I am normal and can be trusted with large quantities of flour

In better news, I have discovered my plant store. A little far of a walk but well stocked, decent prices, and SO nice.

You can always tell when the straights have decorated for Halloween. They have NO concept of draping. Their spider webs look like someone stuck cotton candy on top of a bush. Their witches dangle like an execution.

The bees have discovered Brutalism

malcolm gladwell has been a dipshit for 10,000 hours

On the one hand, the trees outside my new apartment make some fun shadow patterns on my ceiling. OTOH, I’m now very aware of how annoyed I’m going to be in 5 hours with this blindless, curtainless window.

An excellent cover of Dolly Parton's "Jolene" (if you are an #HPLovecraft fan) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-7e...

I like trains.

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

A true hero

On top of everything else, I gotta deal with y’all solemnly saying “the cruelty is the point” over and over and over again. Like, girl, WE KNOW. Shut up.

Managed to get almost as many steps in today never leaving the apartment as I did yesterday going to a giant pickle festival but I am still not finished packing. (Nearly there. I’m not mad at my progress.)

Nothing better than the quiet car. #trains

Website security theatre is becoming ridiculous. What is the fucking point of 2FA if my account is going to be locked after providing all the correct pieces of information across 3 different devices? I am so fucking tired of the internet sometimes.

My mom and I used to talk about how people sometimes look or behave like their dogs. Today, I gazed down upon my kitchen floor, splattered in so many post-grocery run pools of sweat that it was in danger of becoming a slipping hazard, and knew I was forever doomed to be a mastiff person.

It’s weather like this when you really start to realize how many streets have zero trees. ☀️🥵 More funding for more trees! 🌳

Dear fountain pen fans: In case you didn't know, the Goulets helped found and are on staff for an anti LGBT and patriarchal SBC church whose pastor says that being gay is an equivalent sin to murder. The SBC pours a lot of money into regressive political causes.

I doodled Chemistry Squid while listening to talks about... well, chemistry work being done on squid samples, of course. He's so cute. Squid in goggles. How silly. I love him.

Getting to the age where even the people I don't think I've known that long, I've known for like 15 years.

Always exciting when you accidentally change an app's language to one whose written script is completely opaque and all the 'where can I change my language' guides online only supply text instructions. Like, guys, if I could pick 'Language Settings' out of a list I wouldn't be here.

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

Gonna buy a nice pair of fabric scissors just so I can tell my children to not use them. Keep the tradition alive

👋 Hi, we’re Unbreaking, a volunteer-run collective working to document our current moment of institutional collapse and its human costs—as well as the pushback and resilience work already underway. We believe this is critical work for building and retaining political agency.

Threw an excellent party with far FAR too much socializing that didn’t involve just parking myself at a table and talking to 5 people for 3 hours, but feeling very loved. Somehow tho there are still 2 more graduation event days to go.

I was so focused on the logistics of receiving a new bed today that I completely forgot about the fact that I now have to sleep in it.

Gasping at straws. they're just so beautiful

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Just saw the funniest mdzs tag

I think about this a lot when people quote the “see one, do one, teach one” motto that has infested medical education at me.

He’s not wrong.

Coming 4/29: Tea4T, an art fundraiser for trans rights! tea4t.bigcartel.com

sometimes I feel like a dinosaur, cause no one looks anything up anymore 🦕

The thing we learned from Web2 is that the most impactful businesses became the most impactful by optimizing for addiction. Which means we should all ask, how would you optimize generative AI for addiction? Whatever makes it the most addictive is probably what it will become.

Ok yes the omakase situation in NYC has gotten outrageous and it’s disrupting the delicate balance of the biome but (I'm sorry for being insufferable) we KNOW why it's happening and it's the same reason Subway became the most ubiquitous fast food franchise: because it doesn't require a gas hookup

FINALLY

Jot that down.

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

My doctor is getting stronger. I’m up to six apples a day and he just keeps inching closer

I want her squishy faaaace. (Sigh. I cannot have a dog yet.)

Millennials are getting old and rhapsodizing about The Way Things Used to Be, and although I totally get it, I can't stop a certain amount of eye rolling and surge of annoyance every time I stumble upon yet another think piece.

Happy #molluscmonday! May I present a showstopping cephalopod, the flaboyant cuttlefish. Instead of swimming away when threatened, this species makes undulating bands of color. These shocking hues act as an alarm when predators come around. #molluskmonday #artyear #nature #sciart #februarty

Snow snow snow snow eeeeeeee

This is AMAZING news! Fuck Amazon www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

The minor torture of having to use the audiology booth after a heavy smoker.

Gorgeous!

Juvenile market squid, Doryteuthis opalescens. A highlight of nightlighting this winter so far...can't wait to get back out there this week!

Squid courtship was the order of the day 🦑💗🦑 #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #squid #cephalopodsofcoralcity #courtship #chromatophores #tentacles #braincoral #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity

FUCK YOUR DISCORD. IT'S A SHIT REPLACEMENT FOR WEB FORUMS. I DON'T CARE IF YOUR CHANNEL HAS PINS. FORUMS HAVE PINS, AND THEY AREN'T BURIED OUT OF SIGHT. Don't get me wrong, I like my chats on Discord, but I don't like it for knowledge sharing.

After several minutes of intermittent fire alarm sounds from my neighbor’s apt followed by doors and windows opening, I hear the desperate bellows of “there’s no fire! There’s no fire!” set to the rhythmic beating of a towel.

I am very sad and jealous of other people’s snow.