Our cats show no interest at all in human food. They pine for worms and frogs and cheap kibble from their days on the streets. It's nice to not have to worry about them trying to steal from our plates, but it makes giving them medicine a PITA because there's no food we can tempt them with.

If I were a flintstone Yaba dabba dabba, bubba bubba dabba dabba doo

One of my coworkers spotted me taking pictures of mushrooms growing outside our office and could not wrap her head around the fact I just think they're cool and wasn't looking to get high.

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In your 20s, there will be a LARPing event that will suck so bad you'll spend three days having back to back panic attacks. It's very important that you go. Or: let me tell you about how I learnt I was autistic. 🧵

Re: the "creators need to pivot to video to find success" discourse, I have a solution*! *I know, it's actually a lot of work, I just want to normalize interacting with the world via cartoon masks

"Put your cat ears on, son, we're going to see a marching band" is a quote for the ages.

AI bros in a nutshell:

Sumbitch. I thought Alien Clay was the first Adrian Tchaikovsky book I'd read and was eager to find more.. only to realize he wrote the Apt books. Now I've got to go back and reread those.

Sometimes when I complete reading a book by Adrian Tchaikovsky, I stop and ask myself: Is England okay? And it's a very silly question to ask myself because at that moment I've just completed reading an entire book in which Adrian Tchaikovsky explains to me that England is not okay

I am so glad now that I haven't allowed Calibre to update since I installed it a few months ago.

Someday I will have enough money to hire Hugo Weaving to read Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout for me in his Agent Smith Juris My Diction voice, and I will finally be able to sleep properly, the dream fulfilled.

Finally settled after doing what we can for our neighbors and friends. Exhausted down to our bones, so if anyone wants to donate to the "we're too tired to cook, lets order out" fund, we'd be grateful. So glad to be home. ko-fi.com/tinychaosmouse

My best friend and I were 9 and went to see The Last Starfighter near the end of its theater run in the middle of the week. We had the theater completely to ourselves and got to have the full moviegoing fantasy experience: shouting and cheering and throwing popcorn at the screen. It was glorious.

"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need" doesn't have any caveats. What we deserve is defined by what we need, not by what we do.

So, I've been out of work again since mid November, no new work til January, and the guy at the blood donation place managed to scratch my one good vein pulling the needle out so I can't sell blood for another week. We could use help keeping the lights on and the cats fed. ko-fi.com/greybunny65000

Thought I'd gotten the mail I'd been waiting for from Social Security, but no. It was just DVR letting me know they're slamming the door in everyone's face and despite getting past the door already I had a form to sign to avoid getting thrown out. Deadline? 12/8. Postmark? 12/5. Arrived? Yesterday.

because Jurassic Park is trans rep

Secret Invasion Aftermath: Beta Ray Bill - The Green of Eden #1

I call bullshit on them making Gemini secure enough to handle national security grade data. You know these motherfuckers just signed up for a regular Gemini account.

With public health care, my partner and I could live perfectly comfortably off the interest on $1M. 2 and we could pay for private health care. 3 and we'd have the biggest house we could possibly want (mostly room for cats). $100M is madness inducing luxury.

If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.

I think every band's live set should include Killing In The Name until further notice.

There were some other contenders, but in the end, this is just too fitting. The most vandalized statue in DC, under assault since the day she was installed for the sin, as far as I can tell, of being a curvy woman trying to get some rest.

Movie you've watched more than six time with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (either War or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel. I watched it so many times the week it came out I wound up having a recurring dream where Agent Smith confronts me in the interrogation room and reads Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout at me.

Ok, after the wild ride of Metal From Heaven and Alien Clay, I'm only reading sf/f lit that ends in weird communist revolution. The weirder the better. Recommendations welcome.

This. I saw a few people doing "oh how the noble artist of yesteryear has fallen" and was like, what? We're still talking about Robert "Minstrel face and protruding nipples" Crumb here, right? The guy who was always clearly one binge away from a Sims/Adams/Ishida screed, right?

Okay, but was it an amateur move? Or is it really that a bunch of people have tacitly agreed that it's scamming season? I've talked about this as one of the most significant markers of the Trump era. Scammery has been normalized. Everybody knew. They just decided to try to get away with it.

There is no greater argument against the capability of AI than the social skills of the men most infatuated with it.

Now that I've finished Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay, I am even more Team Joined. Carol needs to get a grip.

I've been saying I want For All Mankind but with Kerbals, complete with Kerbish dialog. But really what I want is a Hardspace: Shipbreaker story that ends with a labor uprising sweeping the solar system.

What is your favorite "Christian" Christmas song and what is your favorite "Secular" Christmas song? I was kicked out of Sunday school at age 5 because the only thing I would sing was Silent Night when it was time for hymns. Secular, I'd have to go with Chiron Beta Prime by Johnathan Coulton.

Who transed more genders: Bugs Bunny high femme, or Scooby Doo villains with swirly eyes and a pocket watch?

*bites tongue* Okay, so, the other really bad news that I got just kicked me under the table, so now I'm stressed, and I don't like that. Really, REALLY need like, double this, and it's really, REALLY life or death.

There are 133 million households in the US. If households shifted just $25 of spending to small businesses, it will move $3.3 billion back to local communities instead of going to large corporations #weaintbuyingit #shoplocal #smallbusinesssaturday

Honestly at this point I'm more curious about whether the others can save the mean lesbian (and possibly humanity) from herself. I'm very much Team FFS Carol Slow Down And Think For One Godsdamned Minute.

There are so many things to anger the mind here, I know, but the way this dude uses "biomarkers" as if they were some hidden cRPG stat that deterministically dictated future performance and not just what your body is currently working on metabolically makes me think dungeoncore was a mistake.

Take my cats to the vet. Get my two crumbling molars that insurance won't cover fixed. Past that the sheer amount of doom-rumimation that having a steady income would eliminate opens up so much. Cleaning my home, taking care of myself and my partner, creative projects galore.

help? Mem's raising for rent and is only a little over $200/$1133 of the way there. Rent's been late multiple times, shutoffs also aplenty & bill due. Doc needed for meds. ignoring this condemns them to homelessness with trauma / bad health / threat of death & institutionalization.

as some of you know, I finally won my disability case after 10 years of fighting. The downside? Payouts are delayed, and I only get 2.9k of the 32k I was owed. I'm stressed. Things like meds, appointments, and the like rely on this, on top of saving to move into an accessible apartment.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Rattlesnake Black bear Io moth caterpillar (ask me how I know!) Humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa Humpback whale (oddly enough thousands of miles away from the previous) Honorable mention: Bunnies (no one ever believes me) Too many buhds

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: Willie Nelson Huey Lewis & the News Tenacious D Hank Green & the Perfect Strangers The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets That is damn near all the concerts I've seen. I may be a bit of a nerd.

See also the tragedy of orphan dwarves (dworphans): only mothers care for infants, so if the mother dies her infant just crawls around the fortress ignored by other dwarves until it either starves to death and sends its father into a rage or grows into a toddler that can feed itself.

I'll give anything a shot at this point.