I absolutely should NOT have this ability as I would use it for evil. "Hurry the hell up, I've been waiting 8 weeks and I'm going to read it in two nights, you can have it back then! GAWD!"

I want to learn how to like whisky. Any recs?

Been emailing like a man. It's getting me mixed results. I will not be injecting girly pop joy (!) in my emails until morale improves and the skies are blue.

And wrote about the quilt and related matters here. Thanks for all you do, Marisa.

I think we are ready for a new Fantasia movie. 2025 would've been a good year, but obviously, you know, this exists. But we should be pressuring Disney into this instead of another live action remake. the children yearn for Handel and Mendelssohn with animated beats.

Deep cleaning on a Saturday like my forbearers with jams in the back. Its been 4 hours and I've moved every piece of furniture, dusted every surface, mopped & swept, and am finishing up with the vacuum. I haven't been this productive in ages. Maybe the sads are lifting through the power of pinesol?

As a glasses wearer since I was 5 years old, the best part of my year is picking out my new frames. Happy new frames day!

@samlmontano.bsky.social was referenced and a blog post was shared in my long-term recovery meeting for NC. I felt like going "I know her!!" but I refrained.

SOPDA Richardson resigned???? He was doing so much work? How will FEMA recover?????? /s

This Day in Labor History: November 12, 1928. Workers for United Fruit in Ciénega, Colombia went on strike over the horrible conditions of their work and life. The response from United Fruit? Kill them.

Spending an hour putting a wandering 3 year old back in bed is what counts for a wild night these days. One day I will miss the shenanigans, but dear God do I need uninterrupted sleep.

I just love him.

“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense… against the usurpations of the national rulers.” — Federalist No. 28, 1788 I'm back on my fed(eralist)posting

Lucy is promising that this time she will definitely hold the football.

Re-sleep training a 3 year old is really rough. I'm in the trenches and I don't have enough sun to photosynthesize and apparently it's going to snow next week? Wtf did I move to the mountains. I miss the beach.

“tom homan is a bitch” is a winning message

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

Last night, we ended a Republican supermajority in Mississippi. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

Affordable housing, city run grocery stores, and free buses! I live, laugh, love in North Carolina.

www.bbc.com/news/article... 90% of homes (estimated) have been destroyed in St. Elizabeth Parish. Debris operations are going to be I N S A N E. Starlinks have been distributed to aid communication and connectivity but it's never enough folks. Never enough.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

*laughs in millennial*

www.cbc.ca/news/science... I have a deep and abiding curiosity in catastrophe bonds and how they work in disaster recovery. As the feds dial down their support and states and locals will have to front more of these costs...is this how we deal?

Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. With @theassemblync.bsky.social

RECOVERY HAS A WHOLE SKILL SET THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM RESPONSE AND WEATHER REPORTING. THIS IS LIKE ASKING AN ENT TO DISCUSS THE RECOVERY OF A CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY. SURE THEY ARE BOTH DOCTORS BUT THEY SPECIALIZE IN DIFFERENT THINGS.

If I called an elder by their first name w/o an honorific of some kind, I'm pretty sure my entire ancestry line would lose their collective minds.

Trying to get information about Jamaica. I am so interested to learn more about the catastrophe bond mentioned at the end of the article. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm not going to be doing interviews about Hurricane Melissa because I'm not an expert on emergency management in Jamaica. (If anyone has recommendations of disaster researchers with that expertise who are available now, I can pass their names along.)

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

But what does this mean when you're faced with this administration? All I want to tell my people is that trust between the states and feds is irretrievably broken and states need to build their capacity in ways heretofore unknown. It's like an abusive relationship at this point.

Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.03% of global CO₂ emissions but faces almost unimaginable loss and damage in coming days at the hands of wealthy nations. It's heartbreaking and utterly damning.

The landslides, flooding, and infrastructure damage will be catastrophic. I don't see that the national emergency management office in Jamaica has started calling for evacuations on their site, but I surely hope they are in ways more likely to reach the population in and around the mountains. 😮‍💨

Can't believe I'm on Marketplace today. Emergency Management is a weird job category.

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Really thinking about how green and pink used to be Cosmo and Wanda and now it's Elphaba and Glinda and I feel like we - as a society - lost a lil' something.

I work with a lot of unincorporated areas and have personally seen the gulf between perception and reality. I'm lucky that at least in my county there are some ties between the county and the communities - but Lord knows they could be better.

Watching the #GBBO and I realize that I have (had?) no idea what a British flapjack was. I thought it was a pancake but these folks are making granola bars. Estoy muy confudida.

I love my job. Today I got to work with conservation engineers to come up with a project that will have emergency management impacts. I was the *dumbest person* in the room and it was amazing. Emergency management is the best and cross-sectoral collaboration makes the days even better. Let's go!

The super cool part of moving from the feds to local government during an authoritarian government takeover is that everyone knows that there isn't any hope, but can't find their way to a new path with both eyes open.

I need census.gov data and I can't get my county's profile to pull up. Does anybody have a way to pull up the number of language speakers in a county that's reported on a census without using a government site? my state and county don't capture the data 😭.

Me today - and it culminated in forgetting to pick up a child! 🫠

"Is the President of the United States descent into authoritarianism a smash or a pass?" Be so for real @npr.org

📢 I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR 4 YEARS AND RESPONSES RANGE FROM "WELL THE MARKET WILL CORRECT ITSELF" TO "INSURANCE IS A SCAM ANYWAY" AND HONESTLY BELIEVING THAT CAPITALISM WILL SAVE YOU IS THE DUMBEST TAKE OUT OF THOSE TWO OPTIONS.

One year after this historic storm, decisions at both the state and federal levels are undermining efforts to protect lives and property from future disasters. ncnewsline.com/2025/09/24/a... (commentary) #ncpol

....none of the employees are in Congress but sure let's fire them anyway. 😒

It sucks the way the humanities are being eroded & labeled unimportant. For every rant against a “new identity,” there is an ancient poem or painting or song or or or that tells us there is nothing new under the sun

Today I feel like I am a collection of broken glass shards walking around and doing my best imitation of being human. The grief of mourning a relationship fucking sucks because I feel like I am 16 again but instead I much older than that and feel like I should be handling this better? Ugh.

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Hollow Knight Silksong is out and I got a copy for my birthday and I know what I'm going to be doing this weekend. Can't wait to play!!!!