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My inner Husky just perked up at that name. :) lib.uw.edu/ougl/
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Yep. It's so far-reaching!
Many companies really, really are too big to dent at a consumer level, and you'd get more mileage out of making a stink about it with your congressional rep than you would patting yourself on the back for your grocery list.
What I always think of: my friend's mom started boycotting Nestlé in the '80s. I took some cues from her along the way, and many products are easy to swap out, but the fact remains: it's 2025 and they're still doing all the same shady shit even if I've spent 40 years not making Toll House cookies.
...and I swear, that burger tasted so good I nearly cried. Best. burger. ever.
That reminded me: years back I had to do a big panel of blood tests, and on my way out, the receptionist called after me, "Go eat some meat." She wasn't kidding. I went straight to work but was exhausted. The first thing nearby that opened for lunch was a burger joint, so I went straight there...
I'm certainly not counting on anything, but it does, shall we say, sound like a good party plan for the appropriate moment.
Meanwhile, in the next room over, the Jennys and Jennies are having a face-off. (As one of the few who actually IS a Jenny and not a Jennifer, I think I get advantage.)
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
Yeah, that's gorgeous. The coloring does remind me a bit of what the sun looks like through wildfire smoke, too.
Funnily enough, a couple of them are armed better than I am. And Prudence may look sweet, but she _will_ stab a bitch.
The difference being that my doll connection isn’t going to kill anybody. Unless someone breaks into the house in the dead of night and they decide to take quarter-scale revenge, I suppose.
but I do need a fancy hat
I stand corrected!
The 4th digit on the hand is known as the ‘ring finger.’ This may come from earlier notions that this finger is directly connected to the heart via an artery. It was believed that wearing a gold ring on this finger would cure ailments. But we don't like a gold rush, gold rush.
Yes we already updated their bios to 'engaged.'
Which is nice in its own way, honestly.
a swift response to today's news, I see
peek: glimpse peak: mountain pique: fit of pik: achu
Exactly. Only precision, fine-tuned squishing will do.
Oh, I’m sorry about your mom — what a doozy of a thing to hit so suddenly!
(The second scan was fine, and if I interpreted the doctorese correctly on that report, what the problem amounted to the first time was "boob was squished funny.")
Yeah, it's ever so lovely when your automated test results come back immediately with a big fat "ABNORMAL" label before anyone calls to tell you what's going on, and then you have to wait for days or weeks for the second test. Ask me how I know.
It doesn't help that "dirt bike" is irrevocably intertwined in my head with "cults." (Thanks for that, TMBG...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jltu...
Use your words.
a reminder
age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
Norwegian home invasion.
It’s so oddly polite.
Heh - yep! I think all the Scandinavian languages are Germanic except for Finnish, which is off on its own planet with Estonian and…not a lot else.
if you see something (a pig), say something (oink)
I’m fond of their War of 1812-scented candle. Yes, it’s the White House in there.
Exactly!
(bathroom stall door, I should say. At least the door into the room at large was still okay. ;)
Trying to figure out if that stall was in use at any given time was a delicate game. It was a relief when they finally fixed the damn thing.
There was one notable period of time at my old office when a bathroom door broke somehow, and getting a replacement took a while. The building was a historical landmark and the doors were vintage, so it had to be the right kind of door. The temporary fix: a shower curtain.
bawling: crying, sobbing balling: making something into a ball I swear, every time someone tells me they're "balling their eyes out," all I can picture is that they're trying to scoop their own eyes out with a melon baller. *shudder*
Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
(Poor little 2020! It wasn’t your fault! You should have gotten to be a banner year for optometrists, and everything would have been fine!)
Every now and then I think of a comic I saw once about the clusterfuck that was the year 2020. Of course, they went and personified 2020 as a little cartoon figure, and when it said, “This wasn’t how I meant to be remembered,” looking all distressed and sad about it, I FELT SO BAD. Still do!
(And for the record, I did play Doki Doki Literature Club! Exhaustively! But that game also gave me the impression of “I’ve gone to some weird places but I’m working on it, too,” which counted for a lot.)
like...my dudes? I just wanted to play a card game. Guess that's another round of Balatro for me, then.
By the time I got to "a computer algorithm reportedly created by the Soviet Union during the Cold War after gaining possession of Adolf Hitler's corpse..." I noped right back out again.
I still haven't played it. The vibe kinda put me off from the start, but I thought, okay, give it a fair shake, find out more about it, see what you think then. So I spoiled the crap out of myself and found out about the subsequent acts, and...that's certainly a thing. THEN I read about the ARG.
Ellen Rose recently did a video excoriating the AI tab Google's slapped into YouTube, and among other things, she went to town on the thumbnails. The fact that her own thumbnail is pretty much the "oh god this is awful" version of his is just the icing on the cake. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kW8...
Yeah, I bought a couple things from the UK earlier this summer and I’m glad they got here already. Lousy to hear that’s probably going to be the end of that option.
Reminds me of going to Boeing's surplus store a couple times when I was a kid. Weird mix of boring and perplexing shit. :)
and if you'd rather read something than watch a video, this is good too: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...
The first reporting on that earthquake that I actually saw was on...ESPN. They were in town covering the World Series, of course, and they were some of the first to get their cameras online. This is an interesting look back at it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0oG...
I still employ percussive maintenance from time to time. Tried it earlier today on a fan that had picked up a noisy wobble, and it worked a treat!
(as was the national anthem. And bleh, I wish I could fix typos. :)
(I was ont he opposite side of the country, so I was watching CBUT, but the map-painting clip was used nationally.)
And if you watched late enough at night, you'd eventually see this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKQ-...
I couldn't rely on over-the-air reception, though, because we were in the Cascade foothills, and mountains can definitely mess with you. Years later I found the FCC's DTV Reception Maps website and it was kind of hilarious looking up what you could get via antenna at that address. Read: not much.
'78 here, and I grew up near Seattle; we also got CBC on basic cable! I watched a ton of kids' TV there. (Among other things, it's how I watched Fraggle Rock growing up, because we never had HBO.)
Barn owl: username checks out
noh, by Suzan Frecon, 2017, 📸 via @newheightshow
I got some from Woodinville Whiskey not long ago and can confirm.
I still remember the first time my mom encouraged me to watch Butch Cassidy and the Sunshine Kid, which has memorable lines everywhere, and then I looked at the credits and realized it was also by William Goldman. Suddenly much was explained.
I suppose those foot-long sandwiches might be intimidating to most.
One note about the Kobo app, on the iPhone at least: I had serious problems with it for a while (multi-second waits on page turns, footnotes that didn’t work, etc.) but they recently rebuilt the thing and it seems to be working MUCH better. So if you had similar issues, give it another try.
(...I'll see myself out)
So Unbound and Boundless are getting a rebound?
psst: mocking men by calling them girls is not helping from any angle (love to see them fight, though)
I have texture issues with a lot of seafood (it's the gumminess), but some cooked fish is okay. I still miss the local Mexican place that used to do grilled salmon skewered on sugar cane and brushed with spiced rum butter. So. Good. Need to try that at home again.
How long ago was the first use of "Swiftie"? I mean. Asking for no particular reason.
Oh, yes, and that's not a new thing. My mom used to work for Sears, and she told me once that she overheard a call coming in to customer service from the local post office. Because someone had ordered a shipment of bees. And they got out.
I imagine it would go a little like this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjI5... (I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but the first several minutes at least are entertaining.)
(since a Lyft would have been like $50-60, I’m sure!)
Of course, last time Google Maps quoted me public transit times to get somewhere about 20 miles away, it was about three hours. One direction. I’ll, uh. I’ll drive, thanks.
Point 5 is definitely why I had a lifeguard check in on me once. I was just idly trying out if I could float vertically with just my head tipped back, which I could, but the lifeguard (entirely rightly!) called out. I told him I was fine and he left me to it. Weird feeling to see this later, though.
the audacity the tiny, squeaky audacity
Man, it feels so unreal these days when you're posting here or sending messages to someone throughout the day, and it's like: - cute cats - journalists killed in Gaza - interesting new developments in ATProto - funny bird - USA descending further into dictatorship - drone attack in Kyiv - frog meme
HUGE wife. Absolutely MASSIVE Scottish wife.
i distinctly remember a decade+ ago when all the creative jobs started going out the window being told to “learn to code”
Psst: spotted a typo. “The onion and peppers cut be cut 1 day in advance.”
It's amazing how many crops are like that. I was just reading this a couple days ago about frozen raspberries: www.seattletimes.com/life/food-dr...
It’s calmed down over the last couple weeks, but the mountain was definitely being cranky there for a bit: pnsn.org/blog/2025/07...
After all those “earthquake swarm” headlines, it’s Rainier I’m side-eyeing more these days. (Yes, experts have assured us all there’s no immediate risk, etc., but still: “earthquake” and “swarm” are two words I don’t particularly want to see in conjunction.)
one of the great tragedies of our age is how many people are willing to view AI as magic because they don't understand how it functions but unwilling to exhibit any humility at all towards more important things they understand even less (like the climate or medicine)
just a reminder again that we were told over and over that a 13 year old downloading a Limp Bizkit mp3 was an existential threat to society
This is so true that it nearly burned a ghost in my monitor.
And in case anyone cares, the blueberry was first cultivated by a woman from New Jersey. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...
We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but ‘blueberry’ has two b’s.
The witches know what’s what.
Discworld QOTD, from Maskerade “Nanny Ogg was basically a law-abiding person when she had no reason to break the law, and therefore had that kind of person’s attitude to law-enforcement officers, which was one of deep and permanent distrust.”
That is indeed an excellent bird.
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ruse = 🥸 rues = 😭 roos = 🦘🦘
See also: Y2K
I’d watch the hell out of that, not gonna lie
Exactly. I had a hilariously pointless meeting with a (well-meaning, let's be fair) nutritionist at SCCA / Fred Hutch who gave me generic "eat less red meat and more vegetables" advice, but that was all she had, because it was so screamingly obviously genetic. Diet won't make it go away.
Yeah, that tracks. And I keep hearing that people are getting it younger and younger on average. In my family it seems to either hit early or late; my dad's mom died in her 40s, and I was pretty much on her schedule, I think.
I'm sorry you had to go through the ordeal you did, though. It's such a sneaky disease. :(
Yeah, I was 39. Practically the first thing a nurse told me when I came up from sedation was, "It's a REALLY good thing you came in when you did." If I'd waited even a year or two, it assuredly would have been cancerous by then.
(and I do tend to put "lucky" in heavy quotes, because Dad should have had his screenings, and no one should have had to die for me to get a doctor to stop telling me my symptoms were "just stress," but that's another rant. The whole thing's an emotional spike pit, though.)
shauna 