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We have water in our basement for the third time also for the third reason I love this house except when I hate it

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

went for a long walk in a conservation area with a camera-wielding friend yesterday: little prickly talons of innumerable chickadees, some nuthatches, and even a woodpecker! (Yes, feeding wildlife is bad, but in this area that ship has definitively sailed. The birds and squirrels mob you.)

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm in two hours of meetings this evening, and I'm actually glad of it because in the last 90 minutes someone I don't want to talk to has phoned the home line three times and my cellphone once, but whoops! can't talk! I'm in a meeting!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Just got my $200 bribe cheque from Doug Ford; immediately donated it to @brucefanjoy.bsky.social who is running to unseat Pierre Poilievre in his home riding. So there. #CApol

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Given...everything, we are watching Moana tonight. I love that movie.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I really, really did not want to work out but I wanted *to have worked out* marginally more than I wanted to not work out now I'm tired and sore but satisfied with myself.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I have three zucchini to use up! For dinner I will make this tasty soup that relies heavily on zucchini! Refrigerator: *produces one (1) zucchini* Welp.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I'm in the process of giving blood, and the woman in the donor chair opposite me is reading Twilight. Vampires are apropos, I suppose!

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Geoff swung by the British pie shop & got chicken curry, beef&onion, beef&Stilton, and steak&Guinness, plus a Scotch egg, for us to share for dinner tonight. Lard is a vegetable, right?

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

This was re-re-reskeeted onto my timeline without alt text, so I'm reskeeting the original image with it, because it was a ray of sunshine in these dark times. It's too long to transcribe in one skeet, so there will be two. #uspol

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

the more popular this site gets the less i see people using the pronoun labeler, so here's a reminder that it exists! @pronouns.adorable.mom highly recommended to at least subscribe to be able to see everyone else's labels even if you don't want to set them for yourself

submitted 58 days ago • 20 comments

Just did my first weights workout in 10 weeks. (I've been depressed.) Nothing like the motivating power of enraged despair, I guess; I'll need muscles, because a whole lot of people are going to need to be punched over the next few years. Uh, I mean, because I'll need to carry protest signs. Yeah.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

One (I don't *think* I ever used a fax?), but I demand a bonus point because I know how to spell "vinyl"

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

That canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

a monstrous regiment of fuckwits

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

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."

submitted 45 days ago • 234 comments

Geoff, 6:30 am: *pokes me* You should probably get up now. me: *mmph* *grgle* *ugh* Why? G: You move slow in the morning and your friend is picking you up at 8. me: What? No, she's not. G: You said 8. me: I did not. G: I'm sure you said 8. me: I said 10:15. G: Oh. Uh, sorry, then. me: ...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

I have recently edited two collections of memories and reminiscences by my queer elders. So some things have been front of mind for me. Fuck her.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Randall Munroe: correct horse battery staple Ernie Bushmiller: Hold my beer.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

OMG, I just got passport photos taken and they are the WORST pictures of me, I look hideous, I look like a horrified zombie. omen for the next ten years y/n (I showed them to Geoff and he burst out laughing)

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

You know how footprints and tire tracks compress snow into ice, and then when it warms up the snow can melt before the ice? We went for a walk and I saw icy negative-fossil cat paw prints!

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

rec.arts.sf (or something like it, might not have been that exact newsgroup)

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

How did I not know that a new season of Shetland just aired? Hey, everyone, there's a new season of Shetland!

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

some of you might be interested in @shellyjayshore.bsky.social's "Rules of Ghosting," a fabulous, extremely Jewish, extremely trans+queer romance novel about death and love and family that I stayed up past midnight to finish (no regrets! lots of coffee, no regrets!)

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

A productive morning: 8 containers of tomato sauce to go into the freezer (and 4 of stock coming out to thaw for soup tonight), plus I finished reading Emily Tesh's Some Desperate Glory while cooking. It's excellent! (and the tomato sauce isn't bad either - pizza in our future!)

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

RACHEL walks past children playing. Her biological clock ticks. She’s thirty, almost dead. LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair? RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

my doctor's website makes me go through SIX screens, entering info on each, before telling me if any appointment slots are available (spoiler: they are not). I have just built a macro that will walk through them all for me; it still takes ridiculously long, but at least I can let the robot do it 😡

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Was in a great neighborhood grocery store the other day (sadly not my neighborhood) (but my ngs is pretty good too!) and they had 10lb of onions for $6, and I'd been wanting to make a big batch of onion jam anyway… Big pan of onions is now cooking down, mmm. But what do I do with the other 7 lb?

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment