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you know what would be hilarious? karen and aunt pepa having like the second conversation of their lives (at alobby's welcome back from the dead party or at the hospital after an eddie nde or whatever) and slowly realising they are both 100% ride or die team buddie

together they would be unstoppable

Fledgling (13/14)

Just a little while left to preorder my new collection of comics! Preorders are really appreciated because they help with how books get promoted in stores and online. Thanks!

YOU SHAVED THEM?!?

Thinking back to that one time an anon called e an idiot bc "you can't be 28 years old and say class of '96 in your bio you can't do math"

My guy. Since I was alive people have used that expression to say the year they were born. But then I thought about the differences between American expression and Italian ones so I'm making this poll

Please share this around and put your nationality in the tags I'm curious

YOU GUYS ARE NOT SPREADING THIS AROUND AND PUTTING YOUR NATIONALITY IN THE TAGS

In Russia it's the year you graduated from school

In the U.S. it’s the year you graduated high school, but I think sometimes people use it to refer to college in certain contexts.

Year you were born makes sense if everyone in the class is born in the same year, but that’s frequently not the case with how American grades are split up

Oooh see i 100% didn't know that! American grades have always been a little confusing for me, in Italy children usually start school at the same time and classes are divided by year (like, I distinctly remember my old elementary school teacher telling us we were all born in 1996 and that's why we were in class together. This was our first year lol)

I am nursing a hangover because my neighbors invited me over for a dinner last night that was actually a high school graduation party for their eldest daughter but what it actually actually was was 16 Hindu families getting drunk and having a dance party in the basement teaching me, the Lone Jew, how to do Indian dances and getting me Quite Drunk while the kids watched YouTube upstairs

Favorite highlights of the evening:

- my neighbors telling all their friends and family about my landscaping and woodland restoration. I have never discussed this with my neighbors! But hearing last night that it’s been positively noticed and they are so appreciative really did make me feel Quite Good. They also wanted to use my yard for photos because of all my native plant blooms lol and they can’t wait for winter for me to clear out more vines and bramble. The part that really made my heart sing was that everyone said they noticed a distinct increase in fireflies this year compared to last.

- a mom and her smol daughter are introducing themselves to me. Daughter gives me a very English sounding name, mom says something under her breath like “that’s not your name!” And I say to the smol girl “My Anglicized name is ____, but my real name, my Hebrew name, is ____. Do you want me to call you by your real name? Because I’d like to call you by your real name. I can pronounce it, I promise.” And both mom and smol daughter LIGHT UP and immediately ditch their English names.

- all 16 families give speeches about the high school grad and then suddenly I am also asked to give a speech about this girl I know only in passing. Made a joke, crushed it. I am the Cool Neighbor now.

- having Very Bad Scotch with all the men outside discussing Immigration, the Economy, and Agriculture. They were fascinated that I am the one who does all things outdoorsy, that I am the landscaper and gardener and farmer, not my cishet spouse. I give many facts about bats, I have convinced many to invest in saving bats by citing how much money they save Society in crop pest control annually. I give many impassioned talks about the prairies and learn a tremendous amount about rubber trees and rubber tree plantations in India.

- I have been over to their house a few times before this and there’s never ever been any alcohol so I assumed none of them drank but then this One Guy shows up and I am informed that he is The Guy. Next thing I know I have three drinks in my hand of three different liquors and I am thinking to myself “oh OKAY you guys party hard actually”

- when I am inside dancing with all the 50+ year old women, they are Impressed that I am picking up the moves so quickly and I say something off hand jokingly like “my people love to dance too” and then they stop the music and ask me to put on MY people’s music. Imagine it if you will, this Lone Jew, teaching 20 Indian women how to do the hora.

- love is real we have so much more in common than we don’t. People wanted my number to share with me Bollywood movie recommendations. I was sent home with so many leftovers. I love my little immigrant neighborhood. I love the instant Hindu-Jewish solidarity between our communities. It is so very, very real.

I think the conversation that stuck me with the most hope was this elderly Indian man and I were in deep discussion about how native plants that produce harvestables should be cultivated and commercialized. And how much of these unique fruits, vegetables, legumes, etc. get lost and when you go to the store, whether in NJ or in India, it’s the same kind of produce everywhere. And talking about how native plants wouldn’t cost as much because they’re already adapted to the ecosystems they’re in. I was telling him about my sandhill plum saplings my mom just mailed me and he was ENTHRALLED. Maybe my real life’s mission is to marry my farming upbringing with my love of native plants and… idk, start a farm/orchard specifically for native cultivars of harvestables foods. I certainly don’t have money for that lol but. Hearing someone from another part of the world also wish the same thing that I do and rail against Big Ag like I was really just. Made me so hopeful.

josh gad is living proof that you do not have to lose any weight to have the glow up of the century

some of these are only ~5 years apart.

I MEANNN DAMN

hold my hand. you can glow up while fat. you can glow up and be fatter. it’s called a glow UP for a reason. 📈✨never shrink yourself

@buddienetwork event: buddie on buddie

Buckley Siblings

i love how weird kids are. they make up the most bizarre stuff when left to their own devices and it's never what an adult would naively predict a kid would do in their imaginative play

my friend's 5 year old recently got a toy veterinary medicine set - it's super cool, like one of those mini play kitchens a lot of kids have, but it's set up to pretend to be a vet (it's this thing) - it has stuffed animals and things to weigh them, give them medicine, take x-rays, write on their charts, etc.

so this kid, who is five and to my knowledge has no experience in the administrative bureaucracy of modern healthcare, puts a stuffed pig named Piggy on the exam table. she pretends to draw blood from Piggy using a fake syringe, and the blood goes into a toy test tube vial that she calls "the resulter"

i'm playing with her, right, so i'm like, awesome, what are the results of Piggy's blood test? and she says "we have to send it to the scientists." so we send the vial to the scientists (put it in her bedroom) and when we get back to the vet playset i'm like awesome what did the scientists say? and she says they have not gotten back to us yet

so she rolls her eyes, exasperated, and says we have to call the scientists. she pretends to call them. apparently, they tell her that Piggy's blood test is "at the bottom of the list" and "we have to WAIT." she frowns. we wait a bit longer and call them back. they tell us it will be a while! she says we should go ask the scientists in person so we go back to her bedroom and she inquires at this imaginary lab, at which point the scientists yell at her and tell her now they will make us wait even longer!

keep in mind she is 100% directing this play. she is making all this up. she is fully in control of this game, and she has decided that what we are going to pretend is that we are dealing with this exhausting nonsense, not actually treating Piggy.

finally the blood tests come back. they are inconclusive. the scientists do not know what is wrong with Piggy. the little girl walks back to the stuffed pig on the exam table, sighs deeply, and says in a very serious voice "we can never help you."

i'm obsessed with this kid. when given complete control over a make believe scenario, instead of becoming the heroic rescuer administering effective cures, she is instead a beleaguered vet making multiple calls to an overworked lab only to be left unable to help her patient.

10/10 no notes. kids are amazing

body is a slingshot

“No. 30 - Al Kaline congratulates Denny McLain - No. 30″ (Sports Illustrated - September 23, 1968)

I have learnt today that my library refers to me as 'the specific and highly active user' and has denied some of my purchase requests because 'we can't skew the collection too much toward the taste of the specific and highly active user'.

I did suggest roughly 100 vampire books for purchase last year. I think this probably has something to do with that.

op is there any particular reason the librarians would feel safer not invoking you by name

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2006 | dir. by Kenny Ortega

Creamy Oreo Peanut Butter Pie with Chocolate

watching Trump’s press conference and yes he is blaming autism on Tylenol. I hope Tylenol lays down the craziest lawsuit on Earth. I hope it makes their reaction to the 1980’s Tylenol murder look like child’s play

#the 80s what

the 80s tylenol murders. tl;dr: you know that tamper seal on new bottles of medicine everyone hates? those are there because in the 1980s, some freak went into a pharmacy and poisoned a bunch of tylenol. 7 people died in the initial crime, more in subsequent copycat crimes. they never caught who did it.

Another thing here is that the company's response to the crisis is, to this day, frequently taught in business classes as a model of how to handle a crisis.

Even though they weren't doing anything differently from other medication companies that made them vulnerable to this--and it remains unclear whether the tampering was happening in the factory, the stores, or some other part of the supply chain--they moved very quickly to recall products and develop tamper-resistant packaging, and as a result they regained the public's trust a lot more quickly than you might guess. (And the new packaging they developed also became the industry standard.)

So part of the comparison here, is that if Tylenol manages to pull off a similarly effective response to this, it could be a playbook for other companies and organizations to resist Trump's baseless attacks.