I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.

Just over here packing corn

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘵⁣ 𝘖𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥⁣ 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯⁣ 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 hell Scanned! #furryart

Let us add mandatory five week minimum PTO, more time to spend with the fellas and others, away from work.

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

Very healthy and pretty coyote this morning at the Arboretum.

The annual pumpkin display at the entrance of Governor Pritzker’s personal residence on Astor Street. He is the pumpkin king. Illinois produces the most pumpkins, including canned, than any other state in the U.S., twice as many as the next five states combined.

Under my direction, the troopers who fought at the Battle of Ghorman will keep their medals. This decision is final. Their place in history is settled.

Yeha my grandfather got busted for swimming on shore patrol once… 100% this.

The right says the country needs to “turn down the temperature.” Then they call us slurs, suggest banning us from owning guns, and smear us after shootings. Is it any wonder trans women in places like Seattle are being hunted in the street?

"Defensive cycling" immediately brings this classic to mind

Defensive walking and cycling might just need to include more open hostility towards drivers. And I say this as someone who drives more than walks or cycles in cities. Or you know… we could drop those speed limits and rework the street environment to be less highway-like.

this is why we need to bring back shame there need to be consequences for being a huge asshole, there need to be standards for how you behave in a decent society the rules cannot be set by the worst of us

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

Should I drop these in the shop tonight?? I think I'm going to drop these in the shop tonight 😳💦 6pm, be there!!

This reminds me, in a good way, of the complicated feelings I had in my 20s watching the local belly dancing expert, who was in her 70s or 80s, on demonstrations at the local sci fi con. She was really good! The movements were very sensual! It was fun, but also odd. Sensual dancing is cool like that

Nobody talks about the heavy burden that is bisexuality

Being a bisexual emperor must be the most stressful shit in the world. You go to the inner palace and your wives are scheming. You go to the outer court and the male concubines that you promoted to viziers are fighting. Your wife just poisoned your favorite twink eunuch. There’s no peace

When they be like "Hehehe, furrys & pole dancing"... But you're actually a furry who pole dances! ✌️

Every goddamned day

I was sorry to miss this, though I was glad to be teaching the class I was teaching. So it goes.

Chicago is out of control, quick send the national guard

If you can get a spot up there, the bar on the fourth floor of the Chicago Reserve Roastery has a Chicago Boilermaker which uses Malört and is quite good.

Yeah this is a huge part of what makes hot scenes hot — getting the characters to click and getting your mind fired up for it when they do get together. The mechanics are fun but like… not on their own.

FR, the best part of reading Kingfishers Paladin series wasn’t just knowing they would doink. Like that’s easy enough to glean. It’s the suspense. The play up into the payoff. It’s what keeps the pages turning!

give me banter, give me smoldering looks from across the room, convince me these people really desperately want to tear each other's clothes off this is why bridgerton is a huge hit, incidentally

the thing I would like to bring back is a focus on chemistry too many times a show or movie is just like, here are two hot people, please watch them kiss no! go watch every scene between JLo and Clooney in Out of Sight and try to replicate even a tenth of that

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

@suedeer.bsky.social @tccoyote.bsky.social @crossbowroof.bsky.social hey I’m passing through Cleveland area maybe late afternoon on Columbus Day if any of you all are available for a stop. Light bite or coffee maybe? I’m planning to grab lunch in Pittsburgh and maybe dinner in Toledo.

When this regime is over, the only appropriate thing will be to place indicators of great shame in place of any photos of him. And to dismantle his houses brick by brick, which shouldn’t be too hard given how often he stiffs his contractors.

FBI BOSS: “Did you write the slogan on the casings?” FBI GRUNT: “Sure boss, anti-ice stuff, just like you asked.”

This generic acetaminophen had an Amtrak ACS-64, four Amfleet 1 cars, a Conrail EMD GP15-1, and some Conrail rolling stock in it. The problem is more serious than I thought.

I have to assume this means he keeps everything hidden behind fabric and just thrusts wildly as she runs past.

Anyway, here’s your form of consent, Bluesky.

Pretty sure the French economy can handle the "hit" just fine. Pretty sure the US economy could handle it too, if we could ever manage to tax our rich properly.

86%, is that a lot

100% Domestic oligarchs are bad

Negative plague test this morning and four or five days of improving symptoms (they’ve been getting better from Saturday morning). Not quite asymptomatic but a huge improvement. Wild how much less bad this disease has gotten from five years ago. Gotta love that vax.

I watched the monologue and it was… fine. He had a few good bits in but it was just bland liberal crap for big chunks of it. I mean, I don’t expect any better from him, given the time he spent to say nice things about bad people last week, but still.

Over this past year I've been getting more and more sick on behalf of the folks on whom the worst bullies in the world have been focusing their attention. I wish I could sic my nine-foot orc cat on 'em. Fun to draw her all snarly, at least.

Bi visibility day? Well hello there, that’s me. I recently heard the phrase “bi audacity” and like… looking at the projects I tackle, that checks out.

This would be excellent.

Last year, and I think largely because of winter and the nuke infrastructure in Illinois, I had a few times of negative costs per kWh on my bill. Of course delivery charges etc still make it cost money. Sadly I think the buildout of AI datacenters will fix any surplus power we have.

A much more "general audience" Québecois language lesson than the one in Bon Cop / Bad Cop (which gods that's a dumb-fun movie). And with extremely cute crows, which is very important.

A Handy Guide [1/4]

Hell yeah for bisexual day (in addition to celebrating bisexual week, makes sense we get both)

The mainline Protestants are all correctly pointing out to me that the rapture is specifically *evangelical* Protestant nonsense so to make amends here is an Episcopal priest explaining why the rapture is nonsense.