STOP FUCKING SHOOTING PEOPLE.

If laws are arbitrary now, I'm not interested in doing the "Advance Ohio Higher Education Act." [Narrator: it doesn't advance anything useful]

In June 2024, sitting around having dinner, someone asked the group, "what was your silver lining from the covid era?" People spoke about friends they reconnected with and online talent shows and catching up on movies. I couldn't answer. Then weeks later, still thinking about it, I sent the asker:

I never change so fast as when I’m at the doctors and I’m worried they might see me naked before they see me naked.

Nothing is shocking anymore

My favorite part of reading is when a book gets so good you have to set it down, (finger marking the page), and just let your mind be blown for a minute before picking it back up again.

I'm assuming Orangina wants Maduro charged with something just so he can pardon him and give him a suite in Barfalago to live out his days consequence-free.

White people solemnly intoning that WE must be ashamed of what America has become and that this war in Venezuela is the most indefensible thing WE have ever done. Sit down, Peter. This country was founded on kidnapping, rape, and genocide. This is who ✌🏾WE✌🏾 have been since this country’s inception.

This seems unnecessary

How cute is Squiggy making a nice bed on my coat?

(whisper singing to myself) I want my, I want my, I want my MTV. *sad trombone*

Score!

I registered for tap dancing classes. Look out, 2026! 🕺

I just want the same healthcare my congressman receives…

Dear Ghosts of New Year's Eve: Just a reminder, if the US Department of Education doesn't announce the FIPSE Special Projects grant awardees by midnight, the $167M simply vanishes. Can you please remind someone they have one last major 2025 task? With thanks, Rhyan #grants #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Common sense should not be political.

I want to congratulate Planet Earth on successfully completing 4.54 billion revolutions around the sun thus far. Way to go, chap.

I need to figure out what I’m going to wear to the couch on New Year’s Eve

My Uber driver talked THE ENTIRE way home on a 40-min drive. Dude. Read the room. He asked me one question, which I answered: "I'm a librarian." He diatribed me on church, liberals, and that libraries are irrelevant. I tipped him poorly.

I challenge you to name one thing he's done that makes life a little easier for Ohioans. Just one. www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/p...

My take on people wearing face masks is very simple: It's not my face, so I mind my own business. That's it. That's the whole take.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

All of the top 10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top checkout in many library systems around the country.

Whatever happened to Space Force?

Adults struggle with literacy…nothing wrong with asking for help or reading children’s books for confidence…I want people read..I will never judge..

Remember, kids: press play on Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" at exactly 11:56:20 on New Year's Eve to get that iconic drum fill when the ball drops.

Normalize electing politicians knowledgeable about things.

Not spending these nearly $2bn in unclaimed funds on public services for Ohioans is whack. There is a 0% chance wealth hoarders are not claiming funds. It's the people's money. Fix some bridges. Give teachers a raise.

It's public education. Fund it. Use the $1.9bn in unclaimed state funds for schools instead of building a new stadium for the Browns owner who's worth $8bn and could build his stadium with pocket change. www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/e...

“What are your hobbies?” Me: I love coming home and being at home and sitting inside my house and staying home.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Pasta sauce caramelizing. Chicken thoup simmering. Polenta congealing. Tahini beanies thickening. Fresh pasta drying. Almond cookies baking. Last up, a 6mth supply of GF+DF pancakes. ❤️👩‍🍳🔪🍅🍝🥞

Spending this day gleefully cooking a freezerful of assorted homemade favorites for the fruit-of-my-womb in NYC to stockpile nourishing meals for audition season 2026. 🩰🕺

It's weird that vegetarian hot dogs aren't better by now.

An advent calendar for every month besides December, where you get a little treat each day because life is hard

Small note: if you see a fat person out exercising, you don’t need to give them advice!

Even intelligent people often don't understand that an archivist's reaction tool removes data, and isn't just drawing a black box over readable text. Librarians saw this coming.

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Duh.

Reading the Baldwin: A Love Story audiobook while walking around Harlem has been numinous.

We asked my sister if she were a dessert, what kind of a dessert she’d be, and her response was “Maybe Nerd Rope? No, that’s more breakfast than dessert”

Accurate.

These rebates will undoubtedly be paid to the wealth hoarders who have paid the lowest taxes. Obvi.

Cannot wait to unplug, detach, and dissociate for two weeks. TWO WEEKS.

(eating figgy pudding) we should have demanded chocolate pudding instead

anyway channeling all my rage and hopelessness into shredding potatoes and onions.

The news the past few days has been extremely hard. The winter extremely cold. The world especially difficult. But, today each of us has the chance to do one little thing to combat the awful. It is difficult, but choose joy today. Choose love. Choose kindness. Be a a small rebellion.