You reap what you vote. Unfortunately the rest of us are paying for your mistake too.

Good for California, but man what an odd legal quirk to still have extant. Hard to believe I made it over fifty years on this planet and never heard of this before.

How DARE you ask me to pay even a fraction of my fair share of taxes! The nerve!

Thanks to Bari Weiss I made sure to track down and watch a 60 Minutes segment for the first time since the 20th century.

Hummus! Five ingredients, five minutes, a full batch. All you need is a food processor and you’re good to go.

• Garbanzo beans

• Garlic

• Salt

• Tahini

• Lemon juice.

I usually throw in some cumin for a minor twist on basic hummus.

The stupid! It burns!

JFC but I am so goddam tired of uttering the words “What a fuckin’ moron,” every time I read about him.

It feels to me like staying in New York City as taxes rise on the hyper-rich would be the ultimate flex. You’re so wealthy you can’t even be bothered to notice the plebs have raised taxes on you.

Some marketing team needs to get working on this angle, lol.

There isn’t really anything I can add to what’s already been said about these malicious idiots, only that I’m so very grateful to live in Washington state where sanity still prevails.

Kitty needs a small container so it can assume its natural liquid form.

It’s not often a headline makes me laugh out loud. Well done, unknown editor!

We’ll duh of course it’s a puppy. Everyone knows she likes 'em on the young side.

You know, as someone who’s cranked out more than a few century+ days on bikes, as long as your stomachs OK with it that doesn’t sound terrible.

It’s got carbs, proteins, and fats, which will all metabolize into energy at different rates Presumably rather a lot of salt too is in bar pizza.

Wins all around I say. I’d personally be a bit wary of food like that were it me, but proof is in the mileage I guess.

/shrug

I don’t care for tea in any form as a rule, but I’m not going to take someone to task who does. Life’s too short to get outraged that someone likes the taste of something I don’t.

I swear it’s like he’s sundowning. He focuses each day on whatever story confused and frightened him the night before.

This Frankenstein-like doozy’s from the surgery to rebuild a destroyed condyle after getting run down by a car in a crosswalk while I was cycling home from work. Last thing I saw in the headlight glare as the guy ran the red-light at speed was the shadow of a head popping up from the wheel. My assumption is the asshole was on his phone. Hit and run of course.

The impact also broke my pelvis, snapped my left femur, broke my left tibia and fibula into 7 major pieces and a lot more smaller bits. It’s the right thigh’s condyle at the knee that still poses the most problems though—there’s rather a lot of scar tissue I’m still working on as I try to get full range of motion back into it. The knee’s got about 19 pins and screws and a plate pulling the bone confetti back together. Four bolts through the pelvis, two rods running the length of the left leg, upper and lower, along with stabilizing screws at either end of each rod makes about 36 titanium implants overall.

Was in a wheelchair from January to March of 2024, then a walker until May, then used a cane until September. Was back on the rebuilt bike in December and spent the past year riding semi-regularly, even making jaunts up to 60 miles. Been a long, long, slog.

Careful Zucks, or they may question your commitment to Sparklemotion.

Though amusing, I feel it’s worth noting this image had to go back over a decade—eleven years—to find an iPhone without a camera bump of some kind, and would have to go back 6 years to get a pro-level camera without a plateau of some kind.

I agree that a dual measurement should be included, body thickness and camera plateau, but it never has been, so here we are.

And to give credit where it’s due, I have no desire to own an iPhone Air, but it IS a bit of astonishing engineering. They’ve used the plateau to provide a place for the logic board, and turned basically the entire body into a battery to preserve decent battery life. Love 'em or hate 'em, Apple has a world-class engineering team.

Huh weird. I’ve always liked waking up right before the alarm. It makes me feel like I’ve somehow done something just a little bit badass, plus I don’t have to hear the alarm.

Bonus points in my eyes for just waking up naturally rather than being dragged rudely out of sleep and left all groggy, but YMMV.

Yeah it’s a bar soap, commonly used for both skin and hair.

Aleppo Soap

If you like the weird scent of coal tar—I’m not judging, I do too—you might also like pine tar soap. Pine tar serves much the same function in soaps as coal tar, so that’s a bonus as well.

It’s clearly a scent derived from pines, not coal, but it appeals to my nose in much the same way. They’re both in the same family of weirdness.