i maintain working directly with and for incarcerated people reveals your soul: you immediately see how far the system goes to deprive them of their humanity, and you either see an opportunity to exert that deprivation, or you realize how incredibly sacred the concept of shared humanity is

A couple of weeks ago they said breadsticks were getting married, are you going to do anything about that

is it a sign of perimenopause that being on my period makes me straight up malicious evil and also batshit insane to new and horrifying degrees at the big age of 37 and if so why am i still always so cold all the time

watching how it’s made while stoned and getting a little emotional about the way they describe objects… like damn you’re right filing cabinets CAN do it all when it comes to holding documents and keeping them in order… nice to take some time and reflect on it

Today is a great reminder that we can never be too ready.

The dream of a 100% dead Senate is within sight.

twang em if u got em

i fucken wish

telling the doctor i smoke a "despicable" amount of weed a day and being unable to put any number on it

peter petey pedro pablo pierre pizza plinko turned one years old this week 🥹

not to sound ignorant but what other kind of aloha is there

to me the tackiest detail so far is having a raffle at your wedding

according to el me saying “if i was pope i would be excommunicating people left right and center” is a good example of why im not the pope

this guy has it

I was appalled that the lede of this editorial used Riley O'Neill's death to imply that he would be alive if the driver had taken a Waymo, and by extension, we are causing deaths by not allowing them to operate. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/28/e...

“primate city” means something different than what i first guessed

everyone at the librarian conference looks like such a librarian. and that includes me

the conference industrial complex is disgusting and i’m NOT just saying that bc my lyft driver dropped me off at a loading dock for the wrong building of mccormick place

had a dream i was really good at cryptic crosswords instead of just ok. just… a dream…

mr. baby vampire did NOT want me to get out of bed this morning

if he's going to keep peddling this bullshit i think he needs to pick a less autistic sport than baseball

severe weather expected tomorrow during the two hours i will be away from home and working inside jail and therefore can’t have my phone to monitor the situation… now let’s see what my anxiety can do with THAT

when people come to our expecting parent programs at work on their weekends to learn about how their unborn child learns and develops i get straight up emotional!!! what an act of love

every time there’s severe weather and we’re the only ones out of 6 units in our building that goes down to the basement i can’t help myself from really smugly thinking wow… guess i love my wife the most…

shape-shaped son

as a born and raised michigander i simply don’t have the energy to respond to anything gretchen whitmer says or does anymore with anything beyond “shut up bitch” and frankly that’ll take you a good distance with that bitch who should shut up

The FBI raided and arrested eight people Wednesday morning in connection with their alleged pro-Palestine advocacy at the University of Michigan

the good people of chicago are SOGGY my friends

just closed 60 wikipedia tabs on my phone, look out god im unstoppable

farter shart

didn’t realize there’s an exhibition game between germany and the USMNT at soldier field today and was so confused by how many people downtown are wearing soccer jerseys, i thought maybe everyone was just suddenly getting a lil european with it for flavor

new: last fall, usa hockey quietly banned transgender people from playing in many local recreational leagues. here in chicago, a local lgbtq+ hockey team is pushing back. from @dmbrown-tboy.bsky.social for the @chicagoreader.com's pride issue (hitting stands this week!):

i have a sincere question. do people not know how to use double doors anymore

buy me bonestorm or go to hell

hello from pierre

dropped my nearly full nalgene on my left boob. the good one

they should get rid of east lansing and start over. big reset.

earnestly explaining to my beautiful and dumb as doornails kitten that it hurts my feelings when he chews on my nice basket while he looks at me like this

when i had my first vasovagal panic attack a couple years ago i was so upset no one ever told me that could happen and frankly it still troubles me!!! like what other horrible things you’ve never even imagined can happen to you while you’re minding your own business on the toilet???

these cretins will, without fail, reveal that they haven’t read a book since ninth grade (Orwell, etc.), didn’t even understand *that* book, hated their teacher for making them read at all, hate anyone who studied or attempted their own literature, and still demand a whiter cast for big poem movie

having a headache makes me straight up ontologically evil

the lonely stoner seems to crochet fast at night

got so excited trying to show this to my wife i almost dropped my phone

i have so many catty things to say about the summer program at work. but i won’t! here……

suffered many bus-based indignities today. such is life

learned about acardiac twins. dont like that

well i may not have accomplished anything today but at least i had a bad attitude the whole time

i think the kitten has learned he doesn’t even need to go after the food i’m making, he just needs to pretend he’s trying to get it while i have my hands messy and then he can lick it off his own body. anyway we just had some rotisserie chicken for lunch.

had the “geography of south america” wikipedia page open in 3 different tabs on my phone this morning