Pearly Sweetcake

when someone who forced you to hate them finally dies

it's complicated

Mine took 3 days. They printed the label the day I ordered & had it in the mail the next morning. The shirts are cute & comfy. I love "Not Me, Us"

The other was only available in 4X or 5X, so I got the 4X, and it is SO NICE not to have women's vanity sizing ruin my day. It's just comfy vs. comfier

I tried to borrow it from the library and you should know that there is a QUEUE

We are literally lining up to read your book 🍄

fun fact, when i was a kid we used a kerosene heater at the foot of the stairs to keep the house warm overnight while everyone slept upstairs

10/10 safety, no notes

oh it got "turn on the oven" cold last night, yikes

That's mine, too!! Reading it is like reading a book, it comes so naturally. A+, excellent taste

Also had one of these readings at a street fair decades ago, and I've never met a more direct reader. "Don't worry about money." If you say so! 10/10

Fellow tarot addict here! I love this deck, it's so distinctive

Do you have a favorite deck(s) that feels like it comes naturally to you? Or any particular art decks that move you?

Sometimes Americans seem really stupid because we're kind of conditioned to imagine the rest of the world existing solely in the past tense. Before America, there were other places, but when America, then only America.

looked up my second-worst enemy today

omg

she died

It's so easy to tell when you're dealing with a CEO:

Rapid-fire questions & interruptions, tons of repetition bc they won't let you finish explaining an answer & they weren't listening anyway, bragging like "I'm in the convertible today, I'm going to have to fit this in the Miata"

go AWAY

GOOD MORNING, AMERICA

Two gigantic slavering green tentacle aliens onstage with Homer Simpson. The caption says "it's a two party system. You have to vote for one of us."

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos

To DISENROLL from a political party

(that is invested in preserving the awful status quo against your wishes)

you can update your voter registration at your state's official website, probably. Search [your STATE] voter registration update, then click the applicable .GOV link for instructions

jesus christ I'm trying to read a fantasy novel, and like 5 chapters in, it straight up goes "HEY, 'MEMBER LABYRINTH?"

I cannot dnf another book so close to the end of the year but holy shit

The first part is fulfilling; the second part is devastating.

I'll comfort you all day long but I cannot extract extra funds from your grief, I simply will not do it. I could make more money, but I can't sell my soul.

Now take somebody who's just lost a family member, and find it in your soul to upsell them on a pricey banner or a larger size arrangement. Find it in yourself to extract as much money from them as possible so that you get a big commission.

I'm very, very, very bad at that part

"You must love working with flowers all day!"

Yeah, I do. But there's also a lot of comforting & guiding people whose loved ones have died, e.g., in a house fire. Or when a grieving mom comes in to get flowers for her baby's casket. You get to know all the local funeral directors by name.

Check NO for 'no'

Of course Congress is still getting paid during the Starving America shutdown. How else would they buy access to trafficked children?

"SKEETS: THEY'RE DEFINITELY CALLED THIS" in the style of Zohran Mamdani's campaign logo

while i have your attention

That is exactly it. Books are magic. However.

My grandma was old, like "born without the right to vote" old, but she loved books and made sure I inherited ALL the old children's books in the family. HO-HO-HOLY MOLY, some of those were retired for a *reason*! Rudyard Kipling, for example

We had a big ol' set when I was a kid. Cream colored with gold accents, I think, but still just your average Encyclopedia Britannica

I was outraged when they got rid of it. How dare they? What about all the knowledge (that was outdated before I was born)?! Kids sure are weird little guys

"The Fabulous Weird Checklist" which is just a 20 point list of things that people did every day in the 80's-slash-90's. It's designed to make millennials go "oh noooo, I'm a boomer now, what do?" but actually we're all too tired to get upset by anything less than the mass murder of civilians, which is a valid thing to be upset about but unfortunately could apply to any number of places (including America if they don't get SNAP funded, bc intentionally starving people IS murder, actually)

Zero. I dropped the needle on a record last Friday. Antique typewriter on display in my home

Please explain why the Walkman icon is a Discman? Why is there a transistor radio icon? "Mixtape hero?" "Business wizard?"

If you're gonna try to make me feel old, you need to do better than... this

Describe your cat's personality with one photo:

See, now I kind of want to compare the two

but not badly enough to unmute them.

3 versions of Mister beast's name (oh, gonna have to add that one too) MUTED

au contraire, mon frere

Bluesky mute screen, showing in the text field the name of that weird off-putting beast guy with too many teeth. I would not want to be the person who analyzes his hard drive. He gives me INTENSE jeebies

If you force me to tell multiple grimacing strangers "how my day is going" while I'm shopping, I'll abandon my cart and literally never return