Arden

Line art drawing of a creature. It has fish-like fins on its neck

Shark guy

This really is the perfect example of "sex is binary."

Yeah, in the same way being a tree or a grass is binary. You can "disagree" or "not believe in" things all you want, but BAMBOO IS JUST GONNA KEEP ON EXISTING and defying your grass/tree binary. And palm trees are gonna keep growing.

As a biologist, It really is a great analogy. Also trees. It's like saying, "There are trees and grass, you have to be one or the other." Ok... where is the line that defines "is a tree?" what about bush-like grasses? Palm trees? NON-tree palms? What about horsetails and their tree-like ancestors?

Would love to see something like this but from an autistic person who approached it like a sociology research project.

Like, I would love someone to give me advice on how to appear to be a regular human but this is less than useful. I actively and immediately hate the man giving this lecture.

(note: not assigned to me specifically because I needed it, just in general for ppl in my position)
Srsly it's a half hour of some guy giving anecdotes about how he's a great public speaker, but he's saying absolutely nothing.
He's mentioned like five times that he's "trained presidents".

Got assigned some "communication skills" educational videos for work, and I am just overwhelmed with wondering whether neurotypical ppl actually find this stuff helpful???

Anyway, I am celebrating the first day we've had low temperatures under 50F, even though it's gonna be in the 80s again next week.

Also entirely unintentional but earlier this afternoon I also started crocheting a scarf in some nice silvery yarn I've had forever, and I just now noticed that the scarf will match really well with dad's old coat.

So I ripped off the entire zipper from each of the coats and then sewed the new zipper onto dad's old coat so it'd be compatible with the liner. And like. That worked.
It's actually really nice.
Liner is nice & soft. Coat fits good. Plus it's from my dad which is why I wanted it in the first place.

Zipper looked the same but apparently different enough to stick. Fuck.
Spent some time fixing up the new coat and figuring I could just wear it instead. Washing it to get the ebay stink off, mended some tears, etc.
Tried it on. I still liked the way dad's coat fit better.

Found a slightly paint-spattered but still very nice London Fog coat in my dad's stuff that I wanted to use, but the zip-in liner was missing.
Ordered a similar model coat off ebay with the intention of just taking the lining off that one and using it in dad's coat.
The zipper didn't fit.

Heathcliff and a few other cats loudly celebrate on the sidewalk on a clear night as several sentient purple blobs slither down the street, looking forward with vacant stares. Two owls watch from a tree, and one of them says "The annual blob migration."

29 Oct 2025

I put off going to the dentist for like a year because I was busy, and now that I've had top surgery, tbh I'm kind of looking forward to going to the dentist and not having to be Aware of the hygienist using my boobs as a shelf.

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

They painted my office from a lovely eggshell blue to a glossy stark white and both the color and the gloss just make all the lights seem so much brighter. I use a table lamp instead of overheads but even with that I had to swap out the bulb for a dimmer one.

I mean, I am & she used to know that. But is this a thing the boomers are discussing amongst themselves now? That millennials use witchcraft on technology, or something?

my mom spent an hour trying to get her laptop projector to work but the image was backwards. I pressed a few random buttons on the remote and suddenly it was fine?

Mom (looking at me with suspicion): "Are you a millennial?"

Progress on my little demon chimenea, off to be bisque fired next. 🐦‍🔥

Illustration of the comedy and tragedy masks, with the crying one blurred out

This mask always makes me laugh. i don't like to look at the other one..

It was a treat to speak to Rev. Rachel Griffin-Allison of Oak Lawn UMC in Dallas. After Greg Abbott's order over pride crosswalks, UMC is painting rainbows on its front steps.

"They're not just paint on steps, but a way to say that God's love will not be silenced."

www.chron.com/culture/arti...

A BBC news cover that says scientists reveal the secret. A photo of a fat little puffy dog is shown.

I fucking knew it.

Possum jar in progress

the East Wing of the White House

Trump doesn't want you to share these photos of the East Wing

Anyway, Happy Birthday, Sirus! (Cyrus?? I think I had a rat named Cyrus.)

I probably had around a dozen pet rats. They only live about 3 years max. I'm assuming these vet offices upgraded their systems at some point and the emails are automatic, but it's truly surreal, especially when the name is misspelled and I'm trying to remember if I even had a pet by that name.

If I had a nickel for each time a vet's office has sent me a text/email out of the blue wishing a happy birthday to one of the pet rats I had ~25 years ago... tbh I can't even keep track of how many times it's happened, but it's been a lot.

A wall with open backed wood slat shelves in a stair step shape, in front of several bright windows. The shelves are full of pothos, hoyas, begonias, and other plants, with more hanging from a bar on the wall.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the winter when I have to bring in my outdoor plants and it'll be even more crowded, but this is my current view from my desk at home.

He also misgendered me and complained constantly about how the EPA should be shut down, but tbh the most offensive thing was him seeing a problem that needed to be fixed eventually anyway, and immediately suggesting the interim fix should be permanently destroying something beautiful.

Every time I look at my beautiful wall of plants, I think about the time when my a/c was broken in the summer, and our HVAC guy inspected it. He knew the a/c was borked and we'd need him to replace it, but his main comment was "it would be less humid if you got rid of the plants"