Oh yeah, this is one of the guys that voted to kick me off Medicaid and make my mental health meds unaffordable. Somehow I'm struggling to have empathy

Alito and Thomas are fucking monsters. I'm sickened.

Sometimes visiting my parents is an easy way for me to figure out where my sense of humor comes from (and good taste in salads)

For the last time: don't make men's inability to relate to other people my problem.

I often think of myself as pretty cynical, then something like this stops me in my tracks. How can you think like this and still think you're a good person?

Oh cool, my laptop has bricked itself right before I take a 23 hour train ride. Thanks, Universe

I've been working to get Dems elected my entire adult life. I've donated time, money, energy at the county, state, and federal levels. I helped shore up the Dem infrastructure at its weakest. It's time those of us who work to elect Dems get Dems that work for us. Said with ill will and animosity.

Holy crap I'm managing to do some vacationing on vacation

I miss having a backyard sometimes.

The newest anti SSRI messaging

Frantically winding balls of yarn to bring on a trip out of town is normal priorities, right?

It's 3am and I'm crocheting a purse while getting weepy over The Other Bennet Sister on Britbox. There's no punchline, I am just that person now

This Friday night serving shift nearly broke me. Beautiful weather on the patio, live music, AND the US playing in the world cup final combined to kick my ass. Requesting blanket cuddles and a backrub, plz

Rideshare music update: SINCE U BEEN GOOOOOOONE

[Late] Rideshare music update: I was so distracted by the surprise tripling of the cost (thanks, surge pricing) that I don't think I could have heard music over the roaring in my ears

Hark, what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and treats are the sun

I'm pretty sure the force of New Yorker joy from the NBA Finals game tonight knocked all these Chicago trees over

Rideshare music update: this one is a doozy. We've got twangy country Christian worship music played at a weirdly quiet volume. So quiet that I had to crank my hearing aids to ID it. And my spouse informs me that the driver is softly humming along. 1/

Rideshare music update: early 90s UK alternative psychedelic bands, combined with the musty odor of Unwashed Man.

Rideshare music day: Spanish language radio station played at a normal human volume. I may have discovered a normal human person driving a Chicago rideshare vehicle. 10/10, no notes. Music is lovely.

Rideshare music update #2: oppressive silence. No radio, just windows closed to create a sensory deprivation chamber. I had to resist the urge to start singing

Ok, this account will officially be my data collection account for the weird music idiosyncrasies of rideshare drivers. I take them to work a couple days a week, and the amount of pointed looks and Christian worship songs I get turned up at me is absolutely wild.

Black people, especially Black women, have been the organizers and facilitators of every gain we've achieved in the last 50 years. It's up to us to ONLY elect candidates who support anti-discriminatory voting legislation.

What kind of workday did I have? I split my pants straight down the middle at some point, but I was so busy running around that I didn't notice until hours later when I was trying to solve the "why is my thigh chafing?" question.

I trust journalists way more than cops and courts to investigate sexual violence allegations. When a thoroughly reported journalistic investigation comes out, like the ones about Eric Swalwell, I’ve seen enough. If you haven’t done this work you may be unaware of how much goes into it.

Whyyyyyy did I decide to watch the dog horror movie whyyyyy Now I have to drown all these feelings in 6 hours of Slime Rancher

I really expected the show Wayward to be quirky and funny. And it is! But it's also heavy as shit and now it's 2am and I'm still watching and fuck you Mae Martin for writing compelling characters and upsetting me with them

Excuse me google photo notifications, is this a threat? Also LET ME IN

Thanks, Scary Game Squad. I forgot that not everybody refers to the mc of resident evil as Leon "Sex" Kennedy while discussing the new game with a coworker

I'm entering my Daphne from Scooby Doo era

I'm so wiped after work. Feels like the top half of my body is gonna slide off the bottom half, Ghost Ship style

A deleted gender save file is the best way to describe my feelings about myself

I'm counting down the days until the patios open up. My mental health requires breezy coffee dates by the lake

Yes, Opal, I'm watching. What a great spin in the wheel, good job

Today makes 3 years since I smoked a cigarette! How appropriate that I spent this momentous day performing in a symphony chorus

Damn, I'm out of the Olympics loop. I wasn't aware bdsm dynamics were involved

For a day that started with a tumble down icy steps, a Patriots loss and a beautiful American halftime show certainly ended it on a better note.

Wanna tell me why I heard Wasn't Me by Shaggy on a retro radio station today? I'd like to register a complaint

Getting my first binder was life changing, and I'm so privileged to have been able to go online and buy one at will. Protest this, please. Stop them from continuing to torture trans kids.

So I've been off bluesky for the better part of a week, letting my mental health even out a bit, and I've decided that I'm on the hunt for big strong hugs this season. Like, weighed blanket hugs. That's gonna solve everything.

Got stressed and stayed off of socials for a couple days. Got my hair cut to appease the mental health gods. Is this self care?

The horrors persist, but that's why we have CRAFTS

They are hiding in alleys and trying to grab people as they walk by. They are targeting schools and churches. Outrage is the ONLY acceptable response.

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

The bosses had no idea what they were in for when they asked me to decorate for Halloween 🎃

How are we expected to present the best versions of ourselves in job interviews/first dates/etc when *gestures to the hellscape* "Hi, I've always been anxious (it's a disorder) but I promise I'm usually more fun!"

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

Greetings from the war-torn hellhole of Chicago. I sometimes forget how beautiful this city is.

Stephen Miller has his own definition of the supremacy clause, I'm sure