Picture of Higgins on drugs taken by the dogsitter.

If they hadn’t Brexited, they’d have had more genetic diversity on that island!

I like how if you read between the lines of the Irish Basic Income for Artists study they basically are saying hey if you give artists a little extra money they don't deal drugs on the side

stop fucking telling me to "Talk to my sons". the internet has convinced my stupid boys to support monarchism. however much i say the stuarts' absolutism was a dead end in a britain that was industrializing & urbanizing rapidly, they just call me a whig and demand i marry them to their cousins

My doctor told me to watch commercials for medications until I find one I think looks good and then text him

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dear peace monks, you don’t know me but DO NOT GET ON THAT BUS

they aren't even doing anything bad I'm just tired

I've had just about ENOUGH of humans today

Also, "a reasonable discussion" always seems to consist of someone laying out all the internal flaws, environmental and economic problems, and intellectual thievery to which the AI booster always give some variation of "but its the future." They don't want discussion, they want cheer leading.

WOULD YOU BELIEVE: The QR code check-in system at the allergy clinic is broken.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Nothing ruins my weekend more quickly than the fact that it’s Wednesday.

whatever there is to say about what’s getting thrown in the bucket called AI, I can’t get past how it has been forced on us, breaking things that work. And given the state of things, I need tools that work. There’s no time to waste on something that maybe might work (enrich someone else, poison us).

Albuquerque-area folks! There’s a Friends of the Library book sale this Saturday! All the money you spend there goes directly back into programs at the library that benefit you 🫵!

I got to check my phone at lunch break and El Paso was grounded to shoot down a party balloon?

Every day, chatbots force us to investigate the nature of personhood. Specifically, "are the freaks that made this chatbot people"

My 8 y/o son has similar ideas but at least his would be fun and useful. "They should make a Godzilla that eats all our garbage" You're right, son. Dream it

I gotta stop being mad at myself for being too slow and short circuiting in retail settings because why does the pharmacist have to ask me 5 rapid fire questions while I’m tapping through multiple screens just to get to payment in this loud store. Dysregulation city. Why do we do this to ourselves.

The idea of hardback books for kids or teens is so wild to me; I was a huge reader in the 80s and 90s and I owned maybe a couple fancy edition hardbacks of classics and that was it. Everything came out in paperback and my shelves were jammed with them.

watching porn and getting pissed off because the trades worker isn’t following any OSHA laws. “he’s doing carpentry with his dick out, this isn’t safe at all” i say in an absolute outrage.

PT 🥈

would have been a figure skater but they wouldn’t let me skate with a sword

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

From the tiny picture of the audiobook on my phone, I thought this was a Sikh man. He is a white American wearing a stocking cap.

A story from my afternoon.

Tonight on our walk, Higgins lifted his right leg to pee for the first time I’ve ever seen in over three years. Do dogs always favor one leg over the other? He has previously always been a lefty.

I hate that podcasts are video now. They should be for funny and interesting little freaks who don’t have to be hot and dressed well

They hate art! I’m sorry! They hate what it stands for, what it suggests, that it moves toward diversity and deconstruction of norms. They hate that it’s cool, they hate that it exists, they hate that they don’t understand it and they hate that some people get something out of it they can’t steal.

Scams all the way down!

YOU’RE A FUCKING MARK.

This is why it’s so hard to understand any defense of Gavin Newsom, too. If you’re willing to sacrifice one vulnerable group in the hopes that fascism will crush you last you’re not only a bigot, you’re a fucking mark.

The inability to understand that the oppression of trans Americans is not only part of fascism but a direct path to it is one of the reasons the right has found it so relatively trivial to gain power. Liberation for all or not at all isn’t just a moral stance — it’s a strategic one.

Apparently next year's Super Bowl is on Valentine's Day so yeah that's gonna be a fun one for the emergency room workers and domestic violence shelter staff

Tomorrow is going to be hard. I can’t seem to get up out of this chair. I keep crying. I have a headache.

What if: I knew what I was doing

hot chocolate is a kind of orange juice really.

Stanford is doing this because it wants to

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Cacao is a vegetable.

here's a stop sign trying to figure out what kind of bird that was that just flew over

so nice to finally have drafts

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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Dog walk 🏆 Half-assed PT 🥉

Should you get snatched out of your home on April 21st because you didn’t file your taxes on time? The government is focused on immigrants now but if you set the precedent that people should get kidnapped over paperwork there’s a whole lot of people who can get taken next

I saw a turtle at the pond today! He should get a merit badge for surviving the 8 degree F overnight temps we had a few weeks ago, especially as a native Texas turtle.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I don’t have my life together but I do have 247 screenshots I’ll never look at again

people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. the death of US soft power is going to have long term consequences we are only beginning to see