From HuffPost's Funniest Tweets by Women this week:
Comic SANS? More like Comic AVEC!
Zoe: We're getting him back. Jayne: What are we gonna do, clone him?
'War Stories'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
chrismg - Aug 14, 2020 2:00:45 pm PDT #24871 of 30019
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
meara - Aug 14, 2020 2:17:55 pm PDT #24872 of 30019
Puppy and I keep going back and forth on my napping on couch without him vs him walking all over my while I TRY to nap. But I am not arguing for parental leave (though I may end up burning a vacation day at some point here). Hoping with my napping off my headache today that tomorrow will be easier even if he doesn't sleep super great tonight
EpicTangent - Aug 14, 2020 2:22:20 pm PDT #24873 of 30019
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
The letter was great, ND.
Puppy~health~ma, msbelle. Puppy~chill~ma, meara.
Calli - Aug 14, 2020 2:42:11 pm PDT #24874 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
That's a great letter, ND, but it's outrageous that it's so very necessary. I wish I could be surprised that my two senators just up and wandered home in the middle of a crisis, but they are basically malevolent wastes of oxygen, so I'm not.
Good luck with the puppy raising and vet stuff, meara and msbelle.
I'm very, very tired. And classes start next week, so I'll be working a fair chunk of the weekend supporting instructors who got little to no break over the summer to work on fall classes, and now have to start teaching a week early, using unfamiliar tools, with no idea what expectations are going to be from one week to the next. 2020 is going to have one hell of a final third.
Kalshane - Aug 14, 2020 3:36:19 pm PDT #24875 of 30019
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
People on my Facebook feed are trying to "both sides" the current crisis and it's infuriating. The House passed several bills to address the crisis, the Senate refused to take any of them up. The Dems then tried to negotiate with Trump directly and were met with batshit demands. It's very clear where the blame lies here. (Also, the GOP basically shrugging at Trump's unconstitutional XOs to "fix" things show that once again they have no interest in doing their fucking job.)
-t - Aug 14, 2020 4:24:38 pm PDT #24876 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I've seen some of that, Kalshane - not, thankfully, in my feed but on other folks' public posts and it just burns me up.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 14, 2020 4:53:04 pm PDT #24877 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I hope Tom Cotton does come home to this hick-ass state to press flesh just as the pandemic starts hitting it really hard among his supporters and football season opens.
NoiseDesign - Aug 14, 2020 8:04:05 pm PDT #24878 of 30019
Our wings are not tired
Yeah, it's crazy what's going on in the Senate that's certain. I humbly ask that no matter what your personal situation is regarding needing stimulus, or UI, or PPP loans or any of the other programs, please take a few minutes and write your senators. It's very close to home for me with the gutting of the arts and entertainment industry. If you wish, feel free to use the letter I wrote as a guide. Obviously not all of it applies universally, but it might help as a starting point. I'm honestly so thankful for each voice in support of small businesses through all of this. I don't think I've ever been under this level of stress. I'm just so worried about finding a way to preserve my business, and to take care of my staff. I know in my core there will be a bright day on the other side of this. Arts and entertainment will come back, and it will be a huge return. People are going to be so hungry to have those experiences. The businesses that make that happen just need a bridge to the other side.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 15, 2020 2:35:53 am PDT #24879 of 30019
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I just got a Wayfair notification for one of Matt's rugs! This brave new world is creepy.
I'm very, very tired. And classes start next week, so I'll be working a fair chunk of the weekend supporting instructors who got little to no break over the summer to work on fall classes, and now have to start teaching a week early, using unfamiliar tools, with no idea what expectations are going to be from one week to the next. 2020 is going to have one hell of a final third.
This is what I am doing too. Except summer isn't over yet and we don't start until a little later. But so many classes are going online. (All of them). At least we made a decision- we have in person labs and clinical with ten people and online class time, either synchronous or asynchronous. But it is such a time crunch that I am basically building the classes for them after they give me the content, which isn't supposed to be my role, really, but it is easier than teaching them how to use the LMS properly right now.
chrismg - Aug 15, 2020 7:07:25 am PDT #24880 of 30019
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
I am slowly being forced to the conclusion that some of these people(meaning Republican Senators specifically, in this case) do not understand, on some level, that they live in the same country as the rest of us. That there is no sense of urgency to pass these bills because what they do in the Capitol has no consequences outside of political considerations.
"Too many years, too many limousines." - Molly Ivins