Shutter falls, all in 3D

One thing I don't understand about "Avatar: Fire and Ash" was the decision to dub some Australian guy's voice into all of Jake Sully's yelling scenes.

Names you didn't expect to see while mining the #epstein #email dump.

RFK JR departing the WH, 11/6/25.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

I will not be taking major highways in my escape.

most #adoptees have never even seen their adoptions.

What follows isn't the #adoptee's adoption; it's their life with unrelated caregivers.

Precision matters. Collapsing these categories perpetuates the erasure of the adoptee experience.

Stop calling a positive experience growing up with genetic strangers a "positive #adoption experience".

Adoption is a legal contract where only 2 of the 3 parties have their interests represented, not a relational achievement. 🥚

Oh, I do.

In fact, given the duration and quality of services that I provided from day 1, I don't owe anyone anything.

Wait, I thought the prices were going up in everything BUT the fentanyl. Gdammit now I gotta redo my fentanyl budget.

Every once in a great while, a new shitwrinkle consequence of the industry is revealed to me.

I always hope it's the last one, the end of the list, but then I see something like this.

The longer I look, the more questions I have. For myself.

I think I have said this in your comments before, but my theory is that it's very difficult to access memories that are encoded before we have language and self awareness after we acquire language and self awareness, since both are variables in the way we encode or recall memory.
It's just a theory

That's pretty uni corny of you.

Oh, hello mac updater, a new OS update you say? We know how this goes. I'll select "tomorrow" until you don't give me the option, then "later" until you are popping up with every keystroke. A test of wills was just what I needed to round out the week.

that's when I take a walk around the house and smoke more weed.

I made a #ChatGPT to be more skeptical than I am. It's pretty great, but struggles with Emdash usage.

Everytime I think that I'm there, some thought pattern or other prooves me wrong.

Sometimes the only alcohol we could find in boarding school.

You know they love you when they leave is a fucked up foundation for understanding the world.

A lot of people have clearly never spent a minute held against their will.

I mean, mine just says "eat another lindy's lemon Italian ice. Diabetes is a myth at your age."

wait, we have a land??!?

White 1979 VW Super Beetle Convertible, Top down, stickers from the bands: Rush, Steely Dan, Boards of Canada (mostly obscured) on decklid. Also stickers from mst3k, Fahrvergnügen, and the WPIX NYC logo from the late 80s. Brown 2 story garrison house in the background with snow in the yard. House has a single story addition off of the main house closest to POV. Jolly Roger and LGBTQIA+ flag are flying from pair of flagpoles mounted to the closest corner of the 2 story structure about 10' off the ground. There is a lightly wooded forest visible behind the house.

Spring in Maine. Maybe.

When I assembled bikes at LL Bean, they sold Trek and also trek white label bikes (trek made a bean version).

I assembled hundreds of that bike. If you get a good tune on it, it needs very little.

im not sure about the feed.

fart

Also, most bio kids don't have a precedent of being abandoned for reasons that aren't quite clear, meaning that there is no guarantee you won't slip up and get rehomed again.

I'm a Director of Software Engineering at one of the big companies (180k employees). I promised myself that when I make VP, I am going to use my clout to take down our "adoption assistance" benefit.

One thing that I have seen again and again as a real change driver in societies that have overhauled their child welfare systems is the phrase "changing cultural attitudes about adoption." On a good day, I like to hope all this talking is paying off.