Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

Reading a perfectly ordinary eBird species page about the blue-headed vireo and then suddenly get to "Some birds are best left unidentified." Um, what? Cursed knowledge? Eldritch horror? Is this like a "this place is not a place of honor" thing??

The coolest thing I learned today:

I'm late for celebrating Trans Day of Visibility but someone had this flag at No Kings that may be the coolest flag I've ever seen. (They said they got it from somewhere called Ghoul Gate - I can't find anything active by that name, although it may have once existed on Etsy or Instagram.)

Getting SERVICED by which I mean the night tech is trying to figure out what the regular guy did to my boiler

We got our annual heat tuneup this afternoon and they fucked something up and we have no heat. I am stuck waiting up for the after-hours tech to come figure out what the first guy broke and I am very tired. Also my laptop is in the shop so all I have is my phone, and we watch TV on an Xbox now and/

A+ sedoretu vibes in the National Theatre Importance of Being Earnest, highly recommended. (I'm sure they can work out the one little snag at the end.)

Woman of person is very funny but honestly I could see calling myself a person of woman. Feels vaguer. Speaks to my sense of being on the edge of it somewhere, like, am I A Woman? Don't love that, but am I, you know, big hand circling motion, over there somewhere? Sure.

After many years as a TurboTax user I switched to FreeTaxUSA this year! I was nervous about it because augh change but it was straightforward to switch and just as easy to use. So this is my encouragement to anyone else thinking about making the switch.

One half of all television is urban fantasy set in a speculative universe in which police serve a positive societal function

What an interesting and difficult question! Let's say: - The King At Re Albi (Earthsea) - A Duel With Fate (Star Wars) - The Coil (Dark Is Rising) - Exeunt, Pursued By Heteronormativity (Check Please) - Unclaimed Luggage and Unscheduled Departures (Inception)

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

I kept telling myself if I kept going back to the owl wood I would eventually see the owl and it *worked*! Not only did I see the second barred owl of my life but I got to show someone else the owl, truly one of the fundamental human joys, getting to say "hey look at this cool thing I saw". 🦉

The day I find out I have a cracked tooth and either need a root canal or an extraction is a hell of a day to also have no heat in my house. This is too many things.

I don't like fruit but my kid was on a fruit-trying quest for awhile and papaya is not welcome back in my house

I like the implicit story behind the juxtaposition of the "Charity Balls & Galas" tag and the "Balls | Testicles" tag, like, yeah, whichever one of those you were looking for you will probably appreciate that disambiguation 😆

This is so upsetting, but I also don't understand why they can't still sell to all the non-fucking-stupid countries of the world? There are a lot of other people and a lot of other money out there.

Concert ticket sales should happen at 6 pm so teens could buy their own damn tickets instead of during school hours so their parents have to be involved. Let young people deal with this virtual waiting room nonsense.

Delivery fees are the flip side of anti-car policy. I order from many places I could not possibly park to pick up. Don't get me wrong, I support bike lanes and dense development and no required parking, but it closes off whole areas from self-travel, which is the desired effect as I understand it.

So is there a suit fitter fluffer helping athletes make sure they're at, uh, fullest possible size for their suit fitting? (Or alternatively is there like an anti-fluffer requiring everyone to be minimized? Like an ice bath guy or something?)

Cleared my front steps before dinner, ate dinner, went back to clear again after dinner and could hardly get the door open. Contemplating the question of, if I clear again before bed, do I need to get up in the middle of the night to preserve a safe exit 😩

I walked around the block! Doesn't even feel too bad! Who has two sticks and a renewed sense of optimism that I can still recover from a sprain even if it takes longer than it used to! 💪🎉🌈 (Now to figure out which of my favorite birding spots involve the least walking...)

@warren.senate.gov , what are you doing?? You're siding with the fascists on internet censorship? I'm a longtime supporter but I'm horrified. Can you please meet with, like, BAGLY or Boston PFLAG, and hear them out, if you're really serious about protecting MA youth?

I am having such a hard time with this thing where I don't seem to be recovering from my most recent sprain, why does my mother also need to give me shit about not having done much of anything this week. I don't know, mom, I'm mostly on my computer, which I do not have to stand up to use?

I told my kid it was fine to have a friend over to watch a movie in our living room but because I can't do stairs right now I'm effectively trapped in my bedroom just off the living room while this is happening and I have discovered I'm actually pissy about it. :(

I see many online companies offering replacement covers for Ikea sofas - any recommendations out there for one someone has actually used (and liked what they got)? (What I really wish is to be able to buy just seat cushion covers individually instead of a whole set but that doesn't seem to exist.)

Duolingo Spanish wants to teach me about democratas y republicanos. I assume this is USian localization? Am I going to get a later unit with, like, socialistas y nacionalistas, or is the assumption that USians only want to know about USian things?

I SCREAMED www.instagram.com/reel/DSaex-X...

I know it's a coincidence, I'm not superstitious I swear, but I expressed one tiny self-indulgent wish, our water immediately started running yellow, the town says they don't know anything, and our plumber has retired 😫

I want to watch the gay hockey show so bad 😩 The obstacles are not insurmountable I just need to decide I can justify surmounting them 😬

"We glued tacks to the handle of your screwdriver." "We're embedding a razor in your awl." Could someone get these malevolent pixies out of my fucking toolbox.

Does anyone do the WaPost crossword who knows how to get the list of clues back? Somehow my format got changed into this stupid mode where you can't see the list, just one at the bottom for whatever number is selected. :(

How the hell did I just find a large yellowjacket in my house, it's December?? (Yellowjacket has been relocated to outside.)

So disappointed in Stop&Shop! Please pay your workers!

Grinch (original animated? does that go without saying?) and Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration

Why am I getting promotional email saying "Black Friday is almost over" on a Tuesday. Is it a whole season now? Is it a season that doesn't go all the way until Friday?

Oh my GOD I don't want the lie machine in my fucking taxes. Am I going to have to do everything on paper this year?? Seriously? Or is there going to be a pay-more-for-no-AI tier? Wishing everyone who thought of this as many days of unemployment as people's time they're about to waste.

No, absolutely not, you did the thing, the thing has been done.

I had a moment of "wait, have I??" and then was like, oh yeah, there were those times adult strangers exposed their genitals at me when I was a teen/pre-teen, pretty sure that's something. Possibly some of us are just not very good at searching our own memories. :/

I was so hopeful for years that there would be a technology in my lifetime that could recognize faces and tell me a name and context. It would make such a difference and instead we've gotten this crap. :(

"My Grandma would want me to fight them." I have loved Lynda Barry cartoons for 40 years. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Halloween scare: my kid read "The Raven" for school so I showed him the Simpsons clip and then realized I was younger than he is now when it aired 😱

The annual urge to give up on Yuletide because coming up with requests is so impossible 😭

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I didn't know I cared about the White House as a building at all but the demolition photos give me the queasy feeling of the Notre Dame fire or defaced Buddhas and I have the song stuck in my head that I associate with my house fire, so, uh, I guess there's some emotional something there. :(

Puberty delay should be universally available to kids under 14 who want a couple more years before they have to deal with it.

Seen in Boston today: 5 TRexes (one alone, the rest in a pack), four chickens plus two chickens-being-ridden, three lobsters (together?), two axolotls (separate), two unicorns (separate), two clowns-upside-down (together), an octopus of amazing radius, a scooby doo, an eagle with a flag cape (cont)

I saw a golden-crowned kinglet this morning! Yes to kinglets! No to kings!

Fuuuck. I know it's not helpful to amplify bad news all the time but this one really sucks. Sending love to everyone affected and everyone wondering if they're next. 🌈😡💪

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.