This is the solstice energy I need today

This whole "we'll tell you about it later" is the new version of "this isn't the baby-eating department, we only cook the babies here." They think we're really dumb, but it also does buy them time to do more crimes. (Yes I see a straight line from Bari Weiss to this criminal White House)

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I want this

If this isn’t the start of some fabulous spooky shenanigans

Attempting to post this as normal text led to -500 characters or thereabouts, lol

A little bit of Dahlia power for the weekend 🌞🍂☺️

Some products become so ubiquitous their names become the product. Like Kleenex. For almost two decades some of these IT products have defined their category. With plenty of exceptions, Gmail has been the default for a long time for a lot of people. That's coming to an end, I see.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

absolutely tf not.

Keep your eyes peeled for the new book from @suzbrockmann.bsky.social - back her kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com/projects/suz...) or wait for the bookstore release late in Jan. She's one of the reasons I wanted to write romances in the first place. And if you need a happy place with some hope...

"It's so useless to boycott." No it's not. 1790s Quakers kneecapped slavery in Britain by boycotting products produced with the labor of enslaved people, especially sugar. #Learnhistory #Moneyispower #Fightback theconversation.com/how-18th-cen...

Yeah they are just grabbing people off the street every day and putting them in torture camps if you have time to give a shit about this probably use it for ethnic cleansing they're attempting Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

You absolutely love to see it. Indies keep my heart beating.

A huge part of the book-banning project aims to make work that provides a public good feel impossible and unsafe! It targets authors, absolutely, but it’s also trying to add unreasonable administrative burdens to the work of teachers and librarians.

A house filled with the power of... Christ? Is it Christ? I feel like that's the wrong answer

The grocery guy handed me my eggs like a cradled baby, wrapped in swaddling plastic. I guess since we gave up democracy for eggs we better take care of 'em.

Another crushing truth

#ArtAdventCalendar #Watercolor

The choc. muffins I made for my brother were better than the ones I made today. Variables that must be tested: Adding a dab of molasses. Letting the whole mix sit for a bit to hydrate. Adding the oil when everything else is already mixed (remember, that was my mistake). Diff. brand of pumpkin puree

Swinging from 24 degrees below average to 16 degrees above in a couple of days isn’t normal, I think.

Russia's disinformation campaign is currently claiming Nick Reiner killed Rob Reiner because he supports Ukraine and bad news from Ukraine triggered "Ukraine Syndrome". I assume this is found in the same medical textbook as "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and "Russiaphobia".

The Prime Directive for designers needs to be the Principle of Least Astonishment. And they need to be able to override Marketing, every time.

cis people on the skyline are genuinely more distressed by karoline leavitt’s lip fillers than the fact that congress just said, “what we should do is put any doctor or pharmacist in prison who gives lifesaving medical care to this specific kind of child we find gross.”

forget Year In Review, your sewer bill give gives you all the trends we care about every single month.

Donuts were a hit! I think the little bit of molasses made them look scorched. It’s a balmy 35 degrees F and what a relief. Even the birds look happier.

Ghost of Christmas Past: You were cool, then you became a dick Ghost of Christmas Present: You’re a dick Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: You will remain a dick You: I won’t be a dick anymore Tiny Tim: Your resolve to cease your dickishness has cured my vague pulmonary/skeletal disease somehow

Dear @bareburger.bsky.social : You’re not a bank. You should not need a verified physical phone number for a GUEST ORDER with PAYMENT. It’s a BURGER. I don’t want that much of a relationship with you. I didn’t really want an account before and I definitely don’t now.

I don’t go to Firefox for dumb-ass shit. 😡

I read an essay of David Gerrold’s where he said essentially (forgive the paraphrasing) that he had written a role for a Black person accidentally, by just writing a role for a person. (Uhura’s part in The Trouble With Tribbles.)That stayed with me. Help him out?

In other news Kroger’s macadamia nuts were so stale I can’t eat them (I’ll eat almost anything that I CAN eat), But Costco’s are ok and still cheaper than nuts . com. I should blog. “Housekeeping The Apocalypse.”

Well, I scorched the gift donuts, but they’re edible, and I realized I never put any oil in the muffins before I baked them (Picture me scraping batter out of baking cups) So hopefully they’ll work even if I didn’t put the oil in at the blender stage. Ergghhh.

preserving my best cohost post before they shut the lights off

I needed to hear this Maybe you do too.

I don’t think we need to spend the next week reposting screenshots of every weird thing right wing losers have to say about Rob Reiner. We could celebrate him instead by watching his films or New Girl.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Speaking of pretty quilts, I just got this pride flag done!

They* said it couldn't be done! But Mr Rational Amounts of Confectionery Architecture has long left the building, so I present...the Gingerbread Street. *me

Overheard in the supermarket. Two teenagers. 1: 'Where's Dad?' 2 (with ineffable weariness): 'In the cheese aisle, having the time of his life.'

Glad the heat is on even if it is drying me out to a cracker-like consistency. Stay warm, fellow winter-havers.

This is one reason so much journalism sucks these days: because these would-be mafiosos threaten retaliation with lies if reporters tell the truth about them.

Fortunately I haven’t used an Adobe product in a decade because they are EVIL FUCKERS.

Here is a bit of my resignation speech from last night

the existence of both Tom Holland and Tom Hollander implies the existence of a bigger, more powerful Tom Hollandest

Also this furry fella. Rock on, little cat-dude.

Wishing you and yours a very happy 100th Dick Van Dyke-mas.

Dog break

So this is Minerva (we’re calling her Minnie). She’s almost four months old, and she’s a poodle+aussie shepherd+pug mix. My first dog!