yeah, I tend to love AOC's framing, but this is the rare time something felt like a miss for me. I would like the North to pull up to the South & start listening to the civil rights activists down here who have been screaming that this was gonna happen since they started gutting the VRA.

I genuinely believe one of the greatest anti-suicide measures ever is my phone’s insistence on auto replacing “kill” with “milk.” There’s just something about the color of red you see when your phone makes you tell your friends you’re thinking of milking yourself that is hysterically life-affirming

Nothing irritates more than the people who are like “I can’t “listen to my body” because it would tell me to eat a lot of Oreos/nap all the time!” Oh, you mean if you listened to your body’s needs it would tell you you’re underfed and overtired? Yeah, can’t imagine why that might be valuable intel 🫩

I realize all fiction books are inherently contrived, but I absolutely cannot stop thinking “Jesus Christ this is SO contrived” with my current read. The climate apocalypse part? Sure, I can suspend my disbelief. The characters and the stuff they say and do? Absolutely not. Scifi by men, smh.

Robby Hoffman is fascinating to me because she is the single funniest, most charismatic and clever person I’ve ever seen in every single interview or interaction or TV show… except for her special, which is almost total dogshit start to finish.

As someone who really really fucking resents the sort of people who decided who I would be when I was 14 and refused to update their perceptions of me as an adult, I’m astonished every time I meet someone from high school who legit has not changed in ANY way, shape, or form.

I realize this is a work/life balance nightmare for normal people, but in the context of being someone with not much going on I gotta say: I LOVE lying in bed composing detailed work emails in the dark. I LOVE IT. I LOVE EMAILS AND SENDING THEM. IN BED. ALONE. IN THE DARK.

i will not vote for any democrat that encourages throwing the trans community under the bus, i dont care who the opponent is i will not participate in an election where the choice is between two candidates that will attack marginalized communities to reach their personal political aspirations

the murder of juniper blessing is a horrifying reminder of the campaign of violence being waged by the most powerful against the vulnerable and the environment of hate being encouraged on all sides of the political spectrum

the way to think of this is that it is the judicial version of “you’re the real racist for noticing my racism or even thinking about race”

Among friends one person can totally be into another person without making it weird, I’ve been on both the “into” and “not into” ends of that experience and it’s mostly been unremarkable and fine… But omg, please god don’t make it weird. Please.

Every once in a while the cat who showed up on our porch right after Calvin died reminds me of him so much it ruins me. I’ll never understand why he was taken or why Louise was sent, and I guess that’s not my job. I regret so much, and also here we are, and I can only do right by who’s left.

Update: I did, in fact, email the advising department just to request that they pay Carole one million dollars

Update: he actually submitted the preauth immediately and BCBS refused to cover it so my literal only option now is full price cash pay 🙃

Excuses I’ve heard so far why I can’t get my testosterone: 1. We don’t have needles 2. We don’t have a DEA number 3. We do have a DEA number but it’s the wrong one 4. It’s too soon since your last refill (I have never taken T) 5. You need a pre auth

She would be embarrassed about this now, but the day I shaved my head for the first time I also witnessed a horrible motorcycle/car accident. I came home and breathlessly told my mom about how fucked up the motorcyclist was and calling 911 and she replied “Mm. So WHY did you shave your head?” 🙃

My best friend is recently casually dating someone also named Harper and we’re trying to figure out the best way to differentiate between us. I suggested “She-Harper” and “They-Harper” or, for brevity’s sake, “Sharper and Tharper.”

Cat who becomes allergic to every protein within months finally tried the only hydrolyzed wet food option in existence and THANK FUCK, SHE LOVED IT 😭🙌 the texture is terrible but it does smell very real-salmon-y, so mashing it in warm water with a fork til it’s soup worked great.

Just quoted Ephesians 4:32 to our cats and my spouse called it “Walter-Mitty coded”

a lot of the pundit class is constantly saying "what is the one liberal tenant that democrats must vigorously denounce in order to win the next election???" and the answer at the moment is "mercy"

always follow your dreams www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Just spent half an hour teaching my boomer friend (OVER TEXT) how to turn FaceID off on his new iPhone and go back to using a passcode for everything. Thank me for my service.

Doctor: Okay, I’m just going to gently massage your belly. Me: Ow! Doctor: Oh, is that tender? Me: Only because a spider bit me there. Doctor: *snorts loudly*

I think you see this a lot on sites with younger communities like Tumblr. "Why doesn't anyone ever write X?" People do! The question is why X doesn't get the promotion, acclaim, and cultural cache of Y. It strikes me as incurious. Instead of searching for X, they want it delivered to them.

I realized this week that I have a relationship with someone I was close to once where I no longer feel they have the ability to even slightly objectively interpret reality, and it’s making me really sad. I don’t really feel I can engage with them on any real level and don’t know how to handle it.

I always swore I never got acid reflux sleeping on my left side and that one turned out to be fairly evidence based, so here’s my other side-sleeper hot take: it’s much warmer to sleep on your right side. Left side, I’m shivery as hell at night. Right side- nice and cozy.

A spider of some kind bit me on the stomach two days ago. I had some gnarly symptoms later that I chalked up to withdrawal from a med I’m out of, but then all those symptoms went away the next day despite not having my meds yet, and turns out those symptoms are all bad spider bite symptoms. Whoops!

Today I went to academic advising in full blown despair. After explaining my situation my advisor froze, began frantically typing while exclaiming “fiddlesticks!” and “heavens to Betsy!” under her breath for 10 minutes straight, and then announced she had shaved an entire year off my degree.

I can’t stand the type of person who really wants you to know that they don’t know who very famous celebrities are. But what I especially can’t stand is when they make sure to inform you so after you already explained straightforwardly who they were in anticipation of this infuriating habit.

If you had asked me to invent Merritt Weber’s backstory from nothing, this is *exactly* what I would have come up with.

You guys can all get yourselves excited about the Phoebe Bridgers show but I am sure beyond a shadow of a doubt we are never ever ever getting another song from her (or boygenius as a whole) ever again. There is no hope inside me. I can take a lot, but not stringing along on this front.

👀 (I've noticed this mostly in scholarship about feminism or trans people, but it certainly seems like a lot of the time the reputation of a book, idea, or work is entirely independent of the actual content. Nobody fucking reads!)

I have new neighbors and I realized it’s gonna be rainy and cold on Thursday so tomorrow I will prep bread and garlic confit and Thursday I will do soup and take it all over to them!!!

Have been in the UNC medical system for 6 years, seen dozens of providers, never ONCE been called anything except my preferred name. So can’t say I’m thrilled that I walked in to the supposed GENDER CLINIC and was called my legal name for the first time ever!

every trans person has been effectively drummed out of the mainstream media but you can be a pulitzer finalist if you look around the situation that your fucking newspaper helped create and go “wow so this is pretty interesting huh”

I survived the semester, I maybe start testosterone on Tuesday, one of my favorite people is coming over on Thursday, I’m seeing another favorite person next Wednesday, my mother in law got us a date to the LEMUR CENTER, and my mean cat who hates her newest sister snuggled her sweetly for 2 HOURS!

Bert and Ernie should have their own show. I don't want to have to watch Sesame Street to see what they're up to. I'm not 5

I Consider Seven People A Dinner Party

A fox has been frequenting our back yard for a week now and normally I would find that quite cool, but as someone who also recently discovered 2 new feral cats in our neighborhood (where we previously got all but 1 feral socialized and moved indoors) I’m just intensely stressed out about it.

Is anyone else having the problem for a week or so now that the ability to hit the “send” button on messages here has disappeared off and on, or is it just me and @este.bsky.social ?

there really is like a society wide, party neutral affliction of people not caring whether something is true or not and I can't say I care for it!!!!!!!!!

[U.S. Postal Service] Me: *hands over change of address form* Clerk: Ma'am, this just says "bathtub” Me: I live there now Clerk: We can't send mail to a bathtub Me: Yay

Friend texted me “I need you to convince me not to get a mullet or buy a pet tortoise” and I was like WELL YOU CAME TO THE WRONG PLACE

My grandma said today she was happy some Christian movies have been coming out in theaters recently “so you know Grandpa won’t be offended by any of it,” then said he complained the entire drive home that the one they went to see was “clearly made by a Catholic” 💀

One final note is that two of those justices would not be on the court if we actually took sexual violence against women seriously.

Another semester, another totally unearned 2-letter-grade raise I objectively did not earn simply because I know if you show up and act enthused enough for the first 4 classes you can skip all the rest and half-ass the homework and get away with it.

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

Of all the plot twists with my mother in law I never saw coming: she is giving me exact days and times and locations for our visit IN DECEMBER. Eight months out she is making our lives easier and making advance commitments! Are these tears on my cheeks???

Do we think the phase from 10-13 years old when I only listened to the Goo Goo Dolls and Death Cab for Cutie and also spent a lot of time hanging out with my friends’ dads who all sincerely treated me like one of the guys has anything to do with my personality now

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters