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I ate too much cheese. Correction: I ate a LOT of cheese. There is no such thing as too much cheese.
Con Air Supply
Does Gavin know about the Bell Riots
This is Hope Sandoval erasure.
My brain is just a junk drawer of bits and bobs that occasionally pop up when triggered by seemingly random word associations. Youâll say, âSame as it ever was,â but I assure you itâs a couple of orders of magnitude more so than it was, say, 35 years ago.
Itâs in my head as âA rat done bit my sister Nell, but Whiteyâs on the moon.â So any time I hear âon the moon,â I think of poor Nell.
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Learning about the Austin Lounge Lizards, and actually getting to see them once, was one of the rare redeeming features of the 9 months I once spent in Austin, TX. (The other big one was getting to hang out with a great International Folk Dance crowd.)
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Every time I hear the name Tommy Tuberville, the Austin Lounge Lizards song Pflugerville starts playing in my head.
Realized on Sunday that I have a bunch of grieving to do. At last, something meaty to work on in therapy. (Hat-tip to Katherine Addison and her character Thara Celehar for helping meâfinallyâget there.)
When Sister Nell is still recovering from that rat bite? I think not.
Many thanks to the friend who dropped by the gallery to debrief following his getting fired earlier today. Distracted me for a couple of hours from wildly speculating about what Donald will say in his major Announcement this afternoon.
Oh dear.
I was going to express skepticism about clergy placing between cop and chef, but then I think about some of the people I was in seminary with (who went on to become clergy, while I did not).
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. NĘkiâwah brother.
Tatiana Maslanyâs performance is staggering. I keep having to remind myself that these eight (?) different characters are being performed by the same actor. And often one character ends having to pretend to be another character and it still tracks. Youâre never confused.
That would be better, yes.
Definitely not True Leftistsâthey donât need entry fees, since that one Hungarian billionaire bankrolls them.
(apologies to the memory of Charles Wesley)
Why does this make me feel ⌠strangely warmed?
Mmmm, that was good. Glad I was able to rescue that fromage from going past its sell-by date.
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
Time for some nice AcornTV and a reduced-for-quick-sale blob of gooey fromage. Sounds fun, dunnit?
When it happens, I am going to break the Nil Nisi Bonum rule profligately.
Happy my-birthday-month, everyone! I hope you find this time ⌠congenial.
(not complimentary)
Makes Gavin Newsome look like a sloppy amateur.
Nice!
One of todayâs rabbit trails landed me at remembering Flanders and Swannâs âHave Some Madeira, MâDearâ Ugh. Even as a tween (back in the mists of pre-history) I thought it sounded creepy. Now, of course, I recognize it as ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING.
Please tell me that 348 is an estimate, that you havenât counted each one for 26-ish years.
Derrell, weâve got members of Congress out there arguing that due-process clauses donât pertain to non-citizens. That is arrant nonsense, of course. But I think itâs a pretty good indication that the notion of due process is, in this regime, well beyond being merely âbroken.â
I have no idea how Mom came up with my first name (deadname). Iâm certain that bio-dad had no part in it (the naming decision, I mean). Sheâs adapted to Willow pretty well, although it took a while.
Get a little meta and play him âWhat Keeps Mankind Alive?â and âHeigh Ho.â
Post a meme made by you
Well, itâs happened: I finally found a moody British procedural mystery that I just couldnât finish. Kudos, I guess, to the people who created it, for managing to lose even me.
10/10, No notes!
I was in high school when Wendy Carlosâa musician whose work I admired and enjoyedâwent public about having lived as a woman for nearly a decade. (At the time, I think my reaction was âOh, cool, you can do that?!?â It took me a couple of decades to get to âHey, maybe thatâs something *I* could do!â)
Agree and we also need to be clear on WHO THEY ARE. The people saying throw trans folks overboard are not offering us a path to unity, they are very literally and concretely trying to divide us
* Iâm also old enough to remember that the âdisapprovalâ existed in a very narrow time window, and that even then, the U.S. dragged our feet on taking any meaningful action to stop it.
Iâm old enough to remember when âethnic cleansingâ was something the U.S. disapproved of.
Iâm going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.
Thereâs also this problem, of course: bsky.app/profile/ball...
"Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for." Molly Ivins, born on this day in 1944.
Strongly concur with the Code of Silence recommendation. I thought Rose Ayling-Ellis was perfect for the role. Sadly, I canât see how theyâd be able to give the show a second season.
Okay, that 45 seconds of Ethan Peck and Patton Oswalt made watching the rest of the episode worth the effort.
I guarantee that JD with continue the anti-trans agenda. Maybe even double down on it. Trump isnât writing those EOs himself. Heâs got a cadre of ideologues cranking those things out, and theyâre not going to stop just because the figurehead changes.
hi, cis folks! this is present day reality for UK trans folks. itâs outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love. hi, cis americans! this is a future trans americans see that starts with âwe need to compromise.â
Watching #RWC25 #USAvsAUS, blustery, wet conditions making handling a bit difficult but some amazing highlights in amongst it all, Ilona Maher jackling perfectly, Tafuna breaking tackles(try scorer), Miller on the wing for Aus is a pure pocket rocket. Good game for a neutral.
This USA â AUS Rugby World Cup is really good watching. Even for someone (me) who doesnât know all that much about the sport.
Maybe that would prompt him to express that gratitude that JD wants to hear.
I never was a super-social person. But after the enforced isolation of 2020-21, followed by Long COVID (brain fog and fatigue make it hard to make plans), even the social life I had has dwindled to near nothing. Yes, this is me expressing self pity. Sue me if you donât like it.
I guess itâs time to re-up my masking game, and to encourage son and parents to do the same.
Iâll prolly jinx it by saying this, but I can see a playoff slot (possibly) happening for them this season.
Large-scale spontaneous celebrations on the streets might actually be more effective than those No Kings events. (Or notâIâm just speculating.)
One thing Sensible Centrists refuse to acknowledge - and this was true during covid when people were also saying this stuff explicitly - is these people are eugnenicists who welcome a good plague to get rid of the old, botched, and bungled
Bluesky right now ...
Nothingâs certain before the last game is played, of course, but Iâm pretty confident that Racing Louisville will *not* end the regular season 9th on the tableâfor the first time in the clubâs history.
If I didnât know about treatment-resistance in bacteria, I would be saying âan antibiotic would fix me.â
That was a fine game to watch! Yay Scotland for advancing, but also yay Fiji for showing up and not letting it be a walkover.
I feel like Iâve got some kind of low-grade infection going. But I very rarely run much of a fever. This is more of a âI feel yuckyâ situation, which really isnât actionable. Uck.
I donât know what your circumstances allow, but I would encourage not pushing too hard too soon once youâve cleared it.
Super good movie.
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 âCan I help you find something?â âIâm looking for the obituaries.â âThe obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.â âNot the one Iâm looking for.â
And to think I started watching this Rugby World Cup just to be able to see the Black Ferns do their haka before each of their games.
Final: Scotland 29 â 15 Fiji Fiji really brought it to this one.
Wow, Scotland vs Fiji is not hideously lopsided, in contrast with most of the pool round games so far.
I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -âAn Ethical Grookâ by Piet Hein
I just think when it happens every trans person in America should get 10K deposited into their bank account. Yâknow, just for fun
we were all happy for an evening and thatâs not nothing
Ah. Sending good vibes your way.
I genuinely donât believe in Hell, theologically speaking, but Iâm tempted to make an exception or two.
Pre-gaming for the big event?
Thatâs a nice rumor and all, but are we *really* ready for President Couchfucker?
Logaaaaan!
Nobody makes a profit off of a nice walk in the woods. And that cannot stand.
Sending my bestest, handcrafted healing vibes your way.
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Every poke helps.
Sadly, no.
As a species I think we can do away with the word âoptimization.â 99% of the ways itâs been implemented since the new millennium have sucked ass, letâs just throw it out
People out here acting like SNL hasnât had large-scale cast turnover before.
When I say Iâm tired I donât mean I need sleep. I mean my jaw has been clenched since y2k and I am TIRED.
Thatâs wonderful!
I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.
Iâm not kidding when I say I love a formal synthesis. This one is spot-on. Some of whatâs happening is people are trying to have a historical gaze for events that are still happening. Is it definitionally authoritarian? Cannot know until bodies stop dropping. But you can know it feels authoritarian
I think itâs time we revived the use of the phrase âopen and notorious evil liver.â
Despair, not fear, is the greater enemy. Fear can be overcome, but when you have lost all hope, you have already lost. A true warrior knows that the smallest thread can unravel the greatest tapestry. Find that thread, don't let it go, and persevere.
~40-50% donât have passports, so thatâs a decent 1st order guess.
My Dad would hate me if he knew I called leeches âbloodsuckersâ and âcreepy and gross.â
Because even RFKjr knows that having 300M bloodsuckers named after him would be creepy and gross. And this is a guy who has a very high âcreepy and grossâ threshold.
That sounds yum!
Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now
Really good explainer in Slate by poli sci researcher Zein Murib on how the early LGB movement's split between sex/or and gender identity helped isolate what emerged as transgender, laying important groundwork for the crusade of trans erasure we're witnessing now. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
WE ARE ENTERING FALL, AND I WILL SPICE MY HOT CIDER WITH CINNAMON, GINGER, NUTMEG, ALLSPICE, AND CLOVES, MAD WITH POWER AND WEALTH THAT ROYALTY OF CENTURIES PAST WOULD ENVY.
yeah you should try to hold empathy for every human in your heart. do we gotta talk about these shitheads right this second though
"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it."
I have a particular person in mind.