I don't think people have really grappled with what the mass decline of violent crime in the US has meant for the economic ecosystem of superheroes, which is rapidly approaching a demographic cliff, as street-level crimefighting becomes a thing of the past, and avenues for promotion dry up.

npo waiting for lumbar puncture. debating eating chapstick just to get some moisture

lol the hospital just sent me a text offering to set me up on a $1667/mo payment plan. all I have to do is reply "2"

my cat just walked into the bedroom, saw it was me and not my spouse, and immediately walked out

hospital called to ask me to be TWO hours early for my lumbar puncture, presumably so I can hang out with them and play pinochle or something until the radiologist lands his small airplane

No, I didn't watch the address. I see plenty of patients with dementia at work and I am off the clock, thanks.

This is a very very very obvious point to make but shops and movie rental places and record stores are all more fun than buying things online

as a dumb project I've been working on a submarine for Barotrauma but I accidentally made it too big to play the game (18 stories, 5 engines)

upside of being off work for so long: many of the nearby chickadees now recognize i am not a threat in the slightest

at its peak the show did more in 15 seconds than some do in their entire run

my pettiest complaint is that my cognition hasn't really recovered since January so I am unable to effectively plan an insanely cool D&D campaign while I'm off work

Not married anymore, using a feminized Grok as a therapist, AND claims to have had quasi-religious experience in the cybertruck? Quite the trifecta here.

between that Twitter guy and Futurama I feel like Richard Nixon still walks among us, dining on milk and cottage cheese in the Florida Keys

some figures just seem they are timeless, like without time. maybe Richard Nixon watched Seinfeld. maybe Richard Nixon is watching Clavicular on TikTok. maybe Richard Nixon is drinking under the moonlight with Du Fu and Li Bai in the Tang Dynasty. all seems plausible, to me

Urgent dispatch from the desert: it is bunny bullfighting season

You think "the online left" is unhinged, dog please talk to an independent voter IRL. They want universal healthcare and abolish taxes. They want to dissolve the coast guard. They want to rename the army the coast guard. They want their alien implants removed, and they also want more alien implants

the realistic alternative to The Pitt is an ED where staff bitch nonstop about each patient (a broken arm? maybe cool it with jerking off, man) and I suspect it would be worse for empathy

It is incredibly annoying to me, a believer in materialism and world systems theory, that so much of the last 40 odd years is due to just one guy

Congratulations everyone

my 18-year-old cat refuses to stay out on the balcony without an adult supervisor so here I am

they need to import this to the Stanley Cup playoffs, watching hockey players be handed stuffed animals while they seethe is the new funniest thing in the world

unclear when Olympic athletes began receiving stuffies as a secondary prize but I entirely approve

just noticed A Trade of Blood by @robertjbennett.bsky.social was available for pre-order and I could not click that button fast enough

the ice skating exhibition is incredible. love seeing the rapport between the pairs dancers too

Babe, wake up, time to read about Korean rice history:

this tiger toy is a big dill

I’ve got Canada Jay on a branch at Crater Lake, but none perched on that very photogenic branch. #BirdOfTheDay #BranchBirds

Theo van Doesburg, Composition VIII (The Cow), c. 1918 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135086

alright I was feeling pretty good but apparently the limit of my physical stamina is apparently 2/3 of a grocery run (just tagging along)

The Indians and East Asians are fighting over whether to use a rice cooker and in the interest of peace in Asia, I am sacrificing myself and declaring both rice and tea should be heated in the microwave. Ideally styrofoam and/or microplastics should in some way be involved.

felt a little woozy after physical therapy yesterday. drank an entire gallon of Gatorade today and suddenly I feel alive again

I love it when skaters get to do whatever the hell they want.

The East Asians are once again correct, spend a couple hundred bucks and save yourself many hundreds of hours of labor and bad bowls of rice

I haven't really had the urge to watch the Olympics since Alysa Liu's skating performance. just anticlimactic now

as a nurse I feel blessed that I can just immediately skip these articles

seeing the first Matrix in the theaters without knowing anything about it other than that it was some sort of dystopian sci fi action movie really was one of the best pop culture moments of the era

I can confirm i was the nurse monitoring his arterial line blood pressure. I know you're all disappointed in me but I've got bills to pay

the computer should have never left this room. we have to go back

I've said it before, but I really want to know what kind of drug regimens they keep Presidents/other high-level pols on

Month 2 of being off work: googling "Factorio but harder"

when I moved from Texas to Oregon I immediately got sick multiple times as I adjusted to whatever disgusting stuff hospitalized Oregonians were carrying in their mouths and noses

If they really want to see some powerful antibodies they should study daycare teachers

I had no idea who Alysa Liu was 24 hours ago but I would now defend her with my life

LOVE THIS 💗

Reporter: Do aliens exist? Obama: *chuckles* Technically no, a time ghoul is from Earth. Just not today’s Earth

btw the article at the top is always a funny reminder that xi jinping lived in iowa for a while and still has a bunch of random old white people as personal friends there en.people.cn/n3/2026/0218...

the other lesson I learned is that I can take an infinite amount of gabapentin horse pills and muscle relaxants as long as I pair it with enough caffeine

one fascinating detail to me was that my brain was so determined to protect me from the embarrassment of arriving at my own ED being unable to talk, walk, or pee, that it completely blocked the memory out. 12+ hours just in a black hole

my ability to walk is slowly improving 👍 unless you want me to go up/down an uneven surface 😐

Taught a class on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion today, and every one of my students said they've seen content on TikTok that comes directly from it, without knowing before today what the source was.