The chicks are outside now!

I saw a thing w a guy talking about feeling bad bc his mother would have had such a different life without him. So I had to write a poem about it.

The pushback on “don’t sign up for protests” as advice has got me thinking about how much of the way people think about their personal safety is tied to how much they get blamed if something happens to them.

My sleepy brain, vaguely thinking about how weird language and alphabets and number systems are, handed me this gem: Numb and Number

Grateful for the group chat in which I am now scream-unloading a lot of vociferous frustrations that I will perhaps address more calmly in this space at another time of my choosing. Anyway! It’s really been A WEEK!!!!!!!

Gorgeous little cat-faced orb weaver spider on my back deck! She is a little bigger than a quarter. Biggest spider I’ve seen at 8500’ elevation!

Those spoiled Americans, wanting to be able to afford housing, food, medical care, transportation, education and even, egads, ENTERTAINMENT with their wages!

Today I came upon a wild (or feral) apple tree absolutely LOADED with tiny, sweet apples. It was nearly a religious experience.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

I have finished all of “The Wizard, T the Witch and the Wild One” by #worldsbeyondnumber and oh boy. I did not expect Sworn to swipe my heart all of a sudden. Or for OTHER CHARACTERS to DO THINGS the way they SO DID THEM.

For my grumpy naysayers: Tasmanian devil face cancer wasn’t our fault, was not because of anything humans did, has had horrendous effects on the population, but because of mRNA vaccine technology developed for Covid, we may be able to save them. Put that in your doom and smoke it.

There is a reason I have two enormous dogs. If they aren’t worried, then I don’t need to be worried. If something can take those two out, I didn’t have a chance against it anyway.

I made a lil ghost on a swing in a jar

Always fun looking at a group of half grown chickens and mentally placing them along the “hen to rooster” spectrum. As usual, the two real lookers are gonna be roosters for sure.

This exactly

I found an app called Falling Fruit where people post where fruit trees are in public places and I found WILD PLUMS by a parking lot with it and just about lost my mind with hobbity excitement.

Seriously. He was in on all that? Line him up against the wall with all the rest of them.

Saying it AGAIN just in case someone wasn’t listening all the other times — Trans folk are not acceptable losses. No one is.

You come for me like this, in my own timeline…

Search “weather” in your photos and post whatever weird thing it has decided is “weather”

Oh god. That’s terrifying.

And if there is anything I’ve learned from the fall of the Roman Empire, things are only about to get sillier.

Con O’Neil is another of these chameleons. Plays the Chernobyl antagonist, a very problematic pirate with an incomplete redemption arc, other villains. Aaaaand also musical theatre. And in real life is the sweetest teddy bear.

Mother Jones is looking for a fluent Hebrew/English speaker who can help us fact-check some translations -- ideally someone with research/fact check/journalism experience. It would be a few hours of paid work. DM me if interested!

I know we've beat the "don't use ChatGPT" thing to death, but this one hit me today, thanks to Joe Posnanski's blog. If a con committee was trying to use the LLM to vet potential program participants re #MeToo problems, it's never going to work bc LLMs so often state the *exact opposite* of facts.

ME: Hmm, I’m feeling really restless and anxious for some reason. THE SCREAMING HORRORS: OOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHUUURRRRRROOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWHHHHHHHUUUUUUURRRAA ME: *avoiding eye contact with the screaming horrors* Maybe I should book a tattoo

HELL YEAH SEIZE THE MOMENT MY DUDE

Insects are actual science fiction aliens, aren't they 👀

semi related, but in light of all the looming censorship bs + me being a blob of chronic illness, I’ve decided to drop my Patreon down to tip jar From Sept on, nothing (incl. nsfw) will be paywalled. The $5 sub is optional, and purely a way to say thanks/support me patreon.com/c/synthwavecryptid

I just saw the xenomorph queen referred to as the XMILF and yknow what, that’s enough Internet for now.

it is incredibly easy to believe that seven super-wealthy tech CEOs are delusional

This dog is huge and ridiculous

I want to make basic prints of art at home. High enough quality to sell. Is there a printer for less than $300 that will do this? Under $200 even better

Why don’t we humans get annual rabies shots like every other domestic animal?

I bought a 2024 Outback this weekend, thus checking off a big thing on my Become a Coloradan checklist. She’s so pretty! I need a name for her.

Omg, amazing thread on ART.

#9 especially useful for writers. You need to know how easy it is to get in and out of places if you’re going to write that heist.

I was snacking while crafting. Put my hand into a bag without looking, nearly ate a button.

Labor Day is very special for me. It’s the anniversary of the day my friend Rae was visiting me and came with me to my mother’s house, and got in a ROARING fight with my older brother over the morality of labor laws. So proud of my cool ass friend.

Texas Blocks Law That Would Ban Gun Stores From Operating Inside Psych Wards http://theonion.com/texas-blocks-law-that-would-ban-gun-stores-from-operating-inside-psych-wards/

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

universe loading the bases for a walkoff grand slam

Goals

No compromise when it comes to the safety and rights of trans folk. They are not acceptable losses.

The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.

Show yourself at 21! 15 years between the two photos. I was maybe 27 in the older pic? Which is the closest I can find to 21.

But tell me again about how they are cracking down on crime and anyone they deport deserves it. You know, the people who show up to help in emergencies and those who attend their immigration hearings. Those clear malfeasances.

A simple way to restore trust in government? Pass my bills with @aoc.bsky.social to prohibit Members of Congress from trading stocks and impose a lifetime lobbying ban. Period.