Of course it was.

Power just kicked back on and it scared the crap out of me.

Couldn't figure out why my laptop worked but not my monitors. Then I slowly realized how quiet it was in the house. Looks like someone hit something big.

have been earnestly enjoying alton brown's "being a huge stupid alcoholic gen x asshole on other people's youtube channels" arc and am eagerly awaiting more

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

On the way home from Florida, we managed to stop at the Classic Pizza Hut. Salad bar, beer pitchers, checkered table cloths, and fake stained glass everywhere. I got a personal pan pizza like I had a Bookit voucher.

The Pope vs JD Vance is the greatest celebrity beef in my lifetime.

Opened Outlook for the first time after leaving work unexpectedly for a week and I kind of just want to throw my laptop out the window and walk into the river.

Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!

I'm so fucking mad at these shopping channels and Amazon for making it so easy for vulnerable people to blow all their savings.

We've been in Florida for days trying to help my mother-in-law sort through her sister's things. As the dementia got worse, she seemed to be ordering cases of random things off QVC at night. We're still finding unopened packages everywhere. Hopefully we can get most of it donated.

I'm at a Wawa, so Florida's not all bad. There's even a PNC ATM.

There's too much of Florida. It feels like we've been driving in it forever.

This is what I needed in my life today.

The husband's aunt died yesterday, so we have to pick up a rental car first thing in the morning and start the 13 hour drive. And I just realized that the Crescent City Classic starts before the rental place opens. And we're on the route.

Me Yesterday: Some of this seems like a bad idea but leadership has approved it and I'm doing exactly what they wanted. Me 10 Seconds After Logging In This Morning: Yes, I will drop everything to reverse this and fix everything that you requested.

Dude really thought he was doing something amusing here. I look forward to the inevitable apology from the agency, despite the fact that you know they approved it.

The most unbelievable part of the later seasons of Walking Dead is that anyone would still be wearing underwire bras. Runner up is that anyone would be wearing their hair down unless they have a stockpile of modern shampoo. There's a reason braids, plaits, and buns were the norm even for Europeans.

Overheard in the grocery store: "My grandmother buried more men than she kept, you sure you want me to be like her?" I don't know what he did, but he might want to go ahead and move on out. Just a thought.

this is a uniquely christian protestant form of ritual weirdness and i think that is beautiful. don't steal our shit when you can blow trombones at corpses at four in the morning instead

Accidentally snapped a knitting needle and the husband came running because he said I gasped like I was having a heart attack.

Please tell this to my PCP, who insists this is not the cause of all of my symptoms over the last year or so. I guess she'd rather I think I'm just going insane?

Policymakers really need to let go of this idea that rental housing is intrinsically inferior and homeownership needs to be considered the normative default for everyone. The policies that flow from this view inevitably end up screwing over actually existing renters.

Today they banned my book. Here’s what I want you to know: thebloggess.com/2026/03/25/t...

It's too early in the day to be this burned out.

I miss Blackberries.

We're spending a lot oftime measuring micro plastics from things like kitchen sponges when we know that tires are the main culprit and everyone is still driving (and tire wear causes air pollution too) share.google/sOqfISKPFGir...

Decided to finish The Walking Dead (I'd bailed out after Carl) just for the sake of completion. This crap got really tedious and dull... until Princess showed up. I love Princess so much that I'm actually looking forward to starting another episode again. She saved this sinking ship.

So many unnecessary Zoom meetings today that I crocheted myself a Medieval snood to hold my hair back. Thanks for paying for my crafting time, I guess.

Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

It's so weird to hear music that needed a parental advisory sticker in the 90's being played in the dentist office or grocery store.

Everything is being corrupted by a single Silicon Valley belief: that for every question there's a correct answer. Life isn't meant to be enjoyed, but "won." Turn your food into nutrient paste, inject yourself with illegal proteins, and finish the marathon by taking a taxi.

Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.

It's almost hurricane season again and now I gotta worry about earthquakes? Absolutely not.

Crocheting is wild. What do you mean I can finish something in an hour when I've been working on this knitting project for 4 months? In related news, I missed yoga class because I got distracted making a scrunchie.

how it feels taking public transit rn

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!" counterpoint! the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.

What the "AI is literally magic" people forget is that magic was literally the Torment Nexus meme of the past! It was a cautionary tale! (this one is from @goingmedieval.bsky.social and one of my favorites)

This city will crumble into ashes and I’ll be saying the same thing.

Attempted to use Instagram. Remembered again that I seem to not understand at all how this app works.

Electric bikes and mopeds are actually displacing four times as much demand for oil as all the world’s electric cars at present, due to their staggering uptake in China and other nations where mopeds are a common form of transport. theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

My sleep schedule is well and truly fucked.

Happy Mardi Gras, everybody. Happy New Year. Happy Ramadan. The people in this photo think this city belongs to them. It does not. It belongs to you. Take care of it this year. Reach out to your neighbors. Show them some love. These are rough times. We need to stick together. #RexComus

Learned the hard way that I am too tired to follow a pattern right now. There will be no relaxing knitting, only scrolling and mindless videos.