kept putting small animals in terraria on my desks at office jobs until enough people had said i should be a zookeeper that i did it instead

overheating my phone making diamonds in Finch to spend on giving away candy canes to tree buddies, as one does

watched Pan’s Labyrinth with the kid who’s been doing a lot of lit crit re Frankenstein bc i think PL is such a nuanced film in its ways of addressing some of the same issues (creation, destruction, resurrection, monstrosity, rebellion). next up ofc is Young Frankenstein

With ICE and border patrol goons spreading out across the country, I put together a resource guide for buying, printing, and distributing whistles, based on my own experience. Now is the time to whistle up, hope this helps. dansinker.com/posts/202…

tfw u r the cutest lil man (so he’s been told)

finally watched Prey last night for the first time and i highly recommend the Comanche dub. Amber Midthunder is a treasure and i believe her character is categorically a disney princess

torturing teens is so easy

my musical tinnitus hallucinations keep generating imaginary bon jovi tracks and while i do in fact like jon bon jovi as a person (seems menschy), i was never a devoted fan of the band’s music, so this is frankly bizarre to experience

top 5 film genres: • all singing all dancing • close quarters kitchen brawl • heist that also bamboozles viewers • practical effects • Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant

if someone in your household told you that they made plans for the afternoon and you said dinner pickup was at a certain time, would you take that to mean that they should note when to finish the afternoon so that they’d be on time for dinner OR that they were being asked to pick up dinner themself?

just loudly did the presentation-of-Simba intro with Mr Snuggins to crack up my teenager, AMA (there were no recordings made)

i know where i’ve seen this before slate.com/culture/2012...

it is hard to describe how badly my body reacts to meds meant to downregulate my nervous system but my PCP, bless her heart, sure doesn’t stop trying (not even sure why anymore)

kid read Frankenstein for school so we got to see GdT’s Frankenstein and it is SUCH a joy to have the chance to see a movie with my child’s critical perception—they compared the narrative beats, considered the changes in plot and character vs the media, loved the look, and had a wonderful time

why do i crash every tuesday after lunch, absolutely always tuesdays

ah, there it is

oh they made updates?

small detail that needs to be addressed: ban tinted windshields. am i giving stinkeye to community members who happen to drive giant SUVs with fully tinted glass, or are they all DHS? i can’t tell

busy morning in the salt mines (looking for ice out my windows)

super cool to have the latest therapist free me from seeing them and agree to write my PCP that i’m coping with my pain as well as is reasonable; doubleplus uncool to open my phone afterwards to 150 messages about ICE in my area

Your Friends & Neighbors (2025)

wtaf invisible bugs are hiding in my clothes and biting me daily but only when it’s cold outside? looks like mosquito bites. definitely not bedbug/flea/chigger patterns, just single welts exactly like mosquitos do

how illegal would it be to install automatic bollards in the middle of my street so i personally can stop the fascists from using it

gtfo cowboy greg

tfw the little mental health walk is bc there was an unusual siren-type noise and it’s time to grab the whistle and look for out-of-state plates

Sometimes I think about how maybe these guys are the Titanic and Chicago’s gonna the the fucking iceberg.

I couldn't capture a ton of sanderling footage this evening, but I got enough I hope it brings a smile to your face for 3-8 seconds ❤️😊 🪶

how tired am i? my dude is currently scrubbing all the seasoning off our 26-year-old stovetop popcorn popper and i’m just letting it happen

Mr Snuggins made a razzledazzle in his bedroom (we’re having HVAC issues so the pets sleep in extra-heated tanks for the time being)

all three early college apps submitted!

just saw a post on reddit where some kid got into nearly all top 20 schools as a multisport varsity HS athlete/model UN/nonprofit founder…and did NOT get into my kid’s target school. wtf do these admissions officers want? in related news, my teen is trying to finish their early apps this weekend 😵‍💫

absolutely out of my mind over here with all the Too Much

Mr Snuggins needs surgery for a mass that is hopefully not cancer but is, ultimately, going to give him a better quality of life. i wish my docs were as optimistic about me as this vet is for this treatment. feeling very 😬😰

super psyched for the boiler to go out when it’s finally cold at night and i’ve got reptiles already acting weird. had to move Mr Snuggins after he fell asleep to a warmer spot but then covered his head with fluff bc he can see just fine in the red light, why would i believe the heat bulb packaging

idk i think this is all a stunt for Lupin S4

i would say i’m beside myself over my being awake rn in the wee hours but if that were actually true i wouldn’t be snoring loudly and persistently enough to keep myself awake so

both of my pets are acting weirdly and i don’t like it

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

we finished the Korean time travel cooking show,,,

school lets out early

one fact to get to know me better: whenever i wear brown pants and a green shirt i call it “tree cosplay”

when you are a small man contemplating big violence

how do i get noise canceling but for inside my own ears

oh no, it’s “wait, who are these people and what did they do with my friends” month

hero.

is it still birdwatching when the bird is watching first

okay so now that i’ve discovered this lovely coincidence, i should layer in chocolate at the bottom, then pretzel, then peanuts or peanut butter, and then cover with more chocolate, right?

ground control to major tempur-pedic

trying to find nondrinking/noneating date events has us planning to see the Ira Glass road show, this is pretty funny