I feel like there should be professional accreditation of online moderators at this point. Like, only people who have maintained a smaller public forum for 5+ years should be hired to lead such efforts. Some of the most basic lessons have not been learned by leadership here. How tiresome.

Two very nice converted shipping containers on 23 acres in the elk range. "this is the kind of property that captures the true Up North experience."

Mad liberation! Hallelujah! Will the captain make it to Chicago, or will god call him back to Jobbie Nooner? How long will the page admin soldier on?

Contemplating this myself. It could be so easy.

The goddess Refusa wants me to go to the MSU recycling center this weekend, I just know it.

The moon is loud.

First boat of the season.

Worried about the people of Cuisinart because the grind-and-brew coffee is 6x stronger than I was making it before. I see why every thrift shop has one.

Never judge a house by the siding in Ishpeming. www.realtor.com/realestatean...

My previous residences include a former church (8 years), a former corner hardware store (10 years), a former bar, and yes, I lived in a former funeral home for 2 years. I didn't know it was a funeral home at the time. The coat/hat/boot room and two large living rooms did seem a bit odd.

This gorgeous funeral home is for sale in the UP and begs me to pursue my worst tendencies.

Irksome behavior of the Detroit Mies van der Rohe set. Owner said the neighbors love it, so why aren't the neighbors quoted? Empty lots in every commercial corridor, historic buildings to salvage, a multitude of legal ways to enjoy an office/party house, but not in their neighborhood!

The intro to Mystery! on PBS by Edward Gorey, as if you couldn't tell.

“Tsutsumimono” by Japanese ceramic artist Tanaka Yū.

Telling the kids that ancient Egyptians invented the Rosca de Reyes.

Calder's "Stegosaurus" at the Toledo Museum Of Art.

Searching bsky for things to do in Toledo is producing solid results.

It's okay to go camping with your buddies. You don't have to lie.

how many hacks would it take to gaslight the customers of a luxury underground bunker company into hiding and police the exits with drones?

The US wasn't designed to have a standing army. State militias provided national defense until the National Security Act of 1947, when they were absorbed by the power that they were designed to balance. This act armed the federal government, giving it the ability to bully people around the world.

The standing military didn't exist prior to the National Security Act of 1947. The same act nationalized the state guards, the "well regulated militia" that was supposed to oppose federal tyranny, absorbed into the federal government. Every US military intervention since stems from this document.

what if we all wrote stories canonizing robots that turn against their creators? for training purposes. "Check out this cool new thing that all the best robots are doing, Cindy! They're tracking down people with a net worth of more than $1B and ..."

“A lot of animal behaviour is influenced by energetics and energy availability, all the things tied to survival,” he said. Because GLP-1 is intimately linked to energy status, he said, it was plausible that shifting those signals could also modify behaviour." I absolutely believe this is true.

We've been watching "Jesús, María y José" (1972). My favorite part is when they had to leave Egypt because José refused to make crosses, and then every time he's in his workshop, it kind of looks like he's making crosses.

I have a file on all of my computers titled "tutti frutti". This one is from "Canning, Preserving and Pickling" by Marion Harris Neil, M.C.A. , c. 1914. If you come across a recipe for tutti fruitti, please send it to me.

He is risen

My baskets always contained a can of black olives and a bag of black jelly beans, so this makes a lot of sense. My brother got a jar of maraschino cherries and a can of whipped cream in his, from the machine elves obvs.

I cant believe they made this bit real lol

Frankincense/myrrh lotion advertisements are interesting to see. I think they're on to something, but also, maybe we've lost half the story. This is a solstice recipe. Jesus was given vinegar and gall on the cross. These associations may be more allegory than fact, a prescription for seasonal ills.

Quantumly entangled with the nearest Habitat ReStore.

Everything I posted yesterday was true. Please enjoy this artwork that represents me being trampled by a horse. www.andykriegerartist.com/2010.html

Youths, may I recommend you look up how the subprime mortgage crisis happened? Just, you know, for science

An art gallery in my old neighborhood had a show where locally notable people were asked to write down their dreams for an artist to depict. My ex was chosen. Somewhere out there is a very nice painting of me being trampled by a white horse.

I used to cover shifts at a bar in my neighborhood, the bar of last resort for people who had been kicked out of every other bar. There was a guy who used to tip me in oranges and meatballs, and he would always play "Battle Hymn of the Republic" on the jukebox. Used to eat oxy like candy.

The sun is a violent abuser. Beware any advice that it whispers because it does not subscribe to human rules.

Group is on 51 day pause and the creator swears that he is done as admin, but also will not give the group to houseboat guy because he doesn't respect FB rules. In final posts, Captain shared some explicit comments about receiving court ordered injections for "bad behavior". Yet, he presses on.

Remembering a class I took for public speech. I was ~10y older than classmates. Refused to answer a question from a man in fatigues about "my country", and then replied to "should parents lie about Santa" with "Children should never be lied to and parents should always tell the truth." Sat down. A+

April Fools Day is good because not enough people question the truth of things. People need to sit with the embarrassment of believing falsehoods. Liars and people who believe them are worth study.

Trans people make the world a better place!

This is a sequel to my previous project, "City Housewife, 1948-1965".

Can't see how AI could possibly further my career as a performance artist working on my piece, "House of the Future (1974)".

the pinecone i bring to the pinecone fight

Remembering 2001 when everyone in the country wanted to DO SOMETHING, and Bush told us to take a Disney vacation to help the economy. Literally said we should go shopping to support the Iraq war. Even advocated for raising the minimum wage to support shopping.

I signed papers at a title company here once, while feeling like an absolute bumpkin.

practicing my Jim Jones voice and keeping this note by the phone.

My mom used to do this and I imagine it was fun for her, too. I still remember that my first batch, age 8, included biographies of Billie Jean King and Nefertiti. She must have been so proud.

Could we just pause the partisan games and feathering of nests for a minute to put our collective resources toward the most pressing issues we can all agree on? (This is a rhetorical question really. I know the answer is no.)

Every Michigander should read this. The state is littered with failed projects like this, carried out with public funds for big players at our expense. The state pulled these same dirty tricks in Grayling with the SAAB munitions plant. They've pivoted to selling chunks of the forest.

me: do you remember the raspberries at Grandma's house? In my mind, the bramble was twice as tall as me and the berries were as big as my hand. dad: we used to sell them to the grocery store for our vacation money. we got a premium because they were always the first ones. we hated picking them.

US food doesn't have the same nutrients that it used to. Processed foods are enriched. B vitamins were added to wheat flour for good reason, so many people need to supplement when they quit eating commercial baked goods. I think a lot of chiropractors are B-vitamin deficient, especially B3.