"It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy, as the mild serenity of age takes the place of the riotous blood of youth." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky A Village Street in Winter 🎨 Alfred Sisley (1893)

THEY'RE HERE! Recordable Book Buddies are 9" tall and can be attached to the back cover of any book. What do they do? You can record your voice reading or responding to a passage, then sticker the page with the matching number. Read aloud to someone you love! (Not just for kids!)

13 years ago today.

I gave my cats some wet food as a treat a couple of days ago. Of course there are riots in my house if they don’t get it for breakfast now, why do you ask?

I’m not making free content for a website owned by a guy who thinks my family existing is a form of genocide against white people, which is why I’m not going back to that place.

A ripe opportunity for a drag queen to start a new religion.

I already saw this Michael Crichton movie in the 90s—dumb as a bag of hair, sweaty cops, cheating slimey attorneys, bumbling drunk “witnesses”. The novels were cautionary tales not “how to” manuals.

Jessie Buckley is the Millennial Meryl Streep. I will not be taking questions.

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

One of my favorite things about the Minoans and Aztecs are that they had apartment buildings so swank that archaeologists confused them for palaces. They had luxury accommodations for many families close together making food prep and child care a communal commitment. And they had flush toilets!

“I, too, am America.”

It’s weird how babies used to die when their mothers couldn’t nurse for complex medical reasons. Good thing this guy has it all covered.

Don't dress for the job you have, dress like you're the villain in someone's origin story.

Men cannot fathom an existence that is not identical to their own which leads to their constant bafflement

My favorite thing about the wax museum is: despite all the millions of dollars represented in that room not a one has a decent wig on. I have better looking weaves from Amazon - shake and go. Come on Sly, you can write the wigs into your contacts. Nicole Kidman famously has that clause in hers.

He reminds me of a squirrel on meth, his mind racing to speak, hearing nothing but the pause that lets him know it’s his turn to spout some crazy shit. I’m glad this reporter pushed back just a little, it’s more than we’ve been getting.

Did you know that before Nixon and Reagan, health insurance companies in America were non-profit? Yep, they screamed about "socialized medicine" and gradually shifted the focus of our entire healthcare system from public welfare to... making bucks off illness.

I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore

Affordability crisis at the grocery.

In this joke of a racist country any doofus who can buy his way into office can simply change any part of the constitution via memo. Am I reading this right?

We're doing pogroms in America now

“Maybe we’re onto something.” “How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”

When I was in school I took AP US history and AP European history. AP African American history and AP Native American history should be on offer in each US high school. We have more in common with and more to learn from this history of all the peoples of the US.

"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon

"Dustin carried Nutty Bars, Bazooka, Pez, Smarties, Pringles, an apple, a banana, and trail mix. Will, who’d chosen to fireball a monster in a curiously prophetic game of Dungeons and Dragons, carried a depressing rendition of the second-most commercially successful Clash song."

Just like clockwork the weather in Chicago tanks the day after Thanksgiving.

Happy Turkey Day to you all. I’m at a friend’s house watching Korean horror films eating pizza with a lovely pup curled up next to me, drink in hand the way Goddess intended.

One of the reasons this was banned is because it catered to the female gaze showing girls and women that we can be whoever we want whenever we want. apple.news/ArkH2CkSFR12...

Phillip Seymour Hoffman has been gone eleven years now. His widow was seen sucking face with Louis CK all over Brooklyn the other day. Definitely the wrong timeline.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸

Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will.

People have been remarking on this for years but it’s not due to light pollution as much as Round Up in every seed that’s sold in the US. We are poisoning our fields, food, and people. apple.news/A6ontEAwCQWK...

This is very sweet and completely false. Men leave when women get sick. Women are six times more likely to be abandoned in sickness than men. Look at your partner right now and honestly ask yourself if their behavior links to them staying. imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fifte...

I know this will be difficult for some and impossible for those with small children but we do the best we can as we can. No one expects you to buy your meds from a more expensive pharmacy if you’re on a fixed budget but you can do most of this list. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Once a month for the past ten years guards have tortured men for fun and games.

“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.” Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget

loooove her

Whole ass factories don’t close when the economy is doing well. They just don’t.

This sentence is incredible considering what’s going on in the White House daily. apple.news/AwQB5FYW6SRu...

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

This breathless “will they won’t they” on kiddie raper docs is nuts, of course they won’t. He’ll veto, people will gnash their teeth and say important things but a career criminal isn’t hading over anything. We got a war to get ready for as well as a new national power pop anthem by Keith Urban

See if we had kept the Me Too men cancelled the first time so much of this could have been avoided

What happens to the space that used to be the East Wing when the old man dies before construction begins? Who pays for a half finished building if in six months the old man is defeated by Alzheimer’s? Will the American public stand by for a war meant to deflect from pedophilia charges?

I mean this in the best way possible but I read t in her voice

This video essay is well worth the time. It dives into who is considered human, why politicians focus on punishment, and how Americans are responding to trifling attack ads.

Won’t someone give Lily Allen a good dicking so we can move on from her poorly and hastily written album?

I think @govpritzker.illinois.gov and @mayorofchicago.bsky.social need to take a run at this plan