A trick I learned for managing feline territorial issues on the bed: I put down small towels near the corners. The cats each claimed a towel and seemed to feel safe there, with THEIR towel acknowledged off-limits by the other cats.
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
A trick I learned for managing feline territorial issues on the bed: I put down small towels near the corners. The cats each claimed a towel and seemed to feel safe there, with THEIR towel acknowledged off-limits by the other cats.
Ah, one of the few* trees that reliably give fall color here in N California. I love them so much, even their ankle-killer maces.
(Oher fall-color trees that thrive here: Chinese pistache, ornamental crabapple, and of course the mighty ginkgo)
(Oher fall-color trees that thrive here: Chinese pistache, ornamental crabapple, and of course the mighty ginkgo)
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Ah, one of the few* trees that reliably give fall color here in N California. I love them so much, even their ankle-killer maces.
(Oher fall-color trees that thrive here: Chinese pistache, ornamental crabapple, and of course the mighty ginkgo)
(Oher fall-color trees that thrive here: Chinese pistache, ornamental crabapple, and of course the mighty ginkgo)
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Nearly a quarter-century ago, Dick Cheney personally meddled in a govt report finding that Klamath Basin fish actually need, y’know, water—an act that led directly to the catastrophic salmon die-off in 2002 and thus paved dam removal’s way. Now Dick’s dead and the Klamath lives. Makes ya think.
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Nearly a quarter-century ago, Dick Cheney personally meddled in a govt report finding that Klamath Basin fish actually need, y’know, water—an act that led directly to the catastrophic salmon die-off in 2002 and thus paved dam removal’s way. Now Dick’s dead and the Klamath lives. Makes ya think.
“I remember the ‘80s” - me
“I remember the ‘40s” - my mom
“why can’t we have somebody like Reagan again” - my siblings
“…sigh….” - me and my mom
“I remember the ‘40s” - my mom
“why can’t we have somebody like Reagan again” - my siblings
“…sigh….” - me and my mom
November 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
“I remember the ‘80s” - me
“I remember the ‘40s” - my mom
“why can’t we have somebody like Reagan again” - my siblings
“…sigh….” - me and my mom
“I remember the ‘40s” - my mom
“why can’t we have somebody like Reagan again” - my siblings
“…sigh….” - me and my mom
Aww. Reminds me of my hard-won tactics when I had kittens: Get the bottom sheet on quick-quick, then make up the rest of the bed right over the squirmy lumps o‘ kitten. Then open up a tunnel out the side so they wouldn’t shred everything when they got tired of their blanket fort.Sometimes it worked!
November 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Aww. Reminds me of my hard-won tactics when I had kittens: Get the bottom sheet on quick-quick, then make up the rest of the bed right over the squirmy lumps o‘ kitten. Then open up a tunnel out the side so they wouldn’t shred everything when they got tired of their blanket fort.Sometimes it worked!
Often when I, eg, load a washer, I think: “fool designer never did a load of laundry in his life”
Lot of that going around in social media tech
Techbros who have no idea how normal people converse keep getting these bro-brilliant ideas that degrade the experience of conversing
Try not to do that plz
Lot of that going around in social media tech
Techbros who have no idea how normal people converse keep getting these bro-brilliant ideas that degrade the experience of conversing
Try not to do that plz
November 1, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Often when I, eg, load a washer, I think: “fool designer never did a load of laundry in his life”
Lot of that going around in social media tech
Techbros who have no idea how normal people converse keep getting these bro-brilliant ideas that degrade the experience of conversing
Try not to do that plz
Lot of that going around in social media tech
Techbros who have no idea how normal people converse keep getting these bro-brilliant ideas that degrade the experience of conversing
Try not to do that plz
Right here in my suburban apt I’ve got neighbors speaking Spanish, Tagalog…. Oh wait I only meant to mention my Bulgarian, Ukrainian, and Swedish neighbors.
Besides, if they‘re COOKING Mexican or Bulgarian or whatever for the block parties they’re better neighbors than the macaroni salad guys :)
Besides, if they‘re COOKING Mexican or Bulgarian or whatever for the block parties they’re better neighbors than the macaroni salad guys :)
October 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Right here in my suburban apt I’ve got neighbors speaking Spanish, Tagalog…. Oh wait I only meant to mention my Bulgarian, Ukrainian, and Swedish neighbors.
Besides, if they‘re COOKING Mexican or Bulgarian or whatever for the block parties they’re better neighbors than the macaroni salad guys :)
Besides, if they‘re COOKING Mexican or Bulgarian or whatever for the block parties they’re better neighbors than the macaroni salad guys :)
How I love coming across a new-to-me yard with a rock collection. I like a pile of landscaper-supplied river rocks just fine, but a bunch of lovingly curated rocks? I’ll stop to look closely at each one. “Why do they love this one?”
(One neighbor has whole logs and stumps of petrified wood!)
(One neighbor has whole logs and stumps of petrified wood!)
October 22, 2025 at 5:29 AM
How I love coming across a new-to-me yard with a rock collection. I like a pile of landscaper-supplied river rocks just fine, but a bunch of lovingly curated rocks? I’ll stop to look closely at each one. “Why do they love this one?”
(One neighbor has whole logs and stumps of petrified wood!)
(One neighbor has whole logs and stumps of petrified wood!)
Same! Except I’m going to sleep about when you’re waking up so it’s
- 10 pm (pacific time): ah the east coast has finally gone to bed wait omg terrible things on the west coast
- 1 am: ah the landscapes in Europe are so lovely, and such pretty birds
- 10 pm (pacific time): ah the east coast has finally gone to bed wait omg terrible things on the west coast
- 1 am: ah the landscapes in Europe are so lovely, and such pretty birds
October 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Same! Except I’m going to sleep about when you’re waking up so it’s
- 10 pm (pacific time): ah the east coast has finally gone to bed wait omg terrible things on the west coast
- 1 am: ah the landscapes in Europe are so lovely, and such pretty birds
- 10 pm (pacific time): ah the east coast has finally gone to bed wait omg terrible things on the west coast
- 1 am: ah the landscapes in Europe are so lovely, and such pretty birds
“Free markets and personal liberties“ is always some guy who has never had to solve a real problem in his life and is pissed off about:
- labor laws, and/or
- age of consent laws
- labor laws, and/or
- age of consent laws
October 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
“Free markets and personal liberties“ is always some guy who has never had to solve a real problem in his life and is pissed off about:
- labor laws, and/or
- age of consent laws
- labor laws, and/or
- age of consent laws
I finally fixed my loom, so I’m winding my father’s old ironwood netting shuttle. He made it some 60 years ago for crabbing in the San Francisco Bay.
October 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I finally fixed my loom, so I’m winding my father’s old ironwood netting shuttle. He made it some 60 years ago for crabbing in the San Francisco Bay.
I just want to spend the rest of my life with Lois McMaster Bujold narrated by Grover Gardner. Gardner is the greatest. He’s surpassed the great, great Frank Muller, IMO.
They both, Bujold and Gardner, sound like they just have so much FUN writing and reading these books.
They both, Bujold and Gardner, sound like they just have so much FUN writing and reading these books.
October 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
I just want to spend the rest of my life with Lois McMaster Bujold narrated by Grover Gardner. Gardner is the greatest. He’s surpassed the great, great Frank Muller, IMO.
They both, Bujold and Gardner, sound like they just have so much FUN writing and reading these books.
They both, Bujold and Gardner, sound like they just have so much FUN writing and reading these books.
I’m wondering what actual military people will be thinking when they‘re looking across a town square at those dumbass fatass cosplaying armed&masked civilian LEOs.
I’m wondering about the conversations among the highest ranking military leaders. They’re in a pickle. They need high-ranking gonads rn.
I’m wondering about the conversations among the highest ranking military leaders. They’re in a pickle. They need high-ranking gonads rn.
October 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I’m wondering what actual military people will be thinking when they‘re looking across a town square at those dumbass fatass cosplaying armed&masked civilian LEOs.
I’m wondering about the conversations among the highest ranking military leaders. They’re in a pickle. They need high-ranking gonads rn.
I’m wondering about the conversations among the highest ranking military leaders. They’re in a pickle. They need high-ranking gonads rn.
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Every other journalist in their Rolodex was already tied up on the phone with a different flag officer. The sports reporter for the Bland County Messenger probably has a two-star blowing up his phone right now, looking for someone to gripe to.
September 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Every other journalist in their Rolodex was already tied up on the phone with a different flag officer. The sports reporter for the Bland County Messenger probably has a two-star blowing up his phone right now, looking for someone to gripe to.
She is like Dolly Parton: balancing vast talent, brilliant business sense, and innate kindness.
Parton never let anybody take financial advantage of her even being such a cute and charming young woman navigating the rapacious music industry of her early days. Then uses HER money for philanthropy.
Parton never let anybody take financial advantage of her even being such a cute and charming young woman navigating the rapacious music industry of her early days. Then uses HER money for philanthropy.
September 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
She is like Dolly Parton: balancing vast talent, brilliant business sense, and innate kindness.
Parton never let anybody take financial advantage of her even being such a cute and charming young woman navigating the rapacious music industry of her early days. Then uses HER money for philanthropy.
Parton never let anybody take financial advantage of her even being such a cute and charming young woman navigating the rapacious music industry of her early days. Then uses HER money for philanthropy.
Same people who believe that honoring the Navajo Code Talkers is silly DEI.
September 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Same people who believe that honoring the Navajo Code Talkers is silly DEI.
I’m on the tracks! Got a few fat tropical splats of rain an hour ago and then just now a minute or two of light sprinkles. Wet dirt! Petrichor!
(First rain of the season, I‘m allowed to do three exclamation points)
(First rain of the season, I‘m allowed to do three exclamation points)
September 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I’m on the tracks! Got a few fat tropical splats of rain an hour ago and then just now a minute or two of light sprinkles. Wet dirt! Petrichor!
(First rain of the season, I‘m allowed to do three exclamation points)
(First rain of the season, I‘m allowed to do three exclamation points)
Old school singer who knows how to use old school microphones 🎤
September 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Old school singer who knows how to use old school microphones 🎤
I backed up to see who was doing those high-lonesome harmonies at the end - it was Seger! So I backed up about ten more times then played it through a few more times. Thanks for this.
September 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I backed up to see who was doing those high-lonesome harmonies at the end - it was Seger! So I backed up about ten more times then played it through a few more times. Thanks for this.
My library has a “banned books“ section. I like this one: 7th-grader does dumb things and smart things; just a normal decent kid trying to figure stuff out. Not even a cuss word in the book. Why banned? Well, the kid is Black? wtf
I like this yarn so much I decided to make myself a little blanket.
I like this yarn so much I decided to make myself a little blanket.
September 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
My library has a “banned books“ section. I like this one: 7th-grader does dumb things and smart things; just a normal decent kid trying to figure stuff out. Not even a cuss word in the book. Why banned? Well, the kid is Black? wtf
I like this yarn so much I decided to make myself a little blanket.
I like this yarn so much I decided to make myself a little blanket.