FINALLY secured the bag (a CD player) off of Facebook Marketplace and the first thing I am blasting in my house, deranged from 7 consecutive 12+ hr days at work, is a mix CD from a boy who used to run the college radio station. And the second song on is “The Ice of Boston” ……..

Two fun facts: Reconstruction is now officially 300 single spaced pages long, and working on this chapter is literally making me cry.

Music just shuffled to "Head Over Feet" by the inimitable Alanis Morissette and I just got punched backward through time to being 17 and being the kind of devastatingly in love that you can only be before you know any better. I met this man in detention and he was wearing a spiked dog collar. 🥰

I keep forgetting that tomorrow is Black Friday and thinking things like "oh I should pop out to the store to pick up--" no. I should not.

College journalists are absolutely unhinged and I love them. It was where I actually learned to be a reporter, to have total disregard for ego, and to have a healthy lack of interest in my own personal safety 💖

this is like, so specific and so hurtful

Every time I leave Pilates class all I can think about is how brief and fragile life is, since mine is surely about to end on the sidewalk in front of my studio.

Which one of you degenerates did this www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedd...

"The author is dead" is to protect YOU. If I started showing up everywhere people were talking about my fics you would NOT enjoy it I would be SO annoying. No I did not mean any of those beautiful things you read into the prose I was trying to make a dick jokes and it didn't land :(

There's a reason that "getting hit with the 'pls fx'" is a joke that sadly resonates with many finance people.

I'm watching a bunch of interviews with Bart Ehrman about the historical basis for whether early Christianity had a conception of hell (because Jesus would not have) and in 3 hours I have to go talk to a woman about how I am still bad at periods. That's how my day is going.

When I moved back to the U.S. in FEBRUARY 2020 (yeah you read that right) the first social activity in which I engaged was to go to a hard seltzer tasting fundraiser for the Warren primary campaign. ✊

One thing I haven’t seen anybody bring up but that bears mentioning, the GOP governor’s candidate in VA was rocking signs this entire election season with the tagline, “Let’s Keep a Good Thing Going,” which, y i k e s.

SANDWICH GUY AVOIDS TOASTER

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

This man has had this headline flash ready since opening arguments.

As a NoVa resident: it’s true. I deeply, deeply and genuinely hate you and hope you reap nothing but the vile suffering you sow. 💙 I also hope your commute forces you onto the GW Parkway during driving rain and that the mixing bowl shits your life every single day.

I don’t know how Ryan is doing this if I was listening to this I would simply pass away from trying not to scream.

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

—Dems flip boards of NY's Onondaga & Dutchess counties, a first in decades, & PA's Luzerne County —Progs may flip Aurora council, keep Spokane council —Only R on Orlando council loses; Dems sweep Tucson —Large bond-tax measures for infrastructure or housing approved in Columbus, Denver, Knoxville

My favorite @runforsomething.net feel-good update in a long time. Election results!!!! rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-g...

There are more of us than there are of them.

Eat shit quitters and doomers. We’ll stop when you put us all in the ground.

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

Not for nothing but I would love to revisit all those "the resistance is dead" narratives I had to refute the last year as we were seeing record numbers of candidate sign-ups at @runforsomething.net.

I’m waiting.

God damn it I laughed

👇🏼

I feel like I say this every election but if you’re watching a bunch of hot takes and not following @taniel.bsky.social and supporting Bolt, lower your signal to noise ratio and get on that.

—Dems break GOP's supermajority in MS's Senate. Still unknown: —Some school boards I'm watching still counting, tho the right is losing seats. —Seattle mayor will take a while. —RCV for Minneapolis mayor tomorrow. What am I missing that you're watching? And you can explore on my big board:

—PA Dems 2 open statewide judge seats in PA —PA Dems flip Erie County exec, + defend swing counties —Dems flip NY's Onondaga & Dutchess counties, a first in decades, & PA's Luzerne County —Seattle GOP city attorney trails big —MN Dems defend state Senate —Dems defend swing leg seats in NY, WA

—Larry Krasner & Bragg win —Coloradoans fund free school meals —JD's half-brother loses —PA Dems flip Erie County exec, Bucks DA + sheriff —PA Dems oust all GOPers from Bucks school boards once 'ground 0' of right-wing takeover —Charlotte approves transit tax —Dems flip CT towns like New Britain.

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

Imma blast this at every meeting with an old asshole today 💖

Also, beautiful clean sweep on VA 💙

Just because I gotta: HAH WE BEAT ALEXANDRIA.

I love this man so much.

EAT SHIT BOOK BANNERS

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

Dems just won everything remotely winnable. But I expect the British derp on “we must understand Donald Trump’s popularity and/or imitate Trump” to continue. He’s popular when opposing. He’s deeply unpopular when required to run anything. There’s your lesson.

Georgia Democrats had not won a statewide race that wasn't for a federal office since 2006. They won two races tonight, both against GOP incumbents. The margins? 62% to 38% in both.

What a relief. 💙

This person took this when they called the race

Waiting for every person who swore to leave NYC to start leaving so I can look up apartment prices and consider moving back 💖

Also extremely fun for a new wave of people unfamiliar with Lily Allen’s specific game to get to know this bitch. Come for the agent orange divorce album stay for the full discography of bad bitch music.

I’ve been making this face the ENTIRE TIME I’ve been listening to Lilly Allen’s new album holy fucking SHIT

I’m home and takeout is on its way and so obviously I am watching Secrets of the Zoo and this older lady Mandrill is gonna have to be medicated for her shitty period and I’ve never felt so close to an animal in my life.

That said, I’ve been catching window seats right over the wing lately, which as all plane nerds know, is the Correct Location for Flying Hyperfixation people.