Jeff D

This raises the rather terrifying possibility of squishmallows with bones. Which wouldn't really be squishmallows any more IMO. Bonemallows?

(me ever since I was 12) okay I actually need to get it together now

Still going at 61. 🤣

What the hell am I going to do with this oyster?

everything is getting worse and thats why it's SO so important that we have fun and hang out and play and im being serious im being unimaginable amounts of serious

they should invent a headache that goes away the second you drink any water at all

I have some great news for you. Or maybe terrible news. OK, both.

Nearly blocked someone for a vaguely annoying reply they made in 2017 then remembered 2017 was 9 years ago. They will live. We can change *opens their blog* nevermind they got worse. Guards

"What did they ever do to deserve this? <reads> Oh. Carry on."

the german word for villain, Bösewicht, is so great. like not only are you evil, you're also some sort of gnome about it

Well yes, I do want to see how these places look with friendly dogs in them. Better than that stupid thing they added and then pulled within hours last night, using AI to add protesters or bomb craters or just about anything to Google Earth images.

Bacteriophage chair

listen to me, this is so so important: you've gotta get used to really giving it your 60% as a default. like don't half-ass it necessarily but try not to go over 70% or so of an ass. you'll feel better and live a happier more fulfilled life, and on the rare occasions where you do need to lock the fuck in you'll be able to pull off bullshit that the sad miserable wretches giving it their 100% can never dream off, because they're busy draining themselves dry and you have energy reserves to spare.

This is actually what I was adviced to do at the work rehabilitation program I went to. Hasn't left my mind since. 10/10 solid advice

One of the most important lessons I learned during my working-adult life was to be intentional about how I spend my time/energy. Maybe a survival skill left over from my poor days. In any case, half-assing or outright ignoring certain things turned out to be more effective than I ever could have expected.

My 22yo is going through this now, as are many of my friends' kids. I went through some hard times myself at that age, but I don't remember things looking so bleak. Even in a generally bad economy, there were pockets of opportunity and a hope for better next year. With oligarchs and private equity owning almost everything, plus laws and courts bent to protect them from any accountability no matter how destructively they behave, that doesn't seem like the case any more. I'm sorry.

I know this is due to my particular constellation of interests, but for me the funniest thing about the "everything in a given century happened simultaneously" view of history being applied to the 1900s is bumping into increasing numbers of people who are genuinely unclear on whether Dungeons & Dragons pre-dates or post-dates The Lord of the Rings.

If I deliberately reversed the order of the Beatles and the IBM PC, I'm sure some of the people reading this wouldn't even question it and others would have to go look it up before correcting me.

"I wasted brain cells remembering that?"