Pam Mandel

Gave the dog a bath coz life continues amidst the horrors and he was so upset he cried like I'd done something terrible to him. He's fine now, sacked out completely.

i'd respond but my face is full of these lemon poppyseed donut things.

the last three weeks have seen an increase in carbs in my house.

Sign put up unnamed religious people / group with "Ye must be born again" text and "ah fuck off" added in pen.

Wasn't me:

HANG ON A SEC, aren't we busy occupying Venezuela? or have we forgotten that already?

This aged well. Note the author.

I thought we were doing isolationism.

once again i am forced to accept that this is NOT the bad guy in sorry to bother you and really that is too much to ask.

i said "i don't think that's funny," to a guy who said, "i was just joking" to me today and ... i think i unlocked a new DGAF level. i didn't know i had other levels! turns out i do.

Chip Drop Pam Mandel transforms a 1950s-style lawn into a certified wildlife habitat

the crocuses are coming up in my garden so i'm resharing this essay i wrote for @blaiseallysen.bsky.social 's how i learned series.

this made me guffaw.

also, i'm team trek, obvs.

Trans people in Kansas are terrified. They aren't the only Trans community under threat, but their risk is most extreme. Here's a way to help them move somewhere safe if you can. Pass it on.

ENDLESS options

I think I am coming to terms with the idea that I'm not going to work like I was before... ever again. It's ten months, maybe I have been retired and no one told me.

so if these guys can't navigate a snowball fight, do they have any business being cops? i feel like this is a low bar to entry, and yet.

i have spent the past day (ish) trying to find the venn diagram where gender identity and driving overlap and ... i guess women in saudi arabia is the closest i can come and that ban was lifted in 2018. and yeah, the suspension of state issued IDs for Jews under the rise of Nazism, so, uh...

There's so much going on that we're stuck in reactive, defensive mode. So we get caught out by bullshit like this.

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people are non-binary people. And Kansas Republicans are assholes.

If they can do it there to them, they can do in your town to you.

i was walking my dog yesterday afternoon and spotted a super fat bumblebee pollen drunk in a daffodil. SOON is correct, and the signs are there.

i need y'all to know that this was a gift from a woman i talked to at the diner this morning. she was like, "i have more of them, i'll put one out on my porch for you." truly.

@douglasmack.bsky.social j/k I know it's not.

PS look at this shirt I got today.

Everything okay, Doug?.

The Hat - nerd's eye view In which I tell a live story, no notes, and do not blow it.

y'all. i got the audio from the story i told in front of a crowded room and ... it's pretty good! it's my third time doing this! i kind of love it!

www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2026/02...

ALSO SOLID

Skipped SOTU for Dogmaxxing.

The Hat - nerd's eye view In which I tell a live story, no notes, and do not blow it.

y'all. i got the audio from the story i told in front of a crowded room and ... it's pretty good! it's my third time doing this! i kind of love it!

www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2026/02...

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in ’s own house.

i hope there's a whole bunch of fashionistas who show up in jacobin inspired costumes.

S2 Interlude: Gen X WTF | Home Shelley McIntyre helps us grapple with reinventing ourselves after we get canned. How do we redefine the experience of getting fired and what to we do next?  Find more about Shelley at Burn the Map.

in this latest episode of canned, we talk about WTF is going on with us when we get the axe.

and why you should try that random weird thing you've been thinking about doing.

On my intermittent tour of dating apps and two things:
Paying to see who "likes" you is weird dystopian shit & Jeremy, you're 50. How do you not know if you want kids or not?