A really great thread even if you can't see what it's in response to

The premise of House Rules is wild. Six couples are competing to have a chance to have their entire mortgage paid off. To do so, they must remodel each other's houses, one per week. The team whose house is being remodeled that week isn't allowed on site or any contact. 1/

I have not done any weeding this week (read: digging up the rhizomes and roots of Japanese knotweed) because my joints, especially in my hands, have been achy all week. Bodies are a scam.

Yes, body, I know it's hard to wake up in the morning... That's why it's generally frowned upon to wake up in the middle of the night and refuse to fall back to sleep for an hour

Proof the nap (or, going to bed early, at this rate) is a need not a want: I just forgot what I was doing hallway through putting my shoes on to go shopping. One shoe on, standing in my kitchen looking around for what to do next

Two of the cats decided they needed to take up the entire bed, so napping is currently off the table Y'all have provided great ideas, so THANK YOU 💜💜💜 Feel free to keep adding so this can be used for anyone to get ideas, but in the meantime, this is what I'm going with:

Someone give me like... Five meal ideas so I can go grocery shopping. My brain is rebelling, so I'm going to nap about it

The baby at the tail 🤣🤣🥹🥹🥹🥹

Your daily fortune: Carry kindness with you always, but also an enchanted sword, for when your kindness wears thin.

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat photo from your phone.

So I look adorable? Yes, I'm aware

YO PLEASE WATCH THIS IM FUCKING SCREAMING

It is very helicoptery this morning and I don't like it

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

My eyes they are a-twitchin'

OMG I THINK I ACTUALLY GOT TO SEE THE OTTER AT VETERANS 😍😍😍😍😍😍

racket currently has exactly 5,161 paying members. that is... genuinely amazing to me. we support ourselves and pay a host of local contributors with this thing we created almost five years ago. if you've ever wanted to join us, this is a great time to sign up. we couldn't do it without yr support.

Duck, when taking pictures of birds: better click repeatedly to get the best possible shots Duck, going through hundreds of photos: why did you need to take 7 nearly identical photos of a fucking robin????

Have a kitty. This handsome floof is Buster. He’s available for adoption in Minnesota through Caring for Cats. You can learn more about him here: us18c.sheltermanager.com/service?acco...

Let people enjoy harmless things, even if you personally think they are ridiculous.

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

YOU TOO SQUIRRELS

I don't know what bit me in the ten minutes I was outside, but my finger is NOT happy. Gonna try a pimple patch to at the very least keep me from scratching myself to death

Okay local birds, I need you to listen carefully: I know the native wildflower seeds I just put down are going to be super tempting... The epitome of low hanging fruit... But if you give them a chance to grow, we will all be rewarded ten-fold in the coming years.

My whole body hurts and I'm exhausted but there's almost a 100% chance I'll be out doing yard work again tomorrow

Neighbor is out managing the knotweed on his side of the fence. The bad news is, he's just snapping the stems The good news is, he's not leaving the stalks on the ground The next bad news is, he's putting them in the yard waste bin 🤦

Look at this absolute bullshit. This is just a fraction of what I've been able to remove and there is significantly more still underground. I fully understand why it is called knotweed now. If you let it, the roots will form a goddamn Gordian knot under your soil.

I was really banking on all that rain we were supposed to get today 😤

If my traitorous body is awake before 8am, there will be hell to pay

I know this thread will be hard for some to read. Maybe it'll feel like a personal attack. Maybe it'll feel isolating at times. But it's vital information. And I think it applies to not just PTSD. I think a lot of this helps build resiliency to live a full life in a often unkind world.

My voice is abandoning me

Yes, the forest is haunted. But that's not a bad thing. The twig witches, moss goblins, and fungus ghouls are only trying to make connections. To be seen and heard. Just like all of us.

There is not a single sober person in all of Northeast Minneapolis

Y'all were right about anchor. Kind of mad I slept on this for so long

Ya Duck is getting fish and chips y'all

Oops accidentally at liquid zoo

Hell of a day to be a birder, y'all

YOU GUYS

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HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?

Me: That’s funny, why does the new Teddy Ruxpin come with a sleep mask? Me, later: Ah.

Oh man, I love when people are assholes and they have some sort of business attached to them (email, logo on vehicle, sign out front, whatever) so that I know to never give that person my business ever

In case this might be useful to anyone here in MN: Mind the Movement is a mental health fund for democracy and movement workers. They are offering "free mental health support to community organizers and organizations working in Minnesota." More info: mindthemovement.org/mn

According to my watch, it took me one minute to fall asleep. I don't know how the watch determines that, but it feels right.

I decided to go to bed at 7pm because I'm a grown ass adult and I'm really fucking tired. So I get all ready, mouth guard in, snuggling under the blankets... And my dad calls. So I guess now I'm going to bed at a slightly more reasonable 8pm.

Always fun whenever someone discovers that Kars 4 Kids is an organization designed around using charitable donations to fund New York teenagers’ summer camps and trips to Israel

RIP Bauhaus Brew Labs Still doing their Liquid Zoo show at AAW this weekend and one last bash the last weekend of June.