Is there some kind of global shortage of DMC 310 embroidery floss or is the Michael’s near me just terrible at knowing what to stock? This is like the third straight time they’ve been out of plain ol’ black.
Colleen Barry
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Copy editor (ProPublica, FiveThirtyEight, ESPN), baker, cross stitcher, cat furniture. she/her
Bertie is huge and has never really been able to figure out laps.
That thing where a cat sees your hand coming in for pets and raises their head to meet it
"Western Massachusetts is none of our business" was Lovecraft's only insight that aged well
“Find some fucking hustle.” No. One day you will be dead and you will not get the high score for doing the most. Do enough and let yourself off the hook for the rest.
Caught up on “Slow Horses” and made what I believe is a complete list of River Cartwright’s skills: 1. Running
Your neighbor is outside in the dark doing a lot of stuff with an electric saw and duct tape. Do you: A. Ignore it. It’s probably not a body, let’s not get the cops involved. B. Ignore it. It’s probably a body and you don’t need to get yourself on a murderer’s shit list.
Trying to book a table as a cascade of Reese’s Pieces falls out of the open box (movie, half gone) in the front of my purse, just thinking
If you want lettuce at the farmers market today, you better be ready to fistfight someone with Birkenstocks and an NPR tote bag
Real questions I have asked my cats this week: “OK, who started it?” “Could we compromise on still attacking my foot at 3 a.m. but reducing the claw involvement?” “Are you huffing paint?” And the classic: “Why are you sticky?”
Fact: Castle of the TV show “Castle” is revealed to have a previous law enforcement hottie muse who he quickly slept with and then threw over. Fact: Beckett keeps him on a string for years before they hook up. Therefore: Kate Beckett is Anne Boleyn. In this essay, I will …
I don’t always close my curtains at night because, you know, who’s looking in my second-floor windows? But today I got the answer to that question: a power company employee on a cherry picker.
I’m gonna drive my Yaris until the transmission falls out
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 2mo agoWe need to bring back the hatchback. The people don't want sedans. They don't want stationwagons. They don't want SUVs and crossovers. They want indestructible sporty little hatchbacks with carrying capacity that feels like a bag of holding.
This game is great, and I enjoyed it even more when I realized there is an option (in the settings under “gameplay”) to turn off the cat’s death animation, so when you die the screen just fades to black.
Humble@humblebundle.com · 2mo agoLost, alone and separated from family, untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find your way home in Stray, now 50% off during the Humble Summer Sale. https://bit.ly/4xd4IOx
In Boston, U-Haul roofs are like teeth: not covered by your regular insurance.
Invite me to your group DMs on “The End of Oak Street” because that ending turned me into Chidi Anagonye
This is hard... (IG: josh.harmon and jonbatiste)
Just found an Easter egg on Wikipedia! On the page for double dactyls (a type of poem), there's a sentence that's formatted as a normal line of text, but it's actually a stanza of double dactyl poetry! And... THE PLOT THICKENS! 1/2
Even scammers can fall into the dreaded find-and-replace trap! Presumably last month they were sending fake recall notices about a “May 2026 purchase,” so when they updated to June, they hit “replace all” and wound up regretting “any inconvenience this June cause.”
Forced to interact with Facebook to try to get rid of some old furniture, and, sure, every interaction infuriating, but at least no one actually shows up to take the furniture.
The use of “Storm on the Sea of Galilee” is for sure pandering to me specifically. (Though I wish they’d trusted the Mes of the world to recognize it without being told.)
Angus Johnston@angus.bsky.social · 2mo agoMe when Ride or Die is pandering to someone who is me-adjacent: “Ah. Clever. I see what you did there.” Me when Ride or Die is pandering to me specifically:
Listen, I know you’ve been told that posts with images get more engagement, but I block or mute accounts I see posting AI slop, so maybe just try text or stock images? Please?
