stick around for the final seconds for a total perspective shift. a powerful short film, we should already be talking about it for next year's oscars

I’m craving extinct foods. I want the grilled ranch McWrap. I want a Staggering Ox sandwich.

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

Missoula has GOT to host a cat show with a pet category so that I can enter Kipper in it. He’s such a beautiful, gentle idiot, I think he’d sweep.

Biology class, Freshman year, my teacher lectured that only animals have bones, and one girl actually yelled “Nuh-uh!” He asked what non-animal she thought had bones and she said, “Carrots. They have that middle part.” Never saw a teacher grapple with anguish and violence like that since.

who would win: 40 billion dollar metaverse, or "Mii 2 (now with pronouns and gay)"

Imagine being so pregnant that your doctor sees you and asks if you want oxys

This was kind of experimental but oh my god it turned out so tasty. Made it extra spicy to try to finally beat this lingering congestion.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Octavia Butler would’ve loved AO3

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

I’m in a FB group for polymer clay artists - a medium I’ve worked in since I was in elementary school, so I know a thing or two about it - and every time I check it somebody is doing something dangerous with it in an entirely novel way that I can’t even wrap my mind around.

Telling everyone about my induction date (2/18) because if there’s one thing I know about kids, this all but guarantees he’ll come even earlier just to fuck with me.

Hurt/comfort yaoi followed by toxic selfcest yuri

Been playing my old Nintendo 3DS, and suddenly felt very wistful and sad. The little green light in the corner is never gonna come on again. I miss StreetPass so much.

My kid asked if he was old enough to watch Princess Mononoke and we said yeah, sure. Let us know if anything really bothers you. He laughed his ass off when Ashitaka shot off the arms and head of those samurai. Time to update my movie list for him.

My friend Tess Langston’s book just funded within the hour of her Kickstarter launch party! Go check out “Growing Up On The Spectrum” and back if you’re interested in learning about autism in a positive and constructive way!

All of my financial security revolves around the serendipitous reblogging of the Money Cat and other derivative “money creatures” on Tumblr, and so far this is working out better than the stock market.

Me, opening up Animorphs #10, “The Android,” Chapter 16, to read to my kid for bedtime, having read the whole series and knowing damn well what happens next: “I’m such a good mom. ☺️”

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

Feeling down? Deer up.

Re: my last post, why’s everyone hollering about the Year of the Horse already? It’s still Snake Time, people. Horse Time isn’t until February 17th.

I’ve decided 2025 isn’t over until the actual Chinese New YearYear begins.

Look at this cool bug. Nothing bad happening, only bug. Deroplatys dessicata, the Dead Leaf Mantis

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

My kid is so fuckin cute and nice??? He’s just the greatest???!?

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

Reddit adding the new feature where you can decide if anyone is allowed to look at your post history is unironically a huge improvement, but also I can’t help but get a little >:[ when I go to profile-dive some weirdo and get a blank.

hey i made it through all of 2025 without feeling even a little bit tempted to use AI in any of my workflows, creative or academic. How come this inevitable technology keeps being trivially evitable

I’ve begun reading K. A. Applegate’s “Remnants” series, and this was definitely a great bedtime reading choice for someone only weeks out from delivering a baby.

My kid asked why I stay up after he’s asleep, and I told him “I watch a movie that says every swear word in alphabetical order. You’d think it starts with ‘ass,’ but no, there’s like 10 words before it.” Him: “You do NOT… also, what are the 10 words?”

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

Involuntary muscle contractions should NOT use up energy or make you tired, that’s not fair and it should be ILLEGAL. Anyway. 32 weeks along today.

A woman in the drive-thru I worked at pressed $20 into my hand as I finished change back, and said, “That is for YOU. Tell NOBODY. I know they don’t let you have anything for yourself, because they want you dependent on them. But this is FOR YOU.” Not a lot, but I had no food that week.

*slapping the Sibley guide entry for Townsend’s Solitaire triumphantly* Maybe NEXT TIME you’ll believe me when I tell you it was THRUSH-SIZED! *wheels away angrily, muttering* …flycatcher-colored, what a JOKE…

nothing i cried in the bathroom so, so much

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

We are soldiers in the same cause

Made quamlettes the other day. Adding tater tots to the filling was a transcendental choice.

“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Perfection.

this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme