The kinds of people who say things like this don't actually know what half that shit bolted to the wall in a Cracker Barrel even IS. It's not a heritage. It's Grandma clothes and candles and a toy section full of shit people already broke.
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The kinds of people who say things like this don't actually know what half that shit bolted to the wall in a Cracker Barrel even IS. It's not a heritage. It's Grandma clothes and candles and a toy section full of shit people already broke.
If your heritage is a corporate logo, it deserves to be erased.
Happy Labor Day. Work didn't have to be a fight. It didn't have to be a conflict. But for as long as we have written history there have always been people who *unfairly* and *unjustly* profit off the production of others. As long as those motherfuckers take something for nothing, we fight.
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
I had a friend in college with that body type. She could fit three fingers between her bra strap and belly button. Funny thing, we had all the same usual measurements except for inseam. She was all legs, and I’m ridiculously long-torso’d. Even if people wear the same thing, it doesn’t look the same
me: i need to write me, 30 seconds later: what if i make a meme instead, this is productive and authentic bc it is self promotion but also depressing
Looks like @tkingfisher.com 's horror books The Twisted Ones and The Hollow Places are on sale for $2 at Amazon. Highly recommend if you want something spooky.
Hey Colorado! This is what I want to see!
Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.
Ooh, maybe this is what I need…
My sister has the same lottery dream, and has named it “The Bubba Dog Lounge” (after our childhood dog). Iirc, she even made a logo for it once in a design class.
I put that book on my Christmas wish list, and now I'm thinking Christmas is way too far away.
xkcd.com/768/
Heh. I just realized that the xkcd comic about that is about 20 years old.
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
I have been thinking a lot lately about this, because if you put Mamdani next to Jasmine Crockett next to that new Maine oyster fisherman... none of them sound the same. But they all sound like normal people from their communities. "Normal" is regional, you can't decree what it is federally.
Pregnant people includes pregnant 12-year-old girls, who should not be referred to as women.
At that age, they often call it “Earth Science”
Opera comes with a built in VPN. This fun fact of the day is brought to you by the state of Mississippi.
Or straight up! Or even just not have the text flow to the other side of the arm!
* I just had to go listen to it.
And I to go listen to it. It was written as part of a songwriting contest do an homage to David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” (blog post here for more detail: www.jonathancoulton.com/2008/07/24/s...)
I wish as many people wanted to actually click on Teen Vogue stories as like a post about our work being good and important, because this post is almost at 20k likes and that would be pretty good traffic!
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
High five! Me too. Rise of the what? Never heard of ‘em.
Ack!
I hate that. It always seems to take ages to get it repositioned just right.
Hell, I cry at the Jonathan Coulton song about her.
Did you see what I saw this morning? Denver lefty-liberationy Parish is going to war with the conservabonkers archbishop and his little priest who AFAICT is an Evangelical Neocalvinist cosplaying as a priest. And oh, there is a SNIT that the laity dare question the Great & Wonderful Arch.
listen the world is a mess but a judge ordered the Florida migrant prison closed, California passed their "fuck around, find out" redistricting, and James Dobson is dead this is the best net good news day in awhile, I really do think
Aw hell. I guess I’m going to get on that. ☹️
Hell, 20 years ago the chair of the math department made sure he knew how to say everyone’s name before our dinky little math awards ceremony! This is basic stuff.
Psychological costs plus career costs. It’s freaking hard to get a job when you’ve been out of the labor market awhile!
I will buy a gun and learn how to use it just to shoot any AI toy that makes it within a 10 mile radius of my house. You’re not getting me or mine, I know the set up to a horror story when I see it
Right! I still don’t quite believe it!
Wait, it’s only been 3 months since the bread party began? Feels longer…
But it’s still heartbreaking and on some level I feel like it should be my calling to help people overcome their math traumas.
(if you design a nontechnical major, and want to require a single math class for well-roundedness (good!) there is no good reason for requiring college algebra. There’s so much more math out there!) Anyway. I left for reasons, and ::waves-hands-at-everything:: I’m grateful to be out /3
So many brilliant people that were repeatedly told they were stupid because they couldn’t do a parlor trick in their heads. I have so many thought about how we teach math, and the math classes we consider worthwhile /2
I taught college math, and for a long time taught the math to help students catch up to where they needed to be to start college algebra. I saw so many mathematically traumatized students. I was actually pretty good at helping those students with the emotional work they needed to do about math /1
My son’s friend wore a duck rider costume like that for Halloween last year, and he had trouble moving around in it, not even trying to dance OR skate. That kid worked hard and deserves special costume awards!
Look at that solidarity gets the goods
This is basically the hardest part of being alive right now.
To be fair, I had assumed it was way zoomed in!
I need new glasses, but at first I thought the head was the bug. I spent a whole minute trying to work out what kind of bug that was
I have two trans kids. I'm not gonna be okay with anyone who says, "Hey, we need to think about the bigger picture here" when that includes not only NOT protecting my kids, but actively harming them. If your Dem candidate is also going to kill my children, they are not an improvement.
My thoughts about the author fell into the category of “Jeez, I hope nothing horrible happened in her life” and then I sought out recommendations on what to read next, because there are heaps of good books out there that I’m still not aware of!
Right? I discovered it several years ago, didn’t realize it was unfinished, and book 4 ended with a “Coming Soon: Book 5”!!! So I looked up the series, realized it had been a dozen years or more, and had my own moment of private disappointment.
I can’t decide if I wish I had context it if it’s better without…
POLITICIANS: the choice isn't either agree that there are legit issues w/ trans kids in sports or lose all your voters by calling them stupid bigots. You can say, "I know some parents are concerned, but data shows us those concerns are misplaced & we can't fall for misinformation that hurts people."
Dear John Boyne, “Fix your hearts or die,” is an order with two options. You can pick either! Lot of people miss that you don’t actually HAVE to choose the second one.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
Oh hey, I should probably remember to tell people that Hemlock & Silver comes out this Tuesday! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
(Not that I count as a close friend, just someone who’s interacted with you a handful of times, and had her fair share of gross intestinal stuff and mcas)
You’re not in the greater Denver area, are you? I’m available for local hand-holding and listening if so.
Red - the juice of tomatoes! Black - the dark of olives sliced!
Oh, thats a good one. For more good heists in space check out Beth Revis’s Chaotic Orbits series: Full Speed to a Crash Landing, How to Steal a Galaxy, and Last Chance to Save the World.
And how many of those views were from people going, “Did he really say that? He can’t be that out of touch, can he? Huh. I guess he can.”
When I say "ban 'A.i.,'" I mean BAN A.I.
Wow! I have to check those sites out.
The best kind!
Woo! I talked to my doctor about it on Friday, and now we’re waiting to see if the insurance will cover it. So far, this insurance has been really good about saying yes, but you still have to waste a week jumping through hoops 🥵
And I just realized I scrolled down more than a days worth, so you’re probably taken care of, and that’s probably enough internet for me!
Another vote for monoprice. I keep expecting another company to swallow them and kill their quality control, but every few years I need something and check and it’s still kicking…
we didn’t have to do this that’s what I keep coming back to, over and over again, on subject after subject we had a solution we didn’t have to do this
Shut. It. Down. It's not just Denver. Every city and county in Colorado needs to terminate their Flock contract right now.
I’m so ashamed of my teenaged self’s celebrity crushes.
The MAGA-led response to the Texas floods is going great - so great that locals are still finding rotting human body parts in the debris that no one in government appears to care about picking up:
I had a housecleaner like that when we lived in central Texas. It’s been eight years and I still miss her.
PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!
This has become the most viral thing I’ve ever put on the internet and I think that rules
The thing about Mamdani is he’s making it obvious even for normies that the Democrats (with a few notable exceptions) are a capital-bound centre right political party looking to build a base of ~*~reasonable~*~ republicans at the expense of actual progressive voters. They hope to become the new GOP.
Oof. I’m glad we didn’t get one like that, but we’re still dealing with middle school. I’d probably end up sending it in a week late, with some scribbled out starts and then “His ADHD is almost as bad as mine.”
Shocked, shocked at this wholly unexpected turn of events. If only someone had made a free downloadable comic which explained why this might happen and why his tariff policy is a ticking bomb. www.patreon.com/posts/civix-... #comic #comics #tariff #tariffs #Trump #economy
OMG. I already have an appointment Friday to talk to my doctor about this. And now I’m super psyched for it. This sounds like magic!
Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
Reminds me of the time that my friend’s toddler totally freaked out at the rain when they visited. Apparently in their desert, when rain happens it mostly happens at night and he had never seen it before. Poor baby had a true “sky is falling” moment!
You told up front that you were a chaos fairy! Their problem if they didn’t understand exactly how chaotic that was.
Oh that’s adorable!
Sigh. Good thing my sewing room is in the basement.
No I need this person named and honored in high HIGH praise This so genius It frames the technology as something that exists , and builds the skills it’s atrophying , while also letting students judge for themselves its success. making them describe what they experience and what they value
Have done this with paint samples, the old school way: put one scoop of each color into a paper cup, mix well, paint onto a piece of cardboard or something, and take to the paint store to be color matched.
It resurges for me every once in a while. The fact that every single report card I ever had was noted “Not living up to potential” and that was something that an 8 (or 10 or 13 or 15) year-old should be able to fix all by herself.
Yes! After I’ve spent some time on reddit, I always find myself trying to click on the threading bar.
Interesting! I sleep on both adderall and vyvanse. I never tried on ritalin, but that had other undesirable side effects, so I was only on it for a week.
I had assumed that since I have it so strongly, he would have it too. Nope!
I have the paradoxical response, and my son doesn’t. There was one weekend day where I gave him his meds at noon because it was clear he couldn’t do what I was asking (clean his room maybe?) without them. At his bedtime, he was crying bc his body was so tired and he couldn’t sleep. I felt so bad!
Thank you so much everyone for the 🔁! I’m still devastated but this is giving me hope. My friend sent me a photo of the poster, I can’t post her name & address but any poster tube w a full mailing name & Tokyo address is definitely it 😭 (it’s been shipped many times btw US and Jp) #sdcclostandfound
I dropped a poster tube in the #sdcc exhibit hall trying to get a signature. The poster inside has 2 dozen autographs collected at events in multiple states and countries. The tube has a name and address on it, it’s easy to id; but I’m devastated, I feel like such an idiot. #sdcclostandfound
People need to understand that fascism is an ultimately unworkable system That it is very much still stoppable at this stage That every shocking new initiative is a test balloon that we must meet with anger and that this administration is a collection of incompetents and is particularly weak
The electric situation in Texas is an example. Pre-privatization, things were pretty solid. Then privatization happened around 2000, and everything went to hell.
Honestly, grocery prices have skyrocketed here in the last few years, and fast food/low-end restaurants haven’t increased nearly as much. So it’s not really that takeout is cheap, but the grocery store chains have been bleeding us dry and the relative difference in price isn’t as much.
Welcoming people into the tent means, like, YOUR NEIGHBOR DOWN THE STREET who respons to your protest sign, not your Congressman who voted to send billions of weapons to murder children, & not the NYT columnist who helped create the largest cohort of pediatric amputees in history. Don’t be dense!!!
I don’t know if it’s an acceptable alternative, but I have seen authors use it to sell books and audiobooks.
It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
Little frog! Little bug! Adorable!
Even if it wasn't designed that way, if the photographer didn't like the back of the original dress, he could have asked the model to wear it backwards for the photos from the back. Weirder things have been done in photoshoots.
OMG, I was forced to immediately order it for my sister's birthday. Which was yesterday. And we don't usually do birthdays anymore. But the spirit of Dolly moved me! It was a sign