It's alarming how much I need sound/chatter/music in my apartment/ears to ward off The Thoughts. I'm not in a good space right now.

Instagram keeps causing chaos for me, and it's so frustrating. Between unjust account nuking and basic app/website malfunctions, I cannot get an account to work on both my phone and pc.

Twice‽ Wtf‽

"Have I to listen to this accused song once more," growled the barbarian, the knuckles of his clenched fist standing out white against his bronzed skin, "by Crom it will be raining blood in this office!" Someone hastily snapped off the radio, silencing Toto.

I was looking up phones on Mint Mobile so I could buy one for my mom that I knew would be compatible with their service (I've always just bought a phone on a plan, so I don't know if any phone will work with any service). Now every 7th TikTok video is a Mint Mobile ad. 😑

My IG just got banhammered. If you follow(ed) me there, it'll be a hot minute before I'm back online.

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I was awake for 23.5 hours before I felt tired enough to fall asleep.

It's currently 23:16. I woke up last night at 00:47 after 3 hours of sleep. I have been wide awake nearly this entire time. Somebody kill me, please.

What do you mean, my "doctor has left the practice" and I "need to call immediately to make arrangements to transfer to a new service provider?" I just saw her less than two weeks ago, what the helly?

I did some armchair math, and if my spending patterns hold in 2026, I would actually put more money into my savings between 01/2026-10/2026 than I *earned* in all of 2024. I don't even know how to register that intellectually. It does not compute.

If I were to buy one of these (HA!), I'd demand a used car price.

I'm in the middle of playing BG3 right now, and I just took out the Hag simply because she was standing too close to a chasm, and I had a Void Bulb. We were barely through half a round of combat. I feel like such a badass right now.

I just hit a nerve. Like, literally, with my injection, in my thigh. As *soon* as the needle went in, my thigh started spasming and contracting most wickedly. "Uncomfortable" doesn't begin to describe it.

ICE's hiring surge is turning out to be an entirely predictable disaster. It turns out if you’re hiring for a pariah agency using nakedly fascist and racist messaging, America’s best, brightest, and most fit don’t apply. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-hiri...

Comcast expects this power outage to last another 9.5 hours. 🙃

I'm not sure what it says about my circumstances that I'm on track to earn more money this year than last when I spent two months unemployed. Only by about $2700, but still.

One thing I remember from my job at the steel plant was when my coworkers would complain about their appliances breaking down after just a few years. It was something I could not understand. I've had the same stove, microwave, and fridge since I moved in. They came with the apartment, so, y'know...

I've seen several people calling for a national strike over the renovation of the White House. Where's that type of energy when I promote a general strike for women's healthcare?

If you're wondering why I reheated a bunch of skeets, it's because I was looking for something specific.

I saw him in the news today, griping about losing a space contract.

There was a Cybertruck on my street last month. Ew.

"Purchasing isn't a highly cerebral position." A) I've eaten those words. This kind of manufacturing has crazy amounts of details that need to be tracked. B) AI still can't do my job, because all of my work is decision-making and tracking details. I don't trust it not to fuck up my spreadsheets.

This thread about technical writing? Yeah, it came up again today. I was specifically hired because I had at least some passing familiarity with building spreadsheets for purchasing/sales purposes. Not exactly "technical writing," but definitely a related skill.

“My LLM has a failure rate of 50-80% on the first pass, so I make a second pass to fix the errors.” DAWG, if your LLM fails 50-80% of the time on the first pass, what makes you believe it is failing at less than 50-80% on the second pass? What the fuck.

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I've said it before, but I'll say it again: "EVERY SCIENTIST FIRED FROM FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT THIS YEAR NEEDS TO RUN FOR STATE/FEDERAL OFFICE NEXT YEAR." We cannot keep letting the willfully ignorant and the reality deniers control the course of this country.

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Oh, man... *urp* That milkshake went RIGHT through me.

@jenniebreeden.thedevilspanties.com Continuing my archive crawl to catch up on all your comics, I came across a hiccup. November, 3-4, 2014, are the same comic. The kiddo doesn't want to wear a jacket for Halloween, then changes her mind when she steps outside.

SOMETHING has been irritating my right nostril for about 6 hours. If it wasn't early autumn, I'd swear it was an allergy attack.

Looks like immigrants who are truckers are going to start facing obstacles to getting permanent CDLs. I'm sure that's not going to affect the trucking industry AT ALL. Supposedly this won't apply to Canadian or Mexican drivers, because their licenses are recognized by the federal government. 🙄

[insert copious amounts of disgusted vomiting here]

Original joke from my friend Larissa R.: Why did the words bleed through the paper? The sentence had a period.

I was flipping through my music and discovered the opening bars to Back Off Bitch by Guns n Roses are almost identical to the opening to Changing Times by Nazareth. Anyone else ever notice that?

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I no longer feel that nagging Catholic guilt about using Jesus' "name" as a swear, since it's not his name. "Yeshua," on the other hand? Probably best not to press the issue.

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There's something refreshing about having multiple extended farts in the hour after a massive bowel movement. Well, maybe not "refreshing," exactly...

My hope is that Tylenol sues Trump and RFKJR so hard, they actually manage to bring down this administration. Kinda weird to hope capitalism wins over fascism, but this has been an unusual year.

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In 2023, I went from a $40k/year job to a $50k/year job after telling the hiring manager I wrote an 80-page training manual for my position. 1/🧵

My mother gave me this watch in 2014, after I finally pulled myself out of homelessness. It's a wind-up, not battery-powered. It wound down on July 11 - the day after I got laid off. I'm sitting in an IHOP, having breakfast before I start at my new job.

Reskeet if you think all the scientists who have lost their funding due to the current administration's actions should run for political office and drive the bums out. ✊🏾

12 minutes. I do believe that's the fastest a meal has ever gone through me. I know it was my dinner that just exited, because I haven't eaten anything else today since that breakfast sandwich 12 hours ago, and this was far too much mass for that.