Waffle House Teleporter

⭐ 🔳 🔳 🔳 🔳 Mar 22, 2026

Terrible. Took me to another Waffle House

#WaffleHouse #FEMA #GreggPhillips #teleporter

We don't have money to fund public education but plenty to bomb schools in Gaza & Iran

We don't have money to build affordable housing but plenty to build concentration camps & private prisons

We don't have money to pay for school lunches but plenty for Hegseth to buy millions in steak, lobster, & king crab

We don't have money for universal healthcare but plenty to ensure we subsidize universal healthcare for Israel

We've always had the money—what we don't have are politicians with integrity

Mama was resting on the couch, half dozing, half awake. On the muted TV, snow leopards waved their long, thick tails. Little Timon saw his chance. With determination he crawled through the #gauntlet of toys set around him for his entertainment and to the enticing black rectangle on the carpet by Mama's hand. Just when his own little hand was about to close on it, Mama roused and scooped him up, blowing raspberries on his belly.

"No you don't! Phone's not for you."

#wss366 #microfiction

Mel swept their chain across the floor, wrapping the end around a guard's leg and yanking it out from under him, pouncing on his prone body and snarling.

"Stay down, if you know what's good for you."

The guard nodded fervently as Mel rolled off, shouting "Lovely, did you get in the vault?"

Epoxy shook her head while sticking a particularly grumpy-looking cop to the wall by the vault.

"They upgraded the door, the auto-tumblers don't work any more. Care to trade places, my glob of joy? I'll take care of the rest there while you get this door open."

Mel grinned. "My turrrrrn!"

Giving Epoxy a quick kiss on the mask as they passed each other, Mel strode up to the door and spread their fingers across it. They pushed their power into the mechanism, feeling out the layout by the reverberations.

"There!"

Applying a little focus, they disintegrated the lock's core. The vault opened, smoke billowing from the blown-out mechanism, setting off the sprinklers.

Damp-furred, Mel called out, "Done!"

Epoxy smiled at a glued-down cop, flicking the tip of his nose. "Beautiful. Grab th-"

The doors slammed open, and both turned to see a cape standing proud.

"Stop, villains!" he bellowed. "You face Paragon, defender of justice!"

Mel looked into Epoxy's eyes, seeing her girlfriend's smile under her dripping mask.

"Shall we dance?"

"Oh blaster, I thought you'd never ask. It's not a date night without a tango!"

As one, they leapt into battle.

#microfiction #tootfic

Sitting in a waiting room and there's trivia questions rotating on the TV. They've all been pretty challenging... except for this one. 😬

"There are 1,000 grams in a..."

A. Pound
B. Ton
C. Kilogram
D. Ounce

In the US this is considered a trivia question.

Not "Atlassian laid off 1,600 people, 10% of its workforce"

But rather: "Atlassian leadership, with 300,000+ paying customers & ~5.2 billion USD in revenue & 6+ billion USD in assets in 2025, failed to line up their financial projections with their own staffing projections, and acted to place the burden of this gap on their direct reports rather than leadership, executive compensation packages, assets, or shareholders"

Layoffs should be personally mortifying. Boards should change.

For shame.

The DOJ lowered its standards for prosecutors, which followed the FBI lowering its standards for agents, which followed ICE lowering its standards.

Trumpism is a grand experiment in what happens when an administration embraces amateurism and de-professionalization.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/doj-reportedly-lowers-standards-for-federal-prosecutors-adding-to-an-unfortunate-pattern

EDGEDANCER (2002)

Acrylic on Gessoboard - 28" x 22"



From the End of Nature subset of my gallery work, a cautionary tale, “All good things come to an end...” 1/2

#fineart #endofnature #personalvisions #imaginativerealism

If the Universe is the most sophisticated structure we know,
it seems unlikely the correct interpretation was discovered
by pastoral nomads arguing about livestock and foreskins.

#religion
#science