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(I have reasons to answer unfamiliar calls unfortunately, else I'd definitely just ignore)

So, I've been getting spam calls w/ background office noise and a harried "Hello? *pause* Are you there?" and if I say something, it launches into a Medicare spiel. But if I reply "you sound like AI," it hangs up immediately. Maybe I should start replying with verbal prompts lol.

"And the devil said 'aw beans' and left."
~Joseph Fink

Words that will live on in my brain from now on thanks to The Best Worst on Happy Days 😂

I never succeed at the novel writing month, but I like the exercise of it and adding every year to my graveyard of ideas :D

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

Post something random or you’ll have an awful November.

A monarch butterfly with a black lace pattern across its orange wings resting on a green stem with a chaotic mess of grasses and weeds behind it.

A monarch butterfly with black border around its black and orange wings resting on a thick green stem. A mess of green, purple, and brown is tangled behind it.

I haven't mowed a small bit of our back yard all year, mostly to find out what would grow on its own. But then I noticed over the summer I had more lightning bugs. And then I started to hear more crickets, and then more frogs in the evening. Lately it's moths, and now these guys are hanging out :)

Dallas didn’t disappoint. #NoKings

One of many favorite things about the #NoKings march in Dallas today - all the little American flags and the speakers who reminded the crowd that solidarity, kindness, justice, and diversity are what make us great. This is the America (and the Texas, for that matter) that I want to believe in.

Color photograph from within a thick stand of trees. Most of the tree canopies are high and out of frame against a deep blue sky, but a single Dogwood tree dominates the foreground with its low, sprawling branches displaying its semi-transparent, crimson leaves, backlit by the afternoon Autumn sun.

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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
— Albert Camus

#photography
#trees
#dogwood
#fallcolors
#filmphotograph

I take it back. Avocado as a base for a "shake" (to get the creaminess instead of ice cream), that one wins. I'll accept it.

(Bananas make my stomach hurt, which is why I hadn't already tried these kind of smoothie/shake recipes so far)

Cauliflower rice - a dish almost, but not entirely, unlike rice lol

Newly-diabetic frustration- I'm growing tired of "try X, it tastes just like Y" suggestions. It doesn't. It probably does taste fine, but its not "just like it." Cauliflower rice is pretty good, but I'm also pretty sure the people telling me it's just like rice are just bad at making rice.

From the song,
"We are the dwelling of God
Fragile and wounded and weak
We are the body of Christ
Called to be the compassion of God

Pan de Vida, cuerpo del Señor
Cup of blessing, blood of Christ the Lord
At this table the last shall be first
Poder es servir, porque Dios es amor"

I have a rocky relationship with the Catholic Church, but watching the video of them being denied made me so sad. They were singing Pan de Vida in the background, a song I loved when I used to be in the church choir with mom and dad as a kid.

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I play with a group of Dnd-or-nothing guys. Once, I got them to try HoneyHeist. It was like 3 yrs ago, but we still have jokes from that session that will reduce the table to tears. New players are regaled with the tale of The Best Driver and feeling bad about accidentally mauling a security guard

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

Meanwhile in #Portland

Anamnesis by Blinking Birch Games A solo tarot game about discovering yourself after memory loss

Anamnesis by Blinking Birch Games is my favorite solo :)

blinkingbirchgames.itch.io/anamnesis

The empty Moody Performance Hall in Dallas Texas with lights up - In the foreground are empty seats and folded stands waiting for performers downstairs. The empty hall holds the promise of 750 seats.

Tech rehearsal night! It's such a cool opportunity to get to play at the Moody Performance Hall :)

If you want to support a queer community band here in Dallas as we celebrate 45 years, there's still a chance to buy tickets before the concert tomorrow :)

www.oaklawnband.org/tickets

Every other attempt at eating out since wearing a CGM and actually having the data has been so frustrating that I figured this was just something else I couldn't have anymore. It's been a journey lol

So, I'm diabetic now & still quite angry. But you know what wasnt on my bingo card? Cheesecake Factory has an *actual* low carb/low sugar menu that tastes good. My blood sugar didnt spike and stayed in range the whole night. Cheesecake Factory of all places lol.

That looks really interesting!

This is a really fun thread :D

Blue text at the top reads Oak Lawn Band's Sapphire Celebration. A symmetrical design mimicking the curtains pulled back on a stage features the iconic Dallas Pegasus, music notes, clefs, and other filigree all in shades of blue. A sketched band plays ce ter stage over the rest of the concert information reading: 45 Years od Pride! OCT 11, 2025 MOODY PERFORMANCE HALL At the bottom are the logos for the Oak Lawn Band and Resource Center

If you're in the Dallas area and and want to support our local queer community band, check out the Oak Lawn Band at the Moody Performance Hall on October 11! Ticket sales will also benefit our partners at the Resource Center :)

Tickets available now: www.oaklawnband.org/tickets

I've been enjoying and listening to Shadows in the Smoke played bt Kitten Marlowe lately. I don't know if it's a quirk of the rule system or the players, but hearing "it's worse than that" when the GM essentially takes a hard move just makes me very happy haha

A four panel comic called Happy Halloween From The Birds. In panel 1, a pileated woodpecker has pecked its huge gaping rectangular holes in a pumpkin. In panel 2, a yellow-bellied sapsucker has pecked a face using its standard rows of small holes. In panel 3, a satin bowerbird has carved a pumpkin into a bower and placed its favorite blue candies all around it. In panel 4, a loggerhead shrike has impaled mini pumpkins on a fence's metal spikes and is saying "fight me."

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

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My nephew (17) walked in and declared, "you know, I used to be really impressed with how doctors wash their hands, but then I learned they're just like, doing what they're taught. *scoff*" and then left.

I have so many questions but none will be answered lol

Star Trek Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is standing in sick bay talking down to someone. Not like in a belittling way, she's just talking to someone who's sitting down. And she has a dolphin shaped metal mechanism above her eyeball because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Survival is insufficient."