These people are wack. Toxic smog is very much a Thing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_S...

gift cards, you say

Covered up AND hidden? In this economy?

Ugh. Of course they did.

Well, that certainly SOUNDS like me

Is it really possible to have a protracted sudden illness?

Ok, we had an Amber Alert just fire off and now I need to pry my dog off the ceiling

Cornea-melting headlights

Since we got solar and I can see just how much juice the dryer uses, we put up a clothesline. Every time I bring in the laundry now, I feel like I'm getting away with something. I feel like somebody just handed me a $5 bill at random. Yay nature

The directions we would get were almost always from someone's dad who would say things like "okay, go north 8 or 9 blocks, then go west for about a mile, hang a right on 44th Street, NOT 44th Terrace, that will stick you in the train yard" and do this AT NIGHT so your sense of direction was hosed

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. No photo captures the quality of light that painting has, in person it's extraordinary

congratulations to @mgier.bsky.social for his IAAIS award! It's a great program! news.ku.edu/news/article...

I just spent 20 minutes brangling with an app (ugh) that is "strongly encouraged" by my FSA account manager and all I have to say to that is: there is no way like 80% of the people who try to use this thing end up successful. They must just end up saying "screw it, I'll just pay it myself"

Every time I hear about specific Michael-oriented prayers, I flashback to the 80s when an independent UHF station used to air hours of Elizabeth Clare Prophet droning an Archangel Michael prayer. I suppose the Church Universal and Triumphant kinda felt medieval, too.

Abel Ferrara's Pretty Woman

Extremely odd sci-fi film Phase IV. Was on WDRB pretty much every other weekend in the late 70s, for some reason, and I watched it every time to see if the whole ant thing at the end ever made more sense (it did not)

hell yeah

it sounds like the Trump version of the adults in Peanuts

Nessun Dorma blasting out of the Washington monument into an utterly chaotic scene

I am sorry (not sorry) but this whole thing going wildly awry is hilariously predictable

Hey, baby...it's the 4th of July music.youtube.com/watch?v=54zx...

(shrug) not my fault you need a thesaurus, pal

This is really interesting. I recommended reading Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death to tons of people during the pandemic. (I am that person you never invite to cocktail parties.)

Holy cow. Someone needs to talk to IATSE about this, make sure these riggers are pros

I am going with SKIZ-m unless @bcdreyer.social tells me not to because this is for newscasts, not an ecumenical conference

great news, I have now been dragged into the SKIZM vs SIHZM debate because of the news that I am going to have to read here in a couple of hours

I did not expect to wake up this morning to news of schism. This year is bananas

My town is having a drone show for the 4th. The usual folks griped endlessly, but after the the 1st year...which was a washout, some kind of software problem...people really seem to like it. Pets are happier, people with PTSD are happier. The air doesn’t just hover around smelling like cordite

I remember being down at the Mall for the 4th about 27 years ago that was fairly run-of-the-mill heat & humidity, just the usual big show (not some weird record attempt), and the haze was ridiculous for 2 or 3 hours. Walking home was really gross. It was like trying to breathe through fiberfill

It's a retrofitted Boeing 747, so the US did, in fact, build it

My dude, whatever it is you are thinking of, it is not the Nicene Creed, unless you think BLM is somehow wading into to the "begotten" and "consubstantial" fights from the 4th century

Ideally, mind your own business, Marie

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5-4. WTAF

Tacky things stress me out

LFK, baby

FYI, if ever you are in the position of sending a graphic to a media outlet for use on a website, my suggestion would be for you NOT to send the one that is inexplicably 110000 px by 240000 px

Go on, ask me how much I hate OneDrive

Are we sure this is not a Carl Hiassen novel

Dad played a lot of jazz, but also Motown and The Spinners. Mom was partial to The Carpenters and John Denver

I was offline most of the day and return to find I cannot loiter on the National Mall, some goof thinks Elon Musk is somehow working-class, and people suddenly discovered Culver's has shrimp

I don't have much to add to the "OMG, the UK is boiling to death, please help us" discourse other than 1) do stuff early in the morning 2) draw your blinds shut 3) drink lots of water 4) touch the pavement before you walk your dog...if it is too hot for your hand, it is too hot for dog paws

Adrienne Rich did not write The Dark Fields of the Republic so you could tell me that AI is inevitable

Not taking the bait offered up by the guy extolling the value of milquetoast moderates. Please clap

"How down is she?" "Down." youtu.be/hE7si5prCwU?...

I spent today setting up a new television and daisy-chaining an additional PC monitor. I now know why everyone appears to have gone completely mad

I have no interest whatsoever in participating in predictive market gambling, but I admit to being curious about the over/under on "number of surveillance devices installed on the new Air Force One airplane by foreign interests"

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