Bionic Woman

you arrive home after a long day to a strange package on your doorstep. it’s a vcr player with a tape inside. you hook it up and hit play. isaac chotiner appears on your screen, staring into your eyes, pen and notebook in hand. your phone rings. you pick up. a voice says “7 days.” the line goes dead

From my friend back home who ended up making a game time decision for Talarico at the polling place after being on the fence last night. When voters say they want something different, what they mean is they want to vote for candidates who are interested in trying to fix broken things where they live

People dgaf about being against Trump, they want you to tell them confidently and cheerfully that they're gonna fix their problems at the local level. If that means working with the GOP sometimes, well, turns out most of the electorate still thinks we should live in a society

SHOCKING: voters resonate with politicians who want to actually do stuff for them way more than they resonate with politicians who mostly care about proving that they are against Republicans

every time someone says "horses are hard to impossible to draw " Im always thinking of the chunky horse cave paintings

if someone before you could draw it, you can too!!! its NOT impossible for you! stop thinking art has to be extreme realism just draw a chunky weird horse like the first humans did

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

and this other horse who is straight up chewing on another one who has obviously been rolling lmao

Yeah, one of the things that's sort of undergirding this, is that even classically programmed computers are simply so good at solving computer-shaped problems, that we have been busily trying to turn everything in the world we can into a computer-shaped problem for at least the past 40 years.

Shoutout to this white horse who decided to have a roll in the middle of the Stella McCartney runway show

I am begging literally anyone at Microsoft to use their own fucking products to do any corporate job

omg it's even worse they killed the pin icon and buried "Always Show Ribbon" three clicks deep in a menu. I'm going to lose my whole mind

I might cry in the office today

I'm in a bad spot because I prefer to use my own personal hardware for work (because my stuff is way nicer) but I have to have a pretty current OS in order to do that.

Switching to a MacBook is the easiest way to do it without having to keep a separate dedicated Windows 11 machine just for Citrix

I continue to love my dumb little flip phone and feel tremendously grateful that Motorola is very bad at AI

my next personal computer will be a Mac and if they ever put out a clamshell folding phone I'll bite the bullet and switch to iPhone because I'm just so annoyed at how intrusive all the AI is

I just encountered an adult in the wild who had never heard of girl scout cookies????

I wish that was the play, I'll do it, idgaf how much it costs I want it OFF my personal laptop and my phone. The problem is it's power users selling to power users, all of whom are hugely divorced from how end users actually USE this stuff

My working theory is that this is because most (not all!!) US "liberals" are people who were raised in some form of Christian tradition and resent being made to go to church as kids/what they were taught

My Catholic husband has a hard time understanding why I find sacred texts and ritual comforting

It was interesting moving to NY where there is obviously a much more visible/statistically significant population of practicing Jews from Chicago where most people across the spectrum seemed to think me going to Friday services was either an affectation or a kind of embarrassing thing I Had To Do

When a secular liberal encounters, a religious liberal and the religious liberal is sincere and obviously so it apparently is the polite thing to just ignore that about them. You know it's a fashion thing.

"Israeli officials.. are looking to do enough damage to Iran's police state from the air that the people can take over on the ground." Degrading state capacity increases likelihood of state failure, not democratic change -Israel fine with chaotic collapse, US/Gulf not.

Seems to me like a real good time to have a think about how happy we are setting half the planet on fire, just so that Israel’s genocidal, expansionist, fascist government can seize, depopulate, bulldoze and settle even more territory from its neighbours, without facing effective resistance.

I DID love the Cap'n Crunch Oops All Berries as a kid 🤔

ooh I'll give it a look!

Photo of a flame point cat lounging on his side, belly completely exposed, taking up a huge amount of sofa space.

Photo of a giant lump under a striped bedspread.

First photo is of the being who thinks he runs my household. Second is the same being whenever anyone comes over to visit.

Large dog attempting to put himself to sleep amongst the minions books.

Little bird in a fence decoration.

Jack Russell terrier curled up asleep on a couch.

Orange cat trying to decide if he will pounce on his sister.

Mr. Moose is finally feeling more social and making excellent progress on becoming a couch cat 😸

it's deeply unpleasant for sure

The fact that the U.S. has been so successfully brainwashed into thinking that sunburned white guys with cheeky Nazi tattoos Define the Working Class when the ACTUAL working class is non-white women (many of them immigrants) - yeah, that’s one of the great madness runes of our time.

omg they're a matched set in different sizes?!