I hope whoever came up with basket accounting steps on a Lego seven times a night every night forever

I feel like I wasn't as clear as I meant to be here. I definitely am not agreeing with the premise of OP's conclusion. But I was disagreeing much more strongly with their conclusions. Bluesky has surprisingly robust tools for curating your experience w/o changing other people's behavior. Use them?

Okay, as a serious hypochondriac, I was just finding The Pitt way too stressful to watch while waiting for surgery. But I guess now I can go watch it and be freaked out for other reasons. 😂

Without weighing in on any other thing in this thread, I do think a partial solution to this is normalizing use of the moderation tools we've been given. I piss people off all the fucking time on here, and then I lock down replies & they just have to cry mad about it!

For obvious reasons I have not been posting #BreezeDryer updates while I prep for/recover from surgery, but I found some eggs on sale & I feel like this might be the time to make freeze dried egg powder. 🤔

IN BETTER NEWS, EPISODE SIX OF "BAD AT MONOGAMY, GOOD AT MONSTERS" HAS DROPPED AND I'M GONNA WAAAAATCH ITTTTTT

also just strategically, if you really care, you could spend that time volunteering for a voting org to help people who WOULD vote if they could get pass the many barriers strewn across their path. work smarter, y'all.

since everyone is in a real space mood, just saying now is a good time to get an AppleTV subscription and binge 4 seasons of For All Mankind while S5 is dropping (2nd ep today!) and you can also watch some of the MANY OTHER amazing shows it feels like no one is talking about. LOL

I try very hard not to be combative about media on bluesky for all the reasons in my original thread, but the Dragon Age discourse breaks me sometimes and I come out jump-kicking folks in the face. lol other gamers can rile me up like no one else.

yes, we basically need to reestablish intimate groups where there is a basic presumption of good faith and are immediate consequences for being viciously anti-social before we can even HAVE these conversations, now. quote dunking killed so much of our ability to interact with strangers, man.

I truly do feel like I've watched media literacy die over the past decade. The book conversation used to be *so good* on early twitter, and now it feels like so few people want to TALK about media, they want to Do Takes about media. But like... not even thoughtful ones. Just For the Algo.

Okay. This is a much better quality from NASA's site of Earth. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

I have some fresh raspberries I need to use like IMMEDIATELY, and Sally was kind enough to include a link to this recipe in her newsletter today, so I guess it was destiny. sallysbakingaddiction.com/raspberry-st...

Someone asked for an app to point your camera at a color and find matches. Cool. Here. BUT ALSO: I'm colorblind and never thought to make this for myself! Save colors ("new paint," "mom's fave"), get colorblind-friendly complements, simulate what you see vs. what others see. Legit using this daily.

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Man I have never been so happy for a random pilot I have never met before

all of the writers who used to be programmers pretty much spend 24/7/365 wanting to walk into the sea at this point, to be quite honest

And if you’re wondering… our total for three fundraisers over the last 14 mos is now over $225,000. ART CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.

Look at these rock stars. This is just a bananas amount of money, and I know from deep experience how hard they have worked to make this happen. Absolutely love them, and all of you who donated crafts, and all of you who bid, and just all of you in this bar. 💕

I might actually start crying y'all. I still can't do a lot of things that require lifting or pushing more than a pound or so, but I just held a paintbrush for an hour and worked on a long overdue project, and my fingers never got numb. My limit was about 4 to 7 minutes before this. 😭

I really do love having all of the freeze dried powders. It makes the smoothies super fun.

okay, this looks EXTREMELY FUN?????

Since very few people seem to know this, just throwing into the mix that Rupert Murdoch owns HarperCollins lol

Not to be TMI on my recovery journey, but y'all I can put on a bra by myself now. 😂 this is really important because I need some place to keep my phone.

Oh, I like this. One of my superpowers is hoping for schadenfreude on the morrow

The astounding delusion it must take to be a woman in this admin and not think you're always going to be the first one under the bus. like it's not really fair to blame them more then all these monstrous men, but I feel like I'm allowed to do it. I guess enjoy the taste of tires, Bondi

congratulations acting AG marco rubio

To keep y'all entertained while Bree is recovering, we've scheduled chapters of our new serial to drop every Tuesday & Thursday. O'Kane fans can catch up with Bren & Six and see what happens when a broken Makhai soldier comes to Sector Three. www.kitrocha.com/202...

the last month has felt like watching a toddler touch a hot stove and then go "OUCH" and then every rich person who thinks they're smart says "thank god he won't do that again" and bets 1 trillion that he won't touch the stove again. also the kitchen we're all standing in is on fire.

listen we have been manifesting hot dragons & sea monsters with all our hearts, we're TRYING!!!!!!!!!

someone just asked a worldbuilding question about the Beyond/ML world and I was answering it and then realized that in our fictional world (that we invented in 2012) the late 2020s/early 2030s are when the energy wars start. anyway sorry about the gas prices, that might be on us.

I grew up with breakfast, dinner/lunch, supper. My grandparents religiously called the midday meal dinner and the evening one supper, but I got "lunch" at school so that became more normal for me. but the evening meal was always supper. now it kinda depends on who I'm talking to. 🤣

as a food writer who researches this for a living, you really can’t beat Aldi for price also just personally I think aldi sells really good food

I have spent pretty much the last 15 months doing our weekly grocery list by checking prices across publix, sam's, costco, and Aldi. If you aren't buying in bulk, and you're okay with the limited brand selection, you really can't beat Aldi for price.

Unfortunately I left the internet for a bit, and now we get to play my favorite game, "what percentage of this site is going to incorrectly correct my math and/or not understand a joke?"

People (and red pandas!) always are curious about the food astronauts eat, so NASA put out this handy graphic:

We're all fireflies, flashing at our own frequency, and even if our frequency is really close to someone else's, we know who we are and what makes *ours* unique. Or so we hope.

At least 50% of this website was born in 1980 +/- a couple years.

LMAO THERE COULD BE NO CLEARER INDICATOR THAT BLUESKY IS FOR OLD PEOPLE Remember to take your blood pressure meds today, peepaws and meemaws

Who hasn't gone down the rabbit hole after what kind of frogs are heard in Louisiana at night, only to run into a 19th century Black man who owned a circus that toured Great Lakes lumber camps? This is such damn fun! (The frogs soon took a back seat) 😊

EXACTLY

also like listen, I get that maybe this is just me, but isn't part of the fun of being an author is that you get to wander off into endless research spirals on whatever thing you're currently obsessed with and buy books & write them off and call it work??? WHY ARE PEOPLE SKIPPING THE FUN PARTS???

Seriously the one time I tried to use chatGPT for something useful, it just became r/fantasy and punched me in the face. 😂 thanks, I can get that content already, and I sincerely wish I could not

Honestly, I sincerely do not understand bouncing ideas for narrative off something that can only tell you what has come before in the most generic and median way possible.

Mr Bree and I have been using the same baking sheets we got at the dollar store when we moved in together in 2002, so I used a tiny bit of my birthday gift card money to buy myself a nice baking sheet. I mean it didn't cost that much, but it feels very fancy. 😂

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left to take a shower & came back to like 17 screenshots of this tweet, so I take it that someone activated Neil Gorsuch's sleeper programming

if voting is choosing the conditions under which you organize, then there couldn’t be better conditions for pressure than NYC’s rn. that’s *why* you elect a mamdani & not a greg abbott or brad little. it’s so you can say, “we deserve better than this” to someone who will allegedly listen & act.

I have a million but I'm in a space mood. 😂