I read 21 books in 30 days. that’s a little bonkers.

Not sure our brains were made to process extrajudicial executions in the streets in real time

loving hot water bladder season

raise your hand if you got an ai art puzzle from your oblivious grandma this year 🙋🏻🤦🏻

spent my morning in an incredibly boring all staff meeting on uncomfortable chairs while enduring the most annoying lower back cramps agitation levels are partying

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AN HOUR LONG LUNCH IS TOO MUCH just give me 30 minutes and let me leave earlier 😭 a few more months of this 😮‍💨

this book is well written, has excellent politics, is deeply informative...and consequently a huge bummer

as a basement dweller, I initially was content to coexist with the spiders. but they’re starting to leave their respectful corners and sneak up on me in cruel ways. might be time to squish.

there’s a bug bite on the back of my thigh and it’s so! distracting!

so far the only bad thing about my new job is the lack of windows. we’re getting into winter and I’m taking my lunch breaks in my cold car just so I can remind myself what color and sunlight is.

spending all weekend fixing file metadata 🫠

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

how many have lost their assumption that the highest officers of our government were there by means of being savvy and knowledgeable strategists, and not merely there because they play well with the boys club

the gap between the final paycheck of the part-time job I quit and the first paycheck of the full-time job I’m starting has eaten the last of my cash and I still have a few weeks to go 😮‍💨 but the end is in sight!

The creator calling churches and asking for help for her starving baby to test them is doing god’s work (pun intended lol), and it reveals what a lot of us already knew. The backlash from the churches who failed the test (many mega churches) has also been very telling.

trying to get back to my old 6am wake-up routine in prep for returning to full time work next week

The real Veterans Day story for me, & the story I uplift, is the Black veterans who served the empire only to come back & be trodden in sometimes in the most brutal ways.

This isn’t just about the eight Senate Democrats who surrendered. 👇

🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 You telegraph it to the American people because it’s their lives you’re playing with ! We have a right to know, as constituents, so we can voice our feedback !

Taking Republicans at their word that they’ll address healthcare costs later isn’t compromise—it’s a betrayal of the values Oregonians sent me to Congress to fight for.

I don’t think they understand just how rapidly this is radicalizing an entire population of anyone with a soul

holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end

Across the country, demand for electricity is on the rise — and so is the price of electric power. n.pr/485sLnd

prepping for a future of work-from-home I’ve dug into my residual collection of flannel fabrics to make some homemade PJ pants 🧵

“I don’t know how to have fun, have never been sick or in pain a day of my life, and could never comprehend the challenges of disability or addiction. I also love killing people I think are lesser than me.”

Enrolling in hospice so I can get my daily wellbutrin and weekly legal recreational gummy

glizzy at your service

The Trump administration is forging ahead with plans to eject some nonprofits from a popular student loan forgiveness program if their work is deemed to have a “substantial illegal purpose." https://to.pbs.org/3WsedIO

For comparison, that's equivelent to 1.58% of the City of Portland's police budget this year. The police probably spent more than that just to do shoplifting stings. Let's turn in the tap.

I wish I could just skip the next two weeks of life

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

went to run an errand and a gal I had an appointment was such an energy vampire. 10 minutes, then I sat in my car feeling zapped and ready to crawl into my cave. silence and nap please.

I encourage folks to investigate the power of CD-RW drive and a computer. A cheap android phone with expandable storage makes a great MP3 player. This was the standard before cloud, we can bring it back again!

throw it away. centrism is what’s hurting them yet they want more of it 🙄

a fascist state isn’t afraid of letting millions of their own citizens starve and die. in fact, it may be the point…

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

I got a little CD/radio player and it’s so chill to be able to just flip a switch and have NPR on without getting sucked into my phone

reviving the DVR and mixed CD era

since being laid off I cancelled my streaming subscriptions and let me tell you, I don’t really miss them

crying for a week straight does great things for your complexion

scheduling when to put your senior dog to sleep is a special kind of sweet cruelty, trying to go through the motions of the day and thinking “this’ll be the last time”

part of the tragedy of ai uptake is the loss of being able to text your industry besties to ask them how to word your email, or if your ppt looks good, or what that one term is for that one niche jargon thing that’s on the tip of your tongue but can’t remember

in other news, I applied for a part-time position that is less skilled and the same pay as my current part-time position at the same place, and they denied my application… so that’s hilarious

it’s honestly scary how easy it is to just decide you’re an expert on a topic and then… be an expert

the blind, deaf & demented chiweenie had her nose to the wall and two bits of furniture on either side. she couldn’t figure out how to back up so just made little panicked squealing sounds.

in this day and age I would love nothing more than to live like our blind, deaf & demented chiweenie.

about to throw down with an unemployment rep (respectfully, not their fault the systems are ass)

the cats spent all day bed rotting with me yesterday and now it’s time for 8am zoomies

tell* me to do my chores pay*