SERIOUSLY?

As my general two cents: don't cancel your WIRED subscriptions. Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

it's been a rainy, gusty day here in SF, and this was just perfect for a cozy dinner. @ranchogordo.bsky.social FTdeliciousW, as always

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

Btw the Fountain Pen Day website has a similar list of participating retailers & stuff happening on Friday: www.fountainpenday.com/pages/sponsors

I guess it’s officially autumn. I turned the Zojirushi water boiler up, the SAD lights are charging & I’ve got Kali Malone ( kalimalone.bandcamp.com/album/does-s... ) cranked. I seem to really crave hot tea & extremely loud drone when the seasons get cooler. (This album is soooo good.)

where does Zohran stand on Shoegaze? is he into MBV or more of a Slowdive guy ?

You could tell me it was any time right now and I’d believe it, I have absolutely no idea

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

Going to be awkward at the curling rink on Monday...

I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.

Again, however it ends- GODAMN this is baseball Fuck yeah. (But also go Jays)

Ah, it's that time again...

My day has been doing laundry, sorting knit remnants & sewing samples so I don’t kill myself, cutting little squares out of all the security envelopes I’ve been saving for a swap, trying to work through a modular synth into course, & signing up to all the online (sewing, printing) classes.

Sorry, I had my eyes shut and my fingers in my ears, chanting "La la la keeping my hour it's my hour fuck you go away!" so I didn't hear what you said about the time change.

This is what I mean when I say that present-day covid denialism is right wing. It was a plan born of corporatists and wholly adopted by centrists and even leftists eager to pretend the pandemic was over, which should immediately give anyone thinking about it pause.

If you do fun things to the font of your username, you are known as "pretentious squiggle" in my head, just so you know. I can't read that shit, people with screen readers can't read that shit.

Everyone ready? A Bluesky Halloween Story in Twelve Posts

As a huge New York Style Hot Dog fan for years, felt compelled to recreate the poster in a high resolution and managed to find the original photo used in the texture Many thanks to folks from VGPC for help with identifying blobs, especially Prominos and TBemme bekoha.github.io/yakuza/New%2...

Well. I had planned my whole day/week around having 3 hours of intensive prosthodontic work today (starting on the front teeth ugh), but got a call that the prosthodontist had a family emergency & she needed to reschedule. I guess I’ll be doing laundry & faffing about. No complaints from me.

biblically accurate pitch count

THAT KLEIN CATCH THE GAME IS BROKEN SOMEONE TAKE THE CARTRIDGE OUT AND BLOW IN IT

OK so you know the gag on the Simpsons when Sideshow Bob is stepping on the rakes, it's funny, then it's too much, then it's terrible, then it's transcendently hilarious this baseball game

While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...

Random Cancer Centre observations: The only masks here are surgicals. The only people masking are women. I’ve seen ONE male (janitorial staff) with a mask on. There was an older couple walking past - woman was masked, man was not. This is the first time I’ve noticed this as a gender thing.

Someone needs to remind me that Curling exists & is probably happening whenever I start posting annoying nonsense replies to everyone I follow.

I am so fucking tired, yet am still awake at 1:40am. Can’t decide if this is brain bullshit or body bullshit. Probably some (a lot) of both.

BTW Curling has started. I was feeling a little sad after the BBC Sumo thing was over & next basho is Nov. Canada to the rescue! Despite the triggeringly bad “cold” the announcer has, Curling Canada on YouTube is live streaming Pre-Trials all week & I fucking love it. youtube.com/@curlingcanada

I had a serious sudden-awake panic attack at 3:30am. I had completely forgotten to get blood-work done for new Haematologist appt on Monday. It’s usually ordered for a week before. I made a a lab appt online & since then the whole day has been jam-packed idiocy & frustration. I’m *tired*.

here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update

Posting a picture covered in text without taking the time to include alt-text means that I probably will not reskeet it. Please do better.

Since we can’t rely on the HHS, CDC, or FDA to say it, I will: MAKE SURE YOU ARE VACCINATED AGAINST MEASLES. GET YOUR MMR. Measles cases have reached their HIGHEST point since the disease WAS ELIMINATED from the United States in 2000. We are at the tipping point for the return of ENDEMIC measles.

(Adding fountain pen inks and inkvents for 2025 for the feed)

(Adding fountain pen inks and inkvents for 2025 for the feed)

If anyone is still looking for the Diamine Inkvent 2025 (Teal) and/or the Colorverse Colorvent 2025, Vanness Pens in Arkansas has both right now. They’re a wonderful family owned pen shop. vanness1938.com

It is officially autumn. We’ve gotten a ton of rain & the heater has been activated (too damn cold in the house for a shower otherwise). So far, new roof seems to be holding, only rain inside (so far) has been from me not being fast enough to close windows/doors when it started bucketing down.

I really really wish I could watch the Dark Crystal (as an adult). I wonder if the documentary might help with the deeply visceral trauma this movie inflicted upon 3 year old me. Probably not. (I saw it in the theatre, was SCARRED for life by it. NOT a kid’s movie!) It’s so beautiful though! Ug

I switched to Duck Duck Go awhile back (hit a throwing stuff point when “googling” was NOT working) & the first few days of the return-to-Boolean & being able to sort results was WEIRD. Now I get angry when people act like there isn’t any other way (or just accepted it & AI garbage w/o question).

Am… am I into sports now? I mean, “weird” sports of course are interesting (bowling, sumo, Bananaball, table tennis, badminton, BOATS! aka sailing, archery, etc.) but baseball? Without drag? Sure, when it’s the Mariners winning after 15 innings, I guess so? (Only tuned in for the last 3)

God damnit Mariners y'all really gonna make me pay attention to the post season now?

Influenza versus Cövid. 826 COVID vs 89 flu deaths, and within 90 days, 1,391 COVID vs 149 flu deaths, showing worse outcomes for COVID-19 Rough maths? About 10 times more fatal journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

We have a great view of the Golden Gate Bridge from our bedroom window, so I was curious if I could see any of the Fleet Week airshow (thankful for no Blue Angels strafing us all week) but I am BLINDED HOLY OW. The sun is perfect angle to make the bay a solar mirror. Ouchy. Retreating back to cave.

Gahhh I need to get off my phone. Too much to catch up on & I’m so exhausted. Going to nuke some soup & work on on my re-read of @tkingfisher.com ‘s Saint of Steel books (read the first couple during the depths of bad IBD, no memory of them) so I can finally get to the newest one in that series.

The Verwurstung of books. In 1974, the artist Dieter Roth experimented with the materiality of books - and made, among other "literature sausages", Hegel's complete work to 20 sausages using traditional sausage recipes, replacing the sausage's meat with book paper. #skystorians #bookhistory

Translation: CDC disease surveillance is in a blackout. No data.

Wearing a mask is an act of resistance. Protecting your health and the health of those around you is community care. It tells those in power you won’t leave anyone behind. It says you don’t believe anyone is expendable. It can also protect against chemical munitions & other threats!

I'd like to remind everyone that if the Fountain Pen Feed goes down, just go search on "fountain pen" and order by Latest. That's all the Feed is basically doing. I believe that Feeds, unlike search, are routed through their own servers, which can go down. Thus, the outage.

In further overlapping adventures of over the air television & having seen movies WAY too young; Star Trek IV is on & I totally forgot that I saw this in the theatre. I was like 7 when it came out. I don’t think I have seen it since. (Mom had a THING for Leonard Nimoy so we saw all the movies)