Dear Taskmaster: I am really having a time of it right now, a series premier episode would be lovely

@heyscoops.bsky.social We're moving into a house with no HOA. No one to stop me from getting this Pigasus weathervane.

Once in a while I remember that I am someone's great aunt. In related news, I should probably stop procrastinating about going back to PT for my hip.

He reminds me of Cillian Murphy's character in Redeye.

My brain is complete mush today. If anyone needs anything from me, I suggest you don't.

Haven't we already been "settling" for decades of election cycles?

Every single person who complained that we were "transing the tomboys" needs to know they are culpable in this.

It's not enough to prevent hormonal transition, they want to enforce gender stereotypes now, claiming they are divinely ordained despite the fact that the bulk of them come from an idealized version of the 1950s and are ridiculously ahistorical even within the limited western context.

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

@heyscoops.bsky.social Any chance y'all can leverage your various connections to The Party to get Micah Clark on the pod? We've seen him twice in that show and I just want to hear his story 🤷

We're becoming such an old couple. Splitting a single entree and the seeing a matinee. Probably in bed by ten.

A different furniture warehouse has ruined the gorgeous mountain view from the IKEA cafeteria in Las Vegas.

I ran out of spoons before I finished my errands.

Excel is the program that hates you just as much as you hate it.

We bought my laptop because it is a heavy duty gaming PC, and it runs massive games with no problems. A 400 page Word document, however, makes it chug.

Autistic skill regression is terrifying and when I sat down to do some work today I was briefly panicked that I could no longer touch-type on a real keyboard. Half an hour in I seem to be warming up. Phew.

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Whatever it is, I hope it's itchy, painful, and oozes constantly under his collar.

I had an anxiety dream last night that took place in my childhood home, involving a bunch of family members. Then suddenly someone said "Oh, it was the Dwarves," and a bunch of Tolkienesque dudes show up and apologize to me. Brains are so fucking weird.

How mean do we have to be to Gavin Newsom to get him to run for the Republican presidential nomination?

there is no metric by which this is true. even 2028 primary polling (which is meaningless in general but seems like a fair yardstick here) doesn’t have him on top. just a brazen attempt to impose him on us by the rich and the commentariat.

There's a new apartment complex in my neighborhood called Night Fall and I can't decide if that's a great name or a terrible one.

Very warm today, so you get some early invert pap snaps. Saw loads of pollinators but they were so busy and hungry I didn't get many pics.

So much for the military disobeying illegal orders.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

I wish I'd gone to sleep twenty minutes ago when I first thought about it, so I wouldn't have to know about the situation with Iran until tomorrow.

a whole lot of businesspeople learning in real time that a predictable and stable regulatory state - even if you don’t like some of the regulations - is vastly preferable to “boss man doesn’t like you so you’re fucked now”

I hate the dismissive way politics-heads talk about lefties having “purity tests” as an insult. It’s such a sneer. But looked at another way - what it really means is that they have DIFFERENT purity tests. E.g. if we demand full trans rights, that’s supposedly a purity test. Why? [cont]

There was an article that I can no longer find that casts a guy who had $340,000 in savings as an everyman, and I wish I could find the article again so I can be even more outraged.

trans women are my sisters, trans men my brothers. their struggle is my struggle. their freedom is my freedom.

I wonder what the new driver's license policy in Kansas for trans folks is going to cost the state. There's always enough money for cruelty, it seems.

This is why people are so upset when people say Democrats need to stop focusing on trans issues because it's too woke and people aren't ready for it: we're not talking minor inconvenience here. We're not talking microaggressions We're talking: they are stripping IDs from trans people

Keir Starmer really looks like a bargain basement Anthony Stewart Head.

Today a random man walking down Main Street in the older part of Vegas walked past me and shouted "Bitch-ass fucking mohawk bitch!" And to you sir, and to you

Would people think differently of Gavin Newsom if they knew that while mayor of SF, he had an affair with his campaign manager's wife? A woman who was his employee as his appointments secretary? Furthermore, that when he was a 39-year-old mayor, he openly dated a 19-year-old?

I know that I would feel better if I got out into the canyons and experienced some nature, but it has been so fucking windy here that I barely want to go get the mail.

Why haven't Jeff Daniels and Dave Coulier played brothers yet?

@heyscoops.bsky.social Jacob talked about the Nordic use of unusual botanicals - when we were in Iceland last summer I had a bunch of drinks that featured liqueurs made from all kinds of weird twigs and stuff, and they were all DELICIOUS.

Just banged the shit out of my hand. Gonna have a Trump bruise.

We've hit the stage in major life stuff where my husband and I are snippy with each other over things that are totally unrelated, but are perfectly peaceful and on the same page when it comes to the major life thing.

I saw an ACTUALLY HOT guy around RFK Jr.'s age at the grocery store today in gray sweatpants. They do exist. We don't have to accept that this is the best old men can look.

I just overheard a lady talking about how she is getting an orchid for someone who is a major orchid expert, and I glanced over at her cart. Dyed flowers. I think the gift recipient will be polite but disappointed.

I have been awake for twelve hours now, and the hot shower and B vitamins ain't cutting it.

Can't let that foot escape

My god do we need UBI “Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“

I just got an ad for exercise clothes with "a tactical silhouette." The human race was a mistake.

I saw this print magazine while waiting in line at the pharmacy. No bylines on any of the "articles" so I assume they also got ChatGPT to write it. Looked like mostly bulleted lists and not actual prose.

"Look, it's okay for moderates to say they won't vote for someone because they're too progressive, but progressives aren't allowed to say they won't vote for someone for being too moderate/conservative"... for reasons. Uh huh. Sure.

Unless the answer is that you don’t actually want the nominee to move left. That you’re fine with Newsom or whoever running as a moderate, and this is less about pragmatism and more about not wanting progressives to have influence over the platform. Which, if that’s the case, just say that.

Another way I can tell I'm stressed is that I have been thinking about what I would get tattooed as a tramp stamp again.