School of Heart Knocks

Exciting: going on a cruise around Greece next summer.
Frightening: booking air travel to and from Athens.

It is a marvel of human ingenuity that I can hop on an airplane and be literally on the other side of the world just twelve hours later, but it sure is expensive to do so!

I put the “uhh” in “Georgia”

I think what you’re seeing is the last throes of being alive.

What else does middle aged man do? 😏

I sometimes worry that we, as a society, will never quite be ready for this. Nor, indeed, for this jelly.

Ugh fine I’ll get out of bed, you don’t have to get all weird about it, jeez!

Ah yes, November, aka the first month of “my skin is dry, always” season.

Aww happy ten years to you both!

Piano by Armin van Buuren on Apple Music Album · 2025 · 16 Songs

Armin Van Buuren has released an album consisting entirely of piano and string instruments, and damn If it isn’t the loveliest thing I’ve heard in a while! (Apple Music even categorizes it as classical.) music.apple.com/us/album/pia...

I would also have accepted Milky WAP

Spittles

YouTube video by Gilford0306 SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE - DUCKTALES [Rus]

How has the internet rotted your brain?

For me, “Scientifically Accurate Duck Tales” has replaced the actual “Duck Tales” theme song in my mental playback.

youtu.be/DDWwQZkNA1c?...

What’s a well-liked song you secretly loathe? And the inverse, a widely-mocked song that you (maybe secretly) actually kinda like?

I am coming out as a disliker of “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” by C&C Music Factory.

I secretly like most of Phil Collins’ 80s output, esp. “Sussudio”

He’s still your mane squeeze, though!

A ten-day weather forecast for Palm Springs shows the daily high temperatures in the upper 80s with little variation.

I want to go to there.

A ten-day weather forecast during which the daily high temperatures slide from the mid-70s firmly into the 50s.

Uh oh. Autumn is coming in with a vengeance!

Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents They’re taking our jobs.

I know my Bluesky rule is “no anger, just vibes,” but damn does this piss me off. Coming right after they brought half the web to a halt (including things like hospital appointment scheduling), it is long past time to stop giving Amazon any money. www.theverge.com/news/803257/...

I’d love to attend your party but I cannot due to the AWS outages.

If you haven’t yet, and you have a chance, visit the Aquarium! The “ocean explorer” exhibit is my favorite place in the city.

A man lies on his side on a sofa with his head on pillows, holding a blanket in front of him. A cat lies on top of both the man and the blanket, insisting that she is comfortable.

She is displeased with the current cat dad-as-furniture situation. (She’s half on me, half on the blanket.)

It’s obvious they used an AI tool to generate the whole thing.

Enshittification truly does come for everything. 💩

For several years, I maintained the website for a local queer sporting event. This year, to focus on my health, I handed it off to someone else.

Curious to see their take on it, I checked it out today. It’s a placeholder with a banner ad, an AI chat client, and an unnecessary cookie notice.

🤨

Selfie of a man sitting with his legs crossed and a cat halfway on his lap.

Later, we reached a compromise.

Me: *sitting with my legs crossed*

My cat: How about I sit in your lap?

…

My cat: I said, how about I sit in your lap?

…

My cat: *sits with her butthole right on my hand*

Me: Ew, ugh, fine. *uncrosses legs*

My cat: Better! *sits and purrs*

… 30 seconds later:

Thanks, see ya! *walks away*

Today is one of those days when my heart condition really pisses me off, because it prevents me from participating in the No Kings rally in Atlanta. But for everyone who’s going to their local march/rally, thank you and stay safe!

Indoor climbing was the first activity my now-husband and I did together. We went several times and started growing closer. Good choice!

YouTube video by Hank Green I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video

If you’re registered to vote in Georgia (like I am!), then please listen to Hank Green discuss why the election next month, while supremely boring, includes a race that will be enormously consequential to our electric bills in the near- and -middle-futures. youtu.be/UgvE_gPi7Kc?...

Seems like some CDNs are struggling today. The future is amazing and stupid.

I love it when my kitty makes air biscuits. Just that little show of happiness… 🐾