official lab rat

Listen to this 13 year old who went to her city's council meeting.

She had some things she needed to get off her chest

I feel like the critical skill to develop in crochet is reading your own work. Once you can clearly recognize the top of each stitch, it gets easier. When you can identify things like increases consistently, it gets easy. It can take a while to get there, though, so no worries.

If the ginger menace has killed my carnivorous sundew, I'm going to shave him in stripes and post unflattering pictures online.

All the food he's stolen, knickknacks he's knocked over and broken, heads batted at? Annoying but known complicationS of cat ownership. Killing my baby? SHAME.

What does it profit a man to have billions of dollars if he has no one to, lovingly, tell him to shut the fuck up

Tabby cat sprawled out on back with front legs one way and bank legs spread

Tabby cat being used as pillow by child

Ginger cat sleeping on back curled in a J shape, head squished against his tabby brother, all feet curled up

Ginger cat sleeping curled in a ball, somehow with his back heel on top of his head

Joined hands of two humans with fluffy orange kitty placing his paw carefully atop them.

We are not allowed to be cute without him, apparently.

I'm starting to feel like I should be quantifying these blushes . By what percentage does each admission spike each of their blushes?

(I am dying. Dying!)

SEXY equals.

Sign in bathroom saying: Flush only toilet paper and natural water Septic system Please do not flush any sanitary items, wipes, paper towels, hopes or dreams (Not even "flushable" items) Thank you

Humor helps the message stick. And today, this is really tickling me.

Thank you, yes, this is exactly it!

(My brain has been going "ew, familiar, ew, where did I see this" all day.)

#writingsky #booksky

Still trying to balance social media publicizes horrifying shit I can't always handle with isolation because I'm not always able to sit up and interact with people for long.

Yaaaay.

At least there's also a ton of good art on here.

I really love the proposal that at a certain level of wealth ($100 M or $1 B or w/e), you get a dog park named after you and a big trophy that says "won capitalism," and everything earned above that threshold is 100% marginal tax rate.

To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them

stock photo of a normal looking man smiling and holding a trash bag over a trash bin

"you can't just stop supporting someone after they post ai!"

me:

The @cpsc .gov is a good part of it, of course, though I'm not certain how much proof of owning the domain is required. Also, the fact that recall Thursday posts themselves are absolutely boring standardized releases, even if the posts announcing Recall Thursday are goofy.

The replies are delightfully unhinged. We've learned so much from CPSC social media person.

I'm not sure we've learned the *right* lessons, but boy have we learned a lot!

It's this constant background noise! It's just plain tiring to always be considering it when appreciating art or being fed ads, and it's not like I'm intentionally doing it. I see this thing that's so clearly fake and then for hours my brain is looking out for the next aberration.

- "you smell great when you're asleep"
I wish I could remember more.

Also:
- "my dick's cold"
- something like "roses are red, violets are blue, gargle my balls"

The sketch comedy group at my college printed Valentine's cards and handed them out every year. So many good ones, but I remember
- fluffy teddy bear holding a lacey heart saying "I think of you when I masturbate"
- "loving you is like kissing a manatee: confusing and unpleasant"

For a given value of "slightly," yes.

It's probably within three standard deviations of the mean value of "slightly," but it's got a 95% chance of being outside two. Nope, ran the corrected data, and it's above two SD with 99% confidence.

This is the sentence that keeps getting me, too.

"What I was good at was unclear. Reading, possibly."
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According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

As many are noting, this is not true! On Amtrak back in August, I was opening my wallet to show a conductor my driver's license without thinking, and he said “I don’t need your ID, sweetheart. I ain’t the police.” Then we both laughed.

sigh

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

This AI chat/video app ads are everywhere, and it's like watching a beautiful, well-rigged model animated by someone doing their third week homework for Into to Animation. The Judy Hopps one is especially bad, since it highlights how dead the eyes are.

Except humans know how to touch their lips.

On one hand, I'm glad it occurred to me that a more fun way to do my core and balance PT would be dancing.

On the other hand, it's aggravating that one chill track* wrecked me. Want to dance more! More more more!

*Angel and Midnight - Matte Blvck