Martin Allen

Bandit the cat lying in a patch of sunlight between a bike wheel and a sliding glass door

When the bike room in the building’s garage has been broken into one too many times but you still need time in the sun. Also, please preorder twenty copies of THEO CHANG IS NOT A CAT. Thank you, thank you very much

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

White Husky nine drawer tool chest with wheels and a butcher block countertop

It’s great. All my dry goods are in the bottom drawer. Left side is cooking supplies. Right side is baking supplies.

Co-signing this. My toolbox island is the only reason my kitchen is functional.

I think we all wanted the Scotty. I loved how it was just as stable if you stood it on its snout and front legs so its butt sticking up.

It’s that time of year when you wear your best pajamas because strangers in balloons will be waving and shouting hello while you’re drinking your coffee.

And I hate it being termed a culture war because like do you actually see Dems putting up a fight?

Or do you see the people being attacked putting up a fight

FREE ŁINK

A great way to turn the temp down here as @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com and @aaron.bsky.team want would be to stop communicating site policies and practices with individual users or on their timelines and hire a comms person who is a professional communicator to do all the front facing interaction.

Cis people aren't angry enough about the conversion therapy case for my taste.

They'll legalize it, and then States will pass laws requiring it, and that will be how they try to exterminate us.

I strongly believe that they think they know what conversion therapy is, but they really don’t get the depth to which it can reprogram you. 48 years later, I still have to make a concerted effort to listen to my own real thoughts.

And the cheap gas is right below the sign for the pay phone

there's no such thing as compassion fatigue ffs

It’s a gem. Thanks for writing it.

Phoenix is the clothing store from the book for those who haven’t read it yet. Also, go read it.

The Payback by @kashana.blacksky.app is so good that a week after finishing it, my decades long reoccurring anxiety dream where I have to live in a retail business now takes place at Phoenix.

As the mod who tamed a big news site's notoriously annoying comment section that serially harassed many of the site's authors, it's 100 percent obvious that the problem here is the same problem I solved back then.

A moderation team can't earn buy in from a community they're openly contemptuous of.

patrick star from spongebob squarepants is meditating on a rock with incense sticks . Alt: patrick star from spongebob squarepants is meditating on a rock with incense sticks .

Hey ABQ! If you (or someone you know) is either furloughed or working with suspended pay, I (& 2 other instructors at the sweet little studio I'm teaching at) are offering free yoga classes for the duration of this shitshow. Please let me know if you'd like more info, and hang in there!

I’ll never pass up the opportunity to remind folks that “mild” carbon monoxide poisoning is still horrible. Symptoms can include suicidal ideations and difficulty discerning reality. It’s not a binary you’re dead or you’re fine thing. www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-con...

Damn this is good. History, politics, emotion, hope, CHANGE.

That may be the best political ad I’ve ever seen, and I have seen decades of campaign ads.

So if you want this to move, the ask has to be "include telehealth in any CR deal"

I'm autistic. I've taken my share of acetaminophen and it hasn't made me any MORE autistic. I was born this way. And that's really not the point, is it? The point is eugenics. The point is to wipe autistic people off the face of the earth.

these motherfuckers would try to order a pizza here:

I am probably more bothered by the weird logic than I should be.

If an alchemist in a place where gold is the currency tells a merchant that iron pyrite can be turned into gold and asks them to accept it as payment surely they'd say, "Gladly, friend, just turn it into gold and we're good to go."

Frankly, I can’t get past the disingenuous use of “some” and “many” in the sentence “Some people are convinced by the claims of the alchemists, though
many others are not.”

AWN Responds to the Tylenol & Austism Announcement - Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN) The Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network condemns today’s White House announcement about autism. The Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network (AWN) is a national nonprofit dedicated to disability justice, gen...

AWN Responds to the Tylenol & Autism Announcement

Spoken as a man who has spent his entire adult life working to ensure that he never has to be in the presence of a person with a cognitive disability.

Alt for all four: Here’s alt text for your LEGO flower arrangements: 1. First image: Two tall vases of LEGO flowers on a white table. The vase on the left holds a bright mix of purple, yellow, pink, and blue blossoms with long green stems. The vase on the right is filled with vivid red LEGO roses and beige buds, all set in white pebbles. A TV and furniture are blurred in the background. 2. Second image: Close-up of the colorful bouquet. At the center is a large daisy-like LEGO flower with pink, orange, and brown petals. Surrounding it are clusters of tiny pink, purple, blue, and yellow blossoms with green buds, creating a busy, lively arrangement. 3. Third image: The red rose bouquet is in focus. Deep red LEGO roses with layered petals stand out against white pebble filler, accented by small white blossoms. In the background, the mixed bouquet is slightly blurred. 4. Fourth image: A separate vase filled with LEGO sunflowers and yellow blooms. The front shows a large sunflower with orange petals around a round brown center, alongside bright yellow flowers with blocky petals. The stems sit in blue pebble filler, adding contrast to the warm colors.

Alt for all four: Here’s alt text for your LEGO flower arrangements: 1. First image: Two tall vases of LEGO flowers on a white table. The vase on the left holds a bright mix of purple, yellow, pink, and blue blossoms with long green stems. The vase on the right is filled with vivid red LEGO roses and beige buds, all set in white pebbles. A TV and furniture are blurred in the background. 2. Second image: Close-up of the colorful bouquet. At the center is a large daisy-like LEGO flower with pink, orange, and brown petals. Surrounding it are clusters of tiny pink, purple, blue, and yellow blossoms with green buds, creating a busy, lively arrangement. 3. Third image: The red rose bouquet is in focus. Deep red LEGO roses with layered petals stand out against white pebble filler, accented by small white blossoms. In the background, the mixed bouquet is slightly blurred. 4. Fourth image: A separate vase filled with LEGO sunflowers and yellow blooms. The front shows a large sunflower with orange petals around a round brown center, alongside bright yellow flowers with blocky petals. The stems sit in blue pebble filler, adding contrast to the warm colors.

Alt for all four: Here’s alt text for your LEGO flower arrangements: 1. First image: Two tall vases of LEGO flowers on a white table. The vase on the left holds a bright mix of purple, yellow, pink, and blue blossoms with long green stems. The vase on the right is filled with vivid red LEGO roses and beige buds, all set in white pebbles. A TV and furniture are blurred in the background. 2. Second image: Close-up of the colorful bouquet. At the center is a large daisy-like LEGO flower with pink, orange, and brown petals. Surrounding it are clusters of tiny pink, purple, blue, and yellow blossoms with green buds, creating a busy, lively arrangement. 3. Third image: The red rose bouquet is in focus. Deep red LEGO roses with layered petals stand out against white pebble filler, accented by small white blossoms. In the background, the mixed bouquet is slightly blurred. 4. Fourth image: A separate vase filled with LEGO sunflowers and yellow blooms. The front shows a large sunflower with orange petals around a round brown center, alongside bright yellow flowers with blocky petals. The stems sit in blue pebble filler, adding contrast to the warm colors.

Alt for all four: Here’s alt text for your LEGO flower arrangements: 1. First image: Two tall vases of LEGO flowers on a white table. The vase on the left holds a bright mix of purple, yellow, pink, and blue blossoms with long green stems. The vase on the right is filled with vivid red LEGO roses and beige buds, all set in white pebbles. A TV and furniture are blurred in the background. 2. Second image: Close-up of the colorful bouquet. At the center is a large daisy-like LEGO flower with pink, orange, and brown petals. Surrounding it are clusters of tiny pink, purple, blue, and yellow blossoms with green buds, creating a busy, lively arrangement. 3. Third image: The red rose bouquet is in focus. Deep red LEGO roses with layered petals stand out against white pebble filler, accented by small white blossoms. In the background, the mixed bouquet is slightly blurred. 4. Fourth image: A separate vase filled with LEGO sunflowers and yellow blooms. The front shows a large sunflower with orange petals around a round brown center, alongside bright yellow flowers with blocky petals. The stems sit in blue pebble filler, adding contrast to the warm colors.

I have a bunch of broken LEGO from a move a while back and I got a wild hair yesterday and cannibalized them to make myself some flowers

I ran out of the white decorative pebbles 🤣 I’m not happy with the blue gravel in the last one so I will prob just do them all white? Input?

🙌 Fun! Do recommend

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