United We Hop, Divided We Croak Put the HOP back in HOPE

Back from Vegas, time to get back to work. sheilaoshea.blogspot.com/2025/10/excu...

So, cover of a Gor novel from the 70s, or movie poster for an Italian Conan knock-off movie from the 80s?

The view from my seat. #SheilaDoesVegas

How you know it’s October. #SheilaDoesVegas

MARTA didn’t take as long as I expected, so I decided to skip the train and walk to my gate. If I’d taken it, I would have completely missed out on a marvelous exhibition of Zimbabwean stone sculptures along the way. #SheilaDoesVegas

Two weeks ago Nation of Islam reps went door to door in the neighborhood. Today it was Mormons. I'd pay money to see both show up at the same time.

Tommy and I are going to Vegas again! This time so I can see Sir Paul McCartney play a show. I’ll be hashtagging with #SheilaDoesVegas and #TommyTheBear if you want to keep up with things.

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I was fact-checking something for my job and came across this on a government website.

Are you registered? Check NOW at @votedotorg.

Fascism loses its grip of fear when subjected to mockery. We should never stop laughing at them.

He said it didn't work, but it did work, so I give you: Yakety Sax.

I have a speculation about "generative AI", LLMs, and thinking, but it'll take me just a minute to get there. We know that the human brain has certain things "hardwired" into it. But before I go _there_ I want to remind people about sticky metaphors. /1

It's the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C, so the Gospel today is Luke 16:19-31. It is the only passage where Christ describes Hell in any kind of detail. If you don't know this one, it goes like this: Once there was a rich man who lived in a mansion, wore expensive clothes, and ate well. (1)

I spent a lazy afternoon listening to Medazzaland by @durandurancom.bsky.social and, holy fuck, this album does not get NEARLY the praise it deserves. I know it came out of some major turmoil, but the results were AMAZING.

Every time someone says there's no more racism, and people are just being big whiners, I hear "We let you use our water fountains! What more do you want?"

Today's progress report. sheilaoshea.blogspot.com/2025/09/prog...

There's nothing quite like checking your mailbox and finding a package that turns out to be something you ordered that took so long to get to you, you'd forgotten you ordered it.

Okay, if I can’t take Tylenol, can I take a drugstore brand of acetaminophen instead?

Every time I see another Rapture prediction I just want to scream “No one knows the day or the hour except the Father in Heaven, you dipshits!”

No, supporting trans rights doesn’t cost elections! “43 percent of voters were more likely to vote for a candidate who stands up for transgender people. Just 21 percent of voters would be less likely to support a candidate who supports trans rights.”

I regret to inform you all that I have not been Raptured. I did get up there, but then Simon who is called Peter spake unto me, saying, "Thou hast not taken enough Leucovorin and Ivermectin to be spared by the Lord of Hosts."

I'll be updating my writerly blog a little more frequently for now. See link for why. #ChristophinasWings sheilaoshea.blogspot.com/2025/09/chri...

shit ain’t over til it’s over

Hey, if the Rapture really does happen tomorrow, could y'all finish up before rush hour? I have to be at work at 8:30, and I really don't feel like weaving my sinner self through 144,000 abandoned cars. Thanks!

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Fuck MAGA!

democrats.org/contact-us/ Let them know. If enough people contact them and explain why their wishy-washy politics aren't working, maybe they'll take the hint.

Warning!

Is the universe playing Mad LIbs again?

They have to keep calling it "The American Experiment" because no reputable journal will accept the results.

I haven’t had to deal with this stuff yet, but in case you do…

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They call themselves Christians and yet do not follow Christ. They worship the Devil in one of its most brilliant disguises.

Guy: We should hunt down and kill every single one of those abominations in the name of God Almighty. Guy's supporters: Look you're clearly taking his words out of context.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

Happy Empty Gestures of Patriotism Day!

No National Guard deployment to Utah? How curious...

Fifteen percent of all violent crime is domestic violence. How exactly is deploying the national guard supposed to fix that?

Are we going to see a bunch of influential Dems named when the truth finally comes out? Yes. Should they be prosecuted alongside the Republicans? Also yes.

Again, paging @puppetmaker60.bsky.social

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Slightly diminish a book... On the Sidewalk

I need to be reminded of this. Often.

me, to the judge: “Well if THAT’s what they meant, they should have used punctuation.”

Closing a Tab www.wonderbink.com/2025/09/05/c...

Truly I’m not sure what the dumber ‘this is in science fiction stories so we need to do it’ thing: putting humans on mars for no reason and astronomical resources or making humanoid non specialized robots