Jean Aycock

Oh man, this is brilliant! Our dryer vents into the carport, 4 feet from the main entrance to our house. My doormat stays covered in lint. The super slippery condensation on the concrete every time the dryer runs is just the cherry on top.

Fuck you, Montressor.

Will you DM me so we can chat shipping, etc?

I'll start negotiating with the children f and see who they haven't fallen in love with yet.

Am orange Pegasus pony.

An orange earth pony.

A peach earth pony.

A white Pegasus pony

I keep finding more 😅

Three winged ponies, one missing wings.

And I found more flutter ponies - one is missing her wings though.

Three baby My Little Ponies.

More baby My Little Ponies.

Baby ponies with a flutter pony.

A baby pony and unicorn pony.

Here's the rest of the round up.

A green My Little Pony with green and pink hair.

Looks like it! Took her outside for a better photo.

Three vintage My Little Pony figures with their own popcorn bucket.

@seananmcguire.bsky.social Hi! I picked up some nice ponies at a friend's sale - do you have a list of who you're still looking for?

I regret to inform you all that I have been allowed inside an art museum.

Two cans of Pringles labeled "Grilled Beer Brat" and "Beer Can Chicken." Behind the illustration of each food is a beer can with no brand name, but it's totally the Miller Lite can. They're Limited Edition!

@tkingfisher.com sometimes I'm in the store and just think, "Dang, I miss KUEC."

I just read an absolutely delightful book by a firefly researcher - Silent Sparks by Sarah Lewis. Great writing, and absolutely chock full of everything you never knew you needed to know about firefly sex.

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

there’s a reason bluesky is a retirement home for millennial posters - we grew up before algorithms and were not used to having content shoved in our faces unasked for

we chose to click on those terrible threads ourselves

I once ran a nature center field trip for a 1st grade class - their teacher had all 25 of them clicker trained to stop, go silent, and look at her instantly when they heard the click. I've never seen anything like it before or since.

With extra sharp cheddar cheese and crushed Lays potato chips on top.

I cooked it tonight. 😂

Two pieces of petrified wood. One is red-brown and nearly fills the hand holding it. The second is a large, light yellowish tan piece used as a stepping stone buried in pine straw and grass.

We just got back from a trip to Arizona, so I'm introducing our new petrified wood to the homegrown Mississippi stuff. (Not from the National Park! From one of the totally not shady dig your own places just outside the National Park.)

An enormous stand of prickly pear cactus in the desert sun.

Enormous cacti with tall spindly arms reach for a deep blue sky.

A huge agave with great green leaves.

When you visit the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix and all you can think of is @tkingfisher.com 's
LJ posts from decades ago! The agave! The cacti!

We've been trying to figure out if there's any possibly of keeping a Palo Verde alive in MS - perhaps a bonsai with its own dehumidifier?

Hattiesburg, MS has one like this - there's a sign by the highway that just says "BONSAI."

When you get to the door you call a number and maybe the old guy who owns the place will mosey over from his house and let you buy some tiny trees. It's incredible.

Oh, I'm a member! Felder is an amazing resource. I've just been busy trying to get the rest of the property into shape before I dive into peony land. We have 7 acres that we're working to bring back from about 15 years of neglect.

A bright pink peony in full bloom with a smaller partially opened peony next to it, with green leaves.

Oh, lovely! I miss the peonies we inherited at our Kansas house. I haven't tried to find what will grow in Mississippi for our current place yet.

Why So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe Rogan The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.

I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut."

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

My kids love our house jumping spiders - I gave them names and now they're friends. "Oh look, it's Phil!" "Oh look, Phil caught a fly! Thanks, Phil!" Phil is great.

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

Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..

TIMELINE CLEANSE: please enjoy this video of a 15-week-old puppy playing with a ball for the first time in her life.

It's been the year of Charlotte's Web for us - read the novel to the kids, took them to a performance of the Joseph Robinette play adaptation, and now they've been binging the 1973 movie.

How to Protect Your Retirement Savings Now as Markets Plunge If you’re within five years of retiring, either before or after, you’re at your most vulnerable financially. Here are steps to weather the volatility.

Here is the top comment on this article: “You are advising responsible honest people who have worked hard, saved all their lives… to scale down their retirement dreams because a one person has decided to destroy the US economy. Why not write an article about how to get rid of the real problem?”

" On April 5th, a 54% tariff goes into effect on a wide range of goods imported from China. For those of us who create boardgames, this is not just a policy change. It's a seismic shift. At Steve Jackson Games, we are actively assessing what this means for our products, our pricing, and our future plans. We do know that we can't absorb this kind of cost increase without raising prices. We've done our best over the past few years to shield players and retailers from the full brunt of rising freight costs and other increases, but this new tax changes the equation entirely. Here are the numbers: A product we might have manufactured in China for $3.00 last year could now cost $4.62 before we even ship it across the ocean. Add freight, warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution margins, and that once-$25 game quickly becomes a $40 product. That's not a luxury upcharge; it's survival math. Some people ask, "Why not manufacture in the U.S.?" I wish we could. But the infrastructure to support full-scale boardgame production – specialty dice making, die-cutting, custom plastic and wood components – doesn't meaningfully exist here yet. I've gotten quotes. I've talked to factories. Even when the willingness is there, the equipment, labor, and timelines simply aren't."

Steve Jackson Games posted this to their blog and the post is getting so many hits their site is effectively crashed but the point is worth repeating

I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold