One very radicalizing experience I had this week was reading about the lawsuits filed by black lawyers on behalf of themselves and their community in response to the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. I think I just haven't really understood the legal system in this country. Anyways. Mindblowing.

Had to brief the teen at dinner today - when ICE is in the neighborhood and you're trapped at school, this is what will happen. Ug. Not exactly fun to parent thru this.

January is always so depressing. I've never known it to not be a depressing month. Ug.

Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.

Doing my weekly angelic act of cleaning out the spoiled food from the fridge. I am a hero. #WhenYourRoomatesHaveADHD

He needlepointed this himself. It's a needlepoint pillow of the actor Ernest Thesiger needlepoint. It took forever and is awesome.

The menfolk have norovirus so I'm quarantined upstairs, working full time and caregiving full time but trapped away from my office. The poor autistic patients who have to cope with me zooming in from a place I've never zoomed in from before. They hate it. Upsetting!

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

O no. I was really on the bears team.

Just Tal, helping me deconstruct something that has been stuck in the back of my brain for most of my reading life.

tomorrow's not real it can't hurt us

bad posts? huh. i only look at good posts. skill issue

British Sunroom extension to my tiny brick house in the rainforest. Warm in the winter. Cool in the summer. Exclusively for plants and naps and solo dance parties.

The great news is that my very fancy undergarments that I need all went on sale sale extra sale this week and I bought a years worth. Woohoo for me

Oh no. I am going to a gathering tonight and a person who hurt my feelings is also going. Oh no.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

I am upset by the New York accent in book #1 of the hockey butt sluts audiobooks. There's a new narrator for audiobook #5 and lemme tell you, the Russian accent is deeply disappointing. Someone help these professional voice actors!

4-year-old told me “I like you more than space likes planets” which as I understand is a huge honor in his culture

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

I FUCKING TOLD YOU

When other people are in a bad mood, I want them to talk to me about it but when I'm in a bad mood I never want to talk to anyone about it. It's me. I'm the problem it's me.

Out of all the fancy gifts he got, the teen says the bag of black latex balloons in the bottom of his stocking is probably the most fun and his favorite

Now if we could just get people to view US prisons through the same lens they view CECOT.

Has my Spotify 'on repeat' been messed up for weeks because I stopped updating the app? Ug. Hate it here.

I want to buy quilted pants. I want to buy them online. I do not want them to make a swishy sound when they move. Seems like this might be a difficult shopping challenge.

Good news, everyone! All the prayers and sacrifices to Apollo worked! The days get longer from here 🌞 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Chariot of the Sun" painted on the ceiling of the Camera del Sole e della Luna in 1526, by Giulio Romano, at the Palazzo Te, Mantua, Italy

I thought that I might wear my cute winter coat tomorrow but I looked at the weather and it seems like I should wear my functional winter coat instead.

I just wish someone would be honest and say “we are ending civilian science in favor of science that is focused on serving national security and war”

My response to anything over the next two weeks

My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it

This story Carl Nassib told on RC's pod about coming out in the NFL cracked me up. His delivery is so good!

Because (gestures around at America) I'm deep in the Facebook mom comment complaints section trying to figure out why my kids public school has been in lockdown for the last two hours.

We love a responsive city council

Had to stop listening to the Ann Peterson hoarding podcast episode. I can't have these people talking about this in this tone of voice. No thanks. No.

Oh no. I went to a party Monday night and now I'm truly paying for it Tuesday morning.

Requiring my labor this week feels abusive

This is my favorite gift guide. It also works for people you love if they have exactly the right sense of humor.

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Have requested three different cooking books from the library that boil down to "oh fuck, another winter vegetable. Please don't leave me alone with this turnip" Will let you know if the books help at all. Even a tiny bit.

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The vet put the doggie on a diet and now he stands mournfully at his empty bowl, licking it dramatically.

I know we make a lot of jokes about people not carrying umbrellas in the PNW but lemme tell you - at middle school pickup with the atmospheric river blowing every which way, those lil teens had umbrellas! I have seen them.

Lake House designed by Robert G. Becker featured in House Beautiful, January 1979

Trying to buy everyone pop culture stickers to go with their Xmas gifts and I thought I'd look for some for me. What am I a fan of? Hmmm. There are no Alison roman stickers. No Kai of rising world stickers. No imperial radch online fandom. Ug

As a private practice therapist, my big big dream is to be able to form a union with all my colleagues.

I'm so mad at Hillary and I'm thrilled that these people are mad at her too.

Hmmm what should I make for dinner tomorrow? Well I need to use up this ground beef and also the mustard greens and perhaps these pinto beans and maybe the burratta. 🤦🤷

You look with your eyes, not your vulva, Karen.