Bugonia. That was upsetting. In many ways. I can't. I'm just. No. I'm going to go live in HEATED RIVALRY. PS I called many senators and congresspersons today. It made me feel like I had done something. Probably gotten myself on another list... still.

I know it's a lot but here's one thing you can do to feel like you're doing something. Use 5calls.org to contact your senators & congressional reps - he's invaded & attacked a country in our name without our approval- this is illegal & he's going to get us all killed- & that's a best case scenario.

Sorry Kathy Bates & Carrie Preston, but I cannot in good conscience watch a network that is leaning into magat fascism. The propaganda they're calling news is too dangerous & wrong to support in any way. They'll be the Kennedy Center of network tv- abandoned by all good people. @cbsnews.com sucks.

Unbelievable bullshit from the network that once boasted Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite and 60 Minutes when it wasn't compromised. Now far right maga fascist propaganda.

@finallydeirdre.bsky.social I cry my way through this every time.

I am cursed. There is a gas leak in this cul de sac. Trucks everywhere. Can I not have ONE CALM PETSIT please.

It's a gorgeous place to spend 11 peaceful days.

Tucker, the larger, and Roxie, the smaller. She will need to pout for two days and refuse to sit with me. She gets very blue as soon as they start to pack. Tucker, on the other hand, starts nuzzling me before I'm even all the way in the door. Great taste, that pup.

Current situation having just arrived at my petsit and cleaned the kitchen for an hour, now able to sit down. Eventually I'll unload the car but I'm not yet ready to check the upstairs lol.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice in chains.

I am now at the deciding which books to take with me for my 11 days dogsitting. I need to make sure all possible moods are covered, and so, I'm all likelihood, I'll be taking 20 or more. No, I do not have a problem.

HEATED RIVALRY. I'm obsessed. Season Finale. I am spent. It's been a not great year and a not good day and I needed this M/M love story and its happy ending. In this ever more homophobic country w/its fascist gov't, this kind of representation is invaluable. Especially to youth. And lonely old men.

The reason my tree had to come down TODAY.

@erikaswyler.bsky.social My lemon tree - which I moved inside for the winter - is getting ready to give me its second and third lemons of its lifetime. I can't tell you how much joy this brings me. And all because your lemon tree talk inspired me to get my own. Thank you!

It is a Christmas Miracle! For the first time in my years of doing the NYTBEE, first thing every morning, and always getting Queen Bee; I have done so without going to the Spelling Bee Solver hints page. I feel blessed. Yes. My life is that small.

Christmas Eve plates. Lobster, shrimp, nibbles.

Fort Detrick is literally (and yes, I know what that means) across a fence from my parking lot. And the biological warfare lab was compromised in April. And I'm just finding out today. www.fredericknewspost.com/news/health/...

65 feels like an odd age at which to suddenly begin feeling lonely and yearning in ways I never before have.

This is more bs from cbs- now known as CollusionBullShit network - & their chief magat-ass-kisser, bari weiss- or, barely bothering to convert her bias- www.aol.com/articles/rea...

I think we're ready.

CBS news @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy and New York Times @nytimes.com spinelessly capitulating to & collaborating with magat fascist trumpers, thus shaming themselves & betraying long histories of fearless journalism. Pathetic & tragic.

Pathetic. You can no longer call yourselves a news organization. You can, however, call yourselves collaborators with the fascist maga cultists. This too shall pass but your reputation is ruined and you won't survive the disgrace as an organization. The capitulation to nazi-like gop is unforgivable.

Hey, all you watching HR, know that the queer young people see you watching. It tells them a lot. So, keep watching. 💕

No. Fucking. Way.

It never ends. This country will live in shame for decades from this man and his asshat minions. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

It is the birth date of my beloved aunt, Sissie. Funny note. She was walking me to school on my first day in 1st grade & some kids shouted at us "sissy"- I was so protected I thought everyone knew who she was. Took me a while to understand a name I so loved was meant as an insult to me.

Bias of omission? Lol. I'd posit they've a think-tank meeting to come up with these meaningless strings of words that sound vaguely evil, but, we all know they can't think.

WTAF? I am in mourning. This seems like a terrible idea and a horrible breakup. www.espn.com/tennis/story...

Landlord sends a monthly bulletin. It's been offensive before - he's a magat - but now he's imposing new rules which are not in the lease. No candles because it keeps down insurance costs. And today, FOR SECURITY REASONS you must call to inform them if you have an overnight guest. I THINK NOT.

"I was going to call him a piece of shit, but then, I felt like that was unfair to shit." Yep. Having trouble finding the words.

Honestly. That horrible man. I hope when he dies I can restrain myself from saying the sorts of horrible things he said in light of the Reiner tragedy. What a fucking pig.

I guess you could call it snow.

In between rewatching HEATED RIVALRY episodes, I'm binge watching SMASH - again. I was Team Ivy from day one. Never faltered. Megan Hilty is everything. And this was perhaps my favorite. youtu.be/zXqfTCXQZ1o?...

I did NOT need episode 4 to end the way it did. I've had a very bad day.

TFW you've had to call the EMTs twice in 12 hours to get your sister up after a fall. She's not hurt, so that's a gift, but I hurt myself trying to get her up the first time. Hiding your own stress while worrying about what the future holds. Afraid to leave the apartment at all. Not my best self.

In Maryland? Send an email urging your electeds to draw congressional maps that will counteract MAGA Republican efforts to avoid accountability in the midterms: act.standupamerica.com/letters/md-v...

It is a joyful thing when reason and empathy and love and equality triumph over fear and bigotry and magats. All the protesting and letter writing and campaigning and showing up DOES make a difference.

That's a hater at the podium and myself and my sister reacting to her talk about the dangers of equality. Let me add, at this point she was going well beyond her 2 minute limit, all self- righteous & rudely ignoring the moderator, the only person out of 25 speakers who did so the entire hearing.

I just went to a school board meeting about updating the inclusivity & affirming policy- mostly to do with transkids. It passed, thank goodness, but the amount of mean-spirited ignorance and fear and hate spouted & shouted, often citing god- it was flabbergasting & tragic.

My Ashwaganda is $10 MORE at CVS than it is at Walmart & Target. Exact same product. Maybe this is why we can't get people to stop shopping at Walmart & Target. Hell, I was almost going to go there. I mean, ashwaganda is trendy, so gouge-pricing everywhere, but come on. TEN DOLLARS MORE?

Nadine Bhabha as Elena in HEATED RIVALRY is pretty much perfect. How she does all she does with so little screen time ... damn.

@eileen4ever.bsky.social I don't know HOW YOU DO WHAT YOU DO EVERY DAY. I had to reset AGAIN sister's tablet because she panics & starts clicking w/out knowing what she's doing & somehow got to factory reset this morning. Downloading games is Satan's scheme. Or Zuckerberg. Same thing honestly.

Some days, I sit on my room and marvel at how the sun just keeps coming up every day. It doesn't despair at the state of the world. It just does what it's meant to do. I want to be like the sun.

And then the sun started to rise over the colorful horizon.