I can't believe I'm saying this and it's not a meme, but polls close at 7 in Illinois, so if you're in line to vote, STAY IN LINE. You can register TODAY with a piece of business mail and vote TODAY. Every vote counts. It's a sunnier, nicer day out than we all thought it would be! Get out there!

An unwritten rule of the middle class is that all Trader Joe's parking lots are permanently plunged in the purge where the law cannot touch.

I am basically a business influencer. A LinkedInfluencer if you will. 😤💅

Well, I didn't. But now I do and obviously I am going to be panicking.

A new print for the folks doing front line work ensuring democracy doesn’t die. $10 of each sales goes to @icirr.bsky.social www.starshaped.com/8x10prints/y...

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

I do not ID as catholic (although tbh I'm one confession away from good standing since I have received all sacraments for which I am eligible), but so much of my worldview was built by the Beatitudes that I've never seen any non-catholic christian acknowledge.

the bullshit inequivalency made T&S so hard before the proliferation of accessible LLMs, but now 🫣

A cool thing about being a 40yro woman is that when I have a headache, I get to ask myself if it's the toddler plague, allergies, something the teen brought home, a migraine, the weather, perimenopause, brain tumor? with no real answers.

today is the only day you can post this until 2037

conservative evangelicalism is the direct theological offspring of slaveholder christianity and it contains all of its pathologies, part infinity

As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent: 🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞 🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩 🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀 🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano ✏️ by @newrepublic.com

this is like the thesis statement of our times

The toddler has a speech delay and can sometimes be hard to understand but I think she just said "What's wrong with you demons?" and I'm not quite sure what to make of that bc that is something coming from a changeling.

As long as I'm talking about programming & science: I (re)wrote a couple posts about domain-driven design & scientific software: blog.nicholdav.info/posts/2026-0... & how I use it w/ @vocalpy.bsky.social on the dev blog blog.vocalpy.org/posts/2025-1... Would love to hear what ppl think

In case you were wondering what it is like to have children.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Over 120 people have been hospitalized due to measles in Utah alone. "It is, at this time a real threat in our state and something we can do to stop it," said Dr. Leisha Nolen, state epidemiologist… pleading for people to get themselves and their children vaccinated.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

If you ever want to have someone open mouth sneeze at your face at point blank range, might I suggest acquiring a toddler?

I've spent the past 24+ hrs mostly sitting in the dark due to migraine and like everything I do professionally requires a backlit screen.

uncontroversial opinion time: thin mints are not worth eating unless they are taken straight from the freezer. bonus points on flavor if you abscond to a second location to avoid your kids.

A New Thing for me is that the teen steals my clothes. My adoptive mom was bigger than me+died when I was 14 so I never had the opportunity. On one hand annoying bc I bought that dress for me, damnit. On the other grateful we have the option & that a teen likes my sartorial choices enuf to thieve 🥚

My MIL, who has been my MIL for 17 years, just texted me to ask what my email address (unchanged since 2004) is.

It’s only getting worse

No one is rougher than a toddler whispering to herself "I GENTLE" like it's a self-help mantra.

It's the 10 year anniversary of Stardew Valley today and that's wild.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

Toddler (after eating a piece of toast like the Cookie Monster): oh no crumbs! come vacuum up the crumbs but not me I'm not crumbs. Husband ::vacuums crumbs but not toddler since she is not crumbs:: Toddler: more toast!

Heads up, folks. You have calls to make!

I asked the teen if she considered herself "wasian" and the disgust with which responded was palpable.

The thing about being 40 and having both a toddler and a teenager is that in a group setting, we are often the ones with both the oldest and youngest child.

The teen has been really into her computer science class lately (and considering she's going to attend a public HS that has an entire CS dept, this is a good thing). I want to get her started w/git (pun not intended) bc I still struggle. What's a good place to start that's 8th grade accessible?

Happy lunar new year!

the nice thing about having a teen in the house is that she will tell you that your hair looks like you're about to do skincare and then you know to do it differently before you walk out the door.

cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?

I drew, carved, and hand printed this card (and 2 others) for the toddler's pre-k teachers. However the most challenging part of this process was getting a 3 year old to sign her name 3 times.

The cool thing about raw dogging ADHD is that you will sometimes get to empirically determine how your body responds to accidentally taking twice the recommended dosage of a medication you may have been prescribed.

@5calls.org is really convenient such that it combats my millennial phone avoidance.

Ahead of Friday’s DHS funding deadline, we must urge Democrats to keep holding the line to get ICE Out For Good. Demand that your Members of Congress refuse to fund DHS without ironclad limits on ICE and CBP, actual accountability for abuses, and clear guardrails to stop raids and intimidation.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

New MN state motto: "If you saw something, no you didn't."

I need to submit a letter of intent for a fellowship and write nice things about myself. I have not finished it, but I need to give it to someone for feedback tomorrow. In unrelated news, I am currently deep cleaning my kitchen.

The teen was explaining the difference between ionic and covalent bonds (since she has a test tomorrow) and it took everything inside of me to not go all astronomer on her.

me: can you help your sister draw a horse made out of hearts? teen: no me: I guess I'll just have to use generative AI teen <furiously draws a horse so as to not allow AI art in this house> me 😇

Looks like I am a blessing.

Just like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go

@humaneintelligence.bsky.social is presenting at the upcoming India AI Impact Summit! 🎉 All are welcome to join us for our main event on Evaluations and Open Source Software for AI for Social Good at Scale.

I'm sure nothing will go wrong at all. 🙃