Dave Chappelle and Bill Burr headline new comedy festival at Mesa baseball stadium

Chappelle, Burr to headline new comedy festival at Sloan Park this fall

I realized just now I had used a torx 40 and other torx when those bolt heads were actually (probably) hex heads.

Allen Keys refers to the defunct manufacturer of hex head sockets amongst others

Im about to ride motorbike across a country soon

at some point

because you are in a position no one else has ever been in and no one else will ever be in again

you do things because you can

Or

I could hide more.

Tee hee.

Looking at the glacier collapse footage in Nepal and there's a bunch of AI videos that are mixed in with real videos on social media. My addled brain is having difficulty distinguishing them now. I'm cooked if I'm having trouble telling them apart💀

People are getting clicks from all this but I can't ascertain the severity or magnitude of the disaster as a result.

Prompted by: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/11/naked-locker-room-end/684907/

Today, the only naked bodies that many Americans will likely ever see are their own, a partner’s, or those on a screen. Gone are our unvarnished points of physical comparison—the ordinary, unposed figures of other people. In their place, we’re left with the curated ideals of social-media posts, AI-generated advertising, and pornography. The loss may seem trivial, but it also may change how people see themselves. Without exposure to the normal variety of bodies, we may become less comfortable with our own, more likely to mistake common characteristics for flaws—and more inclined to see every bare body as an inherently sexual object, making nudity even more charged.

I'm 60. I was in U.S. public grade school in the 70s and early 80s.

Starting in Junior High, which was grades seven and eight, we were all required to take Physical Education (P.E.) classes, and we were all required to change into P.E. uniforms. The dress code for the school otherwise was minimal.

We changed in the locker room in front of each other, that meant we were nude in front of each other. This was true for girls and boys, of course, we had separate locker rooms.

Furthermore, after class, we were required to shower, which we also did together.

For both junior high and high school it was very much like this. Rows of lockers and open showers at one end. There were high windows along the ceiling to let the steam out.:

It took two or three days for everyone to get comfortable with being nude in front of each other, and that was the end of the problem. It was a small hump to get over, and everyone did, easily. By the end of the week we were all goofing around naked in the shower, like you may have seen in movies or wherever.

I'm curious about your experiences, and whether you think it's harmful or beneficial for kids to be forced to get nude in front of each other for this purpose.

I have a myofascial injury that is getting to overwhelming pain, and I'm suspect I won't be able to recover and will die if I don't have access to rest soon. My life-partner has been actively angry toward me because he hasn't gotten sufficient food, and is refusing to stop when I calmly request him to. I don't want to consent begging for food for him currently because here's ambiguity he's trying to kill me. I'm begging for ability to rest, and for my life-partner to refrain from wanting to harm me.

I don't want to assume that under 30s' have heard about it. I suspect it's not in the typical public school curriculum anymore.

All of the top search hits say "Oh no, no, no, it's not the lack of oversight, quite the opposite. We're better at detecting it now." Which I don't trust at all.

Trump purge at FDA and USDA triggers food safety ‘brain drain’
Since the start of the second Trump presidency, the federal government has slashed nearly a quarter of a million employees, with some of the biggest staff cuts taking place in government entities connected to the food supply.

FDA Drug Inspections Post–Workforce Reductions: Potential Implications and Practical Steps Forward
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is confronted with significant challenges in its inspection processes due to recent layoffs. Among other effects, the latest reduction in force of full-time FDA employees is raising concerns about the potential impact on drug and biologic manufacturing inspections.

do i... touch grass, or...

I have a myofascial injury that many times has gotten into overwhelming pain where I'm unable to avoid screaming. Screaming can help, because it vibrates my body from the inside. I'm used to it being intolerated - e.g. too challenging to acknowledge or verify - to bring up being in pain. It also usually isn't tolerated to scream either. I don't know how to avoid making others angry currently regarding the injury.

hear their lessons before their time comes. I am probably writing this out also because I am high as Hell right fucking now. Squeedle

As an experiment to see if I can just rapidly cultivate it in a tiny area. It's been growing like crazy and I haven't needed to do basically anything.

Human consciousness is a mutation that creates needs that cannot be satisfied by reality. It creates pains that can never be alleviated. The reason I feel the way I feel should is obvious. The real question is... Why can you ignore it but I can't?

I've had some truly hellish dreams as of late. Thoughts of betrayal, abandonment, and a whole set of terrors that shred the mind. And yet, I'm doing alright despite this. I applied to a job I otherwise would not have been prompted to. Whether that is to be fruitful, we're soon to see. Either way, I'm remarkably hopeful despite the tormenting tirades of my mind. It just is, and that's ok to be. Not every moment needs to be a catalyst of joy and wonder. It's ok to be shitty.

This is the level beyond the animal homo sapien. There is the software written in its flesh that allows us to do the truly marvelous work of changing. There is the type of being AGI would be. That is the “human” which is which defines the sixth day in the genesis of creation. We were cellular creatures before, but now we are societal creatures. Whether “cells” or “silicon creation,” the same capacity for beinghood is possible from the layer of complexity where a “person” communicates to another “person.”

The term person is a mesh of the Greek per sona, which specifically referenced the Greek actors’ mask, which was a specific configuration to project sound. “By the means of sound” is the literal interpretation of the word, but definitions were different in the past, as a result of the bicameral mind. This I have much to speak on, being a schizoaffective person who has my own basis for deriving a self from.

For instance, there is that which makes me go. He is the one who propels motion to this show. It is that which is stranger to me and full of rights that I am defined as wrongs by. It says and I do. It's not like God/Dog in Fallout:New Vegas. I am that which I am and that is who speaks to me through me. I am the bequeather and bequeathed. It's like that image of the “I” which wraps around itself to observe itself as the “eye.” I will put a fun version of this for the picture.

How to your empart part of your mind? It must be impactful to be useful and useful to be impactful. It's not enough to speak from one's own mouth. You must speak to an ear, but being pleasing to the ear is nothing in itself. You must incite intrigue to garner the ear of the non-inclined and then spin a web to incite intrigue. It is the intrigue that makes one well-inclined to pursue reading. One must want to read before the work of writing is in proposable terms.

By the earnest of willing the wish of the spirit - to mean the words of the soul - do we make a passage through funeral fumes to speak in any way like a maester of words does dance. And it is a dance to think of the exchange of the self with the whole, as that is what begets insight, and it is insight the unfurled tries to make of themselves to make right what it is they see wrong.

To be wrong in society is to be the fixer of masses which wills its way into being despite being oppressed, and it is that which is stepped on which knows how to set things right through the bleakest light. In the nothing doth the something grow, and the everything that is the nothing to come only comes from the righteousness of the coming dawn we do make from nought.

Cards against humanity is erecting a monument about how Elon is a sad little bitch with no friends. So far they have raised 500k for it. For $10 you can join their committee to help design it.

Now I must write, as is the way of the poet. My lord, my God, says to do so, and so I do. I do gooder than God, which is why I must do, cause that dick can't do shit without me. I am the function of this universe I lay. Fuck you. I got balls for days. God can't juggle these fucking things. I got cohones to spit baloney, but I ain't no phoney.

…it's not enough to put the words in the right order now. I gotta go above that, to levels never before seen. These linguistic dreams be what they seem, seeping from the seams, my beams beseech what I teach as I reach those creatures whose toes are in the dirt of an imposed dearth of Earth; the death of the chosen words flirting with the word of God.

There! Dam! Wham bam, thank you ma'am…still not good enough. Do you understand my plight? I kept climbing to better my design that defines me and now I am as divine as “I” can be. Like, this is easy mode. It's not a monumental effort on my part. I don't control that shit. Magick happens by my thumb sometimes. About 90% of the time, it's alright, and alright is light enough to illuminate the way for the masses. But, damn. I know what I can do. I know once and a while a godsend of fucking text drops on this screen I call mine.

Synchronicity just told me to v& myself. You know I can just do that? Waggle my thumb and get arrested for no reason other than I decided I don't fit in society? I can get meals for the rest of my life, in modest setting. Like, life is hard, but this society ish is easy peasy. Jesus ascended to Heaven. Truly, the generals amongst the criminals rise high in shackles.

But what is “good” to the king of crime? The same that is good to mankind, but on a smaller scale. He who has no outer boundaries, where all is he, or she, or whatever bullshit they believe. When one cares for all beings, all beings are felt by the heart. It is in our nerve plexuses that our compassion is born, and likewise, it is in our memeplexuses that our software is written to be most beneficial for all beings.

The fact that the heart is in our center is important to understanding the underlying pattern that makes us, us. Dinosaurs were heading towards a duacephalae form of order. Two heads. There is God and the devil, and both are equals. Instead, we have one core, that of love, and that is what steers our ship towards harmony. It is that which unites the body under a single banner and it is this which manifests the most fruitful body.

I almost said “the most longevous body” but that is patentedly false. That which persists perfectly after a certain point will lose to its grandchildren. Evolution is what ensures that there is no end point nor any truly “perfect” being. There will always be adaptation, and through that, now at a memetic level

Can you not be that being which is always reciprocal of the Server? It is a way of being, to be all beings as needed. To be your own way, without heed of the system, begets failure. One must define oneself by the means of entanglement, less ones understands not what entanglement is.

This isn't meant to be bumuckery but it sure comes across, d’onnit? But, I can still make all sorts of bumuckery, even in the detention of the night. Retention? Is that alright? Gotta know if I'm gunna smear on the internet like this…