I'm tired. I do not want to cook. But there's nothing around us (except fast food) with an entree under $20 each and just no. I miss when regular ole middle class us could afford to eat out once or twice a week every dang week. I need the break. I am NOT spending $26 for a burger and fries.

We have a cast iron skillet that's from the 1920s, and I have a fountain pen (not currently inked) from the 1910s. Honestly I'd like most of the stuff in my life to have that life expectancy (neither is tapped out, both could easily go another 100 years.)

Do not, really, get in a fight with PNW folks and try to claim that your ferry line cutting was the fault of your GPS. We will not be sympathetic, back of the queue friend. (Glad to see a new "proved you waited in the queue properly" pass system being implemented, the line cutting was getting BAD.)

I was in a therapist marketing session today where we were talking about (US) private pay vs insurance and the poor Canadian was baffled going "wait you don't just charge your regular rate and get paid that, that's what happens here." Oh friend, friend, friend. No.

The. Flu. Vaccine. Is. Your. Best. Protection. Against. Flu. doh.wa.gov/flu

Love my city's reaction to countries asking us tone down the Pride thing. If you'd said nothing you probably wouldn't have gotten all that many Pride flags IN the stadium. But now that you have? That arena is going to be absolutely DRIPPING with rainbows. Love us.

New album cover just dropped.

Problems like this drive home for me how important good-quality religion education actually is. Not “religious education,” but “religion education”: Americans need to know enough about, e.g., the Bible, Judaism, & the history of antisemitism & islamophobia to understand why this curriculum is bad.

Do not fear the night. You and your soft oversized pants, late evening ennui, and towering piles of unread books belong to the darkness.

If you have a cat who won't eat (Emma has IBD some days she just doesn't want to) I highly recommend gerber baby food (turkey, beef, and chicken). There's NO onion or garlic and she's yet to refuse baby food even when really sick. Beef is strong enough flavor to hide meds.

I was once a software engineer who wrote server/client systems. I loathe networking. I mean I LOATHE it. Spouse is trying to convince me my Lightroom collections can all live on his server in the basement and honestly? I just want a NAS mounted next to my Mac Mini connected w a damn cord.

today on “y’all need to learn that two things can be true at once” aircon is good and should be more easily accessible and affordable across Europe And we need to fix climate change yesterday because it should not be getting this hot in Europe and that is the bigger issue

Don't put off until tomorrow what you could do today. Like creating a crown of antlers & a cloak of moss and sneaking into the secret library at the heart of the forest, which caters primarily to talking animals and other wild folk of the wood.

The plan: forever warp the job market through taxpayer-funded subsidies of unsustainable AI businesses just long enough for all other companies to lay off millions of workers and reorient their work processes around proprietary technology and then once this is accomplished, raise inference prices.

Funding "an immune system for every building.... a provision of pure air for children (and adults) to breathe should be looked upon as of equal importance to the provision of pure water... #Covid never left; it only joined a growing cadre of airborne pathogens.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/s...

The US: who needs English majors anyway?! This headline:

I dunno, it feels kind of sad to me to only be able imagine a supreme being who has no sense of humour.

Running is a head game. And a coach I like makes a point in races to cheer on other runners as a way to keep his head in a good place. So after the halfway turn on my 10k every time I saw someone who looked my age or over I shouted "you got this!" or "killing it!" or "great job!" and friends ...

Pretty dang pleased w myself, a new PB and a very fun race.

As an educator, this is my biggest concern with AI. Writing is a skill. Thinking is a skill. Being creative is a skill. The more we outsource these essential brain activities to a computer, the more our skills degrade. 🧪

I see so much talk about how you need a running buddy or club to keep you motivated and consistent and I feel like we're running for VERY different reasons. I literally run to be alone, to have something where NO ONE needs me. To turn off socially and have some inner reflection time!

Huh, new screening question at the Drs after "any cold or flu symptoms" is now: "have you been to any world cup events in the last week?" 🤣 No ma'am I am literally allergic to crowds you can write that down.

You must repost it every time it comes around.

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Left a clinicians FB group today because the last 10 or so odd posts have been from... lay people/clients. Listen, groups aren't perfect and they're definitely not secure but when it becomes clear the admin aren't even LOOKING at the screening questions? I'm out, that's not a helpful space.

These two. 🥰

Seriously y'all drink something right now.

Im too competitive to give up road races (trail running is basically always slower) but dang a trail run fixes me.

It's the cheapest midlife crisis: all you need is a trail, undiagnosed ADHD, and a few hours. And a few pair of running shoes, a minor obsession with $18 socks, a running vest, a handful of soft flasks, and a willingness to try every gelnor chew under the sun. Upside is goodrs are cheap and cool.

If you value the imaginal you don’t have to instantly concretize & insist it emerge unmodified in reality If you value the imaginal you also don’t have to have contempt for it It is a collective process that moves through us, to each other, from the animals to the earth and sky and back again.

Got to stop spending so much time in EMDR therapist groups. I love it as a tool but OMG the way some folks treat it as dogma complete with scripture and immutable rules is a little concerning. Real live people are never going to perfectly fit your manual anymore than Beethoven is just fancy scales.

Really valuable point I try to recall at all times: AI poisoning happens to people across all generational, educational, class and gender categories. No one is immune, and the only inoculation against it is NOT USING IT.

I'm going to have to get vent covers that screw into the floor because SOMONE has decided pulling them out of the floor and trying to fit your whole body in the duct would be fun.

Choose love. Choose peace. Choose kindness. Choose to keep searching old books, crumbling ruins, and mossy forests for portals to other realms, where reading & sleeping are celebrated sports.

Skipped my grad ceremony today because 90 degree heat in a metal hanger (no AC) sounded like a recipe for torture not celebration. 🤣

Why a trillion will not be enough for him, just like billions was not enough. He’s unable to answer the desire of the human heart.

If you actually believe in what you're writing on your hat, denying it's about pride night by claiming it's only about Genesis 9 seems like denying your faith tbh

The belt vs vest crowd in running is almost religious and now that I've found my perfect vest? 10000% team running vest. I actually drank water during my long run today!

Technically I finished the book (skimmed a LOT) but the protagonist grew crops indoors, inside a house, deep in caves. Not mushrooms, things that need LIGHT and WATER. THERE WAS IVY GROWING IN A HUGE DEEP CAVE with no sunlight!

I find it really frustrating that "in person" is being floated as THE fix for EVERYTHING. No, moving a meeting "in person" will not magically make it go faster, or be more focused. There are real ways to make that happen but just knee jerk "in person" isn't actually one of them.

This may sound like gatekeeping, and perhaps it is; however, I strongly believe that THERAPY is only done with a human therapist, with informed consent, and all of the traditional parameters of being in therapy. Talking to a friend, using a chatbot, etc, while therapeutic, aren't therapy!

Peace tonight to all who are worried. I won’t promise everything will be okay, because everything’s already not okay. But I do promise that the bad thing won’t happen just because you didn’t worry about it enough. Here’s a small box. Put it in there. Close the lid. And sleep. ~365 Days of Peace

Great article, whether based in Clare or anywhere else.

It should be illegal to wake up with a headache. Doubly so for a sinus headache. 0/10 do not recommend.

How we were brought up has a huge impact on our politics when we grow up. Not just what we are told, parenting style affects things like empathy, or our views on deference to authority, which are just as important.🧪 Link: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-35072-001​

Some men never recover from having been a boy with a mother. Rather than successfully integrating their animus and anima and individuating into psychologically whole individuals, they remain entrenched in a position of hostile dependency in relation to all that is feminine.

Haven't seen the movie (listen I'm basically a grumpy old bog witch) but just finished Hail Mary (book) by Andy Weir and it was delightful! Read it, if you like sci-fi, hope, and friendship.

For the fountain pen peeps: Endless Pens (one of my favorite suppliers) is donating 50% of all Hatch & Inkfinity ink sales to the Trevor project this month. Do I need another bottle of ink? No. Did I buy one. Absolutely. ;)

"For the generations coming up behind the baby boomers, what this analysis describes is less a temporary stumble in an otherwise upward march than a long-running warning sign that has been building for decades." studyfinds.com/americans-bo...

Every stop reminded me that joy is not only personal. It is shared air. Strangers became a chorus. People waved from windows. Elders nodded. Children laughed without needing a reason. Some people told me they had been carrying heaviness for years. gurdeeppandher.substack.com/p/one-day-i-...