Sassy Tea Lady

A+ thread, please enjoy responsibly.

My family would take a trip to a lodge in CO every summer.

My Aunt Toni, half asleep on a day where we traveled an hour away to fish and picnic, made the tea with salt instead of sugar.

I'm no contact now, but I'm sure 35 years later they still ask "Did Toni make the tea?!?" at every gathering.

I said to someone once "*Gasp* I've never been called fat before! How creative!" and the sheer rage that overtook his face was worth being called fat in the first place.

Which is to say, yes, appearance insults are such low hanging fruit that I'm really bothered by the low effort.

YouTube video by ThePFFR Beat Kidz - Who did you exploit today?

I have never needed a "where are they now" video more in my LIFE.

youtu.be/IwvrGHsjD7g?...

This is the best thing on the internet today.

BikeLoud PDX Bike Buddy Program Bike Loud's Bike Buddy Program is a 1 on 1 mentorship and low income stipend funded by the Portland Clean Energy Fund PCEF.

This is a truly fantastic program, and I hope that Portland will continue to help fund programs like this.

If you're new to biking, I highly recommend checking it out. If you're experienced, I hope you're mentoring, maybe I will be able to in a few years.

bikeloudpdx.org/bike-buddy/

I went on a 20 mile bike ride yesterday, thanks to the @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social Bike Buddy program! We took the train out to Gresham, then biked back on the Springwater.

I was so lucky to get matched with @tigard-stripes.bsky.social who helped me get more confident with multimodal transport.

Simply phenomenal feeling to be like "oh I actually like cooking and playing video games and having a clean home!"

...which is all to say I'm completely racialized now that we need universal healthcare and UBI, because everyone should be able to recover like this.

I have been unemployed after finally quitting a stressful job with toxic management.

I have felt awful for not feeling better faster. Like I was just lazy and worthless for still not having energy to live.

In the past two or three weeks I've realized I *want* to do things again.

My health tracking ring thought I was cycling at 430 this morning.

I assure you, I was absolutely not.

But I must have been having a nightmare??

Wild stuff.

Today I cooked scones, cornbread, banana bread, chicken pot pie, beans and bacon, rice, frittata, and made waffle batter for about 30 mini waffles, which someone else was kind enough to cook, hehe.

You: I’m combining breakfast and lunch. Brunch.

Me: I’m combining wine and dinner. Winner.

This is so fun!!

@tigard-stripes.bsky.social

Two round loaves of bubbly focaccia on a board, they have herbs and tomatoes on top. The second one only has tomato on half of it

Second attempt at focaccia.

One for someone else, one for me and my partner who doesn't like tomato on his.

I did not just...run out of tomato halfway through.

My friend and I usually will do a small ham, or ribeye steaks. There's a farmers market rancher we shop with that will save us the smallest ham and the biggest steak, lol.

Metropolitan Public Defender will take professional clothes that are not suits, for clients for court.

The Social Work team specifically in either Multnomah or Washington counties might take suits, to connect to clients for interviews and such.

We're going to have a special Bike Happy Hour next week 11/26 (Thanksgiving eve). If you're in town, join us for a Friendsgiving Dinner. I'll set the tables and Migration Brewing will cook up a special, $20 burger/side/drink meal for us. Dinner bell rings at 5:30. See you there!

A community member is recovering from surgery, so I'm making a week's worth of comfort food to freeze and send over for them and their care team.

I'll probably do the baking tomorrow, nomnomnom.

Today I did three loads of laundry, moved a bunch of bins into a storage space, and then cooked big pots of curried winter squash and potato leek celeriac soup, and a big shepherd's pie.

And then cleaned all those dishes.

Now I need Advil and a massage but I only have Advil.

The Best Sentence I Heard Recently Includes Six Modifiers In case you missed it buried near the end of my annual roundup of the writing advice I heard a New York Comic Con last month, Chuck Tingle uttered one of the greatest sentences I’ve ever heard duri…

this is a very fun and quick little post about language from @thesurrealari.bsky.social thank you buckaroo aarubin.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/t...

To be a fly in the wall in Mamdani's house tonight, mannnnn.

I may be white, but I'm not:

I pinned a minute by a river that I recorded this fall on my bluesky just so I can easily find it when I need to just breath for a minute.

It's been doing wonders for me.

Queen bees have an entourage of caretakers. Since queens don't fly after their initial mating flight, their muscles get weak.

When a hive is getting ready to swarm, the queen's entourage will constantly harass her, making her flap her wings at them, getting her strength back up.

This one got an audible laugh that disturbed the sleeping cat next to me, not just my usual sensible chuckle.

The many and weird, random ways to die in that game that doesn't feel vindictive has kept me playing for a decade.

When I first started playing Don't Starve, I destroyed a spider den at one point. A "spider egg" dropped.

And I was on voice chat with a friend (no coop then but we'd each play our own game) and I said "There is NO WAY ON EARTH that I am picking up that spider egg and putting it in my inventory."

Well this is just fantastic!

Honestly, "I need to get some fancy pants so I can bike to the museum and still be dressed up" is life goals now.

I've not yet had a need to bike this way, but I guess I'll have to just go and check it out!

Bookmark this thread for when you need it!