When I was pregnant with the Teen in Austin there were so many ppl I knew who were anti-intervention, so I went to a midwifery practice that committed medical malpractice by not intervening and then overcorrecting to the point that her day of birth is one of the worst days of my life. We took a

The teen said my new haircut is very gay, which I think is maybe the biggest compliment she has ever given me.

Finally some normal news

They do not want the public to see how people were treated in there and the lawsuit I'm sure is only the tip of the iceberg of information of what people experienced in there.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Periodic reminder that direct action is a fundamental form of protest. It is the original form of protest. To refuse to accept the status quo, to intervene in an effort to shift power from the oppressor to the oppressed is protest.

For anyone who cares, my current favorite whistle to 3d print is: makerworld.com/en/models/11...

me: are you a baby or a big girl? toddler: no me: are you a potato? toddler: yes a big potato

"Heck of a job, Bobby." "If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the anniversary of the first cases in Texas, the United States will lose what is known as “elimination status” as determined by the World Health Organization." (gift link)

Teen: what is technetium, a metal? Husband: don’t listen to mama, she thinks everything that isn’t hydrogen and helium is a metal Me: BECAUSE IT’S TRUE

Y’all having a teenager is fucking wild. The craft room shares a wall with the teen’s bedroom and I’ve been listening in on her conversation and the brain rot is real.

5 headlines tonight on Charlotte Observer’s homepage: “Manolo's Bakery closes to protect customers” “Church members flee as federal agents arrive” “Super G executive describes agents dragging out teen employee” “Border Patrol questions people at Walmart” “Border Patrol sweep sparks fear”

Princeton didn’t allow women to get a PhD in astronomy until 1975.

The teen learned about quick sort, bubble sort, and selection sort in her CS class today. THEY GROW UP SO FAST 😭😭😭

new art idea: create a tarot deck filled with things that sound plausibly tarot to me, a former astronomer, who knows nothing about tarot. current list of cards: sword of strokes throne of anaphylaxis what next?

All I want to do is linocut, but instead it's a little too late stage capitalism outside for that.

BRING BACK CRAIGSLIST I BEG 😭😭😭

one of the IEP goals for the toddler was for her to be able to sing 2 songs and I'm not saying that it's ruining my life, but if I never hear the tune of the ABCs again, i will not complain.

I understand that avoiding Target can be hard (we still do), especially in some areas. Like for whatever reason* no one has cheaper ground pork and eggs around here. THAT BEING SAID, I DO NOT understand if you cannot avoid Starbucks. Like y'all, just don't cross that picket line. *bizdev

setting up a race condition between evicting AWS pods and pre-k dismissal.

I really dislike a lot of things about this coffee shop (e.g., the coffee, the food, etc.), but all of a sudden The Get Up Kids started playing, which almost makes up for all the other issues.

Have these boots been inside the state of Texas? No. Did I shake them out for critters since I haven’t worn them in 8 months? That is between me and the scorpions. P.S. you can pry the skinny jeans from my warm, not wet millennial legs.

now that is a harbinger of doom

Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent. Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado. One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

It’s snowing and the toddler is currently wearing a t-shirt, shorts, and her sneakers and she’s trying to run outside bc it’s “raining” and she “loves rain”

"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?" "Rosalind Franklin's notes." "That's correct."

To torture Nora Robert’s glass ball analogy, the plastic balls are the ones that make the glass balls easier to keep in the air but also it means that I don’t sleep anymore.

About an hour after Ellis entered this injunction, a group of agents, including Bovino, drove away from a Southwest Side gas station where they were confronted by protestors, and fired a round of pepper balls at a sedan that pulled up alongside their vehicle, reports @chicagotribune.com

Federal agents in Chicago are aggressive everywhere but they elevate this in the SW Side. They don’t just snatch people and leave. They linger longer, march down streets with guns, interrupt traffic flows. The attacks feel concerted to instill as much fear & display power over immigrant mhoods.

Chicago tonight

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

The toddler decided that she wanted popcorn and that while my husband was putting away the Halloween inflatable was the best time to microwave a bag for about 30 minutes.

I really want to be excited for everyone, but the teen is going on a field trip today and ICE keeps abducting people by her school.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

ICE is now entering daycares filled with children to kidnap their caregivers.

I have been using 150% of my executive function every day and I do not know how to replenish.

A central part of ICE's strategy here is to keep detainees hungry and thirsty in squalor to incentivize them to sign self-deportation papers to escape their inhumane conditions. And of course, they also lie to their captives about what they are signing.

This is literally the republican agenda. Is it a feature or a bug?

The miro wireframes have escalated into fighting with a clickable figma mock up (that was mostly done by an actual designer who has like real skills) and wow. all you designers? you do not have anything to worry about.

Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.

The children refused to eat the powdered mashed potatoes that we lovingly reconstituted for them and instead we had to make them microwave kimbap. They are rejecting their parents’ culture.

These Chicago restaurants are offering free or discounted meals during SNAP pause: blockclubchi.co/47DM5Ys

I am somehow supposed to participate in capitalism today while also making plans on updating emergency contacts and giving people copies of my marriage certificate in case I get abducted by the gestapo while trying to take my children to school. There is no redemption for anyone who voted for this.

The University of Texas has informed me that I can claim a $0.94 refund on my Bevo Bucks from 2014 for the low low cost of giving them my updated mailing address.

I just overheard someone say "six sessions" in a coffee shop and truly having a teenager in twenty twenty-five has rewired* my brain chemistry. *rotted

even the Catholics are like, "hey this is cruel"

The toddler is having an absolute crisis that Halloween is over for an entire year.