the heart knows what it wants

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[axiolotl]

hehe

[mysortofstar]

does anyone actually think talking about the weather is bad small talk. i love talking about the weather. i would talk about the weather with my closest friend and im going to talk about it with YOU 🫵

[axiolotl]

i fucking love cats dude because Betty was not the kind of cat to find me and hang out with me but Complain until i went and found her and hung out with wherever she wanted to be

she'd wake me up in the morning for food and i'd feed her, then go back to bed. all done right? transaction over? NO! ☝️once she was done she started meowing again. not because she was still hungry, but because she wanted to hang out. but NOT in my bed, where i am. she wanted to lay in the sunshine in the living room but she wanted me to be there too

and i know this because one morning i fed her then went back to sleep on the couch, and she did Not meow again. theory proven. she wanted me to be bodily present while she rolled around in the sunlight

[brighthounds]

This tragic expression is because I gave her a cod chew this morning instead of a Costco dental bone (we are all out). 😔

[whyisablog]

Rest in peace dental bones... 😔

[brighthounds]

phenomenal, ty

[hellenhighwater]

Oh noooooo due to my late night corn escapades Mayhem went to bed without me and I had to wake her up to take her foot brace off! I'm sorry, Maybe!!! You can go back to sleep!

[toshiros-hands]

Toshiro Mifune in "Tokyo Sweetheart" (1952)

[tothechaos]

hate when people say something along the lines of "we must get along so well because you are/i am [some astrological sign]" to me. what are you fucking talking about. we get along because im fucking nice. a decision which i regret when you say shit like that

[glorious-spoon]

spent forty-five minutes today helping an 87yo woman who does not own a computer or a cell phone try to set up an email account so that she could then set up a second account in order to access benefits. went with protonmail, because they don't require 2fa, but it turns out that while you can still make a protonmail account without authentication you can no longer use it to create OTHER accounts without it, and the benefits page she needed to get to required both an email and a cell phone to create an account anyway. asked if she wanted to try going in person to see if someone there could help her, and she said that she had, and they'd directed her to the website. she tried signing up with her landline, but of course that didn't work because you can't do SMS authentication that way. finally ended up writing up detailed instructions for how to log in and authenticate her account so she can drive to her severely disabled daughter's house forty minutes away because that's the only person she knows and trusts who has both a cell phone and a computer.

anyway i fucking hate mandatory 2fa and i think the people responsible for it should have to spend a year navigating their lives with no cell phone and no internet access beyond the public library pcs. fuck.

[axiolotl]

WHERE'S MY CAAAAT. if i had a cat maybe i'd actually keep a schedule but right now im STRUGGLING. and i also know she's just staying in someone's basement...not even with people at night time....all alone........

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[astercrash]

I have a new game out!

The Prophet's Path is a short worldbuilding game for one or more players. In this game, you and perhaps some others will narrate the slow, drawn-out death of a single person.  He will die of the elements, chased on by the forces of your world, watched over by the stars. You and perhaps some others will take on the role of each of these in turn, drawing cards and building his path, the final journey of one who has seen what will come after his death. You will need a deck of tarot cards and a place to put them down. Pen and paper for notes. About three hours playtime, depending on your table.

The end product of this game is a set of constellations that have presided over the death of your prophet.

They make a good unique zodiac for your world but could also serve as a pantheon of gods, a cartel of megacorporations, distant alien alliances, anything your heart desires and your imagination can serve!

Like all of my games the Prophet's Path is free to download and fun to play! If you give it a try I would love to hear your thoughts any time!

https://astercrash.itch.io/the-prophets-path

[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[absolutelynotclassicusernam-blog]

I remember walking down the street and seeing a sign protesting George W. Bush’s war on Iraq, so I think that.

[headspace-hotel]

I don't know about a news story, but my first "political" memory was something about the torture memos

[mousidy]

the delicate art of cracking someone's egg honestly has a lot of parallels to trying to help a friend who you think might be in an abusive relationship

[jackosystem]

often you will have to do both at once

[mousidy]

OFTEN YOU WILL HAVE TO DO BOTH AT ONCE

[everydaylouie]

bull in a china shop

[lizardsexposed]

This is a bit random. But does anyone know the fonts that were used in the Mamdani campaign?

[oglegoggle]

@fontseeker might be able to help!

[fontseeker]

"ZOHRAN" is in a custom font called Zohran (2025). It doesn't seem to be officially available for download anywhere, but the file has a Creative Commons license on it.

"FOR" is in Coffee Service (2008) [Fonts In Use]:

"NEW YORK CITY" is in Union Gothic (2023), which you can download here.

[puzzled-artist]

HAPPY WIDE WITCH WEDNESDAY

[puzzled-artist]

So called free thinkers when its wide witch wednesday

[isuggestgetfatter]

I have a suggestion

[undergroundwubwubmaster]

Greyscale practice.✨

Available in my Ko-fi shop as a free downloadable, print-at-home file.