Jim Sinegal is such a role model. He built a profitable company through long-term relationships with customers, employees and vendors based on trust. More companies could do this, but they chase short term profits instead. #costco

Don't put your hand in that.

Sour cream to chimichanga ratio is approaching 1:1.

The first fragrant blooms of spring, daphne odura. #garden

If companies get refunds on the tariffs they payed, that's just going to boost their profitability. The only company I can even imagine refunding customers for what we overpaid is Costco. If they do, it's going to solidify customer loyalty for a long time.

I realized I have not been keeping up with my soup skeets. This week my wife made a portobello mushroom soup with tempeh and chicken gizzards that was one of the best things I've eaten in a long time.

🎶 There has never been, such a happy day in merry old England. 🎶

One of the trains I rode last year had very old rolling stock. While the seats get reupholstered, the color scheme in the bathrooms made me think it was likely to be 50 years old or more. Can't wait to ride the upgraded trains @alanthefisher.bsky.social shows here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JxG...

This is a great thread. I would add that there is a lot of Overton window gamesmanship where conservatives and moderates often pretend to be less in agreement with the far right when in polite company. Accept that strategic position or reject it, either way there is a reason to move to the right.

It looks like it's time for @effies.bsky.social to go ahead and post her short story again. #botsallthewaydown

Apparently Kings Circle Church is bringing in a Pray The Gay Away guest lecturer at the end of the month because the good lord has instructed them to never just mind their own damn business.

How to compliment a weak-sauce Democrat when they stand up for something:

The expedition is getting desperate. People are throwing things aside. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjco...

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Folks are getting very creative with their horse creations. gradient.horse

While this account will remain primarily focused on soup, I do enjoy salads as well, and have been eating a lot lately. So tonight we made croutons from homemade Italian sweet bread and garlic. They came out really crunchy!

Republicans are going to try to steal the 2026 mid terms.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "I think you may need to refresh your browser."

One day after meeting Susie Wiles, Tulsi Gabbard told the NSA not to publish the intelligence report. Instead, she instructed NSA officials to transmit the highly classified details directly to her office. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

CRITICAL SOUP ALERT! 🍜🚨 KH Pho & Grill has added a Pho Rib to their menu which is excellent.

New painting for The Year of the Horse exhibit at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco. Symbolizing perseverance and enlightenment. Opening tonight 5-8pm www.moderneden.com/search?q=Amy... "Inner Journey" Acrylic on canvas 4" x 4" #art #painting #surrealism #nature #horses #contemporaryart #snail

When I was a kid, we had the same mercury thermometer for decades. New digital thermometers are basically disposable, using a tiny watch battery less than 8mm across. If someone in your family gets sick, sorry, the battery's dead. Have fun chasing around town for an LR41 watch battery.

This is the saddest thing I've seen on /r/webdev in a while. Bro is going to college and instead of learning web development, the professor is having them use Dreamweaver. reddit.com/r/webdev/com...

Just saw an incredible display of highway-speed mascara while driving.

Marcus McAllister ”Time to grow 02” 2026 - watercolor and crayon on paper - 20x20cm #workonpaper #drawing #SciArt #bird

Corvallis High School has a stream that passes through campus. After a basketball game this evening, we saw this nutria just chilling in the grass.

When my neighbors down the block built their house, they got permits for an attached 2-car garage. Only they turned that into a studio apartment instead. So now they're trying to sell, and 1) they don't have a garage and 2) 400+ sqft of living space can't be supported on the appraisal for financing.

Squarespace is on my shit list now. A change of registrar for a domain is already a enough of a challenge. But there's no reason to take a parting shot on the way out and immediately delete old DNS records before the domain has landed in the new account. 0/10 will never recommend

Wow! OK, it looks like I have my answer. That's wild that someone was documenting this that long ago.

"Thirty-five Booker T. Washington Junior High School seventh-graders, chosen from among 5,600 students who asked to attend the school’s annual field trip, visited the museum Tuesday."

OK friends, mystery time! This has been plaguing me for many months. If I swivel my chair to the left and stand up, the HDMI for my middle monitor, which is where my audio connects, cuts out for a few seconds. If I push my chair back and stand up, it's fine. When I sit down it's fine.

Oh look, were going to use LAWS to reform ICE, a lawless agency that specifically does not obey laws, follow court orders, or allow Congressional oversight. Great plan Senator! #lawless

I feel like when folk music starts getting this good again it’s usually a pretty good indicator that shit is FUCKED

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Ivan Fedorovich Choultse - "Winter Landscape in Sunlight" (1903)

I read about a proposed 300-acre data center in Pekin, Illinois. Those are going to be some really depressed IT workers questioning their life choices.

Imagine if you will, a land without soup. I’m pretty sad just thinking about it

We love our possum friends. #thankyouforyourservice

I know it's a month after Christmas, or rather, 11 months until next Christmas, but I've been reading a wonderful Christmas story over the past few days, "When Santa Fell to Earth" by @corneliafunke.bsky.social. She's a fantastic storyteller.

We've got Spam musubi production underway tonight!

You voted to invest my hard-earned tax dollars in thugs who kidnap 5-year-olds.

ICE is lawless. They refuse Congressional oversight. They shouldn't get another penny. #ICEisLawless #notanotherpenny

Who needs a gym membership when you've got a wheelbarrow, a shovel, and two big piles of rocks?

Hakeem Jeffries at least follows his caucus from a significant distance, while on the Senate side, Schumer only listens to his imaginary moderate Republican friends, Joe and Eileen Bailey, who probably still think ICE just needs more funding for training so former Proud Boys can learn to deescalate.

Oof. Check your expiration dates, sadly at Asian groceries in particular. We got a tube of brown wasabi with a "best by August 2018" date from one of our local stores. 😬

Al Gore loudly booing a US Commerce Secretary at a bankers’ forum should be a Futurama joke instead of real life.

I cooked a Cornish game hen for dinner tonight with Chinese Five Spice so it tastes like Peking Duck. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

For Corvallis Benton County Public Library patrons, I have it on good authority that now may be a great time to get those purchase requests in for any audio books you may want to listen to online.