My spicy Thanksgiving opinion is that I do not like pumpkin pie, no not your recipe either. It's the texture I absolutely cannot with the texture. I love custard pies and pumpkin ruins them. More for y'all, I'm having coconut cream.

Finished "Hole in the Sky" by Daniel Wilson and wow. Just the right amount of scary for this horror weenie, very cool sci fi, and indigenous experience woven in beautifully. I'm gonna be thinking about that one for a long time.

Work up at like 2am with a pounding sinus headache. Lovely start to the day. 🫠 (sudafed, coffee, ibruprofen, and a hot shower are fending it off)

Anyone have a dressing recipe (the Thanksgiving type) that doesn't use onions or garlic and still has... flavor? We've got a guest with a really bad allergy to the whole onion family. The rest of the meal was pretty easy but I'm stumped on the dressing... (I'd skip it but apparently others like it)

This absolute unit. Will swallow your whole hand, won't break the skin.

Playing with Miggy often involves him bear hugging your arm and putting his mouth all the way around your wrist (he's BIG) and it just occurred to me he's the only 4 legged critter I trust to play that way bc he's the only critter I know 100% won't bite hard. We don't deserve Maine Coons.

I never, EVER visit my parents (in Michigan) in the winter. We can do Thanksgiving in July, really. Flights are more expensive, travel is miserable, and everyone is sick. Being clergy cured me of "have to travel at holidays" and I'm never going back to it it isn't necessary and folks get used to it.

New rule. When I order quilt fabric for a project I am required to IMMEDIATELY label a gallon ziplock with said project and put the quilt pattern and fabric IN THE BAG. I have so many interesting sets of fabric I have no idea what I planned to do with.

Me to Bear: You have to wear this grazing muzzle or you will get laminitis and DIE! (Yes spending another Saturday morning trying to pony proof a grazing muzzle) Bear:

The Reddit Fountain Pen ink is gorgeous, I totally want it. But it seems to be available only from overseas (at like $20 shipping, no), or from Goulet which I won't do business with which is really disappointing but also kinda par for Reddit.

I loved movies as a kid. I honestly haven't watched one in ages these days because they EXHAUST me and I just saw a stat on how much longer they've gotten and holy shit no WONDER I don't watch the damn things anymore. I am not sitting for 2 hours and 45 minutes!!!

In the past, oh yeah. Big time. This most recent grad experience? Not once. Literally not even a breath of it from classmates, professors, etc. But I think key is I have had maybe ONE white straight male prof? Profs are mostly queer/femme/POC, and so are the students. It has been lovely.

so you only know white people?

Here we have a CCA (Culturally Christian Atheist) assuming their particular religious stance is beyond all reasonable controversy. My theory is that being part of the in-group allows you to just make that presumption, even when the stance in question is actually a minority of a minority opinion.

Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!" Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource. When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.

Personal UI pet peeve: If you are requiring 2 factor auth to login (and you should) then you need to AUTOMATICALLY PLACE THE DAMN CURSOR IN THE FIELD! This is incredibly simple but SO improves user experience and reduces frustration making people more likely to use the 2 FA options! Reduce clicks!

It seems to me that this pretty straightforwardly breaks the commandment against idolatry. I've been rereading my childhood catechism this year. It sucks in a lot of ways, but they do get this one right.

"What need have I of all your sacrifices?" says the Lord... Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is offensive to Me... Learn to do good. Seek justice. Aid the oppressed. Uphold the rights of the orphan. Plead for the widow." Isaiah 1.11 to 17

I so appreciate @travisbaldree.bsky.social (currently reading his newest), more cozy nonsexual fantasy please. Other than his stuff literally EVERY fantasy novel I've picked up this year at some point transforms into a romance novel and I am so sick to the teeth of it. (Ace romance also welcome.)

Ah the joys of the Seattle area where Google maps is like "listen it could take 20 minutes, it could take an hour, better leave yesterday." *sigh*

Found a dupe recipe for the old Vienna instant coffee tins for their mocha/cinnamon flavor. And I was lamenting as a sipped that I couldn't reproduce the caramel flavor but I JUST FOUND POWDERED CARAMEL AND THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING! Your 80s/90s girl is so excite. (I make it w decaf instant esp)

It's not about changing minds, it's about avoiding sacrilege. Because he's their idol. This is literally the basis of my claim that MAGA is idolatry: They don't fear the truth. DT is above the truth to them. He is an idol, and the only thing they want to avoid is desecration of his name.

This meeting could have been an email. Even better, it could have been summarized on ink stained parchment, rolled up into a tube made of ancient bone, and delivered by a witch trained raven, still smelling of sulpher and malice.

The quilt piecing is DONE. It'll get mailed tomorrow just one day late. WHEW.

I have bsky randomly inserting posts from the feeds I follow (just 4 I pruned) into my following feed and the Science feed is either THE COOLEST geeky stuff or a post where I stare at it for 2 minutes because not a single word is comprehensible and I love that.

I am back to offering once monthly breathwork support groups. These groups utilize an over-breathing technique which provides powerful access to whole self knowing, somatic, cognitive, emotional, spiritual. The practice is great for discernment, grief, and stress. josephinerobertson.com/events/

Please please don’t feed your psyche, your prayers, your secrets, your soul. I can’t stop you but I really deeply recommend that you do not. I’m a therapist of over 30 years and the daughter-in-law of an AI pioneer and really really wish you wouldn’t.

Gotta love living in a country where even the best insurance is basically a scam. 🤬

your peds office may have a flu shot clinic that you don’t even need an appointment for!

🫠 Did 25 quilt blocks this weekend. Today SEWED the rows together. Went to sew the borders (4) on and... emptied my enormous spool of quilt thread. I have no more in the closet. This quilt is cursed I tell you. DIL 2 may be getting it DURING the 12 days instead of on the 1st.

Don't stop searching for joy. Track it down if you can. Look in cluttered bookstores, historic theaters, haunted playgrounds, and misty moors. Take joy out for tea, adventure, and gentle mischief across the land.

It’s hard to believe now, but Republican politicians used to care about things other than obstructionism, destroying the government, and staying in office. They don’t have to be like this now. It’s a choice they’re making.

Everytime someone is like "but don't you HATE winter in the PNW? The rain is TERRIBLE!" I'm like, "man this is where I spent the first 30 years of my life, no, no I do not hate the rain." (Picture Michigan state patrol of road conditions this morning)

25 of the FIDDLIEST quilt blocks I've ever done finished in 2 days. Sadly I'm not done. They now must all be sewn together, the borders sewn, and the backing sewn so I can mail the whole thing off to my quilter. By Tuesday. I have 6 therapy clients tomorrow. 🫠

Finished "The Knight and the Moth" last night and I have not been so angry at the ending of a book in... ever? Cool world building, honestly had so much potential and last PAGE was lazy reader betrayal. I could name 10x ways the author could have setup a sequel without THAT. Nope, done.

My personality in a nutshell? Last night I spent 2 hours with some crusty old Jungians dissecting a fairy tale. This morning I speed running a quilt top while listening to my favorite No Mans Sky streamer.

Deep down, don't we all want the same thing? To be with someone who makes us feel safe and loved? Someone who will help us run a tea shoppe & used bookstore in the old forest for witches, fairies, and the wild folk of the wood?

I'm seeing some truly WEIRD "hacks" to "not have a dry turkey" and friends you don't need a hack. You need a ROASTING BAG. Not only will your turkey cook faster it will be SUPER moist and you do not have to do ANY basting or other bullshit. Seriously, roasting bags.

Is it really a consult group if ONLY the mentor talks? 🫠

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot. n.pr/3JKj19D

ALLELUIA! Bear (my horse, I do not own a real bear) was cleared for canter and turnout today! 👏🎉

Hear me out: 3 & 4 could go together.

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Final project for my career counseling class is a presentation. Fine. With Powerpoint slides 😑. Fine. They insist I add speaker notes. Friends I preached for 15 years. I do not need speaker notes. I'd much rather not have distracting slides. Trust me when I say this is not how to engage people.

We're losing something that cannot be recovered. Most people don't understand what we are losing. There's a lot wrong with academia, but burning it all down is not the best answer. 🧪

I ordered a 64 oz water bottle to use for my colonoscopy prep (cause I have NOTHING in the house that big to mix the parts in accurately) and I am not sure how I feel about the cheery phrases in this particular instance... 😱🤪🙄

Hey Megan, why are you and others smarter than you, so hesitant about facial recognition and AI dependence? THIS IS WHY.

I see your nachos and raise you our Birria truck's Birria fries. 🥰🤤

I *get* why certain procedures you can't take public transit home but also if your spouse cannot drive, or you are single it puts HUGE barriers around those procedures. I'm lucky, ride fell thru but we can afford the stupid 4 Uber trips this will require for spouse to escort me there & back.