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This is the local hardware store last Friday. Oct 16th, they had all the Halloween candy and fall decor on clearance, along with all the THANKSGIVING. Because we have to make way for Christmas barely halfway through Oct.

I don't like ketchup but I won't stop my kids from enjoying it. And I will defend your right to put it on whatever you like, but I will call you a gross moron if I see you putting it on a sundae.

When I was the oldest girl at daycare (<- how you cement eldest daughter syndrome in an only child), the little boys would cry, not just when they hurt themselves or when they felt sad, but when some one else was hurting. Then they stopped Because this society is so evil it mocks empathy as weak.

You are confirming to said mom and/or pop that they matter to the community and teaching their family and yours that dreams are good things.

Hoarding: Ohhh, and then when we get all the current supplies sorted, there will be room and we can buy MORE in case we need them for the other 16 projects

Juvenile cardinal (you can tell by the beak color and molting) came to say thanks for me changing the water in the bird bath. (sorry for the reflection of the blinds)

The artist is Lily Seika Jones (@rivuletpaper on Instagram).

Rough out there

At :05 in the video, the way that poor security guy picks up the toddler.... Tell me you haven't been around kids without saying it www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Thank you for everything. 💚💚💚 Tomorrow, there will be more of us.

I bet he was the one to wash grandma's seasoned-to-perfection Cast Iron pan in the DISHWASHER too.

The last Democrat to serve as Texas governor. In 1988 she said (of H.W.) "I'm delighted to be here with you this evening, because after listening to George Bush all these years, I figured you needed to know what a real Texas accent sounds like"

Tell me this admin doesn't care without saying they don't care... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong...

There is an Etsy alternative that is up and running and is aiming for good things for creatives, if you want to uplift it some. Artisans Cooperative is the name of it. artisans.coop

New Hope Animal Rescue, the animal shelter in Austin, TX I got my three cats from (and volunteered with when I lived there) has had to close intake for new animals due to lack of funds. If you've got a few dollars to throw at them, they could really use it! givebutter.com/emergency-fu...

Funny what happens when you let nature re-balance itself.

Political: should we allow cities or counties to decide local zoning rules? Not political: Are bribes to just let big corporations write the rules that hold them "accountable" while citizen pays for their tax breaks and infrastructure bad?

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. -Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925

C'mon everybody knows a hot dog is a taco.

Happy Pride month!

May I introduce you to books? You know, the things AI was trained on?

I don't know who hurt the HEB flavor master, but they are going through something right now.

Economists have known this for a long time, it's because pork and esp. canned food is an "inferior good" that is, demand for it rises when incomes fall. Hotdogs are considered one too, so I'm not in the LEAST bit surprised Costco sees it early.

The house always wins

I'm beginning to think that we're on like a cosmic Candid Camera episode

I see your #azaleas and raise you a #butterfly

When the violins start, look for the fires This is to distract from the FCC just making it illegal to import any home routers, leaving only Starlink. That's right, "made in the US" or "designed in the US" isn't good enough, if parts are made in Taiwan it's a "risk" mashable.com/article/us-r...

Share this so more people can see it Friends. New stand up out in 3 hours on YouTube youtu.be/-P8--AN_bn8?...

Being able to get into a car and drive where you want to go, when you want to. It's one I didn't appreciate enough before our gas costs spiked...

Red hat gets out of his truck to beat up a kid, and he got his butt whupped by the other kids with her. Best part is the shirts "Always Choose Kindness" next to "Kill your local Pedo..."

Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love."

In the vein of #xkcd comics 891, 1757, and 2074 @xkcd.com; Great Depression fact: Prince's song "1999" came out closer to the Great Depression than the present day.

What we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country.

And dozens of broken or "bad" works that used materials but did not turn out. Probably a few commissions that went sour.... A handful (or maybe an ocean) of self-doubt And at least one moment of grace.

Shout out to my fellow Xennials (or late Gen X/early Millennials) who remember with fondness all the mornings of the week- if for different reasons.

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

About as close as I'll ever get to a New Year's Resolution.

You do you until it messes with me being me or those folks over there getting on with their lives