My car broke down and the tow truck guy decided it was a first date and we’re moving back to Michigan together. Windows down, 70 mph, me shouting “WHAT?” every time he talks. Him: “Ya got kids?” Me: “No.” Him: “I got two.” Me: “Bummer.” So anyway, I think we’re engaged now.

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

Happy Spooky Season!!!

🗣️THIS is the message!! Brava, Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social!!

Everything is terrible, but here in war-torn Chicago, I have a neighbor who takes his pet parakeets, in their fancy cage, out to his back porch every morning to give them "the air and the sunshine."

I really love today's poem by @huaxi.bsky.social in today's Poem-a-Day. It's a great one to handwrite in your journal if you are still doing that with me every day! poets.org/poem/bookshelf

Wasn’t prepared for Grindr to be the unsung hero of 2025, but I’m not mad about it.

There is no argument against birthright citizenship other than “I am incredibly racist and don’t like it” It is clearly and simply spelled out in the 14th amendment - if you are born here, you are an American citizen.

Call me old fashioned, but if you can’t pronounce the name of a drug, you should not be making policies to restrict it.

In this economy, I’m count myself lucky to just get the one.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Images and footage of US President Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein were projected onto Windsor Castle as a three-day state visit to the UK got underway. Campaign group Led by Donkeys shared footage of the projection on Instagram with the message, “Hey Donald, welcome to Windsor Castle.”

Coates just doesn't miss. He doesn't. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Happy to report I just got dismissed from jury duty. Didn’t even have to use my “I have a bias against the defendant’s man bun” excuse. Banner day!

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...

Mountain trolls are the biggest creatures in Norwegian folklore. They dwell inside mountains in their own realms, where they hoard gold and gemstones. If they are exposed to sunlight they turn into rock, and legend has it that many mountains in Norway are former trolls. 🎨 Martina Ehrenborg

Dear Donnie, We still haven’t forgotten about the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention to this matter. -USA

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Spent my Sunday afternoon moving my living room furniture around. After much research and in spite of me having the spatial intelligence of a potato, I can confirm the original layout was correct.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

I would simply pronounce Aristotle like it rhymes with Chipotle in front of this man just to see what happens. would he survive it

These little orphans survived panleukopenia, giardia, and maggots. Four years later, my happy little chaos goblins are thriving—and leaving incriminating paw prints in the rising bread dough.

Who needs a bakery when you have a 100-year-old house with random heat pockets? My upstairs bedroom now doubles as a proofing chamber.

Because the joy and enthusiasm reserves are dangerously low these days, I stayed up until 12:12 to partake in Swiftie mania, only to turn off my bedside lamp and tell the dog, “we might have accidentally joined a cult.” Happy TS12 to all who celebrate 🧡 #thelifeofashowgirl

Gran’s dementia means she forgets some birthdays now. Every year is a high-stakes re-audition for Favorite Grandchild. This year my brother won. Maybe if I play my cards right, next year I can get a half stick of gum or a Werther’s Original.

Just started unironically looking at purchasing a porch goose with seasonally appropriate outfits. I swear I’m not that old or that midwestern, and yet my browser history begs to differ 🫠

We can’t arrest our way out of homelessness.

Welcome to America, where the convicted sex offender president is about to pardon the convicted child sex trafficker whose client he was.

This may be late-stage capitalism talking, but my TBR is less a stack and more a shrine to aspiration and delusion. Marie Kondo can get bent. She has no jurisdiction here.

This morning’s show: The Great Raccoondini escapes through a roof hole in a dazzling display of furry acrobatics, mischief, and structural compromise. 🪄🐾✨

This is everything.

Every July, I must perform the sacred rite of eating my first garden tomato and grieving all the colorless approximations of a tomato I've eaten for the past nine months. I will be pressing charges against Giant Eagle, possibly Winter herself.

U.S. Dept. Of Retro Warns: 'We May Be Running Out Of Past' theonion.com/u-s-dep...

So…bringing back indentured servitude, a form of enslavement? For the crime of being poor? The callous incoherence.

The best part about your dog having surgery is that after they shave him for the IV, he walks around wearing a little furry UGG boot for a month. The worst part is being humbled by a dog with a brain the size of a walnut, who—several times a day—spits out his pill no matter how expertly hidden.

Some good foods are even better if eaten out of the fridge when you’re supposed to be in bed—olives, cheese slices, etc. I could take this as a sign to not ADHD too close to the sun and maybe eat regular meals like a real adult…or I could just make bedtime charcuterie a thing 🫒

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

trump should’ve been in handcuffs in jan 2021 and there is no way to quantify just how much human suffering will result from the disastrous decision to slow walk his prosecution or even avoid it altogether

i would like to start one day without something completely fucking insane.

His victims got on the stand and shared some of the most horrific stories and he was acquitted anyway. This is why I get so angry when people blame victims for not speaking up or walking away. Why? Who will protect them, believe them, and guarantee proper justice?

once again begging people not to set off fireworks every day in the lead up to July 4th! my dog hates them! and also there is nothing to celebrate!

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

Happy “Yes, Chef!” Season to all who celebrate. #thebear

JK Rowling explicitly calls on her followers to engage in vigilante actions against people they suspect are trans in bathrooms. This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women.

A blast from the past (Covid Season 1): I found my switch in a drawer, charged it, and opened Animal Crossing. My villagers were like, "It's been years, where have you been?" Though I was happy they were still using "F*ck Trump" as a greeting, I was sad it was just as relevant as it was in 2020 🙃

On his third bath since Sunday after repeatedly rolling in a mystery scent which I believe is a rotting worm. “I wish I knew how to quit you.” —Louie to Ennis the worm carcass, probably

MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

Imagine seeing famine, war, poverty, racism and ableism, but you decided your lifelong struggle and the object of your obscene fortune would be *checks notes* people who found happiness by exploring gender.

Pizza Hut relaunching the Book It program as an app and making it only available to pre-k through 6th grade was a fumble of extraordinary proportions when you have an entire generation of millennial book nerds like right there just begging for books, nostalgia, and pizza of questionable quality.