Unsolicited advice to engaged people: Don’t bother with pretty invitations because nobody will RSVP and you’ll have to call/text/email anyway. Just text the invite. (Caveat: I love my wedding invitations they are bats and were handmade by my aunt and uncle and they’re gorgeous)

My Big Fat Greek wedding makes me cry every time. Love that movie.

Having been a glasses-wearer for all of a week my main question is-- how they hell do they get so smudgy all the time? I'm not touching the lenses or walking into dirt storms. But I feel like I'm constantly having to clean my lenses. What gives, man?

Feels appropriate for Juneteenth to allocate some time to union and labor organization activities. Being a part of @cfaillinois.bsky.social is feeding my soul in a moment when things seem pretty tough.

BHL is featured in @theguardian.com's Age of Extinction series. The article highlights the extraordinary value of BHL and the urgent need to ensure it remains free and open into the future. Please read and share: www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪 🌎 📖 🔗 🐟 💚

Forecast for today has me very anxious. Got flashlights, water, and pillows and blankets in my closet but I really wish we had a basement. Going to work from home so I can get critters into a closet when the shit hits the fan. Meanwhile it’s eerily still and quiet outside.

Toronto is a really nice city. Maybe one of the few big cities I sorta wish I could live in. Or maybe it’s just been an excellent few days with seeing stand up comedy all in Hindi, goth drag, and a truly great excellent comic arts festival.

Became a labor organizer as I’m entering my crone phase. Coincidence? I think not. Middle aged ladies are out of fucks to give. Give people respect and fair treatment or get out of our way! 💪🏼

Funny how you realize your phone screen actually is high res it just didn’t look that great because your vision had gone to crap. Excuse me but I’m going to be in my feelings about this for a little while.

So turns out my nearly daily headaches were because I turned 40 and my eyes decided they don’t want to see up close anymore and I didn’t notice. 🤡

If you ever wonder why MAGA folks still seem so mad after getting everything they claim to want, remember that every single day they have to wake up & pretend to love the music of Kid Rock, Vanilla Ice, Milli Vanilli, & Brett Michaels

Ok, sure. Corporate greed thy name is Ameren. 🖕🏼🖕🏼🖕🏼 Also gee golly, I wonder what happened in 2024 to put corporate greed on steroids and make costs skyrocket across the board in the United States? Hmmm. 🍊💩

Furious at @lufthansagroup.bsky.social . I paid for seat selection at time of booking. Then it wasn’t showing and I thought I forgot so I paid again and selected seats. Disappeared again. Called customer service and they assured me they had my seats. 1/

Finally being on a real vacation after many years has been a reminder that I need to budget time and money for fun trips and need to significantly detach from work. It’s simultaneously true that I love my job and also there are parts of it that are making me absolutely miserable.

I just feel like I got really lucky in the fiancé department. That’s it. That’s the post.

also disable: prompt-api-for-gemini-nano-multimodal-input *This is not comprehensive and may not stop the model file download; you will need to take more steps to remove it. Read more on Chrome's awful AI development here

Sure, groceries are unaffordable, but at least the gas needed to drive to the grocery store is also unaffordable.

Extremely angry with my representative @budzinski.house.gov for voting in support of extending Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. This act is a dangerous invasion of privacy. Shame on her!

Don’t know which weather-word phenomenon is giving me more anxiety for tomorrow- ICE starting significant activity in my community, or the massive severe weather system that has local meteorologists as excited as football fans on Super Bowl weekend.

I’m “attended a county board meeting” years old. Proud of my town for the HUGE attendance regarding a data center moratorium. The public successfully pushed for an amendment asking for a 12 month moratorium up from 9 months and it passed.

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption. It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

Something small and silly that makes me happy- whenever I’m quoted or introduced using they pronouns. I use both she and they, but they gives me a little happy boost for whatever reason.

When things get overwhelming taking a moment to appreciate the gorgeous flowers and the devotion of my #1 fan is the best medicine. 🌷🐕💜

Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection

TASK MASTER SEASON 21 JUST DROPPED ITS FIRST EPISODE FUCK YEAH (I just really needed something nice to happen, y’all)

What, I’m just supposed to go teach a dance class while waiting to see if the unthinkable happens? I don’t feel like dancing. I feel like screaming and hurling ceramic items at a wall.

"what to do with my evening while waiting for the world to end: a millennial's autobiography"

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

TFW you call your representative to ask what they are going to do to stop the president from following through on his statement that he intends to commit genocide and you are told to look at her webpage because she has issued a statement.

The best explanation why millions of Americans worship and support a convicted felon and sexual predator...

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

I’m excited about this upcoming talk sponsored by the Campus Faculty Association: "AI Is Not Inevitable" with Britt Paris We’ll be making some talk-related posters @skeuomorphpress.org with CFA members & they’ll be available at the event! cfaillinois.org/2026/03/31/a...

The Jetsons lied to us

My resolution to overturn the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision — H.J.Res 122 — has now been co-sponsored by 72 Members of Congress. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Attention! Several polling places in Champaign County will be closed on Election Day, due to staffing shortages. On a positive note, you can vote at any Champaign County location that’s open tomorrow!

Sorry to get political again on the silly Nintendo fangirl account but hey gang: when do we start really worrying about this shit. Are we there yet? Feels like we are there.

I thought the story about Marco Rubio’s shoes was so stupid and outlandish that it must be a joke or else propaganda to make his administration look (even) dumb(er). But nope, these clowns out here wearing giant, ugly shoes to please their demented overlord. Wild. Truth is stranger than fiction.

1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit. An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans. It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling. Subscribe to support our journalism.

They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda

10/10 take. no notes

Anyone supporting the U.S. and Israel in this war is supporting ecological destruction, along with bombing of schools and hospitals. You don’t get to pick and choose what parts of war you support.

Every time a woman runs for president I hear that she’s too emotional and unstable to make wartime decisions, unlike the men in charge who make really reasonable decisions like bombing kids to death, starting water wars, and poisoning the entire planet

Anyone else just feel like an impotent asshole calling their senators and representatives and having to say things like "Hi, yeah I'm disgusted that our country bombed a school with children for a war we don't want and can't afford and I'm scared about the future please do something."

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Did congress authorize this fucking war where American lives will undoubtedly be lost? If not, why the fuck do we have a congress? Why are we paying very large salaries and benefits to all these assholes since they do absolutely NOTHING!

The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners. It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day.

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

It’s bad enough that the president is starting illegal wars that will cause tragic losses of human lives. The irreverent attitude and glorifying violence makes it so much worse. Wish the constitution was still in effect. Oh and the cherry on top is that this will wreck the already shit economy.