FYI, if you're someone that likes to tuck into some Christmas TV movie rom-coms this time of year, I've directed two with Asian-American casts: A SUGAR & SPICE HOLIDAY (2020) can be streamed right on Lifetime's website (US only). A BIG FAT FAMILY CHRISTMAS (2022) is on Hallmark+ or Crave in Canada.

I just read a mystery where the perp was a mother who murdered her teen daughter for making her acknowledge to herself that the father was a PDFile. I’ve read a lot of comments on Threads about people who reported and were blamed by their own families. Denial is one unholy hell of a drug.

All of the above. The Charles Lenox books didn’t grab me in hardcopy but I love them in audio. I need my favorites in physical form so I always have them even when the power’s out, and I keep lending copies. And I cycle through way too many books too fast not to use Libby and an ereader.

Handyman is on the roof. Widget heard footsteps and went to sit in the doorway and watch the bathroom ceiling leak. Instead of watching the ceiling where the sounds are, he knows WHY the sounds are (he witnessed our conversation and the handyman checking my ceiling) and is waiting to see results.

On-call handyman has arrived in time to do a temporary fix JUST before the rain starts getting harder. I hope he’s getting hazard pay for this shit.

Repeated errors in this book that’s been through two edits already: whipping for wiping, nob for knob

Yes, this is a plastic shoe box full of water from the leak in my bathroom ceiling. My roommate’s bathroom ceiling is leaking as well. The handyman is on the way to do a temporary fix but he was already fixing another leak and has to drive across town in perilous conditions.

What's next? Smoke cigarettes responsibly? Pollute needlessly responsibly? Have indentured labourers responsibly? Abuse people responsibly? Exactly.

The narrator of the Charles Lenox (gentleman amateur detective in 1860s London) mysteries is so soothing, and the writing style is very well suited to being read aloud. Bonus points for the main character being liberal/a reformer whose besties are a lady and his butler.

Today in “cats who act like dogs”, my bathroom ceiling started leaking and Widget alerted — neck straight, ears up, eyes wide, whiskers at attention and nose pointed in the direction of the sound. My bedroom door is closed so I couldn’t hear it but he could. Good boy.

Hold up… this motherfucker has had a THIRD MRI this year?!? The fuck are we doing??? If this were Biden the NYT would make this a front page story every fucking day. Just when I think I have a grasp on an answer I’m flung right back into wondering *why* he’s allowed to get away with this shit

The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.

When you have to work but your large orange son is comfy

Pardon me?

Who knew, back in the ‘90s before he was famous, Oscar Isaac was singing about *checks notes* Jesus? youtu.be/dAHBbLDqoRI?...

I’m always delighted to learn of other people’s orange boy cats being Velcro, facehuggers, and/or mini golden retrievers. Cats have only two jobs once they’re divested of their troublepuffs: guard and snuggle. Widget is employee of the month.

There are two kinds of response when you’re encouraged to believe: Ted Lasso or “Tonight Tonight”. I apparently am not earnest or good-natured enough to think of Ted Lasso despite the sign being a meme. Also I was a teenager in 1995.

Folks, please don't attack @meghankelly.bsky.social, who is NOT Megyn Kelly. She seems to be a perfectly nice audiobook narrator w/ no connection to the vile beast who (almost) shares her name. Let's not let her log on to find unwarranted nastiness. And make sure you're @-ing the person you mean to!

Impeccable movie reference, A+ zero notes, can hear the score in my head

He also apparently told Nuzzi he wanted her to have his baby, which is a shitty thing for a postmenopausal woman to find out her husband said to his young lover. And it's also shitty of Nuzzi to repeat, since it's potentially very humiliating/hurtful to Hines, who's (seemingly) done nothing to her.

Possession by A.S. Byatt and The Outsider by Stephen King because I loved both of them and I want the reporter to reinforce my “brand”

Transpo vans are a sign certain decisions about how things would be done were made when there weren't many women in the industry, b/c if a woman had been in the room for, "Yeah, if a white panel van w/ tinted windows pulls up to the curb, get in, that's your ride to set," there might've been notes.

Here you go! bsky.app/profile/jend...

Rain rain rain rain rain

Reminder: Ruby Bridges is only 71 years old today. She still remembers how one woman she passed on her way into school would threaten to poison her every morning, and how the US Marshalls would only allow her to eat lunch brought from home, just in case. This history isn't ancient. It's recent.

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NOW I have to stay up even later to listen to something that can cleanse my mental palate because that last mystery had one of the most foul criminals I’ve read in ages. And I read horror!

I feel seen

Me at the end of the book after the other crimes are revealed:

The audacity of one of these bitch-ass sixtysomething white women in this book I’m listening to is just beyond. Me staying up to finish:

The audiobook I’m listening to is one of those “a group of teens were friends and something bad happened” except instead of a thriller about twentysomethings it’s a semi-police procedural about sixtysomethings.

I love that the Interwebs hold all the receipts.

I had this inflicted on me on tumblr and now I have to share it with my Canadian friends here because WHAT.

As was eliminating Glass-Steagall and most of the other Clinton-era "reforms"

IDK if it’s the weather, Mercury being in the microwave, perimenopause or what but I am having a “free-floating negative emotions” day and it’s deeply unhelpful. (Yes, I have eaten, hydrated and taken my meds.)

Lol, "all I did was call people rando conspiracy theory junkies because they're mad at the NYT for its institutional protection of pedophiles and rapists, why are people responding to me about that"

This is your regular reminder that most men who sexually abuse children do not meet the clinical definition of a pedophile. They simply want to abuse their power and no one is more vulnerable to abuse than a child.

if you live in Lone Star tick range and got “food poisoning” the last time you ate red meat, you should probably pick up an epi-pen and see your doctor about some tests.

Look at this forecast, y’all

I'm sorry, but if you have anyone on your show (TV, podcast, whatever) who's arguing anything along the lines of "Liking 15 year olds is not the same as pedophilia" & you don't both a) ask them about ALL THE RAPE & TRAFFICKING & b) ask them about their ENDLESS "GROOMER" SHRIEKING, fuck you x1000.

What kind of wackadoo financial system is it that takes a downturn because of "uncertainty" from the government REOPENING?

"If cueing was debunked decades ago by cognitive scientists, why is the idea still in materials that are being sold to schools? One answer to that question is that school districts still buy the materials."

Show announced on deadline today. Room happened….. 7 months ago. We HAVE to fix this industry such that the jobs aren’t secrets. This isn’t going to work.

Get your flu shot and maybe you can speed run it in a week like I did. I NEVER GET SICK and I’ve had a flu shot every year since at LEAST 2005 and this year was bullshit

Whaaaaaa? Peacock canceled POKER FACE. But Rian Johnson is shopping it elsewhere with Peter Dinklage replacing Natasha Lyonne. 🤯