I didn’t realize what an essential part of Christmas illness and ear infections are until my child turned 2, and I have to say we could all do without this part of the festivities.

One thousand reasons I hate AI but one of them is that it is normalizing people thinking they can just take other people’s words without consequences, whenever they feel like it.

Sitting amidst a bunch of paper pumpkins cut out of old New Yorkers (we’re crafting) while my 4yo daughter is crying that she wants to “go out! to the restaurant!” and Florence + the Machine is playing in the background, and idk I appreciate these moments that parody the hell out of my parenting.

I love my hometown 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Em dashes, of course, were named in honor of Emily Dickinson, because she used so many of them.

people who act like no one uses em dashes are essentially saying “I don’t read books!”

Anyway, I went to Paris and I feel very confident in my deserving Swiss citizenship now because despite having grown up in the French school system, I looked a waiter in the face and said « septante-cinq » and absolutely blanked when he didn’t understand and kept saying « septante-cinq »

I am once again internally screaming in the Petit Palais over an out of body aesthetic experience (at the Worth exhibit).

Extreme flashbacks to myself as a child but clear preview of what awaits my child today as on the bus, another American mom was reading a Lovevery book to her ~18 month old, and my child, from diagonally across the aisle was shouting out all the answers.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

As an exiled Chicagoan abroad, hilarious to get multiple missed phone calls from an unidentified Chicago number in between the appearance of white smoke and the announcement of Chicago Pope.

Minor effect of having the same digital accounts for most of our lives at this point, but my iTunes has gone rogue this morning and is shuffling music from my mid-2000s library that I haven’t heard in 20 years and I wonder why it’s doing it but also wow… time.

This wrapping paper turns everything into bread 🥖 Created by Japanese designer Ippei Tsujio

L’asperge, ce légume originaire d’Anatolie qui a conquis le monde ➡️ https://l.letemps.ch/PYc

An important message.

The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

I am genuinely so baffled when I see the dumb shit people willingly use AI for, knowing the damage it does to our brains, our society, our planet - like AI to find early cancers? Yes, sounds great! But using AI because you don’t want to write your own grocery list or write a five paragraph essay?

No joke, no one I know thinks it’s safe to travel to the US.

My 3yo has started loudly stating “tout le monde, stop talking!!!” when she wants quiet, and I want to try that out on the bus (and many other public spaces).

Pride and Prejudice except every single character is played by Olivia Coleman including Mr Collins

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

We’re not a Cocomel*n household, we’re a Nana’s original 1964 LP of Mary Poppins household

”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"

Something that keeps me sane as a professional editor is the memory of my favorite undergrad prof talking about the difficulty of “killing her darlings” because cutting good text is SO hard, but at least I always know the pain is shared.

I don't think Democrats should surrender on "DEI" for the same reason I don't think we should surrender on "trans sports". The actual demand in both cases is that the affected caste of people disappear from public society, and that is not something we should (or can!!) deliver upon.

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

In 1942, the American President opposed censorship because books were weapons in the fight against tyranny.

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Found out today that the recurring thought I’ve had over the last few weeks that I should zap the gunky bits of my Nespresso machine with steam was indeed a bad one.

Really love the other people who name their kids really old fashioned names so I get to hear people shrieking things like “LUCRÈCE!!!!” out of nowhere at the playground.

Excited for my mother, age 65, to be discovering the world of children, at the playground on a Wednesday, in an astrakhan coat and carrying a Peppa Pig toilet seat.

Really need HD versions of the early 1990s World of Peter Rabbit and Friends BBC series that has live action Beatrix Potter water coloring in the Lake District because they were perfect and I’m really sick of the pixelated YouTube videos 🥲 (The new Peter Rabbit animated series is an abomination.)

Love my rule-loving child screaming “c’est interdit!!!” at a woman crossing the street despite a red light.

Happy Valentine’s Day! My husband is writing a little newspaper article on Edith Wharton and Henry James, and even though it’s a thematically relevant piece thanks to the times we live in, I am interpreting it as a Valentine to me.

Nineteen days into this now!!

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

The idea that the use of em dashes exposes a writer's use of AI is the sort of idea that only AI could come up with.

oliviasview coded personnages for old time’s sake

My back went into crisis last week, a few days before my 34th birthday, seemed to get better on my birthday, and now is seized worse than before. A very painful but appropriate way to process the transition from early to mid-30s.

Rep. @ilhanmn.bsky.social speaking at today's USAID protest: "This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like."

I have no words for how absolutely insane the forceful shutdown of USAID is making me feel

Very weird to see Salomé at the opera today and be treated to a production featuring MAGA hats, Herod as Trump, and a guy in a Columbia sweatshirt as Jochanaan… a classic case of trying too hard to make something “relevant” bc it ended up implying that Trump would keep a leftie around as a prophet.

January Reads 📚❄️ Off to a better start this year. The Hand that First Held Mine and Scaffolding were favorites. The Wilderness too, which I read in one sitting last night.

Daunt Books makes mini kids totes, so now my 3yo is perfecting the art of schlepping by filling hers before we go out. But also now it prompts things like, “I want to take the bus because my Daunt Books est heavy.”

If we’re going to have to move photo apps too, am I going to need to post my needlepoint here too? Maybe? Anyway, here’s my Sunday morning needlepoint color palette.

Definitely the hardest part of being a neurospicy mom with chronic exhaustion is being in charge of everyone’s good habits in terms of going outside and getting plenty of sun and exercise.