Why do people try to do leaf stuff when the wind is blowing and gusting??

Okay so if I buy the "fitness tracker" available through the FSA site, I have to buy a subscription to use it. If I wanted to get one without that bullshit, I have to get my doctor to submit a letter of medical necessity. God I love the US healthscam industry!

If you have a costco membership, PediaSure and diapers are on sale right now. Might be a good thing to grab and hand to your nearest food bank/etc if you want something quick & easy. 💓

Like, today would be a good day to go move more mulch but mostly I want naps. If I wait until tomorrow I theoretically have two more pairs of hands to help, which would be a lot faster. I would however miss out on all the wonderful exercise! Lol

“You think I’m gonna be James Tiberius Kirk, Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise, ‘Amok Time’ tiddy window edition, for Halloween, and I’m not putting glittery highlighter all over my tits? Please. Give me some credit.”

Local news blog highlighted this shelter dog who is the cutest! And I'm really curious what her color looks like in person because the pink around her eyes instead of black makes me wonder if she's genetically a chocolate not black dog but has a v dark coat. alexandriaanimals.org/pet-details/...

Oh hello there 🙃 #art #bats #autumn

I was all excited about the Aurifil thread advent calendar being a thing until I read that it had mixed thread weights in it, which makes it a lot less useful for me. I pretty much only use 50 wt and more heavy stuff is wasted on me. Alas.

More mulch shoveling on my day off. Borrowed a tarp from my neighbor and it turns out I can actually move a decent amount of mulch on my trunk. And it’s not nearly as taxing as my garbage can method since I don’t have to try to dump it out. Lots more shoveling though.

Waiting to give a urine sample and a prior patient “exploded” in the bathroom. I feel sorry for the staff and my bladder.

So this is That Necklace number … three? seven? I have lost count? But they’re all pretty? $89.00 simple string #24 – The Vagabond Tabby

Success! It’s very tasty!

I've never been linked to drawn erotica before where I sat there wondering where the heck that dude's cock was attached. Usually it's pretty obvious, even if it's ludicrious but this one looks like it's coming from his knee. Or maybe the chair? IDK.

That’s the first time I’ve ever received a spam email where every word was written backwards.

You’ve all been very good this week, please have a crab.

Wearing a sweater instead of a hoodie today and keep trying to put my phone into pockets that don’t exist. 😬

We have this "pork roast in a bag" that you are supposed to just throw in the slow cooker still in the plastic and I'm like "idk, cooking in plastic is sus" and also how do you add veggies? I can't tell if I can just open it up and put it in there with veg or if that will fuck things up.

Report from @fenrik98.bsky.social on the road: they have gendered solar power.

I can’t believe the world wants me to get out of bed right now. For meetings!

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That’s a lot less Putin/DT than I expected.

Toilet aneurysm! Toilet aneurysm!

it’s nine PM on the east coast and polls have closed bring me the head of andrew cuomo

The nerd platform tonight is swinging wildly between election ecstasy and bisexual The Mummy sequel lust (at least on my timeline).

A good 10% of the out of office messages I got today in response to an email blast were "so-and-so no longer works here". That's high. And that's just the employers that bothered to set up an out of office reply and didn't just shitcan the account right away.

And nothing of value is lost.

Trying to confirm that Quest has my order for testing. Drs office says it was sent on the 1st. A Saturday. Really? Nothing showing on Quest's website. Try to call the site: phone tree hell and trying to get through to a human gets you hung up on. I've asked to be emailed a copy of the order b4 appt.

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

Day two of "why aren't you getting up?" commences.

Every time I sit here working while listening to power washers, leaf blowers, and more, I am going to think about the person whining because they had to hear chainsaws early one weekend.

I suppose this reads very oddly if you don’t know Penny is a dog.

And yes, you can get a coordinating needle minder.

You know, usually the thing where I wake up and look at my phone is neutral to bad but what a good morning.

Penny had the screams turned up to 11 so I tasked her with getting my slippers from upstairs, with added difficulty as they were in the bathroom. I received: J's blue slipper (downstairs), J's shoe (downstairs), a basketball (upstairs), a refusal to go back upstairs by herself, 1/2

Only thing better than a hermit thrush (besides a wood thrush) is … TWO hermit thrushes. Sound on for gentle splishing noises, unfortunately every time I downloaded the video the sound was out of sync and I couldn’t figure out how to fix it.

Kicking past me for not looking up this data but in past me's defense, a lot of this didn't used to be easily available in a LinkedIn search. I used to max out my LinkedIn number of searches allowed just on looking up people's titles.

lol of course that local news guy has set up on substack

"Sign up for text messages so you can have access to our biggest sale of the year where we're going to give you 20% off for the privilege of sending your phone garbage as well as your email!!!"

Thinking about art things adjacent to the current discussion: I stopped actively designing for POD publishers because every time we got a little bit of profit as artists, they'd go and change up the terms so they were worse for us. Royalty changes, payout changes, hosting charges out of the blue.

The Elder Gods lurk just under the surface of the world, and sometimes their terrifying tentacles poke out, and those are: Hostas Sumac Day-lilies

The leaves are 50% down and bird traffic is picking up so prepare for lots of bird reports: I just saw a pileated woodpecker on the trees!

Downy woodpecker flailing at a house sparrow on the suet feeder: fuck off! Fuck off! House sparrow: sorry, bro I can’t hear you. My mouth is full of suet.

The thing where an author has written one or two perfect works in your fandom and then abandons it forever 😭😭

Dogs: hello. It is walk time. Me: no, you have to wait because we fucked up time. Dogs: no?????

I think in a fandom that has the Justice League & the League of Assassins, you really need to specify which League you’re talking about at first mention. Okay sure if you’re reading a Red Hood origin story retread you can probably safely assume LOA but it all depends on how AU the author is going.

Tag of the day: “NSFW - by which I mean there were copious health and safety violations”

Hurray, HOA has approved my solar project! Now I just need the county to but I don’t have any visibility into that one.

I have done many small tidying projects around the house instead, huzzah.

Local dogs want to know where the fuck their dinner is.