There’s a section of the theme song to Big Bang Theory that goes “math, science, history” that my brain always hears as Mad Science History. And that’s a book I would like to see. A book on the history of mad science.

I am deeply overtired and have just volunteered to lick a pinecone to cheer up a friend so basically everything is pretty much as expected here.

Subway account: random Post about E, F, M, R trains My brain: is there a station where the E, M, D, and R trains meet and is it the sanest spot in the city?

Me: *tries to toss something up the stairs* Me: *epic fail* Sibling: wow, I only saw the begining of that… Me: that was not the parabola I was looking for Sibling: there was no way that was going up Me: I did not think that through Sibling: this is my shocked face Me: I have one just like it!

@virginiam.bsky.social rereading infinite coffee medicinally lately, it’s esp helpful before bed. Thanks ❤️ ❤️

The algorithm of various sites has decided that 90% of the commercials I see are for natural dog food and makeup for people over 40. I’m caught between amused at how close to being right it is while being completely wrong.

THIS BABY

Anyone need a long giggle from 1988? (Sometimes the algorithm *works*) This (45min) vid about a long suffering ventriloquist & his badly behaved puppets is one that sibling & I taped and watch repeatedly back then. it holds up surprisingly well! https://youtu.be/xwJcp2Pwg3U?si=umz8YD2Y_OKuRUqn

This is the cutest and funniest damn autism explainer I have ever seen. I definitely saw myself there a few times.* * diagnosed by peer review only but holy shit the section on AuDHD was FAMILIAR. https://youtu.be/VLq8RPwDnMc?si=_vVlPw17sf2yBPtL

Okay, if I disliked the book* but enjoyed what music I’ve heard of the show, should I watch the movie Wicked? *I kept feeling like I should like the book and I even finished the damn thing but nope.** ** this was also decades ago, long before the musical

I derived ENTIRELY too much pleasure from sending home my (adult) cousin the birthday girl with leftover pieces of BOTH kinds of rosh hashana cake tonight for her breakfast tomorrow.

Me: so every time someone mispronounces … aaand I forgot the word now… but they say it wrong, and I suddenly lose the part of my brain that knows how to say it correctly for at least 10 minutes. It’s so weird. Sibling: it’s Worcestershire, isn’t it? Me: HOW DID YOU KNOW?????!!

Dammit body. The tea only works when it goes in the mouth. Not when it soaks into the clothes.

FFS brain. *deep put upon sigh* Current googling: IS IT TIPPY-TOE OR TAPPY-TOE result: IT IS TIPPY TOE. I WAS RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. me: it is bedtime and THAT is what my brain decides to both forget and randomly fixate on

Commercial for coffee replacement with mushrooms and cacao: “ for perfect, non-jittery energy“ Me: 👀👀 “non-jittery? Someone has never seen me on chocolate!”

🤣 Today in #textMessageTheater “Muppet I say this with love but if you don't have ADHD I can't possibly imagine who _does_”

*whistles* do you need shinies for autumn? Look at these! Wow!

Hey #bpal people — where are the major trading/selling communities these days? I’m going to need to do a destash in a couple of months. I’m currently declutterring my entire life and JFC I keep finding more and more perfume that I’d forgotten about. Feel free to opinionate at me in detail 😁

Hai it me!

This is how you know I watch too many food vids — I was talking with sibling earlier and blanked on the word focaccia so mimed poking the fingers into the dough the way you do making focaccia before you pour the oil on top and about 10 seconds later remembered the word. >>

@rahaeli.bsky.social this is probably already on your radar, but just in case? OTC antihistamine nose spray reducing covid infection rate. (Feel free to loudly opinionate!) 😆 https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/otc-nasal-spray-seemed-to-cut-covid-infections-by-67-in-mid-sized-trial/

Dear Neighborhood dude, If I can hear every word of I’m Proud to be an American over my noise cancelling headphones, then your damn music is too loud. no love, Me

Story I’m reading: “as he laid out the pieces one by one” My brain: pitch perfect Tim Curry: “one by one by one by one by one!” Me: ….this is why I don’t need recreational drugs.

Today I learned what an otamatone is. 👀👀 Did… did someone say “let’s make something that’s as annoying as a recorder crossed with an unpracticed child’s violin, but make it reeeeally silly”? Example: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8B4NsQp/

Wooooow

It’s a simple joy but love me a YouTube vid of someone watching weird Al for the first time. Bonus points if they’re a rapper and they’re reacting to either White and Nerdy or Amish Paradise. Their eyes just get wider and wider and wider. 😆 Teens are second best with massive WTF face.

APROPOS OF ABSOLUTELY NOTHING 👀 A friend went IT YOU with this gif today 🤣

Me to sibling: IS IT TRAGIC OR SOMETHING TO BE GRATEFUL FOR THAT I DONT HAVE THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTION TO ACTUALLY COMPLETE A STORY OF THIS LEVEL OF NONSENSE sibling: THE WORLD WILL NEVER KNOW HOW CLOSE IT CAME TO MADNESS

@tkingfisher.com group chat conversation turned to your less than pleasant fictional horses just now… Me: “Someday SOMEDAY Ursula will write about a noble and majestic horse — but it will turn out to be a tomato plant thats been cursed by a fae it somehow offended.”

And we now return you to your regularly scheduled muppet. A friend sent me this IG post days ago and I’m still giggling at it. (And relating.) https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNQRKyHOrN5/?igsh=ZTk3bDc1NXg0Z2s1

THE WHOLE POINT OF ITHINGS IS THAT THEYRE SUPPOSED TO JUST WORK.

Grrf. Anyone else finding iCloud backups refusing to finish in the last couple of weeks? (I start it and it gets about 1/3 through and then the estimated time just rises. It won’t actually complete.) Neither my iPhone nor iPad will do it. i have enough space in the account & my iOS is updated. 😡

*grumble* Brain: 🎶 I tried to disCOVer🎶 Me: DAMMIT brain: 🎶a little something to make things sweeter🎶 Me: I BLAME SCRUBS FOR THIS

I HAVE AN IDEA this is how you stop wildfires: stop naming your locale something that starts with the letters “CA”. it’s so obvious! #myBrainIsAuditioningForTheOnionToday

I was talking to another woman my age yesterday, and we started plotting a business. Hot Flash Harriet’s Cruise Lines, taking you out to sea and as north as possible for the summer. 😆 Friend: men allowed on board, but only at their own risk. Me: 🤣 Her: oH nO hE fEll Overboard!

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I HAD NO IDEA THIS IS WHAT POMERANIANS USED TO LOOK LIKE …cue my brain track singing 🎶 “might as well face it you’re addicted to fluff🎶” …my brain is a jerk.

Today in the Muppet Family Players: Sibling and mom were telling me about how when the 7th game of the subway world series (Mets vs Yankees) landed on Yom Kippur one year, the rabbi had kids occasionally run outside to check on the game and report back to him. >>

Cw: food FINALLY Today’s pumpkin bread variation is in the bread machine — Today instead of pumpkin/cinnamon/nutmeg it is mango puree and ras Al Hanout 😁 The mango puree is a lot more watery than pumpkin or sweet potato, but not much more watery than the apple sauce so it shouuuuuld work. 🤞🏻

Delightful 😁❤️

@kithrup.bsky.social not sure if you’ve seen/posted about this yet, but Devon Monk has a free book out now — first of all series that isn’t the one about the gods going on vacation (I hope I’m remembering right that you’re the one that introduced me to them) https://a.co/d/0g9rHNG

I AM DEEPLY PUT OUT THAT ITS COOL ENOUGH FOR ONCE TO BAKE AND I AM NOT IN THE PLACE WITH THE BREAD MACHINE* * in other words, really, I just really want to make cake or any reasonable fascimile thereof

*smol tantrum* DYSTOPIAN FICTION ABOUT THE RUINED ENVIRONMENT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A WARNING NOT A ROAD MAP DAMMIT *cranky*

I was a happier person before wildfire season wasn’t a yearly thing. Signed, An AQI that’s worse than “not great” but not quiiiite at Sucks Balls yet.

…..okay that’s actually not the worst advice.

OOH I HAD A THOUGHT We all know I’ve been diagnosed ADHD by peer review, which I refer to as my “ProbablyADHD.” But I just thought of two alternate excellent monikers! LETTUCE AND JUNGLEFINS, I PRESENT TO YOU: AllegedADHD AND ShroedingersADHD

*cackles* omg

In retrospect, I’m pretty sure that storytime did not live up to previous storytimes of pine oil and drugged foundation garments. Nor even the the time with the piano. But it amused me.

Storytime! So this morning, not long after I’d woken up. I’m sitting there fuzzily sipping tea and watching vids in hope of finding my IQ points when I’m startled half to death by a bird song. A very loud bird song. That kept repeating very very loudly. >>

If there’s a quotation version of an earworm, here’s the quote worm I’ve been having: Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana