Current meaning of "checks and balances":
Checks: please write them to Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch
Balances: When we, the aforementioned, deposit said checks, our bank balances will increase.
I am the world's most mediocre gardener, but decided to do a very small amount of container gardening off the small, sunken patio in the condo we bought last Oct.
There's something purely magical at the amount that a plant can grow in a month, even for a black thumb like me.
There are plenty of things I don't like about Biden, but I can sympathize at how gut-wrenching it must be to not put his thumb on the scale for Hunter, especially having lost one adult son already. The fact that he knows he can't ethically do anything doesn't remove the pain of it.
@darthbluesky.bsky.social, Stan is giving me the most intense "J'ACCUSE" look in my life because I dared to hold him and use a wet wipe to remove some frankly odoriferous poop stuck in his butt fluff.
Please support me in this! It was for his own good!
The low-key funniest habit from our dog Stan is that when we're cooking, he'll sometimes be REALLY curious.
Whining and staring us down...until we pick him up and let him see what's cooking. Literally just looks at it and sniffs...and then gets ground and he's fine, totally chill.
He's a FOODIE
Of all my personal and professional failings, nothing elicits as much self-disgust as picking up a can of soda to rinse and recycle and realizing that I left about a third of it to get warm and flat.
I’m history’s greatest monster, and I’m very sorry about that.
I bought a condo (first home purchase) with my fiancee last November, and man, nothing reinforces the wisdom of buying below our means than her company going under in April. While it’s a blow, we are able to make mortgage payments indefinitely even w/o her income, with only modest belt-tightening.
Blasting Noah Kahan's "Stick Season" while cleaning is a roller coaster of alternating (1) energetically bopping along and (2) listening to the lyrics and having two-minute episodes of intensely concentrated major depression.
My favorite genre of graphic design is when bigots try so hard to make a marginalized group look scaaaaaaary and instead make them look fucking baller instead.
That feeling of satisfaction when you look at the weather, see it’s mid-50s with blustery rain all day, and prepare to do some SERIOUS hygge in your condo Hobbit hole…
I don't know if he thought he was being subtle or using Force Powers™️ on me, but he DID eventually get down and get the toy himself.
While giving me side eye. Because dachshund.
Blue Angels over show central at the 2018 Traverse City Cherry Festival.
Also my first "date" with my now-fianceé: a two-day road trip to the UP of Michigan and Traverse City...
