sometimes I find a nice phrase and chant it in my head for a while. This morning it is "rejected tilapia"

I have lost track of which SoundCloud face-tattoo rappers are dead, because I would have bet money this guy was dead

Just a girl being a little sad that she's never heard Dvořák's String Quartet No. 6 in A minor, B. 40 Op. 12 performed live :( #christmaswish

Too often, people who say "I hate small talk" and "I need authentic, deep conversation" really mean "I will drone on relentlessly about whatever I like and never ask you a question or allow you to contribute"

Talking to yourself to organize your thoughts: tried and true. Reliable. Free. No environmental costs Talking to ai for it: insane. Unreliable. How cancerous ideas enter the body. Boils the oceans. Your data will be sold to targeted advertisers. Immoral.

Live version of first workday song: youtu.be/m9fEEbALx5k?...

First workday song: youtu.be/OPi-31NHzpI?...

RFK Jr on his fishing trip: a cooler full of jerky. No sunscreen in sight. He stops at a gas station and purchases a "supplement" where the package has an AI-generated picture of a wolf with abs.

They? You! Wow what leadership

What's hurting my brain (but what will probably be a good thing in the long run) is that these assholes could be quietly racist, quietly fascist, and make secret moves to ruin everything, but they'd rather make a big messy toilet splash with memes and insults. Hearts and minds it is not.

Boundary of the day: the O'Brien-Fleming boundary

Markov model sentence of the day: "Death is an absorbing state because dead patients have probability 1 that they remain dead."

The organizations I've supported with money (in my small way) in 2025: @reproductivefreedomforall.org Chicago Books to Women in Prison Reproductive Health Access Project @reachoutandread.bsky.social Center for Investigative Reporting @chirpradio.org @chiabortionfund.bsky.social RefugeeOne

I used "whip a shitty" to refer to making a U-turn; friend protested that phrase meant specifically doing donuts. Third friend is not from Midwest and thought we were both nuts.

Reentry was rough, so I made a fancy mac and cheese (caramelized onions, Gruyere, roasted broccoli, garlic bread crumbs) and put that bitch in the oven. Fix me, mac and cheese

Four weeks until my birthday (the reason for the season)

Will somebody please teach these cats that they don't have to follow me all over the house? #iloveyoutoo #however

'tis the season to unsubscribe

Eigengrau - Wikipedia share.google/GrtNQs2cJRiT...

We got snow day, folks. My favorite excuse to do huge, staggering amounts of Nothing!

There is a podcast ad that is too fast to skip and a lady says, "The magic of the holidays is in Indiana" and I almost spit out my tea.

Proving to the world that you can be a sober chef and still lightly fuck something up! Adapt. Improvise. Overcome.

Invisible friends can keep a nice thought tomorrow as I head into hosting Thanksgiving, traditionally my drunkest holiday (up until four years ago). I'm fine and it won't be a huge struggle, but there is a slight grit-your-teeth aspect to the day for me.

I have a tea that is marked "halal" on the tin, but was there ever any doubt?

there were seven finalists that made it to the standards committee 3 of the 7 were round, so the scanner could scan from any angle but IBM proposed the boring square barcode and they were so huge that they won the selection process

All you need to say to shut up the art naysayers (you know, the ones who are like "pfft, I could do that") is "you didn't though."

When calligraphers get mad they send strongly lettered words

Very late first workday song (distracted by avocado toast): youtu.be/fz4xND0hEk4?...

I'm fucking proud of @chipublib.bsky.social for often highlighting LGBTQ+ content front and center on their home page. It is a sad thing that this is brave these days but it is and I cling to it. YAY LIBRARIES

New law, sponsored and enforced by me: Intentionally modify your car to be louder ---> go straight to jail

I do appreciate that the Steelers have both a "Slay" and a "Queen"

First workday song, let's get our Ethio-jazz on together: youtu.be/c5rKbCXzaYE?...

Showing monk-like restraint by not replying "fuck off," Logan Roy-style, to the email offering me a free month of "ChatGPT Premium"

This is how we sext over here

Got distracted by the internet and taking apart/cleaning my vacuum. First workday song: youtu.be/_M72cHGf6QM?...

My husband cleaned the oven and it is SO clean and sparkly that I want to buttonhole people on the street and invite them to come gaze upon it

First workday song: youtu.be/DMNGShVrDDM?...

When the ads say "McRib is back," I always wish those words were preceded by "You begged us not to, but"

One to own if you can find the record: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hootin%...

Calling a woman "piggy" as an insult is so bizarre and anachronistic that I am not surprised there was so little reaction. Unless you're a thousand years old, you'd be like wtf. What does that even mean

Zoom transcript heard "methodological" as "mythological" and wow that's a lot better. completely different and completely better

why is this so hilarious to me. FROM SPACE!

Really appreciate this runtime/content warning on an event at my local movie theater: (90 mins - contains nudity, language, clowns)

every week or so there is a new thing that makes me say, "I wish David Foster Wallace could react to this"

I absolutely love the difference in color and size between the female black widow spider and the male. An ordinary nondescript dude with a big-titty goth girlfriend, good for him

It's raining, I'm tired, I skipped the gym. Tomorrow is another day. Before anyone asks, I do indeed realize that the gym is indoors

First workday song: youtu.be/xJMSsHuQc5c?...

I read "Bright Lights, Big City" as a high school freshman and was immediately like, "This is how I want to live, this is what I want to read." I have matured literarily and I'm not a degenerate cokehead (anymore) but I wanted to collect them all. talkingcovers.com/2012/09/12/v...

This is a catastrophic sentence. If I wrote this sentence, I would take a vow of silence for the rest of my life. If I even praised a writer who wrote this sentence, I would understand that it was time for me to retire from the world of writing forever.