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  • the geese have made actual plans

    the geese have made actual plans

    crafts, icebox pie, and two actual dates on the calendar. meet silly goose girls night, with upcoming gatherings at hilltop public house… Tune in & read →

    the geese have made actual plans. there is a calendar and everything.

    silly goose girls night is a project built around crafts, food, friendship, and making room for a little more play. their feed moves between projects you can try at home and real-life gatherings in montgomery, alabama. the name sets a fairly manageable dress code for your personality.

    their mission statement puts the emphasis on creativity, laughter, and an inclusive community, with women giving themselves permission to play. not every hobby needs to become a small business. sometimes scissors can just be scissors.

    first, the dates that have not already happened

    if you’re around montgomery, there are two things on their published calendar:

    • saturday, october 31, 2026, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.: find their table at the hilltop halloween market at hilltop public house, 3 north goldthwaite street. their latest announcement says they’re making things for the market and will have candy for the kids. stop by and meet the geese.
    • saturday, november 14, 2026, 10 a.m.–noon: make & mingle at hilltop public house. the calendar announcement describes a laid-back social: everyone is welcome, and you can bring a craft or project you’re working on and meet some new people. your unfinished project has been invited out.
    Silly Goose Girls Night calendar: October 8 pop-up at Lorraine's, October 31 Hilltop Halloween Market, and November 14 Make & Mingle at Hilltop Public House.
    the organizers’ calendar, which also includes the now-past october 8 pop-up. graphic: silly goose girls night.

    those details are from their public announcements, checked october 22. follow the account for updates before heading out; the november listing doesn’t specify a ticket price or registration requirement.

    they have already put the scissors on the table

    their first official event was the october 8 modgepodge collage night at lorraine’s bake shop. the event listing supplied the practical part: collage supplies, a canvas, and time to make something together. their next-day recap shows people working around the craft tables and thanks lorraine and bill for hosting.

    this is the useful thing about the photos: you can see the activity rather than being asked to imagine an abstract concept called community. paper, scissors, glue, other people. an unusually literal way to make connections.

    photos and original recap: silly goose girls night. the october 8 event has already happened; this is a look at what they’ve been making, not a current ticket offer.

    the stickers can finally stop waiting for the perfect surface

    one of their at-home projects takes a familiar problem—stickers too good to commit to anything—and turns it into a miniature gallery wall. their july 19 carousel walks through framing favorite stickers, including travel souvenirs, in little frames.

    a small project, an excuse to sit together, and something to put on the wall afterward. the sticker collection has received a promotion.

    and yes, there is pie

    the food side is similarly approachable. their cream cheese icebox pie reel uses a graham-cracker crust and a blended filling, then lets the refrigerator do its part. the full method is in their original post below. leave time for chilling; the pie does have one scheduling requirement.

    between the craft projects, recipes, and local gatherings, there are several ways into this particular flock. try something from the feed, send a project to the friend you’d make it with, or put one of the montgomery dates on the calendar.

    start with @silly_goose_girls_night on instagram. their official link page also connects to facebook and tiktok. at the time of writing, its eventbrite button still points to the october 8 event, so the instagram announcements above are the useful place for the next dates.

    featured image: the sticker-framing project, silly goose girls night. all embedded posts are credited to and linked to their original account.

  • 4

    mcPurp

    got that grimace cup, fam Tune in & read →

    A commemorative World Cup cup from McDonald’s with grimace on it

    got that grimace cup, fam

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  • 13

    it is SO hot outside

    i think I’m at least medium rare after sitting in my car on the way home Tune in & read →

    i think I’m at least medium rare after sitting in my car on the way home

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    TIL: why it’s ctrl+V

    Larry Tesler, the creator of copy/paste, explains: The Lisa was the first system to assign XCVZ to cut, copy, paste and undo… Tune in & read →

    Close up of the C and V keys on a mac laptop.

    Larry Tesler, the creator of copy/paste, explains:

    The Lisa was the first system to assign XCVZ to cut, copy, paste and undo (shifted with the “apple” key). I chose them myself. X was a standard symbol of deletion. C was the first letter of Copy. V was an upside down caret and apparently meant Insert in at least one earlier editor.

    Source: Why is Ctrl-V the Paste shortcut?

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    equal trade

    holding out on changing my work password to avoid a minor inconvenience today so i can have a large inconvenience in nine… Tune in & read →

    holding out on changing my work password to avoid a minor inconvenience today so i can have a large inconvenience in nine days

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  • 12

    how many months of centrist think pieces must we endure?

    On the organizational front, a group of House Democrats aligned with a new centrist initiative, launched in the immediate aftermath of the… Tune in & read →

    Chair of the Democratic national committee, Jaime Harrison, speaks during a rally for Kamala Harris in Reno, Nevada, on 31 October 2024. Photograph: Kia Rastar/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images

    On the organizational front, a group of House Democrats aligned with a new centrist initiative, launched in the immediate aftermath of the democratic socialist victories, framed the wins as a reputational liability. “They should not be the face of our party,” the group declared, positioning the effort explicitly as a corrective to the party’s direction.

    The data, however, offers a more complicated picture of where the Democratic base actually stands. A Fox News poll in March showed that 49% of all registered voters, including 72% of Democrats and 60% of independents, described capitalism as working “not very” or “not at all” well.

    CNN data analyst Harry Enten pointed to a poll from Marquette Law School that found the DSA now holds higher favorability than sitting congressional Democrats, from Democratic voters and leaners themselves.

    Josh Lyman decides to weigh in:

    Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor and White House chief of staff, offered a structural diagnosis. “What the socialist wing has decided to do is turn blue districts, dark blue,” he told CNN, arguing that Democrats had broadly “lost the plot” by becoming mired in niche concerns rather than mainstream US priorities.

    Source: Backlash from centrist Democrats as democratic socialist candidates…

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    don’t let the end of pride stop you

    Music video for Gay Thoughts directed by Jack Coleman. Shot on super 8 film. Tune in & read →

    Music video for Gay Thoughts directed by Jack Coleman.

    Shot on super 8 film.

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  • 7

    wake me up when they bring back fried chicken

    Taco Bell moves away from in-restaurant fajita flair and reimagines those flavors on the go with its new Fajita Street Chalupas and… Tune in & read →

    Taco Bell moves away from in-restaurant fajita flair and reimagines those flavors on the go with its new Fajita Street Chalupas and Chicken Fajita Nacho Fries.

    Source: Fajita Street Chalupas & Chicken Fajita Nacho Fries | Taco Bell® Newsroom

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  • 3

    lions, and tigers, and lenin, OH MY

    OH NO, whatever shall we do?! 🙄 [Avila Chevalier] maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and… Tune in & read →

    OH NO, whatever shall we do?! 🙄

    [Avila Chevalier] maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin.

    Source: Deleted tweets on Darializa Avila Chevalier’s account…

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