hey other people who've ridden horses, ever, is it true "just sitting on a stationary horse doesn't really take any work"? because, like, in my very limited experience that is NOT EVEN REMOTELY TRUE, but hey: despite my athleticism and ridic core strength, my experience is limited! maybe I'm wrong!

yes isaac chotiner is indeed a model for our Clark Kent, Investigative Reporter. his SOLO work is mostly portrait interviews. some of them are very flattering spotlights on cool people doing cool art/organising/whatever. some of them are very unflattering spotlights of motherfuckers being fuckshit.

I haven't done this in awhile, so 1 like = 1 line from a WIP! s'gonna be dealer's choice on fandom (you can make a suggestion in replies but they are non-binding, heh)

lmao of course it was press day my first day back in like three and a half months. rip my shoulders

I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY MADE IT TO THE CIRQUE CENTRE FOR HANDSTANDS CLASS, PLS CLAP

the topical meds and splints work better when you use them and I really fucking hate that because they are SO goddamned annoying. and I really need to get compression gloves so the splints will stop FALLING OFF.

My sister’s cat would like to speak to the manager.

Allow me to suggest obtaining a Los Angeles Public Library card. They're like, "This one person wants a whole series of books on individual spices? GOOD ENOUGH FOR US, I'm hitting that purchase button."

why I do not have an elephant site account! I’d have to run a single-user instance to feel comfortable and, like. I fucking could do that! or, see, there are actually fun things I could pour being a stubborn cuss into, like knitting bonkers shit, or aerial! not doing that much work just to shitpost.

there aren’t a lot of purely good things on the internet but “you have to share Tom Holland doing Umbrella” is one of them

1000% this would be our household if we had a pool table

This IS a great headline and also: Seattle! Get the word out! Someone was exposed to rabies and needs to seek medical care IMMEDIATELY!

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This is so brilliant. It's a concrete action with immediate benefits that can be performed incrementally

People in or near New Jersey: look at this amazing opportunity!

I am home from work! Momma has not moved the kittens again while I was out, thank fuck.

Chai has a cozy.

I am so tired, bluesky. I have been awake since 6am, dealing with momma cat shenanigans (she keeps moving her kittens, which would be fine except she keeps moving them to places that my SIL can’t reach). I just want to nap. Instead, I have work in an hour.

meant this to be a QS, not a reply, whoops. more momma Autumn!

our current foster is a momma and her four potats. momma Autumn is such a sweetheart! she hasn’t been defensive at all with us, even as she is doing a great job with the kittens keeping them fed and clean.

wait what the hell, how is micah in the top 50. no. j'refuse. clearly their methodology sucks. bsky is bigger than that now, and he's just a guy who loves Discworld and has correct Superman opinions!

it's probably not the *best* thing I got from/experienced on the five week cruise around northern european islands/peninsulas, but the ability to say "fuck off; Guinness is just mid-as-fuck stout. yes: EVEN ON-TAP-IN-DUBLIN, IT'S MID." is probably one of the most *versatile* things I got out of it.

you know, it's not that I mind people screenshotting things when they post about bad behaviour/opinions in case of deletion/block/whatever. I just fucking think you should INCLUDE a link to the original fucking bullshit ALONGSIDE the screenshots

doink

Imagining it's Raptcha, and somewhere an angel is trying to raise a mortal soul to heaven but has been stopped, looking with its countless impossible eyes at a pic asking the angel to first select all the squares that contain Motorcycles.

the babies have worked out that faucets mean water: I caught Nimbus and Josie both jumping up and batting at/trying to push the shower handle downstairs. which is going to be *hysterical* when they get big enough to actually manage to turn it, because they don’t actually like water falling on them.

anyone else having problems uploading images to bsky rn?

three days, three fucking trips to Ikea, and one small blood sacrifice later, and the should’ve-been-three-hour-including-the-drive-to/fro-Ikea project is finally done.

tfw when your electrolytes are so fucked 2g of salt in ~36oz water (32oz water, 8oz ice that melted down to water) tastes purely sweet.

I have an incredibly superficial scratch on the back of my calf from the 6 m/o kittens that itches and aches like all fuck, because MCAS is a joy and delight. I’ve literally broken out a compression knee brace to make it shut up, which is extra ironic ‘cause compression ALSO pisses my mast cells off

aksjhgsdgjh and the fucking car shenanigans turned out to be pointless, and it so fucking gross and humid inside at work i want to throttle everyone who keeps opening the gotdang doors

it is gross and humid because fucking monsoon season and my hip hurts and there are annoying car shenanigans and I didn’t get nearly enough sleep last night and I just realised I forgot my earbuds and cannot go back to get them and a friend of mine is dealing with a shitty situation and, just. ugh.

i would really like my home repair quests to stop exploding into fifteen part epic quest chains

Quick cartoon because.

once again asking the question, “what the FUCK does my body even DO with all that sodium?!” as I consume an ungodly amount of hydration salts.

I am desultorily attempting to pick up some Italian for our next cruise in 2027, and I just need to complain about the fact that Italian pronunciation is close *enough* to Spanish to REALLY disconcert me, sigh. I’m not even fluent in spanish, and yet.

so I’ve made the considered choice to not mask when picking up and dropping off clients but continue to wear one *during* services. the hysterical thing about this is that it turns out I have zero problem remembering to put the mask ON when I step out for them to undress…

my kingdom for a caffeine powder produced by a company i trust that i can order from as a retail customer and not wholesale. i know why this is a hard ask, but jfc I just want to caffeinate my fancy local lemonade with something that I am confident is what it says in the quantity it says it is.

dearest darlingest hip, I don’t know why you’re pissed off but please shut up already, I gave you tramadol and I have four massages today.

y’all, the new electrolyte booster from Skratch Labs is everything I wanted, it’s *just* the electrolytes so I can use it to electrolyte-ify my favourite local lemonade and also up the sodium content on my regular skratch as needed.

timed mutes when, bsky. god, I need timed mutes already.

because I am currently staring at some first draft right now and sighing at how much more work it's gonna be to get it to final draft, and I am someone who has always, always been allergic to the "shitty first draft" method: another way of thinking about it is the first draft is a *sketch*.

area woman discovers morning meds still in pill organiser when taking evening meds, solves mystery

Novelkin: People who feel that their soul is actually a novel

Novelus: A prehistoric novel, identifiable by its spiral shell and forward tentacles

Noveltine: A novel with added vitamins and minerals given to children to improve their reading

Novelour: A low cost fabric used to manufacture novel covers.

Novel: 40,000 words + Novella: 17,500 - 39,999 words Novelette: 10,000 - 17,499 words Novelina: A small primitive novel primarily seen in the American southwest.

i am just over here going "this is at least the fifth time I've seen You Have To Pivot To Video go 'round" and, like. Bullwinkle, that trick NEVER works. you're not going to make video commercially viable this time just by insisting even louder everyone HAS TO use it! bandwidth still costs money!

the depressing thing about how fucking obnoxious transferring my phone to a backup phone while it goes in for a screen replacement is that this is vastly less obnoxious than it used to be, and it’s still this obnoxious.