It's totally normal to buy a bluetooth number pad specifically so you can re-live a childhood obsession, right?! 🐭🧀🐱🧶

Being an adult is having the right to call goldfish & sangria "dinner".

Possibly unpopular opinion: I'm really bummed they're doing a drone show tonight at the Pops in addition to the fireworks.

I'm mad as anything at the federal executive branch, and thankful as it gets to live in Boston but I love my country. And my second-most redneck trait is how deeply I enjoy fireworks.

I am not a bougie traveler but I will pay more for business class on Amtrak whenever possible specifically so I can pre-select a forward facing seat.

Being the "mom friend" is having snack for the group at any age, but turns out in your 30s it's also having a spare sharpie in your protest bag.

I know I have correctly curated this account because of the distaste being shown for the members of the USA men's ice hockey team @ the address... it's also important to highlight which 5 players aren't actually there, so they might face less vitriol. (The Athletic article is behind a paywall)

Trump points at Democrats and says, "these people are crazy. I'm telling you. They're crazy." (Note that Pete Hegseth and the rest of the cabinet are standing and cheering.)

Yes we're an hour in and a lot of things have made me mad and nauseous and exhausted... but the idea that it is appropriate for the President to point at sitting members of Congress and say, in a national address, "These people are crazy" & the VP stand to applaud it... Something is broken, y'all.

Occasionally instant karma is positive rather than negative!

Theme of the day: all the feels about people not bothering to be appropriately intentional with their word choice and the language they use. Ugh.

One of my favorite things about prioritizing attending things for the purpose of being in community with strong women is the frequency with which I am inadvertently in a place where @ayannapressley.bsky.social is speaking to the attendees 🤩

It's exhausting simultaneously pretending Boston has a high-tier transit system while also viscerally appreciating how walkable the city is because various parts of the T are down/dysfunctional🙃🙃🙃

I'm always thankful when the T gets me back downtown before having issues. Walkable shoes are the cornerstone of my closet for exactly this situation.

With Mike Piazza as my first-ever favorite player it's great to see a catcher win the Derby!

The green line consistently sets off the loud noise/environment alarm on my Apple Watch even more consistently than Red Sox games 🙄

When no one shows up to run the beach you walk the beach instead ☀️

Of all the weird things I NEVER could have expected about my 30s... definitely multiple news cycles with the phrase "Alligator Alcatraz" is exceptionally high on the WTF list.

Me: why does my throat hurt?! Also me: participated at multiple actions today including one where I shouted & chanted for nearly an hour straight

I enjoyed some new union chants that I wasn't familiar with tonight!

I forgot how good it feels to aggressively sing Sweet Caroline in a full stadium and MEAN IT at the chorus ❤️⚾️❤️ Bonus points for the gorgeous weather.

I miss when the worst recent news story in my immediate world was the Sox signing Chapman 🤷‍♀️

What I wanted wasn't available in the dimensions I needed, so the store employee suggested I might use a carabiner and a zip tie... Then everyone in the store laughed when I explained that "I'm an elementary school teacher, I can 'hack' it until kingdom come, but I wanted to buy one."

Ah yes, perilous AND very dangerous. Of course.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them. When someone tells you what they care about, believe them. When someone goes on very public record, with hundreds of in-person witnesses, stating their goals and intentions, believe them.

Separation ❤️ Of 💙 Church ❤️ And 💙 State

Why are the diagnosis rates of autism higher today than they used to be? Probably for the same swath of reasons that being diagnosed as anything other than neurotypical no longer means automatically being institutionalized 🤷‍♀️

I cannot imagine sitting in a Presidential address as a deceased loved one is being talked about, and having to try to hold it together knowing the TV cameras will find you. It must be an incredibly difficult moment for these families, even as they and their loved ones are being honored/praised 💗

On Wednesdays we wear #RedforEd

Cutting from Musk to Elizabeth Warren on her phone brought me just a bit of visual joy

How can this number of people applaud the proposal that even one public school lose federal funding over extracurricular participation?! (Yes I know there's more reasons he'd pull funding... But that was effectively the punchline of that story.)

I know I should be preserving my brain cells and sanity to not watch this address but sometimes you just need to experience things with your own senses, even bad things.

Decorum is not singing as a Congressperson is removed from a Presidential address. Talk about an overt double standard.

It's all about balance. One ear on a school committee meeting, one ear on the Presidential address... so maybe it's my own fault I think I heard President Trump compare himself to George Washington? But I think that really happened.

I was the worst adult bowler across the 6 different lanes at a baby shower today 🤣

The flight time between Boston & NYC is so short... I spent twice as long in the airport as I did in the air 😅

I've had a hometown friend since we were pre-teens. Today, at the ages of 34 & 32, she entered my parents' house for the first time 🤣🤣🤣

Merry, Happy, Joy ❤️

Millennial things you'll have to pry from my cold dead hands: Uggs. I made it to my self-imposed deadline of not wearing them until after Thanksgiving but they feel so good on this morning's 24° commute!

Every time I get this boat it is WILD to me that I'm on a ferry that was part of D-Day

Reason number 57 why I resist relying on the commuter rail instead of the regular T: my train is “on time” in 3 minutes and we still don’t have a track posted 🤷‍♀️