My partner was one of the researchers on this lost wallet study. Turns out people suck less than we expect. www.npr.org/2019/06/20/7...

The Stranger hasn’t really covered SPS in years. They don’t regularly come to school board meetings or interview caregivers or follow the impactful issues affecting Seattle kids and families. Vote for Sarah Clark for School board!!! She’s *ON THE BOARD NOW* and doing great for students and our city!

I just loved the consumer protection bureau so much. I loved the voters rights act and the CDC and the department of education. I loved all the things they are burning.

The middle schooler is pretending I am not his mom at the track meet.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?" Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

I completed so many to do list tasks today. I am so tiiiiired now. (Ps. I was tired before I started)

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.

Trying to choose what comfort fiction to pack for rereading on the chaotic family reunion weekend. Sexy princes fight and kiss? Sexy magical boarding school teen boys fight and kiss? (One is a vampire) Murderbot? (No kissing. Murderbot thinks sex is gross)

"you're cool sometimes!" The 13 year old says to his mother encouragingly.

The one big donation to Wilson's PAC so far is $75,000 from PROTEC17, the union that represents city employees. As Harrell likes to mention on the campaign trail as an example of his management experience, most city employees ultimately answer to him, and they're backing his opponent.

This brings me so much joy.

I packed a cooler of drinks for the day and a bag of snacks including fresh apples and the good chocolate. My mother in law walked around the car to give me a big hug. "You're taking care of me" she said. "I love it when someone takes care of me."

Okay kicking off thread of Autumn Cooking Season with a big weekend dinner: Lemon chili poached salmon over mushroom risotto with garlic fried green beans and a green salad. Finished with a whole homemade cheesecake.

That article going around today about how we should shame kids more (pushing back on brene brown et all) so we don't end up with shameless trump and all these corrupt assholes - is wrong about shame - but I don't have the right words to explain it.

As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.

I am going to survive my inlaws visiting me and staying in my house. I'm going to survive my extended family visiting me and staying in my house. I am very strong and a cutie pie and I'm going to survive this.

I hate the mayor of seattle so much. Now is not the time for hope!!!!!????? Wtf?? Now is not the time for hope???!! Get out of the way old man. You are blocking the rest of us from living.

I would like to buy a pair of the warmest softest pants to exist. This would comfort me and help me face the coming darkness.

I am An Old. (I read way faster than people speak, so I'm almost always going to prefer text over video. I can also read without disturbing anyone nearby without requiring headphones)

This is how it’s done. May we hope the United States will be handing out such medals in a few years

So often as a fancy mental health therapist in academic spaces I find the most radical thing I can say is "I don't understand that" "can you explain it more simply" "I'm lost" So many therapists are nodding along and pretending they know what's going on

At the Saturday morning therapist training, I'm upset that the therapist ladies are dressed so dowdy. Kakis and capris. Socks and sandals. A purple that is mostly grey. No color. No pattern. It's not fair of me to want them to be cool. But I do.

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So many of my colleagues keep advertising that they are offering consult groups that cost therapist-participants money. And not like a small amount of money. Like a lot of money. And is it just me....or did these kinds of groups used to be free?

Tell me the story. Tell me the words your brain told you when you decided not to do the dishes. Was it "Nah later"? Was it "oh god no"? Did you forget the sink existed? Could you tell me how long it takes to wash a dish? Did you pick one up? All of these things matter when parsing ADHD from OCD.

In the book I'm reading, the spirit of the wood and his hot giant boyfriend just got back together. It's a happy ending. Love this for them!

I am proud to be running alongside leaders like Michelle Wu, Zohran Mamdani, Omar Fateh, and others across the country who share a vision for affordability, reliable public transit, and affordable, abundant housing. Together, we can show the path forward for our country. Join our campaign today!

One thing I noticed is how my Republican acquaintances talk to their "friends" in the facebook comments and it's mean as hell.

"Trad influencers gloss this unjust workload as a homage to homesteading (and leverage it to market unsubstantiated remedies) instead of calling it what it is: picking up the state’s slack. Cuts to education seem less threatening when you are convinced your role is to homeschool your children" #NCEd

they should invent a potato peeler you can find

I think whenever there is the slightest opportunity or ability to not be scared, we should not let ourselves be frightened. Fear is healthy and necessary in the face of immediate danger, cloying and paralyzing and imprudent when we still have agency - which fear minimizes.

My therapist went on vacation to Ireland for a whole month and I am finally seeing her today. I've been with her long term and she has been doing better in her profession and as a person since she started to allow herself to take vacations. Remember to take care of yourself first.

Yesterday I got to show this video to the teen and his bestie while crying about middle aged lady heroes. It was real hopeful and cutie pie. Thanks to the heroes. They really be lighting the way in front of us all. We appreciate your leadership Senator Villa.

One thing I noticed about the autistic self diagnosed adults is that they don't always have a sense of themselves as marginalized people who are connected thru time and space and history to all other marginalized people.

Robert Redford talking about how the Algerian War led him to interrogate his own understanding of the United States of America.

I would like to attend a training about gun violence in American culture and specifically how PTSD works for survivors.

a detail that appears with fairly regular occurrence in many personal accounts of the Nazi regime is how many individuals died from stroke, heart attacks, and similar health complications because of the stress and despondency that was inflicted on those whose lives were ruined by the regime.

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

My spouse has been refusing to make plans for his birthday all month and everyday I would like to shake him for it. Argggggg. Give any single person an idea of how you would like to be celebrated. Come on.

Actually if you're a leftist household, doesn't seem like this is directed at you. Leftist youth are not widely engaging in political violence today. Don't say all parents when you mean all right wing parents who give their kids access to big big big guns.

Boy, I love to drive the speed limit like an old person and lemme tell you - every car behind me hates it!

This is known as "chain refoulment" and yes, it's a violation of international law.

I have been in the worst mood all day, an absolute menace. Thankfully I married a man a long time ago who thinks it's his full time job to cheer me up and make me laugh. This is not normal of him at all but it is helpful.

We all have covid and I've taken advantage of the situation to introduce the teen to the movie clueless.

the question is always bigger than "why was this terrible abuser a terrible abuser?" it is always: "what weaknesses did they exploit? what made it hard for people who knew to speak out? what institutional processes mitigated against information being passed to the right place in a timely way?"

Amazing

Have reached the point in our war on immigrants where their home nations are voluntarily chartering planes to get them home and out of horrific conditions in detention facilities.

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...

The cruelty towards black women reality stars is so horrific and the way the shows and discourse never acknowledge it makes me feel that bad gaslit feeling. This is why I always turn love island off.