My car needs a new transmission now and I just can't deal anymore. Everything is too expensive, I can't afford anything, and now this. I'm starting to think that the cost of living in this country is catching up to me so fast that I could very well end up homeless in a year.

I had to call up the internet provider because my internet wasn't working and the customer service guy just stopped in the middle of the call and said, "You know, you're really nice. I really appreciate you being so nice and polite." What kind of monsters have hurt these poor people?

Grrr, I greatly dislike when it's this kind of word in this kind of game. Sorry for the MacWordle spoiler, but I reckon none of my followers are playing this game. (It's Wordle, but in Scots. And no, it's not affiliated with the New York Times, don't worry.)

I just can't write like I used to. I manage 3000 words a day, maybe, but there was a time I was doing 8000 words regularly. Just have to have great ideas that flow out of your fingertips, I guess.

Watches, for sure. I'd take most Casios or a Citizen Ecodrive or even a Grand Seiko on the higher end over a high horology piece (other than the fact that I'd want to pawn a £30K watch for cash if I had such a thing). Expensive watches are just expensive bracelets.

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 2d ago

What is your favorite example of when the cheap version of a product is legit better than the expensive one?

I got two double egg yolks this morning. Dana's mum said I should buy a lotto card.

Probably the best apple ever, though I'm a sucker for Grimes Golden. I tie them for first.

old fruit pictures@pomological.xor.blue · 2d ago

cox orange apples, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1931

If you're named after me, you get to be my lady-in-waiting in the Otherworld, where I will give you a new name. And you can have my food, but only because I like to share.

ponder@ponder.ooo · 2d ago

if ur named after the goddess ur allowed to eat the offerings at her temple that's how it works right

It's been INCREDIBLY wet out here in New England these past couple of months, even though there were a few dry spells in between. It's wreaking havoc on us.

Orchard Notes@orchardnotes.com · 2d ago

Codling moth! And brown rot! I'm seeing an awful lot of it this year. I reckon my #allotment #apples might end up with damage rates of 80%-90% 😡 orchardnotes.com/2026/08/03/e... How about you? Are you seeing similar problems, or have your trees escaped the ravages of this particular p&d combo?

I was awakened this morning by one of the loudest cracks of thunder I've ever heard, followed by sudden torrential rains and a notification on my phone saying there was a flash flood warning. So much for my morning walk!

*me, a professional* Just €20 a month for fruit? I spend twice that much a week JUST on apples. I reckon you leave yourself about €200 a month for fresh fruit, just to be safe.

Ustinäherungswert@ustinoff.eurosky.social · 3d ago

20€ im Monat für frisches Obst? Das ist fast nichts!

I'm a crempog with maple syrup (Welsh New Englander).

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 3d ago

If a person born to one Italian parent and one Jewish parent is a "Pizza Bagel," does that make someone with mixed Greek and Jewish parentage a "Gefilte Gyro"

There's a Scottish TikToker who just got a whole bunch of bigots upset because she pointed out that people of any "race" or ethnic background can be (or become) Scottish. Racist Englishmen are out there trying to police other countries' national and ethnic identities, amazing.

See, that's how it should be spelt. mathonỽy!

Mathonwy@mathonwy.bsky.social · 3d ago

We need to go back to Middle Welsh spellings so I can be Mathonỽy again. Love to have a Middle Welsh V in my name instead of a Modern Welsh W. Maybe I should sign my name that way.

We need to go back to Middle Welsh spellings so I can be Mathonỽy again. Love to have a Middle Welsh V in my name instead of a Modern Welsh W. Maybe I should sign my name that way.

Jehovah's Witness: Could we talk to you about morality in the world? Me: Ok, but before you start, I'm a queer pagan goddess and I think that's rad and very moral. I have some thoughts about the lack of morality in the world though, if you want to talk about it. JW: ...Well, here's a pamphlet. Bye!

Enbies in armour is literally my fetish, if I could be said to have one. I've gone out of my way to take Dana to armouries just to see if they could put some on for me. I have a "Dana's suit of armour" savings account.

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 4d ago

Women wearing knight armor That's it That's the skeet

As we've been saying, (these) men aren't lonely enough, actually.

Travis Miller@justtmill.bsky.social · 5d ago

Spotted on the Fullcast reddit. This is incredible levels of divorced:

Farming and homemaking and motherhood aren't glamourous. That's the lie that cottagecore and tradwifery try to sell you. We wear welly boots and overalls and hoodies and work gloves and ugly hats that protect from sun and rain. We don't put on makeup to change diapers or milk cows. It's all fake.

I first critiqued "cottagecore" like 10 years ago and I hate to be the one who said I told you so, but I do feel (sadly) vindicated that I called it perfectly. Just a foothold into launching young women into the tradwife nonsense.

It's a good, silly romp that holds up, I say.

malort d'arthur🏳️‍⚧️@kiraculous.net · 4d ago

hey everyone, what is your honest opinion of the movie Hackers?

I was a good lady-in-waiting today. I did the dishes, took out the rubbish, washed and dried and folded laundry, and I cleaned the kitchen. Now someone wait on me. I want to be served my tea.

When I was maybe 19 or 20 and in the height of my elegant goth fashion days with black petticoats and corsets and Victorianesque dresses, I was in a shop just standing in queue and I overheard a little girl say, "Look, daddy! It's a real princess!"

Shawn Connolly@divinecoffeebinge.bsky.social · 4d ago

Like 15 years ago I was sitting in a CVS waiting to pick up a prescription for my wife and a mom was there waiting too with her little girl and the little girl looked at me and whispered (loudly, in that little kid way), "Mommy... is that a *human?*" I hope that kid is having a great life 😊

Dana and I always start out with Dana as the little spoon, and we wake up inexplicably with me as the little spoon.

Natey Potatey@nateypotatey.bsky.social · 4d ago

My wife sleeps in a series of gunshot victim poses

Downplay a book or movie: The Vassal of the Rings

malort d'arthur🏳️‍⚧️@kiraculous.net · 4d ago

downplay a book or movie: the kitten, the woman, and the chest of drawers

I 'hink I need mair coffee, lassies.

[family groupchat] Dana's Dad: We have to cook for twelve people tonight. Dana's Mum: See? I told you we should have chained Mathonwy to the stove to keep her from leaving. Dana: For the last time, you can't keep her as a scullery maid. Me: *shrug* I wouldn't mind, really. Dana's Mum: Good lass!

Eating Vermont cheddar cheese for lunch.

Downplay a Book or Movie: 2001: A Space Errand

malort d'arthur🏳️‍⚧️@kiraculous.net · 4d ago

downplay a book or movie: a deal for joy