Ah, yarn chicken. We meet again. I should have juuust enough of the purple left for toes, but I'll have to start back on the partner sock soon to see if I can get to a reasonable foot length on both socks with the blue before starting the toes.

This is a title that desperately needs some form of clarifying punctuation, as I assume it meant U.S. troops were tops at trading guns and that is a whole *very different*, but also *very probable* problem.

I heard there was a secret cord, You plug it in and you meet the Lord, But you don't really care for OSHA, do ya? It starts like this, the black, the red. You touch it once and then you're dead, The voltage and the current running through ya...

I realize "services" like fiver and taskrabbit have been around for a bit, but the ads I'm getting for Airtasker on my podcasts feel like a depressing but logical extension of the AI drive to outsource everything, including thinking.

Bought this zero alcohol gin and tonic and lesson learned: always read the label. First taste was all artificial sweetener and it turns out they've fucked it up by adding stevia. It tastes like it's trying to knock off a really bad brand of diet tonic water and hasn't met a gin in its life.

Only tangentially related to the image, this is why I made sure "Cabinet I" in our laboratory was intentionally labeled with a serif font (our label maker default font is helvetica).

Betteridge's law of headlines has you covered on that one.

We stan an alternate timeline legend.

Dangerous news: turns out that HEB just puts out seasonal sewing kits, including this mini version. Not sure why they keep filling them with butter cookies, but that's easy enough to fix.

Aaaaaand now I'm crying. For reasons. xkcd.com/3172 (No, but seriously. Fuck Cancer.)

Went through my closet this morning and it turns out I have a LOT more clothes to donate than I expected. Fingers crossed I can find someplace better than Goodwill to donate them.

Hey, guess who decided to make things up with yarn again? This is a mosaic knitted sock cuff worked out from some photos of a shawl someone posted online. I haven't figured out what the rest of the sock will look like yet.

First of all, how dare you, etc...

In better news, I was informed today that I have now donated over 5 gallons (20 L) of blood/platelets/etc, which is a worrying amount when you think of it in terms of pails. But I got a mug that is 100% lying about the coffee part, so there's that.

There is so much queso on this "Taco Salad" that it would more accurately be described as taco soup with some lettuce in it.

*sigh* Not new or unexpected news re: extended family, but once again... FUCK CANCER

This is a thing of beauty.

meow

In honor of BidBot being late to their live auction at @desertbus.org, please accept this ancient BidBot fan art from the early days of DBfH (one of the Moonbase Mk III years).

The difference between me and most people is that I will absolutely follow through with my most unhinged ideas.

When you can't remember if you're supposed to use Greek or Latin roots when naming your hydrates, and choose to give up instead.

This short just made me think of @sararah.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/d6I5B...

I am getting podcast ads for both Jim Adler, the Texas Hammer, and Bill Adler, the Texas Hammer (who sounds like a discount knock-off of the former), and shouldn't that make them each A Texas Hammer instead of THE Texas Hammer? (Screamy injury lawyer-types)

Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen

The various airways in my body are creaking and crackling and groaning as I breathe, like an old wooden ship.

✝️ Just as a humble stitch knows not of the masterpiece it builds, so also a person does not know how important they are to the world around them 🧶🕊️✨ #YarnJesus

The problem with being ill (besides, you know, the illness) is that I am an insufferably whiny baby when I'm sick, with no patience and no attention span. So I can't even craft or watch a movie without wandering off to do nothing every 5 minutes.

*moves the "Days Since Chem Has Had an Illness* counter back to zero, with a sad trombone noise and a gurgling wheeze. It's been a good run since Dec 2022. Guess I didn't drink enough fancy cocktails on vacation to disinfect myself. :/

Sports appears to have happened. CBC's gonna need a few minutes to think about it.

This hotel has a cocktail that tastes like drinking a boozy Riccola, and honestly? Damn tasty.

Apparently they are Maximizing Baseball for this series, congratulations to all the fans for getting the most possible baseball per baseball.

Mental health is health, right?

Notes from a sewing institute, 1909: Things to remember (do not forget): -Dre - Thimbles Keep your nasty feet on the floor. Yes, you.

My hotel is telling me I need to be taking a lot more stairs these days...

I would have paid money for art cards or postcards of these stained glass panels, but alas. These are the size of a standing adult, btw. Absolutely gorgeous.

I am once again begging art museums to sell me small copies of the art in their collection, NOT mass market "famous artist" shit I can buy everywhere including Barnes & Noble and other random unrelated items.

Today's lesson, after hitting up 3 yarn stores: deep yarn culture, including knit/crochet/weaving, but very little spinning going on. Lots of options for locally grown yarn, but only one store had a small roving selection and it was all from the big commercial suppliers (Manos and Ashford).

as a bird artist, in honor of tonight’s game i have attempted to draw the gorgeous blue jay as accurately as possible. as always please let me know if you have any constructive criticism

Shout out to the long dude in a frog onesie that just walked into the bar. Heck yeah, frog onesie.

I wondered why the beer cheese with my pretzel bits didn't taste very cheesy, and then remembered I pitched up at a vegan pub. This is not a complaint, mind you, but I did forget to adjust my taste buds beforehand. It's a good sauce but not the cheesy hit my brain wanted. Cider's good though. 👍🏼

You know the art scene in a city is wild when I have hit the "ok, may that *is* too many cards/postcards for one person who keeps promising to send mail but doesn't" limit before 3 pm. For today, at least. >.>

Due to an overwhelming amount of Nonsense going on in the US farm sector, I am in need of a half-time to full-time video editor Anybody know someone who is 1) real good at it and 2) not heinously overemployed already?

In my redhead era.

My happiness is not geographically determined, in the sense that I do not demand mountains or an ocean/lake to be happy, but some days I think a wall of cool moss and fallen leaves could fix me

Me (as I pay my bill): I like the Halloween music! Hotel Bar Staff: Haha, probably isn't the right mood for the book you're reading Me, who was just reading a book about people who deal with the dead as a career: 😅Haha hahaha right... (...the funk of 40 thousand years...)

What good is hotel TV if I can't find endless returns of House Hunters International? Or even plain old House "we'd like a 6 bed/5 bath on 30 acres for under $100k" Hunters USA.

For those wondering why we actually pay attention to things that claim to be drugs... I like that regulation eventually forced the company to remove the morphine from the formulation (because of the baby-killing)...the alcohol was still fine.

Yaaaass, Ouija Queen! (with bonus "My Little Ouija Board")

On the other hand, they also had this lovely little set up in the medical oddities room, and the only thing I found odd was how they hooked up the random tubing. The small end of the sep funnel stopcock is not going to help cool your condenser, Dr Frankenstein...