If you only want a post to be read by people following you live why post it on an asynchronous site like Bluesky? If you want a post to be read long after you posted it why are you not providing any sort of context? Is "dang that looked sick" supposed to be a riddle to be solved?

There's a cat on the way to my local grocery store and he'll just calmly trot past pedestrians and get petted, no begging or anything. If they ignore him he stops and watches them leave.

I just won a cosplay competition! First time entering something like that, my heart was doing rollercoasters. #ff14 #gpose

Me: "It's no big deal, get that to me whenever." Also me: It's been an hour, why haven't they gotten it to me yet? Is there a problem? Should I check in?

My mother lives out in the country. We have had to work out boundaries about how I find stories of "circle of wildlife" events as interesting as she does, but I do not want pictures.

If you're trying to cut back on caffeine and sugar by switching to cold brew tea, don't mistake black tea for herbal at like 9:30 at night. I was vibrating for a while.

Since I just do a buzzcut at home there's no good reason to put off haircuts as long as I do. On the other hand, if I let it grow long enough it starts feeling weird it's a neat feeling to watch myself reappear halfway through the trim.

Your restaurant's webpage is very pretty, but please make images able to be scaled. I need to read your menu, not have it perfectly fit the width of my phone.

The Ides of Texas are upon you, all the live long day...

Peace lily has its first flower of the year. Always fun trying to spot these since they sneak up out of the stem.

Brain: I need sugar! Candy, soda pop, we need a late night run NOW! Me: *eats some tortillas and beans* Brain: Oh wow, that was lovely. What was I talking about?

I think the worst part about deciding not to use a word anymore is becoming super aware of people who still do.

I don't want a smart fridge of any sort, but they are mysterious paranoia boxes that make weird noises and just do their own thing with no communication. I want an indicator light to say "I'm not broken, you just happened to get something out of the freezer while I was in a defrost cycle."

Age verification? I wrote homework assignments in Wordstar.

Rain is a mood multiplier. When I'm in a bad mood it weighs on everything and drags me even lower. When I'm in a good one? I grew up in the desert. When it rains is when everything there comes ALIVE! I can feel the life flowing around me in the raindrops.

A minigame AND moogle violence? #FF14 you spoil me.

There is something oddly appropriate about getting spam emails for the Book of Mormon play that ignore my attempts to block them.

It's great to see "this famous person was X years old before they did anything noteworthy" inspirational posts where that's still ten years younger than you are.

My local store's delivery service works great 95% of the time, but dang that last 5% makes me want to drop the whole thing.

Most of the time 60F feels absolutely lovely and my perfect temperature, sometimes it's uncomfortably hot and sometimes I'm freezing. All while the thermometer stays the same. Bodies suck.

I just realized this today and now I don't like it.

We need some sort of language tense for the difference between "I just heard about this" news and "something new just happened" news. For example, AFAICT there's nothing new about Expedition 33 and AI that we didn't know when the game came out but now people care?

Twelve Angry Grinches

Obligatory wick pic.

When talking to people do you ever feel like they... skip steps? Like instead of saying "yes that's a problem, we need to do a warranty return, I need this info from you" they say "I'm sorry to hear that's happening, to help further I need this info" and it always feels like I'm playing catch-up.

"But it's funny" isn't really a good response to "please don't use the hate speech."

It's frustrating that for a social multi-community mixer focused on supporting each other the event info feels it necessary to include "security provided" but that's 2025 for you.

Just sent a message to a technician doing an internet installation to please let their client know the wrong email is attached to their account. As shown by my ability to send a message to the technician. I could've just messed with their account instead, causing chaos. Verify contact info, pleas

After browsing Air Riders posts in various places I have only one conclusion: Rick players are where you find the sickos(positive).

The downside of being online friends with people for 25 years is that you'll get halfway through a rant about Korean incels and realize their teenage daughter has just joined the chat and you have no idea whether you need to pivot or how to do so.

hmm, high of 50 degrees today, rainy all next week. I think it may finally be time to pack the shorts away for the winter.

I use my TV as a sometimes-on second monitor and I have some odd behavior. Sometimes a program will show up on that screen when it's off, but something about the communication process when I turn the TV on bumps the program to the main screen.

I'm not built for viral videos. "Wait for the end!" Learn to edit better! "<celebrity> said WHAT?!" This could have been an email.

There was a Class Action against Facebook that started seven years ago, I just got my check. I'd rather they, you know, hadn't sold my personal information, but 30 bucks is 30 bucks.

Graphics presets need Max, Min, and "we turned off all the flashy GPU-intensive stuff you only notice in screenshots or if looking for it but the game won't look like ass with single-pixel textures."

Fire truck pulled up next door, lights flashing. I guess I should put some pants on just in case.

The entire gameplay arc of Silksong is saying "what is this BS" and then figuring out how to deal with the BS, so I think it's a bit unfair to ruthlessly mock people who are posting while they're still on step 1. Honestly that's my issue with the community of games like this in general.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkKo... feels relevant.

I gotta ask, how do you inscribe all that on a bullet casing? This guy's talents were wasted.

I understand having a dark sense of humor, I do as well a lot of the time. But if you are safely outside of the blast radius don't lead into a phone conversation with "so how are you doing over there, ready for the big shitstorm to bury you in shit ha ha ha?"

Find a new streamer, everything seems fun and chill, you're grooving, and then it turns out they have a sub alert that's 2 minutes of noise overload looping on itself until the sensation is physically painful.

The Constitution is not in Heaven.

Took me half a block to catch the joke, and I had to turn around for a photo.

Too many people talking about the problems with the current world as if a single person is the cause rather than a symptom and as soon as they're out we don't have to worry about it any more.

@mtgarena.com this message from you guys didn't have anything more to read, it was just a blind link to my account page with an "optin=true" flag at the end. That is NOT okay! What the Hell? It ruins the entire purpose of opt-in. What was I just tricked into agreeing to?

"Oh no, I'm not a manager. I just manage somehow."

I need to start intentionally placing difficult orders for delivery apps when I'm awake and together so I can learn the process for when I'm out of sorts. Got a message at 7AM that Safeway made a substitution and I had until 7:15 to approve it. On at 7:02. No way on the site to do anything.

My apartment has some off echoes, and some of them cut out most of the frequencies. Mostly I can adjust, but I wish lawnmowers or other machinery outside didn't make it sound like a grinding noise is coming DIRECTLY from my PC tower.

Bad news: the head of campus security at my alma mater gave info to the Feds about an alum who was at an ICE protest with no warrant. Good news: the college has suspended the person pending investigation, this strongly goes against their policies Better news: it wasn't the person I know workingthere