when telling myself I’m gonna lock in and focus and accomplish a lot actually works

I have to monitor this nonsense for my job and even I need to tap the sign for myself today doing what you can in your lane is the most important thing to stave off feelings of helplessness AND make actual change for the better

wow thank u mohela. how did u know I wanted to panic, check documentation on two online portals, and send a furious email in the time my sunscreen was sinking in this morning

I don’t consider myself particularly delicate about ~decorum in the workplace~ given the realities of my job, but it turns out I do have an outer limit, and it’s semi-retired private practitioners using reply all on listservs to joke about their sex lives

Pouring one out for Stella tonight, a Billings icon www.ktvq.com/news/billing...

finally got the screenshot of what this weekend’s Facebook photo album title would’ve been in 2010

mutti was right, yet again

for once, good things happened when I mentally poked scotus and dared them to do something 🎉

when I get doctordle right on the first try

streaming my favorite show* at work *flightaware tracker of @glitterburrito.bsky.social!!!!!!!!

This does. Not. Happen. The government does not agree to pay defendants’ legal fees. It is not done. They are doing it in the hopes of avoiding discovery, because they are hiding something that is somehow even worse than what we already know.

Criminalization is the fuel of fascism. And the people who have been saying this for decades are the PIC abolitionists so many deride.

You don't have to answer the door for the Feds. Do not voluntarily talk to the Feds. If they have a warrant signed by an actual judge, then they can do precisely what the warrant says. But DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS. Do not answer the door. If you're arrested, your only words are "I want a lawyer."

my short form video feed has become almost entirely clips from that lil hide and seek game and I could not be more delighted

fireworks are going off in Missoula Montana?

This is your ONE-WEEK WARNING to purchase flood insurance I will be hearing the Chicks play Wide Open Spaces and Landslide with my sister and best friends I moved away from I cannot promise my tears will not back up the continental divide and threaten the eastern US

Lawsky bat signal: family member needs estate lawyer recs to help family deal with a bank holding decedent’s savings account. Decedent was in AZ, family based in GA. They’re willing and able to pay.

one of our Walmarts has an unhinged (complimentary) cake decorator and I just want to shout them out as well as the people who post their work to the local subreddit

Back In Your Head by Tegan and Sara -> the hot lights of fitting room duty at Delia’s

I have an opportunity to reply all on a big listserv to one of my BECs to explain that he is being loud and wrong for the fiftyleventh time. instead, I’m talking shit to y’all. please clap.

I’m still heavily a Cat Lady, but sharing fruit with the dog is a top tier delight

All we need is somebody who'd like to feed and cuddle a large floppy houndpuppy for the next 2.5 weeks, ideally somebody in the Knoxville-Atlanta axis who can get him to his ride in Chattanooga on 6/26. If that sounds like you, here's the foster application: www.coonhoundrescue.com/FOSTER.html

seems everyone is having a Monday-ass Monday, so here is your commiseration

if you feel the scaries creeping up, just remember you’re not this guy, so you don’t have to explain criminal charges to your boss or your weird skedaddle away from the physical altercation you started to your bros tomorrow

extremely excited to report back on this one

Social media had laid bare just how many people are walking this earth with no soul in their body.

in my favorite* stage of illness: brain wants to do 1000 things, body only capable of coma *(incoherent cussing)

I’m howling, he hit that poor man with the Velma 😭 www.idahostatejournal.com/news/crimes_...

ultimate STFU Friday challenge: dateline on luigi

recovered enough from mystery illness no. 01837 to enjoy some schadenfreude cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

“I haven’t even watched love island yet” “Oh you ARE sick”

love island USA premiere tonight, uk on thursday

well, no matter how much you embarrass yourself today, you probably wont say “bye bye, poop” in a baby voice to your dog as you throw away his waste bag without realizing several high schoolers are within earshot

this being the first deftones song I ever heard (and loved) probably explains a lot

you’re right Winnie, what this freshly sanitized counter needed was your scream spit and hairs

want snack cat asleep on legs starve

having a very normal reaction to the ninth circuit’s website revamp not at all melting down about it!

finding joy where I can: Mississippi’s prosecutors losing *twice* in front of *this* scotus in a single year, with today’s L overcoming the ordinarily insurmountable hurdle of AEDPA deference 🥰

fuck all cancers, but fuck glioblastoma in particular

first summertime visitor arrives Saturday it is time. youtu.be/GBwELzvnrQg

from scratch dinner-plate-size chicken biscuits from the Winder, GA Dairy Queen with special dispensation to serve breakfast I haven’t had chicken since 2014 and I’d fold like a lawn chair for one of em

wen u get belly rub in ur dreem

two nickels etc

reading on the porch where it smells like honeysuckle 💚

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Bye pumpkin!! Bye pumpkin!!!!!!!

genuinely furious that I spotted kin 2000 miles from home in line for a drive-up ATM, the place where I’m *most* likely to get shot if I hop out of my car and walk up to a stranger’s driver side window

This weekend: FAMILY FUN FOOD DANGER

I’m getting my deathly hallows tattoo covered up today and I’m gonna externally process my feelings about it, likely a 🧵

it’s unreasonably funny to me that both the tattoo I am getting covered up tomorrow and the coverup tattoo I am getting tomorrow are almost always mentioned in the “millennial tattoos” videos