Dawn

Appropriately horrifying when taken seriously, but that sounds like the cutest halloween costume

*sigh* once again I am imploring people to STOP USING THE OCEAN BOILING PLAGIARISM MACHINE TO DUNK ON THE OCEAN BOILING PLAGIARISM MACHINE. “LOL I tried to get it to spell blueberry and it was wrong!” Congratulations! You are part of the fucking problem

This all day.

When someone is like "yeah I will voluntarily give up privilege and experience the trauma of misogyny AND the trauma of trans misogyny all day every day on top of that"

My first thought isn't "no, mine" it's "damn, ok, you are my SISTER"

Because then it’ll be easy to diagnose you and where’s the fun in that?

Dark photo of two glowing jack-o-lanterns. On the left is an Among Us crewmate with the plant sprout on its head. On the right is the meme of Elmo looking awed in front of a mushroom cloud. Admittedly, in this carving the mushroom cloud looks more like a broccoli stalk. This was my front porch on Halloween in 2020.

Wait I missed this the first time around. Your neighbor and my husband should talk…

It’s definitely a good introduction 😂 (I was also delighted to see Jamie Farr just because I’m a lifelong M*A*S*H fan and it’s nice to see familiar faces doing other stuff.)

I guess the censors figured nobody too young to understand would understand?

I was unfamiliar 😳

A few years ago I caught an episode of Laugh-In on the retro tv channel while at my parents’ house. It wasn’t the first time I’d seen the show, but the epiphany hit me while watching a seconds-long clip of women in bodysuits dancing with words pasted to their limbs: this is just TikTok for Boomers.

In my opinion it’s the “instead of serving a bowl of cheese spread, I’m gonna mold it into a freestanding shape, spend an hour adding garnish, and the whole thing is a reference to unrelated but trendy fruit” part that makes it a midcentury horror 🙃

Oh, it was delicious. I ended up making the best baked mac and cheese of my life out of the half that was still left a few days later. Even my friends couldn’t make much of a dent in what ended up being, I think, three pounds of cheese.

This should help with searching, thanks! I’m sure any basic cheese ball recipe will do, but where’s the fun in that?

A wooden dining table with quilted place mats, a stack of red glass plates, and an assortment of serving dishes containing mostly gelatinized foods. There’s a bright yellow ring mold with stuffed olives in the center, a fancy log of shredded beef, another ring whose translucence reveals shredded vegetables, a mayonnaise-white log garnished with slices of boiled egg and tomato, some other nondescript casserole dishes at the very end, and a stack of single serving Jello cups. The cheese ball described in the post stands on one edge of the table, decorated with the top of a real pineapple and surrounded by crackers.

Hoping #foodsky can help me find a lost recipe. Last year I hosted a dinner party of midcentury oddities, including an enormous cheese ball decorated to look like a pineapple but which didn’t contain any fruit. Crucially, the outer layer is olives, not pecans. Anybody have a reference or lead? 🍽️

Sshhhh! Repeat after me: it’s horrible, tastes like poison, oh god I just drank gasoline, worst experience of my life, here try it I’ll do a shot with you.
There’s a whole image to maintain.

How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood Here’s a step-by-step guide.

here's a banger, but i'll post more in the replies

Today is National Underwear Day so here’s a briefs thread of international phrases about underwear, starting with this one…

A slang Finnish word for getting drunk at home in just your underwear is kalsarikännit. It means “pants drunk.”

I’m definitely reading it as melon, but between the two options I think I’d go sour apple.

I love her 🥹

A bright blue mini sticky note on the corner of a laptop between the screen and keyboard. Written on it in black marker is the admonishment “The brain melt is real. Double check and maybe also drink water.”

A bright blue mini sticky note on the top bezel of a monitor. Written on it in black marker is the admonishment “Are you sure? Walk away, come back, then verify.” The few square inches of visible computer screen contain some Outlook toolbar buttons.

Feeling very insecure today about what may be my normal absent-mindedness or may be the dreaded Pregnancy Brain.
These help me feel like I’m doing something about it even if I don’t know that they’ll actually improve anything.

The scoot lines 🥰

He’s so vibrant!

I just let myself get talked into buying Finspan even though I’m very much a (b) person on the rare occasions I can be convinced to sit down at the board game table. This is very reassuring to hear!

My friends who are at GenCon just talked me into buying this even though I’m not a board game person at all. I can’t resist the siren call of all the beautiful fish art!

Liked in solidarity. Ours is just an “unhealthy for sensitive groups” air quality alert, so sorry lungs, you’re second priority right now to give my sweat glands a break.

Somebody in my creative projects group chat literally asked today if everyone had moved on to a different group chat without them because we’d all been so quiet. I was ready with a concise explanation:

I wish they (and a lot of the other competition in that era) had lasted, because that’s a really respectable policy.

I used one of the many small discount airlines of the 2000s, this one called Zoom, to go Toronto-London in 2007. They won an award for respecting flight lanes or something like that, and I know this because I was seated next to the official who was going to collect the award. No private jet for her.

I absolutely love the adoring look that the bird and rider are sharing. This picture makes my heart happy in a way I desperately needed after my other scrolling today 🖤🤍

…and then you notice they have the same first name as you! Truly a brilliant coincidence!
And then you start wondering if maybe this actually *was* you back in 2021.
And you can’t quite tell.
It will bother you forever.
But at least you’re going to have some really excellent soup soon.
🍽️

When you open a bookmarked recipe for the first time in years, reread it and the comments to refresh your memory, and come upon one that sounds like it’s from a kindred spirit! They plan like you, take shortcuts like you, and you’re really grateful they corrected an earlier commenter’s misinfo…

No, no, you may be the only MAGA patriot that’s still unemployed, but it’s not because you’re a colossal failure. It’s because of the gays/Jews/trans people/Mexicans/Democrats/black people/women/Californians. If we just got rid of them you’d be a millionaire like you deserve to be.