Please tell Gus that I love him
Bird watcher, 80HD, chaotic good, book lover, atheist, nerd, stitcher, cat parent, she/they, ace, liberal, Mpls-Adjacent, Discworld fan Pfp: cartoon of a white woman with brown hair against an aqua background. Shirt is duck duck grey duck image.
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Please tell Gus that I love him
Hubs has been looking for a job for years. This market is bull honky
I have moved to Insight for the food truck. Hubs and I are quietly(ish) ranting about how I WAS ROBBED!!
I love you ridiculous people. Thank you for gassing this duck up today.
#JusticeForDuck
As far as I could tell, I was the only entry in my category
"Judges are instructed not to award ribbons unless entries are deemed worthy of merit. If no competition exists and an exhibit is not worthy of a first-place ribbon, the judge may award a second or a third place ribbon per their judgment." I SHOULD HAVE A RIBBON
To the rulebook!
Like, at least give me actionable critique if it isn't ribbon-worthy
Omfg y'all.... WHY DIDN'T I GET A RIBBON?????
It doesn’t matter if you feed your kids organic foods, MAHA moms. It doesn’t matter if you lift every day, bro. It doesn’t matter how many supplements you consume. When polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and whooping cough come a calling, all that matters is if you are vaccinated or not.
"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.
Congrats to Minnesota’s newest judicial appointee: Judge Doom
Hi Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois state governments: Y'all can do this too and probably better. #GreatLakesHealthAlliance
I have put too much work into walking without pain to intentionally drop knives toward my feet 😂
(for non-locals, falling knife is a brewery... I realized my sentence sounds super weird out of context 😂) (for locals, if you're bored, come visit!)
No ribbons, which sucks. I should be getting a grading card when I pick them up, so I will be very interested in knowing why they didn't warrant a ribbon (when, from what I can tell, they were the only entry in the category)
Yaaaaaaaas!
I think I'm going to go to falling knife after I pick up my dolls. That feels like a good way to end this day.
If you're a preschooler, so am I.
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
BONUS PANEL: Say whatever the shit you want in your own timeline, like I'm doing right now. You heard someone venting and it reminded you to post some general tips for relaxing? KNOCK YOURSELF OUT. Just stay out of people's mentions (replies) with that shit.
ok
In general, online or in person, unless a stranger actually ASKS for advice (or "suggestions"), zip it. That's not a way to build connections with people. ESPECIALLY if you are a man and the person you think so desperately needs your advice (or "suggestions") is female-presenting. 5/5
It would be weirdo behavior and pretty rude to join the discussion and say "You should probably go for a walk or have a glass of wine". This WILL NOT be received as thoughtful. You will sound like you don't believe this person is capable of taking care of themself without your sage advice. 4/5
Maybe you're sitting enjoying a beverage, and you overhear someone venting to their friend that they were upset over someone insulting them. Yes, this venting was done in public where practically anyone could have heard them, assuming they were in the right place at the right time. 3/5
Just because something is posted in a publicly-viewable place like Bluesky, doesn't mean it isn't weird or rude to just jump into correspondence, guns blazing. ESPECIALLY if what you're commenting with is something akin to advice (or "suggestions" 🙄). Think of Bluesky etc as a coffee shop/bar 2/5
Apropos of ***absolutely nothing at all*** it seems like time to dust off a primer of how to interact with strangers online! Somewhere along the way, people seemed to decide that things posted online are not beholden to social norms... This is, in fact, NOT TRUE 1/5
Anyway, I'm mostly fine now. Bout to have a 1:1 with my manager (prescheduled), so we'll see if I decide to bring it up or not.
I’m sorry, I must’ve missed the part where she actually asked for advice
That's... Why I took a walk?
Yuuuuup. Unless he's opening up with "I need to apologize", there is no conversation to be had going forward. Maybe if it's business-critical, but that's it.
I just got back to my desk to a group message between him and the other guy we were talking to that said "LOL and to be clear, that was just me talking trash" Oh. Okay. That makes it so much better. Get fucked.
Just stormed out of the office to avoid strangling a coworker whose "joke" was to straight up insult me. If you're on the streets of downtown Minneapolis right now, watch out for a tiny bull of a lady in a blue T-shirt because she's already melted an xpo driver with her dagger eyes
I will consider it part of my "take random shit and make it into something else" (in this case, likely a placemat into a hat) skillset.
I think I'm going to spend this year learning how to make straw hats....
Thank you!
I need to remember to pick up my dolls today. (yes, I set a reminder. Yes, I'm still concerned I will forget)
Okay, that's just delightful
I'm hoarding sleep. I'm like a sleep billionaire
Welcome to my life! In her defense, I'd do the exact same thing if I could 🤣
She has one leftover from when my nibling was wee lol
I did tell my sister I wanted a new kitchen for my birthday and immediately regretted it because she's absolutely the type of person who would give me like a children's play kitchen as a joke gift
I'm afraid I've ruined all presents for everyone everywhere after the hoddog switchblade. Nothing will compare 😂
I agree! I love giving and receiving presents! I'm the type of person who picks up little trinkets and things that reminds me of others throughout the year with little regard to particular gift-giving occasions, so it doesn't occur to me to like... have a birthday list? lol
My sister just asked me what I wanted for my birthday, and it literally never occurred to me that anyone would get me anything.
SLEEP DEPRIVATION WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES
I'm sorry, WHAT?
Looks like toast's back on the menu, boys
I did! Sax-Zim Bog in northern Minnesota
One thing that's super cool about my neighbors is that their children apparently do not have bedtimes during windows open season
Forgot something upstairs when I went downstairs. Then immediately forgot something downstairs when I went upstairs again
Bone nest bone nest bone nest
Come up with one more and have Adam Turman make an Abbey Road print
It frankly boggles my mind that we have invented a computer that cannot do math.
bsky.app/profile/duck...
Hmmm I'll have to check.
I think my mouth is broken. I just ate a salad (lettuce, carrot, mushroom, cucumber, cheese, Western dressing) and it felt spicy??
Oh, they'll be miserable
Time to do my weekly passing of the campaign hat. If you can donate something, regardless of how much, it’ll really help. If you’ve already donated something, you’re awesome! If you can’t donate, you can still sign up to get email updates for what the campaign will be doing. Have a great Labor Day!
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
If it's a quilter's cotton, I'd want it to be on the heavier side.
Just gonna go ahead and start this search now: if anyone has leads on a medium-heavy cotton (twill, perhaps) in a blue and white stripe and a green and white stripe where the stripes are around one inch wide... Lemme know #iykyk #DuckingCreativeDuck
Birthday month starts in two hours. Bout to be more insufferable AND more depressed than usual
Oh, that makes me want to create a giant makers studio with all kinds of tools and shit and call it ADHDIY
Imagine there’s a sunlamp above you, and it’s sprinkling water on your head.
PERFECTION
Today's meditation was too ridiculous to be relaxing... "Imagine there is a shower head above you" Ok, cool... "Streaming from the shower head is golden rays of sunshine..." Why not water? Why not just standing in the sun? Why is light flowing like water? What's the UV index? Am I gonna burn?
100% agree!
After that? A financial advisor will need to tell me how to best manage the rest, but I would be donating to too many causes to name. At a minimum would be PBS and MPR, then a crap ton of human rights and environmental related groups
I have estimated (rough numbers) about $2M in personal/fun stuff including housing purchases and improvements that would ultimately result in two rental properties. Travel to Iceland, new Zealand, Ireland, and Costa Rica (to start). Money for niblings' education. Vehicles. (Cont)
The alt text on the end of the world post is annoying me
if you see one of these it is your duty to let it hit you and take a dive that would put a footballer to shame making them a liability seems like the quickest way to get rid of them
Do you think they'll ever change the location of the crop art giving the immense popularity?
Perfect flex, but terrible use of alt text.
Now's as good a time as any to remind everyone that I'm a dirty liberal who wants to take away your guns.
The thing with these gun nuts is that they value their "right" to have killing machinery over a person's right not to be institutionalized - eg, jailed - without having committed a crime. That's what "mental health care" looks like in this situation. The problem is the fucking guns.
I hope we both get the best birthday present ever!
When it does happen, make sure your memes have alt text and your hashtags are pascal cased. I want to be able to like and share everything.
My birthday is in a week. There's still time.
trumpwatch is the bluesky version of buying a powerball ticket. It's not about the odds, it's about the dream
this survey took less than two minutes yes, it's inane. do it anyway
Bluesky right now ...
Whole planet gonna be Ewoks
We should absolutely leave Harry Potter behind, but adults should be more childlike.
I saw everyone else saying it and now I’m trying to will it into existence
she looks nothing like him
A lot people are saying they don’t want to go to sleep tonight just in case they miss they announcement that Trump is dead but can you just imagine waking up in the morning to all news alerts and the timeline buzzing. It would be like Christmas morning on crack.
STUNNING!
YES!
Mpls friends! A friend of a friend is missing. If you see a silver 2006 Camry, with JMV license plate, please lmk!
This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
He would be the most ineffectual president in history, and that's saying something.
cut my life into pieces it's pumpkin spice malort
All I want for my birthday is it.
Punchy bus driver is punchy (complimentary)
Murder in the city. Too soon.