Well, I feel a lot better after another cup of coffee. Totally not self-medicating undiagnosed ADHD.

I am definitely having one of those days where I am spending most of my effort trying to figure out what’s wrong with me, from the immediate to the metaphysical

The 70s were wild.

Somebody on the other side of the neighborhood had a 10’ Jack Skellington and it looks like the plan is just to keep it there until Christmas, which, I guess, tracks?

*taps mic* is this thing on?

Secondarily, I feel like we have cardboard airports because if we had real airplanes, someone I don’t like might be able to fly

The people have worked out that you can’t trust the administration, the courts have worked out that you can’t trust the administration, the Senate… doesn’t get it.

Why fall in love with ChatGPT when you could fall in love with Surly Nugget?

Oh.

Well this is a whole goddamn mood.

Hey is this a good time to ask how the Primary in Maine is going?

I forgot to mention it, but Christmas Skeleton was back promptly the weekend after Halloween. Hat, Santa suit, candy cane, the whole bit.

That’s a good quote

Are we all still mad at iOS 26?

100% something I would have done at 15. Maybe I should be kinder to that kid in my head.

MEEP BIRD IS LIFE

Share a TV series from the 1960s that you love

I really think that Luke Danes would have been happier if someone suggested that he might be autistic

This time I remembered my Kobo but forgot my reading glasses

Against all odds, my Kobo never checked in with Overdrive and revoked my copy of The Cautious Traveler’s Guide to the Wasteland, so I was able to finish it last night. I think I’m still percolating on what I thought of it, though. The obvious pun acknowledged, the ending really goes off the rails

Math is wild, y’all

Coming soon

I mean that’s a significant number of the people who I follow on this app.

Thinking about my days in marketing.

Costco Curse Week 1: The chicken strips are marked down. Great, I’ll buy a bag and see if they like them Week 2: Awesome, they loved them. Bummer, they’re not marked down anymore. Week 3: My children’s new favorite food has been replaced by an entirely dissimilar product

Oh, have I got something that reflects what you’re talking about. God bless you, South Korean Bootleg Knockoff Media.

RETVRN

This defense attorney is a hero—on a roll in a real grinder of a case. The prosecutor’s argument is shockingly sub parm. I’d never be so patient. They’d have to banh mi from the courtroom.

In conversation with one of the kids, I have decided that I have to buy two versions of Munchkin and keep them both in this wicked pissa tin.

I managed to totally miss this somehow - the Mac app for Ruffle, the Flash emulator, bundles a Safari extension. If you pop it in /Applications, suddenly Safari can natively play back any webpage with Flash in it. I'm going to the Radiskull website and watching cartoons like it's 2000. ruffle.rs

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Wednesday Adams voice: Are the made from real munchkins?

I begrudgingly applaud the marketing professional who approved the Wicked tie in at Dunkin.

TFW you realize that you’ve had a Taylor Swift song stuck in your head all night. And also, the other 65% of the song that isn’t “Welcome to New York” being relentlessly repeated like the inevitability of your echolalia isn’t really that good

Per a source in the room: Zohran's election night party is playing Not Like Us.

Goddammit, I found out on TikTok. Anyway, congratulations NYC the real life version of The City We Became can stop running in my head now

I only got to vote on a bond approval today, did anyone get to vote on something exciting?

Let me tell you, Coupon Dad loves the Costco hotdogs, but the part of me that’s somewhere between Guy Fieri and Nero Wolfe is starting to die a little bit from overexposure to them. Also from all the nitrates, probably

Tonight we learned that the coffee panna cotta from Trader Joe’s is a). not great and b). not any better for sleep than actually having another cup of coffee with a dessert that I actually enjoy

What I want is a “what was happening on the other side of the world” feed that posts things (from people you follow, maybe?) when their local time matches your current local time. I don’t know if feeds can do that much math or access that data, though.

The amount of random crap built up on my phone which is running out of space while Apple keeps trying to “offload” important Apps that I only use infrequently is an unsettling new metaphor for aging.

Shot, chaser. Or vice versa.

I’m going to tell my children this was Reservoir Dogs

We say they're being cute, when really they're just mocking us

I am in coupon dad rage mode. Okay, so I missed out on the $5/lb one day sale, but my darling had been asking for a specific roast recipe for weeks. She often has trouble getting enough protein, so I figured I would treat her. Bonus, there was a digital loyalty offer for 30% off 1 item of beef

I should probably log off, the density of baseball skeets has vastly increased my chances of being insufferable in someone’s mentions just because I don’t know any better

I think my Wordle scores could be improved if I could lay off my compulsion to FAFO about what counts as a legal guess.

I strongly recommend everyone do research sometimes 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯. Look something up on Wikipedia. Go to the little citation. Follow it. Read the article it's referencing. Follow links to the original interview. Read the paper written by the interviewee It genuinely makes you appreciate journalism

Look, please don’t tell me. I am enjoying trying to figure out what’s going on in baseball just by the emotional outbursts on my skyline.

Still 84°F