fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 18hI want to “like” this because it’s interesting but the whole thing (extra cops, the advertising of that fact, the oil money) is so repugnant I had to undo the little heart I just gave your comment. 😑 010
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Next up: window cranks! CRANKS CRANKS CRANKS 000
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I’m just gonna keep saying this, without context, until I get tired of it in approximately one billion years. 010
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I can’t get over the perfect handwriting! 🥹 110
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I keep thinking about what a Boomer woman said recently. Something like, “we were for Civil Rights, the environmental movement, first wave feminism. Don’t lump us in with the rest of our generation—we’ve been fighting these same fuckers since high school.” As Alternative GenXers, yeah. I feel that. 1281
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I suddenly had a vision of the photo that accompanied his hagfish slime article. 😂 I love his writing—thanks for the link! 111
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m struck by the similarities with writer Ed Yong: he was inundated with personal stories when he started researching/writing about Long Covid. Just hearing so many patients’ experiences & learning about their real suffering was difficult—he had to step back from doing that work for a while. 11079
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Somehow, I imagine novelists to be supreme beings who read faster, more deeply, and take in all the peripheral information that the rest of us mere mortals miss. 😂 I love Mieville and can’t wait to get started on this. 020
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026*Before* the wedding?! Why, was your true love marrying someone else?! 120
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Same—I LOVED the whole game cabinet! “Daddy Had A Bad Day, go back two spaces.” “Daddy’s Younger Boss Yelled At Him!” 120
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would rather play the game TEETH (from Widow’s Bay) with you. 230
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026What state recently came out of an 11-year drought? Ah yes—Queensland. And the Australian wildfires in 2020 are when I first learned of the existence of “pyrocumulonimbus” clouds. Sounds like a great place for a data center. 😐 010
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Oh! That’s like the reverse of William H. Macy’s character in The Cooler, where he starts out schlubby but gets progressively better-kempt as his luck changes! I need to watch that movie again. 110
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I want captions. “There aren’t going to be any casualties.” 001
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I’m not seeing any love for the Haralson apple, my absolute fave! Since they’re not ready yet, I’m enjoying First Kiss apples. I love tart early-season apples! 000
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Thanks for the reply (and for dumping Facebook). 010
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialThe Needling @theneedling.com · 09/09/2026Google Maps Shrugs, Renames Lake Union to Lake Confederacy: tinyurl.com/54sx3nm 1052640544
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Are you still in contact with this friend? 😬 Do they feel like the right things are getting done? I’m really curious! Do folks double-down at this point, or admit they made a bad choice? 100
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I will always remember The Onion and the movie Zoolander as the only things that made me laugh during that time. 020
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A few years ago we were camping and a family called their goofy black lab back over to them. “C’mon, Trogdor!” My head whipped around so fast. “Trogdor…the *Burninator*?!” 000
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026“We’ve been sent nice weather”static.klipy.comBlessed Be The Fruit - The Handmaid's TaleAlt: Offred, in The Handmaid’s Tale, with the caption Blessed Be The Fruit 020
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Ugh, if you weren’t on such a tight deadline, I’d send you over to the Southern Living offices! But Friday night on a holiday weekend…I don’t think anyone’s still on the clock. 120
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Purrdinand knows he missed the cutoff but insists he deserves to be counted 0330
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Creep glasses and neckspies. Coolcool world we’re living in 000
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The Minnesota Republican Party booth is flying the old state flag. Because *of course* they are. 0530
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Me to my friend: “I can’t wait until you visit. I wanna play TEETH” I love that show 120
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Ah! More for me. 😉 Here’s a savory recipe that looks interesting: www.allrecipes.com/recipe/25544...allrecipes.comTas Kebab (Persian Lamb and Vegetable Stew)Quince turns this Persian stew, called tas kebab, into an aromatic fusion of hearty vegetables and lamb seasoned with cinnamon and turmeric. 010
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Oooh! Quinces already?! Where did my summer go…I recommend pie! You can make it with apples and quince, too. www.allrecipes.com/recipe/21129...allrecipes.comHoney-Poached Quince PieThis honey-poached quince pie recipe features sliced quince, cinnamon, honey, butter, and double pie crust for a flaky pie that is rich in juicy flavor. 110
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Ugh. Just flashed to the board game from Widow’s Bay. Daddy Had a Bad Day! Go back two spaces. 130
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/08/2026In my opinion, a failure to understand the white-hot rage so many people feel about ICE's campaign of terror and oppression is what has taken some establishment Dems by surprise in their primaries. Abolish ICE and Nuremberg 2.0 is basically the floor for what the Dem electorate is demanding. 241415303
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Glad to see that they’re arranged spines facing out.😏 040
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026That is such a maddening, inspiring read. @juliacurlee.bsky.social, I’m so grateful for all you’ve done in your career and so sorry for what you’ve had to endure. 010
Reposted by @fcrouter.bsky.socialTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I mistyped an email sign off as “all the bees” instead of “all the best”. I reckon I’m going to stick with it. I can’t think of anything negative that can possibly come of wishing someone all the bees. 3548951
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Ha! Or good ol’ sweet-smelling cow manure, as soon as the fields thawed in the spring. 100
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 16/08/2026What are you reading? Hopefully it’s something that doesn’t require deep concentration, so you can look up now and then and admire your surroundings. 000
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026…but what about the fish that pulled the rod out of his hands in the first place?! I bet it was thiiiiis big! 020
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Ahem. Malt-O-Meal is proudly made in Northfield, MN (although now it’s owned by Big Cereal) but yeah, I get your point. 😂 Just had to chime in here as a Malt-O-Meal stan. On some days, the smell of malt wafts across town, like a brewery 3180
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Same! Spouse and I are still saying it to each other a week later and cracking up. 030
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Jeremy Irons, when I was about 9, watching Brideshead Revisited with my momstatic.klipy.comBrideshead Revisited 1981Alt: Brideshead Revisited 1981, with Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews looking dashing in their tuxedos 3170
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Spouse and I still quote a Clippy hate-related comment from the late lamented NPR quiz show Says You: “It looks like you’re digging a grave! Is it a *business* grave?!”static.klipy.comClippy: The Microsoft Office AssistantAlt: Clippy: The Microsoft Office Assistant who annoyed the heck out of everyone 050
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I just read @amybrown.xyz ‘s piece out loud to my Bay Area-born spouse. He said, “I’m so glad to live in a place that passes a library bond by 70%” rather than voting against it by 70%. bsky.app/profile/amyb... 010
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I’m going with Gary Oldman, for how delightful and unexpected it was 000
fcrouter.bsky.social @fcrouter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Who sang the Proclaimers’ I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) best? a) Marshall and Ted in HIMYM b) Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman) in Slow Horses, or c) Farmer George (Hugh Jackman) in Sheep Detectives? 100