They were super nice! I was like, this bus is too full, I’ll get the next one and five different people said “no!” and got up to make room. It was very sweet, real holiday spirit kinda stuff.

You don’t need to do anything for me to be proud of you. I’m proud of you just for being who you are. That’s incredibly brave, and you should be proud of yourself. You have yourself a Merry Christmas, kid.

I teach English and Math and do manual labor on the side.

Eartha Kitt

Shirley Henderson

James Earl Jones

Now I’m picturing Drugs and Christmas duking it out over the charred remains of Labor Day.

If there’s such a war, Christmas is winning. It’s conquered Thanksgiving and is marching on Halloween.

I forgot my JBL bluetooth speaker (2017) but it’s on its way out right now — I was using it this afternoon to blast Christmas music while taking the lawn and it was staticy and turning off randomly.

• handmade teacup (2019ish)

• bicycle panniers (2017)

• bicycle pedals (2022)

• winter gloves (2023)

• overlarge lined hoodie (basically a wearable blanket) (2020)

• Nintendo Switch (2022?)

• Tetris GameBoy cartridge (1990?)

• selection of Korean floral teas (2024)

some indie publishers sell PDFs of comics, or include them free when you buy the physical copy

In general, buying straight from the publisher or artist gets the best results for all media.

Be extremely passive whenever I’m off the clock.

Not safe, but a lot less unsafe than acetaminophen.

do I have to

Not at all! But tacos de lengua are basically the perfect hangover food.

In my life, I usually bounce them out of the bar and tell them not to come back.

For you, give him some ibuprofen (NOT acetaminophen) and lots of water and put him to bed. Serve him a breakfast of braise beef tongue and hope for the best.

My wife is determined to make it as stressful and chaotic as she can, and then spend the rest of the year complaining about how stressful and chaotic it was.

Yesterday I transported a seven-foot long, 70# piece of furniture across town by bus.

That sounds pretty upper-class anywhere, I would think.

For the same reason as anime: it was unusual, foreign, and associated with nerds

Shunned? No.

Mocked? Yes.

British comedy like Monty Python

I have tildes, I’ll see if I have invites to give. But, uh, I like it a lot less than the thready fedi.

Jerboa still works tho? But it will never support piefed, so I’m also on the lookout for another RIF-like app. Maybe we should pop over to tildes and try to convince talklittle to make one.