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My 85-year-old mother was somewhere in the middle of that massive downtown crowd with her friends.

No shame here – I have never lived in a place where I didn't have more books and crafting stuff than I had room to store them.

I missed bagels the other day, so I bought some at Aldi.

Avenge me!

Writing satire in an age where the daily news is a 12-year-old's fever dream must be difficult.

I'm going to start thinking of Shasta* as just constantly whispering "BALL!" in my ear as I type.

It's what she would have wanted.

*the ball-obsessed Golden in my pfp

As promised, if you’re inspired by the march today but don’t know how else to get involved, how to sustainably fight fascism, that can look a few different ways. Here’s a thread of thoughts, short of nationwide withholding of labor / sustained protest:

*looks at the seven different kinds of cheese in the refrigerator*

I'd better to go to the store, I'm almost out.

Rah has decades of experience at spotting this kind of thing, (about a billion years in internet time) and her lists are the best.

I was going to make a "this is a tool of the enemy" joke, but that looks awfully good.

Oh, that's amazing!

Rehearsals all day today, avenge me!

(Favorite stage direction from last night: "be more Italian!")

One of the older church ladies I used to sing with in a previous job told me when she turned 60 and moved to Chicago from Georgia she went straight from "oh, bless your heart" to "fuck off, asshole!"

Glad no one else is home, or I'd have had to explain that cackle.

What an excellent snek!

(And an amazing picture, I don't think I've ever taken one even close to that good!)

"Players like you love these unplayed games in your library"

I don't need you to come at me like this, Steam.

I've been using treats to train my rescue pup to behave on walks, and while she's learned that, she's also memorized every spot I've ever given her a treat and will be upset if she doesn't get one in those spots.

I'm never sure if I'm training her or she's training me.

I'm still a fairly reluctant yes on Prop 50, but this brings up some things I hadn't thought about that make me slightly less reluctant.

Waking up to threads from @clairewillett.bsky.social and @rahaeli.bsky.social explaining the history and details of the stuff with Pope Leo and Opus Dei was exactly what my brain needed this morning.

(Nothing like hopeful world news and nerdery to get me ready for the day.)

I don't have a soundproof room, but the neighbors know I sing opera, so hopefully they'll just assume the screaming is part of that.

Really* wish people would stop focusing on looks as a way to criticize horrifying people instead of the actual horrifying stuff. It's almost like they're more offended by looks than by actions...

*I could add quite a few swearwords here

Ug, yes.

"Here's 200 more slots! And 800 more items than you can hold, have fun deleting them all."

For reference, see the 4,000 word argument on Wikipedia from 2015 on whether to spell the associated article 'Humour' or 'Humor'.

I was going to say at least they can't claim they didn't really mean that anymore, but then I remembered J.D. Vance did that yesterday.

look, it gets me dog kisses, okay

Well, David, here's your inflatable frog suit.

Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads. I ditched it awhile ago for other political reasons, but this might tip your hand.

Thanks for the heads up @chuckwendig.bsky.social.

Spotify's entire business model has been "the record industry didn't try hard enough to screw over musicians" from the start, so I guess I'm only a little surprised they decided to go mask-off evil.

Everyone appreciates a good stick!

Olfactory mysteries demand attention!

(My rescue has different sniffing body language for "another dog peed here", "potential prey", "oh, a snack!" and "WTF??")

Oops, glanced at social media and now I want to sleep for 100 years, classic blunder