Daniel C. Hodges

Taking care of Tom is "doing stuff"; I highly recommend it.

Tomorrow I pick up Margo the bloodhound in north–central Indiana and drive her to her new home in western Arizona. It's my first volunteer, rescue-animal, long-haul transport. Wish me luck!

I have bottomless contempt for the Americans who put him there. Never for a moment has there been a legitimate, defensible reason to support him — not in 2016, not in 2020, not in 2024, and not now. Trump voters have always been without excuse. They own him, and all the harm he has done and will do.

roadhouseendgame i was talking to my mom about cardassians and said something along the lines of what must it be like to be a cardassian civilian. like abstractly knowing the rest of the galaxy thinks of your species as 'the evil ones' and kinda sorta knowing your government runs labor camps and torture prisons and is a military empire, and it's a huge deal for everyone else in the galaxy, but you just like run a restaurant so it's not a big part of your daily life, so you just like, go about your day and make soup and don't think about it' and then halfway through my sentence i actually heard myself and then had to go sit down for like ten minutes. like sat down in a chair and stared at the floor for ten minutes

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The West Wing: Stranded in New Hampshire: Donna's [CLIP] | TNT YouTube video by TNT

youtu.be/MuwLT3EmPQc #canwehaveacivilization‽

Lord Love a Duck - Wikipedia

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@davekellett.bsky.social Happy Pretend to be e.e. cummings Day!

Comic. [Person is sitting at a desk with a laptop, turned toward voice coming from off-panel.] VOICE FROM OFF-PANEL: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight. Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them. Be back later! PERSON’S THOUGHT BUBBLE: Oh no. [caption] Help. It actually happened. I shouldn’t. But how can I not!?

Plums

xkcd.com/3209/

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I hacked car charging to work with my electric bike!

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Have you seen the new trailer?

One of the greatest bollard walks in history.
#WorldBollardAssociation

*Nothing but Trouble* (1991)

7of9: You became sexually aroused in my body!

The Doctor: [non-verbal uhhhhhhh face]

Product image of a white plastic bottle labeled "Insta-Flo: Odorless Drain Cleaner" with a green & red color scheme.

Re: drain-cleaning, have you ever tried this stuff? It was recommended to us last year, and it turned out to be crazy effective! Kinda scary, too, with how it fizzes & sizzles, but it's great for our century-old narrow drains.

WIP checkpoint! ⭐ QRP with your WIP

#Art #WIP

Is non-fiction Wikipedia writing… art? It's a **kind** of creative endeavor—albeit sterile, dry, and unevocative, but hey, it's what I got.

Every time I plug my 'space-gray' MacBook into a USB-C to charge, I get super-paranoid remembering from *Sherlock*'s "A Study in Pink":

> Power connection: tiny little scuff marks around the edge of it. […] You never see those marks on a sober man's phone; never see a drunk's without them.

Just realized I have to be back up in less than four hours to get ready for a 75-minute drive to a 30-minute doctor's appointment. Then, I've a date with @scottcranfill.com in the afternoon. Maybe I can squeeze in a nap?

Travel day for fun, or travel day for not-fun?

"Well, I'm personal aide to the president, so my supervisor's a little busy right now looking for a back door to this place to shove you out of, but I'll let him know you'd like to lodge a complaint." #westwing

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

@librophilia.bsky.social is playing a new game, *The Alters*. Her first main quest: "ESCAPE THE SUN". Yeah? Preach, game! The sun is my least-favorite star!

As long as we can prove that we can support ourselves financially, we can move to Longyearbyen without a visa and live there for as long as we want. What do you say? I'm in if you are. @scottcranfill.com? @librophilia.bsky.social? (I've thought about this a lot.)

Left wrist is still only at about 80%. I don't know the medical terms, but if my palm-down hand were a starship, it's the port yaw movement that's still giving me trouble.

@peterclines.com Mr. Clines, I'm sorry to bother you, but I can't seem to find your sequel to *Paradox Bound* listed anywhere online! I was hoping you could point me in the right direction. Cheers!

Shaxs from Star Trek Lower Decks is pictured. He's a cartoon, because Lower Decks, besides being the best effing show ever, is a cartoon. Shaxs is a big burly man wearing his gold Star fleet uniform and also an apron over the front like he's doing some sort of art project or baking a nice sourdough. In each hand he's holding a broken bottle like that thing you do where you take a bottle and break off the bottom and then use it as a weapon. His eyeballs are bulging large, his brow is furrowed, and he looks absolutely unhinged with rage and fury. Closed caption reads, "Fighting fascism is a full time job!"

Fake advertisement for Draft Kings in a print copy of The Onion. In the front of a photo of a house with a foreclosure sign, it reads: "Draft Kings Earn a free $10 toward buying back your house."

excellent work by @theonion.com this month

I think the kids would call that in 'interquel'.

Could it just be a Bonnie story set between *Toy Story 3* and *4*?

@scottcranfill.com Is this the tea you thought I might actually like?

Working at Wards during its death throes, we sold Razor scooters that very last year. We ended up with a non-salable one, so we, in electronics & appliances, co-opted it for our nigh-constant trips through the warehouse to check on stock. On the slick concrete floors back there, it was pretty fun!