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Now tell me who's your structural engineer How's that structure holding up What in the world is in that cellar What you got in that cellar

When the deli guy asks what size sandwich I want

A farm Republicans will actually support

Usually love the Maybe It Will Happen Today account but not this week. Maybe it will happen next Wednesday and no sooner.

Long post, no paywall: I wrote about meeting the love of my life during the worst time of my life, and the song I sent him to say I liked him: jude-doyle.ghost.io/e-bow-the-le...

Nothing turns me off an otherwise promising voice quicker than "I predicted all of this would happen years ago when I noticed xyz" unless you have a screenshot of that prediction i don't want to hear it. that's just called thinking you're not cassandra

Sorry but this isn't how you take care of a hotel

i love the airbnb meltdown because hosts keep saying "you just don't UNDERSTAND how much it throws off our timelines if we have to wait around for the DISHWASHER!" i also have a dishwasher man. it takes two hours. what are you talking about

like obviously i welcome it when it happens but can it wait twelve days please, we don't need to give republicans any motivation right now

i'm so disengaged from the podcast world that someone asked if i had ever been on Crime Junkie and i was like probably..... that sounds like a podcast i would have been on? (i have not been on it)

Great quote from Avery Rowland, running for public office in rural Kansas: “"I've got nothing that they can hold over on me. What's the worst they're going to find out, I like to wear dresses? I already told you that.”

STUPID PITCH: a combination of 12 Angry Men and The Thing

Adam Hamilton, I'll finally give you that $15 you've been bugging me about if you make this happen

Love that he got heckled so much in Kansas. You know that security was letting any country looking white person through, and there are quite a few cowboy behatted libs out here

rules to not die by, incomplete list: never walk on the railroad tracks with headphones on never get on a duck boat

i cannot handle the ten-years-ago-today stuff this month. we fucked up soooooooo bad

He has been talking about cognitive tests for like five minutes and it’s the most coherent he’s been all night

Terrible terrible white people

This is what it sounds like when someone says “casted”

Hell yeah to the protestors at the Kansas Trump rally

google still has a lot of good free archives for newspapers, which feels like the google of 2011. which means it also feels like an oversight to be corrected as soon as they remember it exists and is dragging down their profitability by .00000000002687% percent annually

Monarch butterflies don’t believe in borders so neither do I

Went to the local Regal to see a matinee of PRIMETIME this week and I was really pleased to see that they had showtimes for thirteen different films that day. Felt like 1999 for a minute

my husband loves concerts that last five hours and movies that are less than 2h15m

Went to an adults drinking wine party and the Babadook was there @brockwilbur.bsky.social

Glad that menopause is no longer a hushed-tones kinda subject, but does perimenopause need such aggressive marketing?

i'm getting a lot of ads for prediction and betting markets, which means that probably they are interpreting me starting slack jawed in horror at their vertical videos as genuine interest in their product

Jacob Lawrence, Among the social conditions that existed which was partly the cause of the migration was the injustice done to the Negroes in the courts, 1940-41 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134656

I have mostly been actively avoiding this story but I did read @sabs.bsky.social's take and I have no regrets.

folks you got to stop sharing this goddam Michael Tracy picture

My cat always wants to cuddle at bedtime, and I want to assume good faith but I know in my heart that he’s really coming for my bedside table water

happy sickos day to all who celebrate

I'd always thought "man his girlfriend is gonna be PISSED he broke it that way" about Robyn's Call Your Girlfriend, but then I saw a vertical video sketch acting that scenario out and it suddenly clicked for me that Robyn is obviously the girlfriend being called, not the cause for the call