Spiritualists conducting scam seances in 1850s Boston, the Fox sisters. Their scam was done by “knocking noises” that were generated by the sisters cracking joints or even just tapping on the table or floor.

The circles they traveled in included Quakers, suffragettes, high society, and financiers. (Some of their early seances centered on stock market predictions, and made them a good deal of money.)

I just love that intersection of societies coming together to be scammed by some pretty bright women, in a really interesting time in our national history. Strict religious beliefs in a marriage with new age free thought.

I have kind of wanted to write a book centered on that time but never found a good hook.

My grandmother was an eventual product of that generation in Boston. Very equal rights for women while in a weird religious sect, Christian Science, founded by feminist Mary Baker Eddy.

I saw it in the theater and loved it then. Still do.

Maybe he was slurring ‘train engineer’.

What if Tommy Westphal was real?

Warrior.

I seem to want to protect and defend things. Plus I am big and strong.

I’m a little bit rogue though, as I tend to overlook rules if it gets the job done.

And mage? I am bright but terrible at book learning and arcane sigils.

LuxeBidet is the model I got.

Totally entry level, hooks up to the water supply to the toilet tank. No heat or special features, stupid easy to install. Price around $50.

To my mind, no need to go more expensive until you know more what you might want.

I do have an aunt and uncle who got an expensive toilet bidet unit with heated seat and all the features… after having tried my bidet while visiting.

Plus with the cheap unit you get the bonus of hearing the startled yelps of your uninitiated guests as cold water hits their asshole for the first time.

There was a terrible standup bit that I loved. I believe it was from An Evening at the Improv.

Guy is doing a bad private eye shtick: “Either this man was stabbed to death with a spoon, or his entire body is breaking out in little smiles.”

I have searched online for the clip for literally over a decade, and I know this because I searched once a few years ago and found… myself asking the exact same question on a forum a decade earlier.

I watched video about it (from the Astrum channel I believe) and they speculated it (or any of the six related Russian spy satellites) might be downloading a large packet at the nearby GPS frequency so it wouldn’t be spotted.

That’s just in addition to assuming it is intended to block the GPS range entirely.

Man, I am so glad my eye doctor told me it wasn’t worth it rather than just taking the money!

The answer is that Lasik isn’t a cure-all.

I had the same experience. My vision was getting kinda bad and I wanted Lasik. I went to an eye doctor, and while I am farsighted in the left eye, the right is 20/20.

Lasik would fix the farsightedness, but having that in one eye is an asset for driving. So now I have driving glasses and won’t worry about Lasik.

Better Call Sol.

It’s existence led to this Mr. Show skit.

And I am sorry to say this, but Mustmayostardayonnaise Lincoln was a Jan 6th rioter. (I secretly love having used that brand new sentence.)

Damn do I love Taskmaster.

And stop bisecting women!

According to Wikipedia, the Japanese 7-Eleven corporation was founded in cooperation with the Southland Corp back in '59.

They were then successful enough to buy out their sorta parent company later down the road.

Apparently it’s complicated. I had suspected that this was a spinoff situation but not starting back in the '50s.

They’re all doubleplusgood.

Might have to.

New campaign in my D&D world.

700 years ago the moon fell and devastated the land.

This island in particular almost split in two entirely, and a minor god died in the process of saving it.

Now the characters are sent on a mission to prevent a war by destroying one side of the land. In the process they may uncover how they are being used, by who, what really happened back then, who the god was, and the real danger to the lands.

Or they can just do what they were told and blow stuff up… except one character is a secret agent hoping to destroy the other side if it comes to that.

I used it the other day for the first time in six months and it took me about five minutes to remember how to crop an image.

And it was a webp source image so I couldn’t just use kolourpaint.

I’m tired of all the non-fascists bitching about the non-purity of other non-fascists.

We are supposed to be allies. If we can’t work together, we deserve to lose.