Luke Combs on Hot Ones explaining what Cookout is.

There are so many truly terrible things in the world that need fixed, but THE EFFING SMOKE ALARM BATTERY DYING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT seems like it should have been solved by now. And I genuinely do not know how people can tune that sound out.

East Coast folks, FYI: tornado watch vs tornado warning, re: 3/15-3/16 weather. #ncweather #tornadowatch #tornadowarning

Friends, a reminder to please get your age-/gender-/lifestyle-appropriate cancer screenings, as insurance/finances allow. A guy two years ahead of me in school died last week, just 18 months after a stage 4 colon cancer Dx. Based on his age (52-53), I presume he was overdue for his 1st screening /1

I don’t know if it’s related but I did a walk with a fairly steep hill this evening, and I just now had to fight off what felt like a pending charley horse, with the origin point seeming like the outside plate of my ankle ORIF surgery. I def have not had a charley horse in either leg /1

Heads up, blue voters!

I trust this lady to have vetted the right org. (Versus Jaccob Slavin’s favorite shady “anti-trafficking but maybe really is actually trafficking people” org.) www.facebook.com/share/v/1B45...

I am not ready for a snake on the patio. 😩😩 (I know — some of y’all are snake fans. It is not my jam, especially in a Human and Elderly Dachshund Space, on March 1.)

This showed up on my FB feed. I’m annoyed AF with the NHL, so it’s a good reminder there are still good people in sports — and in North Carolina at that. @charlotteroyalsrfc.bsky.social is on BlueSky, but hasn’t posted in a while. #charlottenc #rugby

I know his demise will not solve everything, but I know in my heart it will be a much better world without him, and I’m ready for that to start any minute now.

This means I crossed the B/C Line a week or so ago.

NC early voting pro tip: If you are an NC registered voter but have moved WITHIN your county of registration but not yet updated your address, you can EASILY do this at early voting check-in. If you wait until primary day March 3 to do this, it may require a time consuming provisional ballot. #ncpol

A real one. 🙌

Grapefruit was created in hell.

Absentee ballots for Mar 3 primary must be RECEIVED by county bd of elections by 7:30p Tue Mar 3. Using USPS?-I suggest mailing by this Weds. Also can be delivered by voter or near relative to early vote site in voter’s county by Sat 3 pm or delivered to Bd of Elections office by Mar 3 7:30p #ncpol

Question for people who wear eye makeup and have had cataracts — Did the cataracts (vision-wise) ever feel like you didn’t get all the makeup remover (esp something like cold cream, Albolene, even coconut oil) out of your eye(s)?

the concept of partying with the guy who went under oath to say that epstein didn’t do anything wrong

Bringing out Johnny G’s kids for a picture with the team is incredibly sweet.

Shit. I really did not want this bunch of Trump dick lickers to win gold.

Mike Sullivan lying to the team — “the whole country is behind you.” No we are all not. This American is cheering whole-heartedly against the group of Trump dick lickers and performative “Christians.”

Smoke detector batteries dying at night has got to be by design and I hope everyone involved in that plan burns in hell.

Why does it have to be the worst Finns to score? 😩 #olympichockey

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

I know people have been wanting an “America’s Next Top Model” docu — looks like Netflix may have one. (It has one — I just have no idea how it plays out.)

It’s wild to me that DJ Khaled opted to be in this Wegovy pill commercial because every time I see it, I think, “Oh, he should ask for the pill that makes him NOT a misogynistic prick in bed.”

I commented this elsewhere: “And also Turbo! (But not Mikko.)” And the way people are MAD at me. 😆😆 1. I am not Finnish. 2. I am a Canes fan. Therefore, I have ZERO desire — never mind obligation — to cheer for Mikko.

I’ve been thinking how 20-30 years ago, people would have sewer slided themselves as the Epstein files started revealing their depraved secrets, and it’s a shame we don’t have that kind of shame anymore.

Well, that Redfin commercial has me a little teary-eyed. 🥺#SuperBowl

It’s nice to see the OTHER team look like that at the end of the third period. But poor @wademinter.com keeps getting interrupted. 😂 #RaiseUp

I had NPR on in the car today and they were talking to a Latino pastor in Minneapolis. If I understood/recall correctly, his congregation is majority Latino. He said that when the occupation started around Dec. 2, he (and maybe his flock) were not too concerned bc they were going after /1

Idea: A “drip” setting on your faucet, instead of the 2-minute back-and-forth between “stream” and “off.”

Sitting here in Raleigh, with the news telling us to prepare for power outages this weekend … THIS is why I will not be giving up my gas stove.

I hated “Wuthering Heights” (book) so much that the movie trailers feel like a personal attack.

Saw this in a thread about supporting Black-owned businesses:

If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

Cot dang, those Bussi moves! 😲 #raiseup

I’m on day 2 of mouth-breathing, bc of a cold, and I just do not know how Republican can stand to do this all the time.

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I’m battling a cold and before the game, I told myself that if the Panthers took a 1-goal lead, I was tapping out. (I’m at home, but I feel cruddy enough that I was not going to sit through a losing effort.) Still feel cruddy, but a piece of my soul is healed by beating the Panthers 9-1. 😂 #raiseup

A friend posted this evening about icy conditions on the WV Turnpike — I-77, especially at the tollbooths. The frost is racially profiling and targeting work trucks. #wvturnpike #fuckice #i77 #westvirginia

2026 Winter Classic — we’re cheering for an asteroid, right?

It is genuinely hysterical how guys try to take him down and it backfires spectacularly.

Canes making me cuss. But at least I’m on my couch cussing and not in arena.

Sausage balls have become my go-to funeral food. A friend’s father recently passed — ALS, so expected but sooner than expected. Turns out, no funeral, so she was back in FL before I could make the sausage balls. So I have had to throw myself on the grenade and make them for myself.

Time for my annual watching of “Single All the Way” on Netflix — I love this movie. P.S., Triangle-area folks, consider checking out La Carreta at Wade/Oberlin — adorably decked out for Christmas, with some yummy drinks served in big holiday mugs. (I had The Nutcracker.) #raleighnc #christmas

I saw some video that Dean Cain and Kevin Sorbo are filming some (likely godawful) movie in WV, and that they were not handling the cold well. I thought they were alpha males?

Earlier this year, I saw “The Princess Bride: An Inconceivable Evening with Cary Elwes,” then followed it up with listening to Elwes’ memoir. They all sounded so close — I can’t imagine how devastated the cast and crew are.

Hey, Americans who around my age (50), you may be due for a Hep B booster, as well as MMR, polio and Hep A. Check with your doctor/pharmacy!

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