@likeluke.bsky.social saw this at the store the other week for $100 😱

happy new year, everyone! i started it off playing video games for a bit, then laying down & listening to podcasts. so, fairly normal (though some days i don't play any video games, hoping occupational therapy improves the hand pain/cramping)

happy holidays everyone. i'm celebrating with a playlist of ska & dub as the gods intended. all of them. Cthulhu, Jesus, Allah, Yahweh, Vishnu, Odin. ALL of them want you to skank your way into 2026. it'll be a good year if you hit the Blue Meanies cover of "The Grinch", according to the prophecies

a reddit thread reminded me: if you're attending protests at this point in the US, please use OpSec. buy a burner & put in 3-8 emergency contacts (and still leave it off in a faraday bag). wear a mask as long as it's still legal there. make sure a few trusted friends/relatives know you're going

@codyjohnston.bsky.social listening to the newest Even More News, just wanted to say that Rites Of Spring are definitely emo (Guy from RoS later joined Fugazi) - the term was coined for them and a few other 80s artists. the softening of emo happened over the 90s w/ bands like Sunny Day Real Estate

not a great video, but this is one of my favorite neighborhood squirrels (not sure which tree he lives in). he's easy to recognize with that one white paw, i can spot him from 30+ ft. very friendly & curious (& chubby, as should be 🙂)

one weird thing about spending months straight congested as hell is that when my nose is finally clear i become super-aware of how little i can smell things usually. and then i spend hours wondering what various smells are/if they are normal

the sound of snow crunching under squirrel paws while they ate this morning made me much happier than it should have. definitely giggled a little. also there were 5 small birds waiting on the patio, guess they realized i was later than normal today (usual feeding time is around sunrise)

the reason i think it was massive? well, besides the new smells, the pressure levels in my head dropped so much that my right eye was twitching for a few minutes as it re-adjusted after it came loose. this smell is something my memory pings as a "chemical" one, maybe hydrogen peroxide?

i experience so many IRL body horror moments from my health issues, they usually come with some bonus random weirdness. last night, some sort of (seemingly massive, possibly very old) blood clot dislodged from my sinuses & now i keep smelling something familiar that i can't place. driving me nuts 🫤

i just matched on a dating app with a woman who has a pet squirrel. hopefully she's fine with the fact that i'm only looking for friends because i want to meet this squirrel

snow has finally melted a bit so i got to watch 6 squirrels & the baby rabbit run around in the backyard a little

one of my friends visited this weekend & i befriended a dog at a vintage clothing shop. sadly, everything cool was out of my price range but a used game/movie/music store had blu ray copies of Dark City, It: Chapter 2, & Shoot Em Up, plus Far Cry 5 & Dragon Age Inquisition all for under $25 total

while i haven't released anything new for a while, i have released a ton of music that's available at e-s-c.bandcamp.com . it's all VERY cheap, the whole 40-release discography (i removed stuff) is just $4. Anything helps, being disabled in the US is expensive & bandcamp doesn't take a cut today

sadly no animal friends the last two days, there's at least a foot of snow so they're sticking to the trees (or burrows, in the case of chipmunks & rabbits). can't blame them, i'm not going outside either

only got a few photos, was too busy watching. had at least 7 squirrels (lost track), 2 rabbits, 2 cardinals, a blue jay, & a bunch of smaller birds come for food this morning. one of the squirrels was about to come inside, had to waive it away since i didn't have an almond in my hand for him lol

my neck has cracked 5 times just while laying down this last half hour. the smallest movements are shifting things back into place tonight, not sure why but i'll take it. just wish i knew so i could repeat it, my pain levels are so much better the rare times my neck is (mostly) aligned. nvm, it's 6x

does anyone else sometimes find a phone # in their contacts with no memory of who the person is? sorry Amanda. i was probably supposed to call you, whoever you are

did anyone else's hometown have ongoing pranks done by entirely different people? there was maybe a decade where at least a handful of people (who didn't know each other afaik) who would throw or plant their marijuana seeds in the mayor's garden & front yard

it's funny watching people claim a movie isn't a flop when they think it barely made it's production budget back because they don't realize that studios often spend around the same amount on the marketing budget. production isn't the only cost for the industry

one of the squirrels trusts me now too. not surprised it was this one, it's always seemed extra friendly

short update: one of the chipmunks let me touch it's nose while i was feeding him yesterday. pretty sure they'd let me pet them

the chipmunk also likes being hand-fed hazelnuts, didn't think she'd want to take them from my hand but she kept ignoring the ones i set on the stoop for her to grab the one i was holding

looks like i just get to hand-feed a chipmunk almost every morning now, makes me think she needs a name. suggestions?

successfully got one of the chipmunks to take almonds from my hand just now. honestly, one of my happiest moments in a long time. it feels really nice to be trusted that much by a tiny little animal

the chipmunk that's been peeking her head inside the sliding door lately actually tried to cone inside today, had to wave her off really quick to stop her. would've been tough getting her back outside, the whole house is pretty open. also saw her try strawberries & apples today, very cute

went for a slow, short walk earlier & ran into two dogs just running around together. they were SUPER friendly & both came for quick pets but they were too busy adventuring for me to get a look at their tags. not sure if the bigger one was a husky or a malamute, but it was extremely cute

i feel like everyone should put on a playlist of their favorite 90s ska bands and sing along as loud as possible at least twice a year. skanking optional

oh nice, i'm getting my brother's old series x. which i will predictably use (mostly) to play more Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 4, & Borderlands 3

how would one go about selling their services as a new caretaker for your pets, should you become raptured? i'd want the contract to include that all pet owner rapturees have to contribute to buying me, their pets, & my friends a nice fortified house. oddly, there's probably a market for this

obviously things are bad in so many ways, but lately i'm finding anyone pushing Newsom as the solution/next Dem presidential nominee to be extra fucking exhausting. they accuse the rest of us of "purity testing" despite objecting to his shitty policies, not exactly a purity test

out of curiosity, i decided to see what those shady data brokers say about me currently & holy shit is it hilariously wrong. it's got me & another guy w/ my name confused (happens a lot) so it thinks i earn $$75k/yr. nope, i'm disabled & still not on SSI so it's actually $0 :/

a couple new photos of one of the baby chipmunks. this one is really tiny & timid around other animals, but will come right up to the sliding door when i'm sitting there w/ it open. he was very playful this morning, ducking into the pile of leaves under the logs & popping back up

i will admit that for a minute earlier i was thinking about how it's a shame that you can't have pet chipmunks, then i remembered that hamsters aren't that different. funny that i forgot that, i had two hamsters (20 years ago)

no, really. if you have chipmunks living in your yard, feed them. it's so fun watching them & it's gotten to the point where there's usually one or two near our patio at all times now. it makes you feel good when the local animals like you & trust you 🙂

glad i had good timing this morning. i'm super-achey (it's rainy here, that never helps) so i might not get up to feed the neighborhood animals again today, but i still saw one of the baby chipmunks & my favorite squirrel (it's missing 2/3s of it's tail & very friendly) in the few min i was up

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

i'm never in favor of stealing other artists' work and posting it as your own, but if someone "makes" AI "art" that's a different story. please do it, it's funny & the "art" or "music" made by AI isn't protected by copyright

based on how happy it makes me, i think we should use "go feed chipmunks" instead of "go touch grass". grass isn't that fun to touch, just kinda scratchy

spent blocking* whoops

90% of my time on Facebook is now spent random people suggesting dangerous medical advice in Ehlers-Danlos support groups. Just blocked maybe 50 people recommending ivermectin for COVID. Didn't expect to find a few claiming licorice root cures it too. We're fucking cooked

@bilalfarad.bsky.social found my copies of these today, nice timing since i'm rearranging & setting up my tape deck (&other stuff) over the next few weeks

i've had these all since jr. high or earlier (Maser of Puppets & It Takes A Nation might've been 5th or 6th grade)

my high school was weird: a thread. (all within the 6 yrs either my brother or i attended) 1. 2 students were murdered as part of a famous mass-murder at a restaurant ~1mi from my house 2. a 14yo girl was caught performing oral in the school on 7 football players (she got expelled, they didn't)

just a reminder: keep your eyes open for assholes infiltrating left-leaning spaces trying to cause trouble. been seeing a lot of it on reddit lately, helps that most of them are so deep in their bigotry bubble that they often give themselves away with dogwhistles that they think we don't know about

baby chipmunk friend. they're just big enough to start exploring so they've been fun to watch these last few days