Pessoptimist

Looks sooo goood!

Oh man. We just had curry delivered but now I want taco bowls.

IT’S SO PRETTY

I will always repost a Hiroshige fish

Additional alt-text: a detailed ukiyo-e style rendering of a slender gray mullet, with a branch of red camellia flowers below it, and elegant Japanese calligraphy above it in black ink.

Aw, poor Boomer

Our foster likes Weruva as well! I like that that flavor has the teeniest little whole shrimps in it. So cute.

Katsuwonus pelamis

Katsuwonus pelamis https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/katsuwonus-pelamis

Grey tuxedo kitty with green eyes resting in a cube-shaped bed. He’s kinda sideways and looking at the camera.

Grey tuxedo kitty with green eyes resting in a cube-shaped bed. Many toe beans are visible

Grey tuxedo kitty with green eyes resting in a cube-shaped bed. One paw is sticking out adorably

Grey tuxedo kitty with green eyes resting in a cube-shaped bed. Many visible beans, and one paw sticking out adorably

Sitting in a chair, underneath which is a feral little 2-3yo gremlin experiencing his first indoor winter. Through the window I see and hear the blizzard roaring, and I imagine what he possibly would be doing right now if he were still out there. I’m so glad he’s here.

ARTE

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents was quite pivotal for me. I’ll look into these others. Thank you! ♥️

@tankgrrl.bsky.social This makes me think of you ♥️

Looking for book recommendations about how to engage with loved ones in a cult and/or how to deal with the guilt that comes with cutting communication with loved ones.

Not sure this constitutes as ‘weird’ but this is what stands out: The hashbrowns I had at a Waffle House last fall were phenomenal

I’ve eaten entire big bags of snap pea crisps for breakfast sooooo many times… Intentionally, not out of desperation. And never regretted it.

It was fun to pull out the dictionaries again!

I think it's a bad sign that every major news media outlet has spent days asking whether or not murder is bad and how much child porn is an okay amount

What appears to be a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field is actually a normal sized praying mantis that's actually sitting on my windshield

Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.

"Square your shoulders! Keep your head level! No matter how small you may be," said the Rhino to the Dik Dik, "you must *learn* to be as unyielding as the mountain! How can you expect to defeat the Great Evil if you can't even best me?!"

We still need our coffee date! ☕️

I still need to mail you your present, I’m sorryyyyyyyy. Happy birthday!

Just cleared up my desktop.

Made a folder called ”Detritus” and threw all the errant files in there.

I know I’ve not actually accomplished anything meaningful, but now my desktop is clear and it feels so good.

Behold my new fish-son: Sidon

Grey mullet and camellia

Grey mullet and camellia https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/grey-mullet-and-camellia

Hell, you know this. But still, I think about love & trust.

"Grandma, when you were my age, did a teacher ever try to… get you alone? I mean… did one ever try to… touch you?"

<TOS violation detected>

What were you expecting to take to the grave? What could an algorithm never extrapolate for them?

"What if—?" You can't. "But what if—?" You CAN'T. "…But will you accept this substitute and pretend?"

…

I'm haunted by the idea that someone will ask it advice.

"Oh love," I ask the photo in the locket, "what would you do?"

"Calculating," says some algorithm wearing love's face.

screenshot of an article headline asking "If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?"

Refuse the premise.

You can already speak to the dead same as you might speak to the sky. Say what you want, and it's up to you to imagine what the reply might be based on what you know of them

You want to speak to the dead and have them speak back? You can't. That's half what it means to be dead.

A little gray cat with a tipped left ear is super snuggled up in a cozy cube-shaped bed, green eyes looking at the camera

Gremel

I love you so dearly

And I’ve noticed the sound quality on YT music is far superior to Spotify