One of my petty language peeves is the way people (I think maybe it's just Americans?) have decided fairly recently to drop the "of" after "couple". For example: "It took me a couple hours". "You'll need a couple buttons", etc., etc. Sets my teeth on edge every damn time I hear it.

Ope. I missed this one here today & just saw it on IG. I ❤️ porcupines so much.

Can't. I'm walking the dinosaur.

Not that I don’t think these should be allowed, but it really highlights just how much fucking bullshit it was that they wouldn’t let the Ukrainian guy wear his memorial helmet.

I’m old enough to remember when one of the figure skating events was a thing called “school figures” where they had to show they could do a perfect figure 8 and shit like that.

buddy of mine just found out his post-cancer treatment has been denied by his insurance. anyone have advice on groups that can help him fight this?

I've hated the word "electability" since 1988. I caucused for Jackson. A lot of the other people at my caucus claimed they preferred him but thought Gephart or Dukakis were more "electable". Look how that worked out. 🙄

The relentless cruelty is obscene.

OMG! Aural mystery/torment solved. Every now & then, a tiny snippet of music from the deep recesses of my memory will run on loop. I've had one recently, but couldn't remember the lyrics that accompanied the little fragment I kept hearing. They just came to me, so I googled.

Jesse Jackson reading "Green Eggs and Ham" is so wonderful. RIP

Can we PLEASE stop calling them “hallucinations.” A hallucination is a false sensory perception. LLMs don’t *perceive* anything. These are “CONFABULATIONS.” Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Love Belly. So sad it’s over for him.

Had a surprise in the mail today! Thank you @valentinavalkyrie.bsky.social ! I love it! ❤️

Bitch slapped And he is a complete bitch

The people who make these maps do not understand the enmity that exists between Iowa and Nebraska. They *always* lump us with them.

The Pentagon just failed its 8th consecutive audit and still got approved for a $1 TRILLION budget without blinking so I'm gonna need every corrupt hypocritical politician complaining about made up food stamp fraud and forcing drug tests and work requirements on poor people to shut up forever. Thx.

Holy cow. Japanese pair was stunning.

I apparently failed to notice an early mistake by this Chinese pair, but that was a lovely routine.

I can’t imagine having a deaf child and not learning their language.

Shame that the Armenian couple had a few oopsies, that would have been a lovely routine, otherwise.

The Polish girl looks extremely young.

Okay. Fired up the pairs free skating replay. The French couple looked much more relaxed to me than they did the other day. Polish couple just starting.

One of my toxic traits is eating fast even though there’s no need to.

holy shit. hell of an analysis

one thing liberals love to do is describe moral atrocities as quirky minor personal flaws. someone says "I don't want to vote for a candidate committing genocide abroad and funding the Gestapo at home" and they're like "oh so it's illegal not to be perfect now"

Oof. Just found out that a girl that I knew as a 5th grader when I was still working was killed in a car accident up in NW Iowa at the age of 19, leaving behind a baby girl. Can't imagine how devastated her family must be.

I think I just found the perfect Mother's Day card.

While I have to say that, on balance, I have been okay with Verizon as a phone & internet provider, when I *do* need to deal with them about anything, they are enragingly incompetent at actually helping and the fact that the agents who can do sweet fuck all to solve your problem are so saccharinely

Ah. I bet this is who @tjmiddleton.bsky.social was talking about the other day.

The thing i dont get about supporting Gavin Newsom this far out is we don't even know who's running yet. Maybe an even bigger piece of shit will pop up for you people to support!

It's 62F/17C here today and it's supposed to be even warmer tomorrow. Grocery store guy said something about how nice it is & I accidentally went on a little rant about climate change, but he agreed with me, so I guess I'm happy to know he's not a denialist.

30x40" acrylic painting not ai Immolation Of Self And Everything Else plus detail of guy on bench i used Crayola™ paint crayons to draw the basic image and initial coloring then fucked with using acrylic medium to blend and blur use anything at hand to make art and go for it however you want

Australian girl looks like my cousin Kate did when we were little.

Watching the replay of the pairs short program now. Don’t tell me what happened. Armenian couple just finished. They were pleasant to watch and their costumes were pretty.

Pezze e piselli. One of my favorite dinners. The boy didn’t like it, so I never made it much. Now that he’s moved away, I keep forgetting that I can have it any time I want to.

There was a CAHS language group Zoom today at 4 pm but I still can't shake that stupid "can't do [thing] because [scheduled thing] is coming up" malarkey that my brain does.

Who up cressiding their troilus?

PEBbles!

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Watching the replay of the men’s half pipe final and I am unsure why we need to see Shaun White so much. He’s not competing. I dgaf about his reactions to the competitors.

I'm a little confused. Is the structure in Cornwall or is it in England?

Holy shit. Speed skater from West Des Moines.

Ugh. Watching the Olympics has made me think a lot about a friend from Milan who was a volunteer at the same place in England that I was at in the 80s. Lost touch in the 90s. Tried to google & there's a famous-ish guy with the same name. I've managed to find some of the academic papers my friend

Watching the replay of the Germany vs. Latvia game and the English guy doing the pxp for Peacock keeps putting the emphasis in Gru’s name on the middle syllable. It honestly took me a while to realize he was saying Grubauer.

Alright, Norm Nation, a close, trusted friend asked if I could help a family she has been supporting who has not only been in hiding but the father also needs cancer surgery. They are hoping to raise $10k-ish for healthcare, living expenses, and rent. I sent $500, but you can Venmo directly @JC-W19.

I suppose because it isn't a Swedish name, I'd never given any thought to how Swedes pronounce Zibanejad. Now that I've heard it, I'm wondering if @kavehmd.bsky.social could tell me what the Persian pronounciation is. (Roughly. I know pronunciations don't render well in text.)

I got set up once with a guy who lived near Alki Point. I lived in the Denny Triangle. We met at a coffee place on the beach. Hit it off. Near daily phone calls ensued for 2-3 weeks but every time the discussion turned to seeing each other again, there was a problem. He thought it would be unfair

Like you, I’ve been contributing to others’ efforts to fundraise for their neighbors’ survival. Now I’m asking you to help my own neighbor. She’s trying to fight removal proceedings and reopen her asylum case, and needs $ for legal costs—$3,035 of $8K raised so far. VM: @wentrogue Subj: ⚖️