Three things to do today: 1. $10 to savings 2. $10 to mutual aid 3. Call or email an elected official (it still matters) Love, Women's Personal Finance, not WomenSPF

There’s a very small child on this train shouting nonsense at the top of their lungs and like…MOOD.

Me dealing with this hell week: “excuse me for a moment, I’m going to call my mentor and see if he has other suggestions.” Also me:

I am Kat’s Uncomprehending Brain.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

The folks next to us at this Broadway play are Midwesterners who didn’t know each other when they sat down, but they’re now besties. It’s been 10 minutes. I’m in hell.

Now is the time to prepare to not set your house on fire this Thanksgiving.

BECAUSE HE CAN’T PULL MY HAIR IF I HAVE A SHORT BOB, NYT

There’s a “Christ-centered” marriage conference at this hotel and I’m desperately tempted to go tell them that JR and I are deeply faithful Christians AND queer AND kinky. Just watch their little heads explode.

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

Look, as a fanfic writer who started writing sex scenes when they were 15, I'm here to tell you that shit is HARD. There are too many hands? Where the fuck is this person putting their weight? How is this even physically possible? I'm still bad at it! And then the romance bit?! DEAR FUCKING GOD.

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

I fuckin LOVE my job, but I cannot express how STRONGLY I don’t want to go in to the office today.

Shout out to everyone completely demoralized about the state of the world who still manages to get out of bed each morning. And shout out to you, too if you’re still in bed. This shit is hard. Talk to your friends and neighbors. They’re going though it too, which is both terrifying and comforting.

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

JR makes these cute little noises when they’re eating food that makes them happy and it’s my favourite part of getting pho with them.

Happy 250th Yutmas to all the devil dogs, jarheads and leathernecks out there. Hope there are plenty of crayons with your cake and grog today.

I know I’m a pedantic shit, but I desperately wish that more priests had farming experience. Because those metaphors you’ve built on sparks in the stubble or Jesus as shepherd with rod and staff? They’re built on a foundation of sand and I’m going to scream.

Men: Women want a man who is 6', has a 6 pack, and makes 6 figures Women: I want a man who will listen, make plans, and ideally carry snacks for when I have forgotten to eat and am about to be hangry.

Kinda want to ask this piper how many songs he actually knows on the bagpipes because I’d swear I’ve heard Isle of Sky and Scotland the Brave AT LEAST three times each.

Sometimes JR has nightmares I can’t wake them out of the first couple times, so they talk to me like I’m the person in their nightmare. They always apologise profusely for it if I tell them, but I’m actually just proud of them for telling the nightmare person to “fuck off into hell, you fuck.”

I’ve never agreed with a sports announcer more than right now in the UGA game when they were talking about proposals at games and the announcer said “rings in stadiums are for champions.”

I would be very interested to know if she gets a call back from the Episcopal Church that went to voicemail. Because our parish doesn’t have someone in the office most days, but I can guarantee she’d get a call back, some help, and we’d have an email about a collection to help her by Wednesday.

Going to a cool event today, so I’m preparing to make lots of friends. Human friends? No. Why would I do something silly like that‽ Horses, obviously.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

This makes me a bit sad and nostalgic. The ‘Farmer’s Almanac’ says goodbye after 208 years - Popular Science apple.news/AbcfTsnBPR-u...

If you have a costco membership, PediaSure and diapers are on sale right now. Might be a good thing to grab and hand to your nearest food bank/etc if you want something quick & easy. 💓

Talking to my dad about someone we just interviewed to replace my boss and his only question afterwards was if I was going to apply for the role yet or if I'd go through more bad interviews first.

sharing this incredible resource created by a poster in r/boston: a map of local restaurants offering free or discounted meals to SNAP recipients link: mysnapmap.com

Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

* repeats for emphasis * "Neither movement waited for courts to recognize their rights; they interpreted the Constitution for themselves" or to paraphrase Justice Thurgood Marshall, do what's right and let the law catch up

Keep waiting for Dems (besides Mamdani) to grasp the idea that an effective messaging strategy to deal with one’s perceived weaknesses can be to not apologize for them or run away from them but instead to lean defiantly on them as if they’re strengths

I’m a Pilot Metropolitan gurlie myself, but that’s mostly because they’re stupid cheap and come in lots of colours. So when I inevitably lose one, I’m not as mad about it.

The dipping pen/fountain pen should be the defacto symbol for AI resistance.

This fucker is running for governor of Alabama in 2026 rather than reelection, so Alabama folks: who you got to replace him? And who are you running against him for governor? I’m ready to cut a bitch, so I should probably channel this hit rage into campaigns.

I feel like this is a sign that @maddavenport.bsky.social and I need to start a weaving YouTube channel.

Greater Boston Peeps! Ritcey, one of my absolutely favorite restaurants in Watertown, is feeding people who need help! Let anyone in the area who uses SNAP know. And also bring them nonperishables. You guys WANT these pickles.

How do I swear fealty to this King?

This is like menswear guy. Mostly just wants a walkable neighborhood and and to talk collar gap but if you cross him he’ll gut you like a fish and not get any on his shoes while explaining when to wear a sports jacket

Just used an MBTA elevator in Harvard Square that *didn’t* smell of piss/vomit.

People on one of the Discord servers I'm on are slowly coming online for the day and finding out that Dick Cheney's dead and I'm just over here looking at all of their posts like

buy a drink for the iraq war vet in your life. bring out the confetti. bake em a cake.

Congratulations to Dick Cheney for dying and going to hell for all eternity. You earned it buddy!

Listening to an audiobook of A Tale of Two Cities (because it felt like a good time for a reread) and the narrator is the same guy who reads the copy of Dune that I have. And wow. This guy was MADE for weird, wordy stories.

Can someone tell Bezos's ex to start a magazine and call it Queen Mogue and hire all the people Dr. Evil just laid off.

Republicans: “People use their SNAP to buy junk food!” Me, getting snacks at the corner store because I forgot my wallet and lunch box and these folks take Apple Pay: “…and that’s a problem because????”

mamdani is the model for future dem candidates and it can work in all 50 states. not the boring milquetoast candidates who refuse to take a position on hot button issues. they inspire nobody but dnc ad makers.

everybody bring your A game, think of it as a rehearsal for, you know,