every year i swear my body responds slightly differently to seasonal allergens. sometimes it’s itchy legs, sometimes it’s sinus hell, and this year it seems to be mostly eyes? like i’m constantly getting sand blown in my damn face

I have discovered the glory of little precooked bowls of rice from the korean grocery store. now I have to stay within 50 miles of a korean grocery or I may starve

the underground parking garage included in my rent has really paid for itself these last couple months what with all the violent hail-producing thunderstorms

what the hell, this is so GOOD youtu.be/Qo7e724rjvE?...

My man looks like he directed an arthouse biopic about the Pillsbury Doughboy.

got a coupon at walgreens that advertised the shingles vaccine on the back and i’m like…girl i WISH. i want that vaccine BAD but everyone says i can’t for another 15-20 years!

“We live in a homophobic society…if you think there are not more gay players in the NFL, Major League Baseball, and the NBA, you’re just stupid” - Charles Barkley saying the quiet part out loud. I fuckin cried. god bless him and Jason Collins.

So I’m at nearly 600 songs from January - today. I love this weird little project. www.mainewitchonpop.com/blog/april-2...

unironically I think this is the correct environment for me, which also proves that nurture is stronger than nature in my case because my mostly southern european/north african DNA would suggest the exact opposite and yet I was raised in maine where this is 2/3rds of the year

Ugh I am going to miss my community college students so much. Today I brought sweetbread and coffee and gave them attendance credit for just showing up to eat and chat and it was just lovely to hear where they’re headed next in life.

Someone AGAIN has posted on another platform that "reading is elitist" and I am sorry but NO. That's ridiculous and it's actually INSULTING. The end.

I feel like 30 Rock gets a lot of credit for the “damn that’s great construction” jokes but not enough people talk about the really bizarre ones (my favorites) like “A Blaffair to Rememblack” and Kenneth’s Muppet Vision

easy peasy, its Zodiac

NMIXX is kpop Carly Rae Jepsen for me in that I like each of their albums more than the last (and I like them all SO MUCH)

As a native of a different tourist town with endangered seals: they should ban this fucker from every beach in God’s creation. Stay inland for the rest of your miserable life.

I always think about the grandmother I never met on Mothers’ Day. I have her eyes & her mouth & her middle name. She died on her 60th birthday, two years before I was born. She had a weakened heart after a childhood illness & wasn’t supposed to live through one childbirth; she had nine.

my parents have been in Croatia on a bike trip for a week now and so far the only photos they’ve sent the family chat are the various cats they’ve met, which I think is the correct way to document a vacation

I’m so tired.

Gillian Anderson & David Duchovny

Also, it needs to be said: Anne Hathaway is everything. If she plays her cards right, I might just add her to my list of White Ladies I Fuck With.

you know what the real data center is. the human mind. thank you,

it turns out I can complain actually, and my complaint is that my mouth was assaulted this morning by the single worst hotel coffee on this planet.

this canvas outage has netted me three extra days to finish grading so I will not be complaining about one single thing no sir

A+ no notes

it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

There are Columbos everywhere, we just have to celebrate them

The 2028 Democratic presidential nominee must be an ALL OF ME scenario where the most electable progressive candidate is possessed by the ghost of John Brown, who controls one side of their shared body.

mildly funny (negative) to get a public employees appreciation day message in my inbox at an institution that is closing down at the end of the semester for lack of public funding (meaning that I am losing my job)

Yeah, it’s been a mess for a long time — hello, Barbz — but things are escalating quickly. It’s like people have more feelings than they know what to do with. They don’t even know how to be enthusiastic about pop culture without being scary or overbearing. That’s wild and sad.

sorry to bring this back but

Recession tornado siren.

WHY does Madison just not have soft serve ice cream

Late to this but wow this is a pathologically gross way to be.

every new NMIXX release has me more excited than the last, this EP is going to rule my world www.instagram.com/reel/DX38Lfm...

I’d like the people blasting music in my building’s parking lot to know that if they want to scream along to the billboard hot 100 they can very easily do so at any of the many establishments open on a saturday night for exactly that purpose

What

being precariously employed is the woooooooorst! just let me teach the babies* about writing and research and how to use their brainsssss *preferably 14 and up

My hot food take is that brunch is *solely for ordering breakfast-coded food later into the day*. It is not a Frankenstein hybrid of breakfast and lunch foods.

I’m just floored by the contempt than many in tech have for the humanities. They don’t even try to understand or appreciate what it is we do before arrogantly assuming they can do it better with a non-human machine.

Here we go again. Every so often tech makes an incursion into history, completely ignores that history is a rigorous discipline with a methodology, and then claims that a mystery or issue that historians have grappled with can be solved with an algorithm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The DNC barely exists and to the extent that it does, it seems to be mostly intended to move donor money around to benefit a few vendors and state party chairs.

here’s something wild: I listened to 150+ songs by 40+ artists in April and the only roundup pick I’m absolutely sure of is Hwasa’s “So Cute”

There is some unbelievably (well, maybe not unbelievably because yknow, literacy) un-nuanced Discourse about kpop and Black music happening over on kpop twitter and I am about to lose my actual mind over it

Today I woke up at 6am for no discernible reason and now it’s 10 and I’ve done house things and I’m tired 💀

we dont throw away perfectly good food in this house! we put it in the fridge and wait for it to go bad and THEN throw it away. as is good and proper

every month @lapsedbard.bsky.social and I change our whatsapp chat background to a different kpop boy and as hard as it is to say goodbye to Ricky April so far I’m pleased with Mashu May

"Bluesky will never be Twitter." Then how come I look at it every morning and it makes me sad, hmm? Explain that.

daily affirmation