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I like it.
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Oh that is very nice.
SURVEY: We value your feedback! ME: Brother, you do not want this.
OUCH. I felt that. :)
I love it.
Life learnings I’d like to share with future generations: The way to do something is not a “hack”. A “hack” is an unconventional or alternative shortcut or workaround. Not everything is a “hack”.
Tylenol is about to become the new club drug.
Ooh! I need to tell my firstborn about this…
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[makes a note in my planner]
There's an obvious gap in the market for us to fill. Now we just need to conceive, plot, draft, and revise these things.
‘Involved sequentially’: leopard sharks observed mating for first time in wild have threesome www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🦑🌎🧪🦈
So is Tylenol supposed to be *the* cause of autism, *one* cause of autism, or what? Obvs bullshit, given that it runs in families, and all 3 of my kids are autistic and only with one of them did I use any Tylenol. Just curious what bs is being flung, without actually reading anything infuriating.
Of course! Besides all the intake, there's the output!
Love me some sesame oil, scallions, and furikake.
Mm-hmm. 👍
I am carefully bookmarking this for later.
These look PRETTY GREAT, D. :)
[ogling fritters]
[nodding throughout]
holy moly
And $11 measly bucks a month, I just discovered!
This is what I keep hearing!
That song is good.
Sounds tasty. :) How do you prepare the tofu? (I'm just barely starting to get into cooking my own tofu.)
If it came down to it, I could get rid of my TVs and all of my streaming subscriptions, and I'd be fine. I'm sitting in a room that has more than 1,000 books in it, many of which I've never read or would enjoy rereading. And that's before we get to magazines, music, or the public library. 5/end
If anything, ditching Prime and the Disney bundle would make me likelier to subscribe to Criterion or Mubi to watch classics and arthouse movies. 4/
Some months ago we canceled Amazon Prime. This hasn't slowed down our movie-watching even remotely. I'm not worried about missing Disney+ because (a) I've gone without it before, and (b) I've watched all of the MCU multiple times. I'm nicely sated, thank you. 3/
My gf and I have a big spreadsheet of movies to watch together. We watch several per month, plus add others as they occur to us or when we decide to see them ad hoc. The list of unwatched movies we want to see is longer now than it was when we started the spreadsheet a couple of years ago. 2/
There is SO MUCH out there to choose from. And not only in the abstract sense of "more movies than you could ever watch." When I first thought about canceling Disney+ / Hulu / ESPN, the stuff I figured I would miss the most was the Bundesliga and La Liga. But there's so much OTHER ⚽️ available. 1/
Overheard: Kirk: “Is that…” Chekov: “Yes, Captain, it is the Horst wessel.”
Right??
[big hug] I'm a non-cynical Gen Xer who's traditionally been a joiner but has become more of a cave hermit in recent years. But the soft heart made of hope remains.
I like it a lot.
Yay! (And how was the soup?)
MEEEEE, TOOOOOOO, my friend.
I'm in the middle of my reread of The Dispossessed. Now is both the exact best & worst time to read it. We can remake things and try for better, you know. We'll fail, because we're frustratingly human. But the trying? That might just be our best selves.
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Join us tomorrow, when we discuss how canola oil causes Ebola
What, and I again need to emphasize this, the actual fuck
Amen to that.
I mean, I know at least some of the many answers to this question, but I keep asking myself, "How did we come to this?"
Like if women's suffrage fucked up pee wee soccer I'd be like damn that sucks for pee wee soccer, pour one out for pee wee soccer, but they're gonna have to deal with that on their own
I feel like the default response to "WHAT IF TRANS PEOPLE HAVING RIGHTS COMPROMISES THE INTEGRITY OF HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS" should be "who cares?" I know the whole thing is a straw man issue to begin with, but I just don't understand why so many centrists think it's this big checkmate moment.
Sure sounds like he refused to make the sort of conciliatory statement they were demanding as a condition of his reinstatement but they realized keeping him off the air was costing them, so they just claimed they had "thoughtful conversations" with him as a way of implying he was suitably chastened.
I think it's important to note, bear in mind, and remember going forward that the Disney reinstatement statement is disgustingly craven and pathetically, ineptly self-serving.
I have some opinions about this Supreme Court.
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today was a district-wide teachers' conference day, and preschool has set r's expectations for enrichment wayyy too high for me now. like, my sweet child, i do not have a master's degree in early childhood education, i am just a lady who got pregnant
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:) I've been reflecting on this lately, and I suspect a lot of semi-smart people have heard *just enough* snappy repartee to try to mimic it. But they haven't actually spent enough time around smart-smart people — or, y'know, READING SMART THINGS — to actually be witty.
Happy First Day of Fall, Los Angeles!
I HATE that kind of message.
I love the alt-text on this. :)
I always got more of a Wednesday vibe from the Rapture, but what do I know
Climate change is real.
Also, it seems I've hit some point of semi-satiety with books, so I'm holding steady around 1,500. 📚
I can only imagine! 👹 It's getting better for us b/c our kids are getting more settled into their independent lives elsewhere (ergo, they need to store less w/us), and simply b/c we've had a little bite of time to evaluate and discard and arrange things.
I like a nice slow week after a hectic one. :) Monday is treating me well — reading, writing, the usual.
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Please have my somber memorial service presented by the pyrotechnic and effects team for KISS.
Love that tactic. :)
Yup.
Fortunately, there was no weeing. :)
[nodding] My partner and I have been working on our garage since I moved in here at the end of last year. Two middle-aged people with many years of possessions that, even when pared down, still make for a fair amount of STUFF.
I just went outside to check the mail and I got to meet a brown spaniel mix named GEORGE. His little vest said “BEST FRIEND” and he was SO SOFT. 🤩
Interesting piece from my Internet Press Guild colleague.
For whatever it's worth, your garage seems appropriately tame to me.
I like that idea of leaving the chaos in our dreams. :)
Any big plans for today?
GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS
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Good morning! 🌅
I have similar questions.
That sounds blissful!
Closest thing we have to a real life Hitchhiker's Guide
[nodding]
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That was, by turns, both charming and disturbing! :)
Cool cool cool. What a thoroughly disgusting world we've created.
on the one hand, you have enduring principles that have been written about for hundreds of years. on the other hand, you can make money that will have no effect on your lifestyle as an already uber-rich person. what a difficult decision!!
Not a #MUFC supporter, just an interested neutral. So, FWIW: —Not playing Lammens mystifies me. —Acquiring both Cunha and Mbeumo (both of whom I like!) rather than allotting one of those positions to Bruno and then acquiring, say, Palhinha to start in midfield was a disastrous miscalculation.
Propaganda works. That’s why they keep at it.
YUP. 😑
motion to eliminate "the former/latter" we all have adhd
Absolutely CORRECT.
I ask myself this a lot.
Wait, who was stealing bag tags?
Currently: #RugbyWorldCup and another pot of tea. (Not shown: piles of notes I’m working through as I plan my work for the coming week.)
Exactly! :)
[wry chuckle] People hate to hear evidence — even or maybe especially incontrovertible evidence — that would force them to question / revise views that are vital to their *identity*. That’s what we’re up against.
#Archaeology
Eh, I don’t know if they’re describing a middle path. The middle path is often wishy-washy and meant to appease everybody. What they’re describing would piss off C.K. supporters — which would be appropriate, b/c many of his views were terrible & ought to be rejected.
[nodding bleakly]