Chumbus

@chumbus.bsky.social

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Don't care what they do about Daylight Savings or not. I'm waiting for the movement to fix the 12/1 AM/PM stupidity. A contiguous 1-12 (and all times with such as the hour) should all be either AM or PM. It should switch over when the hour "resets," i.e. 1 o'clock. I get so mad.

Just thinking about that interview where Keanu Reeves is asked what happens when we die and he answers "The people who love us miss us very much" and when my stepdad, a Buddhist, was dying, he was visited by a Zen master and asked him the same question and he gave that answer (with credit to Reeves)

putting on the thick leather raptor-handling gloves so that the cat, who gets violent about being touched under optimal conditions and who has now splattered its own backside with wet poop, can be cleaned up. they have not, in the past, been sufficient.

I like Jimothy and I'm glad people are, by extension I think, suddenly showing love to dogs with short spine syndrome. However, my concern is that the inevitable thing that happens when people decide a specific physical defect in dogs is cute is going to happen.

on some strongass antibiotics for diagnostic reasons. I feel like I should take advantage of this somehow like roll around in poop or something? But I don't want to do that? But like that?

The bug trap Mom uses in the kitchen (plugin UV light sticky surface combo thing) says on the package it "kills 99.9% of bugs trapped." So the remaining 1 out of 1000 bugs stays alive forever stuck in the adhesive? Also did they check how many bugs were alive? Take their tiny pulses?

If I was a chef and somebody tried to be a little bitch about exactly how much their meat was cooked I'd throw them out of the restaurant. Like, what are you even doing. "Wauuu it's medium and I wanted medium rare." What is your problem. You infant. Eat the goddamn food I made you, it's FINE.

How long do you think someone's wayward grocery order has to be sitting in the rear entryway of our apartment building before it's considered abandoned and I can scavenge? It has fresh meat and frozen stuff; they obviously did not intend to have it sit there all day. It's been there 8+ hours now.

If a guy is unremarkable looking everyone is like "ugh it's like GenericHumanMale.PNG" and if there is anything remotely distinctive about his appearance everyone is like "LOL you can tell this dude jerks off with sardine oil" or something. If anyone ever wonders why I don't want to be perceived.

When I was around 7-9 years old my dad had a parcel delivery job and sometimes I had to go with him and he'd let me navigate. He had a thick book of paper grid maps of cities and towns in our region including several of ours. I was a pro with that shit. I kind of miss using that skill.

Michael D. Green, PhD@michaeldgreen.phd · 4w ago

Can’t lie, the fact that y’all were driving with PAPER maps is insane. Even worse, you had to ask random strangers for directions??

I like Wikipedia; I've given money before. I'd be more inclined to give now if it'd quit fucking apologizing for asking. I do not believe they are sorry. Either you think it's wrong to do this, in which case stop, or you don't, in which case you're just saying sorry to be pathetic.

A popup on Wikipedia that begins "Sorry to interrupt, but only a fraction of readers will see this" and asks me for $2.75A notification on Wikipedia titled July 8: Wikipedia still can't be sold, which reads in part, We're sorry we've made several attempts to reach you. It's Wednesday, July 8, and Wikipedia is seeing fewer readers this year so your visit means a lot. If everyone reading this gave $2.75 today, we'd hit our goal quickly.

I feel like in Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, if people knew the stone gargoyles could talk and had feelings and stuff it might affect religion or worldview generally. Also are the gargoyles Catholic?

I am not an expert understander of Bluesky but something that annoys me and diminishes the usefulness of the site is that sometimes if I click on a topic that is "Trending" most or all of the posts shown have nothing to do with such and don't even contain the relevant phrase. Maybe this is fixable?

I thought the little rock guy was cute, and I am saying that up front because aside from that I do not understand what everyone is talking about when they say how great Project Hail Mary was

I am alone with the cats. I glance at my phone - the time is 9:11. I am too tired to muster a witty remark or reference so I just say "ooooo" and show them the phone. They appreciate the thought.

Several homes ago, we had a minor mouse problem. It might have been less minor if not for my sweet little cat, who hunted them relentlessly and obsessively. More often than not she'd bring them to me still alive, sometimes barely injured, sometimes drawing their final breaths.