Emily

Hello I hear you have cheese

brother herbert hauling a bigass carrot

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happy frog sexmas etc

What I just finished reading: Snake Eater by @tkingfisher.com . A nice story about a woman reinventing herself after leaving a bad relationship. Then the folk horrors start gazing into her windows. Cue shotguns.

<sighs>Why did I even attempt to expect anything else?

Fuck youuuuuuuu the number of "whoopsie daisies we are uwu smol bean who got hacked by the big bad wolf" emails I get does not make me think any of this works. Just let me the fuck IN so I can do the executive function-sucking admin

Sign into our website. Sign into your password manager. Verify that you just signed into your password manager. NOW sign into the website. Now enter your OTP. Now reset your password. Now verify that you reset your password. Now return to the login page. Now sign in with your new password. The passw

Look, health insurance, I would LOVE to give you the receipt you're asking for, but you're the one who demanded I reset my password immediately upon login, glitched mid-reset, and am now smugly informing me I can't change my password more than once a day, so I really think I've done my part here

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To reach the coast of Gondor in time, Aragorn rides straight across the plain from Helm’s Deep towards Edoras. With him ride only Legolas, Gimli, his Rangers, and the Sons of Elrond.

When your local newspaper rebrands to cover the whole state then repeatedly can’t distribute the print edition because of problems in Iowa where they moved production to cut costs, you’ve been …

NICKLED AND DES MOINES’D

A fluffy white cat reclines in a modern white lounge chair, lying on its back with its front paws resting on its belly and back legs stretched out. The cat looks relaxed and content, as if lounging like a person in the sunlight near a window.

Good, I see the council is assembled. We have mews from the outer rim to discuss.

"Listen to me:

Our profit from the post office is the post office.

Our profit from a library is the library.

Our profit from a school is the school."

*grimly* I should not be surprised by the fact that a child who was not literate until I myself was in college has never mailed a letter. This is not abnormal. It is 20 fucking 26.

Somehow.

dust, withering, etc

"Our call to care for people and reach across aisles is actually not based on whether they agree with us theologically or not...at the end of the day, feeding people who need to eat is what we're called to do as Christians." @katelynbeaty on 🎙️Holy Post 710

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Pippin cannot sleep. He creeps over to Gandalf and steals the palantír. He looks in and sees the Barad-dûr, then the Nine, then hears the voice of the Dark Lord himself.

He’s released with a message: ‘Tell Saruman that this dainty is not for him. I will send for it at once.’

and she has a sideways face

Ok...so monk seals snort eels. But I hear you asking: What about me?

You can too!

According to a 1440 book of medical advice, you can cure a bloody nose by crushing up dried eel skin & snorting it like blow (through your "nose thirlles").

Don't let the seals have all the fun!
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I understand the desire to rebrand courses so as to attract more students, but I think it would be more effective if universities reinstituted some breadth requirements in the humanities and arts. I believe that @lollardfish.bsky.social has made this point in the past, and I agree.

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

There used to be an old sign by the path, warning passers-by of the local sleeping willow, which would trap the unwary with fatigue, engulf them while they slept, and release them a hundred years later.

There was a new sign:

"This sleeping willow is full."

And a map of other locations to try.

LOVE meeting someone wearing the same outfit

Théoden answers Saruman.

‘Even if your war on me was just—as it was not, for were you ten times as wise, you would have no right to rule me and mine for your own profit as you desired—even so, what will you say of your torches in Westfold and the children that lie dead there?’

Not to be THAT feminist, but I knew this was the case before opening the article. Men see fatherhood as an abstract milestone that's a proof of their virility, women see the associated costs.

Not to mention that women not being locked into domesticity is the core of the antifeminist backlash today.

A frowning, egg-shaped mascot with a cross on his head and a yellow and blue samurai helmet stands in a car park.

Uto City's mascot, Uton Yukinagasyan, is a a legendary local lord but egg-shaped.

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

Merry greets King Théoden at the ruined gates: ‘Welcome, my lords, to Isengard!’ Gandalf leads the king away to meet the Ents.

Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli sit down with Merry and Pippin. They share lunch, stories, and a welcome smoke of Longbottom Leaf (for all but the Elf).

First one that comes to mind is fishing a broken mason jar out of the garbage disposal. I did at least have rubber gloves on