Thrilled to report that if you carelessly dent a piece of wood furniture you've been working on, you can slap a wet rag on it, iron the spot real quick, and that dent will pop right back out. Magic!

I've been slowly divesting from as many large corporations as possible and it's honestly improving my experience of just like. Life? It's been nice to have a more limited number of streaming options, for example. I choose what I'm watching more deliberately and I watch more new stuff.

Bothering my Quebeçoise friend about the important stuff.

Listen I know how serious the issue is. But Portlanders protesting at the ICE facility are some of the most unserious people alive and it's being effective. You can't get good "tough on crime" optics when you're attacking a guy in a bear mascot suit or a girl in Victorian garb having a tea party.

I beg your finest pardon SOME of us were very much in love with the TMNT and wrote exceptional 5th grade poetry about it.

Ice is kidnapping black citizens in Chicago in the middle of the night.

It's so nice to have close friends living nearby again. Texting someone that you're having a hard time and not just getting sympathy, but an offer to swing by for a hug and a chat? So good.

YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

I really thought when the Gestapo came it would be like. The end of normal life. Instead of normal life but you're scared all the time.

Honestly think the only way to solve the condescension problem is to stop insisting that we have one. It's very obvious why your opponent would call you condescending for being smart and right; stand up for yourself!

Mishear it as "Chasing Klout". Starbucks baristas have been further off the given name unintentionally.

A divide in journalism right now that's worth watching is between reporters who understand how bad things are but are mindful of their reputation and not wanting to be perceived as too extreme or hyperbolic and reporters who feel things are so urgent they have to use urgent, clear language.

This was an exceedingly fun half hour.

Devastated to learn that my father believes AI is going to be significantly important in the world moving forward and that he thinks I should seriously invest time into "learning about prompts." I love my father and he's typically on the right side of any issue. I hate seeing him get snowed.

I didn't know I had Social Security paperwork in the mail and now it's late and so I'm at the office waiting for ny ticket to be called, crying steadily and getting sideways looks from people here in the waiting room. I hate being like this so much.

And that's why you never about face when a corporation appears to give in. They're sneaky sons of bitches.

I really don't think corporations understand where we're at, as a populace. We've been consuming on autopilot. Prices of everything are going up. Once you get us to rouse ourselves enough to stop paying for a subscription, we're not going back. Besides principles, we can't afford to.

Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

Took Penny to the river because I was exhausted from too many social obligations this weekend. I knew she'd wear herself out splashing in the water. What I didn't know is that she would immediately yeet herself off the pier and need to be rescued!

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

You look at every culture that's ever existed and the running theme is everyone pretty much just wants to play/dance to music, make art, eat stewed meat wrapped in flat bread, and tell stories about the shapes we find in the stars. Somehow we turned that into wars and overtime and profit margins.

I know the youths aren't paid enough and that we all live in a capitalist hell with no hope of escape, etc. But Jesus Christ the level of customer service has gone through the floor. They seem like a petulant teen you've asked to do the dishes. You do WORK here. I'm just trying to order coffee.

If you don’t feel like writing to Disney but do want to complain to someone, this is another great option. In LA, KTLA is nexstar.

It's Cavall's birthday. I made a cake.

For anyone canceling Disney/Hulu, I'd 100% recommend subscribing to Dropout TV. The content they put out is way better than the slop that major streamers create these days, and its only $6.99/mo! www.dropout.tv/checkout/sub...

I'm truly so excited for the next season of Critical Role. We got I Can Play Serious Roles Too Sam Riegel We have Fuck It, I'm a Player at Last and I'm Going to Ruin the DM's Life Matt Mercer There's Original JM Barrie Recipe Tinkerbell Laura Bailey And Travis the Yoked Furry

I am teaching myself to refinish furniture. This was my first effort. I'm working on a 4-piece bedroom set now.

Wait but if you choose G you could get cuisine from most of the other regions, because say what you will of us otherwise, the USA has fully embraced global cuisine. Also like. We'd keep Southern food, all Central America, some South America.

A friend reposted this by @zellieimani.bsky.social from 2020 and it remains apt: “For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."

... ... ... ... yes, Marc. I can imagine people on the right like Kirk doing it. Because they absolutely did.

Yeah, if you're in the media and someone insists that "they" were celebrating his murder and therefore "they" have to suffer some sort of retribution, you have an obligation to ask who "they" are and what, specifically, they did to celebrate this. You can't just let them throw that gas on the fire.

It's so bizarre to be going about my day, trying to do some work, walk the dog, run an errand. All while terrified. Watching the country dissolve into fascism. Helpless to do much of anything about it.

If you've been stressed about fascism in the US (and who the hell isn't?), I literally cannot recommend more strongly getting OUT and going to REAL EVENTS like this with people in your community who are DOING SOMETHING. An absolute balm for the soul - and it's HOW WE WIN.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

“It’s another reason to love RSS: seems like the tech lords hate it.” Why you should let RSS feeds back into your (digital) life.

... just realized the only products that are better AND cheaper than they used to be are screens. Computers, phones, TVs, tablets. Those are the products they want everyone to have and keep using. Screens. Just gonna stare into the far distance for the rest of the day.

It feels so fucking insane to be scolded about how leftists need to tone down our rhetoric while the world's richest man endorses this shit

Okay no more gun things let's talk fiber arts. I need to cut precise shapes out of fabric and keep the edges from fraying. What's the best way to mark my precise shape before cutting? Chalk, fabric pen, something else? Is Dritz fabric glue good for keeping an edge from fraying?

BLITZER: Now we’re getting reports that one of the bullet casings was engraved with a message saying that if you are reading the casing, you are gay. We must warn our viewers we’re about to show the photo and don’t know at this time whether the engraving is what makes you gay or if it just tells you

It's a lot simpler than that. Journalists print what their billionaire owners tell them to. The billionaire owners didn't like the idea that an affluent white guy could get shot in broad daylight. Just like the United Healthcare CEO.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Deeply personal. The man is devastated.

Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate

I need every single reporter who blithely repeated the line about the bullets being engraved with "transgender ideology" to explain in detail exactly which one of these redpill memes they were referring to and what ideology it is championing. With a straight face, please.

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

Brazil’s former wannabe Dictator Bolsonaro has officially been convicted and sentenced to 27 years in prison for inciting an insurrection after losing an election. And that’s how it’s done, Brazil understood the assignment unlike the United States.

Penny and the across the street neighbor dog finally met in person and got out all the zoomies they've been saving up.

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

The evil that men do lives after them