I somehow ended up at a concert for Gen Z girlies the second opener sang Smash Mouth - All Star but only the first verse and chorus I guess because none of these children were alive when the song was on the literal FM radio and that's as much as shows up in the Shrek singalong?

welcome to Bluesky, where you may lay your dump truck down

new friend called out how I use a couple particular small words a lot a lot and now I'm having an existential crisis over whether I employ an extensive vocabulary or i just talk goofy

omfg my microblogging journal app is advertising Christmas icon sets when I'm just trying to self-regulate by writing some fucking journal entries if I were prone to autistic meltdowns this would be it

Mastercard is bleeding, get in there. Make some calls. Get some cool family members in on it over thanksgiving

my family is planning to convene for the holidays in the same town where an ex of 5 years lived I was trying to think of family-friendly excursions but all I've got is like.. all the bars we went to for dates

the pharmacist who administered my covid shot apologized for the needle it was like 26 gauge I told her I have worse every week -- 22 g for my weekly dose of valerate she was sympathetic and gave me a handful of 25 gauge needles to sample thanks I guess, but.. I didn't think I was complaining?

watching my friends ride my motorcycle is like watching my girlfriend kiss her crushes (it's super cute and makes me vv happy to witness)

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

the reason I stumbled on this website is that I needed to send Nico this video that lives in my brain where my ability to solve quadratic equations. one thing led to another, and

look, I hate to be a shill for a brand, but whatever you /think/ the Pit Viper (you know, the wrap around, 90s-color sunglasses) website is going to look like you're wrong (mobile users, RIP, this website is best enjoyet by desktop sickos) www.pitviper.com

jfc the I finally finished feeding the snakes ten minutes ago takes those bimbos so long to decide either they're not hungry or to figure out which end to swallow and then it's another twenty minutes of just gnawing away until dinner is gone

aww they're snuggling this snake is such a bimbo cw: feeding a rat to a snake

should we bring sneks around to the lesbian bar like puppies

oh thank heavens I fixed it stupid simple fix the battery got jostled loose when I dropped it So I just had to pop it out and back in to re-seat it everything is gucci

You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.

the teachers never locked the cage to the school theater's lighting control panel

turns out it's much better for my mental health to work a six hour shift at the bar than to lay around the house doom scrolling

Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed. I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

76% through the book and she FINALLY tells us "I think I love him"

This is a great piece. I have had five endometriosis surgeries and a c-section. Pelvic floor PT is a godsend.

Gmail users!! They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off. Pass it on!! www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

The U.S. government has released a new crash test dummy design that advocates believe will help make cars safer for women. Women are 73% more likely to be injured in a head-on crash than men. n.pr/48ne93H

oh fuck me, my Insta360 isn't turning on after getting dropped on the pavement Both the lenses are scratched too I thought these things were supposed to be able to handle getting dropped

y know what it's worth it to delete and repost an Insta comment three times to tell off a dude (some commenter) who's defending another dude (the pp) about tone checking a woman (the subject of the reel) for telling op to back off

at first I appreciated how much the lantern was getting hung on the obvious enemies to lovers pipeline in this YA romantasy I picked up but at this point it's a bit belabored, could they just drop the pretense of fake enemies and get back to making out already

A list of Black owned and indie animation that is funded or funding via Kickstarter! The first two on the list are still open!

I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.

okay somebody with classical music training please keep me sane it's deh-byoo-see, not deh-BUS-ee, right? I've been hanging out with so many gays

okay I maybe agree with that "adult content" label earlier after girlfriend days this bra makes my tits look good also I'm gonna wear it out for work at the bar and see how that goes

got tricked into spending 4 hours designing MERCH for a programming language that doesn't even exist. if people want this, i will sell it.

sex playlist that's all different covers of "pinball wizard" and also life is a highway rascall flatts disney pixar cars version and also a long clip of peter o'toole talking about lessons he's learned in life with a moby-esque $5 upbeat triphop soundtrack under it

“No forks. No hands. No shame.” This is about to join Hunky Jesus as one of the best San Francisco events.

This is your periodic reminder that BipolarSky exists, and that it's awesome, and that the feed and resources are here! There are tons of shouts into the void every day from people with ten followers and nobody listening. Help me share resources, and then let's help em get heard ty carry on 🙌

are you fucking kidding me I wonder how much of this is because post body/alt text mentioned "undies" and "bralette"

tbh such a sucker for MeUndies ads

Ana Mendieta should be a mere 77 years old today. The Cuban American feminist artist was likely murdered by her husband at 36, in 1985. May her memory and work be for a revolution. ❤️‍🔥

Made my calls. Paypros cannot get away with debanking adult creators without some degree of pain and cost to them. Please be part of the wave that tells paypros not to mess with our livelihoods.

woke up from a triple-shot nightmare that culminated in trying to host a sex party in my childhood home then realizing my parents were still at the house and would like to know what all the fuss is about

The award-winning article about stormwater management you didn't know you needed.

If you've noticed that stickers are currently my main swag, that's bc I learned that the guy who owns Sticker Mule is MAGA and found Sticky Brand instead. Here's a deal for 200 stickers for $59, if you'd like to try them, too: thestickybrand.com/products/200... Every order has been great so far!

Tonight I learned that the voice behind the Robin Hood Fox was ONE OF US

why does The Guardian spell "zhuzh" like "zhoosh" lol

Kindly ask folks to raise a stink about this everywhere and anywhere. Money and all that can come later. It’s just a five-alarm fire situation now bsky.app/profile/acva...

oh oh let's talk about when I called to schedule my first gyno appointment the nurse apprehensively asked what specific services I was looking for "our files indicate you don't need the services of a gyno" files? what files, I've never been here oh, from when I got my tubes tied (vasectomy)

Why wouldn’t you toot your own horn. What the hell else are you gonna do with it