What's something good that happened today?

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Hey nopenopenope do you have a soft cap on your AC?

Also a bad thing happened but for a good reason in my lil town. Christmas/streetparty postponed cuz we got 6 months worth of rain in a day. Luckily our council has spent money wisely on infrastructure so the flood waters barely wrecked anything important. Some people got minor garage flooding.
Zero power outages. Zero deaths/injuries.
Dam at 100%

Overall id swap a shitty street party for a dam full of water.

Also got out of mowing lawns.

Edit
Wow your light shows are awesome. Worth going out to see.
Re the gals: You dawg you.

lol took me a bit to get the first joke but I eventually got there. Woulda been quicker but pretty hungover today :(

Last year’s light parade we got DUMPED ON by some freezing cold rain. I wish they would have preemptively canceled it because that kinda sucked. Luckily no floods though damn! When you get rain you really get it

Yea for a free show it was a lot of fun. I just felt bad because people had gotten there hours early and put up chairs on the sidewalk, and my group who got there drunk and late (I was drinking rum and some juice from some girlie yeti container or whatever those are) was corrected multiple times to not stand up at the edge of the sidewalk because the people who were sitting behind us couldn’t see

Well eventually enough procrastinators like us showed up where there were dozens and dozens of people standing up blocking the people sitting down who got there early’s view

And at that point the girls especially in my group who were more drunk than me adopted a “monkey see monkey do” attitude to do the thing we were told not to do. But I continued to look behind me and step to one side or another, and turn sideways to try to avoid blocking the people behind me. Even if it meant not being able to yell conversation over the music at times, I went out of my way to make sure the only thing I could see behind me was concrete wall

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person cognizant about other people around me :(

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

^
I guess it became an interesting social experiment because the entire time my brain was yelling at me “I don’t care if everyone else around you is doing it, it’s still fucking wrong, don’t do it!” But I kept my thoughts to myself

[nostalgiaquest]

Just finished hiking the w trek in Patagonia’s Torres del Paine park in Chile. About 80 kilometers and 2700 meters elevation gain in 4 days. Weather was awesome the whole time.

Now off the El Chalten on the Argentina side for more!

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

B-E-A-utiful pics!

[Duik]

B-E-A-utiful pics!

Sounds like you won't be short of a spoon then.

[justdavid]

I will be going to Indonesia for my first travel this 2025.. I can't wait to see all these places mentioned from this blog https://gowithguide.com/blog/indonesia-tourism-statistics-2023-all-you-need-to-know-5383 Mount Batur, Bali and Java.

[shovelquest]

I will be going to Indonesia for my first travel this 2025.. I can't wait to see all these places mentioned from this blog https://gowithguide.com/blog/indonesia-tourism-statistics-2023-all-you-need-to-know-5383 Mount Batur, Bali and Java.

Indonesian food is really good.

[Shourty]

After 4 tries, I think the repairman has fixed my ice maker!

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Finally got around to getting my truck repaired from when I was rear ended last Nov. dropped it off at the body shop and the staff gave me a ride to the rental place

My insurer, State Farm, agreed to cover the rental ahead of time. But the very hot young rental car lady warned me that State Farm only covered the cheapest rental. I said no worries, I’m not picky, as long as it’s not like some little clown car, laughing…

….the gal wasn’t laughing. She was like “welllll it is a compact car”. And it WAS some tiny fucking clown car thing. So I was like “oh no this will not do”. And she said I can get into a larger sedan car by paying the difference out of pocket or call State Farm back and nag them to cover it

So of course I called State Farm back and said look I’m 6’1 (really I’m 6’0….) and I can’t get in and out of a compact car. So State Farm upgraded my rental to a sedan

And the cute rental car lady said I can choose from a Malibu or a Dodge Charger. I was like oh I’m taking the charger for sure. It’s a 2022, she didn’t know the horsepower, and I asked if there was a “sport mode” setting I could toggle on and she wasn’t sure. But she assured me it’s fast. I joked I might just keep this and abandon my truck, always wanted a charger. She tried to upsell me into the $19/day coverage and I said nah, I only plan to drive it to and from work and to put some aftermarket parts like nitrous on and race it on weekends in the illegal races in [city where they are]. I shouldn’t need coverage for that

Driving back from the rental car company I’m like….

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VcgxhPih20I

[Ekco]

and to put some aftermarket parts like nitrous on and race it on weekends in the illegal races in [city where they are]. I shouldn’t need coverage for that


this happens (happened?) a insane amount, there are motor trend articles and shit written about it.

was trying to find the story on vinwiki of the guy talking about how much money he made racing a rental legally at tracks in cities he was in due to work, was a literal money cheat because i forget the term for the type of racing but its more about consistency than being the fastest / quickest, like if you go too fast you get disqualified for going over your target

and he'd rent the same model from hertz everytime and use his kit and nail the exact time every run and just take dude's money.

ended up getting a national hertz ban when people started writing articles about him

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

this happens (happened?) a insane amount, there are motor trend articles and shit written about it.

was trying to find the story on vinwiki of the guy talking about how much money he made racing a rental legally at tracks in cities he was in due to work, was a literal money cheat because i forget the term for the type of racing but its more about consistency than being the fastest / quickest, like if you go too fast you get disqualified for going over your target

and he'd rent the same model from hertz everytime and use his kit and nail the exact time every run and just take dude's money.

ended up getting a national hertz ban when people started writing articles about him

Lol didn’t realize that was actually a thing

[Ekco]

Lol didn’t realize that was actually a thing

oh, yeah. BIG fucking problem for hertz and others, there is a Top Gear episode all about Clarkson beating on a rental racing the other two also that didn't help matters either.

with lines of his being like "i don't own this car, it's not my problem" beamed into the heads of millions lol

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Oh my Goodness I am having so much fun driving my Dodge Charger rental around. Trying to come up with excuses to go places

Especially at night when our endless crazy traffic dies down somewhat and she has more room to gallop. I’m like “excuse me I’ll just….get around you here”. “Passing on your left”. I feel like people are more likely to get behind me at lights because they know I’m gonna go fast. I feel like Ricky Bobby “If you ain’t first yer last!”. Drives real smooth too. And I feel like I’m going faster than I am due to being lower to the ground

If it wasn’t so damn impractical of a vehicle compared to my midsize pickup, I’d be tempted to do a trade in for an even stupidly higher car payment on a depreciating asset ;)

(Pic censored for my privacy)

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

^
Oh but she’s so low to the ground that one thing I had to change was approaching our steep concrete commercial plaza entryways we have out here

I can’t approach them straight on or fast. I gotta come in slow and diagonal to get that one wheel up so I won’t scrape. Had to make adjustments because in my truck I could just fly up to those from any angle

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Me standing in front of my sexy rental 2022 Dodge Charger at work today. And how co-workers looked as they went by:

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

The body shop called me today and said good news, they can have the repair of my truck done by this fri and he said and that I had mentioned having Fridays off, so it will be convenient to come pick it up

And I was thinking to myself “FUUUUuuuck”. I said that sucks I was really liking this charger and thinking of just abandoning the truck…

I was talking to this black gal co-worker from the hood who I’ve gotten close with and she mentioned she had a 2008 charger back in the day. And she’s normally pretty feminine (but tough and scrappy). So I was like damn that’s kind of a muscle car though isn’t it? Was yours pretty fast? And she said “it didn’t have the hemi”. And I told her I know that an engine but it frustrates me that you probably know more about it than me…

And then I told this other gal about my new charger and when I said bye I said if you hear wheels peeling out in the parking lot, that’s just me in my 2022 Dodge Charger. And she called me a dork. Gonna miss that car

[Ekco]

if you get addicted to going fast, i hear you can pickup seized drug dealer cars pretty cheap at police auctions and stuff lol

or just normal auctions for salvaged title cars that get written off from like hurricanes and other events turned into "Track day cars"

it's a hobby i want to get into next time i got money burning in my pocket cause i literally know a guy

had him do the automatic to manual conversion(literally had to install a third pedal and swap the transmission out) and other work on my Honda, i just need to show up with cash and be like hey build me a race car bro.

OxJkZawG5j8
https://i.imgur.com/5xJy0K7.jpeg
PDkVSJO_BQ0

ive been in enough car wrecks in the passenger seat where 200hp in a 90s shitbox is all i need anything past that and i start getting fucking nervous

[Reiwa]

I learned a new word someone made up!

Clickservative (https://x.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1895228681037193259)

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Gym had Willow on of all things. I’m thinking “welllll I could watch this for a bit as a my food settles. Don’t need to rush things…”

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

^
I had learned that Val Kilmer and the gorgeous redhead in this got into a serious relationship as a result of this movie

Always like where romance chemistry is genuine. Lotta new movies and shows suck at that

[shovelquest]

^
I had learned that Val Kilmer and the gorgeous redhead in this got into a serious relationship as a result of this movie

Always like where romance chemistry is genuine. Lotta new movies and shows suck at that

they did have great chemistry in that movie!

She was incredible. Such an awesome character. Like a little rich girl, that was also a fucking PSYCO shadowknight.. who was also morally good at heart.

Amaziong stuff.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

they did have great chemistry in that movie!

She was incredible. Such an awesome character. Like a little rich girl, that was also a fucking PSYCO shadowknight.. who was also morally good at heart.

Amaziong stuff.

Yesss like a human SK that switches to the good team, or at least maybe to the neutral faction. Which was partly for love and partly for survival because we all know the neutral faction is OP

[shovelquest]

I like how willow is literally lord of the rings but they changed the ring into a baby.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

The sermon at church today was kinda special. The senior pastor’s dad had just passed away (was expected) 3 days ago. And the pastor was re-telling a memory where when he was around 8 yrs old it was a big snow day (and I guess snow is like white powder feathers or something I don’t get it where I live). And he was excited because he thought with all this snow there’s no way they’d have to go to church

But that his dad apparently was a never miss type of person so he chained those tires and they went to basically a nearly empty church with one other family. So he said he and his similar aged brother snuck away to a closed section to play pretend that he was the pastor on a pulpit and the brother was fake playing the organ

And then the pastor got choked up, and it was the only time I’ve ever seen him like that, and he said doing a make believe pretend pastor for the first time age 8 he heard a voice that said “this is what you are going to do”

I was moved. But I told my dad after my first thought was I used to make believe pretend I was mega man with my friends. Had I heard a voice saying “this is what you are going to do someday” and I would have thought “ah crap, so I’m going to be crazy?”

[Reiwa]

The sermon at church today was kinda special. The senior pastor’s dad had just passed away (was expected) 3 days ago. And the pastor was re-telling a memory where when he was around 8 yrs old it was a big snow day (and I guess snow is like white powder feathers or something I don’t get it where I live). And he was excited because he thought with all this snow there’s no way they’d have to go to church

But that his dad apparently was a never miss type of person so he chained those tires and they went to basically a nearly empty church with one other family. So he said he and his similar aged brother snuck away to a closed section to play pretend that he was the pastor on a pulpit and the brother was fake playing the organ

And then the pastor got choked up, and it was the only time I’ve ever seen him like that, and he said doing a make believe pretend pastor for the first time age 8 he heard a voice that said “this is what you are going to do”

I was moved. But I told my dad after my first thought was I used to make believe pretend I was mega man with my friends. Had I heard a voice saying “this is what you are going to do someday” and I would have thought “ah crap, so I’m going to be crazy?”

Why be transgressive in front of your father?

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Why be transgressive in front of your father?

If my church had transgressive people there, my father wouldn’t keep going. Gay he is ok with though for some reason

[Ekco]

Gay he is ok with though for some reason

rofl. it's like that Dave Chappelle joke, one of the letters put in way more PR work than the others.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Today is a special day lol :)

[Duik]

Driving at 5 mp/h while taking a photo.
Special day indeed!


Also 55555 mi-llimeters isnt very far.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Driving at 5 mp/h while taking a photo.
Special day indeed!


Also 55555 mi-llimeters isnt very far.

Had to take while moving so as not to lose the number

Don’t worry, I did it safely by first slamming on the brakes and making everyone behind me stop for a minute ;)

[atomicpaul]

it didn't technically happen today, but this is good if you want to be able to eat when you're an old man:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/07/dire-wolf-returns-colossal-de-extinction/82774316007/

[shovelquest]

How long until we cross breed racoons with cats. I want one.

[atomicpaul]

i have always wanted a squirrel that is the size of a medium dog. and one of those dragonflies the size of an albatross.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

it didn't technically happen today, but this is good if you want to be able to eat when you're an old man:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/07/dire-wolf-returns-colossal-de-extinction/82774316007/

Wow very cool

If I was that actor from GoT Kit Harrington, I’d come in with my FU amounts of money, buy one, and name it Ghost

Would be a killer at cosplays and Halloween parties. Literally if it can’t be tamed :)

[Trexller]

Would be a killer at cosplays and Halloween parties. Literally if it can’t be tamed :)

I'd buy one and drop it off at a furry convention

[shovelquest]

i have always wanted a squirrel that is the size of a medium dog. and one of those dragonflies the size of an albatross.

I remember we used to think by the time we were in the age we're in now that we'd have forever kittens and puppies :( Science is so far behind it's promises.

[Duik]

Science has been working on catching rockets and making false moneyz.
Also NFTs of fat old men in muscle suits wiff eagles on them.

Science wins mother fathers!

Also lolocaust @ forever puppies for the tiny wheenie baby cucks who cant handle life.

The "farms" need dogs too mate. Toilets need goldfish too.

[shovelquest]

Science has been working on catching rockets

That's what the capitalists were doing.

Science has been working on studying the effects of capitalism on pigmy Indians in the Galapagos.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

I'd buy one and drop it off at a furry convention

Lol reminds me of that dark meme someone (I think Chortles) posted way back in the day

[Trexller]

Lol reminds me of that dark meme someone (I think Chortles) posted way back in the day

is that supposed to be a real photo strip?

furries didn't exist until we force fed an entire generation a clockwork orange ludovico of talking disney animals

[Reiwa]

it didn't technically happen today, but this is good if you want to be able to eat when you're an old man:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/07/dire-wolf-returns-colossal-de-extinction/82774316007/

A dire wolf should be made of dire wolf DNA, not edits to gray wolf DNA.

Fake news.

[Trexller]

A dire wolf should be made of dire wolf DNA, not edits to gray wolf DNA.

Fake news.

do we even want wooly mammoths back?

geneticists are probably the most dangerous thing to come from science

[atomicpaul]

A dire wolf should be made of dire wolf DNA, not edits to gray wolf DNA.

Fake news.tell colossal, i don't work there

[Duik]

Giant tomatoes. More food.

Giant wooly mammoths. More cardigans, we are an aging population afterall.

Next will be Smilodon, to keep tje wooly mammoth numbers down.

Etc.

[Trexller]

we should clone wagyu beef cattle, naturally large salmon, other strong food animals.

the chinese are already editing people's genes

that's a race we really can't afford to lose

[atomicpaul]

i reckon we won't have a choice when the food shortages start someday. the roachburger is on the horizon. did y'all see the thing about scientists in india finding ways to milk cockroaches? apparently the milk is very nutritious and calorie-dense, pound-for-pound.

harvesting would involve incalculable numbers of cockroaches dying, but even my bleeding-heart-ass won't lift a finger to save the cockroach.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/cockroach-milk-nutrition

[Trexller]

what the hell is with the WEF and eating bugs

those weirdo eurotrash oligarchs are obsessed with making everyone eat bugs

[atomicpaul]

eating bugs goes back further than the average westerner thinks.

besides, you've probably eaten countless aphids just like everyone else who has eaten lettuce at some point. the only bugs i've eaten on purpose were spicy crickets (would pass if offered again) and beondegi (not bad). oh, and escargot a few times. but snails are psuedopods i think, i don't know if that makes them 'bugs'

[Trexller]

eating bugs goes back further than the average westerner thinks.

Im sure it does, many cultures eat bugs

but I wanna sink my teeth into 12oz of animal flesh and I don't care what, if any, impact that has on the environment.

cuz it has nothing to do with environmentalism, its all about creating some kinda soylent green type manufactured food product that is able to sit in warehouses for decades. so that the exact nutrition each human receives can be managed against like a social credit score or other human worth measuring system

it sounds nuts for sure but look at the world, alot of people would want that kind of power and digital technology has given them an avenue to vie for it

[atomicpaul]

let's say a startup finds a way to grow human flesh independent of the human body, like on a lattice. say it's just a human thigh, it's pristine and clean, and there's no other body parts involved. nobody died, they just grew it from a cluster of stem cells or something.

can they sell human flesh as meat? would you try it?

[Trexller]

can they sell human flesh as meat? would you try it?

I wouldn't eat it on the principle of the matter. it's human dna. everything that grows on a human is considered tissue

all gay dudes and most women are technically cannibals.

[atomicpaul]

every fight is a food fight when you're a cannibal - demetri martin

[Reiwa]

I wouldn't eat it on the principle of the matter. it's human dna. everything that grows on a human is considered tissue

all gay dudes and most women are technically cannibals.

They're non-vegan, not cannibals.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

what the hell is with the WEF and eating bugs

those weirdo eurotrash oligarchs are obsessed with making everyone eat bugs

I’d have no problem eating bugs if I had to

Or people, or animals even dogs if that’s what it took to survive

I guess I am just an extreme version of a foodie :/

[Reiwa]

tell colossal, i don't work there

w8_qsEt-Q4o

[shovelquest]

every fight is a food fight when you're a cannibal - demetri martin

:D I liked him, whatever happened to him?

[atomicpaul]

looks like he's touring. shame none of those are near ATL or i'd book a pair.

www.demetrimartin.com

last stand up i saw live was john mulaney, he's fantastic.

[shovelquest]

looks like he's touring. shame none of those are near ATL or i'd book a pair.

www.demetrimartin.com

last stand up i saw live was john mulaney, he's fantastic.

You live in ATL? That's cool, did you see the leprechaun? Say yeaaah.

:D

(oh damn I asked grok where that was it was Alabama not ATL, well both start with a's.)

last stand up i saw live was john mulaney, he's fantastic.

I liked his horse in the hospital bit :p

Now we tied chainsaws to the horse :D

[atomicpaul]

i live like 50 miles to the north of the city proper. i don't go down into the city much unless i have a reason.

[shovelquest]

i live like 50 miles to the north of the city proper. i don't go down into the city much unless i have a reason.

yeah, all woke libs moving there really f'd it up :D :cool:

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

It’s national dolphin day!

Fun fact: Dolphins rape other species of fish for funsies

They also apparently know how to get high and pass that shit to their dolphin friends

[nostalgiaquest]

Tulip fields in Lisse Netherlands. Got lucky with the sunset tonight.

[Ekco]

https://i.imgur.com/ffKmVyg.png

[Trexller]

I think it's real

the dutch love their flowers the way americans love their guns

they're also one of the few countries that I don't regret liberating

I wish we could give france back to germany

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Tulip fields in Lisse Netherlands. Got lucky with the sunset tonight.

Gorgeous!

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

I think it's real

the dutch love their flowers the way americans love their guns

they're also one of the few countries that I don't regret liberating

I wish we could give france back to germany

Yea based on his past posts it’s probably actually real

[Trexller]

Yea based on his past posts it’s probably actually real

it does look like a post card to send your grandma

[Patriam1066]

I’d have no problem eating bugs if I had to

Or people, or animals even dogs if that’s what it took to survive

I guess I am just an extreme version of a foodie :/

Eating a dog or human, probably a bug as well = automatic hellfire

It’s Good Friday man, don’t debase yourself with this. Survival is meaningless, we serve a higher power and our species. Immortality would be a curse anyway

[nostalgiaquest]

Yup real pic. I live in Leiden, which is about a 15 minute drive away from the fields in Lisse and Noordwijk. Been here for a few years so now we have a secret list of all best photogenic spots. Every night in tulip season we wait until it's close to sunset and decide if it's worth racing out for a pic. Last night was our last chance before going away for Easter, and luckily enough it happened. A miracle!

Here's one for your grandma...

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Eating a dog or human, probably a bug as well = automatic hellfire

It’s Good Friday man, don’t debase yourself with this. Survival is meaningless, we serve a higher power and our species. Immortality would be a curse anyway

Bah to that

Maybe now that I’m on a super calorie restricted diet I’d agree. Before when I was eating like a horse, it would only take a few hours lost in the woods with my companions before I’d insist on having some difficult conversations about who feels the physically sickest and closest to death, ideally the fattest person

[Ekco]

i just realized we've had this exact conversation already before last time you posted a picture.

time is a flat circle, fuck.

[nostalgiaquest]

All we are is dust in the wind, dude.

[Skyking]

https://i.imgur.com/9eOa4xl.png

better late than never, fuck learned helplessness.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

https://i.imgur.com/9eOa4xl.png

better late than never, fuck learned helplessness.

Heyyy WTG

As a former rank 14 and Gladiator in World of Warcraft, I feel I have the accolades to give a typical graduating class speech:

“Congratulations graduates! You all will be the bright young minds of tomorrow. My one hope is that you use the critical thought you have developed here to come to the same ideological conclusions that myself and your school administration does. Now let’s go make a positive difference in the world, and by difference I mean communism”

Lol jk don’t ban me

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

My cat has been staring at me like this for the past 5 minutes. Don’t be plotting on me you little fuck. I know you’re plotting on me

[Ekco]

lol.

https://i.imgur.com/fdHvUz3.jpeg

[magnetaress]

lol.

https://i.imgur.com/fdHvUz3.jpeg

This was me earlier in the ER

[atomicpaul]

https://i.imgur.com/WaJFxfl.jpeg

[Ciderpress]

You're just anthropomorphizing the cat- that facial expression might mean they are happy!

But probably not.

[Ekco]

>What's something good that happened today?

slowly increasing the size of crowds i can be around without having a panic attack.

[atomicpaul]

You're just anthropomorphizing the cat- that facial expression might mean they are happy!

But probably not.i can read a dog like a book but i can't help anyone with a cat. if i remember correctly that jackson galaxy dude's approach to every cat with a behavior problem was 'more exercise, more engagement'. the system i trained dogs with was similar to caesar milan's methods.

finally talked my wife into a dog, after all these years. we are gonna adopt one in august. maybe then i can start dog training as a side hustle again once he/she/they is a good model doggy.

[shovelquest]

I think if aliens came to earth they would assume cats were in charge, and we were their AI servants.

Like the ultimate AI servants would be so able to complete any task it'd be indistinguishable from any of us, it could work 2 or even 3 jobs to make you extra money but you will wear it down sooner. It collects the money, manages money, does all your investments, buys a house for you, feeds you, it recharges by relaxing/sleeping in whatever way it feels it needs to, you don't have to worry about that because it takes care of itself. The best bots even replicate and create more bots that can make the cat even more money, and buy them more houses.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Speaking of wives

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

>What's something good that happened today?

slowly increasing the size of crowds i can be around without having a panic attack.

Nice use of exposure therapy :)

I guess self-actualization will be willingly experiencing “crowd crush” without anxiety. Jk don’t do that

I only experienced it once in my life where a panicked crowd was overflowing beyond the tiny space it was in, smashing into me hard from all sides. I’d exhale and be like uh oh, I literally can’t take a breath, ELBOWS OUT! The sad thing is I could feel ripples of anxiety through the people around me physically in their bodies which were smashed up against me

[atomicpaul]

we are headed to the future laid out in wall-e

[Ekco]

Nice use of exposure therapy :)

I guess self-actualization will be willingly experiencing “crowd crush” without anxiety. Jk don’t do that

I only experienced it once in my life where a panicked crowd was overflowing beyond the tiny space it was in, smashing into me hard from all sides. I’d exhale and be like uh oh, I literally can’t take a breath, ELBOWS OUT! The sad thing is I could feel ripples of anxiety through the people around me physically in their bodies which were smashed up against me

yeah, i started by going to wafflehouse at 3am on a weekday when its quiet and working up to peak crazy at friday night after the bars let out.

when i started this plan i didn't notice tonight was also friday the 13th lol


watching humans stampede freaks me out, it's that little reminder we aren't as removed from the animal kingdom as we pretend to be

[Ekco]

we are headed to the future laid out in wall-e

someone is already working on that chair i imagine (only reference to the movie i know)

[shovelquest]

we are headed to the future laid out in wall-e

40k if I have anything to say about it.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

The other night he looked dead, so I was basically Captain Gene from the Other Guys for a minute

But turns out he was fine

[Ekco]

looks like a good kot

my 18 yr old cat and the cat distribution system replacement after i had to let her go

https://i.imgur.com/Mc4Jt68.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/LSK0tqb.jpeg

[Ekco]

https://i.imgur.com/R6gMRRN.jpeg

[nostalgiaquest]

Ooo cat posting thread. This is from a bbq we had last weekend…

In other good news, I got promoted at work to a director position. A bit scary as I’ve always been a rank and file engineer my whole career, now I gotta step into a management role. Trading in my arc flash PPE for collared shirts!

[Ekco]

Nice!, Grats.

looks like grumpy cat got reincarnated

[atomicpaul]

the braves lost to the 13-57 colorado rockies, 10-1.... lol. but my old man had a good time, he hadn't been to a baseball game in decades.

here's all three of my cats.

https://i.imgur.com/qem01sA.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/WLywPL7.jpeg

[Ekco]

that is a proper cat to cat toys ratio

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Yours actually plays with those toys? Jealous

I just spent another $6 on cat toys last weekend. Ernie batted them around for about 5 minutes, promptly forgot they exist for the rest of his life like the others, and will go back to eating my shoes when I’m not home…

See this? He loves chomping my shoes

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

…

[atomicpaul]

Yours actually plays with those toys? Jealous

I just spent another $6 on cat toys last weekend. Ernie batted them around for about 5 minutes, promptly forgot they exist for the rest of his life like the others, and will go back to eating my shoes when I’m not home…

See this? He loves chomping my shoessave a beat up pair of shoes he likes to gnaw on. drench them in white vinegar.

might not work but it's cheap enough that it's worth a shot. cats also dislike aluminum foil but that gets expensive and awkward, plus it's visible. aluminum foil can be useful for counter-surfing dogs.

i used to do something similar with directing young dogs that like to chew on things. find a flavor the dog dislikes, make it so certain things taste like that. passive training methods such as this can be pretty effective.

[magnetaress]

Nala is currently protecting my one good foot r now with her tail wrapped around it

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

save a beat up pair of shoes he likes to gnaw on. drench them in white vinegar.

might not work but it's cheap enough that it's worth a shot. cats also dislike aluminum foil but that gets expensive and awkward, plus it's visible. aluminum foil can be useful for counter-surfing dogs.

i used to do something similar with directing young dogs that like to chew on things. find a flavor the dog dislikes, make it so certain things taste like that. passive training methods such as this can be pretty effective.

Hmm I could try that. I don’t have white vinegar just apple cider vinegar which I drink daily. So I’d have to buy some

I have a bit of a system already in place:

- Nice new running and hiking shoes that cost $150 I keep locked in the spare bedroom and only take them out to run or hike and then put them away after. This is to also stretch their lifespan by not having me use them for walking anywhere

- There’s two sets of shoes I leave out, they are former nice ones that have just become worn out at this point. The most chewed ones are my official gym shoes. These are the ones I wear when I have 3 45lb plates on each side of the bar doing squats. Because I looked it up, and putting a ton of weight on yourself while wearing shoes also smashes down and wears out those shoes faster. So I only use the shittiest of the shitty shoes for lifting/gym

- The slightly chewed but still mostly ok pair becomes my walking around shoes

What I really would like is to stop him from clawing up my new nice faux leather couch I got as a hand me down. I yell at him when he tries to claw the sides, but he is allowed to claw other furniture like a seat near the door I use to put shoes on which is the same kind of material as the couch, so I’m sure that’s confusing. He of course has a scratching post in his room with the littler box which he has ignored all his life……..

[Ciderpress]

Raccoons are such assholes. I feed a trio of feral cats and like 80% of their food goes to two huge fatass raccoons. Yet then they kind of become pets too, and I feel guilty for not feeding them cause they're fuckin cute and I'm easy to manipulate.

Don't feed stray cats in the first place is the lesson.

[atomicpaul]

yeah, we had a leather sofa in the past. ragnar destroyed it over the course of about six months, back then he was the only cat. we now have a fiber costco sofa (https://www.costco.com/coddle-aria-fabric-sleeper-sofa-with-reversible-chaise-and-storage-gray.product.4000223041.html), but we still catch the little jerks clawing at it sometimes. we yell. they scatter. but we aren't always here. it's held up better than the leather sofa did, i think we've had it for like two years now.

we used to have these long strip-like sticker things to put on the corners of furniture that supposedly prevented clawing, but we found shaping aluminum foil (and maybe with some scotch tape to hold it up) to be fairly effective at first.

we try to direct them to claw at the tower, we found some calming spray on it shortly after we built it kinda helped them get used to it. our three also ignore most standalone scratching posts.

because our house is all laminate, we buy cheap rugs. they claw at these, sometimes, too. we don't stop them because they're cheap rugs. so far our sofa is still mostly presentable.

[atomicpaul]

Raccoons are such assholes. I feed a trio of feral cats and like 80% of their food goes to two huge fatass raccoons. Yet then they kind of become pets too, and I feel guilty for not feeding them cause they're fuckin cute and I'm easy to manipulate.

Don't feed stray cats in the first place is the lesson.there are two animals outside of cats and dogs i would like to have as a pet. a raccoon and a relatively small pig.

i once spent time around a semi-domesticated baby deer in this lady's apartment. it was very cute. i think it was some kind of situation where the mother had been killed and this woman was a vet tech and had taken it home to foster and eventually release, but i think deer that are used to humans probably aren't gonna last long around here.

[Ekco]

Raccoons are such assholes. I feed a trio of feral cats and like 80% of their food goes to two huge fatass raccoons. Yet then they kind of become pets too, and I feel guilty for not feeding them cause they're fuckin cute and I'm easy to manipulate.

Don't feed stray cats in the first place is the lesson.

yeah, there's like 3 separate cat colonies in our neighborhood a group of ladies setup traps and gets them fixed then releases them which is good but everyone is over feeding them so we get raccoons, skunks and possums in our backyard from it plus the cats

my most recent indoor cat was one that wandered into the neighborhood for the food and was about to get his ass kicked by our colony until i scooped him up

[magnetaress]

Spayed and neuter cats r good for controlling the stray/feral cat civ pops because they can be well fed healthy and territorial. The problem is when they aren't sterile.

[magnetaress]

I shower 🚿 again! Took less than a week this time.

Had to get the funky hospital smells off.

[Ekco]

did you have to wrap your medical boot up or is it off already? either way grats, showers are nice.

i take too many showers because i like the sound of water and i can think better in there.

[magnetaress]

I got this nifty inflating boot that thankfully comes on and off

And yea the sound of water and feel of it is pretty great!

[Ekco]

upgraded my motherboard bios and nothing bad happened.

[magnetaress]

upgraded my motherboard bios and nothing bad happened.

Yay! 🥳

That's always a scary moment. Big reason I got battery backups.

[Ekco]

My Hawaiian shirts came in the mail.

[shovelquest]

Straight from the factory in Pakistan.

:o

[Ekco]

Straight from the factory in Pakistan.

:o

China,Vietnam, or Bangladesh. why pay 50+ when you can pay 15, was literally on rollback at walmart lol one's from Pakistan would unironically be higher quality prolly

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Lest not forget that they can actually drink saltwater from the ocean because their kidneys are hardcore enough to filter it

Or the fact they can die 8 times before the real one ;)

[magnetaress]

Cats. Are purrfect. Being a cat is the only way ill accept reincarnation.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Had a work request to do a critical incident stress debriefing for a wife that just lost her husband about an hour ago. She lived out in the boonies and didn’t need any counselor support, she had her family there already waiting for the medical examiner

So that was an easy call. But I was left way out in the sticks afterwards, and I noticed a parking spot for a River with a trailhead on my way out. So I went to check it out

Got some pics. Just another hard day at the office eh! :) The wild horses actually freaked me out because they were rushing right at me when I was at the river. I was thinking oh shit, do horses charge and attack? Is this typical horse behavior? Should I make myself large and shout?

But then they turned about 10 feet from me and got a drink. Turns out they didn’t give a shit about me. I wanted to try to mount and ride one but didn’t have enough time. I hear if you can land squarely on their back on your first mount attempt they will let you ride them

[magnetaress]

My sister is a show jumper and she says horses are assholes.

Those are amazing pictures BTW!

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

My sister is a show jumper and she says horses are assholes.

Those are amazing pictures BTW!

Ty!

I dunno, this tame horse seems friendly. Or it wants to have sex with her. I really don’t know horses

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/mz3ay8A52Cg

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

More cool horses

I swear I saw Tom wink in one of the clips. What sucks though is when Tom dies for real one day no one is going to believe it. They’ll be like “ahhh that’s just Tom being Tom”

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/DMxszCKGBYc

[Duik]

Saw a meme with the caption Vladimir Futon.
Your mission, should you chose to accept it etc etc.

[magnetaress]

Local dentist plucked out a tiny bone spicule free of charge!

[Ekco]

Nice, i need to make an dentist appointment myself ;/

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Local dentist plucked out a tiny bone spicule free of charge!

I’m tentatively happy for you not knowing WTF a spicule is. Hopefully good it’s gone

Don’t let them leave you bare bone though

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

(Copied from my FB)

Storytime: (let me preface this with I didn’t have my contacts in this morn): Was hiking [redacted] just now and I noticed on the way down a senior guy moving slow and shaking a little with a circle of dudes around him guiding him, one out front and two yoked dudes behind him. It appeared that he must have had some kind of issue, likely a fall or heatstroke, and this was a rescue…

And being a fellow community member with nothing going on after this I felt obligated to assist. So I fell into step with and a little behind them, and then I could overhear he was talking politics to them. I figured leave it to an old white boomer to be railing about politics and the state of the world on his potential deathbed, but maybe he was just trying to keep his mind off the dire straits he was in

I noticed a way I could help right away because he didn’t appear to have any water on him. So I asked hey do you need any water, I always bring extra. And he smiles and said no thanks. Then I could see his face well enough with my crappy no-contacts vision and be like “is that RFK?”

Then it all made sense. He wasn’t in trouble, and props for having apparently summited bc he was on the way down. The people around were his security. They let me get a pic. I was kinda scowling in the pic only because he was missing the photo button blinded by the sunlight and I was thinking he’s gonna pass it back and have not taken a pic lol

- We talked about how he was better shape than all my liberal soyboy friends. And about my ideas on how to weaponize vaccine-based autism

[F0rmsh1fter]

I’m tentatively happy for you not knowing WTF a spicule is. Hopefully good it’s gone

Don’t let them leave you bare bone though

I think it’s an anchor baby

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

- We talked about how he was better shape than all my liberal soyboy friends. And about my ideas on how to weaponize vaccine-based autism

I almost forgot what country I lived in to not mention that this is a JOKE. It is not real. It did not happen. I just got a pic with him is all

Do not sue me lol

[Ekco]

lol, that's cool as shit.

[Reiwa]

That's really cool you got a pic! The hell was he doing over there?

[F0rmsh1fter]

That's really cool you got a pic! The hell was he doing over there?

Hiking didn’t you real the post

[Reiwa]

Hiking didn’t you real the post

Long way from Hyannyport you goof.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

All my co-worker friends are leftists because BH is like 90% leftist. But I made it a point to text my liberal co-worker guy friend that couldn’t and wouldn’t do that hike, that FYI RFK is in better shape than him, and for him to put that fact in his pipe and smoke it

I texted another leftist buddy who was a good sport and asked if RFK ran past me on the hike and did both sides of the mountain. He said RFK doesn’t need water, he lives off liberal tears :D

[F0rmsh1fter]

Does no one know rfk is a democrat?

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Does no one know rfk is a democrat?

Oh shit ya lol I keep thinking he was independent but I think he bailed on that idea. Crazy for Trump to appoint a lifelong Dem

Not trying to go too into the weeds on politics tho ;)

[Reiwa]

Does no one know rfk is a democrat?

MAHA is about raising unhealthy foods prices to get the riff raff out of those product sectors.

The other guy is a democrat too.

[F0rmsh1fter]

MAHA is about raising unhealthy foods prices to get the riff raff out of those product sectors.

The other guy is a democrat too.

Yeah I like what he’s doing. I don’t really align with either party, but I’m also not a bugman so I don’t immediately hiss depending on the letter after someone’s name

[magnetaress]

Put a new hose on the house for mom!

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

Wow. I’m a little tipsy but a lotta shit has went down

First, I made a post in the largest hiking FB group I am in for my state which has like 200k+ members relating the RFK story and the pic

And of course it blew the F up like no other fb post I’ve ever made did. I have never before seem scrolling numbers of likes/reactions in real time

45 likes
250 likes
399 likes
650 likes
…all in the span of like, 10 minutes. When I first posted it the reaction counter was continuing to spin like a goddamn slot machine. I think the last I checked it was at 2.1k likes

And the comments were a shitstorm like any political topic. “You should have just left him to die”. “That would have ruined my hike seeing HIM”. And of course a lot of positive comments and a lot of comments like “wtf, the original post wasn’t political can you all just relax?” Which I appreciated

Then some news reporter lady was like we want to interview you, can you tonight? Well I was already committed to going to a dinner networking party that my rich gay friend was putting on, so I figured I’ll get some potion of courage (alcohol) in me and slam dunk this interview tonight after that

So then I go have dinner and wine (not a wine person so I was doing vodka and juice) with these doctors, NP’s, and lawyers, one of which who had already seen my post. I was like “oh, no way”

So I got to tell them how things really are in the freaking trenches in the city working behavioral health which I think was a perspective they hadn’t seen. A lot of it was relating incidents I posted about here

And even though I was good and drunk and ready I guess the journalist gal got back to me via PM and said they are going to coordinate with the crew for a video interview tomorrow or something

Crazy day

[Ekco]

Wow. I’m a little tipsy but a lotta shit has went down

First, I made a post in the largest hiking FB group I am in for my state which has like 200k+ members relating the RFK story and the pic

And of course it blew the F up like no other fb post I’ve ever made did. I have never before seem scrolling numbers of likes/reactions in real time

45 likes
250 likes
399 likes
650 likes
…all in the span of like, 10 minutes. When I first posted it the reaction counter was continuing to spin like a goddamn slot machine. I think the last I checked it was at 2.1k likes

And the comments were a shitstorm like any political topic. “You should have just left him to die”. “That would have ruined my hike seeing HIM”. And of course a lot of positive comments and a lot of comments like “wtf, the original post wasn’t political can you all just relax?” Which I appreciated

Then some news reporter lady was like we want to interview you, can you tonight? Well I was already committed to going to a dinner networking party that my rich gay friend was putting on, so I figured I’ll get some potion of courage (alcohol) in me and slam dunk this interview tonight after that

So then I go have dinner and wine (not a wine person so I was doing vodka and juice) with these doctors, NP’s, and lawyers, one of which who had already seen my post. I was like “oh, no way”

So I got to tell them how things really are in the freaking trenches in the city working behavioral health which I think was a perspective they hadn’t seen. A lot of it was relating incidents I posted about here

And even though I was good and drunk and ready I guess the journalist gal got back to me via PM and said they are going to coordinate with the crew for a video interview tomorrow or something

Crazy day

lol.

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

lol.

Ya, I like being on camera. Always never minded a little fame. Just wouldn’t want, like big fame. Hellll no

But don’t look me up if it does air. Don’t be weird ;)

Work has been a shitshow lately I doubt I will have the time for a zoom interview anywho

[Ekco]

yeah that's nuts, i assumed when you posted it would blow up, even told my mom lol "yeah this dude i know from Everquest got a selfie with RKF on his morning jog"

>Wow. I’m a little tipsy
i'm currently drunk yelling at Gemini and Deepseek to vibe code better

https://i.imgur.com/Tou2nou.jpeg

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

yeah that's nuts, i assumed when you posted it would blow up, even told my mom lol "yeah this dude i know from Everquest got a selfie with RKF on his morning jog"

Oh man though, the comments are just another reminder about how tribalistic and hateful our culture is

For some reason I can’t see the total number of comments, must be hundreds. I stopped reading them after the first dozen or so. A good amount of hateful shit. More positive than negative I will say, but a lot of negative and just plain mean stuff. Stuff making fun of his way of talking, stuff calling him a moron for not having water on him (despite me saying in a few replies that I believe his security was carrying his water)

I never once was political in my post, I don’t think political bias belongs in a hiking sub

[Ekco]

yeah and what % of those comments are real humans wigging out about politics and what % are a comment designed to get interaction from people about politics.

facebook is fucking crazy right now, their AI filtering of comments is actually alright, if you set it "show all comments" it's super noticeable

i clicked through like 20 accounts on a random post to check once and all the filtered comments were flamebaiter AI bot posters are all like new accounts with AI or stolen profile pics....etc designed to get people to mad post against them for engagement farming

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

yeah and what % of those comments are real humans wigging out about politics and what % are a comment designed to get interaction from people about politics.

facebook is fucking crazy right now, their AI filtering of comments is actually alright, if you set it "show all comments" it's super noticeable

i clicked through like 20 accounts on a random post to check once and all the filtered comments were flamebaiter AI bot posters are all like new accounts with AI or stolen profile pics....etc designed to get people to mad post against them for engagement farming

I wonder this. I mean most people’s FB has their first and last name. Mine does anywho. That reporter lady profile had a fake last name though. I was at the gym looking at the neverending fast-scrolling slot machine of likes, and it was funny seeing the profiles that liked the post (in the flash before they were gone/replaced with another reaction though)

A lot of the likes were from dudes, or dudes with American flags in their profile as expected, but there were actually quite a lot of very pretty women saying things like “MAHA!” (I didn’t even know what this was until recently, I thought it was a typo lol, shows how dumb I am), or saying things like “I’m so jealous!!”

I wanted to be like “ok you are gorgeous, maybe you should tag along with me next time just to see what pops off”. But I’m assuming a lot were married lol

[Ekco]

the crazy thing is the amount of effort it takes to distinguish from the obvious bot template of profile pic/posts and actual humans doing the same thing.

it's a who came first the chicken or the egg problem, all i know for sure is there is 100% more bots on the internet than humans now, so act accordingly

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

lol just finished my zoom video interview with Journalist Lauren at [redacted]. Had just finished a tough call with acute psychosis which I might post about later tonight

Interview I think went really well, they were all smiles and very appreciative. Leave it to me to have a bit of acne for it, same as when I have a date it never fails I end up having acne. This time it was probably from getting shitfaced last night at that dinner party. Ah well though, that was fun

[NopeNopeNopeNope]

^