I'm using Google Translate a lot to work out how to say certain things in French and sometimes when a sentence involves the second person it chooses the wrong form for what I need (tu vs vous) but it turns out I can get it to use the desired form by ending the sentence with either "buddy" or "sir" 🙃
*he*!
My cousin visited from Ireland and had about the same response (sans court filings) to taking the tiniest bite possible of peroncini.
Mailer from Friends of Mark Warner to my late mother
I hate to throw Mark Warner under the bus, because as senators go, I think he’s a pretty good one. But the motherfucking democrats need to get their fucking shit together, and not be squandering resources sending mail to people like my mom who died almost 9 years ago. How stale are these lists?!
A spectacular day on the coast! Wild iris growing in patches all over, they have an amazing view of cliffs down to a beach!
What a day, windy and chilly but spectacular.
McClures Beach, CA
#watwrwednesday #pnw
#scape #beaches #nature
#naturephotography
#photographersofbluesky
#wildflowers #iris
#bloomscrolling #flowerreport
#dailyflowers
gorgeous!
All good then. That’s one down, 4,149,489,408 to go.
That A in bowling took it all out of him.
Are we talking about something having been swept under there, or something rolled up in there, or an externalized conception in the style of Soul Coughing's "You get the ankles and I'll get the wrists"?
When I saw someone refer to the Target boycott as being “over,” I thought I haven’t heard of any concessions from Target and I got a feeling my boycott’s not going to be over anytime soon.
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Result! Just received from Grammarly:
"Hi,
Thank you for reaching out.
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky
It’s a good day to buy some books!!!
The other day I meant to order from S&S, but didn't get around to it. Today I ordered from Bookshop.org, with a bonus that I also wrapped up purchase of a @benjaminharnett.com book that had been languishing in the cart for, uh, a while. Getting everything done today!
this might be my next music purchase.
@billyfly.bsky.social you might enjoy this
Henry David Thoreau “Airs at 9 p.m. Monday - Tuesday, March 29 - 30, on WHRO-TV.” …except my calendar has those dates as Sunday and Monday
Is my calendar wrong, or…?
Apropos of nothing at all, here’s a feature article I wrote for Playboy in 2015, about why America can’t win wars anymore. I cover pundits, yes, but also poor planning, strategic missteps, and a breakdown of politics. I was forced out of national security work three months after this got published.
The hackers say they targeted Stryker in retaliation for the bombing of the all-girls school in Iran and that they have wiped more that 200,000 Stryker systems, servers, and mobile devices and stolen 50 terabytes of critical data, forcing Stryker offices in 79 countries to shut down
But sometimes he's a brave young man ready to help raise his baby sister while defending his whole community from zombies and murderous strangers. There's that at least.
Detail from a food package, “A little nosh” in yellow letters on a red background, with six little yellow burst marks above.
Just a little, as a treat.
Has anyone checked on men lately?
If you see this, post a robot
If you see this, post a robot
“I don’t have a list, and I shouldn’t have a list,” she said. “There shouldn’t be a list!” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
I suppose this video is a #FlowerReport as well, from my little corner of Virginia
52 seconds of camellias, the moon, dawn sky, songbirds, and ambient sounds of the city waking up
A zombie dogwood with dawn sky on the left and the moon to the right.
I had to hustle out and get the garbage to the curb, and then I meandered back in by way of the back yard, to see the dawn sky and the half moon hung in the southern sky.
Music for today: Arin Aksberg - daggry projektrecords.bandcamp.com/track/daggry Projekt Records
ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time.
But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned.
But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives.
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Dawn sky over dark neighborhood trees
Here comes Wednesday
Morning walk
