I mean, it’s not wrong.

me going into a tax prep appointment: it was a bit confusing for me but i’m sure it’s a walk in the park for a professional. my nervous system going into a tax prep appointment: you’ve committed ten thousand felonies and they’re going to execute you on the spot.

“if you’re craving [sweet treat] your body actually wants [vegetable]!” no. my body Told Me that what it wants is a honey bun. and i’m the one who made it hike six miles so who am i to deny that demand

You are a senator.

The thing about there needing to be a path of redemption for people who have been “canceled” is: there already is a path to redemption and it’s called “redeeming yourself.” The path is open! No one is blocking that! You just have to do it!

today i learned my dad was in one of the only racially integrated boy scout troops in baton rouge in the early 70s

this whole rigmarole with finding properly fitted joint support makes me SO mad on behalf of fat people.

i just want a pair of knee compression sleeves that fit my thighs, don’t bunch up painfully behind the knee when i sit, and aren’t marketed with magical bio-fabric. i won’t even ask for them to be full leg.

what i really need is a quarterly retreat with my weaving friends where we spend like 3 days collaboratively warping all our projects

No one is trying to tell you that you are not allowed to feel nostalgic for what Harry Potter may have once meant to you as a kid; they are literally just asking you to not fund their destruction.

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

two different elders claimed me as a kindred spirit this weekend and i can’t believe i’m lucky enough to do this work with such incredible people

months ago my sister mentioned writing up a dessert recipe to go with a magazine feature on the restaurant where they work and it turns out the magazine is SOUTHERN LIVING?????? so anyway. check out the may issue for a killer carrot cake

this dipshit (james lomax, not my district) is running reelection ads for the AL state house on the platform of “ban sanctuary cities.” my dude there ARE NO SANCTUARY CITIES HERE and more’s the pity!!

my takeaway from current debate on how to treat right-wing defectors (accept vs. shun) is just that we all play different roles. some are willing and able to be landing pads and guardrails for these people; others, especially the most harmed, focus on their existing work.

it’s actually a little known aviation regulation that every seat on a plane must be within earshot of someone who has the wettest cough known to man

why is it so unreasonably warm inside every building in baltimore

people who let doors slam, i am burning a hole through your cervical spine with my laser eyes

i guess it’s suspicious to bring a 700-page paperback to the airport… tsa flipped through my whole book. i thought they pulled my bag for the knitting needles.

i can be strong. i can do 6 more rows of flat lace with purl rows. i can survive until i am knitting in the round.

absolutely flawless timing: opened dropout 24/7 precisely on cue to hear “CHRONOMANCY!!”

at work we're trying to figure out how to make white people with self-reported high racial literacy be more humble about reckoning with the ways that white supremacy appears in our lives and minds and i'm THIS close to proposing that we just put this image at the top of every session

“why do you hate technology” as though “technology” were some discrete entity divorced entirely from the context of what it does and what it creates, rather than a category so broad as to constitute reality itself

such a lovely thing to think about

i'm gonna lose it folks, i'm trying to connect the mini displayport on my laptop to either the usb-c or mini hdmi on my new monitor but i can't find a damn cable or adapter that does this

apparently i write “creachure” enough that it’s in my phone dictionary now

this thing of “it’s actually so complicated” is so exhausting! you’re never allowed to come to a conclusion because doing so is somehow proof you haven’t considered it enough!

remember when everything was possibly cake and we were driven mad by the possibility that everything was cake? don't you wish everything was possibly cake now instead of probably ai? we were such fools to squander a cake-based reality.

i can’t believe that leverage season 5 was created in a lab (writers’ room) specifically to fuel my unending obsession with the ot3.

Happy 213th anniversary to Pride and Prejudice! A book so good some people have read it twice!

i might have to start knitting sweaters for other people because i loooovvveeee making them but i simply do not need an endless sweater stash. i live in alabama.

something something the mortifying ordeal of being known

the woke mob is giving He-man pronouns

they got me again!! the funniest thing is that i clock it as weird in the moment not because of “helpen” itself but because the overall construction “may helpen your weight loss journey” is simply ungrammatical given the function of -en

THE RUG HAS ARRIVED!!!! i owe my life and my cozy living room to tatiana from rugsource. farewell my companion. what a journey we have shared.

THE REDELIVERY NOTIFICATION WAS BOGUS. WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE THIS RUG IS.

tatiana from rugsource and i need to get a drink together and bitch about this. the misdelivery address is three blocks from my house. (i walked down there after my last meeting and left a note with my phone number.)

i just truly have no idea how this has happened again. my shipping address was correct from the jump and there are no confusable locations in the city.

i think. fedex has misdelivered our rug a SECOND TIME. after it was miraculously retrieved and rerouted. tatiana from rugsource and i may be about to knock some heads together because what the fuck. (i am PRAYING that it’s at the neighbor’s where i can just get it myself.)

the more I read and learn and study, the fewer people who have any understanding of my increasingly specific jokes

one of many reminders you’ll get on MLK day that he was a radical. do not cherry-pick his quotes about love today, especially if you are white:

[turning down the water temp on my morning shower] that's better, i don't need to scald first thing [turning up the beat for my morning beowulf recitation] but i do need to skald

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

Cat considering whether to use up one of her nine lives:

watching “3 hours of tower of london history” is such a classic sick day activity

we must have the world’s heaviest squirrels because it sounds like toddlers are skittering across my roof

it sure sucks to have someone insistently rationalize to you why they don’t think your favorite thing is that good. especially after you already said it’s your favorite and tried to signal disinterest in the topic

Reminder that “Say her name” was developed specifically to call attention to murders of Black women