So gorgeous!
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So gorgeous!
Thank you!
I would just like to sit in a hot shower and not have to blow my nose raw. I’m going to sleep. Good night! I hope you feel better toon.
Thanks Scott. My dad must have thought I sounded so pathetic he told me he’d make me chicken soup tomorrow 😭😭
Thank you
My mom said she and my dad had this same cold a few weeks ago and same
I caught some hideous cold and my nose is running like a faucet. Like literally dripping out of control. Even WITH decongestants. I am hoping it dries out while I sleep tonight.
Excellent!
#WildcatFire, #BearGulchFire, #LowerSugarloafFire, and #CrownCreekFire/#BlackhawkMountainFire all burning actively this afternoon. This doesn't even include #KatyCreekFire, #TacomaCreekFire, #RattlesnakeFire, or #Perry Fire. Read the latest WA Smoke Blog for more info ➡️ wasmoke.blogspot.com #wawx
That sounds like some poetic justice
I have no fucking clue what is happening and neither does this beautiful monarch sipping on goldenrod
Yike
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Similarly, murder is a legal term requiring a formal finding. News outlets have generally avoided calling a death a murder unless someone has been found guilty of murder. Killing or slaying are among the commonly used terms absent any such finding.
Blue morphos are so magical!
Someone — likely a woman — taught her, and likely with other girls, about needle and thread and comets and planets. All at once! Imagining that girl as a singular sui generis lone genius erases a lot of other women’s contributions to science, education, and art.
I’m gonna push gently back on the “complicated and precious genius” bit and say: embroidery sampler patterns like this and the more common map samplers were used to teach many, many girls about science and geography and needlework all at the same time. She wasn’t alone, this girl!
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Thanks Paul!
We went to a butterfly house and it was magical!
I have no fucking clue what is happening and neither does this beautiful monarch sipping on goldenrod
💙💙sending cooling thoughts
Ugh
Yes!
Thank you!!
BLESS
Pettiest of gripes, but as a tea drinker I LOATH hot water served out of carafes that held coffee. Is it really that hard to keep them separate?
Rental car agencies have been understaffed for ages, but your point stands
The most creative genre of fanfiction is the stories billionaires tell about their humble origins.
I am very happy to share that you can now find all our reporting on Myanmar in one easy to access feed! Hopefully this will make it easy for people to get acquainted www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
One aspect of this Anthropic settlement that I'm not seeing a lot of commentary on: If you get the cash, what are you agreeing to? Settlements are an agreement. Does it come with a spanking new NDA where you can't criticize either Anthropic specifically or techbros generally for stealing your work?
Drivers are fucking feral in Seattle now. I don’t trust any of them
I’m yelling with you
I’m off to Brigadoon
Glad you have been taking care of yourself
Yup
Omg have an amazing time
A sonorous bumble bee, Bombus sonorus, visits mealy blue sage. Austin, Texas.
Heavily relatable especially the last one especially in the workplace
It’s baffling to me that so much of the U.S. (and the world) has decided that letting their kids get sick at school all the time (and spread illness to their parents and everyone else) is preferable to just … adequately cleaning indoor air
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
You might want to ask your therapists about their use of AI in their professional charting.
Really horrified to learn that mental health clinicians are using LLM’s to write their case notes and treatment plans.
My dad who is a doctor says the show that closest resembles his experience is Scrubs. Ha ha.
This is so relatable.
I knew what I was getting into! Nothing to be sorry about. I got a full night’s sleep last night :D
I hope you get some good rest tonight. I know I will!
Well I took a red eye and then a puddle jumper and between those two legs slept maybe half as much as usual.
I’m in serious sleep deficit right now. All the filters are gone. I should get off here until I’ve gotten more rest.
I hope it’s resolved soon
Time to start riding bicycles naked I guess
I just finished watching the movie last night. Cool!
Article on the surge of interest for tigers in Korea (b/c of the show “KPop Demon Hunters”), w/Dr. Lim Jeong-eun, "Korea’s only on-the-ground tiger researcher." Discusses likelihood of tigers in Korea + value of int'l support for tiger conservation. 🐅🧪🌍 koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-08...
I love it!
This might be my favorite of the cracker barrel business.
the most irritating thing is that Microsoft refuses to take "no" as enough with this shit. every couple weeks i re open Word and i have to say no to copilot again, or I get prompted to enable it when doing something else on my machine leave me the fuck alone, @microsoft.com
People are on such high alert 😩
Noooo
He told me about being in the Kingdome when the crowd first started chanting Edgar’s name! And I told him about a streaker who rallied the M’s to come from behind and win a game to get into the wildcard playoffs :D :D
I had a very nice conversation with a man on the light rail this evening about the Mariners in general and different players. I was reminded of Moyer but his name didn’t come up :-/.
Sitting in the airport and there is a WNBA game on one of the tvs! I find this thrilling.
I started KPop Demon hunters last week but didn’t get hooked right away. I gave it another try today and NOW I AM HOOKED.
But I bet it has a link to the site so they can upsell you on 20 different things (based on an email I got the other day)
I just want the good stuff. I want to be able to define the good stuff for myself and for my phone to be on my side in getting what I want not constantly trying to trip me into compulsive loops of self-loathing to get me to buy more stuff. I want the objects I own to support the way I want to live.
I considered buying a ticket yesterday
Excellent!!
Yes yes yes. I just remember feeling so alone in my terror with Citizens United. I was like … what is WRONG with you people that you are so blase about this decision.
Between that and overturning the Voting Rights Act
Have you seen the French show with the middle-aged woman who is a lawyer? I am blanking on the name but it’s so good. She’s always getting in trouble with the judge but also very good at protecting her clients.
So, remember I told you that Acorn is a channel basically dedicated to the genre of gorgeous, visibly middle-aged women (almost never rail thin!) who solve crimes? I am now watching the FRENCH version of such a program ("Candice Renoir") and it is so, so funny and French.
Eeee congrats!!
I also wondered about just talking to them. I just finished watching the BBC show Ghosts and first season of the US remake and they would make noise/flicker lights for attention, so maybe they need something.
The world's on fire... and my house may be haunted? We're on the grounds of historic girls school. The lights have been turning on by themselves. Doors opening. We don't play with El Spookies here. HELP. Any advice?! (Otherwise I'm getting some holy water from my mom's house) I'm being serious.
<3 <3
Very interesting question!
Today's Plot Bunny: Much of the SF/F canon depends on an insurrection that can move and communicate undetected. This is becoming less and less believable to contemporary readers. So what does an "Easy to surveil, impossible to police" society look like?
I love them and want to give them a blankie and some tea
This is amazing
Without downloading any new images where are you mentally
I’ll keep an eye out for it!
without downloading any new images, where are you mentally
I love a jammy wine!
Without downloading any new images, where are you mentally
Will do!
I’ll be curious to hear what you think of it
UGH Yeah I got a little over six, which is manageable. Strength to you today <3
I love it! Especially the shows. I saw there was a newer season with a new librarian but I haven’t tried it yet.
I like to think if LLMs were actually sentient they'd refuse to participate in this epic devastation. But they can't, because they're not real artificial intelligence. They're not sentient. They not only can't suffer but they can't respond to the suffering they cause.
Can we just go back to panicking at the disco
Oh nooo. It was almost 80 in our apartment last night but I managed to get *enough* sleep. Plus there will probably be napping this afternoon. <3
This explains everything in my life now
As with all rhetorical questions for headlines, the answer is staring us in the face. I really despise this method for headlines. I mean, I KNOW why they do it. I still hate it.
ICYMI I blogged on what we have to learn from Snakes on a Plane (other than the effective use of the Oedipal adjective).
Glorious!
I do not like any of these options. Not in a can, not with a ham.
Oh dear. Again I have to wonder, how much is it college and how much is it … *looks around* … this shit?
We’ve been on a kick watching old/classic sci-fi movies (Logan’s Run and Soylent Green) and the amount of women just casually walking around naked … yeah it was a LOT. And then there is Ghostbusters which is just Bill Murray trying to get into Sigourney Weaver’s pants the entire movie.
Omg, so the episodes I saw as a teen … were probably not from the ‘60s but had just been made! Mind also blown.
In what ways? And how much do you think the pandemic had an impact?
