autistic awareness month has been over for several weeks, we could be anywhere sneaking around. i mean, i'm playing civ 5 between work calls again, but i'm sure some of us are out there being sneaky while nobody is aware

person, woman, man, camera, tv, and absolute horses.

due to a miscommunication while baking, ginger never got added to the ginger molasses cookies we were making. so now they are albino molasses cookies.

saw 'the sheep detectives' today, very entertaining. both moms with me called it a 'perfect movie' so i'd call that a win for today. plus saw in a trailer that the minions apparently summon chtulhu in their next movie so that's fun.

absolute horses and grogu

eating a whole baguette: oh, how breadful!

just now realized the word 'esper' that shows up in final fantasy and other places referencing magic or psychic things is literally e.s.p.-er

Okay, how's this? WITS. Returning to www.mprnews.org. Available to everyone. Sunday, May 10th at 5pm. It's a broadcast of our show from last September with @pftompkins.bsky.social , Your Smith, John Munson and the Witnesses, our acting company, Cop Squadron, Pop Song Correspondences. Okay! Yes.

are you telling me these wars are star?

happy free comic book day to those who celebrate

Like, the takeaway here is, it's fake, gang. It's all fake. Hungary funneling cash to US conservatives. Tucker Carlson having fewer than 8,000 subscribers. Conservative streamers taking Putin money. Now Ben losing whatever teat he was suckling at. None of this is popular. It's just fucking LOUD.

just had a new experience of sneezing in such a way that i bit the edge of my tongue real hard. 0/10, would not recommend.

this is a dance off. you see this, repost a dance.

i’ve played enough jrpgs to know how this goes. a village boy, his hometown love, a mysterious wizard, and a talking animal are going to band together and battle the ceo of palantir at the end of the world

wow i saw this before and assumed it was a joke. this is a real thing. like i know these people are tone-deaf but they still manage to surprise me

for some dumb reason my brain has had 'got my mind set on you' by george harrison stuck in it. but it always replaces 'you' with some other rhyming word. so without further ado, 'a squirrel productions' presents, some dumb things i made:

fighter: i fight. other classes: we fight too? fighter: yeah but i fight the fightiest.

(clever) girl dinner

almost threw my phone while reading a book on it, a demon was speaking gibberish, one of the nonsense words was 'maha,' startled crap out of me.

minor thing, squirrels prefer you use they/them as default if you do not know their pronouns, not it/its. less minor thing, no kik sqwerl.

"fear is the mind-killer," skill issue. embrace panic, you can skitter up a tree to run away from a dog and ponder the nature of conscious thought at the same time if you practice

quote the poster, "quoted post."

crazy how when rocks get hot enough they look edible. watching kilauea and i just want to try a scoop but it is just very hot rocks

new poodle mix is actually part feline. you need to get one when it's young, for the whole kitten cadoodle.

this group has helped 85 families stay in their homes this month. we've got 8 left with urgent need, i'm told we're about $4k short. even if you've only got a few dollars to spare, please help us help our neighbors. www.gofundme.com/f/essential-...

Greg Davies: So the task was just, don't start any wars? Sounds easy enough, just don't start bombing anyone, just stay put really. How could anyone muck that up? Alex Horne: How indeed. Up first is Pete Hegseth.

'no us military forces were harmed,' except maybe psychologically for taking part in this. metaphysically, if you believe in a soul, that was likely eroded, damaged. reputationally...

frank looks like he should maybe be cut off after this one.

anybody out there got cash to spare for good causes? diapers for st paul kids: gofund.me/d4b1b4955 friendly fridley (and neighboring columbia heights and spring lake park) general mutual aid: gofund.me/06c049a9f

pathfinder game, terrible eldritch monster shows up. gm mis-speaks, describes a writhing mass of testicles. some giggling of course, but i think that might be more horrifying than tentacles.

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

I could easily buy happiness; skill issue

i have to assume this may be why ice was at a fridley elementary school this morning. can't even think straight right now, such is my anger.

have been in a hospital since wednesday because 10 yr old had bad asthma attack. no known asthma before this, it has been a scary journey and i'm a bit of an emotional mess. exceptionally grateful for modern medicine. and that our insurance situation is not one that will bankrupt us to save his life

Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime

something i think about a lot is when you make the consequences for doing 'minor bad thing' the same as 'major bad thing,' you get people doing more bad things. like the story of chinese officers who led an uprising because the penalty for being late was death so why not just rebel

current crap has me involuntarily wincing at the mention of frozen water, even completely unrelated to events. wondering if there will be a statistically significant drop in things like hockey or figure skating in years to come.

interesting times. uff da.

Hey the Norwegian PM Støre called and they’re all out of ah forget it.

glacies delenda est

once upon a time i worked a job where i was going into people's homes to fix things, and i learned something about racists - they assume a white guy working that sort of job must be at least close to as racist as they are, and they say some of the wildest shit. was eye-opening in a sad way

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

If you’re in the Twin Cities and want to do the most minimal thing to annoy ICE, drive the fucking speed limit. These goons get so angry when 20 is plenty.

i need a word for an emotion that is a mix of sadness, anger, frustration etc plus hope, awe, respect, love and gratitude for how i feel when i see ice observers. like it is mostly a good feeling but the fact they are needed hurts, and i've been feeling it a lot lately.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

child (12) is recently fascinated by 'eldritch horrors' and has been referencing and joking about them. the twist, he doesn't enunciate the 'ror' at the end of 2nd word very well, so it sounds like he keeps talking about eldritch whores.

well this is embarrassing, i am my own left nut... (ok the cancer was caught early enough where 'almost killed' would just be in a situation without modern medicine, but still)