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I didn’t want to get arrested so I just never asked my mom for spaghettis after that. Lesson, learned. Don’t ask mom for spaghettis or she’ll call the damn police on you. 

So I have this memory in my head, and it goes unquestioned until I say it outload for the first time a few months back and as soon as I say the words “When I was six, my mom called the cops on me for asking for spaghettis” My adult logic slams into place and is like “Hang on. Your mother definatly did not call the police on a 6 year old for asking for spaghetti.” 

So obviously that’s not what really went down. I call up my mom to tell her how I remember it and on top of her figuring out why her kid has always been really cagey around spaghettis for the last 3 decades she tells me what really happened. 

So on that night, a man tried to break into our house through the front window. It was just my mom, and her kids so she did what she felt she had too and shot him in the head. He’d been wearing a helmet, which landed on the floor under the window.

Now I just want ya’ll to put yourselves in my moms shoes for a minute here. This woman has just taken a human life. The trauma of that- the instant agony, the panic, the guilt, the fear- all of it hitting her at once, her only solace the knowledge that her children are safe. She protected her daughters. No matter the cost to her soul- her children are safe.

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If you're wondering how things are going on bluesky, this brain genius is one of the engineers holding the site together.

People are yelling at him because he admitted been vibe coding the site for months and now he's having a meltdown about it. Things are great.

Multi-Generational

Game Of Telephone.

I can never read him.

In honor of it being Breyerfest this weekend, let's do a Breyerfest model! Today's horse is Nazruddin, on the Marwari mold. This was the celebration horse for Breyerfest 2017, and the mold was sculpted by Brigitte Eberl.

This model is another based on a real horse. This guy, actually:

(Image from breyerfest.app.)

As you can see, Nazruddin has those unique, curved-in ears. They are a breed trait of the rare Marwari, from the Marwar region of India. (Though they can also be seen in the Kathiawari breed.) Marwari are almost nonexistent outside of India, though at the time that he was featured at Breyerfest, Nazruddin was one of 15 in the United States. Historically, Marwari were used as cavalry mounts, and were known for being brave in battle.

I think it's actually more because we live 600 miles away and traveling that far is hard for anyone let alone a profoundly disabled man who can't speak

So we just come to him

We've been here for 3 weeks and penny has introduced Uncle Bug (that's what she calls him) to chocolate Oreos and cakesters and he has introduced her to the Movie Robots and sour cream and onion chips and also opening heavy doors that we actually aren't thrilled about lmao

"ONCE I CAN READ U GUYS WONT BE ABLE TO STOP ME AND UNCLE BUG!"

The problem is that everyone has to work 8 hours, pretty much no exceptions, and with getting ready time + (unpaid) lunch + commute, “8 hours” is actually anywhere between 9 and 12, every single day, with more work to do when you get home because our society and culture was built around having one member of the household home full time and nothing has changed now that almost everyone works.