I put on @pbs.org's The Nutcracker I'd have something festive to half-ignore while I clean my house. Instead my adhd ass is just sitting here watching it. I thought I didn't like this stuff! 1) being 40 continues to be weird in unexpected ways. 2) I guess its called Great Performances for a reason.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Re: timestamp 1:02:34, I can see it so clearly in my mind. 1992 NYPD cop: and.... why were you trying to murder an unhoused woman? Harry: we WEREN'T trying to murder the lady, officer, we swear! Marv: yeah! We were TRYING to murder that 9-year-old! [Harry kicks Marv in the shin under the table]

NEW COMIC: The Santa Mystery #comics #christmas

I'm Uni Claus! :3

Mousecow. You are perfect and your person has a lovely speaking voice. Perfect dopamine video 10/10 no notes

"It takes a pet like no problem" is probably one of my most quoted lines.

Happy Thanksgiving, remember to drop that sucker still frozen ✌️

I didn't bother setting up my antenna this year so I chose a Livestream of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and I noticed that @apnews.com had one. Well it turns out to be a superior experience. No annoying talking heads! No cutaways! I can finally hear the parade announcer! 100% Parade. 10/10

I've been a Decemberists fan longer than I've been a Dropout fan, so that bit in the middle of this was a hilariously unexpected record-scratch moment. Can't believe you're friends with Colin Meloy AND you can do a backflip, damn @electrolemon.bsky.social leave some cool for the rest of us man 😭

Happy Thanksgiving Break, I say from the spot on the floor where I collapsed face-down the second I arrived. In honor of having the luxury of an entire week to be a real actual person in, I have taken the opportunity to indulge a hobby i rarely have the spoons for: BAKING! These are so good. ❤️

This is probably me projecting. But as much as I enjoy Frank Turner, I can't help but feel that his new cover of The Mountain Goats seminal "This Year" lacks the frantic desperation that marks the original as a timeless mantra. Frank's refrain is a statement. John's is a fervent, whispered prayer.

Today I learned that, despite it photosynthesizing and being (vaguely) green(ish) and needing water to live, kelp is not a plant. It is actually a very large algae. Which, it turns out, also is not a plant! Despite it photosynthesizing and being green (usually) and needing water. Not a plant.

"I have no responsibility for your disappoint" is my new life philosophy

I underestimated you, Colorado Springs - I was sure we'd be the only freaks in costume at the 6pm showing of shadowcastless Rocky Horror. But there are so many costumes!? So much fishnet and sequins and heels and even a buttcheek. My city has freaks after all! 🫡🥲❤️🖤 #rhps @ivywildschool.bsky.social

I would personally like to thank Tacos Del Gordo for having the best refried beans I've ever had. You're a gift to Colorado Springs and this city doesn't deserve you, but thank you for your amazing delicious bean burritos anyway ❤️

It's okay, Shermy my guy, I have days like this too

every day brings us one step closer to the promise of creation (Mountain Goats "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald")

@vornietom.bsky.social immediately knowing what show Emily Axford was talking about as soon as she said "German time travel show" is absolutely and without a doubt the high point of my entire week. Siobhan and Emily, you continue to be women of incredibly good taste. Thx for always being awesome!

Nicole Kidman Retires Drag King Persona ‘Keith Urban’

Anyway I've just found a marine biologist here on Bsky and boy am I excited for more Critter & Beast Facts. 10/10 highly recommend populating all your feeds with every flavor of natural scientist you can find. The animal kinds are especially delightful in my experience.

It turns out that I'm subconsciously populating my social media feeds with as many biologists as possible. I follow an aquarist, a wildlife rehabber (specializing in cottontails!), and some flavor of biologist who specializes in Squishy Lil Guys (leeches and slugs and whatnot).

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Still nobody got raptured, eh? Damn and here I was hoping for shorter lines and a looser job market.

Why are they so afraid of autism. Is it the swag. Is it the autism swag

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

I expect Bsky's next move to be selling itself to some fascist techbro tryhard for several billion dollars.

Today's Connections was horrible & I'm furious. Green and Yellow categories were fully interchangeable, depending on slang in your region. I still don't know how I was supposed to have figured out which of the five recognizable brand names didn't belong. 0/10 on the Neurodivergent Friendly scale.

SNW 3.10 "New Life and New Civilizations" live reaction:

❤️

some recent illustrations 🐈‍⬛

Watching Newsies and it’s a wonder America survived this era where everyone had to live in fear of the constant threat of rowdy newspaper orphans dancing aggressively at them in the streets

genuinely don't know if i've ever looked happier in my life

The comments on this post are giving me so much dopamine right now. Blink three times if you need us to call someone, Brennan!!

Interestingly, Jantje Friese & Baran bo Odar's masterpiece "DARK" keeps popping up in the wild for me like a synchronicity - however, that show is 11/10 perfect. So my answer, even though I never watched it because it only got one season when more had been planned, is their other show "1899".

I would NEVER hit a kid. EVER. I don't even like being stern with the poorly behaved study hall kids, it feels bad. I would, however, really REALLY love to punch a parent or two right in the fuckin nose.

Like to charge, repost to cast

Bonus fun bonus fact: According to at least forty straight minutes of increasingly-frustrates googling, fiberglass does not rot. To that I say, come see the underside of this horrible sink, give it a good sniff, then look deep into my eyes and tell me again to my face that fiberglass doesn't rot.

Grownup Problems Nobody Warned Me About, #175: If your kitchen sink is acrylic coated fiberglass of unknown age, there is a nonzero chance that when it inevitably starts to leak it will actively rot. Fun bonus fact, rotting fiberglass REEKS and will make you question your basic sanitation skills.

Smelled a skunk outside, and not on the cat who lives on his catio. Bobby versus Fate: 1/0

Little gentleman in a box :3

Sam did so well, we got a "Welcome to Mountport" reunion 🎶

My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires. When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

I can only believe that Goldsman and Kurtzman asked @pattonoswalt.bsky.social "what's your ideal Star Trek guest role," and Patton said "Can I be a Vulcan named Doug, and Rebecca Romijn is in love with me?" And they said, absolutely! Thus the funniest star trek guest role in history was born. 10/10

Apparently play is well documented in juvenile red tail hawks so this is only news to me personally, but I am beside myself with joy and wonder. I know they came for the safe supply of unpoisoned deer mice in the shrubs, and I feel very rewarded for that decision right now. Made my whole month.

It was stood on my porch gripping a little clump of tree bark in its talons and over the next 2 mins I watched it perpetually toss it up into the air, let it thunk back down, and then pounce on it as though it was a mouse. Periodically it would hold it down and break off a little chunk with its beak

Today I learned that cooper's hawks play, at least the younger ones. I learned this because my cat was at full, twitchy "lemme at 'm I can take him" alert, and when investigated what had him going, I saw one of our three neighborhood cooper's hawks about two feet away, playing with a bit of wood.

Two neurodivergent people meeting for the first time