Now that mom's no longer sitting around waiting to die and intends to take her art supplies, I'm setting up a store for her to make and sell stuff because it'll give her something to do. I mean, also she's good at it, if there'd been Etsy in the 80s she would have been the breadwinner.

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FUCK THIS. Hurt their feelings *more*. Any CEO who tries to destroy the country or undermine policy because they didn't get their ass kissed with a fucking invite to the White House was _always going to betray the country anyway_. Spend this much time trying to appease the poor! Fuck's sake.

Yelling at my mother for spending 2 hours outside digging some goddamn trench in the yard for reasons only obvious to her. I dislike this role reversal.

This made me a little weepy. Jay's had several circles of really good "dudes and other people" groups and I wish more men were allowed to access goodness and I also wish I had a workout book club now.

Portland Omelette: Bulgogi, Jojos, a vegan donut, and hops.

Dutch late night TV has its take

NOTHING LIKE living with your mother to point out exactly how much you are like your mother. Between her undefined cognitive decline/stress and my ADHD/stress we're just constantly wandering into the same rooms wondering what ourselves/each other are doing there. The toddler-walk. The cackle.

IF??? Buddy this is LITERALLY YOUR PROBLEM TO FIX.

Okay I think I’m gonna listen to the Stand anthology to wind down for bed.

👀 I’ve been saying…

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

Have introduced my mother to Kenji and she’s obsessed. #winning

And yet he also "can't do" a bunch of things that nevertheless appear to have "actually happened"

Some of this was her dr taking her off lasix and the rest of it is probably knowing I was coming to fix things, but my mother was 5'8" 100lbs 6 weeks ago when her friend called me to sound the alarm, she's 114 now and her lung function is up 20% from 3 months ago.

I'm sure this happens all the time because of her insomnia but I'm not usually here to know: it's 11 and mom's not up yet and hooeee am I learning lots about caregiver stress.

Fun: falling into an unexpected nap listening to the The Stand-adjacent anthology and waking up vaguely feverish.

This is so simple. Newsom is not a candidate. You have no means to vote for him right now. So stop voting for him. You will not die of effort to back someone of substance now while there's still time. You're not going to get sent to the nicer camp for backing him from the start.

Flags are at half in TX if you didn’t already guess that.

God flying is so disgusting (all the more now we realize HOW disgusting) but flying into Houston is just like doing something normally dirty and then walking into a wall of old wet socks. At least the hotel has a setting on the shower that’s basically “pressure washer”.

Big ups to Alaska Airlines. Flying while fat was trouble-free, just a couple extra steps up front, 100% respectful treatment from crew, no issues getting an extender. And the flight wasn’t full so I get the extra seat (which was also tax-free up front) refunded.

This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.

Obligatory Portland airport carpet

I know it's getting late in other climes but I think I need some recs for ios games I can play w/o (or w/ questionable) wifi? Prefer chill puzzles, been doing a lot of sorting and hexagons lately.

I was shopping for airplane snacks and was offered THIS among the Lunchables. Tell me that's not a Ham Bag with American Cheese trim.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

as usual, fuck msnbc, the bastard child of two bastards

If political violence is never the answer, please DO tell me what you'd have done about Hitler? Give him a sandwich and make him take a nap?

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

The notion that some line previous uncrossed was crossed today is fiction. They shot Dr. Tiller in his church DURING THE WORSHIP SERVICE because they disagreed with his politics. Don’t you dare let their revisionist history go unchecked.

I would never have thought replacing everyone at the FBI with podcasters and cigarette boat salesmen had downsides

The Post really is Fox News with a better vocabulary. A shameful decline of a once-great newspaper.

can definitely cobble together a solid "I'm to blame for a lot of [gestures at everything]" panel out of this lineup

I remember getting into an IRL argument with WaPo investigative reporter Craig Whitlock in 2017 about whether it was journalistically ethical to say that Trump lies. He argued vociferously for the "you don't know what he believes in his heart" argument. Just thinking of that these days.

Went and got flu and covid done. I had to provide a justification reason - "obesity" was acceptable, "caregiver" was not.

Wait, what??? “She was married to Danny Sugerman, manager of the rock band The Doors, from 1993 until his death in 2005.”

😵‍💫

GOP misunderstands that we don't take this shit on as An Identity, like being loyal to a favorite football team.

This your boy? Your funny boy who you love who is gonna save us from fascism?

So...Portlanders, if you were looking for a certain updated vaccine you'll need to look across the river for some reason.

It certainly wouldn't be shocking if that was a panic attack last night. Flying to mom's next Sunday, Jay's coming down the start of October to help with some house security/tech stuff and then I guess one or both of us are bringing her back here that week.

Late night PSA if you take a pink medicine (I think it’s my fexofenadine): I just traveled a wild 90 minutes of “Panic attack? Heart attack? Gall bladder? Plague? Food poisoning? Night meds just didn’t settle?” Which ended in barfing, INSTANT relief, and then finding my mouth smeared with “blood”.

Los Angeles, someone please adopt Stede Bonnet and keep the name www.reddit.com/r/rescuedogs...

I'm NOT ordering these today but one day...

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

It’s Jay’s night to cook but I’ve had a monster day and instead of ordering a modest $70 Portland pizza I got a tray of grocery store heat-and-eat Mac and cheese to dump over a huge pile of steamed broccoli. Ahhh that’s the stuff.

Oh shit, I thought Scott has died but nope, turns out he's just a big ol cliche.

Yet again Taylor has a chance to do the funniest thing.

I cannot emphasize this enough. fuck gavin newsom this man is a straight up monster who takes joy in destroying people’s lives and his policy platform is essentially just trump’s. from making poverty illegal to driving trans people out of public life. bsky.app/profile/moxi...