Watch @rosen.senate.gov lie about protecting people’s healthcare

@rosen.senate.gov I donated to your campaign. In 2028 I will donate to whoever primaries you. Shame On You For Voting to cave to Trump

My god will someone please just raise the money to hire all the former WaPo staffers back for an online-only paper financed by robust puzzle page subscriptions? Call it the Washington Past, let’s just get this done

Incredible writing here

It’s *really* hard to be less catholic than me but I am enjoying the shit out of the pope news cycle

Yeah well I tweaked my left hamstring halfway through my run today too but I stayed in till the end, STEPH

Wild that no one is screaming that Trump doctrine is “Your Children Should Have Less”

Adam straight up trying to kill me, or himself, or both of us. Climbing the ladder with untied freaking shoes

Look out it’s project weekend again

It’s facsimile of lasagna night: gluten free noodles, lactose free cheese, impossible meat. Totally delicious and utterly imperceptible changes. Homemade bread and pickled veg antipasto too—between the two of us Adam and I make one pretty decent tradwife

Glad 2 see SF largely sitting the out the protests. We dont help the cause—& theres an argument we hurt it. But TBH I dont think its useful to protest at all anymore. When was the last time they accomplished anything? Boycotts & other types of organized action seem like the way forward now #handsoff

It’s a much needed rest day and my left quad is *concerningly* sore but I saw a clip of some random person running and now I really want to run. Is there a 12 step program for this?

I should really not be left unsupervised with an order of fried rice

Absolutely outrageous that the word ponderous is not about pondering

Look at the size of this leaf LOOK AT IT

Seriously the conservatory of flowers is WILD

Spending Adam’s birthday in the park, starting with the conservatory of flowers. Anyway All Hail the dracula orchid (adams hand for scale)

I walk around full of ideas that I don’t trust at all, but the baguettes are going ok, and the pickled cauliflower is delicious, so we’re just barging ahead with the hallway paint plan

The endorphins are real. They are real. 3 hours after the gym and I could still just utterly weep with joy

Pretty hard little quake just now

Full of anxiety but it’s a rest day so I can’t run it off

Leftists cosplaying revolutionary online while using Musk-owned platforms are the worst kind of performative do-nothings who fantasize about us in the streets and under the tank treads, sacrifices to their bloody revolution, and they can't even sacrifice their Nazi Social media. I said what I said.

The dread of the monthly all-hands meeting. Who knows what fresh hell delivered cheerfully is about to land

Weather forecast: a little chilly in my garage Me: almost 58 and a half, about to do my 3rd 4-mile run of the week—thanks for the inspo

Can anybody point to the last time protests accomplished anything at all in America? I’m enraged and frustrated and terrified too but this feels more like primal scream therapy than an actual strategy

Another *wildly* stressful bake—I’m going to buy stock in pepto bismol, seriously—but an entirely acceptable first attempt at sourdough demi baguettes

Welp I guess creatine and HIIT are things I do now. I genuinely have no idea who I even am anymore

Spam from a Korean skincare brand I use just offered me “bouncy skin” and I don’t know if that’s a blip of translation or a new TikTok craze

Not a stupendous weekend in Vegas but kudos to the airport for playing the entire soundtrack to Xanadu while we waited to board our flight home

“Sets a new standard of quality” “Is indispensable to the team, department, and company” —some of the comments in my performance review before they gave me a raise of 38 dollars a week #corporateAmerica

Hard hard run yesterday and today’s upper body workout with my trainer made me so sore only my wrists and fingers moved easily but hey at least I still can’t see any muscle tone

alphaguess poem for 2/14/25 eaten, failed, filthy flytrap force forward *foster* foul fracture furtive, guilty- jaw noon (not a tremendous effort here but pleasingly, aggressively at odds with valentines day)

They’re not perfect looking on the outside but not bad structure—and they taste great. Calling it a success!

How it’s going

Here in the third proof of these baguettes this is already the most stressful day of my life

Adding to my list of general worries I am now specifically concerned that I didn’t mix my poolish well enough. I guess we’ll see tomorrow 🥖

alphaguess poem for 2/13/25 devour future gusts high *hollow* hungry inviolate noon

alphaguess poem for 2/12/25 black eye, furious gnawing gold grab grace, *grade* grand grasp gray- green ground half- junk noon

Honestly not sure any drug I have ever taken was as good as 7 hours of sleep and a good shit

After a couple weeks of training with our AI platform it is very clear that it can *in no way* copyedit. But the stress of working with it has left me without the strength , focus, or bandwidth to do it either

alphaguess poem for 2/11/25 destroy hope kill madness muzzle naive names narcotic narrow *nation* naturally negligible noon

alphaguess poem for 2/6/25 ​everything except *exercise* exhausts existence experience fades, galloping, haggard, just noon

My phone is now just a shock buzzer that I keep picking up anyway

Too Much Soup: The Nancy Bernstein Story

Yeah my job right now is serving soviet style disincentive to put any effort into anything. Brb gotta go find some way to decapitate my work ethic

30 years since I wrote the poem but there still just is no dod damn plan b for sleeping. You do it or oxygen is useless. You do it or electricity is useless. Insomnia day 5

alphaguess poem for 2/5/25 destroy hysterical lesser machines missing mortal mud multiple *mundane* murders murmur, nagging noon

Alphaguess poem for 2/4/25 avoid baleful bastards baying *beach* beady beastly beauty blood butchers collapsing noon (ugh I'm writing a poem that is rapidly turning into something about werewolves and the WOTD turns out to be freaking beach)