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The kombucha meme where a woman initially looks like she hates it, but then looks curious, but I've flipped the order, so she looks like she hates it, after looking curious. The first cell (curious) is captioned "I've written a new article" The second cell (hates it) is captioned "Read it on my Substack"

If you want to have a gathering for women, call it a gathering for women. If you want to have a gathering for women & non-binary people, call it a gathering for women & non-binary people. If you want to make non-binary people sad, call it the Women’s Community Gathering and put us in the fine print

One thing people kind of tell you, but not really, about middle age:

One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing

And then you'll say. Wait a second.

Fuck 'em

but i am le tired

I just wish Dick Cheney could have lived to see this.

almost every single tailgater in three states on this road trip has been a state trooper

I want to posit that one of the things we mean when we say we’re “procrastinating” is that our own sense of what matters has diverged from what our boss or company is concerned with. That is, procrastination is often a political conflict, not a personal failing.

Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a…

Dick Cheney departs the world he made: defector.com/dick-cheney-...

@fromawildkate.bsky.social: you know, I love that we have a whole kitchen cabinet stocked with pasta and tortillas
me: you mean the carbinet?
Kate: marry me

every Halloween in our townhouse complex, our little row of neighbors hang out together in the drive out front with our four different candy buckets rather than make kids walk up every set of stairs, and it is a delight to watch every kid's eyes light up when you say "have some from each bucket!"

if they were good they wouldn't be comfort movies

so i tried three times to reset my Kobo password, but i never got a reset email. tried to create a new account — oh, sorry, there's already an account associated with this email! and the "contact us" button at the bottom of the help page... goes nowhere? y'all.

OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the Web Worse OpenAI has announced it’s launched a new browser, Atlas, with ChatGPT built in. For those familiar with ARIA, OpenAI outlines what to expect (I left the code as I found it, other than removing the tar...

"SEO hacks have been keyword-stuffing alt text in images for literal decades. There is no way ARIA will get away unscathed. Every button, link, and div will be roled up to redundancy at best, and the wrong thing at worst. "

adrianroselli.com/2025/10/open...

The Garden of Life blooms on December 3rd 2025 🌺

Our new expansion will be available to all Monument Valley 3 players - including mobile when it returns to iOS and Android on the same day!

Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.

NEW: we tested Zenni's anti-facial recognition glasses coating. "ID Guard" adds a pink sheen to the surface of the glasses that reflects the infrared light used by some facial recognition cameras.

www.404media.co/zennis-anti-...

Fried Green Tomatoes It's unthinkable to pass up a plate of fried green tomatoes in the South, and it's easy to learn how to make classic fried green tomatoes at home.

fried green tomatoes! www.southernliving.com/recipes/frie...

just got my annual shortbox haul!

idi amin?

"Self-driving cars" this "robitaxis" that JUST INVEST IN PUBLIC TRANSIT FFS.

side note: every time i am forced to trawl through the enshittified wasteland of sponsored listing chum that is FB Marketplace, i mourn the loss of Craigslist as the default for secondhand selling.

a Facebook Marketplace posting of a perfectly serviceable gray tufted headboard for the princely sum of $20

back of the headboard, newly recovered using a dark slate blue velvet and approximately thirteen dozen staples

the new headboard successfully installed on the bed

made us a new headboard out of a $20 headboard i just got and a $50 bolt of blue velvet upholstery fabric i got four years ago with no purpose in mind. i play the long game with DIY.

convert the ballroom into housing for unhoused people

Gibson used they/them, not she/her.

got my flu shot and covid booster today! let us begin the countdown to my left arm being kinda useless

save yourself, i really wish i didn't

ours kicked the bucket last year and I think this KitchenAid is the one we have now. runs quiet, everything is adjustable, and the third rack is super useful. www.costco.com/kitchenaid-t...

heavy is the pinky that holds the phone

I suspect the MAGA government decided to launch all these Bluesky accounts tonight to try to bait people in advance of No Kings.

These people have incurable 4chan brain and this is how they operate.

Block them. Do not engage. Do not give them what they want.

Here’s a general MAGA blocklist that I’ve been using for years.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Announcing When the Creeks Rise—a community journalism project documenting flooding in Atlanta and the systems behind it.

Flooding isn’t just weather. It’s history, policy, development, and equity.

🌊 Follow along and make your voice heard.
whenthecreeksrise.org