Years ago, I created a pair of holidays - Last First, and First Last. Dec 1 is Last First, the last first-day-of-the-month, and Jan 31 is First Last (the first last-day-of-the-month). The overall premise is that you can make changes in your life at any time, not just New Years Resolutions.

Well, everything was delicious, and I'm stuffed. :) But not too badly over-stuffed; I managed to dish up slightly more reasonable amounts of everything than some years. Just my Mom and I this year; bro & his family are on vacation, but hopefully we'll see them Sat or Sun.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

In the slippery hands of Pam Bondi Justice is AWOL, abscondi! She’s corrupt to the max, Like all Trumpian hax… If she ever had ethics … long gondi.

Well, congrats to Aaron Judge. With the season he had, he certainly was deserving of the MVP (But I just happen to think Cal Raleigh was a little *more* deserving this year) :P Oh well. I'm glad Cal won several of the player-of-the-year awards voted on by the MLB players.

Oh my goodness, the Northern Lights were super visible from here in Boulder tonight. My camera (phone) insisted on taking long exposures, so all my pictures look at least 10x brighter than what I actually saw, but there was definitely color & moving light visible to the naked eye. So cool!

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

These operations would be unlawful even if those murdered had all been criminals. But it's important to show just how much deception is involved from start to finish in this gruesome charade.

Here's another one of these to absolutely mess with you. You're so very welcome.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Listen all the way to the end. :)

I voted a couple days ago (Colorado does 100% mail-in voting)! I miss going to a polling place a tiny bit, but the convenience of being able to vote on my own time, with my computer in front of me to do research, makes me vastly prefer voting by mail. Our results are also available faster!

Hell yeah this is my rep in Colorado.

And congrats to Toronto. They're firing on all cylinders right now, which is what you need to make a deep run in the playoffs. I really don't want the Dodgers to repeat, so I hope Toronto stomps them.

Well, that sucked. I think the Tigers got their revenge in the end (though if our best starting pitcher hadn't gotten injured in his last start of the season, I think we'd have beat the Tigers without needing Game 5 at all). Whatever the reason, the M's just didn't play well enough.

There were definitely more people at the Boulder No Kings protest today, than at the last No Kings protest (and there were a lot then)! Lots of great signs, some fun inflatable costumes, a peaceful day of protesting.

If Adelita Grijalva was a Republican, Mike Johnson would have sworn her in long ago to the office she was elected to. If she wasn’t the deciding signature to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files, Mike Johnson would have sworn her in long ago. All his bs excuses are lies.

Geno!!!!!!!!! #GoodVibesOnly

Welp, that game sucked. Starting pitching, relief pitching, and hitting, all doing badly. I know the M's are capable of turning things around. The question is just...will they manage to? I hope so! But frankly if Toronto keeps playing like they have the last 2 days, then they deserve to win. :(

I’m gonna go to a No Kings rally on Saturday and I hope all of you will too! There are more of us than there are fascists and it’s time to remind them.

Well, that was *not* how I wanted Game 3 to go, but it's still only 1 game, and the M's still have a 2-1 game lead. The M's just gotta brush it off and be ready to play tomorrow!

Go Mariners!! And way to go Bryce Miller! Our #5 starter pitched on short rest (since our other 3 uninjured starting pitchers all pitched in Game 5 on Friday), gave up a leadoff home run on the 1st pitch, and then he and the bullpen held Toronto to a single hit the rest of the way.

Here’s the map for the swallow. Each dot represents a bird, and each line links the places where they were found.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Glad it wasn't as long as the one Mom and I went to 3 years ago (and so, so glad that we won this one!!)

Game 5. 5 hours. 15 innings. Both teams used 3 of their starting pitchers. And the Mariners finally won!!

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Yessss! Go Mariners!

Got to hang out w/bro & his gf & kids this afternoon, which is always nice. Unfortunately, Mom had a fall while playing w/ the kiddos (nobody's fault, she just stumbled) and got pretty banged up. Hopefully it's nothing serious and she heals up quickly, but I hate to see her hurting. :(

Blrgh. M's failed to get the job done tonight. And we'll be facing Skubal tomorrow (to be fair, the M's won both times they faced Skubal this year, but still). Not the start we were looking for.

Well, crap, looks like things are going to fall through for the house I was hoping to buy (due to inspection results). Seriously sucks, especially since I've been pushing myself to deal with most of this while recovering from surgery. Blrgh.

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

Think about all that - and then! Make a plan to join the next #NoKings protest, on Oct 18: www.nokings.org

Homicides dropped 70% on Memorial Day compared to last year, too. And guns are WAY more accessible now than they were in 2001. But Chicago didn’t add more cops; it invested in alternatives. Now let’s see media & pundits take up the story of a progressive Black mayor in a Blue state doing this…

Also, my dental surgery today went smoothly, and was much less major than the last two surgeries. I'm still not feeling *great*, but honestly I'm feeling a lot better than I was expecting to (yay for painkillers, too, doing their jobs). :P

Aaaaiaiaiaaaiaa! Mariners win the AL West! Cal Raleigh hit his 59th and 60th home runs!!! And we still didn't get to watch, wahhh (to be fair, Mom & I watch America's Got Talent, and we were watching the AGT Finale Results show tonight, so we might have been switching back and forth between the 2)

Mariners won! And clinched a playoff spot!! (for some bizarre reason, they also needed a Yankee win over the White Sox to clinch; I still can't figure out why).

Just saw this on Threads:

@ssigafoos.bsky.social Happy, happy birthday! Hope you had an awesome day!

Eeeeeee! Just made an offer on a house! No idea how likely I am to get it (the owners are clearly hoping to get multiple offers and pit them against each others). Keep your fingers crossed.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

Oh, yeah, and Cal Raleigh also hit his 57th home run in the game, passing Ken Griffey Junior for most home runs in a single season by a Mariner. :) :) :)

I, too, would like to give Victor Robles a big hug. What a play.

SupeRobles !

VICTOR ROBLES SAVES THE DAY FOR THE MARINERS WITH A GAME ENDING DOUBLE PLAY 😱 (via: x/@MLB)

The Disney parodies… holy shit

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

Ezra Klein, watch this.