Actually Autumn

Comic of a woman picking flowers and then having a nice kiss. Text reads: slow down. Take your time. When you're ready, you'll bloom, too.

Reminding myself once again that it is not a race.

Before you have kids, you intellectually understand they need to eat dinner every day. But you do not understand what this means. You can't. They need to eat dinner EVERY day

“Motheaten fucker,” clearly.

Giant skeleton looking like it’s tipping over a house.

My friend’s neighbor’s house fell off its foundation (old steel structure collapsed), and they just did the funniest thing.

Sorry. Which brand/model is that? It looks like a really useful one and I’m looking to get one. :)

Not irrelevant to me! Which one is that?

If you think about it, SAW is kind of like Waiting for Godot if Godot had been there the whole time.

I just spent half an hour scrolling for @aplante.com's chip bukkake post because someone mentioned in passing that they liked all-dressed chips. I'm a good friend like that.

Why wouldn't it turn up in search? Who knows! But now I have it bookmarked and you can too:

bsky.app/profile/apla...

I was sorting my meds for the week and goose kept asking me what each individual pill I take is for, and each time my internal monologue was like “this one also keeps mommy from killing herself”

I want someone to appreciate that my cane I sometimes have to use is named Abel.

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I had to swap the audiobook of A Game in Yellow for the printed version because listening to it in public (on headphones!) kept making me blush furiously. Something tells me that @haileypiperfights.bsky.social would probably enjoy that.

I left high school twenty years before you graduated. How remarkable shifted in that time. I’m so overwhelmingly happy for you that your experience could be like that.

My trans joy of the day is that this is a relatable experience for anyone. When I was in high school, girlmoding would have been met with violence, universal mockery, and punishment from the school. Even as it feels sometimes like we’re losing so much, we have also come SO FAR.

When did American men collectively decide that they all needed to back into parking spaces? And why are they collectively so terrible at it?

“I am terrified of my fellow Americans. I might try to push that feeling down, or disguise it as something safer, like anger or mean jokes about their cars, but the fact is that I do not feel safe.”

[nodding vigorously in transgender]

Do cis people have anxiety dreams about not being able to find a safe place to pee?

one panel cartoon: a tired (but still hot) mom finishing up packing a small child's lunch kit. she is holding a small tupperware container. caption: And finally, the sacrificial carrot sticks, for *optics*

the art of packing lunches for daycare #comic

a snowy scene of a path going through snow covered branches bowed over the path in a tunnel

I hate summer so much. Can we just pretend for today that it's winter again? When things are quiet and peaceful and my face isn't melting off when I go outside?

This thread is about criticism and theater but it applies very well to criticism & games. The ability of skilled game critics to put a new release into historic & genre context is invaluable. But game criticism usually favors the naïve buyer—often resulting in critique adrift in an eternal present.

I know the "as a parent of a child with autism" framing is often problematic and rightfully scorned, but as a parent of a child with autism, I am absolutely crushed by the now-legal gutting of the Department of Education. The life of my child, his friends, and his classmates is now measurably worse.

Few things make me bounce out of a song faster than a man singing about how he has demons or a monster or the devil inside him. That's just a big red flag that someone is an asshole.

one thing on my mind, still thinking about this conversation

to echo an excellent point @katelynburns.com makes, like,

speaking for myself: I *was* a trans child, regardless of how the medical system or my society saw me ... that was always my truth (inside).

www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...

A bag of dog food branded with “Disney’s Old Yeller”

Same energy as Old Yeller dog food.

Having one of those days where it feels like the bad guys are winning, the good guys are floundering, and the whole game is being played in a room on fire. Sure could use some hope.

Exactly! As with every other use for AI, I fail to see how a chatbot would be better than a trained human paid a sustainable wage.

This is what I keep hanging up on: LLMs can’t actually do ANY of this stuff. It’s pure fantasy.

And the fantasy they’re selling is simple: what if there were a second teacher in every class? That’d be lovely! Understaffing is a huge problem.

But this solution is a lie. All “what if” daydreaming.

I can respect most film tastes and opinions, but I don't know how any "best movies of the 21st century" list isn't topped by "Portrait of a Lady on Fire". It is a perfect film in every way.

I finally just muted the names of the candidates until the end of this week. 😅