It’s not even, like, an irony-free stance. They just believe they’re above the law

I started explaining Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories to the 4-yr-olds and they got real quiet and got this glazed over look in their eyes

fReE mArKeT

I’m reading the books Heated Rivalry is based on and this first one is so sweet I’m *crying*

You know, I’m *trying* to grow algae in my aquarium for my nerites but I can’t because the plants out-compete it

Some of y’all have never been frog gigging and that’s fine BUT I don’t think of myself as “country” AT ALL but sometimes I talk to people that have never eaten a game animal of any size they personally took from their own territory

Y’all, I love the 3-for-me at Chili’s. I LOVE IT. I love saying it, I love ordering. $11+tip for a tiny calorie overload of joy

Ain’t that for true You couldn’t pay me to be under 27 again I mean, you could but it better be a lot

So excited it’s raining a bit!

Just finished Democracy in Chains, a book about how Nobel prize winner James Buchanan influenced the libertarian movement and the Kochs because he was a whiny little racist

After about a week, the pickled watermelon rinds ARE very pickly! I left the outer skin on because I like it but lots of folks shave off the toughest outer layer. I treated them like fridge dill pickles, and there’s a mix of brines, thicknesses, and blanching. Def gonna do this with rinds again!

The situation with Iran is a great reminder of how much in the world of both domestic and international politics depends on uncertainty and hypotheses that were untested until Trump decided to Leroy Jenkins the entire international order. 1/x

A fly got into my house and Reeci has spent the last hour desperately hunting it while June and I sit on the couch watching her

As predicted, Hollywood is taking the wrong lesson from Backrooms. That said, I’m not opposed to getting dumb trash creepy pasta movies. I love a good time and the possibility for unintentional camp classic schlock

I also recently saw some stats on the gender divide re ai. I can’t help but think that women and people of color have had to fight so hard to be in academia that we are more resistant to the lure of ai.

Tomorrow we’ll try to get into Xehanort

Tough call between Google Reader or Livejournal

One of the children I watch asked me when I was going to die and I said I didn’t know. When I asked when *she* thought I would die she held up ten fingers but wouldn’t say what the unit was. Just an ambiguous ten.

Explain your @ I was in high school circa 2002-ish and it’s an ellision of the Latin “meretricula,” diminutive of “meretrix” and I was trying to be sassy and clever. Now people ask me if it’s a “family name” because I’ve used it so consistently on and offline

They are the kind of men who say "our women."

It's not a waffle house it's a waffle home

I’m trying to retell the events of the first Kingdom Hearts game to some four year olds and they definitely think I’m bullshitting them

North Carolinia did raise up and take its shirt off to swing it round its head like a helicopter

Do you think lightning will make it happen?

What’s the tarp status?

My friends, the pickled carrots, onions, and garlic already taste amazing. My Baltimore band mate said she likes to do her pickled carrots with Old Bay and I’m doing that next!!

Oh my god why did I watch the beginning of Up 😭😭😭

A government agency still out here fighting the good fight

I watch twin 4yos a few times a week and today I brought over a jar of my ramshorn snails and I’m getting A LOT of mileage out of the kids just staring at the snails in a dish, how charming, how simple And then I was like… I also spend hours of my week staring at the snails in a glass box

Just finished @nenrich.bsky.social’s “Into the Wood Chipper” about the rapid dismantling of USAID and it was HARROWING. You really get a sense of how quickly it happened and confused and traumatized our civil service was. There’s so much blood on our hands as a country, and this was so needless.

Read a boring think piece earlier from a man complaining how women were reading romantasy and fantasizing about “sexual congress with goblins” and honestly that phrase was so unintentionally metal I can’t get it out of my head

3.5kg of artisanal, human shredded cabbage

The least upsetting thing about Bill Pulte is the dildo-to-the-face thing. Lord knows I won’t cast the first stone there, especially when there’s so much else he’s buckwild on

My husband is about to get another round of Kingdom Hearts plot recaps at dinner

Having the kind of admin day where “Warmest Regards” really means “Fuck You,” as immortalized by Chuck Parker. I’m glad I got to cover it! filkersongswap.bandcamp.com/album/cover-...

“Waste, fraud, and abuse” Thanks for the screw worm

Current things fridge pickling: red onion, garlic, and carrots. Most of these have dill and habanero but the carrots have tumeric and ginger. On the lacto ferms, there’s sauerkraut, red onion, garlic (can’t wait for it to turn blue!), carrots, and ginger with chilis from my indoor pepper plant.

If trying to do a coup and being a rapist wasn’t enough to take Trump down, maybe cursing the Knicks will do it

Lord give me that kind of oblivious confidence

Current ferments going: red onion, garlic, and ginger. Tomorrow: shredding cabbage for more sauerkraut!

I made some rosemary syrup the other week and it’s been giving me LIFE in my afternoon tea

Four year old: “Let’s go to Cobra Island!” Me: “What’s on Cobra Island?” Four year old: “…I don’t know.”

Unfortunately I had a dream where Bill Pulte was trying to convince me his rock band was good

It’s day 4 of Pride Month, so here’s a picture of Leon S. Kennedy as a little fox

I’ve still been babysitting twin four year olds and if I don’t do something right (by their standards) I’ve been saying “I’m not very good at this yet. Thank you for showing me” and they immediately treat me like I’m a charming idiot to pity.

A thing that gets me about people using Suno to generate complete AI songs—both for commercial or hobby purposes—is that not only do they not seem to actually enjoy *making* music but can’t understand why anyone else would enjoy the *making* part either. They’re hyper focused on the end product

I had a dream about eating loaded nachos called the “Atomic McNasty”

For the past several years, our community of musicians has been producing a free album of original music to fundraise--but with a twist! We "swap" and cover each others' songs. This year, you can get 31 tracks of new music totally free on Thursday, June 4th. Donations benefit music in schools!

This week: FilkCast is featuring songs from our new swap albums!!

I LOVED the Backrooms movie. Quiet and refreshing