On brand, reasonably respectful, and totally relevant, dude.

If you enjoy jazz, are Buddhist & vegetarian, you may identify with Lisa. I worship humor: Marge has the best lines. "When your mom has a couple of drinks, she goes all cuckoo bananas."

"If we don't get together [platonic] in this lifetime, nothing can be done about it." - "manual" from the 60s I browsed in Carrboro

There is something snapping twigs just into the treeline this pre-dawn. Domonique heard it and turned her head, but otherwise stayed in the chair. I had my hand on the door.

Sammy 🐕‍🦺 Baby male German Shepherd Dog mix Adoptable from Operation Pets Alive (The Woodlands, TX) https://www.petfinder.com/dog/sammy-78600977/tx/the-woodlands/operation-pets-alive-tx1531/

Explain your username: "A wildfire no one can contain"

The "expert problem" speedrun: Year 1: Study topic, become expert Year 5: Realize how complex it is Year 10: Develop sophisticated nuanced view Year 15: Watch someone with 0 knowledge confidently explain everything wrong on Twitter Year 16: Give up and become a beekeeper

i think we are living through, in the US at least, a significant gender backlash and part of it is absolutely elite-driven.

Again, the soundtrack and score to TRON is one of the best things about the film, and that's a debt owed to Wendy Carlos, the composer, a woman that transitioned in 1968. She also worked with Weird Al on Peter and the Wolf! www.wendycarlos.com/biog.html

thinking about how our multifamily housing doesn't have attics to hide in

these freaks think they can still act like aggrieved outsiders when they run the whole fucking government

I asked my brother why white magic users could brandish a staff or mace, and not a sword or dagger. He told me about an order of priests who took a vow never to draw blood, "so they just went around bashing people's heads in with hammers."

The guy who wrote "Guns, Germs, and Steel" Was in a PBS documentary exploring the same themes. While in Africa, two scenes stood out: In the Congo, they come to the end of the RR tracks, and his guide says they cannot go any further.

These people were enslaved as laborers for a call center soliciting church donations in case you’re wondering the exact level of where we went wrong as a human species

Lowbrow plays paid the rent, but Shakespeare's heart was in writing sonnets. I learned that from either Don Marquis or Vonnegut.

Bruno Prince 🐕 Senior male Poodle mix Adoptable from Angels Among Us Pet Rescue, Inc. (Alpharetta, GA) https://www.petfinder.com/dog/bruno-prince-78598591/ga/alpharetta/angels-among-us-pet-rescue-inc-ga612/

When I think about the vile cowards who stood around outside of Robb Elementary: Excuse me, but "That is your job. Your job is to go in and get shot."

"Yes, life is just a popularity contest." CW : language

I share a birthday with B. B. King, Oral Hershiser, Amy Poehler and Ratchel Dratch.

Therapy Hacks™️ from the couch: Instead of "normal," use "healthy" to avoid that setting-on-the-washer comeback. A good answer to "What are you working on?"/"How are we coping?" is "awareness." Always healthy, if true. If not, maybe helps me will it into existence.

Not me. I still have scars from the rubuttal to my "their old stuff is the best" music snobbery.

I'm all for little plastic dolls ("They're _action figures_, Mom!") to add some individuality and "why we fight" to cubicle wage-slavery, but they look cooler and keep their "value" 🙄 unboxed, and, if not, are quick to the landfill.

how come saying people shouldn’t be shot at for saying something is now seen as a terroristic statement worthy of national news in America

White folk complained about Jack Johnson winning the heavyweight title, about Jesse Owen’s positive press coverage in 1936, about Jackie Robinson breaking the color line. They understand the fragility of white supremacy & work ceaselessly to shore it up.

sisyphus but it’s just me opening and closing the door for my cat all day

"Your shadow's following you." #cats #caturday

"I'm just simply skylarkin', dude." (Standoffish, exculpatory)

"With my 8 limbs, allow me to scribble a screed, and illustrate my heretofore rumourous countenance." - Mother's Arachnea

“I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.” —Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be." —from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Yeah, I really like this song.

My beloved Lester Bangs, about whom the editor of his collection wrote "...could only write record reviews." treated them as springboard and framework. Flip: I stopped reading Pitchfork soon as I dreamt up fistfights in the writer's room 🤣 over who gets to attach their name to [hip band]'s latest.

I enjoyed Rick & Morty for a brief 1 season before Roiland got fired. (Justifiably) Since, it has irked me cause Dan Harmon (also showrunner of Community, which I adored) produces high brow, cutting dialogue delivered at breakneck speed. ...

Kinda strange: I learned quickly on the hellsite that quote posts were a slippery slope to cardinal sin. Now it seems: my reply guy antics are less intrusive when I submit _my_ audience (🤣) to them, and don't beg for approval in OP's mentions.

I have read that the Chupacabra sounds like "a record playing at the wrong speed." *shivers*

You never know the demons* others have to fight daily *orange cats

It was something only the air would know and it told you, it was dirty and gross and about plants but maybe now the long kite strings of TMZ will let you fly

Chucho 🐕‍🦺 Adult male Pit Bull Terrier Adoptable from Hardee County Animal Control (Wauchula, FL) https://www.petfinder.com/dog/chucho-78584284/fl/wauchula/hardee-county-animal-control-fl80/

Mom took Casper to the vet. The doc saw me put my face close to his and warned me "They don't like that." I bit my tongue, thinking "Lady, we live together. He's my homeboy." Then she charged several hundo for a bloodwork referral, as usual.

The shadow entities are really out tonight. It's that time when the veil is most thin between realms and it's probably not a good time to take out the garbage as there are psycho raccoons that will kick your ass out there.

Night

"Dog's can't make their dreams come true, so It's up to us." - Jewish proverb I read it in the intro to the Mutts (comic strip) anthology.

"She was happy, in a bubble, and the only reason to pop it was on the grounds that bubbles were not real life. But bubbles made life tolerable, and the trick was to blow as many as possible." ― Nick Hornby, Just Like You (P.S. Some bubbles feel more like home than real life ever did.)

If you’re at a bar and the owner refuses to kick out transphobes, then belittles concerns about the transphobes and says you can leave the bar if you don't like it and also kicks people out for making fun of a dead nazi, then you are at a nazi transphobe bar. Take their advice and leave.

As objectively as I can write, and with universal aspiration: It's real easy to blame "Mom." ...for everything. That is plainly not fair.

Alice 🐕 Adult female Mixed Breed Adoptable from Metro Animal Care and Control (Nashville, TN) https://www.petfinder.com/dog/alice-78584282/tn/nashville/metro-animal-care-and-control-tn172/

27 days until Halloween 🎃

can the mods stop being weird and aggro and just fix it so when you post a bsky link in another app the featured image isn’t a terrifyingly large version of your avatar