A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

30 is what decent quality silk *yardage* costs. For a *small* shirt.

This person is a fool.

Corollary: don't anyone let him watch Dragonball or One Punch Man.

That's some epic overthinking of both Watchmen and One Piece.

Does he also have a theory about Barney the Dinosaur?

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Seems like you still don't understand how polling works. It doesn't determine anything. It generates a guess based on a sample pool.

Doesn't matter how it is put, it still generates a guess.

This is the first time you've mentioned exit polls.

Did you know those aren't everywhere? I've lived in 4 states, urban, rural, big city, military base and small town. I've voted every election since 1988, and I've never been asked how I voted on leaving the polling place. Not once.

The food bank at Camp Pendleton is how my family ate for half the month when my spouse was in the Marines. That was a decade and change ago.

Oh, fuuuuck that. It took us years to pay off that fucking card after Spouse got out of the Marines. And it was all from having to finance fucking groceries because the pay was crap.

At best it's a guess, based on self-reported responses to possibly biased or confusing opinion polls, of who is probably going to vote one way or another, among the group contacted.

There is nowhere to check the veteran status of each vote. Voter personal information is not collected with the votes.

Do you know how opinion polling works? It's great for getting a rough idea of general moods about things but it's absolutely subject to sampling bias and informant bias. If your sample is limited to a given area, subscriber group, or age group, it's not going to be relevant to a national question.

Inflatable frog suit that reads "this machine kills fascists."

The promotion of pseudoscience about a supposed “cause” or “cure” of autism and the destruction of special education (and all of public education, really) are part of the same project. It is a fascist attempt to expel certain people from the body politic, based in eugenics.

Additionally, as a current food bank volunteer, we've seen first a slow rise in clients then last month a sharp uptick in new clients. This is in a low population, rural area. I know it's more pronounced in urban areas and on military bases.

68% of polled veterans. Not 68% of veterans. 68% of *the people they spoke to* who *identified themselves* as veterans.

I have news for everyone: when there*aren't* pay delays, military enlisted families have been utilizing food pantries for a long long time. This just makes it worse.

@sarahebond.bsky.social I bought your book for my mom and she loves it. She's on her second read through.

Had a conversation today in which a friend asked me how I was and everything just sort of came out at once.

And now all I can think of is this song.
youtu.be/FHsip5xOenQ?...

That should say ”have not been able to afford refilling it” because last time we lost about 400 worth of food.

I'm going to buy a child safety latch so it has to be latched to close it. Apparently writing "make sure door has sealed before walking away” is meaningless.

Someone propped the stand-up freezer open again. Yesterday some time.

We have been able to afford refilling it yet so it's maybe 200 bucks gone this time, plus all my garden produce I had put up and my soups and chili I moved from the chest freezer.

I'm not angry I'm just really sad.

3 hand spindles one with white wool spin on it, two with colored wool

Saturday I took some spindles and wool along to the art walk my college art club had a table at. I spent about an hour showing kids what I was doing before it was my turn to run the button maker.

Night of the Lepus

i so strongly recommend hobbies you're not great at but love doing

Łink's ban is wrong and should be reversed.

My cursed brain could not decide whether to sing this entire thread to we didn't start the fire or it's the end of the world as we know it

And I blame you.

I would love to know why the library has more groups of giggling lunch chatterboxes than the student lounge.

I can hear the loudest one over my headphones. It's infuriating.

Today while doing my chem homework I was heard to say, "Fuck Avogadro, and the number he rode in on."

White text on an abstract paint on canvas background. The text reads: A heartfelt "fuck you" to everyone who told me I was overreacting in November 2016.

Still topical, and somehow moreso every day anymore.