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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 13h

Kids love the option of something unusual so much - the biggest hit I ever offered was halloween themed pencils

M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think I'll ever get used to the way migraines steal time. I had a migraine today and I'm so tempted to stay up longer because I lost an entire day into the void but that'd be worse. I just have to accept that it's gone. As a kid I imagined my future self being more stoic about it but no.

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 2d

My mom also claimed it was too complicated haha - the work around we ended up with was me yelling the command from another room, then commanding *her* “HUSH! … PRAISE NOW! … GIVE TREAT!” The dogs decided my word is good from other rooms. Close enough! 😅

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 2d

My mom turned that into “give treats when they bark, they can’t bark while eating!” Which so thoroughly ruined the command word I was using I had to start over with a new word.

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 2d

Which reminded me of trying to teach my mom how to train the dogs to not bark, and INITIALLY getting them interested in the command by giving a treat for even the briefest pause in barking, and then expanding that pause by making them wait longer and longer for the reward

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 2d

My neighbor heard my “wet food can be a healthy option in a cat’s diet that helps them stay hydrated” and somehow turned that into “when that cat begs for food at night panic about his kidneys and give him as much wet food as possible until he’s too fat to clean his own asshole”

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 2d

Talking to people who don’t know much about animal behavior, training, and pet care, feels like talking to a malicious genie I swear

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 2d

I did! Amazingly, that worked

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 2d

I made some coleslaw from a sliver of leftover red cabbage and was really impressed how much better it was than store bought, so tried it again with a cabbage I had today which was green and it was no longer impressive. Lesson learned: always trust purple vegetables

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 2d

It's really funny when I need to mention a specific artist or something they drew that I forget usernames half the time so I'm over here googling like, the name of their cat.

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 2d

It's awful to keep a large predator as an exotic pet just by itself but it adds insult to injury to name them something uncreative (Nala is a character from The Lion King) this comic really gets the mood of the situation bsky.app/profile/litt...

Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · 10d

Bonus mr. conway sketch... hope he's still fighting the good fight! & I think he'd love to be a spectacled bear.

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed. It especially pisses me off when I was expecting house cats - like I should be able to "ew no" from the thumbnail alone and block the channel without watching dangit >=(

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 2d

Watching a cute cat clip compilation short on youtube. See a lion cub in a human home and the person recording the video refers to it as "Nala" - welp, that's my day ruined.

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 3d

Today's random memory: the guy in a star wars chatroom in 1999 who told me, apropos of nothing, that clowns will get into your blood stream and drive you around like a car.

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 3d

I cleaned a clog out of my syrup pump and got caramel syrup all over my forearms - despite washing it all off I still smell like caramel. Little unnerving that the scent is that sticky.

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 4d

Lmao my mom said of someone’s hair “look Magera she has hair like you!” And the “… yeah, so fun” was so obviously negative I had to explain to my mom later that her hair was gelled and controlled and mine is an unstyled frizz explosion (and a little curlier) so she was probably a little insulted 😅

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 5d

I decided on a whim to rewatch Marble Hornets. It's remarkably funny in retrospect how it turns out a black suit and tie and a faceless pale bald head is really effective camouflage, especially on low res video. Like dude just fucken stands in plain sight but it's easy to fail to spot him at times

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 5d

The thing that frustrates me the most with the one you mention in particular is white people don't even know what using "be" that way even means so they use it wrong on top of that

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 7d

Tron Legacy is my favorite soundtrack to a movie I frankly don't remember

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 7d

Mom: I think it's going to rain
Me: Doesn't look like it to me
Mom: but it's so dark out
Me: That's because it's October
Mom: oh

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 7d

Brush out long hair cat. Watch her re-tangle her belly hair licking it. Sysiphean task keeping this animal from developing mats I swear.

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 8d

Same hat. I have a 26 hour day - 18 awake, 8 sleeping. I can't say I do super well on that schedule I always feel loopy for the last few hours, but trying to fit in a 24 hour day is worse! But that's the schedule for engaging with the actual world bleh

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 8d

My sleep cycle got goofed again and I feel like I've been awake a billion years but it's only actually been 16 hours (my normal day is 18 hours long. Your day should not be 18 hours though try to avoid being awake that long if at all possible. It is not at all possible for me. Anyway.)

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 8d

Someone is making loon calls in the hallway for some reason. Like it's clearly a person doing an imitation of a loon.

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M. Gordon @dimespin.bsky.social · 8d

In reality sometimes you can arrive at shockingly specific experiences from very different angles and sometimes metaphors are a great way of opening that avenue of shared experience. Remember, everyone thinks plastic bags full of plastic bags are their family's thing.

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