Dreamless

Yeah, it's sure as fuck not front line workers wages costing them more than they can afford.

I am so lonely and so sad I know I would be the perfect prey for this type of interaction. I'm lucky to be self-aware enough to stay far away from it-- it scares me how available and intrusive it's becoming. I worry for people a little less aware of the danger.

a pixel art drawing of a christmas tree with a wooden base Alt: a pixel art drawing of an evergreen tree that jumps up and walks off on root legs.

Evergreen

Sleepwalking is a parasomnia-- lots of people assume it's a dreamstate, but it happens out of non-rem sleep. Sleep terrors-- where people scream horrifically-- are in the same class, and also non-rem, so this all tracks.

Honestly, one of the few people making this timeline bearable.

I didn't hear the term asexual- apart from science biology- until I was in my 30's. I was in *couple's therapy* for God's sake, partially due to my lack of interest, and it WAS NOT MENTIONED. And so I just assumed there was something wrong with me. I had no reference, no pop culture, nothing.

The desperation for a chance, a smidgen of hope, will drive people mad. And the casino and AI offer the same thing: a mirage that won't pay out, but will keep you chasing it to collapse. It's frankly perverse in the worst sense.

There are a lot of lonely, sad, desperate people right now who haven't heard a kind word from an actual human in a really long time. It is impossibly hard not to want to hear something kind, and if the only one saying it is a bot? People will go rabid for the bot. I don't really blame them.

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

@joshuaeaton.bsky.social

There is now a figure skating rink in my Arizona backyard, complete with a zamboni and zamboni driver.

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

I hope you'll take a moment for these beautiful parting words from the incomparable Jane Goodall.

(And she threw in a little salt for the evil ones, too)

a woman holding a purple book with her eyes closed Alt: a woman holds a purple book up to her nose and does not appear impressed by its odor.

No thank you

I liked my nordictrac when I had it, but I love the freestride elliptical I replaced it with: easier on the joints and has incline/decline functionality. If you get an expensive treadmill I highly recommend getting incline/decline on it. It really changes the workout, and you don't need to go fast.

And as a follow up, my pinned posts now appear in saved posts! It just took a little while for them to show up. I imagine if you have many, it may take even longer, so patience for a day might be warranted? But, for me at least, the tool does seem to work. 😀

Just to chime in, I had the same experience. Like you, I don't have that many, but I'm just going to give itv24 hours and see if it percolates through. (I also have no programming knowledge, but I do remember the pin taking time to work as well, so?)

Enough said

My brain has the emotional valence of a toddler, and this is why we can't have nice things.

Me: I'm getting my hourly steps in, let's check that fitbit sees it!
Wrist: You did it! Hooray!
Phone: You missed one hour!
Me: WTAF?? Damnit.
Brain: What the fuck is this??! I want my gold star!! Give me the gold star!!
Me:
Me: ...hey, calm down, we actually did the...
Brain: NO. NO MORE STEPS EVER

I really hear this line in Jeeves', from Bertie and Jeeves, voice!

ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false.

ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.

We should post and repost this 👇🏻

I would like to take this opportunity to remember Melissa Hortman, a serving Democratic politician assasinated by a right-winger.

Award-Winning THE LIBRARIANS Documentary Sets Widespread Release The award-winning documentary THE LIBRARIANS, which explores contemporary book bans and attacks on librarians, to release nationwide.

THE LIBRARIANS documentary to see a nationwide release beginning in October: bookriot.com/the-libraria...

A quote from Carl Sagan's book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark: "I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."

Carl Sagan called it in 1995

I am calm. I am breathing deeply through my nose. I am counting to ten. I…

WHAT, ARE YOU AFRAID YOUR DOG WILL INFODUMP TO YOU ABOUT THE FUCKING BALL?!?

That is FANTASTIC