Under his eye

It is low key misogynoir that the TikTok scold is a Black lady.

Today in Things That Are Not The Same, I realized I’ve been vaguely conflating Weather Report and Weather Underground (by which I mean that whenever either is mentioned I think of the jazz group though I’m also aware of the political group). Both radicals in their way, I suppose.

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Forget Spotify Unwrapped, I want MyChart In Review.

Hey Siri, play “In the Bleak Midwinter” Okay, and after this I’ll play more Holst Well, that’s not really wh- I know just the thing, The Planets! I guess Jupiter would be oka- Now playing: Mars, Bringer of War

Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.

It is genuinely wild that someone who devoted most of their career to environmentalism has joined up with an administration that has a personal vendetta against the future of this planet just so more children can die of preventable diseases.

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Bio Oil smells like rest stop soap circa 1997.

Gentle reminder that it's not okay to be a bigot to anyone...including bigots. That isn't taking the high road. It's being a good person. Don't dehumanize anyone.

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

Have you had any homemade applesauce this apple season? If not, go make some! Peel and slice a few pounds of apples, put them in a crock pot with some water and a few cinnamon sticks, and turn it on high until the apple slices get puffy (you’ll know). Finish with optional vanilla. Glorious!

Arkadelphia is the Saskatoon of America.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

Me: maybe I can see the aurora tonight! Lake Ontario: lol, no

this is literally never not accurate

I actually finished a knitting project! This one has been years in the works and is currently taking up most of my dining room.

Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025

I wish people on the left would stop caring about purity tests as quickly and easily as those on the right stopped caring about the truth

Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

#NoKings Miami!

Does hot sauce make things better because of the spice or because of the vinegar or both?

Mike Wozniak is the least British name for the most British man.

Band, jazz, opera

Oh no, Wordle has been infected by the woke mind virus. Time to shut it down, make it illegal to have ever played, and livestream the executions of anyone who’s ever mentioned its name. Do you want to start the Google sheet or should I?

I have a note on my phone called high thoughts and when I read it later sometimes I see “People who have decision making authority should need to know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of the effects of those decisions” and other times “what if fried rice but Tex Mex?”

My phone has stopped recognizing my face and it’s caused some significant damage to my psyche. Is this the dark side of perimenopause no one tells you about?

This day in history, an abuser resigned in disgrace. He will never hold such power again. We won’t let him.

NPR: NASA plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Here's what that means. Me: THE PROPHECY IS COMING TRUE.

Well, there are worse things than staring at the water on a Sunday.

As a former midtown resident, I’m 15 minutes into the audiobook of @adibkhorram.bsky.social’s I’ll Have What He’s Having and already loving all the KCMO references.

I bought a lawn mower. I got a workout.

Tenacity has paid off, I closed on my first ever house on Monday! Inspection today showed it to be a solid and well maintained house (needs some work, but nothing unexpected and what 100+ yr old house doesn’t?). Now if only higher ed can keep it together so I don’t lose my job…

I did a single card read because I remembered I have tarot cards but I can’t discern what the universe is trying to tell me.

Do you ever stop to think about how wild it is that you can tap a couple spots on a tiny glass screen and watch almost any movie ever made instantly?

First Impressions of Earth is such a good album to angrily zone out to.

Just to recap: Multiple sieg heils at the inauguration and CPAC SecDef with “88” and Jerusalem Cross tattoos Health Sec said “COVID was engineered to spare the Jews” and met with literal German Nazis FBI Director appeared 6x on a podcast that advocates for a “final solution” for America’s Jews

If I had a dollar for every time I moved to a new city in the hope of finally being able to buy a house and make a home for myself only to experience an unprecedented global financial crisis within the first year, I’d have $2, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.

I may never own a home, but at least I can still afford to panic buy Birkenstocks at 4:30am after seeing a video on how expensive shoes are about to get!

@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.

today and always

There are two wolves inside each of us: one, the desire to do professional networking on here, the other, the deep and primal need to occasionally and anonymously shitpost.

Father Ralph walked so Hot Priest could run. RIP.

I am not a crackpot, I just don’t think drop ceilings belong in private homes.

Today in those-are-not-the-same-person: Henry Miller and Henry James.

My weekly curated list of must-read articles and some thoughts on defending public libraries.

President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders. Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...