the three and a half year old just drew this portrait of mommy all by himself when we weren’t paying attention, then erased her hair and added me (center) and himself (right); amazing likenesses


the three and a half year old just drew this portrait of mommy all by himself when we weren’t paying attention, then erased her hair and added me (center) and himself (right); amazing likenesses


… [veins-popping-out on my posting hands and my forehead as I try to resist posting, gritting my teeth and making a weird noise like a boiling kettle] which is just a poor, unserious, unresolvable substitute for class war in the first place
after the rev, if the state communists try to build socialism with the free/mandated state education and insanely bureaucratic job placement thing again, we will finally be temporarily free of of the infosec accreditation debate…
another day that ends in y, time to universalize myself, pathologize everyone else, and post, post, post

99% Yes
parroting what toddlers say (rather than responding “ok” or “uh huh”) because the alternative is that they keep repeating the same phrase until you do, until the heat death of the universe, it turns out, causes the heat death after all
but (here’s the twist) it’s worth it
watching the kid this afternoon so that the everloving wife can go vote to authorize a strike for her CNA local over short staffing (she often gets no breaks, no support staff, and recently even had to be charge), job site floats (as opposed to floor floats) and traveler use
damn, how have I never heard of The Budos Band before https://thebudosband.bandcamp.com/album/long-in-the-tooth


never properly did a ZZ Top phase so I’ve been blasting Tres Hombres a lot and it is easily up there w/ Muddy’s “Hard Again” as a desert island blues record, but now I’ve got “Have Mercy! been waiting for the bus all day” DVD-logo-bouncing in my head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnXSzgNe4xE
naming our kid “Bastian” <<<< shortening it to “Bash” <<<< using “Crash”
I’d like to remind everyone to chew mail pouch tobacco. it’s ribbon cut! treat yourself to the best and chew mail pouch tobacco
they’re really stirring your roux over on cajun twitter




hit the bricks

damn, the lathe of heaven, had no idea this existed

love love love the bryan ferry orchestra record but would also be ok with a remix produced to sound like you made it into the speakeasy

remote work has really freed people who like to live in rural places from keeping their opinions about city living to themselves in the free time they have between navigating strip mall parking lots [honk honk] and dealing with their lawns [riding mower 4-cycle revving]
the rot13 of “url” is “hey”, have a great day
dumb liberal idea #190123407: make true the lies about gig and other scam jobs being for people who only need some extra spending money by passing means testing legislation. applicant households must earn over 4x and under 6x some phony income level to qualify
garçon?

and on the third and final child-free day of vacation, I called a bank during their business hours and rolled over an IRA from a job I left… 9 years ago
no rush
real q is maintaining fuel prices doing a materialism, doing an imperialism, doing neither, doing both, or “doing both, but only on a very short timeline“
a month or so of practice and i didn’t need to have my left middle and ring fingers flattened in a vice or get my wrists and thumb broken and reset so for surgeon to give me Merle Travis grip after all
still feels wierd as hell though


sun’s up son’s up
gravely
𝘗𝘖𝘚𝘛𝘌𝘙
𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆
𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒈𝒆

haven’t burned our St. Paul votive in a while, but the flame is now behind His immaculate heart, to p nice effect
culture war horseshoe theory
the guards at the transit center in san francisco don’t actually care if you break in or whatever, they are there to apprehend and disappear anyone who seems like they might have any idea what is transit or center about it, also they are rosicrucians, probably
baltimore orioles
baltimore orioles
baltimore orioles
baltimore orioles
baltimore orioles
baltimore orioles

muting the word ‘censor’ to get in on the ground floor

If you are affiliated with any government, police, anti-piracy group or other related group or working for companies listed in the OP, either directly or indirectly, or any other related group, or were formally a worker, you CANNOT enter these web pages, links, nor etc, etc https://twitter.com/LondonBreed/status/1499497718040854529
I finished https://janemcalevey.com/no-shortcuts/ last night, and man, I don’t know shit from shinola about organizing today and if you don’t either, you should read it
The Year of the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II single-seat, twin-turbofan, straight-wing, subsonic attack aircraft.
the toddler has probably picked up shrugging and nodding or shaking his head instead of talking from me, so it serves me right that I almost exclusively get those responses in the middle of the night, in the dark, where I only hear a movement, but not which one
Nuclear war is bad. Very bad. Don’t get me wrong. But
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