Update: it IS delicous

literally dripping honey-drenched walnut and pecan babka with just a wee bit of rosewater because I'm a dumbass and didn't grab the pistachios to make it more properly baklava-inspired but I bet it's still going to be delicious

Hey it’s a really cool lesson in typeface semiotics!

i needed cheering up so i drew a potato

House would've solved this in 10 minutes tops. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Could It also be because Ron Swanson has Jon Vought tendencies, and they make their protagonist marry an austerity fetishist

Guess what Star Trek fans I found a new way to be sad about The Inner Light despite not having watched that episode in years and years and years because it’s too sad

Leaving this typo for posterity

The wee beastie has reached the age when they start screaming for autism and I’m so messed up about it? Like, people with autism often need all kinds of extra supports and accommodations but do I trust any medical system to actually direct me towards something useful and non-abusive?

DETROIT DETROIT DETROIT

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Bosses HATE this one neat trick youtube.com/shorts/gpcRs...

They heard "bread and circuses" and thought this sandwich trial would count

Flashback to that time I just started crying holding artifacts in my archaeology class, or the time I had to be gently escorted away from the extinct species taxidermy of tiny adorable deer and antelopes in the Field Museum, or every panic attack I had as a kid about the size of the universe.

Hey me, read this later

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

The news gets worse

Tell me your sign without telling me your sign Someone once asked me if I’d signed a non-disclosure agreement about my life

Becktt Mariner was an inspiration to disaster bisexuals everywhere.

I was gifted a hand-written book this weekend. The author, a child of a friend, is six years old. It is titled, "The AA" 1/?

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

More importantly please send your favorite coal themed songs for the course playlist

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and then like and subscribe for more content just like this!

This is an absolutely tragic gutting of one of the best politics desks in the country

Please enjoy an adorable Poseidon cat picture for your mental health and delight:

I just think I could probably get a lot more done if I didn't have to be a single unified corporal being

if you’re at “secretly install apps on your partner’s phone to surveil their activity” levels of mistrust i’m going to go out on a limb and say: you don’t like this person. don’t date people you don’t like.

I think a lot about Elizabeth I refusing to grant a patent to knitting machines because of all the knitters it would unemploy. Planning around and accounting for this stuff so people don’t suffer isn’t a new problem. www.interweave.com/article/knit...

It's wild because actually she's calling him Jewish, antisemitically

amazing how the Silicon Valley sales pitch suddenly became “we’re bringing about a bright future where everyone but the ultra-rich will be forced to return to the fields” and they genuinely don’t seem to believe this could eventually end poorly for them

This is how I’m gonna look every time someone hits the dislike button one of my posts.

Cis kids get gender-affirming care, including hormone suppression AND supplementation, and surgical techniques like access to breast reductions, nose jobs. Trans kids don’t want anything different. Just let all kids play a role in shaping the bodies they’ll live in for the rest of their lives?

Your regular reminder that the number of trans kids using puberty blockers to delay puberty is tiny, and the vast majority of prescriptions for the medication in children and adolescents are used to delay precocious puberty in cisgender kids.

ty ty @joshuaraclaw.com for linking me to this demonstration of some specific ways that the straights are not OK in this particular political and social moment. And I don’t think this will fix it? but you know, it’s better than many other options aimed at sad straights.

People always tell you that things are different after marriage and I thought I knew what that meant so I didn't worry about it but I've been married for two days now and I'm not really sure what to do about the tentacles.

Apple Music has some bad news for me about my moods

I just did so much stretching to try and unfuck my back and hips.

Exciting parenting update: we have a potty. Goal #1 is for the wee beastie to not simply scream in its presence.

Fred Flintstone spotted on Lower Wabash

How to explain to bb “actually no we can’t just go into their house.”

Pearl future (not freezing outside edition), to go with my tiny Steven.

Did you know if you trick or treat 1.5 blocks with a 2yo you will want to collapse in exhaustion afterwards?

As a linguist, this is bullshit. McWhorter’s deal is to bend over backwards to excuse racism.

We successfully trick or treated, and I think the baby (2 years) learned some of the rules, but the last house had a really sweet audio setup and the wee beastie cared so much more about dancing on their lawn than candy 🥺

There are a whole bunch of very understandable issues with the whole cousin/aunt thing. For one, “cousin” in English doesn’t really have a term of address/respect associated with it, and if you are raised to address your elders with some sort of honorific, what do you call your father’s cousin??

If there weren’t fewer units here than I can count on my fingers I might be less mad but as it is, I really want to know which of like, 3 people is being a dick.

In fairness, we left the sukkah up a bit long, but also, I do not love the email from the condo board telling us that we needed to notify them about our unauthorized structure and potentially get approval from them for the “work” we did so, God help us if we ever put a tent out there for the cats.

Know what helps too? Masking, in public. You can always start masking again, and what a great time to start.

This time 2 years ago I was super high on fentanyl while my body refused to go into labor; less than 12 hours later doctors went in and retrieved the wee beastie for me. They are so much less wee now! But still a little beastie, and still my best beloved. How? How has it been 2 years?

This is actually based on research where we know that even a warning banner at the top of someone’s screen saying, “hey you know this is bad, right?” reduces bad behavior. When you confront someone with their bad behavior even in the most incredibly minimal way, they’re less likely to do it.