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None of us is born knowing how to communicate or share our feelings, but we all have to learn how eventually if we want to keep people in our lives.

Almost every argument against universal health care is just a guy who makes 200k a year sending emails saying "but the flea and tick lobby will be really upset if we give the dog a bath"

Listening to an ad--

"If they say 'yes' again... I don't think I've ever heard 'yes' that many times in a sixty-second span."

"..."

"Sure, you have!"

"I'm sorry--the aglet is falling apart so this boot is taking more time to lace up."

"I'll be your aglet."

"You'll hold my ends together so I don't fray?"

"Sure."

"Well... That sounds pretty good, actually."

"My mouth is super dry."
"Would you like me to lick it for you?"

😆

I posted this on Facebook, too, but I think a lot of people missed it.

2026

DO THE ABSOLUTE MINIMUM AT WORK. MAKE ART THAT HURTS. ABANDON ALL GUILT AND SHAME. DONT LET THEM KILL YOUR SOUL. BECOME YOUR OWN PERSONAL GOD. GROW SPIKES. DONT LET THEM KILL YOUR SOUL

~ RowenIsAWriter

Happy new year! May you find joy in all the places and faces the fascists don't want you to see. May you feel light when they want you to feel heavy, defiant when they want you to cower. Be loud in their silence, and let spite motivate you when nothing else will do. Because fuck them. FUCK. THEM. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Absolutely.

"Maybe that'll be the title of my autobiography--'You Can't Reason With Cats'."

Spending the holiday weekend at work, coming to terms with the fact that I am, somehow, "meeting my partner's adult children" years old.

I love how the boxes for cotton swabs are all "look at all these ways you can use our product!" when we're just buying them to stick them in our ears. It's like how they label sex toys as "for novelty only". Come on, now. We all know that's going in a hole.

"It's old school. Wood bar, wood floors, wood walls... Wood. Wood. It's like a lumberyard threw up in there."

I totally jinxed myself with this post, just so you all know 😆

I *wanted* to stay home and do nothing today. I'm compromising by going to work and doing very little.

(luckily, there's not much for me to do here on a Saturday)

"Do you know why I'm so sassy today? It's because it's SASSERDAY."

"Oh. I didn't know there was gonna be mayhem. I knew there'd be shenanigans, and perhaps even some tomfoolery, but mayhem? My goodness."

"I can't even see this dude, with the khaki and two different kinds of camo. It's just a scooter that's weirdly standing up."

Hey, @rtanderson.bsky.social , you should check out this song

"We went from metaphors to petit fours."

"Mmm. Liquid."
"Oh, yeah. Everybody likes a good liquid."

In which case, the optimal number is zero.

I just realized my last six posts here are quotes. Two were me, two were my girlfriend, one was on TV, and one was overheard at work.

"I feel like some of my territory got annexed."

Less than a week later, we went to one that was FULL of geese.

I first saw it in a college class where they had us compare and contrast that and the Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton film that followed the play more closely. I probably wouldn't have ended up watching it otherwise, but I'm glad I did, and I still bring it out every once in a while.

Ten Things I Hate About You is a fun adaptation.

"You got a man-cold? The marathon gave you a man-cold?"

"Yeah. Probably too much high-fivin'."

"I think one of the nice things about cemeteries that people don't mention enough is the lack of geese."