I've had white in my hair and beard for decades, no big deal. But I just found my first white chest hair and this is just too much to deal with.

“I am so done with this.” (Tagging @quinncy.bsky.social because kitten)

This is how I know anyone objecting to trans athletes isn't actually concerned about fairness of competition. No one is talking about trans-men. And there are plenty of cis-women athletes who could or should compete with men.

Top-level professional athletes are all biological freaks--they have larger lungs, their blood is better at carrying oxygen, their muscles are more efficient, whatever. I'll never be a professional cyclist, because my body will never be able to compete no matter how hard I train.

I first started playing DragonRealms (a high fantasy MUD) in its first year, 1996. Have played off and on in the intervening years, most recently about 4 or 5 years ago. Playing again on a free-to-play account and currently a level 5 paladin if anyone else out there plays or would like to start.

Oh my God this fucking headline. Removing the dam and erasing Lake Pillsbury will restore the Russian River *back to its natural state*. The water diversion is unnatural and has completely changed the Eel River for the worse. Sick of Mendocino and Sonoma thinking the water is theirs by right.

He didn't get to the moon but he got his crew home, and that was the more remarkable task. www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...

As a rule I don't bring a person's looks into an argument, but Kristi Noem always makes me think about getting a blowjob from a mannequin and I can't help it.

It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy (from 2022)

The fundamental aim of the American white supremacist movement since the 1980s has been to block sharing of any national resources with anyone and everyone who doesn’t adhere to the white supremacist ideal. MAGA has done more to accomplish this goal than any group or individual since Jim Crow

At this point 50% of my FB feed is comprised of entirely made up shit like this. I'm a historian who studies politics and media, so it's easy for me to be a critical consumer of this schlock. But for the average consumer, this sort of social media is like putting a stick blender in one's brain.

Pasteurization is one of those things like vaccines that most of society has forgotten how many people died before it was invented.

Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor statisti s. This is the end of being able to trust the data from the federal government on employment, GDP, or any other critical information. They will only want to produce information that pleases Trump, not the truth. This is how you get a failed state.

Honestly, I could be doing better.

Even if you did include all the shows mentioned below, the answer would still be The Twilight Zone.

I actually have no idea where I'm going to go or how much, if any, money I'm going to have to get there. Starting to get a little worried about winding up homeless.

Listening to someone else watch short videos on their phone is the most annoying thing in the universe, and I believe our society has not adequately grappled with this

Really missing when the internet was fun and not a nightmare. I know most people have seen these GI Joe PSA redubs but I'm gonna post a few of my favorites for the 6 people who haven't seen them yet.

It's nice that the photo of the South Fork of the Eel River they used in this article was taken in the fall or spring. In the summer the Eel is nearly dry.

Saw this in a post from someone lamenting the economic impacts to the Sonoma vineyards due to not being able to irrigate. To which I say, "Oh well." Seriously, if your business depends on environmental devastation, your business sucks. www.sfgate.com/northcoast/a...

Yet *another* reminder that the Russian River isn't a mild-mannered creek. Wear a life jacket, people! Your "natural swimmer" ego isn't worth it. Stay safe out there.

Oh my god...now I'm imagining if Tim Robbins character in High Fidelity came into the store singing "Oh she may get wooly, women do get wooly, because of all the stress..."

I got screwed when I bought this farm. The seller failed to disclose a whole bunch of shit that impacted my ability to operate legally, not to mention they represented themselves as a legitimate business when in fact they were selling everything black market. 🧵

Ugh...PP is blaming *me* because they sold one of their paintings for a song, because I wasn't there to support the negotiations.

And as I was just saying today, it's been that way in much of Europe for almost 1000 years!

Octopi? Octopodes? I don't care! This is English and octopuses is never wrong!

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Hey @tkingfisher.com , I'm currently listening to a real life weird tale of a girl in France who found a beaver hanging in the forest with its head unattached and reattached to its feet. Fucking fairies.

I still play with Silly Putty and lift comic strips with it.

Additionally, this guy is historically wrong. In most of Europe child marriage hasn't been acceptable for around 1000 years (nobility excepted). Romeo & Juliet? The audience knew from their ages that they were stupid kids and things would end badly for them. 1/n

Damn it, Tom Lehrer died?

Also, prairie grasses and other plants are quite beautiful. Plant them if you live somewhere that used to be prairie.

On top of everything going on in the world I have to deal with the narcissist enlisting their friends to help pressure me into doing things I don’t want to do.

A lot is being said about what an awful person Hulk Hogan was. I'm not going to disagree, but it should be noted that he was a pretty shitty wrestler too.

Let's be clear. Reagan in large part started the Republican party on the trajectory they've been on for the last 40 years that has brought us to the place we're at now. Fuck Reagan.

Look, @tkingfisher.com , I overlooked the bit in A Sorceress Comes to Call when you made me think too much about my blinking, but now I have the theme song to Cheers stuck in my head and you just can't do these things to people.

Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon

That tritone.

Holy fuck.

Holy shit, Malcolm-Jamal Warner drowned.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

I just saw someone talking about an 80mm film version of Laurence of Arabia and the fucking post didn't allow replies and I'm going to die because it was 70mm (specifically Super Panavision 70) and I have to tell someone.

Got a six-pack to make beer battered fish. That takes one can, so whatever will I do with the other five?

I've been talking about my community radio station lately and how great they are, and they're on this list, losing 24% of their revenue.

Can confirm. Not that I thought I couldn't be homeless. But how close most of us are to the precipice.

I've said before how one of my favorite things about social media is the ability to tell authors whose work I enjoy that I enjoy their work. One of the worst things about social media is how I want to talk to authors whose work I enjoy about their work.

Now I'm halfway through A Sorceress Comes to Call, and @tkingfisher.com , your description of living with a narcissist is terrifyingly accurate.

Watching an English documentary on Irish history really is something, isn't it?