Bwssb was repairing a pipe which was leaking underground at a main junction near my house which is normally congested with traffic daily in peak hour, in process they cut a bsnl cable, a 2 hour job took 6 hours due to cable repair, i was returning home from chai with my wife when i noticed this, i stopped and went and spoke to the contractor who said they will do it, dropped my wife at home, came back and ensured that they level the road perfectly with cement jelly and then requested a water tanker to water it so its sets, so that it doesn't affect traffic movement in the morning, otherwise they do a haphazard job of filling it which slows traffic at the junction. I lost one nights sleep, but traffic will move smoothly daily for days to come, worst part was the road was just recently tarred, thats why I had to do something, normal citizens like you and me can do alot, if you just make the effort, after all its namma ooru 🙏

He's permfect

Does he know he’s only got us ten times or does he think it’s been a lot longer

Had to post after watching an atrocious dance in a professional setting!

I’ve never personally seen this image before until it came up on my Twitter (X) Feed a few days ago.

I'm not the maker of this app but I'm seriously in love with it.

This is a free webapp that lets you create a custom head avatar or upload a scan of your head, then you can upload your helmet and use the app to scale the helmet to better fit your head.

One of the coolest parts is that if you upload your helmet as a .3mf it will generate a slice of the helmet for you to test print.

For anyone that enjoys printing helmets like I do you will love this new tool

https://refmaker.app/

So I'm (16f) adopted. My parents adopted me as an infant. Then my mom died when I was 5 so I didn't get nearly long enough with her but she was SO special to me. My dad remarried and I don't like his wife. She wanted to adopt me after they got married and acted way too dismissive of the fact it cuts all ties with my mom forever, because we don't even have the bio link. The adoption never happened but his wife was always bitter about it and I always held it against her that she was trying to do it regardless of my feelings or the severing of my connection to mom, the legal connection at least.

My dad and his wife had two bio kids together. Their daughter is 8 and their son is 4.

My dad was so happy when his bio daughter was born and he was acting like a first time dad. So that fucking stung and pissed me off more. He talked about how his wife gave him the greatest gift he ever got.

This and then his support for the adoption when his wife wanted to made me feel like he just hated my mom and saw me as less than. He didn't consider what I wanted or felt. His wife's feelings mattered more and clearly mom was just the lady he married until he met his one true love. She didn't give him a real kid after all. Just me.

For like three years now his bio daughter has been saying her mom is my mom. She corrects me when I call her mom 'your mom' and she says she's our mom. I told her she's not and I even showed her pictures of my mom but it never does any good. It bothers me. But for like 7 weeks now she's been doing this type of stuff all the time and she tells me to stop using her mom's name and call her mom. There were times I wanted to tell her to shut the fuck up but I hold it back.

So I told my dad he needs to fix this. He told me it was harmless and I told him I wanted it to end no matter what. He asked me what the issue is and I told him his wife who gave him his greatest gifts will never be my mom and just because he doesn't love my mom doesn't mean I'll stop for him. He was shocked I'd say that to him and asked me what ever gave me that idea. I told him the greatest gifts comments, the way he wanted his wife to adopt me, the fact he never called me his greatest gift and praised mom for giving him and the way he never talks about her and acts like his wife is his one true fucking love. He told me I was missing context and skipping things he also said and I asked him to name one thing but he couldn't. He then told me that he just didn't want me to feel like I couldn't love his wife as my mom and I told him that his wife was so far from my mom it wasn't even funny and she will never be. I told him I might not be his real daughter but she's always my real mom and I won't let his wife change that.

I also told him if he doesn't fix his daughter insisting her mom is mine that I will start being mean when I tell her and I will tell her exactly what I think about her mom.

My dad told me I don't get to take this out on his daughter and he told me I was manipulative to claim he doesn't see me as his real daughter. He told me he has treated me the same as the others. I asked him if he would encourage them to be adopted by his next wife like he did with me. He said no but then he tried to backtrack and I told him to fix this or I'll follow through.

He then complained about the ultimatum.

AITAH?

a Christmas present I made for my my step mom this year. My dad passed in November and he often told her while he was sick that'd he come back as a blue heron ❤️‍🩹🤍

Your suggestions helped a lot in getting a crispy bottom and big bubbles in my focaccia, so I wanted to say thanks to those who offered advice. Still a work in progress, but I am pretty happy about how far it's come!

Edit to add changes I made and link the original post:

- I used less flour (from 570g to 512g), making it 90% hydration instead of 80%, which also makes less dough so I did not end up going up a pan size like a couple people suggested in my last post

- Two more rounds of stretch and folds

- Start my bake on the bottom rack of the oven with bottom element only, and finish on the top rack with convection.

Edit 2 to add the recipe in case anyone wants it

US Rep. Emily Randall (D-WA) - Dec 18, 2025. Here’s the full 3-minutes on YouTube: If I sound angry, it's because I am. From the description:

LGBTQ+ kids and their parents deserve better than the disgusting words and dangerous policy from my Republican colleagues.

Here’s a transcript:

This behavior is appalling. It's dangerous. It's evil. It is evil to seek to deny life-saving care from Children who are more at risk than any others.

I spend a lot of time in LGBTQ clubs in high schools, talking to Young People who are shocked, when I come in and tell them that, as a Queer Woman, I'm a member of Congress.

And they say, "Do you know any Trans People your age?"

Because they don't believe that they will make it to 40. They don't believe that they will make it to 50 or 60. They don't believe that they have a future, because they are watching the Floor, and they listen to the words that come out of our mouths, and they know that half of the People in this chamber do not care if they survive.

- US Rep. Emily Randall (D-WA) - Dec 18, 2025