Just saw I Love Boosters but the crowd was all old white film buffs, and then as I was leaving the theater I saw a poster for a movie starring Daveed Diggs I miss Oakland

I want to share the concerts thing but I feel COMPELLED to tell a story about each one and then I just get tired. Also I think I have an unfair advantage being Gen X and growing up when concerts were cheap and music wasn’t downloadable

Gado gado for lunch? It’s more likely than you’d think!

This made my day. Sound UP!

I’m getting a ton of rich lady earth mother content marketed to me and while you might THINK that I’d like that based on my crafts, baking, etc the specific things they’re doing are awful?!? I hate sound baths, I won’t sunbathe no matter how it’s marketed, do not ever share your dreams with me!

Child next door is sobbing and screaming “Mommmmm!” at the top of his lungs so happy Mother’s Day to my neighbor, hope she gets a solo weekend sometime soon

TREE! LAW! TREE! LAW! oaklandside.org/2026/05/05/t...

This thread has improved my day tremendously www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...

It was so sunny and bright this morning that I thought “oh, I’ll do some laundry and hang it out to dry!” and felt very smug about my good planning until I stepped outside to hang it and it was sprinkling rain

This whole thread is great

Someone asked me yesterday what my favorite book is, and I completely blanked. What IS my favorite book? 🤔

I don’t know how the store near me ended up with the same strawberries I used to go to the farmer’s market to get when I lived 350 miles away but I’m grateful

Just saw a cafe worker visibly deflate as she went to clean a table with a bunch of crap strewn across it. When she saw me looking she gave me a kind of helpless “sorry but you get it” shrug I do get it, we’re all a little fragile right now

Any thoughts on what if anything we’re doing on May 1st? I heard a call for a general strike a while back but it seems to be getting zero momentum, I just remember that I found out really suddenly the last time and I really need to have it figured out by tomorrow night!

Wait, today is both independent bookstore day and local yarn shop day?!?

Nana?!? You know you’re in the bad timeline when Nana might lay waste to your city en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_At...

My least favorite neighbors, who live full-time in AZ but visit when the house isn't rented out, are getting married here this weekend. I should not be surprised that their friends and relatives are just as trashy as they are, and yet

OMG I thought this was one of the Zaslav tax break casualties, I’m excited to see it’s being released! I’m ready for a courtroom drama in the Who Killed Roger Rabbit world

For the past week I’ve been seeing forecasts for a half inch of rain at 90-95% probability for today. It is not raining. The forecast has been updated now to show 80% chance of .01” Just give us NOAA back, I beg you

Good news everyone! I found my headphones in the pocket of the pants that had been worn once but weren’t really dirty. I am basically unable to work without my headphones and the nice people telling me stories so this is timely indeed

There have been multiple questions about how to fix a gas tank that has been *drilled into from outside to steal gas* in the past couple weeks on my local listserv equivalent

One of the things I really enjoy about getting into knitting again is that for every person knitting whatever neutral toned oversized sweater is currently popular there are five people absolutely wilding out with bizarre color schemes or proportions and proudly showing them off

Little truck!

I learned today at the dentist that my mouth’s pH is naturally lower than most people? Which is why I have weak enamel but almost no tartar. I have wondered about this my whole life!

When they said "AI will increase productivity" I didn't realize they meant "AI code will crash the social media networks on which I procrastinate, forcing me to actually do my job"

I have not and would not steal another person’s package, but that See’s package I had to walk by in front of someone’s door has me understanding the impulse

Anyone want a bite?

I need to figure out what I’m baking this week so I can let everyone know (yes I should have done this weeks ago but here we are). All I feel like making is a big bowl of pudding.

Okay we did lose one leaf but also! A bloom!

Just learned Norwegian purl and it feels like I pulled off a magic trick. I’m so delighted by it!

Just heard a British person pronounce “vacuum” as VAY-cue-um

I somehow missed that Jan Morris was trans, despite reading some of her books? I guess I’m too young to have been aware of her transition when it happened and I never read her autobiography but still! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Okay I went with the purple and also ummmm this set of mini skeins for which I have no plan other than “colorwork? for next thing?” They were on sale! 😬

lol look at one of the souvenirs my brother brought me

My rescue babies blooming! I have just as many not blooming and a couple more with spikes that haven’t bloomed yet. These just look so cheery all together

I’ve been spending time on Ravelry recently, and unfortunately current trends are Not My Thing. For example: - sweaters knit from yarn held double - and they’re two strands of lace weight - so much mohair - cropped sweaters made with 10+ inches positive ease - weirdly wide sleeve cuffs?

I can’t decide on the color for my next project. The chestnut would go best with the rest of my wardrobe (I have a lot of green or olive colored pants) but the turquoise and green are so pretty and the blue is so versatile

They finally got me, I signed up for the gas station rewards program to save 5¢/gal I used my mom’s name and phone number though, so good luck to them tracking her purchases from beyond the grave

Judged food competitions aren’t won by “the best”, they’re won by the solidly inoffensive. Distinctive entrants will get both high and low scores from different judges, good but boring gets the highest average score

@osutein.bsky.social saw you in passing today

Sent out three messages of varying levels of scary one right after the other, now to sit back and stress the hell out about potential responses 😎

I’m trying very hard not to absorb someone else’s stress right now and it’s so hard! Why can’t things go well for people I love? Arghhhh

Being gluten free gives me a real feeling of kinship with immigrants struggling to recreate their favorite dishes from home. Anyway, here’s the gf Hong Shao Rou I made that I had to invent a dark soy sauce substitute for (coconut aminos, Korean soup soy sauce, caramelized sugar and brown sugar)

The amazing Loopy Whisk cinnamon rolls have you pour over some heavy cream right before baking and cover them for half the baking time so they steam a little. Today I accidentally tripled the cream and they were maybe even better?!? There was a puddle of cream at the end but the rolls were great!

I saw this movie on cable at some point and it started a whole phase of my musical (and culinary) education Every song is amazing except tbe Dennis Quaid one (sorry dude) www.discogs.com/release/3531...

Just found a cat hair stuck to a burner on the stove. The stove was thoroughly scrubbed last week and my cat Diego died five months ago. 💔

There’s nothing I find less soothing than a “sound bath”, I don’t know why but they’re everywhere right now I can’t even go to the orchid show without being subjected to one?!? Why

It is a bright sunny day, not quite 11:00 AM here and the temperature is already as high as it was supposed to get all day Remember a year or so ago when we used to get accurate forecasting? Can we start a gofundme or something for the NOAA? jfc

I’m having a stressful day (trying to get tax documents for my mom’s final tax return, turns out dying is not an acceptable reason not to file). So I’m taking a break to enjoy some of the 10 (!) orchids currently blooming or getting ready to, of the 20 or so I either rescued or was given last year

Big news in our household: least favorite flavor grapefruit has been replaced in the cases of fizzy water from Costco by the much preferred blood orange tangerine flavor