Still a banger youtu.be/4BIvf-ZlJNc?...

In case *anyone* has any doubts as to where Sam Vimes’s politics would land.

As a paludarium keeper, I can only assume that isopods and springtails are a part of the maintenance.

Merry Marthanalia to the one and only @mostlymartha.bsky.social . May your baths be luxurious and warm for the year ahead.

I understand that the dog does not know it’s Saturday in asking for her walk. I do not understand why, however, that she woke me up earlier than the rest of the week. 5:30am should not exist on a Saturday for me when I don’t have a flight.

I have a rough draft horror script that opens with an empty abandoned street, cars broken and burnt strewn around, windows broken and doors torn off on businesses. Faintly, but louder and louder as the camera moves down the street, we hear the echoing sounds of Keisha’s “Die Young.”

Watching the ACL stream, @eschatfische.bsky.social “These guys look like Pitchfork gave them 7.8.”

There are overdressed 20-somethings walking around my neighborhood taking pictures, holding 6 packs and just generally looking lost. Me: What in the- oh, it’s ACL weekend already.

We’ve got Taskmaster at home. (I love that we get UT Austin TV over the air, that students are doing weird stuff that entertains them and that this exists. I think this is my third favorite Taskmaster version, after original UK and Taskmaster Junior.) www.youtube.com/@MasterofNon...

Heart to like autism. Repost to fight for autistic people.

“Car hole”

So, I haven’t paid attention to the news today. Is skateboarding a crime again, or not yet?

I will fall for every stupid spooky season thing this month. I love it. I am not a pumpkin spice person, but give me strawberry fake blood sauce, eyeball gumballs, everything shaped like bats. Former employee to a new team member: [guck] is into Halloween the way regular people are into Christmas.

September 30 // October 1

Rabbit. Rabbit.

Ever think about how things targeted at gen X consistently failed? (But don’t you dare knock Zima. My alcoholic Fresca would kick your White Claw’s ass. And you could still get it in Philly up until the aughts and I bought one in Tokyo in the late 20teens.)

A friend of ours, someone we've known for ten years, was recently abducted by ICE, is being detained, and will likely be deported. She is a mother of three, her kids were left behind while she's been detained. A go-fund-me has been started to help with expenses for her kids. Please help if you can.

My DM (@dmcatdadam.bsky.social): OK. You cast Find Stead. What's it look like? Me: So, you've seen Bully for Bugs, right? (True story. And, crap, I forgot to summon him during our last long rest.)

Holy hell, Fennec is the best there is. Unless you know another DJ mixing in Amanda Gorman into his funky set on a goddamn public bus. youtu.be/x-DELmGUbPw?...

Having Canadian coworkers means I found out that today is a provincial holiday in BC: Truth and Reconciliation Day for the crimes against indigenous children in residential schools. Canada has its own messes, but that’s at the barest minimum, something.

The woman sitting next to me at my favorite drag show this past weekend was there for the first time. She’d driven for 40 minutes into Austin from (waving hands at bad Texas). She was shocked that there wasn’t a single “traditional” (aka Drag Race-style) queen and was absolutely delighted.

I regret to inform you that I, a person with ADHD, have completed a task in 10 minutes that I have been beating myself up for not doing every day for about a week. Gah.

“I don’t understand how being rich can make someone such a whore” is the defining quandary of our time.

I do not want to enable location services. I do not want to create an account. I do not want to sign up for special offers and news about your product. I would like to engage in a simple transaction where I give you money in exchange for a good.

My mom plays in a band that goes to nursing homes. “More and more, one of my friends has moved in there. They’re all that age.” It’s folk, blues and standards from a quartet who gets a senior discount on weed gummies. Only took my mom 45 years to get back the confidence to perform live again.

It took SIX YEARS but Disney workers finally won this backpay fight.

The world’s calmest, happiest man is hosting Reading Rainbow because what we needed from the show was also the chill vibes of Bob Ross.

I’m am so incredibly lucky that my dad gave me a stack of black-and-white EC horror comics paperback-size collections and some colored pencils to keep me busy. Having those, Zap! and subscriptions to Fangoria and Mad made me a weird little kid, but in a way I am absolutely proud to be.

Adore or block, kiddies. The funny, clever and kind @eyelie.bsky.social @dagnificent.bsky.social @jenleepa.bsky.social @kelliebob.bsky.social @coldchef.bsky.social have the advantage of having hugged me recently-ish. @eschatfische.bsky.social has the advantage of having married me, too.

I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint. I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.

I know Leonardo Dicaprio is semi-fixated on River Phoenix, but I never thought he’d be in Paul Thomas Anderson’s reboot of Running on Empty.

Today’s “do I really want to know” news - a bed that makes all your problems go away?

In 7th grade, I first heard of“consent of the governed.” My brain broke. Peasants didn’t choose monarchy! The USSR didn’t choose oligarchic communism! (I’m Gorbachev era kid.) “Revolt or the choice not to is consent,” was my teacher’s phrase. Then I saw “Manufacturing Consent” in high school.

Sept. 27, 1925: Throngs of anti-Fascists clash with the Mussolini regime's supporters on the New York docks amid the arrival of 11 Italian lawmakers to attend the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Two Fascists are shot and slightly wounded by a gunman who escapes.

Share your favorite black and white movie. I can’t pick just one! But I have, of course, been on my Gold Diggers of 1933 BS as of late.

Spending 15 minutes trying to find a Deerhoof song only to remember it was Bearsuit. Sorry, Bearsuit. The aughts were a blur of BlackBerry-style band names. Absolutely a banger still. youtu.be/FKlyZYofzR8?...

The best bad show I ever saw was when a Jesus Lizard cover band opened for Girl Talk. (The audience was done two notes in and wanted them to know it.)

You know those dreams where you wake up still mad at the person you fought with in your dream because it was so big and intense? I got into it with my sister in just the ugliest way in my dreams last night that it took me 10 minutes into my morning routine before I realized I’m an only child.

Good things are still possible and people are still doing them.

Even if you’re not a cartoon nerd like me, Krazy: George Harriman, a Life in Black and White by @tisserand.bsky.social is a fantastic read.

You want to live in a world where Bill Maher and Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert and Matt Parker and Trey Stone are inside the line that must be protected at all costs... but Black journalists and academics and professionals are outside of the castle walls, and are acceptable losses in a siege.

Oh, *that’s* the rapture y’all are talking about.

Well, the salmon rapture is here.

But seriously, I am sick of reboots. The ‘80s are over.

The only big autism announcement I was to hear is “autistic people are great, everyone needs the friend who reads all the instructions”.

Unfortunately, the fine print in the negotiations said that Jimmy Kimmel must also return to The Man Show whether he wanted to or not.

I still stand by my statement that the rapture happened on February 8, 2007 and the only one taken up was Anna Nicole Smith. (I don’t really want to know why you’re all talking about rapture.)

Upsides to getting a library card: - Free access to books, ebooks, audio books, magazines-often directly in an app - Helps keep the library funded so other people can get those things - It really pisses off terrible people Downside: - Having to go somewhere once (It is easier than voting even)