i’ve been doing a minimum of 15 minutes of home pilates per day post-breakup (for the endorphins), and i’m still incredibly sad, but at least my abs are absolutely sickening

the “queer 20somethings at the all things go music festival” was already a pretty secure mamdani demographic, turns out

📍 foley square, earlier this evening

one third of new yorkers are foreign-born immigrants. these are *our neighbors* being brutalized, treated as less than human, and disappeared. we need to show up for our neighbors and tell ICE *they* are the ones who are not welcome in our city.

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being single for the first time in [redacted] years means sending so many more inane thought texts to all of my friends. sorry, my usual stupidity shunt valve is permanently decommissioned

just the thrill of remembering, viscerally, that it can and will happen, and when it does I will be somewhere, and someone will tell me, or I'll read it, or I'll hear shouting outside. the day draws closer

i think i probably would have written “happy birthday, big guy! hope your year is filled with laughter and love”

saw the new superman movie in theaters and was immediately infected with the woke mind virus. also suspect the popcorn to have been made with seed oils

hatred uses you hard and puts you away wet, i guess

SCOOP: disingenuous bootlicking hack acts as mouthpiece for eugenicist, gets rightfully ratio’d

From a journalistic ethics standpoint. whoever permitted this should lose their job.

SCOOP: Mamdani did something even we are forced to concede wasn't what it we are also making it sound like, to no tangible gain, for a college he didn't go to, 15 years ago. Our anonymous source is political activist Adolf Hitler

brad lander is both cool as hell and the kind of civil servant who feels almost mythical in this jaded age: one who advocates for the powerless, who doesn’t compromise his principles in the face of enormous pressure, who sacrifices personal glory for the collective good

if anyone else wants to call senator gillibrand’s office: ☎️ (202) 224-4451 personally, i urged her to resign if she’s incapable of representing her constituents (including 750,000+ muslim nyc residents!) without prejudice

my partner wrote a really measured, thoughtful script for me to use to call senator gillibrand’s office to register my disappointment in her recent comments about zohran mamdani. naturally, i instantly went rogue

gotta say, Brad Lander's really walked the walk in these past weeks and it's not something I'll soon forget

i’m so proud to be a new yorker today, and hopeful about the future for the first time in a long while. the working class CAN defeat the ruling class without compromising their beliefs. a better world IS possible!

i am allowing myself to fully inhabit and appreciate this moment of hope and joy. i don’t have to start fretting about what comes next just yet. right now, this is good!

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

"Good fucking riddance," Lander says of Andrew Cuomo, who was trailing behind Zohran Mamdani tonight

the thing making me so simultaneously hopeful and agonizingly anxious is that i truly LOVE this city and my fellow new yorkers. we deserve a mayor who represents OUR interests, not bought-and-paid-for cuomo.

"Mamdani lacks experience in sexually assaulting women," Bill Clinton said, explaining his endorsement of Andrew Cuomo. 1

Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

a persuasive data point for people who leaving MSNBC blaring in their living rooms all day

i take back saying i was tired of living through unprecedented history

helluva lotta respect for brad lander. the ICE gestapo needs to be abolished

unfortunately, since reading paradise lost for the first time in 2023, my special interest has been literally satan. but relatedly, i did get some cool new art today

came home from a walk and took my sweater off, and flower petals fell out of my hair. I LOVE SPRINGTIME!! friendship with seasonal depression ENDED

i got like 8 books behind my goodreads goal in march, but officially caught back up as of last night. this accomplishment has inflicted severe psychic and social damage on me

every springtime, i go outside and am like “this is the happiest i’ve ever felt in my entire life” while violently sneezing and spraying assorted mucuses into the air

very funny that i basically totally stopped posting after this

checking in with some recent snack plates, my preferred medium of meal

the night that i discovered somaek (soju + beer, in greater quantities than i would have drunk either one individually in), i too declared martial law

had belated thanksgiving (since i worked yesterday) and it was well worth the delay

i did what i have been threatening to do for literally years: bought myself a really nice gaming PC. no one is ever going to see or hear from me again

servers may have eaten too much turkey and passed out at my job too

ugh i did it again

not to be the consumptive heroine of a period romance novel wrt this rap beef, but if my villainous rival described me as “fragile” i would be like. oh god he wants me SO bad

can’t sleep so i am mentally reviewing moments of great shame in my life, petards i have hoisted myself by, things of that nature

have exhausted myself scrolling yet again! and now to fall into a nightmareless sleep, surely devoid of horrors and ill portents

me dressing up for every flight so that no one steals my aisle seat without fear of adult (detachable blazer included) repercussions

me, looking at my boyfriend (who did not abandon this platform for a year+)’s skeets get way more engagement than my own: why are the swine horking up this SLOP instead of my PEARLS

having four beers on a work night in your twenties? a victimless act! a foible at worst! business as usual! but in your mid-thirties? *dire organ music plays. a heat shimmer distorts your vision around the edges. you realize that somewhere, far back along the path, you irretrievably lost your way*

i prefer bluesky over mastodon because i’m abrasive annoying, not gentle annoying

alright, i’ve missed yapping online; i’m back. what have i missed on here? we still posting alf hog?

i think that the people interested in recriminations and score settling right now aren’t seriously grappling with the magnitude of what happened and the implications for the rest of our lives. most of us will probably die living in the political order that will emerge out of this election.