I can’t stop thinking about this Facebook marketplace listing

I’m almost done with City of Brass and there’s an eight week wait for the next book in the series and I fear I cannot wait that long.

They should invent a kind of exercise that doesn’t make you sore

This is inhumane. People dropping dead at work, while those around them are forced to continue to work. There is absolutely no excuse for this happening in 2026. This is the type of thing I only ever expected to read about in historical fiction, not a present-day news article.

Happy Praying Mantis Appreciation Day, to all who celebrate… CHILD PRAYING MANTIS: Dad, who are we all praying to exactly? DAD PRAYING MANTIS: Depends which religion you belong to CHILD: So not all people follow the same religion? DAD: No, son… we’re in sects

I spent my weekend doing yardwork and organizing the basement. I consider that a good weekend. My 30s are hitting hard

My garlic has sprouted and I am GIDDY. I was worried that I planted it too late last year, but it looks like it’s doing well!

It’s beautiful outside and I want nothing more than to be outside doing yardwork, but alas, I am inside doing Microsoft Teams 😭

Last April fools, I announced (on my private socials) that I was engaged. People thought it was a joke. It was not. I later found out I had friends texting each other to see if it was real. I don’t normally participate, but I still think that was pretty funny.

I know it's april fools day but I can't emphasize enough how much I need everybody to not fuck around today

Can we talk about how the rising cost of everything has turned pets into a luxury? It’s been 2 months since we put down Radagast, and I was trying to figure out why I have more money left over at end of the month than I’ve had in 6+ months.

Do you ever get a couple hours into a as very peaceful workday only to realize it’s peaceful because you never opened outlook?

I much prefer doing my research amidst the flickering lanterns of an old-fashioned library in Prague during a raging thunderstorm with the help of a library ghost, so no, I'm afraid I have no interest in "asking ChatGPT.”

It’s officially Yard Work on my Lunch Break szn

I’ve seen reels about the “being good at the blue store so he takes me to the pink store” trend and I truly thought it meant being good (not spending too much) at the blue store (Lowe’s) so you still have room in your budget for other stuff. Y’all, I- 💀

Let me make sure I’m understanding this correctly: DHS is partially shut down because the budget is deadlocked over ICE funding. TSA isn’t getting paid, but are still expected to work. ICE has been deployed to airports to “help”. ICE *is* getting paid.

My mom said she can drive us over to WWIII or pick us up but she's not gonna do both.

Someone talk me out of learning to make my own cabinets because $9k for 6 base cabinets and 4 upper cabinets seems too damn high. (That doesn’t even include any corner cabinets or drawers.)

Eclipse at 6:33am EASTERN tomorrow morning!! It’s a blood moon, and we are letting things GO and letting ourselves be reborn tell me what you are DONE WITH

Today I learned that there are people who genuinely think lead paint is good because it “blocks 5G and wifi”. They see the large scale efforts to remove lead paint as a plot to make us more susceptible to 5G/wifi and “control”. These people can vote.

Threads remains home to the most unhinged takes. Today: having guests at your wedding makes your marriage… stronger? Why do people care if other people elope? Are you mad because you weren’t invited, or because you didn’t realize eloping was an option?

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

It’s worth noting that this is happening as the SAVE act is headed to the senate. Requiring ID to vote while abruptly revoking an entire demographic’s legal identification is not a coincidence. It is by design, and it goes so much deeper than driving or even voting. This is cruel and calculated

Chewy makes it very easy to cancel all autoship orders after your pet passes, and they even sent me a little hand painted memorial rock. I am respectfully asking that they think about applying some filters to marketing emails. 🥲

Nothing but respect for MY president

It’s so funny when tech bros act like AI will usher in some sort of utopia where nobody will have to work and we will all have a form of UBI. Go ahead, start now. What’s stopping you? People are already losing their jobs because of AI. Show us how your plan works. Meet their needs.

I can’t believe I spent so much of my 20s believing the people who told me that audiobooks don’t count as reading, only to realize, in my 30s, that I retain way more information from listening than reading.

On Valentine’s Day we break out the nice candlestick holders

Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if your library doesn’t have Libby, you can pay for an out of state library card and get access to it. I paid $50 for a digital library card from the Queens library. I would much rather my money go to a library than to Amazon.

I’m a big fan of telling your friends that you love them, but you can’t get too comfortable with that because I just nearly ended a work call with “I love you, bye” I would have had to quit my job.

The rebranding of gambling as “the prediction market” feels very insidious and very intentional.

Me, after watching 3 minutes of curling: yeah I could make this my entire personality

“I just don’t know how people who don’t speak Spanish were supposed to enjoy the halftime show” Bitch, I don’t speak a word of Korean and I listen to Kpop. Skill issue

Is it just this game or is football… boring?

The hardest part of getting older is realizing the chances of finding out I’m secretly a prodigal at some niche Olympic sport are rapidly decreasing.

Therapists should be able to phone a friend. You know sometimes people are in therapy just telling the wildest stories. I bet they’re itching to hear the other side of things. (Yes, I know there’s HIIPA and all. Let me have this.)

Millennials, I’m begging you to not be so over-eager to share achievements online that you dox yourselves. Stop posting those chalkboards with your kids’ teacher’s name on them. Stop posting photos of your house as soon as you close. Stop posting full names. All it takes is one malicious person

How it started vs how it’s going

TW: pet loss/death A few days ago we had to say goodbye to Radagast. He was the sweetest, friendliest cat I could have ever asked for. Words cannot express how special he was or how much I miss him.

A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor. ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.

if you want to support mainers amidst ICE kidnappings happening here, this is a way to do so

81 years ago, Auschwitz was liberated. More than one million children, women & men were murdered. Humanity OWES it to each of the victims to ensure it’ll NEVER happen again. #HolocaustMemorialDay

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

Hey all, pls drop book/audiobook/podcast recs. What I like: Books: fiction, fantasy, etc. Podcasts: science, art, folklore, mythology, etc.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

Mainers came out and made their voices heard tonight. We stand with our neighbors.

Oh no, my late night rant about feeling helpless broke containment. I can’t even come close to keeping up with notifications, so I’ve muted that thread. Happy Wednesday, y’all. 🙃