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DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THE FLU IS OK?

In case anyone was wondering, earworming yourself with the protest chant “oink oink piggy piggy” does not make it feel safer to leave the house.

My therapist said that if your therapist says it’s OK we can crash out together this weekend if you want to.

An adult female cane corso dog lounges on a couch, experiencing a level of relaxation most adult humans can only imagine while cuddling a baguette pillow and swaddled in a tortilla throw blanket.

I did not need retail therapy and fear of murder by federal agents to align so closely. This timeline could simmer down a bit.

Gotta hand it to them - I ain’t been able to think about Palestine all week.

It’s the kind of day where you have a padlock randomly stop working on you - I sort of wish it had done so while locked so I had an excuse to use my bolt cutters.

Otherwise it’s like we’re collectively being sous vide. Cooked equally at every scale.

Yall - we are fractally cooked. The whole planet, at every scale. You should look up Gwar covering pink pony club, it’s basically the only thing I experienced today that was unequivocally good.

Feelings, by Run On Sentence 7 track album

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When the boatman comes - and takes my eyes… I won’t be afraid, I won’t be surprised….”

That feeling when you've spent hours analyzing client range request behaviors and finally give up and feed the basic details to gemini and it says "oh, this is default chromium behavior".

It feels like AI just told me "forget it Jake, it's chinatown" and I can't decide if that's good or bad.

Y'all, I am so angry. I spend the day working with people I trust solving hard problems, and then current events make have me googling bulk munition prices while trying to help my kid navigate out of warranty iPhone repairs. I think we should have read the terms and conditions more closely.

"without witness, without reward" is a really good principle to follow.

whether it's action, kindness, providing aid, or charity, you can do a lot of good in this world without seeking the validation that comes from the number on your post going up.

I was just settling into “ok, we did a regime change thing and congress is basically not doing its job at all” and now this shit? Does FMLA cover participation in a moderately organized militia? Are there KPIs we need to hit to cover being considered well organized?

Not shooting mothers on the way to pick up their kid from school IS FUCKING FREE. IT COSTS ZERO DOLLARS. Do we have to normalize terrorizing communities so we don’t do that? WTAF.

I’m very irritated that there are basically identical i2c screens with the ground and vcc pins flipped.

If only there were some sort of intentional system that could curtail unilateral actions and the accumulation of power in any single branch of government…

Liquid IV is neither liquid nor delivered intravenously. I also can't think of a better brand name than "bioavailable salt powder for your water so you drink more of it'" so I guess this is just where we're at.

Would you copy paste the potatoes? Sorry I mean redact the… sorry. Would you please pass the potatoes?

My daughter just got proposed to. It’s weird to get to be a new dad twice without attending any births.

I like advent calendars, but I hate candy. Hate is maybe a strong word, but let’s up the ante. an Ativan. A coupon to cancel one meeting that day. An edible of appropriate dosage that you’re still functional. A new phone charging cable.

I basically want a stocking I open all month along.

We have some local unhoused folks that rely on the free pantry in front of our house. One of them stopped by asking about a lighter they thought they left in the car last time we gave them a ride. They left with a brand new clipper, replacement flints, a hot meal and pecan pie

Also - the pipeline from purchasing a firearm to fill a gap in a set of tools you own to being a complete gun nut is not very long. Pray for me. (I live in the desert, my survival is not top of mind for it)

Great, LinkedIn is sending me rage bait in my email. Hard to argue with results when it’s the first time I logged in to figure out why it was sent to me in like a year.

I am still recovering from my childhood realization that the singular form is not a hert.

Also realizing I have a block of cheese that isn’t going to eat itself

We are telling our guests about the provenance of our ornaments while decorating the tree they helped us cut and making us aperol spritzes. I didn’t have this down as a victory condition but it sure feels like an achievement.

Soup slaps so hard this time of year.

Dollop of sour cream, drizzle of brown butter, garnish with roasted pumpkin seeds… I like it with some chipotle, maple syrup, some sumac berries would be rad, too. Or you could go for a curry flavor with turmeric and ginger.

There’s no recipe. Smoke a pumpkin or bake one and add liquid smoke. Purée the ever loving shit out of it with butter, stock of your choosing, and spices. Heat low and when hot stir in cream.