his name is Emmett

I’m giving myself the gift of not doing this. happy Sunday, me.

for a game that *starts* with alien invasion and child death, ME3 has made me laugh out loud so many times

vacations are v good, but the one thing CANADA won’t have is my Xbox, where the mass effect lives. I am preemptively distraught.

I need to hem a few t-shirts, and my god do I not want to. why could we not just Be Taller, body.

I was so busy today I *forgot the additional coffees I could have had* 😔

would u like 32 seconds of my cat doing tiny snores

like 90% sure I took evening meds in the morning and vice versa yesterday. this, combined with little a resident evil 2 before bedtime, explains a lot about what my subconscious did to me last night.

last workday before two weeks of ✨vacation✨ + an unfortunate amount of stuff to do = I’m going to commit caffeine felonies today

what if, instead of all the stress dreams: no

my family is full of heavy smokers. I have to take a shower when I get home after every visit, and I can’t imagine what a childhood of secondhand smoke has done to my lungs. you only get nostalgic for that shit because it *isn’t* everyday life anymore.

HOW! can people see entire conversations about how genAI cannot be trusted to provide accurate info and STILL reply to questions with “ChatGPT says…” cool cool cool, please always lead with that so I know not to even bother reading further

I was supposed to be able to phone it in the week before vacation. I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO PHONE IT IN.

CAPYBABIES

sometimes you gotta pay someone to bring you a number of breakfast foods I don’t make the rules, I just follow them

a kind and loving god would not allow there to be seven (7) business days between me and vacation

finished the pitt, taking an emotional support nap about it

controls on the mako had all the finesse of a rocket-propelled brick, but the hammerhead. the fucking hammerhead. whoever decided to make me pilot this thing across lava? come here, I just want to talk (hashtag mass effect problems)

it's my sister's bday and I have sent her a 5 kilo bag of rice that will be delivered at some point today because I'm not a good brother

Our friend the Izecksohn's Flea Toad is one of the smallest toads in the world, with adults averaging a just over a third of an inch long! They live in southern Brazil! (photos by Diogo Luiz)

returning to mass effect 2 after an extended run in 1400s Bohemia by way of kingdom come deliverances 1 and 2. I have just found garrus and um. UMMMM?? so he’s gonna be a PROBLEM huh

science needs to invent a me that isn’t constantly sweaty if it’s more than 60 degrees out

hello from Sweet Jesus o’clock in the morning because 7:30-10:30 am delivery window. kill me.

today I am going to attempt to move current couch through a slightly too narrow hall and into another room. by myself. I expect this to go Poorly.

waking up with a headache should be illegal

Upper Management, man, what *can’t* it fuck up

Happy International Asexuality Day

on this day, I conquered the dreaded Mail Pile. it took… quite some time.

couch: PURCHASED* she arrives on Thursday, which has also granted me the will/deadline to clean my damn apartment *tape measure thudded me back to reality, so this will not be the sectional of my dreams. but it is a sectional nonetheless! with a CHAISE!

Ari and Rio (the mascots for Ario Kasai Department Store in Tokyo) are childhood friends and are very close. They can't talk, as a result of being dogs.

make the third cup of coffee you want to see in the world

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

getting closer and closer to channeling a bunch of impulsive energy into buying a new couch 👀 (the couch is not the impulse, just the energy to actually buy it) (hashtag aging userbase)

Our friend the Silent Valley Torrent Toad is a small toad also known as the Red Stream Toad and the Kerala Stream Toad! They are a species of toad in the small genus Blaira, Stream Toads unique to the Western Ghats of India! (photo by Hemant Kumar 360pixual)

not ‘shopped. not cropped. not stock. straight from the phone of stormwater inspector Lindsay Schiel snapped yesterday at a basin in Hudson.

I do NOT think everyone should spend time in a terrible job. but I DO think it excises surplus fucks in an ultimately useful way, because wow is it obvious who on this team has been here forever and who’s crawled out of the salt mines

I just gave my cat a bath and I still have all of my blood and skin. she’s the best girl in the whole world 🥲

Kan-chan, a pink penguin who is often mistaken an enema, is the mascot for Ichijiku enemas.

Jinenger, an eccentric, energetic mountain yam, is an unofficial mascot for Shiroi City.

vindication: massage therapist *also* struggled mightily with my shoulder tension

I’m love progestin. fuck you, uterus, it’s my blood and I’m keeping it.

therapy good, therapy help with brain problems

picked up a grocery store rotisserie chicken and my cat’s reaction can only be described as “it comes in pints??”

Jinmen-seki-kun, the mascot of Iki City in Nagasaki, is based on the a "human-faced stone" unearthed from Yayoi period ruins. His special skill is making children cry. He may look tough on the outside, but he's actually rather sensitive.

walkable boba place is the best/worst thing that has ever happened to me

eternal shoutout to Planned Parenthood for being awesome, and your dude is shifting to 6-month hrt follow-ups 🙌

So Minneapolis’s mayor is a fuckwit, and has vetoed a 30 day extension on evictions. If you can, please donate to one of the many orgs here working to support families who need help with their rent because Trump decided to terrorize our state: www.standwithminnesota.com

once again time to have some of my blood stolen and therefore once again time to praise SSRIs for removing the primal terror from this process