Apologies for sharing nyt content but here's some slightly encouraging AI analysis www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

Why do my histamines have to so fucking dramatic

Dolly Parton just opened a truck stop in Tennessee, can someone pick me up at the airport?

R is using the olive tapenade skills he learned at a French cooking class we took to chop up Natalia’s flea chew into a puppynade that will mix into her wet food

I am going to embroider this for my house

One of the most fun parts of having a husky is when they just stare at you impassively, or even cheerfully, perfectly aware of what you're asking them to do but not in the mood to do it

Even the first off the line cybertrucks are not nearly old enough to look as shitty as they do. Like the new ones look shitty too obviously, just without so much tarnish and blotichiness yet.

It’s windborne Saharan dust season in Texas and our Local Funny Weather Guy’s forecast for the next few days is “Arrakis”

Not endorsing their politics, but the 3% "Not sure" are probably a decent hang

“What a year, huh?” “Costco, it’s June.”

What’s the music called that goes “wololololol waw waw waw”

Natalia is doing her best to embrace summer but remains unconvinced

18 months seems like it should be enough time to stop second-guessing my last car-buying decision, but not when I’m in the dealer waiting room drinking sad pod machine coffee and thinking about the barista in the other place

The rate of downpour last night got up to 5” an hour which is almost the maximum our atmosphere can mathematically support

Natalia is going hiking today, forest squirrels take the day off

When the party bus pulls up

Tfw you’re about to demolish a pup cup

So it begins

Everyone in my office building who doesn't care about soccer is annoyed as fuck right now

If it comes with the corpse, that's a bargain

As a happily married person, what I need in a wingman now is someone I can signal to when I’ve taken my Vyvanse and I start to get into that period when I’m feeling really happy and prone to volunteer to help people with things, so they can run interference and not let anyone approach me

Trying to figure out the best way to explain to the judge that I have to divorce R because he made a joke about being able to function as my belt today as he is my hus-band

Love needing sunglasses and windshield wipers at the same time

Starting my Monday by dropping off dog poop that I have already carried around for the better part of a 40-minute walk and decanted into a vial

Tis the season where you can tell if any object has spent even a microsecond on the floor because it is now almost unrecognizably coated in husky fur, no matter when you last vacuumed

Natalia Ilyinichna went to the park, the vet, the puppy bath, and the pup cup store today and this has been her since she got home

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits

I just wish some of y’all fought for libraries as much as you romanticize them.

Natalia Ilyinichna reminds you to take time to admire a sunflower today

There is a lot more drama in the daily NYT Spelling Bee forum than you would probably expect

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

I know this is very, very horrible Most SHOCKING and MOST horrible And TERRIBLE AND AWFUL but birds are allowed to be alive! outside! in the grass in front of your house!

God grant me the audacity of a little dog who was living in a forest two years ago, pays no bills, and has her name on no deeds or titles and yet imperiously dictates what offerings she receives and when and how she will receive adoration from her humans

Elder millennials please enjoy this exchange between two adult teachers: "When I first started teaching, we had these things called overhead projectors that you would write on with dry-erase markers." "OHHH we had those when I was in elementary school, I had no idea that's what they were called."

Democrats could not have asked for a better opportunity to flip a Texas seat than this upcoming Senate election, and they will absolutely fumble it. And learn nothing from it.

There is an item that I have been missing for weeks. Actually it’s a pouch, with several items. It is hot pink. To be easy to find. This weekend while I was cleaning, I saw it. And thought, “that’s not where you go! But I’m going to leave you there so I know where you are.” *stares into camera*

Walking Natalia just ahead of a storm with lightning flashing all over the sky would be really neat if I weren’t acutely aware of all the metal on her leash and harness

The ten seconds of downpour we had before returning to full sunshine was not enough to budge the product of alarming gastrointestinal distress that a bird managed to deposit on my driver-side window, despite not being parked by a tree or other landing perch

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Oh, my password is expired? Thanks for letting me know it's time to add another exclamation point to the end of it, I'll never get hacked now

Striking: Dem Reps Jamie Raskin and Richard Neal demand that AG Todd Blanche and Treasury Sec Scott Bessent reveal key details about corrupt new settlement. Note stuff about possible criminal liability for lawyers negotiating this. Also note: Very few Republicans will join in demanding any of it.

If Democrats had the political instincts and media machine Republicans do, in 48 hours 95% of Americans would know Andrew Paul Johnson's name and be LIVID that the government is getting ready to give him some of your tax money

As a professional researcher I’ve spent time comparing different search engines to see which one makes my job the easiest and Kagi is by far the most effective search. Duck Duck Go isn’t even close.

Why would we be surprised that trump endorsed the [more shamelessly] corrupt Texas candidate for Senate who has been indicted for multiple felonies and impeached, over the incumbent who has voted with trump 99% of the time and even tried to get a highway named after him. [Jail]birds of a feather

How is it fucking possible that Everlane is being sold to Shein

Today is R's and my second wedding anniversary and I'm still perpetually surprised to find myself a) married and b) loving being married

Feels like we’ve gone too far in terms of camera resolution and definition. My pores should be none of my business.

My favorite part of a reorganization project is when you’ve made everything 1000 times worse and have totally run out of whatever overachieving zeal that lured into into starting this lunacy

Brunch lady

I've been home sick for a couple days marathoning Murder, She Wrote, and the repeated commercials seeping through my semi-comatose haze have almost got me convinced that I need a guaranteed acceptance life insurance policy from Mutual of Omaha