This is fucking insane. I do NOT want to live through the Handmaid’s Tale FFS!!

Gotta love all the red numbers scrolling across the screen while he rants about our “great” economy. Seriously, we need to get these clowns out of our government.

Got another chapter done today. Still only have some vague ideas about where the story is going to go, so it should be interesting finding out!

I don’t have the bandwidth today to come up with funny or provocative or even interesting things about the latest nonsense Trump & Co. have been spouting, so I’ll just go with a couple of classics: #ImpeachTrump and #FDT!!!

I got another chapter done yesterday, yay! Now I just have to figure out what’s going to happen next while simultaneously trying NOT to keep going back over the last two chapters and editing them over and over again. Anxiety and low self-esteem are so fun. 🙄

Here’s a picture of Freya helping me write my book yesterday. Happy #Caturday!

As a former professor, let me just say that this is complete and utter bullshit, but sadly unsurprising. At a lot of public universities in the South, administrators do NOT have the backs of their faculty or students, but instead do whatever the Chancellor or Regent (a political appointee) wants.

I just forced a compliment on my partner. Please give us some space as we work through this together.

It’s past time for every reporter in the room to walk out the next time he pulls this shit. This type of behavior is unacceptable and the fact that everyone stands there just so they don’t miss the next horrible thing he says or does is also unacceptable. www.buzzfeed.com/alanavalko/t...

See, I’m not lazy, I’m just more like my ancestors than I previously realized. From A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.

Let’s all take a moment to recognize that the leader of the free world just got a fake “peace” prize from FIFA so he wouldn’t fuck up the World Cup. I swear, you couldn’t make this shit up. 🙄🤬

Are there any economists who want to comment on any correlation between our impending recession and excessive deportations?

I am currently in the midst of an existential crisis. I love, love, love single serving foods (baby ketchup, I’m looking at you), but also love, love, love the environment. Any way you companies could also love, love, love the environment and come up with sustainable single serving packaging?

So I figured out that at the rate I’m going (one chapter every five months), I should finish my book in a little less than 15 years. About the same amount as George R. R. Martin, right?

In case you need a laugh. I’ve watched this like 5 times already and still crack up every time. 😂

I haven’t written much this week (I know, I know), but I did manage to get my apartments to lower my rent increase from $150 to only $50, so I guess that’s something productive. And just in case you’re wondering, that still means my rent will be $2,439 a month for a relatively decent one bedroom.

So let me get this straight. Rich industrialists, etc. made us sick by poisoning the environment and us so they could get richer, made politicians rich so they would let them, and now, after squeezing every last cent out of us, both groups want to take away what’s keeping us alive. So awesome.

I’m still struggling to understand why Republicans find it perfectly acceptable to give out corporate handouts just because, but the very thought of feeding or providing healthcare for their constituents is a dealbreaker. #TaxTheRich!

This! Those of us with disabilities also deserve to live full, rich lives, including being able to marry without fear of losing our benefits. Additionally, the resulting stress from our financial instability worsens many of our conditions. #InternationalDayOfPeopleWithDisabilities

Oh it’s so hard with their six-figure paychecks and amazing healthcare subsidies that they continue to get after retirement. How will they survive without insider trading, corruption, and graft? #BanCongressionalTrading

So I woke up in the middle of the night with an idea about my next chapter and I actually remembered to record it before falling back asleep. So now all I need is another 3,975 words and I’ll have another chapter. Brain, don’t fail me now!

Two doctor’s appointments down, one more (to get the last gel injection in my left knee) to go. Then I am crawling back into bed and staying there until tomorrow.

It’s overcast and humid today, so my body decided it didn’t feel like functioning properly. I’m simultaneously in pain, too hot and yet shivering from cold, nauseous, and dizzy. Meanwhile, I promised my dad a chapter (since he paid our car insurance for us). Le sigh.

So my apartment just sent out an email that we’re not allowed to feed the squirrels. Do you think they’ll accept that we’re feeding the birds but the squirrels come anyway? Meanwhile, the two baby squirrels are bulking up for winter and even cuter.

My amazing sister sent us some money, so we can pay rent now — yay! Dealing with financial insecurity when you’re already struggling through living with a disability is fucking insane. It shouldn’t take over a year to get disability. How are we supposed to live in the meantime???

Another amazing offering from @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social THIS is the weave.

Rent is due in three days and I’m $700 short. If you can, please support me at: coff.ee/EDSisSUCHaMESS

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I love the food and I love going around the table and saying what we’re thankful for from the past year. This day gives us chance to relax (except for cooking!) and remember that as bad as things are, some things are still amazing. Happy Thanksgiving!

I woke up early thanks to a panic attack about money and I’m supposed to have lunch with my Grandma in about 3 hours. So my options are: 1. Try desperately to go back to sleep, fall asleep for maybe 30 minutes before I have to be up, feel groggy. 2. Doom scroll until it’s time to go, feel groggy.

Does anyone know like 75-100 people that could spare $20 a month to help me out? Even 50 people could make a big difference in my life. I’m lucky to have great Medicaid living in CA but the rent here is outrageous and we’re paying more for car insurance than we are for our one car. 🧵 (1/4)

As someone from the tail end of Gen X (I’m a #Xennial, if you will), I’m going to state this clearly: It is time for the President of the United States to be Gen X or younger. Period. #GenX

So after overdoing it yesterday, I ended up with a massive migraine and worse than usual dysautonomia. And today I had to do bloodwork and get the second gel injection in my left knee. So yeah, my body is NOT happy right now.

🧵 Here I sit, listening to the voices of my “family” swirling around me. As usual, nobody had bothered to set a place setting for me, even though I had just cooked most of the food they were now enjoying without me.

My Grandma does Thanksgiving the Sunday before and I got tasked with the turkey, stuffing, and gravy. So I decided the best way to prepare for heavy duty cooking was to forget to take my meds last night. 🤦🏻‍♀️ So yeah, cooking this morning has been a delight. At least the turkey is in the oven now.

Happy #Caturday to all who celebrate!

I hate asking for help, but rent is due next week and I don’t have enough to cover it. I’m still waiting on the decision for my disability benefits appeal — I applied over a year ago. Please, if you’re able, support me at coff.ee/EDSisSUCHaMESS

Amazing how AOC is able to coherently answer a question about a topic she hadn’t yet had a chance to research. Maybe she can give some tips to Speaker Johnson.

I feel like this is a good time to post Isaac Asimov: “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

Our senior kitty Freya is so adorable. As soon as she wakes up from a nap, she has to immediately go and eat. But because she’s a little elderly and still half asleep, her walk from the couch to her food bowl is that of a drunken sailor.

Rain and cold here today, plus I had to leave the house to go to a doctor’s appointment. Edibles and reading non-political fiction for the rest of the day. If only I was responsible enough to just be healthy! 🙄🤬

Those of us with chronic illness are already being punished: -by our bodies -by a society that doesn’t want to face the reality that anyone can become chronically ill -by a for-profit healthcare system that doesn’t want to waste the time and money to help us. We’re not irresponsible, we’re sick.

We need to institute recall elections for the Presidency. I can’t imagine three more years of this shit and while would should definitely impeach Trump, the rest of the lineup is just as bad.

Seriously body, please chill the fuck out for a day or two. It stopped raining, but now it’s cold, so the flare continues. Yay. And yes, southern California cold isn’t real cold but my body doesn’t seem to understand the difference.

First of all, he’s only saying this because the DOJ will say they can’t release files pertaining to an active investigation. Second, “a curse on the Democrats”? Politics is not supposed to be “my team” vs. “your team”. It’s supposed to be about helping people and making their lives better.

I’m feeling very sorry for myself today. Everything hurts, my stomach is still acting up, the vertigo and brain fog are ridiculously bad right now, my nose is somehow simultaneously stuffed up and running constantly, and I’m insanely stressed about money. Nobody chooses chronic illness over a job!

Once again, a Democrat whines about how things should be instead of meeting the needs of the moment by dealing with what is actually happening. The Trump administration has been committing political malpractice for 9 months. Do you really think they’re going to stop just because you want them to?

This is NOT okay. This is NOT how you talk to people. And this is definitely NOT how the government should be talking to its citizens. It’s time to bring back truth, decency, and common courtesy in America. Make America America Again! #MA3

I know everyone is struggling right now and the holidays are coming up. But my disability application is still pending and I don’t have enough money for rent next month. I really don’t want to be homeless. Please, if you can spare anything, support me at coff.ee/EDSisSUCHaMESS

I simultaneously love rain and also hate what it does to my body.

So remember when The Economist published a special report titled “The American economy, the envy of the world”? Yeah, that was under Biden.