I ordered this dress. Thought it might be fun/work. I tried it on and it felt/looked like I was wearing an oversized t-shirt as a dress. Then I looked at the website. They didn't show the model wearing it straight on. It was all carefully done angles.

I have gotten through this long, hard day by reminding myself, "we are just trying our best here" and showing a lot of patience to people just minding their own business. Then I tore someone a new one because they rightfully deserved it. Ration that bitch-side out.

Back in 2015, when everyone was laughing at Floyd Mayweather for his illiteracy, I wrote an essay about how bad the illiteracy issue is, and the history of forcing illiteracy on Black people in this country. It wasn’t by chance or personal failure that he couldn’t read, it was by design.

"Almost all the infrastructure we now use to find, access, and read books in virtual environments... has existed for two decades. So why are the vast majority of digitized books still inaccessible on the web?" Monica Westin says it doesn't need to be this way. asteriskmag.com/issues/12-bo...

Anyone spoken to Etsy witches about Miller?

One day I want to hear from the ad person who came up with the nestle white chocolate ad from the 80s. "Let's be inspired by Maxfield Parrish and get real sensual for this chocolate bar and create a jingle that could have been a major hit at the junior high dance."

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

May they quadruple the numbers this year.

My brother shared some old voicemails from our mom. I found myself laughing and crying. And a few of them had a quality that reminded us of the Elaine May mother routine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKL1...

My kid has begun mock exams for GSCEs and there have been some issues because there have been some changes from the JCQ regarding accommodations. (They aren't so... kind. A touch of the Reform about them.) The JCQ is going to get to know me AND my brand of wrath.

The website for 38-year-olds leans forward in its chair

It gets a lot done. You do have to employ the same tactics on the entire Dem party to get them to fall in line. And frankly they could use that kind of good discipline.

There's a lot of abject horror in the world, and I've had some various frustrating unpleasantnesses in the last year or two, but I'll be damned if I will let go of my capacity for experiencing joy whenever I can. 🖤

From the California Raisins Christmas Special... Happy Epiphany!

Today's find. Maybe you need an Egon Schiele paper doll. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

Time to do the mantle up now that we have reached the end of Christmas. There will still be lights. And hopes for the eventual arrival of Spring.

they're doing it for gender, imo

Captain EJ Smith orders First Officer William Murdoch to steer the Titanic dead ahead into the Iceberg. ‘Ocean Liners do not sink because they hit icebergs. They sink when they lose belief or nerve’

At the dentist in the waiting room. There was a corner of old men. Just four guys waiting. They all looked like they had opinions about when you should change the oil in your car. One man looked like John Pertwee. He was wearing a royal blue velvet blazer and a half zip jumper.

I have insomnia so bad my head hurts, the world is a little too much, the roads are icy, and I have to go to the dentist today. I think I will go back to bed until conditions improve. Please leave offerings at the door.

Gonna talk to some buttered toast about these feelings.

May Stephen Miller take an interest in wild mushrooms and have the arrogance to not have a second person check them.

Starmer is a coward. Pass it on

Time to make s'mores. Yes I made the marshmallows.

We really urgently need to clarify the law in the UK to make it clear it is not ok to be going around recording and videoing other people (including strangers in public places) without their consent!

I am so filled with rage. How am I supposed to make macaroni and cheese for dinner when there are all of these ugly men with crooked hairlines who are ruining the world.

The thing about dealing with a little fascist predator like Musk is that you have to bully him to non-existence. In other words if Ofcom had actual chutzpah they would just straight up shut down x in the UK.

There is no mansion so vast as an ordinary living room that has just had the Christmas tree taken down.

I love collective organizing.

I have NO snow. At least the skies are pretty. But come on, I am cute and have a lot of hot chocolate. I should be given a nice amount of snow. Then I can take pictures and show everyone, "look look snow."

Everyone who has made my Celeriac, Apple, Pea and Spinach soup loves it. www.suffolknews.co.uk/sudbury/news...

The entirety of Powell and Pressburger's THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COL. BLIMP (1943) is available on YouTube for free, so you have no excuse not to watch it One of the gayest antifascist stories ever filmed, as well as just one of the best goddamn movies ever made, period Hit that play button, folks!!

I am expected to be awake at this hour on a Monday in January? Don't they know who I am???

If time travel was possible, I would absolutely hit up a frost fair.

sometimes I might think of some little quip I might want to share. Maybe something said by me, or someone I know. Something glib/amusing. Then I remember... discourse could happen. And I love most of you too much to let discourse happen.

Getting a little belated "happy birthday" note from my mom's BFF from junior high is really touching. My mom isn't around anymore but there are these people who knew her when she was young, who keep showing up in a good way.

good advice!

Dinner tonight: stuffed rolled lamb breast, potatoes dauphinoise, roasted rainbow carrots, and broccolini, and some sausage rolls. Plus I made a truly exquisite gravy to go with the lamb.

Making my dreams work for me.

I have a drawer of secret chocolate. I found some brandy truffles I had forgotten about. This is the pleasure of life. Drawers of secret chocolate.

The very things that annoy you about kids are the same reasons y’all get on here saying you hate small talk and don’t speak to your neighbors. It’s hyper-individualism. It’s easier to project that discomfort onto the most vulnerable rather than examine how disconnected we’ve all become.

and as someone who has long worked around the edges of int'l law - in disaster response & development & digital rights - I am incredibly frustrated that people talk as though this flagrant criminality was the only option for getting rid of Maduro. 1) if the int'l community acted like int'l law

Introducing my oldest kid to John Ford's "The Searchers". (I recently rewatched it and thought, "Men who haven't processed their trauma.") It is a truly beautifully shot film. But come on... this is John Ford.

Whenever Rubio shows up on tv, his ptosis really stands out. It has gotten worse since he started working with evil full time.

Too real

My recipe for breakfast arepas with black beans, bacon and scrambled eggs www.suffolknews.co.uk/whats-on/cul...

My kid wanted some help to make tablet as I have experience with candy-making. At one point things were bubbling quite high and molten sugar was spitting. My kid while stirring shouts, "I'm fightin' for my life here." and I was the one getting sugar burns.

Ok gang, we're 90% of the way there with the matching! Let's get that last $500 in today so my team can get to work on this tomorrow? Pleeeease help me help you free your timeline from my annoying but important fundraising posts.