Hope you aren’t a gummy bear fan, cause I have news for you

Downtown Seattle, I wrote a note asking our upstairs neighbor to please stop pacing all night wearing boots. Put a rug down, take off boots, something.

I got an odd letter back explaining how he had been making “bad life decisions” lately and was trying to stop.

And I’m like, look one meth addict to another, that’s not what I asked, put a rug down or take off the boots. I am not looking for a cry for help, just a night’s sleep.

I got in and out of my house about 50 times per day, and my feet are size 13.5s, so all my shoes are tight (they don’t make most shoes in anything larger than 13s). Plus my back isn’t what it once was. If I had to bend over and take my shoes off 50 times a day, I’d actually lose it, “it” being my L3-4 disc.

Whereas, litereally nothing bad has ever happened to me because I wear shoes in the house. It’s all some hypothetical … I don’t know what exactly. Grossness? Is grossness hurting me?

Tell you what’s ‘gross,’ as a thought exercise tho - walking around barefooted where my dogs and cats walk barefooted, they’re not exactly wearing shoes outside, or in the litterbox, nor are they putting a handkerchief down under their assholes when they sit down.

But a pair of flip-flops for in the house plus floor cleaning regularly… I don’t really worry about it either way. IDK why anyone does.

Also his lower intestine is filled with a plug of moss and pinecones, which have trapped the material in his digestive system, stopping digestion entirely, which he will now need to expel in a painful and gruesome deification so it can start up again.

Much like me in the morning

But he doesn’t need coffee for it :/

Aaaand you’ve got my attention.

I don’t like video tho, just pictures, so I followed Tumblr till it went down and then NewTumbl until it went down and now a third-gen clone that doesn’t have anywhere near the niches but is getting better, and pretty soon it’ll go down too.

Does eye contact shut him up? Cats use eye contact as a primary communication mode, and meowing to communicate with humans, he might be conditioned to think the meowing gets the eye contact he wants.

Or, he’s just an asshole, lots of cats are assholes too.

Sort of depends on your troop. As a young teenager we had to endure winter survivalist training which included building usable sleeping quarters in the sub-zero snow and spending the night in them, by yourself. Yes you could come back to the main building but you failed at the training if you did. Actual chance of freezing. They gave you a styrofoam cup half full of chili but otherwise you were on your own for sustenance too, including water. It did give me a sense of independence, but also a fear of the cold.

…That’s a bit of ableism, Hawking managed to have an affair that ended his marriage although it seems that original marriage involved his abuse, so he comes out the good guy. It’s entirely possible for a wealthy, privileged person with disabilities to abuse someone else, either through power imbalance or with assistance under their direction. But no evidence that it occurred in his case.

Also, you know, making the rich people pay even the same taxes WE pay, let alone the 50-90% marginal rates from decades ago, when the country was strong.

Space X/X AI/Twitter (soon to include Tesla in a giant Xterfuck) will soar to all new market caps.

They remind me of the old style fluorescent circle lights from the 50s, where they were almost green.

More than even color temperature I’m shocked at the number of people who illuminate their rooms with four clear-glass bulbs in the ceiling fan, so bright you can’t even look at them from the sidewalk. Have these people never heard of a lamp? You can practically see the shadows of dust motes in the air against the sterile white walls.

laughs in adaptive lighting

It says funding is already in place, so expect the tech companies to be footing the bill again, maybe some oil companies too this time, trading favors for investments in Venezuela infrastructure rebuilding.

What the fuck?

He’s also got a wife and kids who are high profile, his selfishness will extend to them, he wants them to be able to have legacies too or else he’s going to die hated by the few people who still love him. Sarah is absolutely telling him not to go even near an open window right now, stay in the dark for the rest of time. He seems to actually listen to her a bit, too.

I was at a gay campground last summer and the guy I was with pointed out two Starlink receivers, we were both amazed that community-oriented queer men would just fork over money so they could watch TV. At a campground. They weren’t even boomers, they were Gen Xers. People are just so addicted to modern convenience they don’t care about who’s supplying it.

You’re arguing what should be. I would argue the same. We’re explaining what is.

You act like there’s ever been separation of church and state. There has not.

My mom and dad and myself and my younger brother are all alcoholics. Two of us have recovered, two of us have not.

My youngest brother is on the spectrum and refuses to touch alcohol at all because he’s watched it destroy lives and steal souls.

That’s how this chart plays out in my family., ymmv.

He’s fairly good at damage control, I mean people with a triple-digit IQ see through it, but none of those folks are in his base so