Anyway, happy Thanksgiving, today I am thankful for Muppets Most Wanted (2014). The songs are really quite good and all of Ms. Piggy's outfits are 🔥

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, I am linuxing the shitty Dell desktop we use instead of a TV and I am mad about it

Trying to decide how to celebrate the Windows 10 EOL and I think I will get very drunk then destroy a Dell Optiplex 9020 with a baseball bat

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

I mean, my 10-year-old thinks she should be a judge on Is It Cake?, but no one put THAT in the newspaper

Explain your username: It's a joke from a Fringe show I was in circa 2018 where I played a washed-up opera singer (the joke being that I used to be an emerging artist, then I went back under)

I have just taken two ten-year-old girls to the mall to buy matching outfits for picture day, AMA

Shout out to libro dot fm for having really good sales and a marginally functional app. You may not have the ad spend and exclusives budget of Audible, and your Android widgets may be semifunctional at best, but you do have a bunch of romance novels for <$7 and are not owned by Beff Jezos

Having one of those days where I'm entirely unsure if ragweed pollen is just exceptionally bad or I've actually caught a cold. Tbh I could have had a cold nonstop since mid-August and wouldn't know

At Oktoberfest at Dispensaire microbrewery. Significantly more authentic than March Maisonneuve because a) beer in Maß b) a dude in short pants is playing the accordion and c) there are pretzels this time

just used the phrase "confusion and delay" in an email

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

I went grocery shopping and the kids have already eaten the Madeleines AND the blackberries AND the baguette. I swear the teen years are going to bankrupt me

It's like how people talked about plant-based milk being bad for the environment for a while, based on the water needs of almonds (iirc). I'm sure there are externalities involved but have you met a cow??

I keep seeing posts and even, like, REPLIES that are screenshot of text over a coloured background. Please keep this Facebook-ass behaviour off this site

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep: 1. The merits and drawbacks of the 3 main styles of knitting (English, continental, and Portuguese) 2. The development of atonal music from extended functional harmony -> free atonality -> serialism 3. Poirot

Polar bears occupy abandoned Soviet-era research station

Am incredibly exhausted today, couldn't figure out why, then I closed my sprint for the week and realized I completed nearly twice as many tasks as usual

Absolutely bonkers story

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

I thought I had gamed the "getting myself to work out" part of the fitness equation by signing up for lunchtime workplace fitness classes - don't have to get up early! low price! I'm already here! - but my id has once again found a loophole, and that is me simply not going to the class

reminder that Dracula was a contemporary novel, i.e. set in the year it was published, which was 1897 and Coca-Cola was first commercially bottled in 1886 you can 100% depict Harker, Van Helsing, Morris, Seward and Holmwood chugging at these motherfuckers while they go huntin

people often say "not the onion" because they don't understand how the onion's humor works but credit to mother jones for clearly giving this an onion-style headline on purpose

Would love to see a citation for the "Mickey Mouse is blackface" thing that's going around. Not disputing it but would just really like some kind of dramaturgical (if that's the right word?) confirmation that yes, this is a thing. It seems likely but we here on the internet have been burned before

My personal N=2 study is that I rarely if ever took Tylenol during my 1st pregnancy and took the max dose in the last month of my 2nd (due to pregnancy-related pelvic injury). 1st kid has ADHD, 2nd does not

BREAKING NEWS: the shitty 3rd party reseller I bought this from is refusing to repair it or give me a refund. So there is a couple hundred $$ down the toilet. I've learned my lesson and will stick to Samsung A series phones from now on, I have flown too close to the sun here

Have had the kind of day at work that ended with me downing tools half an hour early and going to a bar, in case anyone is wondering

𝐀𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛, 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑑 After equipping this item, you may not remove it from your hand. You must gaze deeply into it with every action and be driven mad. Messages from the damned come to you in haunting whispers and chilling images. Every year, you must purchase the newest version.

Reminds me of the Bloc Quebecois' attempt to popularize "Bonjour Ho!" as a substitute for "Bonjour hi"

The thing about being an artist is that sometimes you’ll have a really silly/cursed image enter your head and spend hours of your life drawing it. Hours you’ll never get back.

Madeleines. These were fussy to make but honestly not very difficult. These have been out of the oven for 10 minutes tops and are already half gone, so they must be good

I listened to the @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode on Thomas Chatterton Williams today and thought, surely his prose cannot be this tortured in French. The French will simply not allow this kind of writing to be printed. Then I found this

"Talking to Blink 182 About the Tragedy"

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

So you guys know that the Horst Wessel Lied is about an actual guy called Horst Wessel who was assassinated, right? It's not just a Nazi song with a stupid name? Saying this for no reason at all

Day 2 of the "sharing a phone with a 10-year-old" lifestyle: well, I haven't been on here much. I have also threatened the kid with consequences to the end of time if she snoops or buys anything without permission

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

Greetings, fellow $10 meat bags

on Gartner looking something up, just saw an article called "What's your AI layoff strategy?" and, oof

I watched quite a lot of Severance and have finally given up, because the 2nd season is just sheer unremitting misery. I miss the dark workplace comedy elements and sense of mystery

Tonight's cocktail: the Bermuda Hundred, described in the recipe as "shockingly weird". I wouldn't go that far but I have to say it's the first time I've put Campari and pineapple juice in a cocktail together. Not half bad

I have a periodic desire to get really really fit but am hampered by a) my inability to run or jump (previous pelvic injury) and c) my natural inclination to sloth. I must be doing things at all times, but they're things like knitting and embroidery, not jumping jacks

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Update on the folding phone that can no longer be folded: I have to send it back to the company for a repair attempt. I am not hopeful for a good result and it will leave me without a phone for a week. Not looking forward to telling the 10-year-old I am hijacking her phone for the immediate future

you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now

Hi. I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: we have to be able to criticize Mark Carney without living in fear that doing so will help Poilievre or weaken Canada. He is our Prime Minister. Out of anyone, he deserves to be watched and critiqued. We should all be dying on this hill.

Every September I'm like "Ragweed season has surely hit its peak, it wasn't that bad this time" and the next day I wake up at 4:45 in the morning, sneezing uncontrollably

At the risk of sounding like someone who belongs on Mastodon, some of you really need a primer on what alt text is for