Gruoch, prefer Penelope

Perhaps a refresher on Black Monday would be appropriate around now.

Why do so many people do so many horrible things to each other? Perhaps the reason UFOs don't drop off tourists is because no alien wants to interact with our uncivilized murderous asses.

This is tomorrow in the Seattle area and it’s free:

New analysis from @propublica.org: Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...

Spent the day napping and reading Bloom County. Am pathologically content and want nothing to do with reality for a bit.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

@nytimes.com Always wanted to get the Sunday Times and now (at 59) can actually afford it this year - and you don't deliver to my area. 😡. What is it about 96778 that makes mailing so hard? Trust me, the post office works just fine here.

Yes. Yes I did give my dog the last piece of cheese instead of leaving it for my child. Why? Because my dog did not turn down college in favor of a low paying job ten years ago. Not that I'm still upset or anything.

My son's friend said that they're expecting 12 inches of snow. She lives in Oklahoma. Is this normal for there? Seems a wild amount.

Would love to be hypnotized into being a sensible person. Could a hypnosis session turn me into an exercise doer who absolutely never overeats? And mops regularly.

A positive for my fellow medical coders - the 2026 update includes codes for flank pain!!

MMWR has been a staple of public health for 24 years

Was re-reading Elizabeth Anderson. Usually I feel hope that these ideas exist; tonight I felt something new. A protectiveness, as if they needed sheltered from the current world. Some form of baby proofing. Hope needs looking after these days.

Making pâté à choux. Sent the son and the spouse to get fillings. They came back with two cans of generic pie filling and a container of cool whip. I feel disrespected.

Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan. “Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations." Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.

@danmajdali.bsky.social hello, Skippy wanted you to be told that she's out of surgery and recovering. Not up to texting yet, but doing fine.

I haven't gone this long without hearing from my best friend in years - unless one of us was asleep or busy. I don't recommend it. Is unsettling.

www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/09/23/r... I don't post often, but this is big !

Good lord, people! We can have sand batteries? We have so many real solutions…

Today my spouse is going to teach our adult son how to inspect and possibly repair his car. Requesting positive thoughts for them both.

This week's "things" are coffee with cinnamon, journal videos, and escaping into the delusion that the world isn't on fire, we have a compassionate leadership, are all kind people and businesses are completely ethical. Oh, and I'm an immortal scholar-wizard with fantastic hair.

FINALLY THE TRUTH COMES OUT theonion.com/australia-ad...

Am concerned about lack of companies' adoption of AI on top of the frequency of data breeches. Shouldn't fully safe data be worked out before we pay another bull to mind the shop?

This morning my son got a new WoW title. He is celebrating by making dinner. Gaming as a gateway to good cooking. Not regretting the game stuff we got him when he was younger.

www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...

Lately I've been remembering a school that did bomb drills. We'd duck under our desks or sit in the hall imitating pillbugs. With the alarm going and the teachers correcting our form. Followed by them explaining about nuclear bombs. It was scary. Scared children are who we need to think about.

A truth I hold unto death... It is a loss to the Doctor Who universe that Richard Ayoade has not yet been cast as Doctor Who. I don't know if he's turned the role down or not been offered it. Only that it would be glorious.

@seananmcguire.bsky.social I don't actually know you, but believe today's Ted Radio Hour on insects and king cobras would interest you.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/31/m...

Just want to say that a bowl of light soup is a lovely breakfast.

There is a social contract where the govt looks after us or at least doesn't let us die unnecessarily. I don't believe america would manage a covid type disease with a higher mortality rate such as SARS earlier this century.Poverty and income disparity among other economic markers WILL get worse

This morning I hit an incremental goal. While self- congratulating l thought of my best friend. She has been crushing a much more impressive feat. Without telling her business, I just want to say how absolutely incredible she is.

Think I invented a southern saying this morning. "Nutty as a pecan tree". It was needed as a way to quasi professionally indicate that part of a workflow process is fucked up. I think it'd be cooler if it used a more obscure tree.

I know this is an old thought, but I came across this brilliant Octavia Butler poem again today, and I felt a fresh wave of grief that our president and his staff are cowards, fools, thieves, liars, AND tyrants, and what their awfulness is doing to us in turn.

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day! I expanded upon my earlier #drawthis prompt—Cycle—and included ALL the octopi! #scbwi #childrensbookillustration #kidlit #scbwiillustrators #picturebooks

A question. Has anyone heard anything about the NCVHS? It's website is in maintenance mode. It is the point org for the US implementation of ICD 11. I am wondering how the changeover from ICD 10 is going. Has anyone heard it being affected by anything?

I hope this gives a lot of Catholic TERFs watching this massive coronaries, or at least really bad heartburn.

Hey, folks. Got a favor to ask. My friend Skye is having a really shitty year. Jobs dried up, car broke down, health emergencies, the works. She's got a GoFundMe to try and keep the velociraptors from the door. If you can toss a couple bucks in her direction I'd appreciate it tinyurl.com/3umda8w3