Mostly I’m just struggling with the fact that I was a college freshman 25 years ago.

the youths don’t remember Freedom Fries but we remember

Wrote “adult toothpaste” on the grocery list, so now I guess I gotta find some real sexy toothpaste.

Cleaning up in the kitchen, put the cats away in the cat shelves.

The girl doing my hair was talking about going to Warped Tour in 2019. I told her I went in ‘98, when Green Day was still setting their drums on fire, and I became the “okay, grandma” meme.

Bluesky is not for Brands, I know. But if you’re south of Pittsburgh and are looking for portraits of your kid, get in touch. If you’re not, look at my kid! He’s cute as hell.

We’re all fine, but a truck didn’t stop at a stop sign and instead just drove right into the side of our van. First time I’ve been in any kind of accident with the kids in the car, thankfully it hit behind the seats so they just got shook around a little.

I remember my brother disassembling our Atari to see what was going on in there. Kids aren’t gonna be allowed to take apart iPhones.

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Today, children are increasingly confined to considering the surfaces of things... It would be remarkable if such dramatic changes in children’s exposure to the underlying architectures of devices had no downstream effects on how they think about causal relationships in the world around them."

I had tickets to see the Replacements when I was like 8 1/2 months pregnant and they canceled. His first in utero concert was White Wives and Homeless Gospel Choir.

John Moe@johnmoe.bsky.social · 2w ago

How about this? Best concerts that you ALMOST got to see but DIDN’T. Include reasons if you like: Rolling Stones (play rehearsal) Johnny Cash (I dallied) R.E.M. (play performance) Nirvana (canceled, college declined to pay requested $500 appearance fee)

John walked in while I was fussing with menus on the new camera, and he asked “is that the new one?!” and his face lit up. We do not have a “hiding Amazon deliveries from each other” kind of relationship, he’s just real stoked for me.

Everything seems like a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

I think it's bad to have broad social acceptance of pseudoscience and woo woo shit due to some notion of gentleness and tolerance bc it makes the culture at large less of either of those things.

To the 11 year old: “Hey, we don’t call people stupid. It’s a weak burn, come up with a better insult.”

Tits at half mast today for Dolly.

Did an interview today with someone writing for Fast Company, talked about Punk Rock Entrepreneur. Hopefully I don’t sound like an idiot.

I say things like “what tragedy has befallen you?” to my children, and I think this is why the other bus stop moms don’t want to talk to me.

Every drag show this weekend is going to have to make some very hard choices

I have two kids in two different schools now, and it’s making my morning routine weird. I used to get them both out of the house together, but now I get one out the door at 7 and then like… sit and have coffee for an hour before I have to wake up the other kid.

It was nice of Tim to hang in there one more day.

The grim reaper is grabbing all the wrong heauxes!!!!!!!

My grandparents both loved Dolly Parton, they took me and my brother and cousin to Dollywood when we were kids. 80 isn’t a bad run, though, and god knows she did a lot with the time she was given.

Pulled the trigger on a little Fujifilm mirrorless system today. Picked up the XT5, a 23mm f/2 and a 56mm f/1.4. Prepare yourselves for test shots.

Shots! Shots! Shots Shots Shots Shots! Shots!

Wife: Surprise! I'm pregnant! King Solomon: Oh no! Wife: I thought you said you wanted to be a dad! King Solomon: I said I'd love to halve kids!!

It’s our first year wirh a kid at the middle school, and I’m trying to help this dude stay organized but he has eight classes and there are so many notebooks and folders, this bookbag weighs 45 pounds.

Break bad premises, don't accept them. Receive obstacles as problems to solve toward the goal, not reasons to never pursue the goal. Realize there are enough of us to pursue everything, so there are no distractions, and there is no trolley problem. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...

There Is No Trolley Problem

We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..

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I need a way to block AI food photos forever, that eldritch horror burrito one made me physically ill.

“Do your fucking JOB,” I said aloud, to my own spine.

Fussing with the website so that I can let people know that I do everything, but not make it look like I do everything, because then people don’t trust you to hire.