Caffeinated & Literate

My Spooky Season 2026 Marathon: 54. Courage the Cowardly Dog (1999-2002). Cartoon horror/Dark comedy. Creator: John R. Dilworth. Starring: Marty Grabstein, Thea White, Lionel Wilson. Rating: 4.5/5stars #horror #cartoon #darkcomedy #classic

My husband made the plans, bought the tickets, and took child and I to the Pumpkin Patch / Corn Maze today. It was awesome.

Democrats have never won a single fucking republican voter by trying to appeal to fascist asshats.

The True Spirt of Halloween is everyone in the family putting in 6+ hours making a mushroom hat that will be worn exacty twice. Or forever.

We planted seeds in the greenstalk towers a week ago and they have nearly all sprouted. I love fresh greens in the fall and winter. Hell yeah.

When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

We should stop indulging the weird god complex at the heart of the "broken culture" at the AI companies, and start treating them like the mundane criminally negligent narcissists they are

Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.

the fact that nuremberg failed doesn't mean there's nothing worth studying. or even appreciating there. It's basically the first time we tried to hold a nation's leadership accountable for war crimes in such a way. but let's not pretend it was a success.

the Allied post war "denazification" was a massive failure. nuremberg was a massive failure. the Nazis who survived were, in large, not held to account. suggesting otherwise is fantasy.

no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.

Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.

We started a trade war with these people because the president, who has some sort of degenerative brain disease with visible bruises on his hand's injection site that the press doesn't talk about, was bored.

Most people who have never been in a fundamentalist cult will always have a hard time understanding how deeply fucked up any cult is and how terrifying the echo chamber is. Cults don't just limit info, they teach their followers to reinterpret any new info as reinforcing the cult.

As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor when we began steel magnolias rehearsals  i asked her - how long does it take to do a hair do like yours? Dolly - no idea, i’m never there when they do it! i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that

Did y'all know I've been to Toronto-area Star Trek auctions 4x now? 😍 And I now have a HUGE amount of screen-used Trek merchandise available in Baltimore? Two auctions left, & then I'll start listing it online, but I'm accepting private appointments till then! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8tV4Lah/

if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi

Ah. Disappointing to say the very least.

If you do this on my plane I am playing and loudly singing The Bloodhound Gang

if this flag offends you i'll help you pack

I've been channeling my political feelings on magic the gathering lately. Is this the right place for this?

Top-tier Divorced Guy behavior: thinking your ex-wife is willing to cover and lie for you and not being right about that.

Y’all also need to shoot anyone telling you that you can simply wash off a parasite embedded into the skin and even the folds and creases of alot of this produce. A parasite that is resistant to bleach, chlorine, and vinegar by the way. Signed, An epidemiologist

it really does seem like no one who knew him ever had a bad thing to say about Sam Neill we should all aspire to such a life

Oh my god, they really are all Sirius Cybernetics sticking "Genuine People Personalities" into every (defective) product *especially* when you don't need or want that. Douglas Adams had them dead to rights ages ago.

No, this seems fine www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

Do I love sleep? Yes. Do I need sleep? Yes. Do I want to sleep? Yes. Do I fall asleep? Believe it or not, no.

Alright, I've got half a house to pack in four days, I'm not totally out of an autoimmune flare, mt cat is stressed as fuck, and it's a heatwave. We're gonna see how much we can get done during the Phil Spector episodes of Behind The Bastards. Let's go. I guess. Cause we have to. ADULTHOOD!

Farmer & farm worker tips on working outside in hot humid weather: First, the normal stuff. Stay hydrated. Take breaks in the shade. These are the basics! They'll get you pretty far & you won't make it without them! They are also not enough to get through a day on the farm IME!

this may be controversial but, that's too many

U.S. tax code isn't neutral. It's a political document—and for decades it's been rewritten to funnel wealth upward while the rest of us pick up the tab. America's inequality isn't an accident. It's policy. But it can be fixed. Portia Allen-Kyle with the latest in our 'Repairing America' series.

Johnson is bad at his job? He can't even herd the cats in his own party? Color me shocked.

As Ryan Stollar showed us so poignantly, the damage done by this kind of false education falls not just on our society as a whole, but on the children who are pumped through the ideology machine. They are the traumatized veterans of our culture wars. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...