Please enjoy my teenager’s charcu-turkey

I never know when or if a plate of food is going to show up from certain people's feasts on these holidays, so it makes it hard to guess when and how much to eat. And I'm really hungry. Yes, I have previously given in and just eaten a meal only to have one show up right after I finished.

I completely skipped the frozen entrée this year. Can't say I'm confident the frozen family option would be an improvement...

Imagine paying a large monthly fee to shop at a supermarket, then paying again for the actual groceries, then getting an extra charge months later because one ingredient in an item you bought came from a farmer associated with a different store. This post is about healthcare.

I'm grateful that we don't have a national holiday focusing specifically on a regularly targeted component of the abuse at home: compelled gratitude (and all the punishment that entailed). 🙃 Oh, wait... 😑

I know a fair few of you are fans. I'm still waiting for access to watch it in the first place.

I own TOS, AU, DS9, VOY, DISCO, & SNW. I don't really care for all of TNG, (really not for ENT) but it would be nice if they had a mini collection of the most iconic episodes. I don't want the whole series. But there were some I'd love to have. I always think this when someone uses a gif from that 1

Just realized I hadn't posted pictures of the actual sticker

This thread and post aside, my comment is about the second quote, the one about "saying grace". My brain hasn't been able to do prayers for many years. Not any formal way. My brain just locks up into a stress cycle that traps me. But this quote made me realize - I *feel* it where he *says* it.

Last year I was too tired to make the candy I give out as gifts for the holiday. Took advantage of help & tried to make both the peanut butter chocolate fudge & the divinity. Forgot the vanilla & messed up the math on the fudge. That may not turn out. The divinity worked, but extra strong flavor.🫩

The human body is incredibly resilient. You would be shocked at how sick a person can become and not die. Chronic illness is just that… chronic. The body adapts. It learns to cope with daily suffering. Your baseline shifts and your reality changes.

My brain being so extra tired means I keep deciding people are talking too much, but phrase association turns that into, "You're talkin' a lot. Show me what you got. Stop - swing.... 🎶I don't dance...🎶" (around the 2 min mark) over & over youtu.be/sBAN0S3rW_I?...

The kind of people willing to trust LLMs are the same ones who think that being asked for advice means you've just surrendered your free will and are now obligated to do what they said instead of weighing it as food for thought towards *your* final decision. 🤨

Things I'm learning while not taking the super b- complex. It apparently increased my hunger. & I was right abt the increased food intake boosting my functional energy levels. Crash: ⬇️ appetite ➡️ less food ➡️ worse functioning/ faster deterioration That's why "Feed the crash" is one of my rules.

That only works in a logic that says that "human" excludes anyone not "cishet Christian healthy wealthy white male privilege." No one else can be covered in that zero sum logic. If they don't get all the rights to do whatever they want to anyone & anything, *their* "human" rights are being infringed

We're none of them paying attention to the many TV eps across many series addressing this very question? A computer program trained to mimic human responses based on the patterns taken from vast quantities of human interactions is still just a computer program. Not a sentient living intelligence.

This is a point that needs repeating. It’s fiscally conservative to house the homeless, it’s also the right thing to do.

@chronicillness.bsky.social The spoonie life hack of buying comfortable clothes that work for day or night so no one knows either way.

It's been about 2 weeks since I stopped taking the super B complex after finally noticing the weakness/beyond tired spell I get after taking it. (I'd known it happened in the afternoon, but not that this was the cause.)

This and this and this and this and this and this.

If you've heard about RFK Jr's "wellness farms," have I got a story for you. I've worked on farms where most of the crew were put there as rehabilitation for various issues. So I'd love to tell you all the various ways those farms made us all worse! youtu.be/pDNoVqiGb_c

ICYMI, the Utah State Legislature will consider a bill that will force data centers to disclose how much water they use: www.fox13now.com/news/great-s... #utpol #Utah

As always, wise words and excellent examples.

This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Finally! Good news from Houston, TX: Autistic teen held for almost 48 days in federal custody Emanuel Gonzalez Garcia is home where he belongs.-CG youtu.be/4_Xpcht3PQM

I had no idea this was something taught for trauma recovery. I found my way to it on my own. It started with the idea of a tower, like Rapunzel (long before Tangled), where no one could get to me without my allowing it. That meant safety. It was very much an active tool to deal with it all.

Every single time I see someone talking about kratom, my brain instantly thinks it's about carob - that chocolate substitute. I'm remembering what it isn't faster, now, but it has been very confusing. I think maybe that's never going to change.

Seals singing in a sea cave #Orkney 🦭🎧

It doesn't stop. Every tiny possible gain just starts the whole cycle over again. Oh, this thing I was doing thinking it helped was actually making things worse? Let's see how much better I am now! Nope, still broken in all the other ways. Why was I so hopeful for a huge reversal?

This whole thing reminds me of how I worked out my critical theory frustrations by putting many theorists together in a room that ends up as that high conflict daytime confrontation talk show (I never watched it and forget the name, but it was basically a by word for such situations).

The maga base has spent more than a decade building trump up in their collective conscious to be something far more that even he can live up to. They have mythologized this man into something he’s just not. So when he steps out of line with that myth they lose their fucking minds.

I couldn't find it on my phone until I specifically chose my email account instead of just general settings.

"Fox News Channel legal analyst Andy McCarthy promptly wrote: 'There is no insurrection or sedition without the use of force. Disobeying a lawful order is insubordination, not insurrection or sedition. Disobeying an unlawful order is required. That is all.'”

🎶 #ResistanceMusic

Quick cartoon. I was hoping to stay unplugged this week but I saw some news and had to take a break to draw this out. I think we all needed to see it realized.

NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man. We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:

Some of the bad actors are staying to be identified and legally held responsible. This is in a thread regarding one of them. It seems to me that ICE and the related agencies are attracting exactly the type of men who are already entitled to thinking this allows them free rein.

It's foolish of us to assume it was an accident. That may be fun for jokes, but it leaves us unprepared for malicious intentions (by our government) when these patterns are pushed further, as they always are. Wisdom says look deeper and broader for what this was a precursor for.

Arrogance and incompetence are a deadly mix.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Exeter have found that getting vaccinated against shingles- a painful and debilitating condition that can flare up years after infection from varicella zoster virus- not only LOWERS the risk of infection, but can also PROTECT against Alzheimer’s disease!

“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”

IF YOU READ NO OTHER PORTION OF THE EPSTEIN FILES TRANSPARENCY ACT, read this one. EVERY SINGLE DOCUMENT THEY WITHHOLD has to be indexed, published in the Federal Register, and submitted to Congress with an explanation. And scroll down to understand why THEY ARE NOT PERMITTED TO WITHHOLD IT ALL.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

I hate it when I get my grocery order in, think I've double checked it's all there accurately, and then, hours later, decide to eat something I'd ordered only to realize the key ingredient never made it in to me before the driver left. Disability tax strikes again. Times I don't know how many.

I'm bagging more whistles up into bags of 250! I have about 1500 right now, and I've got one or two printers just on 24/7 whistle duty now. If you're part of an org bagging whistles, I will send them to you for free! 💕

One of my last convos with one gma was her telling me about an early childhood interaction with gpa. He was out fixing the van window & I was peppering him with questions. Frustrated, "Will you stop?!" My reply is classic me: "But how am I supposed to learn anything if I can't ask questions?" 😇😁