OH in weaving class: "...and reddit was, like, put down the scissors and walk away." instructor: "always good advice"

most important step of dressing a loom: make sure there's a cat available to keep your seat warm

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

THE HUMAN BRAIN: so we’re going to need between seven and nine hours of sleep every night in order to function HUMANS: okay THE HUMAN BRAIN: and I’m gonna do everything in my power to make sure we never, ever get it.

Petition to rename “arthritis” to “early onset rigor mortis”

Beautiful graphic of the day (because that should be a thing: Our Solar System By my data hero Eleanor Lutz

the alt-text on these is *perfection* (god, this was a good game. plot holes the size of battleships, but what a good game!)

More #kakapo matings: Heather and Bluster-Murphy on Whenua Hou yesterday morning, and Kuia and Tamahou on Anchor this morning. Here's Kuia on her nest in 2019. She's of Fiordland descent, so has valuable genetics. #conservation #parrots #birds

Guys, I have terrible news for everyone: someone has finally found an exploit for The Printer Everyone Owns

Keeping yourself and others alive in a world that is trying its hardest to kill you is an act of radical resistance

You know. If ICE is going to make it so that putting your kids in daycare or going to work is dangerous (!!!), one thing states could maybe do is pass a law saying _anyone who can reasonably work from home, can work from home._ There’d be a lot of details. But it would be great for many.

here is 20s of me trying to meet Naomi's demands for petting

End qualified immunity

did I just lose two hours to conditional formatting with regex? yes did finally fixing this shitty spreadsheet improve my mental state? also yes

Deploying emergency kitten videos Sound on

May everyone associated with CVS/Caremark experience the same symptoms as every person for whom they've denied medicine.

/This/ is the Discourse I want to see on social media! For me, electric kettle and rice cooker (though it should be called an oatmeal cooker, considering what grain I use it for most often). Honorable mention to the toaster oven.

Yup, that’s exactly how that was supposed to work, full marks.

Here, I made a thing. It is free. An extension with the same DMs you get in the app, but dangling from your toolbar like a *champion* Supports Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Edge. ALSO. I put in Zen mode, for me. It hides all engagement metrics; no likes, no follows, no reposts, no nada. Do recommend.

fortunately, Ginny is not one of the 300 banned ingredients

Goat steaks goat curry goat chili goat tacos goat flambe goat tajine goat stir fry teriyaki goat skewers goat ribs goat stew goat kebabs goat wellington chicken fried goat goat burgers goat katsu goat fricassee goat muniere goat meatloaf goat shanks goat tartare goat vindaloo goat goulash goat dumpl

PLEASE stop judging me on what I’m capable of with shit tons of caffeine and a high tolerance for suffering, I cannot perform at this level 24 hours a day

Here it is! All of my sleep/insomnia visualized for 2025. One Z for each night. The thread colors represent the amount of sleep while the beads signify types of wakefulness. All tracked and coded manually in my sleep journal and stitched over the course of the year. #DHmakes

the cobbler's children have no shoes, and the tailor's cat has no pants

Oh to be a cat curled up on a heating pad with a space heater on one side and a hooman on the other

Ice on Lake Ontario on New Year’s Day

my crotch is snoring.

* experience an entire public school career without an active-shooter drill, much less an actual active shooter event

please spare a warm thought for @persian-slipper.bsky.social and @rahaeli.bsky.social, who are huddled under blankets and next to space heaters while I walk around in a t-shirt and thin joggers (I turned up the heat! I'm not being intentionally cruel!!)

Exactly! What if you used a rideshare app? What if your mechanic gives you a loaner? What if your coworker drives you to grab lunch? Vehicle door handles weren't broken to begin with.

YOU'RE GOING TO BE TOTALLY BROKEN WHEN YOU GET THROWN 15 FEET THROUGH THE AIR BY A THOUSAND POUND ANIMAL YOU THINK YOU CAN SETTLE TO RIDE WITH A HANDFUL OF COOKIES AND THE POWER OF LOVE MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE MAGICAL TALKING HORSE OF VALDEMAR ASS HUSBAND

Theorists: this shouldn’t happen! Biology: bet.

the worst part about forensic DNA testing is that it relies on biology, and biology is a messy, messy thing as an aside: it's more common in casework to see chimerism due to a stem-cell transplant. we had an example of that in our lab not very long ago. this type is called tetragametic chimerism

No cheating: quote skeet with the most recent picture of your pet

I guess AI isn't going to replace knitting anytime soon

Also @neolithicsheep.bsky.social and I just spent an hour looking for my beloved cat Private First Class Andrew Zapata (Andy to his friends), including outside and in all the outbuildings, only for Shep to find him asleep inside a kitchen cabinet that was blocked shut by several gallon jars. (1/2)

My credit card is going to cry if y'all don't snatch up the shiny beauties in Elise's shop within the next couple hours...

On one hand, lol. On the other, let a boy dream.

Mwa ha ha go check out the earrings section everything in it is half price now www.etsy.com/shop/Lioness...

Man and Dog, Lower East Side — Jamel Shabazz, 1980

Sergei, napping, pretending he didn’t just cost me $300 and make the inside of my truck smell like Godzilla farts.

If you can give my friend Lenée a hand with her recovery from surgery I'd be grateful.

Ohhhh, Elise is getting That Way!! Watch out for discounted shinies!

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I made a fox! I hate chenille! My bed is full of fuzz! But it's what my nibling asked for and it's adorable! The pattern, by KnotsandSnugglesCo on Etsy, is well-written with tons of detail photos; highly recommend.

reach out and touch fruit

One that you put on a shelf You keep for yourself

Pick up the cleaver, I’ll make you a believer

someone without small seeds someone you need

2026: lie down before you fall down