My room temp and correct take on tipping is that if you make a comfortable living you tip servers always and you tip them well because who the fuck do you think you are

Oh for fucks sake. Going through kiddo’s text messages and Grandpa compared being genderqueer to having an eating disorder and told them they needed to do “one Hail Mary a day and pray weekly to Saint (some name I won’t remember).” Had to text my mom to tell her that his hateful rhetoric has…

Kiddos are here, partner is home early, my hair reminds me of 70’s cat girl anime, and the gold tone highlighter is just perfection. Let’s go! 😍

I need to find a cool job with creative adults doing things. Convention weekend all the time. I want more responsibility, stress, and organizational scope. Legit brings joy. Or maybe somewhere like a print shop, dunno, just a constant flow of creative work even (especially) if it’s others art.

Pigment Miniatures Show! If you didn’t hear about it before this weekend, hopefully you hear about it after! World class instructors and artists, small but dangerously well stocked vendor hall, and over 300+ exhibition entries! See you next year!!

I was gonna go do blood money today but my body was like… no bitch, you’re old and you just had a convention weekend plus an extra six hours of driving outside that, no blood money, go be a potato instead. F I N E.

I have tried to post cool pictures from Pigment convention but bsky says no, so y’all will have to wait until tomorrow.

Brooklyn craft beer packaging goes hard

Fried chicken with Indian flair food truck, seltzer from the coffee shop next door, waited in the courtyard of a rock climbing gym. Not sure if in Seattle or Austin or Boulder.

My ‘We’re feeling a little grumpy’ coffee mug.

Quick n dirty dye on the new with tag $4 white jeans I found at the thrift store! Super cute cut, cargo wide leg with two side pockets on each leg and a strap that goes around the ankle for some reason.. 🤞 🤞 🤞

Aaaaa cicada killer wasp in the yard this morning. 😭 I know it's okay but they're the size of a flying motorcycle and nosy as fuck. I wonder if it just hatched or is just making a burrow. There's a big pile of dirt that appeared overnight.

I don't want to take care of myself today, which means I need to try extra hard to do that somehow. Can't let the depresso espresso percolate too much. I guess... I gueeesssss I can throw on some Parliament Funkadelic and clean the kitchen. That's a start.

Hey @hankgreen.bsky.social I have a question! This has stumped my partner too. We have a small hot water heater. If I run a bath full hot and then temper it at the end, I have a big full toasty bath. If I try to run it at temp from the beginning, I run out of hot water before I have a great bath.

I’m making browned butter rice krispie treats with double the marshmallow, less cereal, Mexican vanilla extract and a sprinkle of brown sugar, with salt flakes on top. Let’s fucking go.

The things I will celebrate tomorrow are what we could be, the amazing opportunities to see so many national parks, talking to people in the grocery store, ranch dressing. I will be high in my bathtub by sundown reading pop fantasy.

If I have bought your album on Bandcamp or have otherwise acquired a digital copy, there’s a physical card here that scans and pulls up on my little media player. 💕

Well, fuck this place (referring to Texas). If I stop posting on BSky for a bit, I'll figure something out.

This would be an easy and tragic mistake while high.

Lunch sketch.

Orange cat. He’s so perfect.

I want to embrace fun and silly and I don’t know how to do that. 😭

Almost final form. Good enough for now though. One thing that surprised me was the touchiness and sensitivity of the nfc reader. Printed the photos using a Liene printer. Really loving it. Just need an upright stand now so it’s more if a display for what’s playing. Laptop is only for the video.

My love, the other part of my heart and soul, just hit the road for their OTR trucking training/job and I am a wreck. I am such a mess of emotions and I wanted to be strong for them but I sobbed over blueberry pancake breakfast, sobbed during shows last night, and of course.. our departure.

Grandpa saga continues with him sending me the Cass Report of all things. Lololol. Fix your heart or die, boomer.

I am willing to practice approving my own joy. I have made myself so small for so long because my choices and myself have often never felt good enough or right. So much of my life experience has been, "You can do that, but I don't get it, it's junk".. (a long ass thread incoming. 🧵)

I will not dunk on Europeans because I cannot imagine how awful swamp ass feels when you’re not conditioned for it

One kiddo is going to the ultra conservative Baptist family reunion with their father, one kiddo is staying home with me. The kiddo staying home with me already feels like their sibling and me were the only family support and now that one is leaving for the family trip. Sucks, man.

I have a dumb plan to wire up every Bandcamp album I own to an NFC tag on a printed album art card. You can then pull a card, put it in the reader, and the Pi kicks the album out to play on the speakers. Let's fucking go. My one missing piece here is actually the print side of things.

This new rental has been good for everyone, including my poor full sun plants who have just been in survival mode at the partial shade apartment patio. Here's my desert rose doin things!

Okay.. next chunk of effort.. how to SteamLink with my Linux Mint machine. 🫠 All my brain ferrets aren't great at running on the Make Things Go wheel, pray for me.

"if kids don't learn ai they'll get left behind" who are the ones "getting ahead"? the ones who go onto silicon valley jobs as good little button pushing drones only to be replaced later down the line? the ones who are supposed to find meaning working for the likes of google and roblox? fucking joke

AddClear is hiring a Concept Artist to help shape their first sci-fi/fantasy/horror shooter! 🛰️ Full-time, Remote 📚 No XP needed 🎨 Portfolio required ⤵️

Youngest doesn't want to see Grandpa. Grandpa contacts their dad as soon as Youngest goes to stay with him. No one tells me this except Youngest who's like... what the fuck, man? And understandably so. Holy fuck, I'm so pissed. What absolute fucking jackasses. I will eat them alive.

I'm going down a rabbit hole of home automation and dashboard things I can trigger with nfc tags. Send a rescue if I haven't surfaced in a few days.

Today is both Costco and Buc-ee’s stops. I now have a48hr cooldown on going into stores larger than 50,000 sqft.

Six months. Hundreds of resumes and follow ups. Five phone screenings. Two interviews and one pending. It's been.. demoralizing to say the least. I don't even want a job anymore. I need to figure out the LMT thing except that's money *out* and I kinda need money *in* for things like, you know, rent.

c o s m o s

Sure, I wish the Spurs had won because I like seeing the city do together things but also NYC is having a great year and the Knicks winning feels deserved on a whole nother level.

My sister sent me pants she made!!😍

Christian Death and Gene Loves Jezebel this Friday. 👀 Baby goth me would be so chuffed.

Ah yeah also our apartment had a painted bathtub which meant it wasn’t smooth slidy like porcelain. I hated it. Super gross. New house has a good tub! No fancy garden tubs but clean smooth porcelain and a drain blocker so I can run it deep. Helllll yes.

Kiddos needed clothes, they picked the same things I picked in high school and it cracks me up. Ended up full 90's skater fits from Zumies (and I scooped up a new pair of shoes for hella clearance discount while we were at it). I still have vintage JNCO's in my closet, hah!

I didn’t think about the window screen until after we put up the bird feeder… sigh.

Oh no, I am uncertain. I’m leaning towards ‘with’ but could use advice! Kitchen… with or without the marble contact paper on the counters? Cabinets are 80’s oak for reference.

Wanted to share this oldie but goodie hyper-local meme that crosses my mind all the time, now that the Spurs are in the Finals again. Entirely possible this is edited, but the energy is real. South central Texas floods all the time, & Via buses never had a great reputation, but they LOVE the Spurs.