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what, and i cannot stress this enough, in the actual fuck was that? #bears

to the driver with their windows down playing "music sounds better with you": i hope you have a great day.💃🏾

this game is already drunk and it's probably for the best that i'm gonna miss some of it because what is even happening #bears

can confirm. happy sunday, friends.

@bibliogrrl.bsky.social happy birthday!💜

finally got around to watching "it's the great pumpkin, charlie brown" last night, so the holiday season has officially begun over here.

must be a different definition of "tame" that i don't know about because this shit is anything but tame🤦🏾‍♀️

It's a relatively small sample size but holy moly people are feeling really emotionally delicate this morning and it would probably be a good idea to lead with kindness and understanding if you can

never have and never will

bears once again showing why i refuse to watch these games while sober smh

trying to remind myself that performing capitalism helps me support the people and causes i believe in and therefore i should continue cosplaying as an adult or whatever.😶

insult to injury: apparently (company ceo) now has a portrait in the national portrait gallery as part of their awards "celebrating individuals who had/have made transformative contributions to the u.s." brb, yeeting myself off this planet because what in the actual entire fuck

got an email from my alderperson about 🧊 sightings in my neighborhood and there goes the good mood i'd found myself in this morning.🤬

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thanks, we hate it😫

work: *posts 2026 holiday calendar* me: *puts together my sick/personal/vacation time off list for 2026* yes, my brain is weird and yes, i already know what days i'm definitely going to want/need to be off work next year.

"there's a thin line between transparency and oversharing" is something i just said in a work chat and that's gonna be my phrase that pays for the day. i swear more people should just sit down and eat their food, lol

one bonus of having 5011 hospitality friends and bartender boos is that i have options for pre-gaming before the opera. i absolutely love this for me.

yeah, about that...

me: attempts to catch up on the news and social media also me: welp, that was a mistake. good thing i already have a drink handy 🤬🤦🏾‍♀️

nope. i'm also one of those people who celebrate their birthday for a couple two tree weeks if not longer, lol

If you can you should… if you can’t don’t block the generosity of others Giving is how we get through

it's not even 8am yet and i just had a "please let those helicopters be for the marathon and not anything else" moment.

@niseilounge.bsky.social thanks for another fun season of taking my money and blowing it on (day) baseball, internet granddad. 🫡

undisclosed location. this old-fashioned tastes like i'm really glad i'm off until wednesday because holy shit what a week.

"would you like to use (internal ai tool) to help write your self-evaluation?" would you like to go fuck yourself?

MONDAY. SPITE AS FUEL.

not all heroes wear capes

nobody: no one: me: but why does jill scott's "hear my call" still fuck me all the way up all these years later?

12:17. drinking whiskey and listening to the title track of joni mitchell's both sides now. love this for me.

is it, though?

Viva Chicago! 🚲 (Thank you, @laloalcaraz.bsky.social 💙)

How much of the inability to understand how things are organized come from folks refusal to talk to Black people/ older women/ teens etc And the fact those groups know not to talk to you

scott hanson: can we go to the octobox? me: yes, please, and thank you🏈🙌🏾

people really (seemingly) voted for this on purpose. twice, and in some cases, thrice. to say i hate it here would be an understatement.

the last two tracks on mariah's new album had me like

we did, and folks said that we were overreacting and that things couldn't or wouldn't be as horrific as we said they'd be. so much for trusting and believing in black women.

“why some people be mad at me sometimes” they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine - Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

Fuck. The. Frail. Shit.

sometimes you have to nope out of a dream and force yourself to wake tf up, ask black jesus if this is how they really want you to start your day, and do a shot of whiskey at 9am on a sunday. i'm not fine, but i'm better than i was 30-40 minutes ago. stupid unsexy brains.

They didn’t vote for the Other Black Lady, even when democracy was on the line, so why would they now? Please be real.

no one: not a soul: me: holy shit amy winehouse was deep in her bag on the title track to "back to black" and i am forever grateful

last day of employee appreciation week. boss: i'm so glad that you and (other teammate) don't care that i don't care about all this nonsense. me: yeah, if it's not money or more time off, we're good on all of this.

me too, calendar. same also as well.

Don’t tell people not to joke about serious shit. It’s a coping mechanism for some of us. It’s how we aren’t constantly screaming.

it's day 3 of employee appreciation week. "i don't know if i'm motivated enough to switch elevator banks for pizza" is something i just said to a teammate after they shared that there's pizza for us, but it's on a different floor from ours.

it's employee appreciation week! this year's gift is a travel bag with the company's logo on it. i've traveled once for work in the 10 years i've been here, but it's the thought that counts or something? 😂