@Nfinitywaltz Whoa. I'm weeping. This was amazing.

@johnlogic @jon I prefer Temu Necromancer.

@0xabad1dea I’m “dreaming of affording that three thousand dollar five meg hard drive for my computer” years old.

@sinituulia we had a fairly cold January (down to about -20 C, -40 to -50 with wind chill) but it’s been much milder this month. We might even hit 15 C this week though it’s supposed to cool back down next weekend, but only to around -5 to 0. After last month that’s practically short sleeves weather!

@sinituulia I just moved back to Michigan last year after not living here for a very long time. I am however a “troll”, or from the lower peninsula (because we live under the bridge!). There’s a lot of (mostly) good-natured rivalry between the two peninsulas. I love them both though. I love the beaches here, winter or summer. It’s kind of wild seeing fresh water as far as the eye can see.

@sinituulia wow, it’s gorgeous. Looks like the upper peninsula of Michigan in the winter. Lots of folks descended from the Finnish diaspora live there too!

@catsalad I'm not a firefighter, but I have friends who are, and I can tell you right now what they'd say.

@MedeaVanamonde @gwynnion poor eels.

@gwynnion I still use "fnord" in conversation sometimes.

Yeah, I love "They Live" and I totally got what Carpenter was saying, but people can oftentimes see what they want to see in a conspiratorial story like that. Fnord is a subtle idea, but its meaning as control is clear.

@ReggieHere @Valent @EugeneMcParland which I think is his point?

@afewbugs also nearly every alliterative “verbing the noun” construction sounds like an euphemism for masturbation.

@alice the worst I EVER felt from a jab (my first shingles vaccine) was a lovely walk in the park compared to the one time I had COVID. I loaded up on a bunch of them in early 2025 as well because I had no idea if they would still be around.

@corbden Not in the case of me skiing. My butt is frequently my upside.

@hacks4pancakes Don't underestimate the power of Vietnamese salon ladies!

@mekkaokereke yep. Lincoln’s goal was never to end slavery, even though he supported abolition. Preserve the Union, no matter what. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in territories under “rebellion”. The only slaves freed during Lincoln’s time were the ones in the District of Columbia, after the Civil War already started.

@falseknees the funny thing is when I learned to just finish my art (music in this case) a lot of them were terrible, but each of them helped me figure out something to make the next one better. And in the last few years, I've made a few things that I like and am proud of!

@Ultraverified @amerpie In an indecent, uncaring, and thoughtless society, that is radical.

@amerpie I hate this holiday because the hypocrisy is palpable. While alive the government did their level best to literally and figuratively destroy this man. And now that he's dead, they've co-opted and watered down his messages to a kindergarten-level "we should all get along" thing.