Fortuna Festiva

I’m sorry. Alzheimer’s is so many goodbyes, never knowing which spark of lucidity might be the last; to know there won’t be any more is a bittersweet thing. Holding you all in my heart 💚

Fortunately he can’t spell.

That would’ve been preferable! Jointing it and browning the skin on the stove (if that worked despite the oven outage) before microwaving would probably have been all rightish, too.

In 1980ish, my aunt microwaved the turkey on Thanksgiving and it came out gray and rubbery, as if the bird had died of radiation sickness. Fortunately, we had a ham on standby.

May the path ahead be gentle, for all of you 💚

Movie you've watched more than 6 times with a .gif. Hard Mode: No Star Wars/Trek, LOTR, Marvel, Disney animated or Pixar.

…This explains how bs like Q@n0n and ant!v@x nonsense takes hold in people who were previously big on facts, science, and reality.

The paper doesn’t posit that this ‘brain shortcut’ leads to factually accurate conclusions, only that they *feel* logically consistent. Rule of Three - same/reinforcing info (factual or not) from three sources is well known in advertising to predispose people to believe whatever dipshittery…

What’s up, Doc?

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Uncle Donny hasn’t found a way to slip something especially noxious into her water supply or HVAC system.

Squirrels are fascinating! These guys know they have to compete, but it’s hard to do 😅

YouTube video by Veritasium The Man Who Accidentally Discovered Antimatter

It was this, and these guys have SO many fun (but nerdy) videos!

youtu.be/Y-W-w8yNiKU

My experience with waterboarding is limited to using a neti pot on myself one time during a particularly intense Mountain Cedar season, but I could see doing a neti pot to the AI moguls.

A photo of a television screen with a complex physics equation on it.

A photo of a stone-fronted fireplace in with a low fire in it.

We’re having a fire and watching a YouTube documentary about how physicist Paul Dirac discovered antimatter, because we’re 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 nerds.

a man in a suit and tie says nothing has any consequence . Alt: Tom Hiddleston in his role as Loki is wearing a suit and tie. He throws up his arms with gleeful abandon, and shouts, ‘Nothing has any consequence!’

I’m not at all sure Loki isn’t already in charge.

That’s why they’re harnessed closest to the sleigh, so Santa can keep an eye on them.

The witch refuses winter as a sadness. Each season sings it own sorrows. Frost-brittle field still hold their magics. The sky is still a drama of nephomantic omens. There is no lack of thresholds. I shall save my tears for the wounding of the land. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

His ‘knife hand’ is made of actual knives.

The moon over the lake was lovely. I actually got hot doing the loop in my parka and had to unzip and stand still for a bit to cool off! That wind earlier today, though 🥶

YouTube video by KMFDM - Topic Free Your Hate

Rise up against your chains, my dude 🖤

youtu.be/l77Ehc2rLLE

Interesting, MTG falls out with Cheeto, and a couple of weeks later a suspect - who is *not* MTG - is detained. Someone trying to lure old girl back into the fold? 🤔

the village of the damned idiot

a man in a green shirt is sitting at a table with his eyes closed . Alt: Captain Kirk nods decisively with the corners of his mouth turned down, after which Doctor McCoy does the same. The exaggeratedly smug facial expressions indicate they’re taking the piss from someone, probably Spock.

This is the way 👍🏼

Just change your password after using Anisota, cos it looks like a credential harvesting scheme.

Yes, Hekate Is Political, Witchcraft Is Political, That's Just How It Is Hekate is political. Witchcraft is political. This is both modern and historical fact. What is "politics" to some is simply "people's lives and ability to live and exist". Witchcraft has long been a t...

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That horrible Tate guy recently posted that having a girlfriend in 2025 means you’re gay, so I’m not at all sure it’s unintentional 🤷🏻‍♀️

Black Marbled Crepes With Blackberries and White Chocolate Whipped Cream Make Halloween breakfast a thing this year! Amy Richardson shares how to make black marbled crepes with blackberries and whipped cream.

Any crepe made by a goth is a goth crepe, imo. Although some crepes are gothier than others….

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a love letter to our transgender friends This Thursday, the Texas Bathroom Bill goes into effect. I can’t imagine what it must feel like to be continually be told there isn’t a place for you anywhere in this world. I can’t imagine what it must feel like to be used continually as a scapegoat to frighten an electorate so propagandized into fear that even oppressed people can be miscast as ontological threats. Like many people, I was born into a simpler time when gender was seen as inherently binary. When a baby was born, like everyone else, I asked “is it a boy or a girl.” I was unaware that I was going to treat the child differently depending on that answer. I was like my black and white television set. Beautiful colors came across as grey. Beauty outside my monochrome bubble felt like a threatening blur. Then, when I was in seminary, I worked for a time as a student chaplain. One day, in the surgeon’s library, I spotted a huge book and was drawn by curiosity to see what such a large book was about. It turned out the giant book was on surgical techniques for infants born between the male and female binary. The entire tome was about people who did not fit in my binary understanding of gender. I was thunderstruck. If intersex people are born that way, I could not say their traits were “unnatural.” They were as natural as I was. And these were just the observable physical traits. I had no way of knowing what was happening chemically in ways that could not be seen. I realized my arrogance in judging other people. More importantly, I realized the violence inherent in trying to reduce humankind to my simplistic binary ethics.

Charlie Kirk liked to try erase the reality of intersex and transgender people by asking “What is a woman?” That question can distract us from an even more basic question, “What is a human being? If we cannot see a person’s humanity we will be unable to resolve issues of race, class and gender. Before we can resolve ethical dilemmas we must first know what rights EVERY person deserves simply because they are human. So, before the bathroom bill goes into effect, I want to send out a love letter to the beautiful people of Texas who do not fit in the simplistic religious and political stupors that now grip our beautiful state like a skeletal hand from the past. As a minister in Christ’s church I want to tell you, just like Jesus told the scapegoats of his time, do not let religious and political bullies define you. You are a sacred gift to the world. You do not need anyone else’s approval to be fully who you are. Do not look at yourself through anyone else’s eyes. Live in your own skin, see through own eyes, love through your own heart. You are a gift to the world simply because of who you are. You are the light of the world. Do not let these political and religious bullies convince you to live in the shadows. Let the light of your true humanity shine for all to see.

from Rev. Jim Rigby, a Presbyterian minister friend of mine in Austin

Day 2 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. We gently take the Master of Moss from box. He’s old and fragile, made from twig, clay and clumps of Moss gathered on Barrowcross. We find him a respectful place on the tree and hope he sleeps the season. His waking would be terrible

They could strip down and reassemble a clogged milk frother in under 60 seconds. Blindfolded. In the rain. 🫡