Much Ado About Nothing For Tax Purposes

St. Simeon the Holy Fool@simeonthefool.bsky.social · 13h ago

Great Expectations for Tax Purposes

My Teacher Is An Alien has enough natural cliffhangers and a lot of scenes that would have to be expanded to make any sense on screen. BUT there's no way you could do My Teacher Flunked The Planet justice with a kid-friendly rating so no one could take it up knowing the book series was impossible.

Tom Ewing@tomewing.bsky.social · 2d ago

I am now wondering if there are *any* children’s books you could get an excellent 10 hour series out of

Our ballots got here, so at least in some parts of the Boston area delivery for ballots going to voters has not been screwed with and is running remarkably fast. Earliest mail date was Oct 1, and I had confirmed that night on the MA Sec Of State's website that mine had entered the USPS system.

The series that got me through the health stuff in late spring early summer? Took me from wanting someone to get Humiliation Conga treatment at the end of Book 1 to Wait Nope They've Had Enough within the first chapter or two of Book 2. Never underestimate the power of a good POV character shift.

Carly Lane-Perry@carlylane.bsky.social · 2w ago

Truly, romance authors' ability to take a previous book's antagonist and successfully spin them into a love interest worthy of their own HEA is UNPARALLELED

I would have way too much fun with the fact reality is, I can frame my motivations for a lot of my stances on things in ways extremely racist religious conservatives will nod along to right up until my conclusion is revealed.

Nick Kodama 🌳👻@nickkodama.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hey. If the nyt invited you to be part of a focus group what would you do as a bit?

Re This case: Most media are focusing on their own states, but this was a multi-state trip. The person took the whole route of the Southwest Chief, so Illinois through the midwest, then across S. Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona before LA. Then up the coast, and back across on California Zephyr.

Person with measles rode Amtrak trains and buses across CA, health officials say

The California Department of Public Health said the unvaccinated passenger stopped at six California stations, including downtown Sacramento.

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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H.@drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 3w ago

Enforce Quarantines for Cases A passenger with measles passed through at least six counties on Amtrak – Alameda, Butte, Kern, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Joaquin – while making multiple transfers. www.ktvu.com/news/califor...

Rabies is 100% fatal if untreated. Please help spread the word about the exposure at the Farm Adventures mobile petting zoo in North Carolina. The vaccine is incredibly effective and will save your life. Also…. Rabies at a petting zoo!?!? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Four baby goats at mobile petting zoo in North Carolina test positive for rabies

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said the petting zoo held events involving children and elderly people between July 28 and Thursday.

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'Mommy, why are you calling it a parade if there aren't any floats?' Me at over 40: still thinks the inauguration day parade the day Reagan stopped being president deserved floats, fireworks, a couple of county high school marching bands, the works. And then at the end of the year, Berlin Wall.

Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

What's the first historic event that you remember?

immediately had to search for the video of Dolly and Patti singing Shortnin’ Bread while keeping the rhythm with their acrylic nails youtu.be/AOxsQNVOhro

Dolly Parton & Patti LaBelle play 'Shortnin' Bread' on their Acrylic Nails

YouTube video by Happy Mag

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Pokopia. Player can't die, I own any home I want via the cunning use of flags, and even though it's a post-apocalyptic environment somehow my current problem is a turtle who lives next to a waterfall, a hot springs, a fountain plaza, & a fountain IN the hot springs but still wants more humidity.

Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · 2mo ago

You're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?

"There is no medical reason to eat sugar" and because I had a family history of Type II he forced me to agree with him before he'd hand over the ER discharge paperwork. I had eaten 8fl oz of full-sugar Jell-O before coming in, thinking the might-be-appendix pain was from not eating the day before.

Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"

When I was a freshman in high school, a new store opened near my house. Mom was there on opening day during the Beanie Baby frenzy and completely on impulse bought me a purple bear without processing what she had. As of this Christmas, Princess will have been my adventure companion for 28 years.

miss fern (scary) 🏳️‍⚧️🎃@miss-fern.bsky.social · 2mo ago

unseal your cards, unseal your comics, take things out of the fucking box. it's all just cardboard and plastic. fuck the resale market

Best film adaption of The Odyssey, wrong answers only The special extra epilogue edition where he cannot die until he travels the earth to find a place Darth has not reached with the gospel of the humble potato, of course. (Which does not exist but *should*.)

Mark Watney Dips Potato in Crushed Vicodin

Alt: Mark Watney In The Martian Announces He Is Going To Dip A Potato in Crushed Vicodin

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St. Simeon the Holy Fool@simeonthefool.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Best film adaption of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

I really wish some of them would also be aimed explicitly at adults, though. Matrix-style planners would work great with my brain, but the companies that print them assume the user is too young for weekend responsibilities including religious (even when made for high schoolers, who aren't).

Structured Success@structuredsuccess.ca · 3mo ago

It's not childish to adapt child-focused ADHD strategies to work for you as an adult. Visual schedules, sticker charts, token economies, and other strategies get talked about as if they are only for kids, when they could help so many adults as well

First time in recorded history that a man has been simultaneously arrested by the cops and the fashion police

blippy@blippy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

those pants are insane wtf

A comment someone made tonight reminded me that in the church I grew up in, it is currently 5 months until the next guaranteed mention Mary even existed at all and 6 months since the last one. (The crucifixion passage with her in John didn't really get used.)

I find any 'support our troops' twist to July 4th ironic because it was the one day of the year my WW2 draftee grandfather's service was disrespected by even his wife. He got out with exactly ONE lasting traumatic symptom due to a food supply line collapse: hot dog aversion. 'But they're $1 today!'

Someday I would like someone to do a study on the selective deafness of doctors who on hearing a patient fears not being given available personally preferred treatment options that are medically valid if they go against population norms comfortingly offers reassurance the norms shall be upheld.

A decade ago, I basically dropped off the Internet other than what was needed for wedding planning. I went to bed very late in the night crying bc I'd lost two people I should have known but never had the chance to meet to known or presumed homophobic violence outside gay bars.

Now that I've made a fool of myself mistaking Yep for Yolen. Devil's Arithmetic was the Holocaust book technically no one made me read but if I hadn't already on my own before I hit Night as an assignment in 8th grade I don't think I would have gotten as much from it.

It's almost 90° degrees. The AC meters are officially not running so the system is definitely down. We are barely keeping inside temps even with outside. I just had to check The Weather Channel's temp map to make sure I was in the same reality as the It's Nice In MA chorus in World Cup threads.

So let me get this straight. No longer recognized by the US military: faiths followed by multiple founding fathers. Recognized by the US military: a group that believes any military service incl failure to evade a draft by running or acceptance of jail time means self-removal from the religion.

I really want to have WORDS with my doctor's office about how much they've shifted to online. The DO YOU FEEL SAFE AT HOME questionnaire? App. At least when County Health kept me from reporting abuse in TN, a staffer technically could have seen someone was reading my answers as I filled it out.

My dear Tapewood, Be sure to direct your patient to personally slash funding for cattle disease monitoring programs. It will make his inevitable surprise at unexpected cattle epidemics and the resulting beef shortages ever so much more delectable. Your affectionate Uncle, SCREWWORM

George Pearkes@peark.es · 4mo ago

Welp *USDA CONFIRMS DEADLY SCREWWORM IN US CATTLE

Reminder: in the religious group he grew up in, 'just keep trusting it'll be okay even if you don't see how', is just about as dire a statement as they're really allowed to say as an assessment of reality. Positive Thinking doesn't allow you to say things are not going to be okay.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Good lord, really at late stage maga here

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

He insisted on following Elements Of Style to the every single letter, whole defining 'writer' as requiring selection for publication by non-vanity editorial staff. Meaning a rubric for the entire dept that was half how to be graded down for having style or using much of the grammar curriculum.

Currently wondering how many New England Episcopalian priests are wondering if it's too late to switch to Eucharistic Prayer C in thanks the near-miss missed. (If that thing that exploded over the bay had come down not that long later? A reasonably major city would have taken a near-direct hit.)

Good news, Boston friends! Today we might have successfully dodged a meteor strike!

Dennis Mersereau 🛰️@wxdam.com · 5mo ago

GLM Lightning Mapper might point to a bolide (fireball) causing that very large boom over southern New England a little while ago.

Apparently I do like at least some romance tropes, they just have to be the right romance tropes. The final 3.5 books of a 4 book series in under 24 hours Thursday. I haven't had my reading stamina back since the pandemic started and all the marathons I've managed were rereads or near-rereads.