Today’s the Mid-Autumn Festival 🥮 中秋快乐 to everyone celebrating — hope you get to enjoy all the good mooncakes and avoid the yucky ones.

Grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference.

I am deceased. ☠️

My daughter definitely inherited my resting concerned face. 😅 Took her to a birthday party at Young Chefs Academy where they made pizza, and she looked absolutely miserable the whole time — but turns out she loved it and wants to go back!

Canadian husband is excited about the Blue Jays playing the Yankees in the playoffs (first time ever??) Since we don’t pay for cable, he’s listening to it on the radio like it’s the 1940s while following the ESPN stats feed. Kids are doing a great job cosplaying sports fans ⚾️😆

Meet Whisper, the tabby cat that lives by the Volare hot air balloon launching grounds. #Caturday

I considered posting my opinion about Waffles this morning, but decided no one cares where I stand on that topic. Instead, here’s a hot air balloon reel for your Saturday morning. Have a bright weekend, friends! #TimelineCleanse

Us: Are you going to shower today? Ms 7: NO! I LIKE STINKING! Have kids, it’ll be fun, they said.

Needed this reminder again. Going to drink another tall glass of water. Maybe I can flush out the doom.

I shared this news with my MAGA parents because some sad part of me still hopes that one day they’ll show an ounce of regret or remorse for supporting the felon. All I get is more normalizing and religious platitudes. I must be a masochist for continuing to try.

In more positive news. Haagen Dazs is on sale at my grocery store today. Ready for the weekend. 😮‍💨

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I can’t tell if my taste in music has always been basic or Taylor Swift is growing on me as she matures. I’m a fan of the new album, I was a fan of the Tortured Poets album. My unconscious is rebelling against admitting that, probably the teens & 20s me that was all about Indie rock. 😆

“I am not a garbage disposal.” I mutter to myself as I eat the kids’ scraps from last night for breakfast.

Two things can be true. Dr. Becky taught me that.

I can go anywhere Friends to know And ways to grow A reading rainbow 📖 🌈

Do you play Connections every day? Why yes, I do. Enjoyed this clip, ""Audio Connections" w/ Daniel Whiteson" from the podcast The Puzzler with A.J. Jacobs on Hark.

"The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves" Rest easy Jane 🫶🏽

G'mar chatima tovah to those who observe Yom Kippur (but if you’re observing you shouldn’t be seeing this post, right? 🙃)

A life well lived. We need more like Jane Goodall in the world.

This is on my wedding anniversary—I’ll be joining my local indivisible chapter to march in the morning. “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” – Albert Einstein #StrongerTogether

Alt text: images of Phoebe and Joey from friends having a back and forth Phoebe: WHO CONTROLS THE PRESIDENCY Joey: REPUBLICANS Phoebe: WHO CONTROLS THE SENATE Joey: REPUBLICANS Phoebe: WHO CONTROLS THE HOUSE Joey: REPUBLICANS Phoebe: SO WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A SHUTDOWN Joey: DEMOCRATS

Thinking about how if this were still the pre-Internet days, I would have gone for years thinking that Sabrina Carpenter likes her boys “playing on the sand” and likes her men “all wrinkled and tan” #MisheardLyrics

Happy that my sunrise post found a bunch of artists and lovely people just trying to make it through each day Alt text: “And maybe today, you don't have to worry about what's next. Let the day carry you. Let the beauty meet you. Good things are already moving your way.”

“JD Vance when his wife is out of town.” K-Pop Demon Hunters Honest Trailer doesn’t miss 😂

Sunrise is a little later these days, but it still feels like summer. Have a hopeful Monday, friends. ☀️

Waiting for some unhinged comment from TACO about this. 🤣

The fact that Eric Adams was elected mayor of NYC suggests that not enough people have seen this video. This must be rectified. ☠️

Happy #Caturday and to all a good night.

Anyway, it was a beautiful day in NYC. We spent the whole morning and afternoon at Governor’s Island. My husband went down this tall slide and he had to scoot himself down. I was NOT prepared for how fast I would go down it. There was a moment I thought I might fly over the edge. 😆

My husband misread the headline today and thought Trump had ordered troops to be sent to “Poland.” The reality may be worse.

As a parent of young kids, I know this is a top concern for many of us. I’ve also had the talk with my kids about not following someone who asks them to take their conversation to private DMs or chats. Whatever they want to say to my kid should be able to be said in an open and public forum.

Wall of Shame in NYC. They want us to forget. We remember. Check it out outside Pine Box Rock Shop bar at 12 Grattan Street in Bushwick

Thank you @checkingobitsdaily.bsky.social for doing the work of vetting all these people! Gave them all a follow 😊

This is one of those words where if you see it too many times it starts to look weird and misspelled. “Gone with the Sausage”

Electric Avenue is still a bop. Relevant to our times too—“tensions over unemployment, racism and poverty exacerbated by racist policing culminated in the street events now known as the 1981 Brixton riot. Grant, horrified and enraged, wrote and composed a song in response to these events.”

Good morning #jokesters! Boss: You have been late 4 times this week. You know what that means? Me: Must be Thursday.

Blergh. Gonna take a breather from this timeline. Kids are off from school for Rosh Hashanah so we’re gonna go ice skating.

girls be like “I needed this” and it’s literally just the Epstein files and an Elizabeth Warren-type sixty-five point plan for how Democrats are going to make sure the 2026 elections are free and fair

Marked safe from the Rapture

Both my Discover and Popular with Friends feeds are down, but other things appear to be working. Will shout into the void and see if anyone hears me.

#Jokesters on Bluesky 🤣

Trying not to grind my teeth at the latest episode of *gesturing to everything* You’ll have to excuse me for dissociating and spending a lot less time online.

The kids asked me NOT to buy any food pellets at the petting zoo because hunting for the ones on the ground that were dropped by other kids is half the fun. Winning 🏆😆

Today my daughter asked me what is my favorite herdivore. You know, animals that only eat plants. They often travel in herds.

Beautiful clear sunny skies leaving Mexico City. There was so much to see, do, and eat, feels like we barely scratched the surface. Hope I’ll have a chance to go back again soon.

Last meal in CDMX — fresh tamales from Mercado Michoacán in Condesa I like to think of these as Mexican zongzi ☺️ #GoodBreakfast

Good morning, Bluesky friends! Going on my first hot air balloon ride today 🥰

My Canadian husband came to the US on an H1-B visa. To work in non-profit management. Thank goodness he came here while Obama was president.

Not satisfied with just deporting immigrants from blue collared jobs, now they’re going after H-1B visa holders so we’ll lose all the highly educated immigrants who were bringing their knowledge to the US for white collared jobs. Rivals across the Pacific Ocean must be popping champagne.