9:30am and I'm already home from the dentist (had to get a filling). Now to take some Advil before the numbing wears off, and then start my workday. Bleh.

If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there. “I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”

Ok, the ending of the movie had me laughing SO HARD. Not sure how I was expecting it to end, but it certainly wasn't LIKE THAT. Anyway yeah, this is a movie that knows exactly what it is, and what it is is CAMPY. Bloody and gory, yes, but also absolute camp.

This week's Friday Night Movie is Ready Or Not (2019). With the sequel coming soon, I thought I'd try it. It's a fun little inversion of the slasher trope. Also has a good mix of gore/terror and humor. One death early on I yelped in hysterical laughter when it happened.

If you trust my expertise as a licensed psychologist with a PhD in psych and a doctoral minor in human sexuality via the Kinsey Institute hear me: the government’s attacks on trans people is one of the cruelest, deadliest things I’ve seen

It snowed till ~2pm today. Accumulated ~1.5-2". Although I was WFH, I just could not muster a single scrap of motivation to work. Not great, as I have a substantial assignment due first thing Monday morning. Looks like I'll be working all day Sunday. But first, I'm gonna stuff my face with pasta.

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

In a 6-3 decision, Supreme Court rules Constitution unconstitutional

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"The local fire department posts a 2 million dollar loss!" "The NYC Police posts a 6 BILLION dollar loss!" "The local elementary school posts a 3 million dollar loss!" Postal SERVICE. SERVICE. In fact, a CONSTITUTIONALLY MANDATED service! The extended GOP war on services is unconscionable.

How come we don’t hear about the profit-loss performance of the FBI? What is the CIA’s quarterly revenue target? Does the Treasury get defunded if it doesn’t make a profit? Once you start to #QuestionThePremise, the idea of the government as a business sounds utterly ridiculous.

First winter precipitation of the season, and it's happening during morning rush hour? Yeah, that's a work-from-home day for sure.

“the USPS must turn a profit” makes me want to set things on fire they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”

On the other hand, for better or worse, this means I have a HELLA GOOD poker face when it comes to opening a shit gift. 🫤

One reason I grew to dread Xmas is that my mother did NOT see it this way. If you didn't show adequate thanks (both upon receipt and at an unknowable future date) she'd get upset and hurt, & make sure you knew she was upset and hurt. She firmly believed gift-givers inherently deserved praise. 🙄

Another comic from this past year. Sometimes I'm in awe about how incredibly small birds can be.

Today's Happy Thing Amidst The Horrors: this DELIGHTFUL Sesame Street parody of Knives Out. Seriously, it's worth your time. Plus, it has GROVER! (I would have watched it much sooner than I did if someone had told me Grover was in it) youtu.be/gJxzhUAGBDw?...

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

“Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor of the House of Representatives, and we know that's the case," Jeffries said at a press conference Monday. Okay but why not…….. try anyway?

if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you

U=U, and if you’re HIV status shaming in the year 2025, I’m going to hire one of those Etsy witches to curse you.

I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl. Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.

Friendsgiving Dinner at the rental cabin, cooked and served as best as possible given the random selection of kitchen accoutrements available. It was DELICIOUS.

Jesus Christ. JESUS Christ. Jesus CHRIST. Yes, this person is correct, remigration is a white supremacy term for ethnic cleansing, basically. And the Department of Homeland Security, WHICH SHOULDN'T EVEN EXIST, just used the term. An official government account. That is...that is beyond fucked.

Friendsgiving Cabin Weekend starts with a Cosmo in a wine glass, because the cabin rental doesn't have martini glasses.

As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen — Tori Amos (x17) Madonna (x6) Nickel Creek (x6) U2 (x4) Lady Gaga (x3)

#DnD advice: Keep the political talk quiet to get through Thanksgiving without incident. Sure, the lich siphoning the world's mana to ascend to godhood is not a good situation, but Uncle Marty voted for him, and you're not going to save the world over Thanksgiving dinner.

4-day weekend commencing now!! Woo!

You will return to your hometown tonight and you will tempted to go out to the bars. If you do so, you will see other people from high school. So like. Don’t do that. The fuck. Why would even consider — I mean — The hell. Idiot. Don’t. Clip this out and save for your records.

Last Christmas I gave you my heart Not really my heart Just somebody's heart This year If the cops should appear Please tell them that you don't know me

Related: if you're over 80 years old, the date of your birth is closer to the American Civil War than it is to today.

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. 🧪

Oh. My. Gawd. Honestly, this is SO eye-meltingly awful that it's making me want to buy it just for the laugh. So...mission accomplished I guess?

This week's Friday Night Movie (on Saturday because reasons) was Thunderbolts*. That was really fun! Best movie the MCU has put out in...quite a while.

Dishes from the sink/counter put in the dishwasher. Water bottle scrubbed and rinsed. Living room vacuumed.

Another update: Bed sheets stripped and in the washer. Clean sheets pulled from the closet and put on the bed. Finally Erased and wiped clean the battle mats from our last D&D session (which was more than a month ago 😬) (Yeah, these updates are lame, but they're keeping me accountable)

Update: first load of laundry in the washer. Dining room table cleaned of clutter (and leaf removed so there's less space for future clutter to accumulate). I think the "leave the house" items on the to-do list aren't getting done today, but I'll try to keep chipping away at the in-house ones.

Woo. Executive Function has been executive functioning this morning! Just after 10am and I've already taken Loki out to fill his tank and run him through the car wash. Fingers crossed it continues functioning the rest of the day - I've got a lot to do this weekend.

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

It takes 225 million years or so for the Solar System to make one orbit around the galaxy. Sharks evolved long enough ago that they’ve done it twice.

This goes for all Democrats.

@edmarkey.bsky.social if you really want to support trans people, start by withdrawing support for dangerous censorship Bills like the Kids Online Safety Act. KOSA is a Trojan Horse- promising ‘safety' when it will actually harm LGTBQ kids by blocking life-saving resources online.

You only what today is? Today is Throw Away The Aspirational Veggies That Have Been Sitting In The Fridge For Two Weeks Day!!

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you saw: Kylie Madonna Tori Nickel Creek Tori

Choir, let me share a thought with you. If justice for child rapists disrupts society, then society needed to be disrupted. Oh, he's a job creator? Oh, the economy will suffer? Oh, the uncertainty? Oh, our whole political system? If it's built on raping children, burn it all the fuck down. Amen.

The most attractive and interesting thing you can do (for all measures of either) is cultivate a sense of curiosity.