This was maybe a week ago. I thought, "it's been a while since she's been this playful. I don't know how many days like this she has left." It was the last one. She left today, but she's been gone for a week. I miss her.

Nothing unexpected came back on the inspection report. Everything there is manageable. I think.... I think I might be buying a house. With @bencreighton.bsky.social. Our house. *Our* house.

Ah, shit. Star Wars and Indiana Jones were never the same without her, she didn't get nearly enough credit.

"What if this, but sexy?" --some casting director in 1964, and again in 1991

BEHOLD! SAUSAGE BLAST!

That feeling where every time they open the door to the garage at Discount Tire, the mechanics are blasting a certified banger, and then the door closes and I'm stuck listening to the shitty country music they're playing in the lobby.

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

Idea: a science fiction retelling of Lord of the Rings in which an android has to match Frodo's test of character by taking a second ring to Mount Doom. Readers will be on the edge of their seats to see if this mechanical man can pass the Two Ring Test.

Hearts, stars, horseshoes, clovers and blue moons. Pots of gold and rainbows, and a red balloon.

Happy holiday to those that celebrate!

Live orchestra concert by a lake in Rockwall, Texas.

Happy Checking Timestamps and Doing Mental Calculations About OP's Probable Timezone Day, everyone!

Bringing it full circle at last

Retail and food service workers should get to punch one customer per year without consequence. Once per year would incentivize workers not to waste it on anyone who doesn't *really* deserve it, but it would still make potential asshole customers step carefully just in case.

Intelligence is knowing that Frankenstein is the name of the scientist, not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that the only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother. I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!

Okay, Snyder, you just got a rare chance to get me back on your side. Don't fuck it up.

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

My latest Babylon 5 review is up! This time, we're looking at "Soul Hunter," a goofy but still intriguing episode:

RLM recently posed the question of what alignment Quark from Star Trek DS9 would have. I submit: Lawful Good. The laws he followed were the Rules of Acquisition, but he followed them for their own sake, not only when it benefited him. And he only DIDN'T follow them in service of some other good.

The duality of man.

But Tiny Tim will never die. The world belongs to me. This is where I've been given time to live and see. NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER GIVE IN, NEVER SAY DIE LIKE MY MAN TINY TIM.

My coworkers at the special needs clinic and I have done it: we have claimed "6 7" from the youth and run it into the ground so hard that THEY are begging US to stop. YOU ARE WELCOME, EVERYONE. JESUS MERELY DIED FOR YOU, WE LIVE THIS NIGHTMARE FOR YOU.

So they're making a new Street Fighter movie, and I'm sure the guy they got to play M Bison will be perfectly serviceable, and I fully expect to spend every minute of his screen time missing Raul Julia with all my heart.

I know that you're in love with him, I saw you dancing in the gym, A rhyming couplet wrote by Don McClean. A lonely teenage broncin' buck, With flowers and a pickup truck, The meter fits the Parton hit, Jolene. Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene....

If there *must* be a big-budget live-action Zelda movie, the least they can do is feature Beedle the merchant played by a lone Muppet in an otherwise human cast, and never acknowledge the difference in any way. If they can't give us that much, what are they even doing?

Remember that time that we got two Elder Scrolls games, two Fallout games, and three Mass Effect games all in the same console generation? ... What the hell happened?

Wow, I didn't realize the prosecutors were so based! *reads article* Never mind, they consider it a bad thing for some reason.

Fun fact: Jordan Peele names his films this way because they're horror movies, and for some reason half the American public is scared of pronouns right now.

Everyone get ready for an "old man yells at cloud" moment: "Crashing out" does not mean to throw a temper tantrum, it means to fall deeply asleep immediately because one is very tired. You don't get to redefine perfectly good slang just because you're too young to know better.

That's a poke. A joke is a head fake or other misleading movement to confound an opponent in sports.

If you are a National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487 Know. Your. Rights.

Star trek had a lot of hard lines over the years, but this remains the fucking hardest

Keep seeing people saying they're "boycotting" the Switch 2 over game prices. Shit, I didn't know I was boycotting Ferrari, I thought I was just broke.

"All the... small things...."

Playing Jenga with @xelesparza.bsky.social 's 100-year-old granddad. It is delightful. Before the game has ended, he's forgotten the beginning. "Who would build this tower in such a way? Never in my life have I seen such a thing!"

There's a dent on the bottom of my soda can so it won't sit flat. Modern problems require modern solutions.

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

I think it's important to allow a way back for all but the most lost souls, or they'll have no reason to ever stop doubling down. Whatever got this woman from participating in insurrection to refusing a presidential pardon and serving her time, it needs to be studied. www.bbc.com/news/article...

How are y'all making your PB&J? Peanut butter first, meaning a little bit gets into the jelly jar from the knife? Jelly first, meaning a little bit of jelly gets in the peanut butter? Two separate knives? Wash the knife in between?

So I've been keeping my ibuprofen in an old garlic jar because it's the right size for my work bag, but it made it taste like garlic. So I switched to a chicken Better Than Bouillon jar, but the garlic taste is still there, just with a chicken taste now too. I'm thinking some rosemary next.

One tells only truths, the other tells only lies. Answer our riddle and you may pass.

Everyone has opinions on how early is too early to play Christmas music but I am over here saying, people, it is January 3rd, your week's grace period between Christmas and New Year's has run out, it's time to quit that shit.

As always, if you'd like to help a truly cute, yet currently disgusting animal, check my ko-fi and commission a plush or two.

Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store during the duration of our ULP strikes (Manually reposting for mutuals/followers who have reposts turned off, bc i think you'd wanna know!)