A Shiny Blue Thing Collected By A Bird

This is the dumbest timeline. It's simultaneously hilarious and horrible.

Stupidity kills, tho. It's killing people right now.

They are trying So Hard to get her to say it, but she won't.

It's a misogynistic slur. She won't admit she used a slang term that implies things about MTG's anatomy.

Black and white cat coyly regarding the camera

Medium size black dog wearing a checkered blue and purple skirt and purple walking harness, lying facing away on a red blanket.

Periodic Poob. Bonus Guest Dog.

How much of your life do you have to be hungry-poor, to consider chicken ramen with peas and a single chicken nugget on top to be indulgent comfort food?

Had a bad day.

It took me begging for Rx strength Ibuprofen (which I never got) in order for my son and husband to not have to do all the cooking and cleaning (that phrasing) for me to finally get a referral to a rheumatologist after 6 months of intensifying disability and involuntary screaming when I moved.

*Women

If you make that intersectional, women's physical disabilities are also diagnosed in terms of impact on the lives of men around them. Winning often can't get treated for chronic diseases unless they have a man come with them to complain about how it's inconvenient to him.

That plane is in flames on the runway already.

Today was Annual Vet Visit Day for some of our cats. 3, actually, except we got 2 crated and the rest apparently teleported to wherever lost socks go.

So it was just 2 today and everyone else (all 3 of the loudest complainers) next time. Klingon Opera in my car all the way.

RIP my ears.

My kids love all performed versions of HHG, and my older one has been a huge fan of everything Adams ever wrote since middle school. He's in his early 20s now.

I cut my teeth on my dad's collection of 1950s and 60s sf paperbacks and magazines, and that was ... Like being soaked in sexism.

I love suggesting most stuff by Garth Nix and Ursula's actually YA stuff. But I have kids that are just past that age.

If I get around to re reading it to check for that exact issue, *maybe* the Weetzie Bat books.

A large calico cat mostly hidden behind hanging clothes, with her head lying on the edge of a bamboo mat, looking into the camera.

Happy International Cat Day from Miss Kitty, The Manager, who is currently napping in her office (the bottom of my closet)

Said to The Poob this evening: "Sorry buddy, the furniture has to get up. The furniture has chores to do."

I have never felt a casual, jokey statement deeper in my bones than that one.

I have a story about that, except it was Military Police on a military base, and the "offenders" were within 30 feet of the kids, and it was a communal backyard area with a playground.
The woman who reported us was angry that her unlicensed daycare didn't get exclusive use of the shared backyard.

They need to be minted into coins.

So, a new public urinal, then.

This is applying a get-along-shirt to a fascist movement.

Imagine thinking that forcing two kids into a shared garment really works, to prevent a bully from harming their favorite victim, instead of increasing access for the bully and decreasing safety for the victim.

A hand with stained fingers and iridescent purple nail polish holding a ripe, dark cherry, next to a small white plastic bowl with a few more cherries in it

Today a small joy: we indulged in a pound of fresh cherries. I had a few for dessert, and stained my fingers.

They say unicorns bow to virgin maidens, but they don’t say what happens after they kneel. They don’t say what the horn is for. They say they are gentle, but only in the way a trap is gentle when it waits.

I am still haunted by this poem, "The Myth Was Never The Unicorn," written by one of the teens who participated in the creative writing program at the museum this summer. A reminder that girls are always aware.

Read the full piece and listen to the author recite it: journey75.org/2025/the-myt...

I think it might have started out as a double edged divine gift, in one telling, but Greece was deeply patriarchal, and even if it began that way, it could not stay that way.

Especially as Medusa used that gift to continue defending herself. That could not be allowed.

I used Dr. Bronners peppermint soap on my bits and it was like snowmobiling pussy-first through a tundra

We do hard boiled in our ip all the time and it's 8 to 10 minutes, then release, pull the pot out and immediately run cold water in it.

If they are brown they are inedible, something about how the yolk affects the white makes them awful (per my kids, I can't eat eggs).

You come up with the highest quality dad jokes, I swear.

This sounds like a gentrified seagull.

White Americans think all of South America is tropical.

My condolences to your butthole, tomorrow.

Have they studied how many minutes of life you get deprived of if you spend what's available and choose to starve instead? Because that seems to be the end goal, here .

Finally got the last part for fixing my washing machine and it's working again after 8 months.

The luxury of not having to drive 45 miles to a Laundromat and burn a whole day and 60 dollars every week!

Delicious.