Now I just have to find the spoons to deal with telling them that they shouldn't have been trying to make me pay when I wasn't sending in forms.
Tried a bit of everything. Former gifted kid, depressed burnout, finally found a calling in woodworking. Wants to make all the musical instruments. Nonbinary/genderfluid/genderqueer/it's complicated, e/em/eir
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Now I just have to find the spoons to deal with telling them that they shouldn't have been trying to make me pay when I wasn't sending in forms.
I don't know when they did it, because anxiety meant I avoided even trying to submit it for several years, but at some point the overseas declaration for my UK student loans went from "hugely invasive prove where the money's from" to "have spouse sign this one page form" with no demands for sources.
My sadness at not being able to reply doesn't outweigh your safety.
I was joking about why the NYT suddenly found a hint of backbone.
We only have to be right once, and there's no real penalty for being wrong.
Going to make The Death of Stalin look boring.
I'd pronounce it as if it's in French.
... I wish I'd known that before I found myself six feet up a stepladder, on the balcony overlooking the double-height living room, changing the battery on a smoke alarm. There are many reasons I'm glad to no longer live in that house.
The Winchester Mystery House gets a lot less spooky once you realize that a lot of its unfinished work is just "plumbers were a menace long before Sawzalls were invented".
I'm not great at parallel parking, and I would be confident I could get a U-Haul into that space!
Lights like that are why I own a collapsible eleven foot pole.
Hulu just added Death of Stalin and Weekend at Bernie’s (and is featuring them on their main page this weekend)… it’s just very funny.
RFK is once again actually talking about autism instead of vaccination, and affirming his desire to torture and murder autistic people. Let's see if neurotypicals are able to notice this.
And yet a trace of the true self resides in the false self
When the canary in the coal mine kicks, you don’t shrug, keep working, and put in an order on Amazon Prime for more vulnerable birds. You get the fuck out of the mine, and work on fixing whatever the issue so that it’s safe for canaries.
Welcome to the Fun Zone.
And getting distinctly soggy.
Footage of Lance Stroll on the street.
I just want exoskeletal products that aren't made from Fucking Neoprene.
It's one of Those days. Dammit.
A policy failure is a policy failure.
Oh so he IS dead.
Sure does feel like we're in the moments right before the coyote looks down and pulls out a sign.
Your electoral system is a fair bit less fucked.
It'd be a nightmare for my disabilities, but I absolutely admire the whimsy and want to figure out something comparable that I could use.
It's mostly disability accommodations with a touch of "got distracted by earlier structural Crimes that needed fixing"
I didn't think it was mine, but the gif sets on tumblr convinced me to try it.
Exactly! I was SO GLAD that KPop Demon Hunters had me in tears at the end!
Britain too. Today's Labour Party makes Tony Blair look like Vladimir Lenin.
I got some great shots out of a 1960s Soviet camera, back in the day.
we must needs reconstruct titan from thine memories
This is my kind of jank...
Transphobes would have a lot less reach on here if everyone stopped arguing with them and quoting their posts to dunk on them, they don't give a rat's ass about your arguments and enjoy wasting your time.
In this vein, I'd buy the rights to a bunch of old games that have become unbuyable. Myth deserves a proper rerelease.
I'm just wondering how you would get a dung fork to stick in his head like that.
Health insurance.
I'm not sure, he was posting like this right after each steroid dose during the Great Outbreak. He sure as hell isn't acting like he usually does, but I'm not convinced he's room temperature yet.
Getting out ahead of the rumors they're starting by putting that paragraph in.
Dear Democratic Leaders, If you won’t stand up for trans people and their rights, you’re tellling me you won’t stand up for *anyone* or *any rights* the second they come under attack. You’re telling me you don’t stand for anything at all. Also, they’re *people*. Grow a spine or get out the way.
The videogame streamer version of 4:33.
It's genuinely nuts. No matter what the actual circumstance was, in what world did someone think this was a better idea than a press release saying he had been in a car accident & was recovering in the hospital? (& the fact it ends with "this is the only authentic press release" is its own baffler.)
No, if we made rail a priority here in the US we could have it. Particularly light rail! Hell, in LOS ANGELES they decided they wanted light rail and they made it happen; you can get on a train in Claremont, on the edge of LA county, and get into downtown LA in an hour.
Well, I guess it's one way to not be stuck with a bunch of credulous jackasses acting as if anyone normal gives half a shit about his opinions. I'm vindictive enough that I'm wanting him to know he's irrelevant before he dies, but I'm willing to settle.
I'm gonna need so much champagne.
Good advice.
The Grim Reaper decided the Epstein list was a good to-do.
universe loading the bases for a walkoff grand slam
Rotating machinery. Anything that rotates under power needs to be respected.
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
Many Americans would gladly use trains, if they reasonably could. My perfect imperium takeover would include building a high speed rail network, incorporating the lessons from 200 years of railroads.
I wasn't going to tag him anyway, it falls under the "he probably already knows and hates it" criterion.
More details do not help it become less full of bad ideas executed with no regard for safety.
Feels like it's been in the works for quite some time, but god damn they're really cooking with DORF www.youtube.com/watch?v=98gh...
Well, that's me sold on aesthetics alone. I'm not even a huge RTS fan, but that's a solid vibe.
There's some weird preemptive defensiveness going on in that statement.
By his own words, we're absolutely clear to call him a hat-snatching asshole.
There's some real weirdness in that press release.
The sheer number of absolutely terrible ideas being operated in parallel here is staggering.
Fucking infuriating that Babylon 5 rings so true with its "fascist leader does what all fascist leaders do eventually and EVERYONE immediately pivots to both-sides and making friends with the willing accomplices of fascism".
Had a massive "I KNOW THAT VOICE WHY DO I KNOW THAT VOICE" moment watching Babylon 5. Had to resort to a wiki. The actress voiced Dr. Chakwas in Mass Effect. No wonder I know her voice.
Franca is home!
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now
This is where you find the good stuff
Trying to figure out why McDonald's has their flag at half staff. WHAT DO THEY KNOW IS THIS HOW I FIND OUT
Now this is a man in touch with the issues Americans care about.
My question is, if I learn to play the Cantina theme on the fiddle, does that make me a jizz-wailer, or is there a different term for non-wind instrumentalists?
Hey so all the bullshit with the COVID vaccine restrictions means that if you care about yourself and others you need to mask.
You have to hold people to a much higher standard than "at least they're not X". Otherwise you end up with Keir Starmer running around as a continuity Tory because "well you clearly wanted the same antics of the last lot, only I'm marginally more competent".
Your tastes are your tastes, and I don't want to dispute them. People do get weird about alcohol. I try to avoid doing that.
Haunted by the feeling that it'll happen five minutes after I accept it's not about to happen and log off.
The Baileys would be heartbroken, if they existed.
New rule, everybody gets the obituary they deserve.
It is easier to imagine the president's death than to imagine Chuck Schumer effective
here's the thing, don't feel bad about enjoying this moment because if he is still alive, he is now watching literally the entirety of the english speaking globe celebrating and laughing at the thought of him dying, and THAT is worth it alone
I'm blaming BOM having released the penultimate episode of Project Binky, and god I hope it happens before the final episode.
Just gonna leave this here, in case you want to have an idea what to expect as and when it happens.
Live your life so that people don’t consider rumors of your death a form of edging.
Brace for a reenactment of the film The Death of Stalin.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Would be really nice if he could unify the country like that.
Huh, I learned something new!
I suspect the chances are pretty good anywhere other than North Korea and maybe Russia.
every time a community tests ubi or free housing for the homeless the result is always "holy fuck this works incredibly well and costs less than existing solutions!" and then every politician alive does this
Maybe not the springform tho, those things have a lot of pinch points. Mine have given me blood blisters more than once.
I will enjoy it with every fiber of my being. Your tastes are yours, no reason they'd be the same as mine.
Hoping for a good reason to open my blackcurrant lambic, but I might be disappointed.
This is glorious.
Already am, he's five years late by my reckoning.
a lot of wishcasting tonight on the skyline why don't we try a collective luck magic experiment? everybody watch Iannucci's THE DEATH OF STALIN. All together now.
I don't have it in me to pregame this.
And the dark elves sometimes call themselves the changed elves.
We all partied too early in the Great White House Rona Festival.
How does that convert to double-decker buses?
He had to wait for his imaginary friends to notice.
What in the absolute fuck is a "cubic ton"?
Outdoing Gavin Newsom in that is quite an achievement. Let's not try for a battle of the soulless opportunists?
Life has a habit of getting in the way of things. Thanks for letting us know, I hope nothing else goes wrong!
It's so hard to judge the size of Maine Coons. She's LARGE, and absolutely beautiful.