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a little treat at an old haunt

Happy pub day to @deadparentswhatnow.com! Losing a parent is one of the hardest things we’ll almost all have to do—this book helps you tackle the logistics of probate, burial, clearing out houses, & more, with the warmth and humor you actually want at a tough time (or when planning for tough times)

"you seem like a sudoku person" at a TTRPG con where I was a plus one. It wasn't exactly a compliment but it also wasn't an insult and it was astute.

... vs how it's going after 2025

Posing absurdly by a Unix sticker with the OG Williams Sonoma in the background pretty well sums me up

there's a first time for everything

I was just leaving out the plate of cookies and considering whether maybe it should have sparkling water next to it instead

Keep your goths in mind on this difficult morning as the days start to get longer.

PGE reminding everyone of the reason for the season... the solstice

I have hummus on my glasses and zero regrets

Began the indoctrination of our godchildren last evening!

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

Tis' the Season 🎅🔭

I realize girl dinner is canonically uncooked but the cheese I melted on my microwaved potato was the awkward trimmings of several cheeseboard preparations so I think this deserves honorable mention

Moderate coffee consumption has been associated with a reduction in all-cause mortality, so fuck that for realsies. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

yearly appearance of 'this is fine' dog's lesser known cousin:

Oh shit (graph via @presentcorrect.bsky.social)

Actual footage of me trying to find files across my cloud synced devices

Fashion Icon!

Reminder that pie is the perfect breakfast food!

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

My take on modern etiquette is EANABs (equally attractive non-alcoholic beverages) should be offered without folks needing to request them whenever alcoholic ones are

Who among us can cook lentils without listening to UK Hun? #bimini

I think my lake tiers would be duct tape -> wd-40 -> jb weld -> 3d printed -> machined

For this week's #TidyTuesday, rainfall from 12 UK weather stations 2012-2024. I’ve been wanting to try the idea of using letter heights to show data for some time, now possible thanks to {flexfont} by @coolbutuseless.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz

Bike bouquet Sunday

somewhere in portland, there's one person, or a small handful of people, who came up with the inflatable costume idea, and I feel like they deserve our immense respect for defining the obvious developing aesthetic of the contemporary battle against fascism

I miss the days when getting iced was just a peer pressure ritual around insipid malt beverage

it just hits different

@ whoever tossed gross rottable *whatever that was* into my recycling bin before I returned it to the garage

Personal style goals+inspo:

That's some well treated anxiety you've got there, it'd be a shame if something were to happen to it... like say trying to color match the white ceiling paint in your old house

Bike bouquet Sunday

Huge PSA: framed art cat beds are a thing, and you can just swap out the art to make it into the best wedding photo display of all time

Let me post a *non*-subskeet for once... We made a thing! discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-ex... #Python #PEP

Spooky Season 🤝 Soup Season

today is the last day for AOL dial-up. 90s kid chris can finally sign off. he's now free to roam the earth offline *extremely aol voice*: goodbye youtu.be/F2Z2CklSxM0?...

Anyone else on the N Muni that roller coaster exited at Duboce and Noe today and couldn't stop for a few blocks?

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

Shakey quakey wakey

Bike bouquet Sunday!

Question of the morning is if I should make a shrub with this or just turn the Shiso in my ume up to 11?

Feeling solidarity with Jimmy Kimmel, who once aired this awesome video (cited in my book) making fun of liberals at an LA farmers market who all agreed that GMO’s were awful, and also that they didn’t know what GMO’s were. Groupthink of all kinds is bad: m.youtube.com/watch?v=EzEr...

lately when i’m feeling hopeless i just think of the Katamari cat wearing scuba gear. if she can survive in an inhospitable environment then so can i

special shoutout to the boomer parents all my genx and elder millennial friends are being drained by as they age especially ungraciously

treating accommodations as weakness is a gun you will inevitably shoot at your own foot

Why yes Apple Watch and Oura ring, my heart rate has elevated suddenly without increased activity. I'll take that moment for mindfulness when there's less than a whole colony of ants claiming my desk as their new home.

the wreath I made this weekend is now giving a a slightly threatening organically grown Oscar the Grouch vibe

When I confront someone I know about AI slop...she recognizes that it is slop. She does not take it down. Because she does not care what the reality is. She cares that it matches her feelings. brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/people-kno...