The evil (powdered sugar) is defeated here's the cake. Pumpkin olive oil cake w cinnamon cream cheese frosting, and an unfrosted slice set aside for my friend who's a psychopath (doesn't like cream cheese frosting)

Couldn't find my sifter for a minute there for making cream cheese frosting and I was really ready to end it all

You don’t hate the press enough.

Thinking about how when you're in AmeriCorps the stipend is generally so little (and also does not count as income) that you're expected and encouraged to enroll for SNAP benefits to afford life for the program

Both of my eyes feel weird but in different ways. What do I do about that

I talked to a reporter at @thecut.com for a story on how the Democrats’ caving on the healthcare subsidies is affecting me. www.thecut.com/article/demo...

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Going to change my last name to Kennedy and learn how to wink real good. These two things in combination should get me pretty far in this country I should think

Generally, if you can be described as an heir or a scion and there isn't much else to say about you, I don't want you to be seeking office

The whole point of America was that we didn't want a king but we couldn't resist having an aristocracy anyway and I guess that's what Kennedys are for

After we release tomorrow's episode of @eati.games should we also post every dumb episode name we pitched before we settled on what we did

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

Cold cold cold cold cold cold cold cold

I went to the Infinite Wrench at the Neo-Futurists' theater for the first time last night (because a friend of mine just joined the ensemble!!!) and it rocked actually. More shows should be wrenches that are infinite

Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.

Going to change my last name to Kennedy and learn how to wink real good. These two things in combination should get me pretty far in this country I should think

I've loved Lynne Ramsay's past work and I know Die My Love is getting a lot of buzz, but I don't like how she's fully facilitating Ezra Miller's comeback to the spotlight

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Still in a good mood. Living room is suffused with golden light rn and I don't even care that it's because the sun is setting at 4pm

DICK CHENEY IS DEAD JONATHAN BAILEY IS THE SEXIEST MAN ALIVE AND ZOHRAN MAMDANI IS MAYOR OF NEW YORK, LIFE IS WORTH LIVING

Between the Dick Cheney news and Mamdani good cheer I think we're sleeping on this truly excellent announcement

In case you missed it last week, reupping our Slay the Princess episode! We played this months ago but I keep getting tempted to reopen the game and gather new endings

Hey Chicago what do we think it means when the city is doing work on your neighborhood water lines and they just spray paint a question mark

CNN Speaker Johnson I don’t know montage

Out on patrol. ICE very active on the far North Side including Edgewater and Lincoln Square. Multiple abductions. Vulnerable folks should get off the street if they can. Street vendors should be bought out, landscapers warned. If you’re in Chicago and you’re not ICE watch trained, pls get trained.

Happy Reasons to Survive November season to all who celebrate

Suffering secondhand sports fan agony tonight my thoughts are with all of you

I looked it up and the musician girlfriend in question is 26 years old. Kash Patel is 45

As somebody who has never lived in New York I feel like I shouldn't have to know what Dimes Square is

@wanlittlehusk.bsky.social helped me put together a food/food donations resource sheet that can be distributed tonight at trick or treating for anyone in the greater chicago area - or any time after!

Why is Wes Anderson making fun of me for buying a collection of his own movies

kristi noem promised federal agents would continue to terrorize chicagoland—and that’s exactly what they’re doing. border patrol/ice currently rolling through the city’s northwest side. reports of abductions in albany park earlier this morning.

On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.

ICE possibly staging in Rosehill Cemetery rn

As promised, our Slay the Princess episode is now out! Celebrate Halloween with a discussion of life, death, and SasuSaku. Listen here on Buzzsprout or find us wherever else you find your podcasts:

You're on a path in the woods. At the end of that path is a podcast. In that podcast is Emmi and Annie talking about AMVs. We're back on schedule tomorrow with a Halloween episode about Slay the Princess!

Playing Silksong and quite frankly I'm floating like a brick and stinging like a dandelion fluff

There's probably a Shohei Ohtani for everything and we don't even appreciate it because the thing they're a wizard at isn't an internationally popular televised sport. Like somebody out there is the Ohtani of churning butter. Or skipping rocks

impossible to overstate the degree to which we are being governed by people whose formative politics is gamergate, but DHS posting Halo memes to recruit for ICE is pretty close.

This Rollercoaster Tycoon video is an actual work of emotionally-gripping mad genius

The Louvre jewelry heist was probably just an elaborate marketing stunt for Kelly Reichardt's The Mastermind

Trump's thugs "have tear-gassed (multiple Chicago neighborhoods), drawing intense criticism and legal scrutiny over allegations of excessive force and claims that they are violating a federal court order aimed at curbing use of the chemical weapons."

I'm finally in Act III of Silksong and everybody is mad at me :(

I hate that I had to get a new phone. I keep looking at it and thinking "you should've been a Switch 2"

Federal immigration agents have been active on Chicago's northeast side today, according to rapid response teams. They report at least four detained so far, including two outside the Laugh Factory - a well-known stand up comedy venue - on Belmont and Broadway.

I was forced to buy a new phone today (by the death of my old one) and I had to also get a USB-C to 3.5mm connector bc no phones have audio jacks anymore and I'm once again thinking of this Douglas Adams piece where he said it's "time to declare war on little dongly things"

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