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Floor blorb

I quit smoking thirteen years ago, but every once in a while, I still enjoy a camel on the balcony.

Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they *can* talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them."

important announcement: there is a new baby capybara at the San Antonio Zoo named Tupi. i would lay down my life for Tupi

How Italian anarchists in America responded to Columbus day. Source: Kenyon Zimmer, Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015), p74

This particularly applies to the excuses the New York Times provided for crusading against it

You can learn a lot just from playing video games. For example, i learned a ton just from playing video games

Vallejo Acrylics workers on indefinite strike. English translation in the thread #wargaming #miniaturepainting #warhammercommunity #warhammer #oldworld #paintingwarhammer #nerdlings www.viaempresa.cat/es/empresa/9...

When you have the brain of a dog

this is the key insight threads assumes that people are coming to a platform like twitter/bluesky/threads to see the same sort of influencer content as instagram, and what people are actually here for is the content of Very Online sickos you have to make a platform the sickos want to post on

I don’t know much about polyamory except that it can be very difficult to achieve in an analog synthesizer

If your antique store isn't a dangerous labyrinth that takes up multiple floors of 3 separate early 20th century storefronts with doors knocked through the brick walls to join them into one Symphony Of The Night castle of deals then frankly I'm not interested.

Happy Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to those who celebrate.

Serene napping cat

Today is World Wombat Day so I must again say that my favourite ever blessing is an Indigenous Australian one and it goes "may the wombat of happiness snuffle through your underbrush"

i guess we’re gonna try to get tofu back to the vet since she’s really having trouble jumping onto the bed and she’s not moving around as much as she used to any help, including reposts, is appreciated, please and thank you vnmo: gawdzie-z pp: on request #helpsky

The four phases of cat

I believe that being physically repulsed by the cybertruck is the shared experience that can heal our shattered society

Patiently waiting for the right moment to knock all the pieces onto the floor. digitaltmuseum.org/021016963411...

So this came with the food delivery 💪

reminded that Phil Collins initially wasn't happy at all with his famous drum break in In The Air Tonight and re-recorded it using longer drumsticks to get a distinctive sound, a decision that had far-reaching repercussions

Reading Alexander MacDonald’s _The Long Space Age_, a political-economic study of space exploration in the 19th/20th C, and I never knew that Robert Goddard was really in to getting military backing to fund his rocketry research, even to the point of pushing them for chemical warfare

Tempted to read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy? Skip it and listen to this instead

The gardening supervisor was out to critique my work, monch on grass

If you can't attend my talk at the Durham Public Library in person there's now a streaming option. 2pm Eastern on Saturday. www.youtube.com/live/mcNgv24...

When Steve Albini died, we were getting ready to publish a career-spanning interview with him ahead of the new Shellac album. Here it is:

our father who art in relays hallowed be thy skill shot thy will be done in drains as it is in jackpots for thine is the flipper, the bumper, and the ball trap amen

Can’t move; trapped under cat

Remove dates of when you graduated college, and remove dates on jobs that go back more than 10-15 years. Summarize those as "other previous positions include..." and just list the titles and companies. Again: did this with my mom's resumes and she started getting calls again. I also do it on mine

No big deal just a tiny baby angel purring directly into my heart.

In a change to its guidance, CDC will say it’s okay to smoke cloves on the hood of your boyfriend’s Pontiac GT on the edge of a gorge with the parking brake disengaged. “If that’s truly what the cool kids are doing, go fucking nuts I’m tired,” a public health expert was heard to mutter, per sources.

Bed hawgs

With new advances in technology, computers will be able to do tiresome and unrewarding work like painting, writing, and composing music, leaving human beings free to create shareholder value and protect inventory

0 city hall reporters 0 labor reporters 0 civil rights reporters 0 police reporters 100000 Ivy League reporters Someone help me my newspaper is dying

Idiot tripping hazard continues to do his job

Sleepy cat peets

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