We (obviously) went to the P&G plant, Ivorydale. Watched and learned all about the soap being made. I'm so glad now because it's since been shuttered (outsourced to other countries). Another common local trip was participating in Underground Railroad re-enactments but that's, like, a blog post

It's not past my bedtime, I approve of this

WALLACE 😭😭😭

This is the first woman to win Cinematography I think??? One wasn't even NOMINATED until 2018

You know, last year it was very possible that I hadn't seen a single nominee and this year I saw OBAA, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, 60% of Secret Agent (loooooved it, just started it today and have small children) and I want to shout out @hitchdied.bsky.social for her eternal movie passion and guidance

JUSTICE FOR JONNY GREENWOOD

It's funny to me that there are people who wants their awards shows escapist and politics-light, whereas I pretty much want every single winner to get up there and say "THANKS FOR THE AWARD FUCK TRUMP"

I haven't seen Train Dreams but every time I see a clip I think how nice it is that they made a movie for my husband

This just in: Ed Harris is still hot

Justice for James Van Der Beek

The Oscars start at SEVEN?? don't they know about bedtime???

Seeing a lot of backlash against One Battle After Another, and different strokes, etc., but I wonder if this is a movie that needs to be seen in a theater for full effect (like movies were watched exclusively through so much of Oscar history).

A fun thing about being a 21st-century parent is combating the fact that all other parents have access to all corners of the Internet. "Louise said Tide gives you cancer" sure honey mommy knowingly washes your clothes in a detergent that will kill you

European employers to pregnant women: In conjunction with the government and as required by law, we'll provide nine months' paid parental leave, full pre- and post-natal care for you and baby, postpartum well visits to your home, pediatric care and subsidized child care US employers: free socks!

Can confirm that one can demand justice for Daryl Hannah while basking in the glorious NYC 90s of it all while watching Love Story, the best kind of trash (thanks @jesspgh.bsky.social)

I don’t really know how money works in a grocery store. That’s what he’s claiming a person said to him. I don’t really know…how money…works…in a grocery store.

The moment I knew the culture had truly left me behind is when they felt the need to have cold opens for movie previews followed by “The Wuthering Heights trailer starts NOW!”

The last thing you should do in a country where dental insurance is barely real and widely unavailable is to take fluoride away

The more I read about the Iran war, the less I understand about the Iran war, or anything at all, really

This is delicious

I'm pretty sure I didn't eat a chickpea until college and I couldn't have imagined what a major part of my life chickpeas would be as a 21st-century mom. Chickpea pasta. Chickpea muffins. Hummus. Chickpeas straight up. What will my kids' version of the chickpea be? AI-modified salmon?

Important public service here

I have not yet watched The Pitt (my understanding is that there are dead children involved) but I'm told it has incorporated AnthroCon into a recent plotline and I'm delighted, both with Pittsburgh and the dramaturg

holy shit

One of my favorite songs ever. One of a kind.

Pittsburghers, I was craving some Quiet Storm home fries but I couldn't remember everything that was in them, so I found...a Quiet Storm digital cookbook! (YES I ponied up and YES it has the home fries and NO I'm not hungover but happy to have the recipe in case I ever am)

Ah yes, that famously reliable part of parenting wherein it only provides scenarios the parents are ready for* *don't try to tell me this is about what the "kids are ready for", lololol, kids DGAF about who loves whom, and kids are ready for what they ask about, with age-appropriate responses

Energy bill last month: $334.99. Last year, same month, same habits: $229.38. AI data centers, Trump admin...are we great yet?

😂

Was talking this week to an elder Millenial who teaches computers to college students. Says that, having grown up on Chromebooks, they're functionally tech illiterate. Don't know how to change a document format. Don't know how to print. Don't actually understand what an app is.

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

This damn state just cannot catch a break.

The world over is really hanging by a thread to "you do what you gotta do"

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

A weird day for my kid to be tap dancing around the house to this 30-year-old American Girl CD as Molly McIntyre shouts "Hooray for the USA, we won the war!"

I've been voting for nearly forty years and I never once voted for a candidate that fully encompassed my values. I pulled the lever for Obama when he was hemming and hawing about gay marriage. You know what I got out of that? Gay marriage.

Someday, before I die I hope, Americans will come to realize that not choosing the lesser evil means the greater evil wins

Don't open your phone at 3:28 ay em there might be a new pointless war on

Let's report on Real America please

The Scottish Colonial Empire

For like a whole couple decades of my life the SOTU was one of my favorite nights of the year lol

God I just wanna buy MBJ a drink

Classic Pittsburgher take from the Pittsburgher who shares my bed: "Well no Penguins visited the White House. Of course there were none on the US team. But if there had been they wouldn't have gone. Sid wouldn't have let them." [impression with extremely poor Canadian accent follows]

Classic edition of This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

It Happened To Me: I Exercised Too Long Because I Needed To See The End Of The SVU Episode They Had On At The Y And Of Course It Was The Creepy Dad Who Did It And Now I'm Sore And Tired

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Does anybody remember this? Absolute best Olympic thing connected to a non-existent Olympics.

The more you know.

Life these days is just: removal of nice people to other countries / invading South America / killing American citizens / historic winter storm / pedophiles roaming the White House / ALYSA LIU / historic winter storm