In today’s baby language development, the baby is learning complex multi-word phrases such as “bye bye poo poo.”

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The baby is trying to say “avocado,” but it’s coming out like one of those six-syllable German words for some incredibly specific emotion like “feeling mildly depressed at 1am”

Me: there’s a set of buttons in this figma file called “plain.” There is also a set of size variants called “small.” Apply all the colors from “plain, size default” to “plain, size small” Claude: [thinks for 5 minutes straight] maybe she means plain text links [wanders entirely off]

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Me in the communal play space: “hello!” Random girl who’s like 5: “I’ve seen you. You walk by the Montessori school every day. I see you all the time.” Me: “…yupppp!”

The baby’s new favorite word is “outside!!” and he says it whenever he encounters any object that is part of the routine of leaving the house. Socks. Shoes. Coat. Door. These are all “outside!!”

Coughed so much last night I threw up #daycarediaries

Thought this kid was excited to see me but he just wanted a waffle

yesterday this website, a place where people constantly pearl-clutch about the effects of social media on children and the possible cognitive decline coming from tools, went down for four hours, and it practically gave everyone an aneurysm. i'm gonna remember that. that's going in the notes.

I can hear the baby, who is sick of his bath, telling my husband “all done. Bye bye.” This morning I swear to god he said “go outside, bye bye.”

One nice thing: the pediatrician doing our checkup was supposed to ask if he can say six words yet, but she was like “I’ve already heard him use at least six since I entered the room, great, moving on.” He can say 36 words by my count!

Today kicked my ass and when that happens I try to remind myself that I am not a piece of shit, I am in fact doing the best I can, no it’s not everything that everyone wants from me all the time, but that’s fine.

Recommend getting married and having a baby if you want to really truly not understand what the fuck is going on with your taxes anymore!

Happy the shittiest tax day in recent memory.

I too aspire to have an API limit and for you to either pay me more to keep working, or wait until after I've had a nap

Look I tried to get into the lorde powerpoint but my brain is too broken and I can only read “jack abramoff”

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

Have somehow drifted down to 9lbs above my pre-pregnancy weight but it’s probably because I’m dehydrated and my whole house has been sick for a month.

I enjoy the framing of yeah, ok, I cheat on my wife with people I employ but not like THAT

Scenes from parenting: husband singing “I’d appreciate it if you didn’t do anything crazy with your legs right now” to the baby mid diaper change.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

logging into the Facebook true crime group to be the 27th person to post a link to a day-old story about the Long Island serial killer pleading guilty: “hey did anyone see this?? thoughts??”

The baby has taken to calling the Tubby Todd face lotion “tee tah” and signs “more” because he would like to eat it.

Gonna have to put up a lil sign on my community garden plot that’s like “0 days without a sexist comment from a boomer.” Apparently I “shouldn’t tell my husband I’m using his pull saw to dig a hole, it’ll be the end for me.” (I was not?? That wouldn’t even work??)

Sitting here trying to remember what justification the president gave for starting a war in the first place, and I literally can’t.

Baby crawls up the stairs to his crib. “Night night?”, I ask. “Nigh nigh” he confirms, and tries to pull himself over the rails and into bed. I got so lucky with the baby sleep thing. He fuckin loves sleeping.

Me: can you say Jasper? Baby: jah-puh Me: !!!!!!

There’s a lot to love about northwest Philly, but nothing makes my kid blow chunks like a trip down Lincoln Drive.

Linkedin is such an uncanny valley now. A former coworker posts "the race is now to do [x]". The top comment is "the race is on to do [x]!" The next comment is "the race is on to do [x reworded slightly]." Engagement!

I am in awe at how many connections the baby is making. He uses a tiny dustpan brush to "sweep" the floor after dinner. He just stole my husband's keys and marched them to the door and tried to shove them in the doorknob. Last night he kept saying "coo-king" and trying to stir onions with a spoon.

Baby had trouble sleeping so I went to stay with him. We wake up at 6. Him: [looks at me] “dada.”

Oh no I tweeted something at 2am on cough syrup and now people are following me. Hi, I’m a burned-out ux designer with a 14mo-old toddler. Mostly all I do is post about what words he’s trying to say, because that at least is kind of joyful.

Encouraging...?

Me: the ball rolled away! Baby: away ya ya [throws another ball] away!

Something I occasionally feel weird about is that I have no trouble, when I find out a creator or author or someone is a shitty person, just not consuming their stuff anymore. It’s like nothing I consume becomes part of how I think of my identity at all.

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A new Bilal failing I didn't know about:

Sometimes I see reddit shit like "I got my microblading (a thing where you subtly tattoo your eyebrows darker) and over 4 years they blurred and spread so much that I've spent $1k lasering them back off" and I wonder how the fuck women got here.

Me: can you say please? Baby: piss Me: perfect, no notes

It takes SIXTEEN paragraphs for the New York Times to mention why the administration wanted to destroy nearly $10 million in contraception: It's because they claim the stockpile of IUDs, birth control pills, and hormonal implants are “abortifacient birth control.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

Welcome to the week the baby learned the word “mine” at daycare. Things that are his, apparently: my right ear. My teeth. Definitely my glass of wine. Hotwheels.

Me at the local family play space: “What do you do? I’m in tech.” “Me too, product design.” “Oh man me too!” “So is my wife.” Literally everyone here is a product designer how is that possible

Husband found the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band movie featuring the…Bee Gees? I did not know this existed and we are both transfixed.

Hi I’m a journalist. What I do is talk to my Wall Street buddies and ask how they’d like me to spin a story, then I tell AI to spin the story that way. And that’s business, baybee

Hillary should send an email to Kash’s account so that the press will cover the story. 🧠💫

The way the Palantir tool mentioned here sounds like Jira for bombing shit... sure is something. But yes, every decision here was human. It's a product decision to slap a confidence number on a target developed by sucking in an outdated database, move it to the "to bomb" column, and let it rip.

Baby points to a drawing of an owl. Baby: dat. Me: owl! Baby: awww-l

Have you read this? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In #truecrineshitpost news, a woman with postpartum depression who tried to kill herself and instead was shot by police and then CHARGED for “assault with a deadly weapon” because she lived and the cops had to explain why—oops—they shot a suicidal woman, won her bench trial today. Crazy case.