I was a bit worried that my tendency to go to bed before 9 would fit in badly with my hosts. They are staggering to bed as soon as they get the dogs settled.

"I dedicate this Nobel Peace prize to President Trump in the service of proximate military intervention in my country" is not the convincing smackdown of 47 that the Nobel committee might have thought it would be.

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When all this is done and the forensic accountants go into the White House staff's trading accounts, they are going to find Some Things

This makes me sad. I loved her in so many movies.

Buy Skyla's books. Her cat is unnecessarily expensive.

Do not forget about this very active case

We decided the word for arranging Halloween skeletons into various scenes in the front yard is “Necroscaping”

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

Hand #weaving here in the PNW

we have new tea and teaware up, including our 2025 Dancong oolong lineup. we hope you enjoy our choices for best of the best from the spring season

In recent years, I’ve not done as much for National Coming Out Today, since it no longer seemed as necessary given the progress we’d made. We now have a regime that wants us all to go away. Complete erasure. So today I’m gonna be extra gay in honor of these bigots.

(This was the recipe. Super good. Thought it would be enough for several days. It was not www.maangchi.com/recipe/sigum... )

today i’m back at @serious-eats.bsky.social with a piece on high-extraction flour with help from @wordloaf.org www.seriouseats.com/best-flour-f...

This is amazeballs.

Imagine being this lame

Goodnight from Sadie Stowen, making condensation sigils on the windows of the Red House Transport Cafe. Goodnight from Sarah Hartley, certain something from the silver nitrate glass negatives she handled at the Pentlow Archive has followed her home. Goodnight from Hookland.

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The flaw with Manacled/Alchemised is that the unspoken sexual tension in the Harry Potter books wasn't between Hermione and Draco, it was between Draco and Harry.

A blazon, a flag...Alt= 'Amphifa:' surmounting a roundel. Around the edge: 'amphibians against fascism.' Inside, a white background. A green flag is partly visible behind a black flag, black flag shows the head of an inflatable suit-style frog in green and white, black eyes, blue collar.

Officials are investigating a blast that leveled an explosives plant in rural Tennessee, as families of the 18 people missing and feared dead wait anxiously for answers.

(When your host whom you deeply like is a small publisher and wasitai has bad news about the covers of his new edition of Charles Williams)

I think people are overrating “his staff are deceiving him” and underrating “he lies as casually as he breathes, also his brain is mush.”

This is chilling. I urge people to read it.

Since I woke up finally and firmly at 4:30 in my friends' house, I guess I cannot blame everything on the cats. AND I stayed up till the end of the WNBA game's first quarter. No rest for the wicked.

Made it here, wonderful friends, good food, so tired... Good night!

Church Of England Names First Woman Leader https://theonion.com/church-of-england-names-first-woman-leader/

So I had food, and a few pages of relaxing fiction, and then I went to look for the missing piece of the roller and after absent-mindedly tidying a bit more I tried putting the roller back together the other way, and that was a pleasing surprise! Only then I couldn't find the piece you lock it in

Well, good for DC search.app/PK45E

The laundry that was folded has been put away. The sheets have been changed. I tried to vacuum, only I think when I took the roller off to clean it I lost a part, because the end cap has no apparent reason to click back onto the roller. I am not in a mood to look for the manual, which is not

I stopped giving my heart to comedians a long time ago. If you're funny I hope you keep being funny and don't break the ephemeral and difficult-to-define thing that allows you to go on being funny. If you break it I probably won't find you all that funny anymore; hard to laugh when you have the ick.

I don't think for me it is so much "criticism" as "if you were a comic I still listened to before you went this thing, that's not what you are anymore, so long and thanks but no thanks." There are plenty of other funny people out there to listen to. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Stepped outside to see the sunrise and, darn it…the playground’s haunted again.

Winsocket spinsocket Gretchen McCulloch, a Linguist and podcaster (Double the threat) Showed us how online chat Idiomatically Makes us talk different be- cause Internet.

I have no idea how feasible this is given the nature of film and tv rights, but free business idea: a little company that does boutique blueray releases of cool NEW things that have never seen a physical release. A criterion collection for brilliant tv shows that got canceled after 1 or 2 seasons.

What I find gross about it is there is no similar outcry for depictions of gruesome and pornographic depictions of murder and violence. All of this is downwind of a culture that fetishizes violence and uses sex as purely a culture war vehicle at every turn now. I'm always brought back to this.

Pope Leo is spitting. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Y'all wanna see a drag performance as part of a religious ritual? Of course you do. Performance starts at 5:10:00. Go to 5:16:00 for the first reveal, 5:18:00 for the second. www.youtube.com/live/ZXGZtEZ...

As someone else pointed out, notwithstanding anything else, this hero has at a stroke reclaimed amphibians for progressives from fucking Pepe.

I would like to apologise for the inaccuracy in my original post, though. I should have said: “Liverpudlians debated Mosley in the marketplace of ideas with a vigour to which he was hitherto unaccustomed”

The people who follow me are monsters. MONSTERS. Nothing but the worst puns on earth, all the time. And i LOVE IT

I'm trying to figure out why (other than sleep deprivation) I found it so important to alt and quote about the 'I for one welcome our new bloodthirsty* overlords' comedians who went to Riyadh. * "not bloodthirsty, just not bonesaw averse"

You really need to look at this whole thread. It's an incredibly damning collection of acts.

Ansari said he “put a lot of thought” into the decision and concluded: “A comedy festival felt like something that’s pushing things to be more open and to push a dialogue. You kind of have to make a choice of whether you’re going to isolate or engage. For me, variety.com/2025/tv/news...

“at lake wobegon, even the severed heads like a good stick to your ribs tuna noodle casserole.” [scattered applause; whispering “what the fuck is a…tunoodle casserole?”]

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

There’s a reason academics universally rejected the initial push to canonize Charlie Kirk as a saint devoted to free speech. We know all too well that’s the exact opposite of reality.

If you doubt that we’re in a new Gilded Age, check out the price of gold. Since Trump took office, it’s risen by 50% and what causes gold to rise is a falling dollar. trib.al/prk5Pav The “gilded rococo nightmare” of Trump’s Oval Office is becoming a symbol of his gross economic mismanagement.