fun fact: in the vicinity of catnip, Bergamot enters an alternate state called Bergle Mode.

I've sent some fun stuff out to all those who shared with ILC of MN--if you haven't gotten any mail from me yet, it should be shuttling its way as we speak! :)

mentioned a civic engagement one time, and now whenever I miss a call my dad texts "another civic engagement? is James Talarico there?"

just screamed community and love to me the entire time. I loved it

About teared up when he said “God Bless America” and proceeded to rattle off every country in North, Central, and South America.

I don't care about football, but Bad Bunny's performance is an exultant battery against what this administration believes: that there is only one America proper.

I'm so serious, I'm in tears still. this is so important.

all the light and joy and color, I'm crying

benito, marcello, pedro,,, mis primos

We love a Stunt Pedro in this house

Pedro Pascal!'!!!

pedro!!!!

happy Sunday from the cozy girl

my mom is always asking me about "your little man with the big eyes who sings" (Tim Robinson)

missing him today

she's so important to me

fyi, I am not entertaining anything debate-adjacent re: AI. it's rot, it reeks. if you need to further qualify, please do so elsewhere! ta.

not just took the water but made it poison by lacing it with heavy metals so which means AI pollutes the air (via unholy amounts of power consumption) and land (via toxic wastewater.) there is no moral, ethical, or even self preservation reason to use AI.

somewhere along the line, we bought the lie that skilled work is essentially inequitable. what an embarrassment this century has been so far.

"AI art" is so essentially dehumanizing, and with all wrath in my heart, I cannot wait till the entire project goes up in flames

when writers and artists warned of intellectual theft, when women warned of the threats of deepfake revenge porn, when child safety advocates begged us to take the dangers of inevitable abuse into account: these were portents of what this administration will do.

we saw this from the start, on a more granular level: each stolen word and pixel, intellectual property seized from creatives. the dehumanization of creative work, though, is just the birth pang of a larger game: the reordering of what is real according to the whims of tyrants.

there's a reason the Nazis went after Raoul Minot for documenting the German occupation in photographs. fascists want to own the record: the power to reshoot history, frame by frame, until their preference becomes the only memorable reality. generative AI is the culmination of that desire.

this administration isn't leaning into AI from mere laziness. they're flooding your centers of discernment with hyper-real fakery so that those in power are those who determine what's real.

a reminder that AI isn't just cringe; it's part of this administration's toolkit.

The United States government is retaliating against 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family for having the temerity to challenge their unlawful detention with a habeas petition. That’s retaliation. This is Kilmar Ábrego García all over again. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

oh I'm sure

he's looking at Crick like... you're the only model in the room...

SuperWhoLock passed me by... I was busy investigating the greatest double helix of them all: Watson and Crick (lovers)

they went to all that effort scavenging Rosalind Franklin's work, when they could have been poaching each other's hearts....

growing up, I always viewed Watson and Crick as lovers... and I think that would have been preferable...

that's the stuff!!!!

he's looking at Crick like... you're the only model in the room...

by "Critson" I mean "Watson/Crick"

I do not like this man, but I think his untrustworthy hairline and ignoble mouth make Glenn Powell a frontrunner for the role of FRANCIS KIRK

Mekki Leeper or Gerran Howell as JAMES WATSON

anyway, I was homeschooled, so I did a lot of work with Critson, also the Bible

they went to all that effort scavenging Rosalind Franklin's work, when they could have been poaching each other's hearts....

Watson and Crick, intellectual bandits... call it Cheated Rivalry

growing up, I always viewed Watson and Crick as lovers... and I think that would have been preferable...

I love that Walt Whitman had this cardboard butterfly as something he kept as a treasured possession with his journals.

they should let me hang out with Mark Gatiss

my dad occasionally uses the word "loincloth" as a general synonym for "item of leather," which produces some wild imagery for the hearer, i.e. "I saw Neil Young's loincloth"

thank you all for reminiscing with me about jury duty! these events took place last February, and I have only held off till now out of an abundance of caution (more than good taste).

The priest at my church got beat up at an anti-ICE protest on the peninsula this week, and when he showed up for Mass today with a black eye all the church ladies swooned like they had seen a Backstreet Boy.

when I related all this to my uncle, he was really indignant on my behalf because he thought the defense attorney took issue with an outspoken woman. and I had to be like "no no, I'm pretty sure it with the chiropractor thing."

I didn't even want to be selected for the jury, necessarily; I just wanted them to want me.