it's 4 am on Halloween and I am 75% done with sewing a dress for my dog so he can be the grandmother from little red riding hood...

me 2 weeks ago: take advantage of every opportunity you get! life takes you strange places! you may end up where you need to be even if it's not what you wanted originally! me now, handed an opportunity that idk wtf to do with: well shit now I'm supposed to take my own advice? this fuckin sucks

I was very overwhelmed by the noise etc of the expo at my conference and skipped out on lunch to go to the botanical garden and felt so immediately at peace walking around the outdoors...

I think wistfully sometimes about how much I miss clubbing and yet do not really like loud bars....I thought it was just that I missed my friends, but I think I also missed dancing a lot and didn't feel able to say so because I'm not a talented dancer by any means. Maybe I should take lessons

I learned a new word today!!! (it's a rare enough occurrence nowadays it needs remarking) tintinnabulation

I used to be very stressed all the time about wording things perfectly & not offending others, trying so hard, thinking: if I just do it right, they'll see what I mean, they'll understand, they'll still love me/stay my friends/change their minds and I was just stressed and they didn't anyway sooo

what's the human equivalent of a "do not pet" leash? asking for a friend

I've been extremely disregulated the past couple days and have finally found a celestial reason for it so perhaps I can be at peace for awhile

literally have never heard this "song of the summer" before....this win feels political

I just had a gluten free dairy free mac n cheese that was actually edible.... food technology has come so far in the past few years I stg. eating mac n my stomach doesn't hurt??? miraculous.

why does Google maps not have an option "AVOID STATEN ISLAND" when I'm trying to go places in NJ 😭😭

"we're my chemical romance from New Jersey" waited over 2 decades to hear those words in person and I just.... 🖤

every recent book I read, esp by big authors, seems so phoned in. like if they're a Name, nobody edits them properly. nobody calls them on their shit or sloppy/lazy writing. nobody is familiar with the back catalog or cares about internal world (in)consistency. I sorely miss editorial presence. #📚

I didn't know how firmly this small dream of hiking across the grand canyon & rubbing the nose of the Brighty statue had taken root in my heart until it was taken away...I am so relieved that the people & the mules survived, I am so saddened by the other losses, especially of the forest

ok but acid betty is just so fucking cool, the end. #rupaulsdragrace

Oof McGoof. This one.

if I had a nickel for every time I found out a friend was pregnant because they started reading a pregnancy book on goodreads I'd only have 2 nickels ...but it's weird that it happened twice

“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis

okay when Jewels said that Suzie came for the lesbians.... so right 💀😩 #dragrace

I know how to sew, I own a sewing machine, but mending stuff is extremely tedious and labor-intensive, especially if you are neurodivergent. For me, making something from a pattern is even more overwhelming and frustrating. And I say this as someone who was accepted into a college design program.

ooo I hate a gatekeeping ass...I complimented this girl on something she made in a sewing group & asked what the fabric was and she goes "[type] of fabric" like ... 🙄🙄🙄 nooo shittttt. "I love your shoes, you look fantastic! what are they?" "3" heels" 🤣

Wow, it was about killing women afterall.

Against all evidence to the contrary- couple still believes MMR vaccine is not as good as letting their 6 year old daughter die from measles. Completely preventable death of a child. It was NOT her time to die. She should still be alive. www.texastribune.org/2025/03/20/t...

I think private equity purposefully destroyed Joann Fabrics so that it would be harder for people to make their own clothes and stop buying fast fashion

my favorite conspiracy theory of late is that Luigi mangione was not reported by an actual McDonalds employee, but that the self-serve kiosks are using facial recognition software and they're not telling us bc they don't want to admit the extent that the American public is surveilled

I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.

it was bad when the worst poster on my favorite website bought that website and made it terrible but it has been worse having that person also buy my country that i live in

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

1800 kindle books downloaded before the deadline on February 26; now I have to strip them of DRM. Kinda nostalgic looking at what I was reading at various points in time over the last ~14 years.

They should call it the gulf in america between the haves and the have nots

really actually very sad about Joanns closing...hobby lobby will become even more of a behemoth & they don't sell nearly the amount of apparel fabric 😭

me I'm going to spend less money, repair my stuff and be less a part of Capitalism also me: mad that i just paid almost twice what my crappy sewing machine cost to get it repaired ...coulda bought a new, better one for that $...or an even better one used..well at least it's not in landfill

List of small actions we can do today: - Uninstall Chrome. Use Firefox. - Change your default search engine to DuckDuckGo - Get a physical map of your city & learn how to use it - Teach yourself: how to purify water, cook some basic stuff you can stomach stockpiling, some basic sewing.

i remain posting on meta for the pure joy of seeing myself being vaguebooked by conservatives who don't dare actually reply to me because they know I'll ether them

If anyone needs a jolt of climate-related optimism, here's the Great Green Wall. In just 10 years these simple, small, moon-shaped troughs halted the spread of the Sahara Desert, cooled huge swaths of land, and are still growing lush ecosystems for local food www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBd...

When we said “another world is possible,” maybe we should have been more specific.

For 2 years, aid groups have operated a camp providing food, water and first aid to people crossing the border in a treacherous southern Arizona wilderness area. Weeks before Trump took office they were told to leave. For now, they’re staying put. “We are following God’s executive order,” one said.

ok late and Suzie is a fore-runner for me but I did not like this outfit & I don't think that it being referential and studied saves it from being meh. kinda looking like a 🍆 might tho...

I always happen to see this one alt / girl rocking demonias in my town at the grocery store in the parking lot and I always wish I ran into her inside so I can tell her I love her shoes

ugh I just got used to y2k being back now I have to contend with 2010s fashion making a resurgence....brace yourselves for polka dots

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

I was jokingly pretending to cry at work like "boo hoo hoo" and actual tears came into my eyes like ??? what the fuck??? my body was like "oh! you DO know you are actually sad and stressed!!" ew lmao

it's weird people are being bitter about people not performing outrage online during this climate when performing online can now get you or someone you know arrested please recognize people who aren't talking politics around you aren't ignoring the world, they're doing survival strategies

I’m learning that a lot of things about me that I thought were just quirky little goofs are actually debilitating symptoms of mental illness

Imperious Opera lady, aka white throated magpie for #birbfestchallenge in watercolor & gouache 🪶🎨🖌️

Great crested grebe for #birbfestchallenge. Got my husband to draw one too 🥹 mine is alcohol ink markers, his is pencil ~

Masked trogon for #birbfest2025 This lil guy is so funky I love him

I think it's very cute that people assume that I drink tea because I read a lot and then will secondarily default to "oh you're a lil edgy? are you a coffee girlie?" no, i'm a feral gremlin and I want something with 250 mg caffeine, blue food coloring, and chemicals outlawed in the EU

I love whenever I look up resources about getting better at painting or digital it always comes back to the beginning - you have to be able to drawwww ...but I just wanna paint 😭