Because I’m insufferable I immediately went looking for evidence of the height of the car involved. Both cars shown in this image are so tall it is easy to imagine not seeing one of these small children. There is simply no good reason not to regulate these vehicles out of existence.

#caturday and he’s considering forgiving me for leaving for a week, mostly because me being home means he gets to be out on the porch again.

London and Glasgow, in a nutshell.

Hello from a Dulles Mobile Lounge.

Doing some international travel tomorrow and I’m not nervous but I am practicing my “sorry about America” face for when I have present my passport.

Just to be in the record here: I think if you show up in America, you get to be an American. I think if you show up later in life to Catholicism, nope, sorry, you gotta be born into this one. There’s simply no good reason for it, and it only leads to people like JD Vance taking themselves seriously.

Being the Most Online person in the office was so fun yesterday when I made everyone come sit in the conference room and watch the Artemis live stream. Less fun today when I’m the one saying “maybe” as everyone says “see you tomorrow” 🫠

Spent St Patrick’s Day staying in and having a Guinness with my cousin and talking about grief and family trauma, which sounds like a short story Raymond Carver would’ve written, but is also true.

Oh cool, it would appear the latest iOS update reset all alarm volumes to FULL BLAST, so my 5:30 wake up was now the whole building’s 5:30 wake up.

Sorry, I know there are more important things happening, but Connor Storrie is hosting SNL and Hudson Williams showed up AND Mumford and Sons is on SNL and Hozier showed up, so I’m actually having a really good night.

Love to wake up and find out we’re waging a pointless war in the Middle East. Did I travel back in time to 2003?

I am, in general, a fall and winter girly. But the first warm day after such a deep freeze is hitting extra hard today. I am smiling at everyone on the street, spending recklessly at local businesses, signing every single candidate’s petition.

Your regular reminder that the citizens who serve on these DC grand juries lack the basic right to representation in the very government they are asked to participate in. Statehood for DC must be at the top of the agenda when we get through this crisis.

(In a pro-figure skating, anti-ICE way) USA! USA! USA!

Have had the Olympics on for approximately 20 minutes and yes, obviously I’ve googled “DC Curling Club”

Not enough of you are saying Brett Goldstein. Also: Pedro Pascal, Tom Holland, Nick Offerman.

I’m a proud paying subscriber to The 51st, and if you’re upset about the news about the Post today, you should be too. Democracy dies when the free press dies, and there is no freedom under billionaire ownership. 51st.news/signup

If this actually happens, I can’t begin to explain the lengths I will go to never cross Memorial Bridge ever again. I will travel deep into Virginia and Maryland to find alternate routes so as to never be subjected to this. I’ll fly into BWI.

Nearly 2 hours later and it’s still there.

Not sure why @wmata.com thought sending out buses to operate on routes that haven’t been cleared was a good idea.

It brings me no joy to say this, but the sidewalk situation in Bethesda last night was leaps and bounds better than the situation in DC. As in, you did not have to leap or bound over mounds of snow and ice to safely cross the street.

Re-posting with alt text, and also to note that many of these buses are still running on detour routes, which you can find here wmata.com/rider-guide/...

I don’t know enough about how apps and data work, but it is wildly frustrating to try to plan a route around DC on public transit when so many bus routes are in detour or suspended. Like, is there not an easy way to integrate the detours/suspensions into the data that the apps use @wmata.com?

Coming back early to DC this evening from a weekend in New York, and starting to feel panicky that I didn’t stock up on milk and eggs before I left town yesterday. I can bake my own bread, so I’m not worried there, but I don’t want to have to drink my coffee black!

Thought I was doing fine, but just saw an edit of Heated Rivalry clips set to a piano version of “Where is My Mind”, with someone reading the poem Wild Geese over it, and I’m absolutely sobbing. So, yeah, maybe not fine??

Just read the words “Y2K Estate Sale” and I’m going to need 3-5 business days to recover.

My Spotify daylist really understands the vibes in America this morning.

So, the shopping cart couldn’t have actually been the cause of this damage, right? How hard would you have to ram the bus shelter to make this happen?

Housatonic, now with fewer PCBs!

This is really well done, and will hopefully be spread far and wide. It’s important to remember that when we feel powerless, telling the truth is one of the most powerful things we can do.

Well, I can easily say that’s the most upset I’ve been to have my bus delayed by the motorcade.

I made a resolution to learn to appreciate salmon, and tonight’s piccata-style preparation was the closest I’ve ever come to actually enjoying it (other than as sushi). Life lesson: anything is good when served with a wine/butter/lemon sauce.

When I first looked at the Post this morning this headline said “After Success in Venezuela” and I’m kinda kicking myself for not screenshotting it.

When I was 8 I did a somersault in a bouncy house and gave myself a black eye.

I saw the alerts and still had a moment of panic when those fireworks started.

If you told me there was a Catholic movie and a Shaker movie out right now and one of them featured the hymn Simple Gifts, I would’ve absolutely guessed wrong which one it was.

My nephew, 3yo at the time, learned the phrase “full head of hair” and then promptly described my balding brother as having a “full head of head”

Have driven from western Mass to the North Shore this morning and have experienced no less than 4 types of weather.

I’m a day late to the airing of grievances, but I just need to say that I hate the Die Hard discourse. You can watch an action movie literally any time of year, but we set aside Christmas for dramas and romances about hometowns and families and elves and ghosts and muppets.

It’s 6:30 pm, I’m on my second glass of wine, I’m about to put on pajamas and watch Love Actually with my mother, who will act as though she’s never seen this move before, and likely make lustful comments about both Liam Neeson and Hugh Grant

Drove around my home town with an absolutely perfect coffee and doughnut (glazed stick) from Dunkin this morning while running holiday errands - a holy experience if ever there was one.

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

Sorry, but I can’t keep this picture of Zephyr to myself, you all deserve this cuteness as a reward for making it to Friday.

Hey guys, I see we are all, rightfully, having a Sad Day. I personally have been having a Sad Day on Dec 15 since 2003 when my dad died. Here are my tips for this Sad Day: Feel your feelings. Be with your people. Look for beauty. Do something good. The joy is sweeter because we know the sorrow.

Finding other people who remember and love this movie is the best feeling. My family still says “look out for the icy patch!” every winter.

I don’t understand how the thermostat in my house can be set to 72 and I’m sweating and opening windows, and it’s set to 72 at the office and I’m literally shivering with a blanket over my lap.

Turns out making a paper chain is a great way to get off your phone and be temporarily distracted from The Horrors.

My living rooms smells like pine tree and my kitchen smells like toffee, tis officially the season.