Three queer hyperfixations in a trench coat

Yes please :)

Roger Waters, “Four Minutes”
Don Henley, “All She Wants To Do Is Dance”
Genesis, “Land of Confusion”
Bruce Cockburn, “Lovers in a Dangerous Time”

And it doesn’t fit the 80s time frame, but I gotta pitch for including:

Moxy Fruvous, “Gulf War Song”
The Wailin’ Jennys, “Apocalypse Lullabye”

Share with the class?

Can confirm, would patronize this establishment

I scored a flat 0. There are a couple foods I can’t handle due to texture or other sensitivities, but none of them are mentioned here. Then too, there’s the ADHD novelty-seeking and a certain stubbornness involved

I love having a melancholic personality because the sun could be shining at a very specific angle after it rains and it will destroy me

“And fortunately, the personnel requirements of doubles luge ensures there will never be a top shortage in this community.” is where I lost it

@alchemy-tits.bsky.social

"I watched most of the event in a fevered haze, punching "how to decide top vs bottom doubles luge" into DuckDuckGo and "doubles luge" into the fanfiction website Archive Of Our Own, or AO3."

Now THIS is what I call "deeply reported."

never seen a better clapback to "just playing devil's advocate," this made me screech

This makes me like him *more*. Charles Kvetchin'.

I’ll have you know this “like” was applied under duress

Me: To stop my intrusive thoughts, I’m going to come up with the goofiest intrusive thought I can think of
My brain: I gotchu
My brain: Big Mouth Billy Bass singing Baby Shark
Me:
My brain:
Me:
My brain: Baaaaaby sh—
Me: NO

Looks like this is the probable source of the quote (third down): bookquoters.com/book/the-boo...

Ohhh you’re in for a treat! I’m about due for a reread (nobody tell the books in my TBR …I don’t think pile really covers it anymore. TBR heap? TBRsplosion?), maybe I’ll stick starting that on the stack for today

I mean, “the only winning move is not to play” is also a totally fair choice! Me being the kind of sicko (humorous) that toys with those kinds of analysis problems for fun is how I wound up in an analytical profession, for my sins

Neuroception? Neurodivergiception? 😂

It’s part of why the way magic works in @diane.dianeduane.com’s Wizards series drew me so powerfully as a child (and continues to) - the idea of using language to describe so well and so vividly the being and state of something or someone or some situation that you can persuade it to be elsewise

so it’s more Hanlon’s Razor.

But more generally, for me, the idea of being able to coax language into a description so specific, so exactly the thing itself that there’s no room for misunderstanding… well, you can see the appeal of the fantasy for an undiagnosed neurodivergent kid…

I suppose I viewed it more from the lens of “if I found myself thrust into the situation, how would I handle it?” not necessarily a challenge to be sought after. Alternately, the apocryphal officer graduation exam challenge of “cut a set of orders so specific some bonehead can’t screw it up”

I wish I could make the fanny pack work for me (younger me did with a cross-slung bag-that-was-NOT-a-purse) but it’s not granular enough. The pocket Macarena covers multiple items. Plus, as someone who gets clocked as female, it is a fucking point of pride to wear clothes with pockets in them, lol

The utter circularity the ADHD distraction spiral sometimes becomes is the most frustrating fucking part of the whole thing

The pocket-check Macarena is so real

The amount of anxiety decrease I got from switching to hooking a carabiner on a belt loop for my keys so there was only one place on my body they could be and I could immediately check to make sure they were there…

right???? often think the cruelest joke of neurodivergence is that it runs in families so you don’t ever get a comparison

Wikipedia entry showing a blakc and white photo of a person in uniform. It says: Birth name Charles Hartwell Bonesteel III Nickname "Tick"

If my name was

Charles
Hartwell
Bonesteel

I would not let people call me

“Tick”

Without a *great* reason.

Some Swedish hockey players demonstrate various winter Olympic sports. 😁

(sound on)

#Olympics

Oh, lol, I was splitting a different linguistic hair for the joke

I meant in terms of that time spent contemplating a single agent vs a cumulative tally of time contemplating multiple agents within the general category of “cautionary tale wish-fulfilling”

Yeah, that kind of risk tolerance is… whew

That’s more generous than my first response, which involved muttering something about plausible deniability

Okay but is that 60 minutes on the /same/ agent or a cumulat-

…kinda proving your point here, huh *facepalm*

Roman altar with the face of the sun god Sol. It also includes carvings of the four seasons. Found in Inveresk in East Lothian, dating to about 140AD. It was designed so that light shone from behind, making the god's face and crown appear to glow in the darkness. This altar, along another one, were excavated in 2010 and are the only examples of their kind ever found in Scotland. They were set up by a Roman centurion whose name was written in short form as G CAS FLA, likely meaning Gaius Cassius Flavianus.

Two roman altars found near Edinburgh and related to the cult of Mithras are going to be displayed for the first time. One of the altars, dedicated to the god Sol, had holes so it could be illuminated from within, and don't tell me this is not the most rpg thing ever.