am I sitting alone at a bar making slides at 730 on a thursday night? yes is there a giant bowl of bhindi masala and some outrageously buttery naan on the bar next to my beer? also yes

the implicit assumption here is that people consume more healthcare than they need & if they could see how much it costs (and had to pay it out of pocket) they would consume less of it. it portrays the disabled and the chronically ill as free-riders who are getting something over on the rest of us

absolutely outrageous rajasthani feast. they just kept bringing more food, I eventually gave up on trying to take pictures of it all. at least another half dozen dishes came after this one. two hours later I'm still full 🫄

indian folks obviously have great taste; I've been here barely more than 12 hours and already 3 different people have complimented & wanted to talk to me about my watch

it is wednesday morning and I am in india 😁

any monday in pittsburgh:

the coffee in this Lufthansa lounge is disabusing me of my notion that europeans generally know how to brew this stuff

oh cool the woman sitting directly behind me pretty clearly has the plague and is ofc not in a mask which means I can wear mine for the entirety of this 8 hour flight/almost certainly get sick from the 30 minutes I'll take it off to eat 🥴

When you fly, you know that you're paying more and more for less and less. That pisses you off, that makes you feel exploited. Meanwhile, the workers you're interacting with are getting paid less and less to do more and more. Now everyone is pissed. And that's the air travel experience in 2025.

spoke to a bartender at pit today, one of the worst things they did w the terminal redesign was make it impossible to walk from long term parking to the terminal. particularly hurts service workers who are having to add 20-30 minutes to their commute *each way* bc now they have to wait for shuttles

I would add "legal accountability for airline fuckery" (something we briefly had from the biden admin but trump has already undone), and replace "less crowded planes" with "more legroom" (tho I know these last 2 actually amount to the same thing)

(1) it's obvious that dinner level of tax increase is necessary (2) 30% is a massive increase, there needs to be a middle way between only slashing services or only raising property taxes (3) it's infuriating that our local very profitable "nonprofits"are still not paying their share 1/2

#ArtAdventCalendar #MacroMonday #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling

Ruin a Christmas song with proper grammar

the new terminal at PIT is fine. it's really nothing special? more similar to international airports abroad which is a decent upgrade. there's still no united or other star alliance lounge tho, so ¯\_ಠ_ಠ_/¯

lately, a toronto or manhattan often, a cucumber gin cocktail more often, a cucumber margarita

I have packed all the things. I have booked my car at the far end. the cats are extremely stressed out and I am dealing with my own anxiety by stuffing myself full of christmas cookies.

no I haven't started packing yet, mind your own business

I have realized that I'm probably going to be in johannesburg for all of the quarterfinals through the finals of the world cup so it seems I will be adopting south africa as my team, along with uruguay who's my actual team 🇺🇾🇿🇦⚽🏆

ok my grumble post was supposed to be about venues *without a coat check* but somehow I left that really important part out 🤣🤦‍♀️

The cuisines in Brazil/Morocco/Haiti/Scotland

p sure this is the first time the dead has never not been my top artist. anyway I'm old, I listen to a lot of music, but it's pretty diverse

Chi Osse, a progressive City Councilman, has filed for the race.

sending waymos up Rialto to see if a robot can feel shame

seriously who is primarying hakeem jeffries in 2026 I will come to new york and canvas for you

based on a series of recent interactions with men, both close friends and barely acquaintances, I am really starting to ask myself: do they know I'm (we're*) human? *women

I don't mind cooking every night but gd I wish there was someone else to do the dishes 🥲

the man at the table next to me at the coffee shop HAS HEADPHONES HANGING AROUND HIS NECK but is watching football on his phone with the sound on so everyone can hear I said something about it & he said "I don't think *I'm* the problem" you're right, must be my fault trying to work on a sunday 🙄

Hey @daniskitchen.bsky.social and any other Pittsburghers ... My nephew and his partner are opening a bike repair/coffee bar called Aftermath in Aspinwall, look for it early next year!

I've never understood the dinner at 3pm thing. it's 330 & I'm just getting up from a well-earned 45 minute catnap (belly cat included) to finish making a dinner that should be on the table at 7 & which took most of last night and all of today to make. I would die if I had to have dinner served at 3

who else up rolling out their babka

who else up peeling their garlic

flaky-ass biscuits (not to be confused with flaky ass-biscuits)

Have you ever heard someone use the term "underage men" or "underage boys"?

ottolenghi's garlic tart (plenty) has been the centerpiece for more than a decade

327/365

strike one off that list, made some root vegetable pies tonight that are basically little curried pot pies. ottolenghi rarely steers me wrong but this dough was a disaster pretty much from the go and my attempts to rescue it were of only moderate success. so, not so pretty but still delicious 😋

after 90 minutes of cookbook browsing I have a thanksgiving menu, and also a list of 11 ottolenghi dishes that I have never made and will not make for thanksgiving but will definitely be trying soon

running, but my hip can't take it anymore so, open water swimming, but I can't do that in the winter so, weightlifting

5'7.5" (ok that .5 is a lie)

going to bed early brussels sprouts dogs (I hated/was terrified of dogs for a solid 30 years after I was the victim of a particularly vicious dog attack around the age of 12 or 13)

We are going Super Social Justice Blue Hair and Pronouns. We are calling things "gay" and "queer" as compliments and honorifics. We are proudly being buzzkills and harpies and feminine and vegan and giving a sincere fucking shit about the environment and climate and well-being of the community.

11 years later still in the top 5 of most prescient things the Onion wrote

one sided friendships get old after a while. if I look back through our text exchanges and the last time you initiated a conversation, rather than responding to one I started, is months ago? I p much figure you're not interested in talking to/spending time w me which is fine but also kinda sucks

if you are in pittsburgh and want to support striking starbucks workers, there is a rally at the starbucks at forbes & atwood in oakland 4-5pm today

WHY WOULD I ALREADY OWN AN EZPASS IF I DON'T OWN A CAR she shouts into the void

I am never renting a car again. you get 2 options: pay ~$20/day to get an ezpass, or pay your tolls by plate. today I got hit with a $155 charge for tolls on my pgh --> bmore --> philly trip. turns out a 1-way trip across pa with ezpass is $40, and without it is $80. why is everything such a scam?

"Open Heart" #Poem (c) constance lee menefee