Chuck Cook

Phaedra: "Hey, would you like a bag of dinosaur toys?"

Me: Heh, I was just quoting Firefly online. Can I pretend to be Wash?"

Phaedra: "They ARE those kind of dinosaurs."

Me: [looks] "Those should go to a child"

Phaedra: "That's why I thought of you."

Things are still terrible, but tonight, I get to go to bed with some hope.

Good night, and good luck.

I saw someone call Ai a Thneed and I can't stop thinking about it. It's a PERFECT analogy. The Thneed was an all-purpose tool that didn't do anything really useful. It was a fad that did major damage to the environment to make the Onceler a billionare. It left no real lasting impact, only damage.

LOL I subjected my wife to this last week.

A t-shirt with a vaguely accurate cutaway of a Wankel rotary engine, and the slogan, 'A redline a day keeps the mechanic away.'

Rolled enchiladas in a pan

Enchiladas covered with sauce and cheese, ready for the oven

Cheese enchiladas on a plate, topped with a fried egg

I got out of the shower this morning and I could smell that Phaedra was up to some kind of deliciousness in the kitchen.

Cheese enchiladas for breakfast — hell yeah! 😋🥰

A beautiful Bald Eagle circled overhead during our protest in Burnsville Minnesota and the crowd went wild
#NoKings #Minnesota

A photograph taken behind several colorful inflatable costumes and people holding signs.

Might have gone for a walk with some friends…

A jar of ColorCoral Universal Dust Cleaner at the edge of a laptop keyboard; @janeespenson’s original post is visible on the screen in the background.

It’s not just you. My wife bought this and my first thought when she handed it to me was definitely not ‘use this on your keyboard.’ 😂

IHOP?

@javapeg.bsky.social Hope your birthday is delightful, and is filled with good food, good wine, and good company!

Last week I opened a bottle that Phaedra found in her uncle’s closet while cleaning out the ranch.

It smelled uniquely nasty. Not, ‘oh this is turning to vinegar.’

More like, ‘after millions of years of tremendous heat and pressure, biological material begins its transformation to petroleum.’

By ‘too many times,’ you mean more than once, yes?

An example cookie held above a package of St Michel “Le Grand Galette” French butter cookies with sea salt.

Hey kids — if your local Costco has these, they are the bizness. Enthusiastically endorsed!

Don't trust anything that old saguaro tells you.

My fancy-shmancy Apple card doesn’t even have any visible numbers on it.

Well that was a disturbing Google for some of us.

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😬 My sincere sympathies.

I would like to unsee this post.

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Corporations are driven by greed and fear. They will do the greedy thing unless they are forced to do the safe thing.

Disney thought that giving in to government and affiliate pressure was the safe thing. We as fans and consumers must convince them that it is not, or they will keep doing it.

I’m not letting Disney off the hook yet, because that statement didn’t have any admission that they made a bad decision.

This is bigger than Kimmel.

Yeah, that statement from Disney ain't gonna cut it.

I'd like to see some solid indications that Disney's not going to cave again the next time they get pressured by fascists. Up to and including booting Craig Erwitch, Dana Walden, and Bob Iger.

Just putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air is not enough.
The decision makers at Disney and these giant media corporations need to be more concerned about their customers and shareholders than corrupt regulators.
Keep up the boycott until we see Disney's lawyers fighting back, at the very least.

Ooooo. Gonna buy that shirt for one of my kiddos.

Same. No TRON:Ares for me, either.

I’m choosing to see this as an opportunity to watch older movies I’ve been meaning to see for years.

Maurice White from Earth, Wind & Fire asks, “Do you remember?” in a clip from the video for “September.”

Do you remember what day it is?

Right there with her. It's grotesque.