood was preparing for this moment.

To the half dozen or so people in the audience of Outvoted who were masked -- you're my favorite @dropout.tv fans forever, bless you all, you are precious in my sight 💜✨🎉🙏😘💫🫡

I just learned that the Corries are not in fact two brothers, and therefore their incredible vocals cannot be put down to the magic of blood harmony. I am, as the kids say, SHOOK.

I got some lovely birthday presents today, and one was incredibly useful while one was utterly frivolous, but both made me feel so loved by the givers 💜 I mean yeah, I've been wanting a CO2 monitor for ages and it'll help me stay safe. But how many people own a genuine Cold Robby trading card?

Ah good, now I have an answer about why my feed was sprinkled with people specifically wishing ill on JK Rowling today. I too wish ill on hateful people who use their wealth and power to spread hate, specifically Joanne Rowling.

I spent way too long on this just to be insulted in this way.

slightly diminish a band The Dwight Schultz Experience

Here's a free roller derby/burlesque/drag name for someone: Freak Woodmac.

I am 43 years old, and somehow STILL learning the lesson that celebrities aren't your friends and you don't actually know them and shouldn't be disappointed when they act like idiots. Anyway, just saw Hank Green post a video of himself unmasked inside a goddamn airport.

A neighbor bought 10 Agatha Christie paperbacks at our PWYC garage sale yesterday. "You should take this Georgette Heyer too," I said. "She was a contemporary of Christie's and this book is very much in the Christie mode." He did not take it.

Dorothy L. Sayers. Love her to death, but she did pause Gaudy Night to have all the characters engage in a conversation about eugenics that is... very bad. Her inconsistent and confusing attitude towards Jews is a whole other kettle of worms.

Just me walking through life occasionally forgetting that I actually coined the term "erev birthday" and that most people don't even celebrate the day before their birthday, much less call it that. I had a good erev birthday, anyway: much-needed rain, a fresh haircut, and blackberry ice cream 🌧️✂️🍨

All streaming services are bad for artists, but Tidal at least pays a bit more than Spotify, and y'know, actually pays small artists at all. PLUS the CEO is not, to my knowledge, using your dollars to fund genocide. So that's a bonus!

Sometimes I just look up words in different languages out of curiosity. The other day, I wondered what they call single-player card games in Serbo-Croatian, and found out it's "pasijans." I wondered "Hmm, how is that pronounced?" It's patience. It's literally just patience. 😂

This is an email I didn't send saying "Hey, just wanted to let you know there's an error on your website -- it says your store is an 'intentionally accessible space', but you only have masked shopping hours twice a month. Might wanna fix that!"

It continues to confuse me that Deep Blue Ink hasn't been hired yet to do one of the official Game Changer animated shorts, despite being better than anything that has been posted there yet.

I mean this with the utmost sincerity, but I think the camera operators of @dropout.tv shows should get a special award for being some of the only people who actually know how to frame up fat people and tall people.