I love the escapism and wish-fulfillment of video games. My character can sleep and wake up refreshed and energized? Wow. Oh, to live in this fiction.

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

I’m a potter and I make handmade mugs. Order early because I sell out fast for Christmas: littleedenpottery.etsy.com #pottery #art #ceramics #bsnm

The one hospital in my county is a Catholic hospital. I know people who have gone there for miscarriages and it was absolutely demoralizing. Some people honestly just drive 30-60 minutes to the ER at the next closest hospital rather than deal with ours.

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

We should nationalize the railroads. I'm not talking half-assed state capitalist nonsense like Amtrak or Conrail I'm talking one big centrally planned railroad run as a public good with no profit motive. TAKE THE FUCKING TRAIN COMRADE.

Watching the Trump/MTG feud like

I genuinely have no idea if this is referring to the Epstein emails; the Olivia Nuzzi article; or some secret, third thing I have yet to learn about.

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

I can't remember the precise wording but someone on here said that the Republican threat to expose Bill Clinton too isn't so much a threat as it is a "buy one, get one free" promotion.

Alternatively, I could just blame Chuck Schumer.

I'm not sure what triggered my headache today, but if I had to guess, it probably has something to do with going to school for one day before having one day off and then going back to school for three more days. We also have three different bell schedules this week like CAN WE NOT.

The Republican health care plan is about as real as the tooth fairy, so I won't hold my breath.

The boys are playing video games with a friend in another room. We’re at the “Normally I’d worry about that sound, but no one appears to be bleeding or crying…” portion of the afternoon.

...is there a lord marmalade?

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

"save your anger for 2026" wait you think I'll run out in a year this is why I hate amateurs

Didn't realize I was interested in this topic until this very moment.

I have my husband to thank for me understanding this joke. (He's a boat autistic.) Anyway, I laughed.

Our sports teams regularly try to take entire years off our lives. Might as well do it with our elections, too.

A Gatsby party, the rise of fascism, and now a baseball gambling scandal? We’re really doing all the 1920s hits in the 2020s, aren’t we.

Writers and artists: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some creators.

Speaking of, I spent some quality time with my trash sons in Z-A.

I am simply too busy doing the work to live blog to be satisfactorily performative for the internet's killjoys. Let me post about Pokemon and funny things my kids say in peace.

Me, trying to be a cool and relatable parent to my 12yo who didn't want to eat breakfast (which he needs to do to take his meds): "You know what? A lot of the things I do to take care of myself, I'm doing against my will." 12yo: "I'm not adding Bois to my team." #Pokemon

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.

Love to show my kids a life hack and it's literally just me moving aside a container of orange juice in the fridge to reveal the milk they'd claimed was out.

If people are so scared of socialist programs, just wait until they find out how we pay our troops, cops, and firefighters. Or better yet, those paved roads! Spooky stuff.

Me at 3:45 this afternoon.

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

"I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life" is *incredible*

Omg I’m dying 😂😂😂…so…So Emily Austin, a right wing 'influencer' who works for Bibi and the GOP, launched 'Hot Girls for Cuomo'. Guess who didn't bother to register the URL when she did that? What do you think Hot Girls for Cuomo dot com leads to now?... 😄 Enjoy. [ HotGirlsforCuomo.com ]

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

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

Oh, he definitely voted for Cuomo.

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post? This. This is what you get.

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...

My sister gave me a Final Girl mug last year and it is my favorite mug. Not even because of the final girl badassery. The shape, the textures, the heft, and the innate appeal of being handmade always draw me to it first every morning. LOVE.

I wore a unicorn onesie to work yesterday. Which was all fun and games until I had to chase two of our students around the building because they decided to elope together from class. Turns out I can project a lot of authority while wearing a unicorn onesie.

None of my favorite Pokémon are in Z-A, but I've decided it's okay because my Aromatisse is an adorable Muppet who crushes it in battles, and it's super cute that she gets to follow me around.

One of the boys clogged the toilet and the other one spilled pickle juice all over the kitchen floor, so I'm going to take that as a sign from the universe that it's time to mop the floors 😫