And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, will diminish, and go into the West and remain Tiny Tim.

Got busy and missed a few days, but the advent calendars wrapped up with a bang. Amazing chocolate indulgence from @theteagirl.bsky.social and a macadamia not comet from @somachocolatemaker.bsky.social . What a phenomenal duo.

if you're wondering why your trans friends everywhere are a little on edge right now, it's because a story about a radical conservative christian student abusing rules and processes to deliberately target a trans instructor consistently gets reframed to omit the entirety of the anti-trans bigotry

I had to call Canada Post today because none of Dad's cards that were mailed out have arrived (mine went out the day after and all arrived days ago). It makes me sad about the state of things that at the end of the call the agent I talked to thanked me for not being a screaming dick (paraphrased).

🎄 Happy Winter Solstice! ❄ "Trimming the Tree" Art by Elisabeth Alba

We’ll probably never again see such a casual, celebratory, & memorable gathering of Jim Henson’s family of characters as is found in 1987’s A MUPPET FAMILY CHRISTMAS…

Today was another @theteagirl.bsky.social fave — winter stars is a sparkly green tea with minty notes. Also one of my @somachocolatemaker.bsky.social favourites - gingerbread toffee. Have I mentioned how much I love these advent calendars?

Serenity Now! by @theteagirl.bsky.social is a great bedtime tea with green rooibos, apple citrus, and lemongrass. It was interesting paired with @somachocolatemaker.bsky.social ‘s chocolate covered roasted corn.

Nutcracker oolong had lovely walnutty caramely notes and I got the jasmine hot chocolate in the @somachocolatemaker.bsky.social calendar. @theteagirl.bsky.social

Today’s @theteagirl.bsky.social fuzzy peach herbal tea was a new favourite (and with milk and sugar became a comforting peaches and cream), and paired so nicely with @somachocolatemaker.bsky.social pink grapefruit bar.

Hi @boom-studios.com, I tried reaching out on Kickstarter last month, but didn’t hear back. My copy of Labyrinth arrived with the front cover ripping away from the spine and off the book. Can it be replaced?

Caught up with the advent calendars! @theteagirl.bsky.social ginger snap tea was a spicy and delightful start to the morning, and I need to make some scones so I can have @somachocolatemaker.bsky.social ‘s hazelnut spread.

I ate the @somachocolatemaker.bsky.social dream machine chocolate before I remembered to take a pic, because I was saving the @theteagirl.bsky.social cranberry cider tea for my comforting day-ender, and it didn’t disappoint. Just like mulled cider with cranberries.

Burnt Sugar and Smoke was such a comforting @theteagirl.bsky.social te , like drinking a cozy cup by a campfire. The @somachocolatemaker.bsky.social caramel apple chocolate was like adding apple cider to the campfire mix.

Would you like to watch Hattie Mae eat some snacks?

Today was one of my favourite @theteagirl.bsky.social @somachocolatemaker.bsky.social advent duos so far. Chocolate cookie bark and a delicious herbal chocolate mint tea called After Seven. Definitely on my order more list.

Today’s @theteagirl.bsky.social @somachocolatemaker.bsky.social advent selection is one of my favourites so far. Cranberry chocolate black tea with the cutest wee cookie. The tea was rich and layered and definitely going on my post-Xmas order list

Yesterday’s @theteagirl.bsky.social @somachocolatemaker.bsky.social advent duo was a really nice pairing of baked cinnamon apple tea and haskap berry bar.

Today’s @theteagirl.bsky.social / @somachocolatemaker.bsky.social advent pairing is a lovely Bergamot Queen green tea with the old school milk chocolate. I forget how GOOD the latter is until I have one, and then it’s probably fortunate there’s not more or I couldn’t stop.

@theteagirl.bsky.social makes my favourite advent calendar of all time (although @somachocolatemaker.bsky.social is a very close second, and the two pair so beautifully together). Unlike other tea advent calendars I've had (many), there is never a dud. Trying to be better about daily reacitons. 😀

And day 5-7 of Tea Girl and Soma calendars, sugar shack herbal with a twinkle bar, candy cane oolong with an espresso gianduja truffle and Eww, David herbal with a vanilla raspberry jam jam. Bonus caramelized apple grilled cheese with strawberry ketchup from the winter market.

Catching up, day 2-4. Double cream earl grey with beiofo dark chocolate, maple pumpkin with brown butter rum chocolate, sparkly Tearrero rocher with espresso chocolate

It begins again! Day 1 was spice market from the Tea Girl and pecan pie chocolate tumbled pecans som the Soma calendar. A really nice combo!

I paid my rent on time every month. I was a clean and quiet tenant, and I was kind to my neighbours. I was renovicted by my landlord so that he could charge a lot more for my unit. I didn’t know my rights at the time and I wish I had. Ford wants to make it easier to make people homeless.

If the threat to the end of month-to-month leases on Ontario terrifies you as much as it does me, but you're also feeling helpless as to where to begin, here's a place to start. www.joshmatlow.ca/protect_tena...

Near disaster on TogetherCraft trying to find Elytra and very foolishly took my good gear with me, whereupon I got hammered by a billion shulkers. Doing time at the EnderEnder to get some levels back. Syrich, if you're out there, not all heroes wear capes. Some wear elytra and get your stuff back.

What a great game. What a great day for Hermits.

sherman, for the love of god!

Scientists Achieve ‘Striking Reversal of Alzheimer’s’ in Mice

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Deskilling is real. This is the world generative AI peddlers long for, one where people are incompetent without their service. Don't outsource your brain to this shit. You'll regret it.

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid.

This is Annie. She is a dental therapy dog. Her job is to help patients experiencing anxiety by providing emotional support. While dentists go through years of schooling to treat patients Annie is able to lower their blood pressure and reduce anxiety just by being there. 14/10 (TT: funny.bunny9215)

Clips from the Hermitcraft Season 10 World Tour (A Thread 🧵)

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Hear me out -- CBC invites Kimmel to host a new show out of Dildo. They're obligated to have a rotating Canadian co-host each week to develop CanCon segments to meet broadcast requirements. Fielding requests from his "constituents." I would watch the hell out of that show. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One of the things they taught us in my "let's try not to move from prediabetes to actual diabetes" class was the best diet is one you can stick to because you enjoy it. So I've been having chia seed pudding for breakfast in an attempt to get my HDL up (tl:dr - omega 3 is hard when you detest fish).

Accurate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiiT...

May we all be lucky enough to leave this world having brought as much joy to it as Maru the cat. people.com/maru-the-vir...

I wish there was a way to hammer in this message that the vaccine is basically just an education module for your immune system. It’s a fkn training sim! VACCINE ➡️ TRAINING SIM When a vaccine does its job, what ultimately protects you? It’s STILL your fucking immune system doing the hard yards!

exhibit 183193 in "nobody running big corporations has a single fucking clue about selling things" betty crocker shrank their cake boxes instead of raising prices and now a huge % of recipes that use them no longer work. meaning there's no point in buying a mix at all.

Hard to find reasons to laugh in *gestures* all this. But when The Girl With The Dogs starts a video with "Today I am grooming Snuffleupagus. He is apparently a dog," in that PERFECT deadpan, I start laughing so hard I can't breathe. Thank you, Girl With the Dogs. I needed you today.

My Tea Girl haul came with free samples!

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

I can

Okay, so I've seen this happen several times now. Person A says "hey, Covid is surging, maybe wear a mask again, okay?" They try to word it to cajole, not shame. People react poorly to being shamed.

Holiday turkey vs chicken nugget. (They’re both fully grown adults)

Grace just sent this me this tok of a woman accidentally recording her cat in slow motions, and I am SOBBING from laughing so hard

A teacher once told me there is a difference between saying “you’re doing good” and “you’re doing well, but a doctor told me if you’re taking precautions you can say either: by protecting yourself (hopefully) “you’re doing well,” and by protecting others “you’re doing good.”