Blanche: We made demands. They said no. We started k#lling people. How is this not a hijacking.

Dear Chip: please look up Philando Castile.

Bring back the Ford Pinto!

The Twin Cities was one of the most generous places I’ve ever lived. People didn’t talk, they just did stuff for others, frequently people they didn’t even know. My heart is in community with these aunties and with their supporters.

Them: Gender is not a social construct! Also Them: We’ve made breakfast cereal manly.

Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!

“You’re not my real trash can.”

Overheard at the lap pool: 20yo lifeguard: I am NOT looking forward to hitting 35 and having to take care of myself.

Really smart take. And really intense grief for what could have been.

Trump’s government is a merger & acquisition business model. It’s the step after colonialism - when suits blow in, vampire everything of value, break it into pieces to sell off, and leave behind smoking husks. When he says “We’re going to get rich” he means the literal “we.” His people.

He’s a corrupt wanna-be dictator who grifts billions off his own people, foments distrust in elections, sells political favors, and punishes his political enemies. No wonder he’s considered a threat to his country. And then there’s Maduro.

Thank goodness we’re not led by an unpredictable, hormonal woman who could up and declare war just because she doesn’t feel good a couple days a month.

The Donald J. Trump National of Venezuela.

DOJ has assured the court…

So my #ACA premium almost quadrupled, now almost $1000 just for me - and none of my current providers will take it. The GP that does take it has a 6 month wait. The policy comes with a $7k deductible. In 2026 I am joining the ranks of uninsured in Texas.

It’s rare that the book and the movie come out on the same day.

13yo: Mom. Did you know that we’re in a championship game? Me: We are? 13yo: We won. So now we’re in a championship game. Me: Who is we? 13yo: I don’t know. #chuckwagon

Snnnnnnnnnap

I thought, that’s a good joke. [pause] I’m going to copy it.

Winner’s family gets SNAP benefits and one trip to the doctor.

#Austin folks and anyone looking to do a good deed for a family in challenging circumstances: I made an Amazon wish list for a single mom with 3 young teens. Cancer patient, disability, they’re living off SSI & SNAP. Hoping to help them with Xmas presents here: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Austin - I’m looking for a sponsor for a family for Christmas. Single mom, recovering from cancer, multiple surgeries. Three teenaged kids. They live off SSI & SNAP. She’s got food covered but no gifts. Suggestions?

Today is the anniversary of the time a door to door steak salesman knocked, I answered, he took one look at me and said, "You're a vegetarian, aren't you." I didn't even have to speak. He said, "God bless you," and walked back to his specially-painted steak truck, with a large pit bull in the back.

Printer: Error. Insufficient memory. Me: Me too, friend. Me too.

Compression socks

Me: I want to refill this med Pharmacy: Ok [Refill request disappears] Me: What just happened Pharmacy: It’s not covered by insurance Me: Right but I have a manufacturer coupon Pharmacy: Has to go thru insurance first Me: But if it goes thru insurance, I won’t need the coupon Pharmacy: Yes you will

I just want someone to tell me what to do so that I can be free to do the opposite, unless I decide the opposite is NOT what I want to do and then I’ll do what the person says I should. Unless that’s not what what’s best. Anyway, big decision.

Yall if menopausal women had crewed the Titanic, that ice berg wouldn’t have stood a chance. One hot flash on the bow. That’s all we’d need.

MAHA - Making America Hep-B-Positive Again

Today for #GivingTuesday, consider Art Spark Texas, which is celebrating 30 years of support and advocacy for artists with disabilities. Leadership, connection, creativity, and community. Your gift of any amount sustains this vital & innovative work. www.artsparktx.org/donate/

@marcpouhe.bsky.social to your point about college degrees needing to be robust and varied - here’s an example of how “the arts help us see things differently” and specifically how a play about math contributed to medical science and helped oncologists save lives. Such a great story.

She will now be known as Alina Doesn’t Habba Job

A Stanford math professor interviewed Stoppard and asked if he’d had to do a lot of research for Arcadia. Stoppard replied that he didn’t study deeply. He read a book about complex math and then just wrote the characters truthfully. I think about that all the time.

Avengers: ASSEMBLE #nerd

My 13yo son: Mom. I know you’re a longtime vegetarian but turkeys are going to die anyway. May as well help them. #chuckwagon

Saw a billboard advertising a pest control company called Pro Pest. I was fully occupied for over an hour with the thought that they should instead be called Anti Pest.

Celebrating the holiday season in the Baroque tradition because I am baaaaaahhhhh-ROKE.

Today is the day Mark Kelly became president.

I grated zucchini into my banana bread and I am pretty sure that makes it a salad.

The aide to a Republican congressman from New Jersey “faked being the victim of what she claimed was a politically motivated slashing in July, a narrative that quickly unraveled when investigators found spare zip ties in her Maserati.” America is just one big reality tv show at this point.

Fingers crossed that the judge’s ruling in case is 473 pages of memes of Robert Downey Jr rolling his eyes followed by the words, “Dismissed because it’s all bullshit.”

There will be two options for women with ectopic, dangerous, or otherwise unsurvivable pregnancies: 1) die; 2) terminate the pregnancy and pay the ENTIRE COST out of pocket, even with insurance. (And still potentially die.)

Annual performance review results in operational strategic goal of “don’t kill your critics with a chainsaw.”

Me: Look at this beautiful cake I made. Them: It’s 10pm. Me: i know. I blended a blood orange into one layer of batter and an avocado into the other. Them: Why are you making a cake at 10pm? Me: Because I have a deadline.

It has started: I opened a cabinet to retrieve a water glass and found the container of apple juice that went missing from my fridge yesterday.

Implied horse head on the pillow

Incredible photo of a man in the Oval Office suffering a medical event. And behind him, a man who fainted.

Hear me out: a reboot of the McConaughey/Hathaway space movie but with Tessa Thompson & John Boyega, called How Interstellar Got Its Groove Back.

Obama: I believe in an America where we don't fear each other. But look out for each other. And if we want that story to continue. If we believe in that better story. We need leaders who believe in it too.

America goddamn.