Why can't anybody ever be normal about the Squirrel Hill tunnel

why does pittsburgh have so many above ground power lines and also why are so many of them going near/through trees known to have extremely brittle branches who decided this was a good idea

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

landlord has requested that we keep the apartment temperature within a 7 degree range during the winter storm but they gave us like a really shitty mechanical one with no on/off switch and at best a questionable thermometer so like 🤷

Austinites demand that the city and APD refuse collaboration with ICE.

a lot of ice on the sidewalks this morning!

yeah idk why it was so slippy last night but i nearly died getting groceries at like 9pm

IT'S SLIPPY AHT!

asian pears and yali >>>>>>>>>> regular pears

in other news i thought i had bought crunchy salt before i left my apartment for like a month but i cant find it anywhere and im not sure if i remembered wrong or stashed it in a cabinet somewhere too well

somebody definitely thought they were hilariously clever naming a survey PHAT and an extension to that survey PHATTER but now i have to hear fat survey and fatter survey and fat north and fat south at minimum every other week at research meetings and i need whoever did this to know i hate them 😑

Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.” “Why?” asked Frog. “I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.

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on a related note ive been trying to replace "that's insane/crazy/mad/etc" with "that's wild" and i dont always remember but ill keep working on it i feel like sometimes "that's wild" feels too mild for the feeling i want to convey but i havent found a good way up the intensity aside from cursing

if the weather app is to be believed im gonna experience the coldest temps ive ever seen in the next week 🥶 i do love the cold but im not sure my wardrobe is equipped to handle 1 degree fahrenheit

i dont check the news for ONE day

how do i make bluesky take away the little notification icon for the go live feature im never gonna use it 😭

mmm this reminds me i have some pork belly in the freezer

deaths door is such a beautifully made game i almost feel guilty at how little i paid for it (i got it on a whim while it was on sale over the holidays)

So this is false, protestors are out here peacefully exercising their 1st Amendment rights to yell at Trump’s thugs. Police rolled by and informed them they were well within their rights. Fuck ICE.

If your children have clean stuffed animals they no longer play with and you’d like to drop them off to my porch to go into care packages for neighbors, please DM me. I can’t pick up just bc I am stretched to my limit.

i present to you my new obsession... hikari from octopath traveler 2 💖 #octopathtraveler #hikari #sketch #rkgk

my latest obsession is work with me videos where somebody shows what fountain pen and ink they're using at the start of the video and then proceed to do math worksheets for an hour straight example: youtu.be/j4YMl1jZLp4?...

today i learned that this beanie does not protect against wind chill omg my ears

noooooo not silpat 😭😭😭

And as we all know, corgs are the best agility dogs youtu.be/Jbc1cMONvns?...

Your haven't seen SHIT until you've seen Nimble youtu.be/VOl1VrI_LlI?...

Bed day bed day time to give you a thread of one of my favourite YouTube video genree Yes, it's time for COMEDY DOG AGILITY Buckle up, we're going in! youtu.be/YKfD1aHqBSw?...

why the hot hell does it take nearly 8 hours to get to dc by train from here

In other news I remain at war with my nemesis, Guy Who Invented Candy Cane Wrappers

are there grocery stores with like discount bins of produce in pittsburgh? or more frequent sales? like why was it cheaper to shop for groceries in boston 😭 i go to aldi most of the time but i feel like its pretty hit or miss what they have in stock and the sales at giant eagle....still kinda yikes

"The 6.4 km journey will take up to 12 hours" me going for a run after the holiday

Crazy to me that people can cook in chef’s coats. I can’t even eat a sandwich in long sleeves.

getting a bit tired of how often i think about that one 1984 quote these days

See you tomorrow! Hands off Venezuela! Abolish ICE!

ugh realized i never actually deleted my twitter accounts when i stopped using them and now i have to wait 30 days for them to actually be deleted for real

why am i always hungry at the inconvenient hour of midnight to one am

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

conveniently ratio'd for either legal or half letter size, so you conveniently can just print it out on any printer if you like, whose going to stop you (not me)

I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

Minneapolis.

started paying for storygraph pro a month or two ago and finally got my act together to properly make custom charts for this year yay :)

the post gazette has been on strike for nearly as long as ive lived in pgh and now theyre shutting down this sucks man

when the barista(s) at my favorite coffee shop recognize me (and if they have time to chat especially)

if anyone is looking for a non nyt word game, word play is like $7 (and was on sale last i checked, but the winter sale may be over now)

do you ever rush through reading a book because you have to return it to the library but its one of those books that like you kinda have to use your brain a lot to process the writing and then afterward you're like man now i need to reread it AND my head hurts