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I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

Alan Rickman

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I’d say “I said what I said” and leave it at that, but this is a statement that I really have to defend. So, in general/online terms, “gatekeeping” is taking it upon oneself to “protect” their ...



Since turnabout is fair game, definitely DO NOT bookmark this link. And definitely DO NOT send it to everyone you know. (SurfShark VPN and Nord VPN do not sponsor a ton of YouTubers, and they d...


Hey y’all, I care about you, so promise me something: Please DO NOT send an email to [email protected] and say that Donald John Trump and James David Vance were hired solely on the basis of the...


January 24, 2025

Anyone hiring? in Those Public Entries

David Lebryk, the acting, interim Treasury Secretary, has been only too happy to enforce the anti-DEI executive order and the RTO order. (The Office of Personnel Management is in on those, too. ...


Trump-humpers, explain something to me: Why you were frothing at the mouth over Barack Obama being “born in Kenya” and demanding to see his birth certificate… But you’re okay with “First Buddy...


So remember how the Orange Shitgibbon said he’d lower our grocery prices? And those of you who voted for him believed it? You fools. You absolute goddamn idiots. Needless to say, I never b...



Is it too much to hope that time will freeze at 11:59:59? And that we’ll all be caught in some type of Twilight Zone/Groundhog Day thing until someone Luigi Mangione’s the Orange Shitgibbon, Fak...


How long have you been on PB? Since 2013, probably right after it was launched. Were you on OD, TOD, MDD, DE, LJ, or another journaling site before this? I was on OD and LJ, and Tumblr almost c...


I was at my parents’ house in Indianapolis all last week, and because my very old Macbook died earlier this year (I think the motherboard shorted out, so not really worth fixing; I’ll just keep ...


So here are the pictures of my knitting projects since summer. The face pad sets, my first reverse ridge washcloth, and the then in-progress second reverse ridge washcloth. The blue and varie...


November 19, 2024

NoJoMo 19 in Those Public Entries

You’ve inherited a pair of magic knitting needles from your dotty Auntie Doris - unfortunately, that’s all the information you have. What happens next? Ooh, more knitting needles! Round? Double...


November 18, 2024

NoJoMo 18 in Those Public Entries

When was the last time you really lost your temper, and how do you feel about it now? Last February, when my mortgage company screwed me and my escrow by paying out two different hazard insuran...


November 17, 2024

NoJoMo 17 in Those Public Entries

If you have any vanities, what are they? I have a lot of vanities. One of them is, being what is politely called a “hirsute woman” (aka BEARDED LADY), I shave every day before I leave my house....


6 Free-writing time: set a timer for ten minutes and just write whatever comes into your head, stream of consciousness style. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...


Republicans now control the House, Senate, and presidency. Stock up now, babes, the tariffs are coming. And before anyone says “Oh calm down, it’s only going to be on imported foods–” Yeah...


I think we need a playlist. See if you can spot the theme! ETA: Matt Baume’s video on Cabaret.


You know, I want to blame this election outcome on MAGAs, men, and the women who voted against their own best interests. But I can’t. Why? Because they told me who they were in 2016, and I belie...


November 06, 2024

I'm done. in Those Public Entries

Fuck this country. Fuck everyone who voted for TFG. Fuck everyone who didn’t vote “because PAAAAAAAAAAALESTIIIIIIIIIIIINE-uh!” Fuck everyone who didn’t vote because “both candidates are the s...


What’s your favourite little-known fact? No one hanged themselves on the set of The Wizard of Oz. That’s it, that’s the tweet. I turned in my ballot yesterday. I requested an absentee ballo...


There’s currently a Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda. Marburg Virus Disease in humans typically has a mortality rate over 80%. It has symptoms similar to Ebola, and no approved vaccines. And ...


November 04, 2024

NoJoMo 4 in Those Public Entries

Is mah birfday. Yay. I got a duck breast to celebrate. Not only do I feel like Yzma, I’m pretty sure I’m starting to look like her. Are there any perfectly “normal” smells you can’t abide? ...


November 03, 2024

NoJoMo 3 in Those Public Entries

If you could have played any role in any movie, what would you pick? Little known fact about me: I wanted to be an actor from the time I was a little kid, to about college. I still get an urge ...


November 02, 2024

NoJoMo 1 and 2 in Those Public Entries

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of “sweet Jeebus, why is he on the ballot again?!”, I shall fear no… Well, not “evil”. Republicans, maybe? …Cut me some slack, I’m not even fi...


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