Me, screaming into the void: READ THE DAMN EMAIL-MAIL-MAIL-AIL-AIL

[circle of love] Nora Roberts: ok ladies we've got a new storyteller here tonight Roberts: everyone say hi to Coral hart Coral Hart: oh that's not my real name Hart: i have to keep my real name secret because readers hate anything its associated with Roberts:

I think I just ate a steamed bug with my veggies but I am going to pretend I did not

Watched the halftime show. If you feel like you need to speak Spanish to understand that, you're a dumbass.

My partner snuck out and bought me some Valentine's candy. When he came home he stuck it in a pile of hand towels in the kitchen because I was in the room where he usually hides things. I *immediately* strode into the kitchen, went, "I need a hand towel," and ruined the surprise. 😆

Remember Garfield Minus Garfield? I feel like this version of Christianity is Bible Minus Jesus

I don't watch sports but I'm happy y'all are out here discovering in realtime that the bay area is a great place to be.

Overheard my teen telling his little bro: "Please don't feel like you are holding me back because you absolutely are not. I am having a fantastic time playing this game with you."

My dad was always very proud that he had raised a kid who checked out a giant pile of books from the library every weekend. But once, he overheard me bragging about how many books I had read. He pulled me aside and told me, very sternly, "Reading is NOT a race." Neither is writing, my friends.

Stop Meeting Students Where They Are What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... | @theatlantic.com

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Did you put your name on your paper? No you did not."

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I want to say this as gently as possible, but living in Minnesota through all of this has been extremely eye-opening about how much *everyone* is impacted by propaganda. My mentions each day just match the flavor of the coverage of what’s going on here.

Okay I never got it when people talked about Clinton or Obama's "charisma." But holy smokes, this guy??? 🔥🔥🔥

He is risen!

Your body should not be able to punish you for eating too much of a healthy vegetable. It's not fair!

Does anyone know how to make the perpetual screaming inside my head stop

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

My mother used to ask me why don't you just write things that people read? Because I am a Literary Writer, and we don't take the straightforward path. I choose the inscrutable one that will lead me to a niche corner of the internet where we scream

oh no, whatever shall we do

Even if--no, ESPECIALLY if--you find yourself thinking, "Well, it's not sexual! It's just casual!"

PSA to male authors: just, like, avoid the topic of women's boobs. Trust me on this one. Thank you.

Did you know that when you get a hysterectomy they have to tie the top of your vagina to your guts so it doesn't fall out? True story.

Suddenly all those fairytales about dragons kidnapping princesses and sitting on hordes of wealth seem a lot more relevant

Loot that drops after defeating me: - Monster Ultra - Raspberry Pi - Small Refractor Telescope - Antenna Textbook - Old Computer (disassembled)

Saving this on my phone to make me laugh whenever I feel a little down

Loot that drops after defeating me: - Jackie O sunglasses - fancy water bottle - keycaps - Makita battery - masking tape

I don't know why @padilla.senate.gov stopped posting on bsky 7 months ago, but every day when I call his office I ask him politely to please start crossposting again.

I just want to issue a general correction to the media: some of us are *weed* moms, not wine moms.

TFW you finally realize what your book is ABOUT about. Like, damn, I was still carrying all that psychic damage around??

Why must I go through a complete existential crisis before every single chapter I write? Couldn't *one* suffice for the whole book? Surely that is enough.

I think about Chinatown (the movie) pretty often these days

Want to staple this to people’s eyeballs

I can't stop thinking about anthropologist Michael Taussig's book about the terror of the rubber trade in Colombia. In it, he describes how colonizers wantonly tortured Putumayo workers, with violence becoming a culture in itself, for its own sake. Like it was a sunk cost they couldn't escape

Dem leadership for generations: no you fool, you infant. It is a process. It takes time and political capital and expertise, it's- Mamdani, dusting off his hands: fixed it Dem leadership: what do you mean you fixed it Mamdani: Just had to unplug it.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Bro I live in the middle of the city and I can't even rely on a doc to connect for a video appointment. On their own dang platform.

Sometimes teaching kids can be so disheartening, but when they GET it...??? Magical.

I am super thankful for the extremely low childhood mortality rates in our modern age, but it also means it's a pretty big shock when you hit your forties and the death of people you know is suddenly a regular thing.

NO (NEGATIVE)

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

The one political figure I *haven't* needed to call and scream at every day is my house rep ( @repgaramendi.bsky.social ), but I called his DC office to thank him for doing all the right things, and... A REAL PERSON ANSWERED??? That's a first.

Notable that neither of these guys is a new recruit. These are guys who have been working in DHS/ICE for years. One more than a decade.

When we got home from church today this guy was butt-scooting down our neighbor's fake grass lawn.

Having benefitted from her advice and encouragement myself, I can say: she is really good at this!!

I have an emotional malfunction where I get mad when nobody steps up to help, but then when I ask for help and people go "Yes! I will help you!" I feel like a giant piece of garbage and want to go crawl in a hole forever and wish I'd just sucked it up. WTF IS THIS and how to fix???

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Me leaving voicemail for my senators

Y'know who would make a better presidential candidate than Gavin Newsom?