8yo son: What does “well-lit” mean? Husband: Let’s break it down, what does “lit” mean? 8yo son: Awesome…

I don’t know what you heard about me…

Millennial mating call: he knows all the words to “Dragostea din tei,” 22 years later

I’ve shampooed my living room upholstery! Please clap.

Update on #akgit1833 , I’m maybe 65-70% done 🙏

The DNC’s official survey lost me in the first two questions, both of which were about Trump. I don’t want to talk about Trump. I want to talk about how the Dems will regain my trust and lead us into the future.

I did my best to beam “conscientious decision-maker” at the courthouse this morning, but they excused me from jury duty this time 🥲

NYT meets Manosphere: the norms clashes in this David Marchese/Andrew Schultz interview are so funny and revealing to me (a NYT subscriber, liberal, and former journo). I’m here for the frankness and the questions back to the interviewer. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/m...

Love Island USA ep12 fire pit did the MOST. Whew.

Pulled off actual heroics to get my son a yearbook after my preorder disappeared. Super grateful for the local mom network that makes this kind of magic possible!

The only Memorial Day weekend sale I bothered with this year was for mulch. I’m turning 40 this year and my front yard in the suburbs will look NICE and CARED FOR, goddamnit.

I’m not gonna mess around with the Costco Greek yogurt anymore. It’s Fage or bust.

My garden is doing its thing! Not pictured, the most exciting find of the evening: in Feb I planted a root (just a root section) of a Triple Crown blackberry, not knowing if it would take—as of tonight I have several baby canes peeking up!

Had a gross, fat-shamey experience at the Bellevue office space we rented for our work off-site this week. When I told the staff I’d be filing a complaint, they laughed at me. Sharing to say: this shit still happens allll the time, even (especially?) in so-called progressive spaces like the PNW.

My 7yo son gave me a card in an envelope this morning. “It’s sealed with saliva,” he assured me.

Kevin was a colleague, a friend, and a damn good man. This is such a loss to Seattle.

Chicago Pope uses the Oxford comma.

Especially since Covid, but really since I had my son eight years ago, I’ve been pretty sedentary. But I committed to walk a 5k next weekend— I’ve been training for it for months, and I just knocked my practice attempt out of the park! It’s taken a lot physically and mentally to get to this point.

Still reeling from yesterday’s revelation that inside trees… is wood

Drank my morning coffee with @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on Flagrant 🇺🇸

Subskeet: The persistent, global human interpretation of certain experiences as divine or supernatural gives us a lot more info about humanity than it does about God. It’s not a good proof point. Human brains human, news at 11.

Halfway done with #akgit1833! My goal was to hit this 50% point by the end of 2025, but I’m making better time than I expected.

Some of our wedding ceremony readings ❤️❤️

Twelve years married today!

I’d forgotten what a pleasure shopping at a small business can be. Today we walked into an ambiguously named shop and within 10 minutes we knew the business’s 30-year history as a textiles importer, their business model and how to buy, the ownership’s values, and backstory on the merchandise. ❤️🙌😍

The Daily’s episode today about how the China tariffs are affecting a small biz owner (financially, logistically, emotionally, psychologically) is really good and worth your time. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/p...

“The sweater fits you; you don’t have to fit the sweater.” Reality-based knitting, business-building, and change management in my newsletter this week: www.steyer.net/reality-base...

My son discovered my hiding spot for my personal chocolate stash this weekend, RIP. (It was the cookie jar. I made it 3+ YEARS before anyone thought to see what was inside 😆)

Road-tripped to Hardcovers in Mill Creek, a suuuper fun new locally owned romance bookstore that just opened last week. I dropped $$$ and don’t feel bad about it in the least 🙏 The signs! The coffee stand! The curated book selection!

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

The Yaz sample on “How Bad Do U Want Me” is so GOOD. This song sounds like Taylor Swift wrote it in the 80s

Turns out I DO have room in my heart for a new Gaga album 🥹🙌 #mayhem

Just imagining Reacher with a CPAP

Really fun night volunteering at Teen Feed in Seattle’s U District tonight with a crew from work! We made and served roasted chicken, broccoli, sweet potatoes, rice, various sauces (Bitchin was the fave), sliced strawberries & apples, and brownies— plus vegan protein & dessert options. Cool program🍽️

please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?

I know I’m the last to say it but Meghan Sussex’s Netflix show is LOVELY. What a little vacation for my nervous system. The produce alone

Planted my tomato, bell pepper, jalapeño, and snapdragon seeds this morning. Hoping they do their thing and I have starts to transplant in June 🙏 My first year using a heating mat!

I’m three photos, an appointment at an acceptance facility, and 4-6 weeks’ wait away from finishing another goal: getting our family’s passports in order.

I made a doily “table island”! One of my 2025 goals, a project I’ve wanted to do for years and never have been able to get around to it until now. I didn’t make the doilies themselves, just to be clear.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Spent my afternoon “vibecoding” an actually useful AI-powered meal planning app with Lovable and listening to @reidhoffman.bsky.social ‘s book Superagency (which is very good!). I’ll post the link to my GitHub repo for the project in a bit!

KO’d two of my 2025 goals this week: I watched the fifth of my intended five A24 films, and I made Diane Morrisey’s Reuben pinwheels (VERY good).

I badly needed every word of this message as my own family zips up our coats for the day. “This moment requires us to relentlessly commit to what we value most, and ruthlessly lay aside whatever could divide us or distract us from this vitally important focus.”

My friend has peer-pressured me into walking with her after my kid’s bedtime tonight, aka in the dark AND THE RAIN. “Lol get rekt,” said my sympathetic husband.

"The media is like a Tyrannosaurus rex, it likes movement and violence." - @profgalloway.com on Tuesday’s Pivot

Thank you, truly ❤️

Dinner tonight is a one-pot “use the veggies” meal: Hot sausage, fresh fennel, peppers, onion, garlic, oregano, and rice all toasty and browned… plus broth plus Parmesan cheese at the end.

An absolute shame. 18F does foundational, scalable, useful work that millions of US citizens ended up using every day. I’m sorry for the employees caught up in this.

I’ve planted a couple thornless blackberry starts in large containers and am so excited to have fresh berries from our garden someday! Just added trellises.

I cleaned out my car and found: $3.03, five water bottles, one sonogram print-out, and two umbrellas.