also, i guess i'm starting up a guitar repair business, so that's cool. get bent, i.t. work.

i could easily eat my weight in italian ice. why is this so good?

the enshittification of everything.

having a “my work is giving me no work, all my joints hurt, and i don’t wanna get out of bed but it’s 1pm” kind of day.

insert obscure, depressed, and emo early 00’s aim away message here.

I guess Bluesky is the non-evil Twitter but what is the non-evil Facebook. I just want to see my friends posting one-panel newspaper cartoons and then reply “oh my goodness!”

I do not understand people who think Trump is “authentic”. Authentically what?? An authentic liar? Authentic manipulator? Authentic con man?? These are oxymorons.

As I do every year on 4/20, I will be following the Jeopardy! interview segment tonight by saying “Dream blunt rotation. Now let’s get back into the Jeopardy! round.”

i’m looking for anime suggestions! i’m a d&d nerd that’s recently gotten into anime. i loved dan da dan for its ridiculousness, and delicious in dungeon for its level of humor. attack on titan was too serious. hunter x hunter felt too childish. what should i watch next?

alex trebek in famous paintings: please enjoy this entire thread.

#rva musicians: i'm also looking to get better at guitar and finally learn some fusion/rock/jazz/prog stuff that i've said "i'll get to it one day" for too long. stuff like tim miller, greg howe, alex machacek, etc. anyone teaching?

#rva musicians: i'm looking for a change of career. i'm sick of IT work. i'd love to work in a music store, or maybe apprentice as a guitar tech or luthier. music has been a lifelong passion and i'm tired of it being just a hobby. suggestions?

8, in fact.

having one of those "i wanna do 100 things" nights and i've officially tackled... zero. and then i forgot what i was going to post on instagram. so -1?

i'm over holidays and birthdays and anniversaries and celebrations and junk. maybe i'm depressed, idk, but i just don't see the point. if you need a special day because you can't celebrate something or say something the other 364 days of the year, you're doing something wrong.

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the buddhist monks, nearing the end of their 2,600 mile walk for peace, is met with facebook comments like: “spanberger probably taxed each step” “what peace” “hope they take the witch (governor) with them” “stop dems taking my guns” way to miss the fucking point. we’re doomed as a country.

i got a great home office and music space in our new house. the one thing it didn't come with, much like the old reno'd garage in the last place: insulation. it's great. but, damnit, i'm cold.

fucking watch. i do not care how uncomfortable this makes you. this is what is happening.

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

Fuck ICE.

tfw when you wanna listen to weird music, then you put it on and go "nah, shit's too weird for this world right now"

DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.” (H/T @marcofoster.bsky.social )

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

🔥HUNTER BIDEN: “Shouldn’t that make you f*ckin’ mad?? Forget about whether you think I’M a crook— THEY’re doing it right in front of our face.” Hunter unloads on Don Junior/Kushner/Trump for making BILLIONS off the presidency as Hunter hunters say nothing. @MarshaBlackburn

now that i live in the ‘burbs, i now hate fireworks. weird how that happened.

happy holidays, friends. i survived 2025, and that's it. it's sad to look back on. chronic pain sucks. but i'm calling it now - i'm gonna thrive in 2026. i don't want to be too optimistic, but i'm gonna try my hardest to get my shit together. but, for now, here's a zen frenchie statue.

yes, i'm a web developer. yes, that means i'm a power computer user. the terminal doesn't scare me and i'm spending most of my work time in it. but, damn, some people really need to get some lessons on how to use a computer.

www.reddit.com/r/rva/s/AaIk... these people were kind and hard-working. their business was there for as long as i can remember. all for some dipshits that couldn’t pass the police tests to rip them out of their homes and send them back to a country they haven’t been to in decades. fuck ice.

ai art and music is dogshit.

listening to old punk 7"'s from the 90's. i apparently had both great and terrible taste simultaneously.

this was cool af rva. we need more of this.

west end rva: dude rides my ass, cuts me off, gets a deserved horn, slams on brakes on broad st., cruises to 10mph, and takes a photo of my car hanging out their car window, while swerving all over the road.

planned a dramatic d&d game where an important npc dies, ordered pizza that never arrived, ate some jollof rice instead, ran said game where the players didn't want to take a break because they were invested, drank a thc drink, and now i'm listening to master of puppets. it's been a good day.

if you aren't doing this, you aren't doing thanksgiving right.

i think i ate my weight in pumpkin pie and cool whip today. i blame the cold weather making me want to stock up on carbs and hibernate.

two er visits in one week. man, my body is bullshit.

i'm glad to see a spark of hope remaining in this state. good job, virginia. now keep doing it. voting's the easy part.

three major differences i've noticed since we moved to the 'burbs: porch lights are optional (wtf?) fireworks went from "eh" to "WTF WAS THAT" seeing county police cars on your street causes an entirely different level of anxiety i haven't experienced since i was an angsty teen

i guess i’m officially a suburbanite for the first time in 17 years

finally feeling (mostly) better, and my living sitch is basically figured out and finalized, so i’m gonna go tpk an entire party.

got an offer on our house today. our new house is gonna be great, but… i’m genuinely sad and depressed. i love our house. i love our neighborhood. i love our neighbors. i don’t want to move.

i've never known the panic and raw adrenaline of an anxiety-filled woman trying to pack an entire decade's worth of living in a home into boxes in less than a week. my body is absolutely not happy with me right now.

For life

today's a "prescription painkillers aren't doing much" kind of day, but at least the gummies make me not care. #chronicpain sucks.

every new deftones album has to grow on me (complimentary)