Message to our friends from our hoomom. If able plz consider donating to a group that provides food for the beloved pets of people struggling right now. Our mum grew up very poor & remembers how hard it was to feed the family & their pet. Share some kindness. Love you all 🩷

I've spent my whole life with doctors telling me it's all in my head and implying I'm just a whiner. For the first time ever a doctor just told me "you don't seem like a complainer" and that probably shouldn't mean as much as it does but holy hell was that validating

It’s the same old same old. Republicans do a tantrum and break the dishes. The Democrats clean it up. It’s an abusive relationship.

This Congress is the oldest in US history. We need to stop electing people who won't have to live long enough to see the consequences. Also probably should elect people that can read the statements prepared for them. Or, you know, comprehend questions asked of them. Or that have empathy. And so on

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

Why don't women report? Even with evidence and the worst trauma, men aren't punished. We are. The mom heard one assault and left, they were both recorded, one girl almost died. Apart from a record this asshole has no real punishment. It's on VIDEO, these girls SCREAMING for help. And yet, nothing.

Thou mayst be valiant in a better cause; But now thou seem'st a coward.

Not saying we should bring out a guillotine but a little fear can do wonders.

ICE has been seizing people in Allston. Boston area folks, spread the word about the LUCE hotline to report ICE sightings. And here's stickers you can print and put up anywhere:

Metal music is good for your mental health, btw

Stardust is the most beautiful dog I have ever seen and it's not even just because she's in my family. She's just damn photogenic. She had dental surgery yesterday and still, so adorable. I, on the other hand, am a gremlin on the best of days

For Halloween: There's nothing creepier than the ways law enforcement accords embryos and fetuses personhood to criminalize pregnant people—in some cases, tearing through women's plumbing and stealing & burying their fetal remains as their own:

"Women have always been the forefront of human rights and men have always been the forefront of human atrocities."

It's wild that I'm lucky to have a husband that is aware he doesn't know more about having a uterus than he, a non-uterus haver, does. And yet. (Context: I sent a video in which a man told his girlfriend PMS isn't real and she handled it far more rationally than I would have)

They're just walking in and shooting pets now. Fuck these racist losers. That dog and his humans did nothing wrong, and still he ended up murdered in front of his family. There is little to be gained via civility at this point.

I am a strong independent woman who does, in fact, need her husband on the phone while he's on a trip with his brother to talk me through removing an enormous wasp before the dogs got to it because I was so afraid. In my defense, and I am not exaggerating, the thing was at least 1.5 inches long

A wonderfully cogent piece by @elienyc.bsky.social that does a great job explaining in plain English why Thomas' approach to jurisprudence isn't just casual partisan hackery but an existential threat to the foundations of how the SC is supposed to function. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This morning I learned about the Nazi's Madagascar plan for European Jews, which perhaps I am late to. History was never my best subject; numbers and laws don't have feelings and that has a certain amount of appeal. BUT it is an important historical context to present day deportations.

I keep seeing news outlets calling the Trump 2028 hats at the big four meeting "trolling." Will we not call all this what it is until it's too late? Is that the fucking plan? People I love are in real fucking danger. This isn't trolling. It's an organized takeover and we should treat it as such

Real life quote from husband during a conversation just now, "Fuck no, I'm not changing goat diapers." I really want a goat....

Anyone who wasn't a straight white guy in tech in the 2010s could have told you this is exactly where tech would go if the govt did. FB was *known* to be a frat house. There were books about it and everything. If you're surprised, you weren't really paying attention. www.wired.com/story/silico...

I hate it here 🙃

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Sometimes I regret not staying in academia. But Katabasis reminds me that, actually, I'd be miserable there, too. The why is the problem, not the where. And the mind and body that required seven pills a day on time to approximate what maybe, possibly, it feels like to not be biologically fucked 🤷‍♀️

People complain that Katabasis is like a textbook... it's just as emotionally devastating as everything else R.F. Kuang has written. The woman has nearly three degrees and six books under her belt before 30, she's fucking brilliant. Let her use big words and references.

She took the drugs and the drugs are working

I have been called various forms of intimidating for years and could never fathom why. Meanwhile, verbatim something I just texted my best friend: I mean I have also offered to destroy lives for you. I'm more of the "make them in live in hell" rather than "kill them and hope hell exists" sort

or: fascism defines all resistance as violence, so please don't pretend that this one singular act of actual violence legitimizes or enables anything they do next. they were already going to do it.

No, I will not be sad about the death of a mysogynist racist twat. I AM sad about the inevitable escalation of violence from an administration already occupying its own cities. Far right leaders are already calling for "war" and they haven't even caught the person responsible and determined a motive

To say Ziggy is displeased about being back in a cone/donut again would be an understatement. He's been staring at me like this for the better part of an hour

May be giving my subconscious/menty ills too much credit, but my brain was maybe playing the long game when I *out of no where* went to law school instead of using the comp sci/math degree I spent 3 years (metaphorically) killing myself for Unrelated fun fact: sleep deprivation is literal torture

Was reminded today of a time I was studying in my dorm with a friend and Dragula by Rob Zombie came on. She asked me what kind of fucked up shit I was listening to, and I responded "I grew up listening to this." I think that explains a lot about me, honestly.

“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books. bookriot.com/penguin-rand...

I always need reminding Sleeping With Sirens didn't exist until I was in college. I always think this was high school me and what do you MEAN I didn't know who Kellin Quinn was until at least 19? And this CD came out a month before I turned 21?? Sounds fake, and I sound old. youtu.be/7HjBq9aZ9cw?...

Knowing I'm neurodivergent late in life sucks. Skill regression is bullshit and all the systems I unconsciously built to operate are somehow harder to maintain for knowing. But at least I know the signs I'm headed towards debilitating burnout while still unable to do anything to stop it 🙃 so helpful

I don't know what's going on with Vessel and Noah Sebastian but Gethsemane and Specter have some similar gut punch fucking lines: "I've learned to live beside it," "I've learned to live with the way that it hurts." (Gethsemane is definitely more emotionally traumatizing; the name tells you that)

There's a family on our street with two little girls who are afraid of dogs EXCEPT our corgis. They even have corgi themed things now because they love them so much. It's like the opposite of when someone tells you their pet usually hates people when it's cuddling you. Same feeling though

Finally accepting the fact that I'm losing my hearing in at least my right ear and oh boy if I lose it entirely and lose music I'm not sure antidepressants will cover it

The biggest bombshell is that anyone would fuck this guy thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/25/t...

I think Sleep Token has done more work for my mental health since May 9 than my antidepressants

The only things getting me through this month are caffeine, cheerios, John, the fur children, and the mental countdown until I see this live myself

Seems too high, TBH

Boy is back in his cone because he somehow managed to injure the paw on his other back leg. He is displeased about this, as are we all because he won't stop groaning over it. I would also love for the constant injuries to cease, poor man has had enough

"Boys are taught to become somebody, girls are taught to find somebody." Who said comedy couldn't be profound?

Can we just bring MySpace back? Tom would never do us like this. AND we'd get music on profiles back.

All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight