This is actually a really important topic to me. I have a transcription app open for ~85% of conversations and 100% of phone calls, because I am extremely deaf. It's a huge accessibility technology for me. It can be helpful for my ADHD too. The privacy aspect matters to me a lot, though, too.

a bunch of short horror fic recs: snickfic.dreamwidth.org/1076856.html

good article and, crucially, a good list at the end of cookware/kitchenware lines that are still quality (and family owned)

If you want a "Trump cancelled a gov't program that made this outbreak worse" thing to be mad about, there's a much better one! Trump's FDA + Congress cancelled a program that actually WAS going to allow rapid ID of where outbreaks came from. www.marlerblog.com/case-news/ta...

kinktober 2026 prompts dropped a while back fyi www.tumblr.com/kinktober26/...

oh hey look! www.vulture.com/article/litt...

I guess this is now my summer reading thread fyi.

well, fuck

#UnconfinedWalks You wish you were here

Holy hell Katie Wilson is on fire here.

Second time in a week I've been making a left behind someone else making a left and instead they stop and make a u-turn directly in front of me.

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

I don't go here, but even I can recognize galaxy-brained thinking when I see it.

I've been struggling to get to bed before midnight lately, but it's 10:15 and I'm ready to crawl in. Not complaining!

an unendurable length of time

I planted some irises I got from a box on the side of the road, dug a blackberry bush out from under my heat pump, and now abruptly it feels like bedtime.

Taco Bell was one of the first companies to sign the "Yes, we WILL only buy tomatoes from farms that stop doing slavery" pledge with Coalition of Immokalee Workers. @immokaleeworkers.bsky.social

good news, that Mexican takeout was delicious

I think I've lost the 1L glass water bottle I bought in Slovenia last year, and I'm sad about it. A perfect size, and didn't make the water taste like plastic.

Multiple men recently telling me or other women we're wrong in matters we're experts in... because they asked chatgpt.

Afternoon nap

I appreciate that this ad is like, do you know what we have that you like? WOMEN.

Sorry, liberals but the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus is every bit as platonic and heterosexual as the one between Maverick and Iceman.

my family was pretty hardcore about media content, so I think I was eighteen or nineteen. my uncle and aunt showed us The Matrix and O Brother Where Art Thou on the same trip.

Eragon. My sister and I were the only ones in the theater, so at least we had a good time trashing it.

lovely, wholesome, may make you tear up defector.com/trans-girl-b...

Do y'all want a friendly buff woman brushing a cat? www.instagram.com/reel/DZ0uCzG...

#lrt another reason I'm not going back to Netflix ig

We can literally tell.

Hey, y'all, the dangerous lettuce is from Taylor Farms, and they supply to a lot of places! Be mindful of what you eat!

heads up, Regal has a showing of The Descent in August 👀 the original UK ending, too, which I haven't seen

I finally googled and discovered that the acronym is not short for Make America Hate Again

idk if my writing problems are from this ongoing keyboard situation, the fact that I've read almost no fic for months, or any number of other possible factors. sucks regardless.

"3. Is local produce better than big distributors? The risk [of Cyclospora] is much lower. In fact, there has never been a documented cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to a local farm." This stuck with me. Yet another reason to eat from/support local farms/locally sourced foods.

all my Stardew time the past few days has been Junimo Kart, after watching this video and going oh, maybe I CAN do that www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITgF...

Homegrown

I've seen a lot of dumb Obsession discourse, but the absolute dumbest was the guy who was mad Curry Barker gave himself a bit part in his own microbudget movie.

the fabric I make @slip-stitch.bsky.social think of 🥰

I am yet again getting on my soapbox to tell y’all about how my previous job (public library) received a grant once to keep branches in some neighborhoods open until midnight on Fri and Sat. The neighborhoods were picked specifically because of higher crime rates and lack of support services (1/ )

I think my periodontist just has GBBO on loop. It's on every time I come here.

A friend gave me a pitcher plant from a bunch she got at a yard sale. All those dark spots are bugs. 🥰

doechii album when

#UnconfinedWalks I really needed this

Had to explain the owner of a bakery I once worked at. Couldn't remember the word "Francophile" so what came out of my mouth was "She's like a weeb but for France.... a oui-ouiaboo"

#lrt I'm not cooking all my produce, but I am very grateful I'm growing my own kale this summer

I'm following @matthewcort.land 's advice: only cooked produce www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

#lrt guys I thought really hard about what movies John Cena had been in, and all I could come up with was Barbie

this prompted me to look up what Dave Bautista is up to now and he's on tap to be a voice in an animated movie directed by Bong Joon Ho next year I really love this man's career path