Stopped at the vet to get some more pain meds for Sora. At the reception desk was a bowl of kitty treats, a bowl of doggy treats...and a bowl of kruidnoten. Yes, I made the joke.

Death by pspsps

I did a watercolor painting of my singer sewing machine that I love more than potato salad

Serious question, which I swear I am asking in good faith: The "Arabic numerals" joke was *ubiquitous* in the early 2000s, just like those email forwards warning about the hazards of dihydrogen monoxide. Are all these people just pretending that they don't know what Arabic numerals are?

Medical misogyny makes woowoo happen just as surely as overuse of antibiotics makes MRSA happen.

All those stories about how the youth of today are functionally illiterate? Defensive mechanism.

Watch a 106-Year-Old Wizard of Oz Book Get Magically Restored … By Cutting the Book’s Spine, Washing Pages & Recoloring Illustrations

I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now

Our flash sale ends in a few hours! Last chance to grab a beautiful book for yourself or a friend at 40% off from a site that isn't Amazon. mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/flash_sale

What's funny is that at first I thought "here" was referring to Bluesky and that still kind of works

It's one thing for hairless cats to be Eared Scrotum, but Eared Scrotum With Human Baby Feet is a little too much.

Ttrpg where you all play employees at a cat rescue who have to deal with cats that have various monstrous traits. You have to such as care for and convince someone to adopt a cat what can use telekinesis to implode a human, or which regularly erupts into writhing tendrils, etc

my main kink is that I like it the best when you're nice to me

three, fascism is actively trying to stop capital from making money solving climate change. fascism doesn't actually give a shit about the bottom line. bsky.app/profile/anom...

Friend, having dinner with us due to surprise layover: Mmmm, these are great! You can't get good dosas in Berlin. Me: That's weird. They're pancakes stuffed with potatoes, they're usually vegetarian and they're easy to make vegan. I couldn't invent anything more appealing to Berliners.

Name a film with an airplane.

Have paid far too much money to get next day delivery on a print of this to see if it's fit for sale. I really hope so! I love him! Look at this lil guy! I'm assuming something like £20+ shipping? Also it's called "coin coin coin", because that's "quack quack quack" in French and I'm a hoot.

Particularly wild that this is happening while the PM is literally the country’s former top intelligence official!

Man. i just woke up and hadn't remembered that ze can be short for zelenskyy so was trying to figure out which nonbinary baddy with neopronouns was in the geopolitical spotlight

Thought provoking piece. Classic example is NHS dental treatment, which is not available to many people and, even when it is, free treatment is only available to a limited - but very precisely specified - range of people.

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

This guy took 17 hours to fill in each of those tiny pockets with colored resin. I am going to list it for ...well, less than I should but more than I'm comfortable with. It'll no doubt be a vanity piece I don't expect anyone to buy. Raw photos, #MyArt

Saw a big thread about ingenious life hacks for healthy recession cooking and kept thinking "but that's just FOOD, like my dad made, like my mum made, just normal family dinners...huh"

my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute

Sound up

Sound up, play fucking loud

When someone tells you complex societal challenges have simple answers, they're either stupid or hoping you are. When they say those answers are more cruelty to a certain group, they're also evil and hoping you are.

when you lightly touch miette with the side of your foot

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Der Egon lebt jetzt in den Niederlanden. Ich könnte mir vorstellen, man würde ihm dort ein bisschen schräg anschauen wegen seiner Tiroler Hut.

At an exhibition about domestic life in 17th century Holland. Damn right that parents back in the day would have wanted vaccines.

Living in a country without rocks has taken some getting used to. I took rocks for granted; they were always just *there*.

People think it must be weird to have a famous neighbour, but Lowly Worm is just a nice, regular guy.

The reason the Faewild is the Faewild is that it's a git repo where the owner just accepts every single pull request reflexively. The only thing which stops a Fae from getting accidentally poofed from existence is a contract with beings on another plane (it's a legacy dependency, can't delete).

Exception: Tom the Dancing Bug's dystopian Busytown pieces are brilliant, but I know I like them so much because I grew up with the originals.

Fortunately there are not many people in this Metro carriage because I just cackled embarrassingly loudly.

"One key measure in preventing HIV is PrEP which is not part of the basic health insurance package and costs from €17 to €67 a month." WELL, THERE'S YOUR FUCKING PROBLEM

It’s #Wrensday !! Tails at attenSHUN! 😁 🪶 Bewick’s wren on the lookout

One of the most painful things to watch is people on the left coming up with social justicey reasons why fast fashion is fine, actually. Like that poor/disabled people need to have access to 45 new outfits a month and nothing consumers do matters because "no ethical consumption under capitalism".

Just picked up my permanent residence card. 10 years!

Part of the problem with public discourse on immigration in the UK is British people being totally ignorant of the process and terms and making silly assumptions, as Chris rightly points out

Now thinking about buying a bag of pepernoten and a bar of really dark chocolate for an experiment.

You may frown at Nanni the Karen, and the scammer Ea-Nasir But know this: they're the price we pay for kittens and for beer

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I'm somehow reminded of a Facebook cat group where one of the entry questions was "how many genders are there?" (with the wrong answer being 2, of course) but every week there'd be an argument over whether a given kitten was a tortie or a calico.

My REALLY unpopular Sinterklaas opinion has nothing to do with Zwarte Piet. Pepernoten > kruidnoten because kruidnoten are just a kibble-shaped version of the same speculaas you get with a koffie all year round. The one saving grace of kruidnoten is that you can do an amusing prank with a pet bowl.

It turns out that people who view the world through the lens of domination have a less healthy view of consent than people who just want to be left alone to live their lives in peace. Who’d have thunk it?

I am delighted to learn that Matt Walsh is pizzasona non grata.