The Malligator is already at max level for barking, stealing socks, and being offended by the mere presence of the other dogs, and we’ve only been up an hour! It’s going to be a day.

COMMENTARY: It’s tempting to turn ICE operations into a debate about laws, to treat them like an abstract policy question. Level-headed debate over policy is fair. But before we can have that debate, we must tell the truth: that ICE’s cruelty is the point, writes Rev. Cindy Briggs-Biondi.

Oh the photos of anti-ICE Minnesota make my heart happy! Such an extra good feeling these days

🚨POST AN EMERGENCY CAT PIC🚨 Bear in 2018, very thoughtful

They’re setting me up with a laptop tomorrow so I can work remotely if the weather is bad Monday

People have continued reposting this all day today, even though it’s from yesterday. It’s all one terrible, horrible, no good, very long day.

I’m glad how I was feeling last night resonated with so many people but wow, the notifications, all the comments… a bit overwhelming! Most of my posts have 0-3 likes.

*waves in Appalachian* You know that cartoon about the guy who had a bad day at work, so he comes home and beats his wife, and then she beats the kids, and then the kids beat the dog? Appalachians are the dog.

Why the hell does everything have to happen at once?

Catching up on the news from today has been absolutely horrific and I am feeling enraged and so sad and just honestly ashamed of the United States government.

Whoever made this medicine FOR CATS strawberry banana flavored deserves a few good skibbity-paps.

In good news, I joined a local singing group. Spring music is all broadway and show tunes and I have seen NONE of these shows but the first practice gave me so much joy.

I paid a dime for this apron charm from my favorite first grader. I miss my students so much. People talk a lot about the impact teachers have on students, but it goes the other way too.

Holy shit y’all, won $6 dollars from my lottery ticket, now I can afford my piece of chicken, piece of broccoli, and corn tortilla!

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I also got a new bumper sticker at Kinship. My daughter is the biggest Tudor’s fan. For anyone outside WV, Tudor’s Biscuit World is an experience I wish you could all have.

Thanks to Kinship Goods for making these… y’all, nobody better steal this outta my yard, fafo

Remember, it's only technically Orwellian if it's from the Orwell region of England, otherwise it's just sparkling authoritarianism

The world feels too heavy lately. #monoprint Acrylic on paper. #art #printmaking #figuratively #grief

Wait… what???? That’s… but…

Multitasking at work today had my brain like the Windows 98 screensaver maze

I desperately wish The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon was real

Comfort watching Murderbot

Today’s joy - I made this abstract mini quilt in January 2020. It was inspired by a giant plantain that inserted itself in my garden and sprawled over the path. I miss that little garden but this reminder hangs on my wall.

Nooooo youngest kiddo came home from sleepover with a sore throat, tested positive for flu A 😭

My mama got me this Keith Haring stacking game but I think it also makes fine bookshelf decor

"If we wouldn't stand for it, why would we expect another group of Americans to stand for it? Why would we stand silent, or worse, get in the way of it being rectified?"

On this day in 2014 I had a chubby baby and now they are taller than me 😭

Really really grateful for parents who continue to help out their millennial adult child who is struggling in life… grateful to have good humans as parents ❤️ I know not everyone has that and it’s really fucking wonderful

My boss has a button at their desk that makes their office door slam closed and I wish I had that kind of power

It will just keep happening now that they know they can get away with it

Part of me wants to post about normal things in a normal way and an increasingly larger part of me just wants to scream about what’s happening here in the US

I left 5 minutes late this morning and it increased my sitting in school traffic time by 20 minutes!

Today’s fun thing: I got to use the fax machine! What a nostalgic sound.

Like: when boss gives me something to research and uses my contributions to draft a document and then has me revise it Dislike: when boss uses AI to draft a document and then has me retype and revise it I have more than one boss 🙃

Come on Senate! I would like to be able to afford healthcare!

Here’s a nice thing: I went to the library today and the librarian remembered me from when I was a kid and my dad took me there every week

Tim Walz has balls and I applaud him

Cried at work and THEN came home to “did you see what happened today?” and it’s never ever good

Leave Venezuela and Greenland and my health insurance and everybody else alone! For fuck’s sake!

Me and my work bestie reuniting after the holidays

How I feel about all the news today

everyone's parents: You will get more conservative as you age me at 46: legalize all drugs, abolish prison for all nonviolent offenses, and force the politicians with the lowest approval rating to participate in The Running Man once a month

I always lament that I never go out and do anything, but I’m supposed to go out and do something tonight and I kinda don’t wanna.

I hate that Joann’s closed. Neither the local sewing shop, Michael’s, nor icky hobby lobby has what I want.

At first I was bummed but who knows maybe swamp monster energy is what I need this year

It’s so much easier to stare at my phone, but I love reading so much. Keeping track and having a goal this year helped a lot.

I’m enjoying being back at the law firm more than I thought I would? I totally effed up today and my boss was super cool about it. Met up with a friend at a cute cafe on my lunch hour and it was really lovely.

Just wrapped my first Christmas present 😆 my kids have been with their dad all week but are coming over today