The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

O hai, Dr. Pulaski!

Yay I trimmed all 4 things today and then I did some fun slip and carve action on the cool vase. The slip is iron oxide so it’ll be browny-red in the wood kiln hopefully. #pottery

The sharpie did a great job repelling the glaze and I only had to touch up a few spots with qtips to remove rogue glaze. The sharpie may leave a bit of residue when firing but for this particular piece I don’t mind if it does.

i will repeat: this is psychological torture for SNAP recipients.

Meet Ember, a raku-fired bear born from flame and smoke. Their copper, purple and orange hues shift like autumn leaves in firelight, ready to curl up and dream till spring. 🐻✨ #animals #art #bears #gaybear #pottery

Gonna drag myself to the studio tomorrow and do the trimming I was *supposed* to do at class yesterday. 😬

Concocted this pattern out of several different stencils and penciled it on and then realized it would be a bitch to tape so I decided to make it another gold sharpie resist experiment #pottery

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

This is headed to my daughter's dance school for a fundraiser tomorrow night. #ceramics #pottery

Hello my brain just decided to sing boom operator to the tune of smooth operator if you’re wondering

And the last one. Black base with 6 other colors in the small diamonds. #pottery

Super exciting! Black base and mahogany stripe trio #pottery

This one is slated to be a by-request Christmas gift so it had better come out well. It’ll be two shades of blue and a white. #pottery

Base will be white, and the triangles mahogany and yellow #pottery

Excited for this one! The base will be blue and the colored diamonds white and yellow. 🤞🏻 #pottery

I did indeed hate myself and this was fiddly as hell but it looks great right now and I’m hoping I did the glazes thick enough but not too thick. 🤞🏻 #pottery

I naively thought if I went to the studio 2 hours before class I could finish up my glazing, eat the dinner salad I brought with me, and then do class. What actually happened was taking 3.5hrs finishing the glazing, and deciding with 1hr left of class I didn’t want to start anything. 😆

Ocelot or otter

My coworker and I are collaborating intensely today

“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?” Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM

i confess that one big reason it's hard to remain optimistic is the sheer amount of shit that needs to be handled. this idiotic out of control ai and ai economy, crypto, the shattered political order, wild wealth inequality and malevolent billionaires. a mountain of effort and courage is needed

The move here for democrats is to make this the campaign ad for every single election but then also actually make it come true KEY PART

*sandwich hits federal agent in the chest* Narrator: “Subway. Yeet fresh.”

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Is there any resource y’all know of (other than and better than bandsintown) to search for concerts within a radius of you?

Btw between running low on theme ideas and getting lowkey approval to go back to 2 days in the office, the parade of office outfit selfies is over. Except on days I might be really feeling the fit. 😆 y’all are free!

Is using “y’all” in a work email unprofessional? The answer is very likely yes but whatever imma use it anyway! At least people will be able to tell I’m not copilot.

Took a peek at the top layer of my kiln this morning, so here’s a sneaky look at what’s gonna be coming out as soon as I get back home from drop off!

It’s that time of year, living west of the office, where half my commute is full of beautiful sunrise skies and the other half is my retinas being burned as I try not to drive off the road.

People will be mad at me for saying this, but I think we have to do it. Nothing is more important for the future of this country, and indeed humanity, than the app that makes you schizophrenic and helps you forget how to learn. The juice is worth the squeeze.

I am absolutely dog number 3

Dipping done! Now I have to do all the tedious shit like take the latex off and paint the other glaze colors in 😬 #pottery

It’s not even THAT cold out, and my house is even a reasonable temp. But the cold is already in my bones and it probably won’t leave until May.

Yessss. I don’t care that it’s physically a different bridge not just in name, I cannot call it anything but tappan zee.

I’ve signed up to go to the studio and glaze some stuff this evening. Hopefully I don’t run out of spoons and cancel.

Watching Star Trek TOS lately, even though I watched most of it back in syndication as a kid, has been a really interesting experience with realizing characters I know from other shows did actually go that far back. (Cochrane as I mentioned recently, and last night M’Benga)

Petty annoyance of the day: when I’m walking in the office today, my trouser leg keeps hitting the back of my shoe at the perfect height to keep getting pinched in the heel and get caught. Makes it hard to saunter around as Business Lady 😆

I’ll let myself feel good for a hot minute. But then I must go back to my despair, as the poor dear gets lonely.

Late and in a town it doesn’t matter much but I voted!

God I envy you people who enjoy exercise and get that endorphin shit. It just makes me want to die and then I’m depressed about allll the extra process steps I now have to face in terms of showering and dressing again.

I'm worried about hitting my SAG/AFTRA earnings and losing family health insurance so here's my pitch: Contracting vocals for a commercial, theme song, animated project, etc? About to direct a singer "gimme Josie & the Pussycats" or "more 90's alt-girl!"? I'm awesome at that and totally for hire ♡

Remember: Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about Dick Cheney, but your horrible warmonger ghoul friends...well, they'll probably only see them if you post them on Twitter.

Happened again and I had to go to a thesaurus to find the word in my brain. I have no idea why my brain hiccups on this word specifically.

My cat is still very not on board with the time change and therefore I don’t get to sleep

Watching some food thing on YouTube reminds me how much I hated rice pudding and tapioca pudding growing up. I am certain texture was a big part of it but I think I also hated the flavors

Priestley has entered the MacGyver mullet-off

A nauseating but important read.