I have covid again, and my symptoms are not bad but yet again include that There Is Nothing Interesting On Streaming Services

I have a cold that’s making existence feel like B Roll. There was no main plot today, just background context.

Me, to dog: You're such a good princess My husband, who is working nearby: Thank you, I am

If you ask yourself “What has Kristi Noem become famous for?” — it is quite a long and varied list. Of largely difficult-to-imagine-doing-yourself-they-are-so-weird-or-awful things.

US actions were absolutely responsible for this, no matter what fired the weapon. This would not have happened without US instigation.

So the “MAGA Glam Action Figure who shoots dogs, is proud of it, recklessly led her agency into killing many Americans” Was replaced by “Man Known For Picking the Noses of Sleeping Strangers on Airplanes” Got it

Pam Bondi is changing the rules to allow Trump to selectively shut down any ethics investigation into a DOJ lawyer whenever he wants. You can comment on this rule change and make your opinion part of the record. Link and sample text at the bottom of this post. open.substack.com/pub/lizoyer/...

My latest relaxation habit is giving my dog one of those puzzle toys with a treat in the middle, then pretending nothing is real for the time it takes her to finish.

We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025. As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.

Susan Collins: never actually concerned about anything but herself

I’ve watched the food network for ages, but learning that this is the new face of it has really put me off my Chopped habit. It was time, anyway.

"The US-based Human Rights Activist news agency says at least 742 civilians have been reported killed, of whom 85 had been confirmed and verified. The number reported killed included 176 children." We have killed 176 children.

A friend asked the question, "what would we do if another country killed 100 children in a US school?" Which is horrible to think about for many reasons, including the school shootings we tolerate in the US Our culture and what we tend to THINK about our culture are in such great contradiction

Am I the only one who thought this was all gonna happen in Trump’s first term, so now it’s like the zombies of my old dread are rising up

Anyone who attends a jokey joke correspondents dinner for an administration that is bombing children’s schools in the Middle East AND killing Americans in the US should just quit their jobs and go home

I am but a simple person, and am stuck on this point that apparently we killed at least 100 children in these Iran strikes already? 100 *children*?

👋 I know of some people killing Americans in America, some literal Nazi shit

Ah yes, so the not-licensed-physician who failed to complete a residency has said that access to birth control pills is “a disrespect of things that create life” Is she saying the pills disrespect my lady parts? Ms Means, my vagina would call you a bad name if it could talk.

I don’t understand why Heggy is all mad about what AI he is allowed to use when we already know he’s not allowed to use Signal to plan confidential war plans and murder strikes and he does that all the time

But yeah the pentagon thinks using ai for weapons would be great

I gotta wonder what a lot of Democrats would think reading about a historical leader saying "I showed up to politely and quietly listen to Hitler/Stalin/Mussolini rant racist, violent, inflammatory lies because of tradition." How is that the right thing to do.

Hey why did the costco ceo actually reply to my email

Well, I learned some things today, and improved documentation and created a good PR. And reflected on it, and identified a gap in how I’ve approached perf tuning in the past. And I’ll blog about it. That’s all kind of lovely in a small way I find rewarding.

We ordered pizza from a local place via door dash, and the delivery person gotta be real high cause they dropped off our pizza to someone who ordered Thai food My main concern is, should that person be driving

As someone who spent the day with Claude, neither it nor i should be in any way involved with the pentagon

USA 2026

What are your “Anything But the State of the Union” plans? I’m going to listen to Flowers of the Killer Moon and work on coloring this marker drawing.

I’m just learning about the PWHL — games are free to watch streaming on YouTube, lots of very skilled players and a community supportive of new fans. Kind of excited to feel interested in maybe becoming a sports fan www.thepwhl.com/en/stats/sch...

Top two movies today featuring hellish winter and helpless frustration seems a lil too on the nose , dontcha think

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f... Gonna listen to some Brandi Carlisle tonight ❤️

I continue to improve my "freestyle breakfast bar baking" skill, in which i use no recipes nor measuring implements to make some form of high fiber and relatively nutritious breakfast bake. One key finding is that blooming good cocoa powder in hot water is *so good* for chocolate flavor boost.

Hey @netflix your subscribers are gonna judge you by what you do next www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Listening to The Wager by David Grann. This story is wild and Dion Graham is a fantastic narrator. Narrative nonfiction but told SO smoothly and well it is like a novel. share.libbyapp.com/title/9173367

There’s a new movie out about some Kennedys and I am unclear how anyone in entertainment didn’t understand that we gonna need some real time away from any *FKs

Interesting that they are all about displaying the 10 commandments when they’ve never been less interested in following them

In “this song lives forever rent free in my mind” news, new acoustic version of I’ll Believe in Anything (Wolf Parade) music.youtube.com/watch?v=26Gp...

i'm working rn, my runtime is just updating

I'm increasingly convinced that there's a threshold of celebrity and /or wealth which, once crossed, exponentially increases the likelihood that you think you're living in a simulation. And the more you believe that, the more empathy drains from you, like common sense from a crypto enthusiast.

Watching documentaries: wow nature is incredible Watching human behavior: wow nature is real fucked up

It is very likely that before too long those of us who journal will all write the words , “IT HAPPENED TODAY”

Resubscribing to the @pressherald.com — appreciate and admire the reporting they have done on ICE in Maine Thank you for good journalism in the times it is most necessary

Today I drafted my first work or for front end code, and it’s all about debouncing to reduce api calls. Which is a delightful word: debouncing!

Not-fun fact: your state, or the state you vacation in, may be a “downwind” state and get mercury emissions from the west. Maine is one of these states. www.mainepublic.org/climate/2025...

I continue to be haunted by the video of RFK Jr wearing jeans in a hot tub with Kid Rock as they both drink glasses of milk — let’s just go ahead and admit it’s probably raw milk or human breast milk or whatever the grossest possible answer is.

As someone born in the 1970's, I can't even imagine a world without Jesse Jackson (complimentary)

Time to watch some FCC forbidden media, an interview with a man who apparently makes the president poop in his diaper youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

My mom mentioned the other day that she never sees anything on her local news about all the ICE kidnappings of people and kids up here in Maine. They are being held in conditions that can only be called concentration camps. www.pressherald.com/2026/02/07/i...

They are ticking off more items on the checklist for imitating the Nazi party — direct link to clip of Colbert explaining how FCC is censoring any criticism of Trump from television (but of course leaving right wing talk radio alone) youtu.be/oh7DPSP65JA?...

Some cleaning tasks are harder than others — I did a final vacuum of all the extra rugs we had for our dog in his degenerative illness and got them packed up to donate with a lot of his things. He’s been gone for five weeks now, but I couldn’t bear to do it till today. We miss you, Storm Storm.

Proud of our Maine representatives for helping stand up to ICE