r u lifting at the knees, i keep being surprised by how many fellow oldies don't make sure to lift at the knees

nah in general i think it's fine when words sound basically the same but it feels weird to think someone might mistakenly think I'm saying "whore" if even for a moment. bit of a loaded word!

I do pronounce cot and caught differently but that's just happenstance

if you play in stars and time i'll stop bossing you around (I won't)

i trained myself to pronounce horror as "harror" which some regional accents do because i disliked this phenomenon

never heard of it

me as well

i mean nothing can actually be the new crouton.net but i like this one too

this is my new crouton.net

you spelled it wrong

I learned yesterday that my cat has gingivitis. Gotta start brushing her teeth!

my cat nona every time i so much as look her way :3

i am hooting and hollering for this for you hoppet

I do think the borderline scorn toward allies, in addition to just like kinda sucking, was a horrible tactical move that set things back pretty badly (and like tbc I was totally on that bandwagon back in the day, I am not immune to social trends).

I think there's been a lot of nuance lost in the sense of like.... "It is not anyone's personal responsibility to praise an ally for being an ally" is true, but that is NOT the same thing as "allies should perpetually be on thin ice and shouldn't get praise for anything short of heroism and if they want to feel good about doing small good things that's proof that deep down they suck actually"

To the extent that anyone "deserves" anything, people deserve praise for doing positive things whether that's doing the dishes or deciding to stick up for marginalized people whose circumstances they might not viscerally understand. We are all just silly little monkeys made of meat and positive feedback has really consistent effects on our little monkey brains! That tiny little tickle of reward for doing the bare minimum makes people want to do the bare minimum more, and makes it easier/more appealing to take bigger steps past that bare minimum!

decadence....

I would also like to know this. I eat them a lot but I don't know the information. The best ones I've had are from this crunchy organic co-op and they call them satsuma mandarins there, they're sold individually instead of in the big bags. they're really noticeably better than any others I've ever had

I'm not allowed to get the shingles vaccine because they limit it to older folks but man I'd really love to not get shingles (I was of the last generation to get "chicken pox parties" as kids)

I did finally get my TDaP booster last year. I should really catch up on the others.

i miss my kitty :( I miss my little baby girl

oh gorgeous! I love when they have that triangle-pointy siamese cat style face... it's good

i been reading books again lately! i saw someone recommend a trick of, you keep a book you want to read in your bathroom, and then don't take your phone into the bathroom with you. it worked shockingly well basically immediately.

things were really really bad for a really long while but they seem to slowly be getting better, fingers crossed that that trend continues