In which I explain why I'm on patreon, and why those who back patreon.com/mattbc let me do this sort of public work (without the community investment, I'd have to do private consulting work to take care of disabled family members)
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In which I explain why I'm on patreon, and why those who back patreon.com/mattbc let me do this sort of public work (without the community investment, I'd have to do private consulting work to take care of disabled family members)
the tech right is cool because they'll say "we must build the future and make the US the most innovative country in the world" and also "women should stop getting educated some time in high school so they fuck more"
Jesus—and I can't stress the next part enough—FUCKING CHRIST.
wtf wtf charging minors with a felony for ringing doorbells?? wtf wtf wtf.
SWEET CORN BLONDIES WITH PISTACH CHEDDAR SWEET CORN BUTTERMILK BISCUITS bestillmy heart, folu. unsnackable.substack.com/p/sweet-corn...
i got a rejection from a job that said more than 1300 people applied gee whillickers i have not even started applying for things in earnest i can see that doing a sole proprietorship with a hobby of applying for real jobs is The Way Forward here, whew.
tamino pic mercy
listening to my son recount his day to my husband while he just jumps up and down THREW STONES IN THE WATER PLAYGROUND POOPED
They speak English already and they don't want to deal with the entrenched protectionism and sclerotic red tape of trying to be employed in SW Europe would be my guess.
i went through about 5 years of my youth in which i tried to style myself as a 90s folk gamine when i am actually zaftig and have uncontrollable hair i.e. braless, self-cut bangs fortunately i realized ere too long that i wasn't pulling it off but sometimes i come across those photos and ouch.
it's like they've met my son which ok toddlers all have their commonalities but uh
also lol the reps of a big chemical company's meeting background is a beautiful forest
making sure the mike is off when you blow a big fart
Trying to look normal on a Zoom meeting when you have to poop
Had to wear pants and a flannel today. Feelins: deeply ambivalent.
She is how I wanted to look in my 20s but cutting my own hair didn't come out like that www.instagram.com/p/DOEPCUsjna...
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dang. i waste a lot of time online but that is another level.
oh hecc is it xl enough tho my son loves my claw clips so i will continue buying 1 buck ones but uh this is the dream www.etsy.com/listing/1848...
it's the law here that everybody gets 40 days paid, not including national holidays. waitresses, factory workers, whomstever. everybody looks forward to it. it's doable!
no, a local cat org posted about them. i hate it when this happens.
thank
what if cotton candy ice cream in a palmera cone
people who dump animals by the trash in a container they can't escape are whew i have Feelings.
i just need this to be written by aj daulerio, plz
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
pecan sandy crumble!
seems so heartfelt when everyone wishes your friend a happy birthday using facebook's canned happy birthday message with predetermined emojis, tho
me too
ugggh boooo
what's worse weekend at bernie's for the next 3 years or jd vance
this is delightful
me cannot carry a purse, will jam shit into pockets until they overflow and then put shit in a backpack also me but what if the wookie purse
"Research has shown that in some places, such as Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, about a third of all kissing bugs harbor the Chagas parasite." I went to a UC for grad school and wanted to work on Chagas for my dissertation and was told it wasn't relevant. Had to go to Mexico to work on it.
noice
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this is the pic they choose to put out dang he doesn't look good
ah well 0 points i AM elderly
would i really wear this if i made it hm maybe if it was purple let's be honest here
thank you!
yeah people are so weird and if i took the time to figure it out myself that'd probably be even worse than how much time i spend in bluesky, heh.
i have zero idea if they're real or not but yeahh
There are so many substacks that should be magazine articles? Like they're too long for the internet.
thank.
"This is a time to rally to protect the health of every American." run them out on rails, babies, i know you have it in you. sweet jesus, this is damning.
it is totally possible that this whole compilation of screen shots is fabricated because people are that weird but it is also possible that she is like this. i have no real idea. but the kids are standing up for their ideals, so. www.reddit.com/r/HozierIsJu...
thank things are much better now, heh.
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haha oh yeah my mom had serious heart issues that required a risky surgery too. geezus how did we even that year.
We did IVF twice and it didn't result in any viable embryos (my son was, sorry to be like this, a heavily planned but unexpected gift when I was 43) but I also had great support from both Twinja and Toasties. Definitely needed, boy howdy.
Very few people have donated to this one, plz help them. chuffed.org/project/1352...
(also confidential to hozier, if that shit is true, dtmfa, good lord)
Anyhow, if you would, consider sending a few bucks to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Foundation, which is now apparently blood cancer united (nonprofit rebrands are always deeply awkward) or the cancer org of your choice as I guess NIH is (ok I'm going to cry so I'll stop here) bloodcancerunited.org
On this day 4 years ago I came out of anesthesia after IVF egg retrieval and found out my dad had died during the night. The year to follow involved the IVF failing, 2 miscarriages, and the death of my MIL. Thank dog I took you folks who rec therapy seriously and signed right up, whew.
Young folks on Hozier twt actually losing it about his gf's social media activity right now and honestly the kids are all right? Like, their values are in the right place, even if well, what a grown man does is up to him, as it were.
what happens if you put this on your toddler something must occur something strange
Neo-Nazis no show to their own rally, as community rallies to oppose them in #Bloomington, #Illinois. "Some of those who showed up said they lived nearby, and they wanted to make it clear that “Nazis were not f---ing welcome in my neighborhood.” www.wglt.org/local-news/2...
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NOT THE OMELETTE, KENNETH!
In Which Nadine Amuses a Dragon and Makes Autumn Happen
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Sex work is 1000% more honorable and socially beneficial than working as an ICE agent.
do you get to ride bollards up and down in a kaftan all day while eating cake because i think we all should, in celebration.
it's blue raspberry, baybees
I used to do methylene blue gels in lab and wtf wtf wtf absolutely not WHY? eat some goddam grapes you freaks.
get out your kaftans (is that a kaftan? idk idk) it's @piegoblin.bsky.social 's birthday.
good for her. my son is a bit more people pleasy and i'm like uh oh how did he absorb that already
i don't want to tell him how to react, especially since this is more his society than mine, but i don't want him to feel like he has to put up with it either.
yes this guy needs new duds every 3-4 months?? so i like a bundle o sweatpants for 10 bucks.
Just walking around in public with my son and people will come up to him and just kissy kissy and stroke his face and tell me how pretty he is and like it's a touchy society ok but we're trying to teach him to say Don't Touch if he doesn't like it. He has yet to get mad at a stranger though.
the thing about being able to get cheap used baby clothes on vinted is that you can't really ever have too many toddler sweatpants, so.
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my son announces every movement during his poops like a sportscaster at one point i asked him, when he said BIG POOP LIL POOP, if there was a medium one too and he misheard me and so now he has MINNIE MOUSE POOP
i still think about this all the time. we'll simply have to go to sea to get this year's christmas legos i guess. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
never feel embarrassed babies this is out there in the world and it's delightful thearmitageeffect.wordpress.com/tag/strike-b...
seems that richard armitage has published a second novel and i haven't read the first one alas
HA I hadn't thought of that at all.
i watched that movie when i was 12 and was traumatized i would probably laugh at this point desensitization is a heck of a thing
i guess if you mix beef bouillion with pectin that's what you get?
I will joke around about speaking basque poorly in bad basque to people who are hardcore about educating their kids in basque i'm sure it will go well.
I last saw my main townie friend in May at her son's bday party, which was swamped with families she knew from her son's school I need to make more friends. Plz tell me I can figure out how to do that when my son starts in a couple weeks.
something that always itched at me is that israeli entities can apply directly for EU research and innovation grants, as project coordinators. nobody else in the middle east can, so far as i know.
guilfoyle is just completely unrecognizable from one pic to the next, whew.
what if a bread with a nice thick butter cinnamon crust
uh
yeah. she was 39 though so like how anyway yeah i don't understand at all. godspeed tho.
You thought AI was a cool technological development, but ... have you heard about heating up sand?
YES
i guess if you usually don't have a regular period and you don't feel sick or whatever but if she was 36 weeks i don't know how she wouldn't have shown...a little? just wow. i was very aware of my pregnancy with my son every waking moment and would've liked to not be? whew.
i bet the sweet corn ones are good i wonder what they do to make the chicken ones taste like well
i was about to be like how the heck are you at burning man when you're pregnant but she didn't know she was??? absolutely bonkers. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
aww buddy www.birdrescue.org/barn-owls-fe...
truly
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brilliant
you can get an apple pie moonshine sundae in fort ann i don't even want it but i miss american serving sizes, man.
