Another swimming pool survivor, luckily was facing the right way when I tripped and managed to touch bottom just before things went from serious to SERIOUS. (Lifeguards, do not the hell call Adult Swim and then blame a traumatized kid if they didn't make it all the way out before you turned away.)

As someone who grew up just far enough outside ATL we made jokes about the city at school and then found out there were people afraid to come into my parents' hometown of under 75k total in and out of city limits SOLELY because it's legally a city and cities are dangerous, NYC *matters* to the rest.

Here's hoping?

I finally got into High Rank and Master Rank in Monster Hunter Rise, playing offline. I don't play many real-time games because *I don't have the reaction time*. So I rely on pattern prediction even more than the game anticipates. Also motion sickness means I'm a *mostly grounded* glaive player.

I want to yell at my childhood church right now, and not for the usual reasons. So. You make an Only CCM music policy for church retreats that basically bans all instrumental. You know some households in the church allow clean secular music alongside CCM and you do not preach against this.

I really don't think some places understand how durable and lasting some of the various current boycotts are going to be. Due to state and federal laws, I have to be in a building with a Target next week. I dreamed yesterday about being in there and shamed myself about being there the whole time.

Okay, I understand generally why matches with Oscar in Duolingo's chess course can't count as "perfect matches" for quests. But I just pulled off classic 4 Move Mate on Oscar at the end of Section 3 Unit 1, and I still don't get credit toward a Perfect Lessons friend quest? Nothing?

Also by local cultures. I went in one day from believing I had been sexually assaulted ONCE to knowing the 'physical sexual harassment' school admin stopped stopping on 12 Sept 2001 fell under the lowest degree in our state laws. Modern social media? I'd have known by that Christmas, not near 30.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. (No gifs of Married To The Mob, Cookie's Fortune gets me fortune cookies, to the childhood with Bluth we go.)

@profanity.accountant So exactly how much has actually managed to slip past the residual filters from growing up Southern Baptist, anyway?

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Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Great Blue Heron Timber Rattler, black phase Pronghorn White-Tailed Deer (in 3 states) Bald Eagle

Discourse commence. 📕

One thing not mentioned re urban turkeys (but otherwise I love this) is that what turkeys really like is nice roosting trees near open grass. Seen them there in Appalachia, seen them there in Metro Boston bc oh hey these little historical parks and cemeteries are open grass with nice roosting trees!

Got to remember to save this for the next “show me your theology in one image” prompt

My mind keeps going back to Dad's stories about growing up in Appalachia in the 1950s and 1960s on food stamps and commodities. And they did (and ate) some wild things to survive but never has he spoken about anything that rivals access to food just *stopping* the way it did this week for so many.

Reminds me of having my family try to do interventions on me spending a buck on candy twice a month while I was unpaid help for Grandma and budgeting tightly enough to pay for their Christmas with last Christmas. If $5 or less a week breaks a budget, something MUCH bigger is wrong with the budget.

Jamaica is the one place I ever learned about from a teacher who was born there and still madly in love with it. I have to hope she's not in the US right now bc Trump, hope she's in the US because of Melissa, and either way it's going to break her heart.

You know you're psychologically ready for this admin to be over when you accidentally correct the classic mistake of processing election year as Scheduled Leaving Date from Jan 2028 to Jan 2026 instead of Jan 2029. Why are you like this, brain?

They also had the obverse sides and features people knew to expect of those denominations. When the Sacajawea dollars dropped, a bunch of parents at my school gave them to their teens. The cafeteria didn't recognize them as money. Lines to the tune of No Time To Eat. Imagine the fights now.

(solemnly) You've had mail.

In the first half-day with Hades II: 17 runs. 3 defeats of the 2nd biome boss. 1 attempt at the 3rd biome boss, and I lost when the health bar was under 1/5. The big unlock just happened. Running on God Mode for narrative reasons, the same as I did with Zagreus. Runs great on 2nd gen Switch 1.

I still want swords to be turned to plowshares, even when the guy who loved swords gets killed by one

Slightly diminish a book from the Bible: Thoughts And Prayers

Roadside rooster.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

So I found out this week what the *current* AWANA curriculum for the age groups I was in looks like now. They would not have made these changes if they did not know the criticisms of the 1990s version were right.

Beyond the political things people always mention, including the 2nd Amendment worship problem, I have a theory about how evangelical teachings about how prayer gets answered can lead to freezing. As I was taught in the SBC, their model is that there are only 3 answers to prayer: Yes, No, Wait.

I think this may be the first time I've heard of anyone trying to grease palms while including actual grease.

Sure, it's not dangerous at all to get authors used to letting the AI drive decisions. 'You used AI to write the first book. You carefully didn't read the fanfics but the AI crawled them. The AI led you down the most overused plot and now your sequel reviews are about 5 teens who wrote it better.'

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness.

Star Wars AotC. Unless you know what's going to happen, it's very easy to think by halfway in that AotC is going to be majority light-hearted romance and the next one is going to have the complete Vader turn. Could have heard a pin drop when Anakin looked up... If not for the guy behind me.

I have been reading Howl's Moving Castle in the mornings chapter by chapter as a distraction from *gestures widely* everything, and this morning I finally ran out of book. I can't decide if I like the movie or the book more because they ended up so different. This is a common problem for me.

This time of year through to Labor Day is the time to look for the better grade of classroom pencil at office stores and school sale displays. I've seen Staples have the black-coated Noricas by themselves $6 for 36 (half off the claimed usual price) multiple years and on the website RIGHT NOW.

It is *profoundly* screwed up that we have one fear-mongering bucket that includes everything from content made for adults to 'child was curious about something they read as part of education, library had it on Libby but not the shelves'. And then throw in assignments that must be turned in online?

We both got hit by the Pixel 4a battery update on previous devices we were using as mini-tablets. We both got hit by the Pixel 6a battery update on what had already replaced them. Different Android manufacturer that got bad PC Mag reviews for lack of AI support on the model we want, here we come.

I'm really wondering how many of the replies in support of the doc who falsified vaccine documents in Utah (not gov required) would be singing that song if the 'false document that gets a private organization to let you in' was Temple recommends for already-endowed behaviorally-lapsed LDS members.

I need to be banned from calculators for at least a few hours after listening to Maintenance Phase or something because I just ran the calories of the one time I was explicitly praised for my eating habits in a school nutrition unit and WHAT THE HECK WERE THEY THINKING, THAT IS <HALF USDA LUNCH MIN.

It is already 90°F outside and it is not even 9:30am. And we still have nearly a 15° difference with the outside because the AC is working AND we turned this place into a closed-window blackout-curtained migraine cave the hour it crossed 70° to stay 3 days ago to maximize what the AC could do.

Suddenly stuck on my mind: The doctor who told me you were only getting sick from heat in a Worthy Of Medical Attention way if you started having a fever? He's still working at that practice and will probably be the after-hours on-call physician during this heat emergency for at least one shift.

Just got hit by the fact that not only have I known an above-average number of people w/ connections to Kent State for where I grew up and I've lived, but most or all of the ones who were there or nearby are dead. The one who was student-age died from waiting on Medicare and the rest just got old.

Given I signed up last night and this is a particularly high-traffic evening so people may actually see it, do I know anyone on Finch?

Oh so that's what happens when the thoughts of soloing elder dragons scares you into focusing on Master Rank. I just went from MHR HR30 to HR85 in two quests because I've been grinding so much on the Sunbreak plot. (And got the tail off my first Teostra before the one and only cart.)

The PA that I liked at the doctor's office is gone. Just dealt with the new MD and how did I get this lucky. Hormone panel on my request to see what's going on re perimenopause. Recognition that yes the years of You Don't Have Asthma do validly affect my Albuterol decisions. Ace-accepting.

ADD a letter and ruin a movie E. T. S. (Between the adorable 80s first contact movie protagonist all-grown-up and joining the second contact team stands... THE GRE.)

When he opened the sixth seal I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, and the full moon became like blood, and, lo, the sackcloth was 70% off, for a limited time only, everything must go