Alison

Good of the UK to do it before us to show what a clusterf*ck it is

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Sign for furniture showroom that reads SHACK OF SIT

As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand...

That's a lot of sad and stress. I hope that things are all clear and good for your MIL

As the temperatures finally cool in SEQ I'm starting to see the occasional knit pop up and am running up against how to figure out who is likely to be offended or pleased if asked about their knit. This morning it was a cabled vest on a gent at the local shops, if I wasn't already in my car....

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

No financial data was leaked!

Just your identity, location history, loyalty programs, and enough PII to unlock a free trial of being you.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

Do not buy books from Dark Owl Publishing! The owner and operator is Andrea Dawn, a known white supremacist, who is currently on threads talking about plowing cars into protesters.

Democracies do not mobilize their military against their own people. Authoritarian states do. This is a war-footing escalation, intended to assert control. Massive violation of 🚨 civil liberties and🚨rule of law.

We're reaching the time of year when I one again go looking for patterns so I can knit Annie some pajamas that aren't too hard to get on her. Maybe I should just see if an old flannel works.

a little girl is making a funny face and saying shut up shut up shut uuuuuuuuuppppp Alt: a little girl is making a funny face and saying shut up shut up shut uuuuuuuuuppppp

Today has turned out to be a part-mitigated shitshow, a definite improvement from unmitigated.

Planning an event for this weekend. After 3.5hrs of sorting out a spreadsheet of deployment orders last night a co-planner leant back in their chair and said "I'm feeling good about this now"

Here we go.

I don't have much to say about this one to encourage you to read, and the title will turn many of you away - and maybe it should - but I don't know what I would do with myself if I didn't get this one out:

The photo pf the huge container ship run aground in the garden of a small coastal house. I've photoshopped an arrow to the house with 'House to Live in', and another arrow to the ship that says 'a room to keep books in'. of course writing the alt text has warned me this may be a joke that only I find funny.

Exciting and practical house designs coming out of Scandinavia

Typing persimmons instead of permissions is definitely not going to confuse anybody when talking about file access.

I didn't intend to be a RTs account but here we are. It's a case of bantering elsewhere mostly these days. I've been quite an enjoyer of the cooler weather this week, finally getting to wear some knits.

Trans men’s insight on this is so fucking valuable in understanding the nuances of what’s going on with men. We need to be amplifying them, and hopefully cis men can realize what is actually the source of their loneliness.

I learned to stop saying that things couldn't possibly get any worse in the new year because every year since 2016 has gotten progressively worse. 2025 is no exception.

Just hearing now and my heart goes out to you and the Baxter fam; Anthony and I shared many a conversation when I lived in Sydney and I'd like to be kept up to date too.

The Papal conclave is expected to start between the 6th and 12th of May. Eurovision is between the 13th and 17th of May. Social media is about to get very confusing.

Mom, I do not want to get in the water.

Wait. No.

I do not want to get out of the water, Mom!

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Writing cover letter after cover letter in the pursuit of starting to work in my newly-trained industry. I refuse to use AI; this stance is frustrating when it's probably to my detriment. If I was to use it, then the letter wouldn't be indicative of my personality, I don't outsource my work to LLM.

YOU GUYS.

Gary Oldman crying at farts being dubbed into some of his his movie roles. Farts are always funny…

The last fortnight has been a super duper lot and choosing to hibernate for 2 days to help bring the exhaustion levels down is a great idea.

I'm also behind on Sock Madness so having a little solo project is a good timepass.

You're wrong about electric cars: How living with an EV has changed my perspective on vehicles such as the Ford Mustang Mach-E, Tesla Model Y, BYD Seal and Hyundai Ioniq 5 N | Opinion - Car News They don’t have enough range. They take too long to charge. There isn’t enough charging infrastructure. I’d kept hearing the same complaints over and over again, from both friends, random strangers on...

pretty much what i have been saying as an #EV owner for the past 9 years! Range anxiety is for NON EV owners, and charging is not an inconvenience, but just requires a small mindset change.
www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/you...

Will do, in HQ ATM and it's already a time. We're lucky to have got in

Just landed in Townsville to serve in the flood IMT. My flight got in, the ones before and after were diverted or cancelled. 2 rounds of applause through the cabin once we'd landed.

Brenna's latest work in progress, a hat knit with the Musselburgh pattern, sits atop a closed laptop. the project is connected to a bobbin of yarn, in reddish/pinkish and brown hues, which Brenna was clearly too lazy to wind into a center pull ball. She will unwind from the bobbin as she knits.

break every rule, knit straight from the bobbin, sow chaos 🧶