Jess' novel Light Step is out now!

The walkability is wasted if only a couple of businesses are open at a time, especially on Sundays when visitors are likely to stop by.

I like shopping local but the non-franchise businesses (near me) have weird, inconvenient, hours. If the neighborhood shops could at least coordinate on when they're open, that'd be great.

texting my husband courtesy reminders like the library

I've heard of melon seed soup, which I think is spicy, so I can see it

Spicy melon shake is an interesting time

a colorful background with the words " the more you know " and a star Alt: a colorful background with the words " the more you know " and a star

Apparently the blender was last used for hot sauce

Instead of "Chat," I just saw somebody reach out to "Hive mind," and that feels much more ominous.

Two plush vultures wearing hats stand over a cauldron with pumpkins

This vulture is Hyde and the little raven is Edgar

This vulture is Jekyll

Set my office vultures up for the fall. They look like they're having a nice time. Shout out to my coworker who had no idea what Macbeth is and thought I created the rhyme myself

Idk who needs to hear this but the hiring process isn't improved with personality tests. Especially ~multiple.~

It's a job, not Xanga in 2003. Jfc.

Life's better with a hammock.

At least she lived a good life.

Narrator: She did not. They bought her less than a month ago after replacing the last busted hose with one that was way too short.

Today in gardening fails I may have blown up the hose. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️💁‍♀️

I'm telling the Lemon8 helpbot that I want to delete my Lemon8 account, not my TikTok account, and it's giving detailed instructions for deleting TikTok.

It's apparently impossible to delete my Lemon8 account without deleting my TikTok?

Don't make a Lemon8 account. You'll regret it.

There needs to be a setting on Pinterest for removing all AI generated slop.

"I feel like Dr. Manhattan. I feel like if Dr. Manhattan and Bugs Bunny had a baby."

—husband

These Gulf Coast Toads have zero survival skills. Had one hop on my foot the other day. I scooted me and my dogs away, keeping them calm, when he jumped onto my foot ~again.~

Like... To what end? What good could launching itself at the base of a much larger potential predator accomplish?

Wack. 🤦‍♀️

Having less success removing blue ink. Rubbing alcohol got some, as did baking soda and vinegar, but I'm still looking at a blue-streaked drum.

Idk who needs to hear this but PAM will get oil paint off a dryer

Today, on Nextdoor, folks are IDing scat. Someone posted it asking about bears and now everyone is adding their expertise. They're leaning towards a buck that's been eating berries.

Social media sure is something.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their…

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.

(Published May)

I called everyone in Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Nobody talks about how some of us, who lack self control, shouldn't learn how to cook.

I made the clear soup from hibachi. How much salt am I about to consume? Idk but it'll surpass those daily values.

Listen to the street medics for more detailed info but one thing I can tell you for sure for sure is that COLD WATER is your first response to tear gas, pepper spray, and other chemical agents / pepper balls etc. just blast your face (and your whole body ASAP) with as much cold water as you can

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

Oil painting of an asymmetrical blonde porcelain doll holding open a cook book

If you want to support your indie author friends, requesting their book from your public library is a great way to help them get reviews. Don't forget to tell the librarian if the author happens to live nearby! They often have a section for that.

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes...Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

—Anne Frank

Saw an ad for free rabies vaccines and immediately jumped to, "I'm gonna be able to pet ALL the animals" before it clicked that the shot was for pets

Idk who needs to hear this but using young kids as props for a long speech will not go well.

Surprise! DOGE’s Hunt for Social Security Fraud Ends in Total Bust Elon Musk and his DOGE minions wrecked the Social Security Administration for no reason at all.

After months of baseless claims about “extreme levels of fraud” within Social Security, Musk's DOGE has found only 2 likely fraudulent claims out of over 110,000—that makes it a rate of .0018%.

So DOGE found virtually no fraud and made an integral American system less efficient.

Every time the pups start begging for table scraps, I tell them, "Joey doesn't share food."