Reading that Fetterman article and man, it's clear that he is unwell. Paranoid and falling under the influence of some random guy? The kindest thing he could do for himself is resign and go touch grass

Make this illegal and let's see if the "fertility crisis" resolves itself

Me and the homies

I love that this is how I found out

A cute thing that has happened is our IT guy, who is only TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OLD (that sound you hear is me crumbling into dust), has decided I'm okay even with my dumb French and should be included in meetings... bc he saw me with GitHub open one time

Oh hell yeah, this definitely makes up for the *checks notes* $24k/yr my family was paying for health insurance back in the U.S.

TAXES ARE THE PRICE YOU PAY FOR CIVILIZATION I'm so tired of this idea that taxes are a punishment that you get. No. They're the annual subscription for "living in a society"

Not for nothing but it's wild how much time we waste getting updated letters or forms for stuff that's still in effect. Why do have to get a current employment verification letter when I have one from a few months ago + a paystub showing you those same ppl paid me last Friday?

This is why you stay married to your first wife

My daughter is on her junior class trip to Québec City today which is very funny bc MY junior class trip to Québec City is kinda the start of the reason why she lives here now 15yo me: French is so cool! Wait, there are French ppl right next door? That you can drive to? Neat!

YAYYYYYYYYYYY OMG congratulations to someone who was actually helpful to me when I was fighting for Philly schools The fact that Cherelle Parker, Josh Shapiro, and that building trades guy are all sad is just icing on the cake!

UPDATE had a training today and one of the profs said they were tired and I said BECAUSE OF THE GAME?! and they were all so excited that an American learned French AND likes hockey????

Shoutout to the guy wearing his Habs jersey to work today. Hell yeah brother, that's business casual now

So everyone in MTL is allowed to go into work an hour late right

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH COCAINE HELICOPTER TIME

How is Bluesky down during a Game 7. Can't be The Sports App like that

My daughter asked if she could go to the Lily Allen concert and I said sure, did I need to buy tickets for her friends to pay back, and she said no she wants to go with me bc she knows I like Lily Allen too 🥹

As someone who has given birth, this is horrifying As an American, this is horrifying As a human, this in horrifying

PHILLY GET OUT AND VOTE TOMORROW! If you are interested, as a #PHLed public school supporter, which among these I have personally worked with/received help from on some kind of school thing: Chris Rabb Malcolm Kenyatta Elizabeth Fiedler Rick Krajewski Tarik Khan Andre Carroll

Carolina Hurricanes going to show up for Game 1 all wearing sweaters they knitted with all their time off

It should be against the law for it to be rainy & dreary on the Monday of a 3-day holiday weekend I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER OF THE WEATHER

OOH! Pick me, pick me! I am super good at entrer les principales responsabilités and les autres compétences et/ou aptitudes

Between this and all my "this recipe that uses a cake mix is too wet now bc they made cake mixes smaller hoping we wouldnt notice" is going to turn me into The Joker

"Journathan" up for grabs for "what to name your male characters until their real name reveals itself to you in the 2nd draft" if you don't like Jimothy

Mrs. Dalloway* said she would buy** the flowers*** herself. * Dev Patel ** direct *** movies where Dev Patel looks hot & kicks ass

can anyone here engage the philly cat lady network

I understand why these house profiles do not ever explicitly state WHICH small town these famous people have bought their house, but I wish they would only so I could judge whether I actually think that is "upstate" NY or not www.domino.com/design-inspi...

How do you do fellow leftists findmypolitics.com

UPDATE not that anyone should trust me as a source for life advice, but I highly recommend spending the first morning of a 3-day weekend doing a big clean of your house bc then you can spend the rest of the weekend being like "wow my house is really nice"

Sleeping in on weekends is AMAZING and you* really should try it sometime *by which I mean, me

Oh so this is gonna be one of THOSE games huh

Karamazov Cloud Atlas The Plague

Me: Saturday mornings are for vacuuming & mopping while everyone else is out of the house My brain: Right! Me: Okay so what are we doing right now? My brain: We are... lovingly polishing the wooden trim on all of our windows with pledge bc "they had a hard winter too"

Me: Eventually I will remember whether these French nouns are masculine or feminine The French Language: Psst, the word for "beard" is feminine Me: 😠

Canadians will understand this one: my daughter just became the first in our family to have a family doctor 🙏

50! Exactly half. But I was a French and English major, and I was gunning for comparative literature for grad school so I've read most of the Russian novels on the list. Don't necessarily agree with the ranking/choices, but isn't that the point of these things?

THREE DAY WEEKEND, THANK YOU PATRIOTES DU QUÉBEC

I'm beginning to understand how Clark Kent fooled everyone What do you mean "unrecognizable," he's just wearing a hat

Said it before, will say it again: if only the center Dems hated losing as much as they hate the left You win when the people ON YOUR SIDE are excited about voting/helping you win, not chasing some imaginary swing voter who may or may not exist!

Canadians should do this, it was really fun and as an immigrant, I had to laugh at how I have spent enough time in Canada throughout my life to have fully-formed opinions on most of these things

ICYMI, I had an op-ed in Apex Magazine on "Why It Matters When I Write About Space Janitors": www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

“Public education is our most sacred statement of values. It is a collective investment in the ability, the potential, and the humanity of all our future fellow citizens.” I wrote a thing about Philly’s school spending scandal. (Scandal: it spends far too little.)

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

We’re appointing a writer-in-residence! Join us to respond to our holdings related to the Bloomsbury Group (including the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press) ahead of a major exhibition in 2027. Applications close 19 May. Best of luck! collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Cannes news ‘n reviews showing up here!

The bar/bat mitzvah experience with my children has been so overwhelming negative and has alienated me from Judaism so much. I had a pretty positive experience converting that was so welcoming and now I feel like everything about being a parent & trying to get this done drives me away. I'm so sad.

This game's gonna end up 8-7

DID THE GOALIES DIE?!

One of my co-workers suddenly fell ill so I had to do a SURPRISE TRAINING this afternoon bc the professors were already scheduled to be there. It wasn't my best training ever but now everyone thinks I am a good Team Player™️

I've been trying to encourage my classmates who haven't found a job yet and sending the bilingual ones any francophone opportunities I see/get a recruiter outreach, and one of them just landed one of them! So happy for her! 🥹