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I’m rethinking my stance on Dude Wipes as a product, because if they can get at least part of the Unwashed Ass population to change its ways then maybe they aren’t so bad. Having to tack Dude into a product is still the dumbest curse bestowed by toxic masculinity, though.

A reminder for myself just as much as whoever else needs it: There is no one-size-fits-all way to maximize your time. Everyone is living entirely different lives even if circumstances are similar. Do the best you can with the time you have and don’t let comparison steal what joy you’ve got.

If you’re a larger or well-known business and your whole gimmick is big-brand collaborations with manufactured scarcity so people sprint to buy shit? You suck. You’re the worst. I’m so tired of everything being deluxe super limited buy now or FOMO will consume your soul.

Ghost Energy is doing an A&W Root Beer energy drink, and if the 7-Up one was any indication as to how good this will be I guess I should plan on training my heart to failure soon. (Kidding. I am always very careful with my caffeine intake as I’ve got too much shit to do before the ol’ dirt nap.)

One of the biggest things that keeps me on BlueSky is that it’s a confluence of folks I know in real life, from Twitter, from TikTok, etc. Some of the best connections and friendships I’ve made, condensed down to one platform. Not mad about that at all.

Not me over here exercising on my late lunch, wondering why I’m feeling these reps in my triceps instead of my biceps. While doing a tricep exercise. Those two brain cells really are fighting for third place today.

Maybe we should start putting an authenticity surcharge on our work now. If everybody is using ChatGPT but us, we're making bespoke content. Bitch, I'm designer.

I’m convinced half of the posts hyping up the Netflix gaming options are just undisclosed ads. I don’t want video games I control with my phone, Netflix. I want reasonable monthly costs and the ability to share my account with my mother-in-law for when she babysits my kids (and so she can use it).

A thing I’ve been processing: I miss going back to my shitty, one-person apartment, logging into WoW, and ordering a pizza on a whim. I also have no desire to go back to that as I have an amazing wife, three fantastic kids, and our own adventures. Different moments with their own impacts on me.

It’s been another struggle bus week, but I am fighting like hell to get through it with my head held high so that has to count for something. But also: good lord, people, things are exhausting enough without choosing to make them more so. This is directed at none of you.

Got 3 down for a nap because I was still working at the time. He woke up, realized I moved, then crawled over and curled up in my lap to go back to sleep. There will never be a day I’m not endlessly grateful to be a safe space for this incredible kiddo.

Loud and possibly obnoxious reminder that the best clothing for your body type is whatever clothing you like your body in, and anyone who tries to downplay, dismiss, or shame you for that is probably trying to sell something, needs to work through their own shit, or a conbination of those things.

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I have spent a not-insignificant amount of time this morning absolutely fascinated by this thread, largely kickstarted by “inbred cocaine hippos are just all the fuck over now” because what a combination of words that is. It’s the unhinged yet informative reading material you all deserve.

An unrelated bit of self-indulgent celebrating my victories: The amount of muscle tone I have compared to even a few months ago is wild, and I’m still not done. The goal is to be able to keep up with the kids and not feel like I’m dying by 50, but also to stay good looking for Mrs. Bourbon.

If you peddle for Kalshi or similar services that thrive on turning everything into gambling, I hope you always misjudge how many stairs there are and do that awkward, unpleasant extra step down. May your pillow always be slightly warmer than body temperature.

The billionaire biohacker who was trying to make himself immortal through so many interesting-to-ethically-dubious ways ending up with an incurable autoimmune disease sure is a reminder that sometimes karma is swift and has a wild sense of humor.

Still processing, months later, that the season of #CryptidCreeks I was running has concluded. I’m not saying everything became markedly more chaotic after that, but I’m noticing that the reprieve of running that game isn’t around to help blunt the ceaseless horrors. Give it a try. It’s fantastic.

I see the AI dipshits have discovered the Trolley Problem on TikTok. Wake up, folks; the dumbest grifters you’ve never wanted to meet have latched onto something else for their stupid, awful grifting.

Speedrunning my To-Do list so I can have a nap on my lunch break.

I’ll be happy if today is even only half as bad as it likely could be. Minimal sleep and maximum nonsense expected. No, thank you.

15 had a less-than-ideal Sunday and demanded I “read the room” when I mentioned Brazil lost. The magic of raising a teenager.

This performance wraps up just in time for thunderstorms to roll in, which is so nice since we parked a healthy distance from the door. Aw, beans.

Not 3 shouting “Buh-bye” during one of the solos in the show 15’s in. This menace.

15 has informed me that her team, Brazil, is going to beat my team, Norway. This is super informative as the only passing interest in this game I’ve indicated was how I think Haaland is living life through Toon Logic.

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Not someone with the memory of an old Gateway 2000 talking shit on someone else’s capacity to recall things. My patience, it grows thin.

The temperature in Pittsburgh is 95, but the real feel is Taking a Direct Meteor Strike to the Noggin.

The deep frustration of having something on the way through FedEx only for the driver to actively avoid delivering it. Yes, there’s construction on part of the sidewalk. No, that hasn’t stopped the mail or other packages from arriving. Vexing shit.

Went from “I’m just gonna take it easy tonight, maybe watch some TV” to “Well, I’ve done over two hours of weightlifting so I may as well make it a solid 3.” Not mad about that. Gonna sleep well tonight, probably. Maybe. I really fucking hope so.

Decided to finally get back to the One Piece anime, starting over. Hulu/Disney+ - why the fuck are there ads after less than 30 seconds of actual show? What purpose does this serve? I’m already trying to watch a show with a trillion episodes. This is making that even more impossible.

Conflating all processed foods (which covers so much of what people eat daily) with ultra-processed foods as a means of demonizing things people eat is headass pick-me would-be fitness influencer behavior and it needs to die an abrupt but horrific death.

The Nutella with peanuts feels like an attempt at collecting serious food allergies like Infinity Stones.

Related: instead of turning everything into the Misery Olympics, commiserate with people, remind them to hydrate and stay safe however necessary, and choose kindness. It’s not that difficult.

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Misread. It’s walking or running. That’s much more doable.

My Apple Fitness monthly challenge for July is to run at least 2.99 miles on 14 days. July is starting with an incredible heatwave. I’m going to do this, but I’m going to be mad as hell about it the whole time.

safety first!

Very thoughtful of my body to wake me from a sound sleep so I didn’t miss out on a skullcrushingly wretched headache. Moon looks pretty neat, at least. Silver linings. Anyway, this Excedrin should do its fucking job.

I may not have convinced work to let me go run a 5K as a work event, but I got us to sponsor it so that counts for something I suppose. Gonna register to run it virtually on my own dime as it benefits me and it’s a good show of support. Win-win.

Tempted to enter my Simon Fairchild era. Replied with a clear indication you didn’t read my email? Chewing loudly for no reason? Because I feel like it? Oops, I’ve dropped you into the Marianas Trench. Or flung you off a rollercoaster. Whatever fits my flight of fancy in that moment.

I’ve been an especially grouchy bastard because I get in my own way when it comes to just writing instead of writing with purpose (to draft a story, to world-build, etc). I managed to handwrite a page of just whatever last night. I’m going to try to make that a daily exercise to evict the cobwebs.

My late Pappap had a rule with kids: He wouldn’t hold any baby who couldn’t hold their own head up. He worried he’d drop them or hurt them. One of my favorite pictures is him holding 8 (who was around 3s age at the time, I think). I wish he’d been around long enough to hold 3.

Meatloaf is one of those foods my body has a very arbitrary limit for, and when that arbitrary limit is reached it becomes near-impossible to eat any more. Muscling through this last stupid bite despite myself.

Visiting my grandmother with both boys, a summary: - “Oh, I love to see my boys!” - “You’re just too damn busy!” - “You must not eat at home, you’re always so hungry.” - [Some remark about how she’s making sure I get some money when she dies, an inevitability I am far from ready to process]

One of these days I'd like to have a proper thing ready for free RPG day. In the meantime however, I can at least offer the 60 page preview of BREAK!! that we have available for download!

genre is even more arbitrary than gender but it's caused an awful lot less harm to humanity in the long run. therefore, we should all pivot to having genres instead of genders

This week has been absolutely horrid, start to finish, so I’m trying to hype myself up about going to my local game store for Free RPG day tomorrow and hopefully having a more low-key weekend. Because the stress is perpetual for the foreseeable weeks and I can’t say I love that.

This week of work travel and health malfunctions has me ready for a vacation. Or a lobotomy. Still on the fence on which I’d prefer.