"A Fish Named 'Dog': Childhood Disappointments and The Parents Who Thought They Were Funny But Weren't"

We have a saying where I come from: "Keep your mouth shut and don't tell the humans you're a tank grown doppelganger infiltrating their society in advance of The Harvesting or we'll remotely liquidate you and replace you with an asset who can keep their mouths shut!" Ah, memories. ...wait...

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

If I put all my resin supplies in a cool container so they're all in one place it will make me more likely to actually work on it and get the stuff done I want to get done, right? ... RIGHT?!?

Oh, and also one of the recommended search completions was: "Does Sun Wukong ever fight Goku?" Which is an infuriating thing to read for, like, SO MANY reasons!!!

The Internet has once again ENRAGED me😠 I realized I don't know how Journey to the West ends. Does Sun Wukong and Co. get to the Thunderclap Temple or is it a "journey not the destination" thing? So I asked Google. A full page plus AI results about the videogame. Like the story didn't even exist 🤬

Hey, you know what? I'm starting to think there might just actually HAVE been a war in Ba Sing Se...🤔

I LOVE this! Upholding the law or fighting crime are NOT the same thing as supporting the police. And NEITHER are necessarily the same things as do-gooding or being righteous. And while we're at it, oaths are sworn to The Constitution or maybe the Office of the President, NOT some meat bag.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

I guess the CAN has.

I don't art well at all but I found this little dice wizard to inspiringly adorable to not give this a try. So BEHOLD! "The Glum Guard"! He's not happy about somthin'. Or maybe everythin'. His catchphrase is incoherent mutinous grumbling. (Medium: my finger and Keep Notes draw mode)

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Gods damn it! My daughter left a bunch of water stones out on the back porch and the chickens got into them and all evolved into ducks 😠

Watched World War Z for the first time the other day (my 13-year-old is on a scary movie kick) and while I knew the "twist" in advance and still think it's objectively pretty stupid, having seen it presented in the movie? WAY better in context. And while not as good as the book, I liked it a lot.

A BP gas station led me on a choose your own adventure style romp when all I wanted was their overpriced gas. <DEBIT or CREDIT> Debit? <PIN or SKIP> Skip <TRANSACTION MISMATCH> You have died. Go to page 1. <DEBIT or CREDIT> Credit <PIN or SKIP> Skip <LOYALTY CARD ERROR> You have died. Go to page 1.

My son wanted a Kirby Birthday so we made Kirby cupcakes. They turned out pretty well I think. They ran a bit in the heat, but they were good enough for one of the other kids to 'Hannibal Lecter' one so I think that's a vote in favor, no?

Oooooooooh, THAT'S why it's the worst browser! I thought it was just a near total lack of innovation while the company sat on its OS laurels for decades. Good to know they made an active choice to be terrible.

One of our local Town fairs is this weekend so two of the kids made clay figures to submit for judging. They're both very proud of how realistic they made the rock parts look and I have to say, they do look like real rocks. We'll find out where they placed on Saturday I think.

I kind of love how The many tendrilled beast that is Halloween decorations has stretched its tentacles into some really niche corners and produced some super targeted Halloween decorations. I feel like just a few years ago things like this would have been but a fevered dream. It's great.

“The claim that trans people are disproportionately responsible for mass violence in America comes up every few months. It has never been true.” USA Today fact check from their extremism beat reporter www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Hammers make for heavy lifting. Builds good muscle tone. So does carrying the means of production on one's collective shoulders.

One of my favorite tropes and I didn't even know I was doing it. The og: www.tumblr.com/magicmooshka...

I was 14 when it happened, just about to graduate 8th grade. All the media could talk about was that these poor bullied kids played violent video games and could no longer tell the difference between games and reality. I don’t think I learned they were Neo-Nazis until years later.

The number of people who's fingers I would need to count the times I have had an almost completed post typed up in this app and then had to use my phone for some other purpose only to come back and find the post gone I could count on half a dozen people's fingers.

New "How to Report ICE" zines up today for free printable download! California (by county/area) Chicago Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Massachusetts North Carolina Triangle Area NYC Philly Pittsburgh Portland, OR St. Louis Metro Area Washington State Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Oh, so this is a THING that everyone is doing I see. Love it.

By Jackson Munden on instagram. Poor Servo!

I have an idea to make up $100M in market value

Remember Big O? The...anime? Cartoon? Never have I enjoyed something so amazing and confusing in equal measure that had no intention of giving me any answers but kept me entertained 100% of the time. I wonder if it's streams anywhere...

First pokémon game and first starter. My extended family rented a lakeside house for a vacation when I was a kid and a previous renter had left pokémon red and a green game boy pocket. It became my first game boy and I played the hell out of red. I think my first starter was Bulbasaur...🤔

QRT with art of powerful women. I don't art so this one's not mine, but this is what I thought of the second I saw that badass Daisy.

It's called a "Reverse Shumway" (Now THERE'S a joke that only 0.00001% of humanity will get)

Oh WOW! I not only forgot that I had this, I forgot this even existed! Very cool! I can't wait to try this out with my kids. @stevejacksongames.bsky.social

Okay, let's talk heteronyms for a minute. One spelling, two pronunciations and two meanings. Bass being a fish or music. Words like that... Other than Bass, can anyone think of an example where both meanings are the same part of speech? Like both being nouns, rather than a noun and a verb?

Okay, so I just started up the app and got the notice that they're updating their terms of service. It's been too long a day, if there's anything freshly evil, horrendous, monstrous, unconscionable, etc that was just added can somebody please let me know. Otherwise, good afternoon everyone!

I need you all to back me up on something! If my daughter asks why they're called 'cowlicks' and where they come from, I need you to tell her they're caused by dream cows licking your head in your sleep and the reason only some people get them is because those people dream about grass!

My son won Settlers of Catan last night. In a landslide. Now no one's saying that it's because he placed the numbers on the hexes AFTER everyone placed their starting settlements... But nobody's NOT saying that... ... And his sisters invited him to play on the floor of the Roman senate, so 🤷‍♂️

Slightly diminish a band: Princess

Had a doctor's appointment today at a specialist I've never been to. Got there maybe half hour early? I was checked in, seen by the doctor, got paperwork signed, scheduled the procedure, and was out the door and in my car all before my original appointment time. A refreshingly positive experience.

A bear has twice destroyed our chicken coop and decimated our chicken flock. So today I went and got the pieces to put up an electric fence to hopefully stop that from happening a third time. I need to remove the old non-electric fence that a tree fell on first. Lots of cutting to do...

IT IS JULY!!!!!!!!!! 😠😡🤬💥💀

My 15 yro daughter is obsessed with dragons and reads lots of dragon based YA, but still on the younger side. I told her I was going to pick out an "Adult Dragon Book" for her to try. She groaned and completely seriously said "Oh no, like just dragons doing TAXES??" I died 🤣

*Encounter bigot on BLSK* I cast Power Word: Block

Rewatching Little Witch Academia and it's still delightful, but in a post-Owl House world it comes off as quaint how it's not actually about a people's revolution, nor are Akko and Diana explicitly gay as hell for each other. Those two walked so Lumity could run.

MY GODS!!! MCDONALD'S HAS CREATED CHEESE BACON?!? WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE??!!!??

My daughter expressed her distaste at the possibility of needing to get blood drawn at her doctor's appointment. I pointed out getting blood drawn is just like getting shots, but in reverse. she was not amused.

📢 GIVE PEOPLE SOMETHING TO VOTE FOR AND THEY WILL 📢

Chess? THIS is what they have to bitch about now? F'ING CHESS?!? Does a particular hormone let you Castle better? Does the bishop get better diagonals depending on your chromosomes? Is this because when a pawn gets to the other side of the board they can transition to any other piece they like?

hi, cis folks! the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor. if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵

Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only.