The Linguist Formerly Known As Pinkkatydid

Earlier Saturday, two U.S. officials told NBC News that the Coast Guard was in the middle of an ongoing operation off the Venezuelan coast. It was first reported by Reuters. The Coast Guard took the lead in the operation, both officials said. The U.S. military supported with helicopters that dropped off Coast Guard personnel and observed overhead, one of the officials said.

I thought I had a pretty good grasp of where the US Coast Guard generally hung out and I actually didn't think Venezuela was one of those places

The White House dwellings at the base of the canyon

A distant shot of the White House showing just how far down the sheared canyon wall it is

The Spider Rock houses high up on the canyon wall

A long shot of the cabin walls with the Utes far behind them

Such a wonderful day to spend at the Hopi cave dwellings in Canyon de Chelly (Tséyi')

Just saw a TikTok comment rudely asking why Bad Bunny was blushing over "his grammy" flirting with him, like Rita Moreno didn't once pull Elvis just to make Brando jealous because she's Rita fkn Moreno and she knew she could. You'd blush too.

And she knows itttt

once in awhile i’m reminded of the sad reality that there’s a lot of progress that still needs to be made in liberal circles. they often don’t oppose ICE or deportations, but just the trump regimes brute-ish way of doing them

They just called a Mara Greenhouse at the service station and I didn't realize "fantasy novel heroine" was one of the deep red rural naming conventions boomers opted for in the 80s.

And my hippie ass SoCal surfer mom picked KATHLEEN?? This is bullshit, stereotypes never show up when you want them 😠

I just saw an ad for that new terrible Tron movie and the featured review just said BIGGEST SCREEN POSSIBLE lmao

Oooof

joining the war on the dodgers. *sigh* on the side of canada

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

'99 broke my poor 12yo heart

You always give me a new perspective

Prismatic Geyser. Bands of red, orange, dark brown, light brown, all underwater with steam all over it. Forested hills in the background under a blue sky.

Bison taking a nap in light golden field with a herd some distance behind him

Old Faithful about to blow mid distance away on a clear day

Some snow far up in the Grand Tetons on a cloudy day

Just a quick life-changing road trip nbd

(Pictures will remain sideways until morale improves or I figure out how to make this app listen to me)

I wish adding photos to posts on this app didn't make me want to scream :)

My dark brown dog sitting in front of a toilet staring at me

The same dog looking sadly down at the floor but somehow still staring up at me

POV you try to take a bubble bath but it immediately starts to thunder outside

Maybe I can do a paper mache thing with it

A bunch of pretty flowers in a big plastic jug of water on a table surrounded by books and a lamp

I like when first dates bring me flowers which leads me to wonder why I always have to scramble to, for instance, knife the top off a plastic water jug in order to keep them alive. This cannot be how other grownups live.

One brown hound dog and one white hound dog looking intently into the water of a lake while standing on the sandy shore

Just two predators ~15 mins after the hatchery guys showed up to restock the lake.

(They did not try to catch a single fish. They just spent 3 hours of enrichment time watching them like an aquarium.)

I'm glad I convinced him to get a working alarm lol

They had to call the gas guys but we figured it out and shockingly enough the cause is my landlord being lazy and cheap

The good news: Absolutely nailed my grandma's tomato pie recipe

The bad news: I had to bake so many things that it caused a carbon monoxide detector to go off and the fire department had to come and I've been microdosing brain death since I moved here two years ago

I recently ordered a "personal back massager" 😉😉 if you know what I mean 😉😉😉 but I'm almost 40 and slept on my neck a lil weird last night so now we get to see how much bang I really got for my buck

Sandy beach at a blue lake surrounded by ponderosa pines

Hiking at the ponderosa pine lakes >>

Him: it's actually true though. I treat language like a blade: beautiful, dangerous, and best wielded with intent. Me: okay that's actually kinda hot

Met another self-described "cunning linguist" on bumble but this one might be salvageable

A screenshot of a reply to one of my photos on hinge. The photo is of my truck at a campsite by the lake. The reply says "you look suspiciously innocent...."

So close, that is a truck

Haha oh no worries then! I'd never heard of the first quote they mention so that was definitely quite interesting!

Sorry, what was I whining about…?

As always, my favorite oft-abridged quote on patriotism:

"My country, right or wrong. If right, to be kept right—if wrong, to be set right."

-an immigrant to the US who volunteered to fight for the Union in our Civil War

JULY 4TH Checklist [picture of a hot dog bun on a late with some veggies] •Hot dogs •Beer •Chips •The unshakeable feeling ofdread that this country is doomed and there is absolutely nothing we can do to prevent its inevitable collapse •Ketchup

Welp, time for leftists' annual tradition of reconciling "cookouts with my friends are fun" with "American nationalism is a plague"

Meet back here in 4 months for "bringing families together over a big shared meal is nice" vs "American nationalism has always been a plague" 🦃