Getting a letter from the power company trying to shame me for using more electricity than my neighbors, when my house, and it's windows, are roughly 70-90 years older than my neighbor's houses, on the day I find out that there is no (as in zero) insulation in my exterior walls

Oh one thing I learned from Jorge the tile guy is that pre-mixed grout never seems to dry/seal right, and thus ends up disintegrating over time, which explains why every time I clean the shower rivulets of black grout run down the walls. That must've been what they used.

Day two of Holy Fuck That's Loud coming from the bathroom 😣

Two rosacea flare ups in one day, that's a first. They don't tell you a lot of things about menopause but one of the most surprising things they don't tell you is all the fucking skin issues you can suddenly and inexplicably develop out of fucking nowhere.

Look, this isn't performative reading. The guy I went to undergrad with who used to lie on a wall outside the english faculty in a velvet jacket reading poetry - that's how you do it

This actually looks a lot better than I was expecting

the new york times relies on its immensely popular games to both drive subscriptions AND generate ad revenue from non-paying subscribers. stop playing wordle, even if it's free.

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

I think that these 8 Senators are falling on the sword for Schumer and other Senators who wanted the shutdown to end. This allows the majority of Senators to save face; and only retiring or not up for reelection Senators take the heat. It’s a ruse.

Give me fascists like Stephen Miller who just openly admit they’re psychotic over these exhausting Enlightened Centrists who are right-wingers in denial

It's depressing seeing so many rubes trying to defend being offered a fucking 50 year mortgage....

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart. If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year

Theda had a big loud upsetting day

Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here

/to the tune of Panama/ 🎵CHOLERA🎶

I used to think the most gullible people in the world were conservatives. Now I know it's actually elected democrats. Primary all of them.

SESAME STREET debuted #OTD in 1969. It changed the face of children's television — and transformed the way a generation looked at race and the world beyond our doorstep. #SesameStreet #SesameStreetDay

Today in war ravaged Portland, the skies called a temporary cease-fire and held back the rain deluge, allowing citizens to wander about outside wondering how they are going to pay for healthcare. There were no answers reported - only questions. #Portland #resist #NoKings #protest #photography

Ever thought about reading Moby-Dick? Now’s your chance to take a whack at this classic with a hilarious crew cheering you along. Jokes! Memes! WHALE FACTS. You need A MONTH OF DICK!

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

I don’t have a whole lot of advice for people younger than me but the earlier in life you stop worrying about what other people will think and just wholeheartedly enjoy the stuff you like the happier you’ll be

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

omg y'all they found a note from some previous owners!!

So far today I had an ugly rosacea flare, new debit cards arrived but their authentication system is down, which took half an hour and three phone calls to determine, and now it sounds like they're dismantling my house with a band saw

Tile guy is here to demo the bathroom and Theda is drugged and hiding under the bed and I wish the same could be said for me if I'm being honest lol

I don't think you can actually call them "suspected" drug boats because no evidence has been produced to support that suspicion. They're just blowing up people. And I guess it remains largely irrelevant that even if they were "drug boats" all this would still be wildly illegal.

I'm seeing some of these new health care premiums and co-pays people are posting and it just simply isn't possible for people to pay. Even people making six figures can't pay that. It would be cheaper to fly to a country with universal healthcare whenever you got sick. Which you can't actually do

also if you guys enjoyed gdt’s frankenstein please watch crimson peak. one of his best movies that got absolutely slept on bc there was like no marketing.

In love with this place. Washington state (would throw Oregon in too) is vastly underrated. #OlympicNationalPark #PNW

What better for a rainy Friday (here at least!) than a spectacular gown from the generally spectacular wardrobe of Queen Maud of Norway. Dating to c1908 it incorporates an outer shell of sparkle over softer layers #nasjonalmuseet #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #RemembranceSunday🧵 From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1

"Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure." - excerpt from 'Carmilla' by Sheridan Le Fanu

Freakin’ great movie!! THE LETTER #TCMParty

Today on the trail the leaves were falling so thick and fast they sounded like running water

she had become a ghost of herself

Until we confront this we cannot hope to build a healthy democracy.

Mt. Hood (Wy’east) yesterday afternoon. Pretty in white. 🤍🩵

alors.... a style king........ un roi de le chapeau......

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

‘The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.’ ~ Bertolt Brecht. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Paul Nash, 1918.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

and once again, for those who don't realize, the nuremberg trials were the moderate position back then too.

dreamt my phone had thousands of photos of goth chappell roan and they all had shake hastily thrown onto them

You shouldn't have to be rich to have dedicated healthcare teams who actually pay attention to, communicate with, and all around give a genuine fuck about you

Phoenix and River, sweetest ladies

if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets. no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.

Cats in Moonlight — Tomoo Inagaki

Today on the trail: terrible owl pics. Bet that guy with the telephoto lense doesn't have these problems