Tried a new sushi place tonight. Ordered a pot of "Japanese Green Tea." Was served a Stash teabag. I cannot express how disappointing it was.

I'm not a medical professional, but as a mother my most frequent prescription is a trip to the bathroom and a hot cup of tea. It's a stunningly effective combo. (Effect is heightened if someone else makes the tea for you, but you can make your own in a pinch.)

This cat food thief ate so much cat food so fast that she ended up at the vet for anti nausea meds and fluids. She has zero regrets and learned nothing. (She's fine now.)

Weigh in day (one day late because I messed up). Megatron the classroom Diamondback Terrapin weighs 50 grams.

Or we could just NOT deport people who aren't doing crimes. That's an idea. episcopalnewsservice.org/2026/02/10/m...

In your fifties everyone still has cancer, and now your parents require babysitting.

The artist and the art

I'm on this thread and I don't like it.

Maybe it's just because I'm a cranky GenXer, but the internet used to be good and now it sucks.

One of my guilty pleasures is the Hallmark movie genre where someone is a modern Royal in an absurdly tiny European country. I'd like them even more if each one of them featured an American who steadfastly refused to curtsy because Americans don't recognize royalty. We fought a whole war about it.

The distinguished gentleman

Rep. Jonathan Jackson of Illinois.

If you’re in line to tell Neil Gaiman to fuck off stay in line

Yet another snow day tomorrow. Maybe I'll write a novel.

Disability!! Is!! Not!! A Moral!! Failing!!!!!!!!! And! Neither! Is! Height!!

Trump won this district by 17 points in 2024. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

I just learned about an artisanal soap company that specifically markets itself as right wing and patriotic. I know that satire is dead, but the website goes so hard that I feel like it has to be satire. "Save America" from what? Dirty butts? Will this finally make Conservative men wash their holes?

All of them.

Five classes you took in college: Ordinary Differential Equations Organic Chemistry Principles of Breeding and Selection Equine Massage Introduction to Brewery Science

Cookie? Cookie Googleman? youtu.be/CCF5MCx5Tes?...

In non-political news, I've been baking a loaf of bread every day this week because we're off school and snowbound. Thinking about making this work for school days too because homemade bread is delicious. #bread #baking

My script for today, modified from @indivisible.org Hi, my name is [Your Name], and I’m a constituent from [Your City, State]. I’m calling to urge Senator [Name] to refuse to vote for any appropriations bill funding the Department of Homeland Security and ICE. (1/4)

Using gen. A.I. to make slop imagery to go with any anti-fascist statement isn't any sort of flex as it was developed and promoted by the billionaires pushing fascism. Just fucking stop using it.

If only there were a way to prevent this . . .

I'm German. I've been schooled in my country's history & crimes all my life. I'm also a political scientist, educated in Germany, the UK, & US. As the comparisons betw the situation in the US & Nazi Germany are increasing to frequent, allow me to comment. A 🧵

My relatives were murdered in the Holocaust and I can say with confidence that the comparison is apt. That’s why the people of the Twin Cities are refusing to behave like Good Germans—or like the Dutch collaborator who turned in Frank’s family.

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

Confidential to the parents trying to wrangle their kids while WFH during a the fallout of a massive winter storm and the collapse of democracy: It is time to go register for summer camp before all of the slots are filled.

Good

Good

Snow day #bread #baking experiment. Will the scraps of dough left in the bucket from my usual no-knead recipe have enough yeast to feed a second loaf? Setting the yeast up for success by leaving the salt out for now.

This country was founded on acts of protest and resistance. As a 'real American' JD should know that.

Send a love note to the organizers and protesters on the ground in Minnesota. www.standwithminnesota.com/send-a-love-...

Abolition of ICE is a moderate position.

Anyway I’m still not convinced that prosecuting killer feds will change any of the core dynamics here but I think it’s probably time for local officials to do some testing for science

Megatron the classroom Diamondback Terrapin is happily basking on her vacation home rock at my house, ready to ride out however many snow days the winter storm brings us.

MSP airport. Clergy risking risking arrest and a huge gathering of protesters. The song is, “Down to the River to Pray.”

That's my Bishop! A reminder that Christians who are not Christian-nationalists have to get loud and stay loud.

Data literacy is one of the most important things I teach. A graph is a picture we draw to help us understand our data. Good data teaching starts with authentic data and a sharpened pencil. #edusky

So much strength, and grace, and wisdom here. So many lessons for the current moment. Thinking about how to share this with my students. #edusky

Just finished the audiobook of "84, Charing Cross Road" by Helene Hanff. It's a delightfully cozy, thoughtful, and funny collection of letters between the NY based author and a London bookseller. It's been a stage play and a movie already, but it was new to me, and I'm sad it ended. #booksky

I am descended on my mother's side from folks who came over on the Mayflower. Mom did the real work of genealogy to prove it. The only time I bring this up is to point out that I'm supremely qualified to tell my settler-colonizer cousins that they are, in fact, the bad guys.

Every time I see a cybertruck in real life I am surprised anew at how it is ugly from every angle. They just do not have a good side. (This message brought to you by the one I saw in the parking garage this morning.)

It's lovely when the artists you loved in your youth hold fast to the truths that made you love them. "This is where the party ends. I can't stand here listening to you and your racist friend."

As with a lot of news, this is horrifying, but not surprising. youtube.com/shorts/XwJtg...

This is some bullshit misogyny in addition to being bad science.

AI is like fetch with a trillion dollars, 67 senators, a legion of editors, & the sitting president trying to make it happen. It’s never going to happen.