What’s our 1) City and 2) County over/under for school on Friday? I need to make plans to get to church to pack weekend food bags for kids if school happens.

Are you sitting in your car in the grocery store parking lot bc it is tue first alone time you’ve had in almost a week OR is it because the final movement of Saint-Saens’ Symphony No. 3 is playing on WVTF and it is an absolute banger that you cannot miss? It can be both.

Half of Hillsdale isn’t plowed yet?! I was not expecting that and it felt like I was traveling across the prairie in a covered wagon. 🫠🤪

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

Today’s Villain Origin Story: The plows UNDID all of our work. And our road is plenty wide that they didn’t even need to do that! Cville kids ain’t walking to school because the city is working against people who are trying to keep the sidewalks clear! 😭😡

I 💯 support our obligation to clear our sidewalks, but the fact that snowplows clearing the road double or triple the work is very Car Culture at work.

Sidewalk (damn, it’s a long stretch) shoveled. It took all three of us plus the “music VCR thing” kid to get a narrow path cleared. Civic duty quest completed. Our driveway is another matter entirely.

Looks awful out there, y’all. Stay home and off the roads, okay? (Though I just saw two cars drive down our road at speeds I would consider “too fast”?)

Yesterday one of JP’s friends was looking at our CD collection and asked me “what is that music VCR thing?” while making the shape of a small rectangle with his hands. “A cassette tape!?!?!!!” And I died.

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

https://pacemshelter.org/ “During the forecasted snowstorm, PACEM will remain open 24/7 during Sunday and Monday, 01/25/26-01/26/26” #cville #homelessness #snowstorm

DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO POWER STRIPS DO NOT PLUG SPACE HEATERS INTO ANYTHING BUT A GROUNDED, WALL SOCKET

I grew up in Indiana, and our household technically rooted for ND 🏈 and IU everything else. My best friend’s family was a Purdue Family and once I showed up to her house wearing an IU sweatshirt and her dad gave me a noogie painful enough that I remember it to this day.

Excellent sportsball outcome! #iufb

This possible major snowstorm next weekend is not what I need in my life right now.

I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS

Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino and goons heckled by activists and shoppers protesting his presence as he and a federal agent caravan leave a Target in St Paul, Minnesota for a restroom break. 'Get the fuck outta here' 'You guys are bitches' 'Nobody wants you here!'

as of today putin's three-day military operation has lasted as long as the Great Patriotic War. congrats to irony for its total victory over russia

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

Y’all, I have a barely stuff nose and am showing *immediate* *very dark lines* on my rapid home tests. (I am super-Novavaxed, which I attribute to my very mild symptoms) People are absolutely walking around town with Covid who don’t even have a clue.

God only knows how many days I will be quarantined in my bedroom. Good thing I have an index to write and a box of Swiss Cake Rolls to help me get started.

Our govt is obviously f*cked, but the folks at the FDA are still out there doing the work with helpful info about the testing protocol I need to follow. So thank you, dedicated career civil servants.

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

American Samoans, unique among *everyone* born in US states or territories, are denied US citizenship. That means they are banned from voting. That's made some a target of vicious GOP prosecution for fraud; even if they were told incorrect info from public officials. A. New. Must. Read.

This is a fascinating article from Dr Christine Schmidt Deputy Director and Head of Research at @wienerlibrary.bsky.social exploring what the physical qualities of the Wortman letters tell us about the desperate conditions experienced by the letter writers, and how the letters came to be displayed.

I have Covid!?! WTF man!?

one of the things i hate most about this persistent line of argument is the implication that any of these actions would be fine if groceries were cheaper

When I can’t sleep tonight, someone remind me that I had hot tea (earl grey) at 3 pm.

This is easily the greatest one I have ever seen…Simply Pure Cinema 😂

It took my kid until *Jan 2* to figure out how to sleep in (until 8 am).

AI SLOP AI SLOP AI SLOP AI SLOP

Every winter break we end up binge watching a past season or two of GBBO and delighting in the different creations and the amazing range of British weirdness.

I once picked up George Soros at the Charlottesville airport in my very used Saturn station wagon and gave him a ride to his hotel. This was so unmemorable that I almost forgot all about it, except F reminded me of it.

It has been 17 years since I last saw my mom. F and I left Indianapolis after visiting for Christmas in 2008, and she died in February. This was the last time my childhood home — the last time my *family* — felt like home.

In other news, living with someone who is color blind is wild. Me, referring off hand, to the green chair. “That chair is green?” {shocked and confused} Turns out he thought it was black…

I decided to bake some cookies bc I had an unprecedented 5 days off in a row. I took requests: snickerdoodles for JP; chocolate crinkle cookies for F. I made the crinkle cookie batter yesterday and chilled it overnight.

It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.

Suffering* for the sake of art** *Burning my hand **While baking snickerdoodles

Yeah, definitely teared up.

We missed our own Christmas pageant tonight bc JP sick, but I am doing a dramatic reading of this classic.

A French mouse riding a lobster to bring you all festive wishes of peace, joy, health and happiness. I couldn't ask for anything more.

JP is sick! Booooooooooooo.

ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.

So, I purchased the center and the land it sits on — the best $2 million I can imagine spending. 🧵 6 of 9

Too many perfumes. Too many smells.

What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.

I can both unabashedly and uncritically love The Sound of Music AND want to talk abt Austrian national identity between the collapse of the A-H Empire and the Anschluss and the complex identities of interwar Central Europe.

I want to watch the Knives Out movies (have never seen them!) — would a 13-yo potentially like them?