thinking about how last night my gf saw me smile at a dog walking by and immediately grimacing at the baby in a stroller right behind it and how she now knows the darkness at my core in a new way.

the upside of living closer to chicago is i can go to author events without having to upend my life. i just saw caitlyn paxson talk about her new book a widow's charm and picked it up, it looks cute and has a queer necromancer in it. but the sequel coming out next year is a sapphic heist romance!

My annual reminder that if you need to buy a window A/C this year do not simply buy the largest model you can afford. Energy Star has a sizing guide. Why do you want an AC that is sized for your room? Because an undersized A/C won't cool well and an oversized A/C will leave a space humid

my unpopular opinion is that we're better off with Kash running the FBI and we should hope he keeps his job as long as Trump does

At the Lyric Opera in Chicago for the world premiere of Safronia, and I cannot recommend this show enough. So far, it’s just tonight and tomorrow, but I’m certain it will travel. I’m truly blown away.

Please boost. I really need to get in to see a specialist about my back. The sooner I can get that scheduled the sooner I can have the issue addressed and get back to doing delivery. Thank you 🖤

me against the smoke detector that goes off every other time i make food: you think you can just go off whenever you feel like it??? well i've got a fan!

ugh i'm going to need to project manage this weekend and next weekend to get through the last 10 days before the surgery

The thing that is hard about writing is conclusions. Also introductions. And the middle stuff.

skeets you can hear

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

i'm not even 45, and i just had a conversation with my doctor about whether or not i should get one early because of my family history. people are getting colon cancer earlier, it's worth bringing up.

they're turning the screws on people with student loans in multiple ways right now, this thread has important information on how you can help, scroll through to see if you should contact your elected about this.

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one of the cats was very busy starting at 4 making much noise. now the dog won't stop crying. i have one good son and his name is prince.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

it's not good when your site breaks and your users feel they had better quality of life without it.

Incredibly pissed off that the conspiracy theorists are going to turn out to be right about Nazi moon bases not because they were actually there but because they elected guys to create them Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

me: stressed out and trying to get to sleep my cats at midnight: what if we had flight club and knocked over the tub of dogfood?

Candyman has a cousin....

Hi! A responsible title to this article would have been something like, "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas calls for violent right-wing revolution against most of the American populace".

reddit forums from obese patients healing from my surgery: there were a few issues but the surgery improved my life, no regrets, you got this!! reddit forums from nurses who have been in the or for obese patients for this surgery: omg those fatties are so gross, full of infections, i hate them!

it is suddenly very clear that people do not know what intersectional means.

guys, this is how you lose the time war

i have been quietly going to an open mic near my house, and i really wish reading in front of people wasn't so stressful. when i taught college classes, i got feedback that i looked nervous, and it's never gotten better. i've been teaching and public speaking for 16 years!

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my autistic belief: the first season of afterparty is the sequel to can't hardly wait.

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hard to think of a stronger bubble indicator than "all birds, the shoe company, pivots to AI and stock goes up 170%"

at least i know the next time i submit neil will just be glad my story was written by a human.

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there's some chance i'll be buried under my own prescriptions during my surgery recovery

So far: Berwyn Cicero Rapid Response is reporting two abductions early this morning. Far South Rapid Response is reporting ICE has been sighted at the 111th St courthouse. Sightings in Elgin. Two abducted from Carol Stream. Reports of someone escaping an abduction in La Villita.

Johnson is a Baptist anyway. So what he has to say about the Pope means zilch. What I want to see is someone talk to a Republican who is Catholic (and not a convert either. Say, Scalise) and get THEM to squirm a bit.

i'm angry this is being framed as recent grads "developing an ai habit" when we're all being institutionally sold that ai is the future and that if we don't use it we'll be left behind. those poor grads.

Just wanna be clear, the US economy is in a downturn, many companies are announcing layoffs, and nearly all of them will say it’s because “AI.” That’s a convenient excuse, far better than “we made bad business decisions.” They will never show actual evidence that AI was the reason for *any* of it.

top tier breakfast: toast + cream cheese + pesto + chili oil + tomato

CookingWithRoswell.com ends with the text fading out, because that’s what our memories do. The fear of losing memories is what drove me to photography. #typography #BookDesign #AmWriting

chicago is really giving new orleans vibes tonight.

it must be amazing to be seth green and be so much smaller than all the beautiful ladies who exist.

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I dont really have a portfolio to show but if theres something in your brain large or small youd like to have sculpted please think of me

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This is terrible news in higher education in general, but it specifically raises questions for Jewish Studies, since the Yiddish Book Center is housed on the Hampshire campus. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/14/m...

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Plus, there’s a brainless kind of smirking cruelty behind what’s happened to USAID in specific and the government in general, and when you make that clear to people I have to think it’s additionally enraging in a way that’s additionally galvanizing Elon Musk is so offputting. All these people are

I profoundly believe that right now people care far more about their rage being mirrored by elected representatives than those representatives adhering to certain ideological profiles 2026/28 are going to be about temperament. Milquetoast centrism will lose