I am booing her too

happy mother's day

I just had a piece of flash fiction accepted for publication. It will be my first time publishing fiction, and I’m so proud! Realizing a childhood dream is no small thing. In celebration I’ll be honoring my inner child all day (in between waiting on the hvac repair person to come by)

Some handbuilt pieces I’ve been playing around with and sgrafitto as well. I’ll be back on the wheel soon but I learn a lot about the clay when I take a hand building break.

This video has been load-bearing for my mental health these past few days. A must-watch!

“Da mare” is an intrusive thought now

Ohhh that explains it

There are sooo many reasons to push back on data center construction but when I remember they’re using our drinking water for cooling I get low key enraged

So star wars franchise is Disney and I shouldn’t be asking for nuance from it, but what is the motivation of the Dark Side - just that it’s fun to be evil? The capes are cool?

I knew you were a bunch of nerds on here but there is still way more Star Wars going on today than I anticipated

PCB is great. Love seeing their work / that space uplifted here!

I have the privilege of interviewing artists for work, and it’s striking how often the church is referenced as an entryway into artistic practice, even if religion itself ceases to be a part of their identity.

Bookstore specializing in small presses and/or specialty coffee shop. Ideally both but I’ll take whatever I can get!!

It holds water!!

If I was born decades earlier I’m sure I’d have such a sick mind palace by now

Very awkward to celebrate library workers when you're cutting public library budgets so I guess we'll just pretend that #NationalLibraryWeek isn't happening.

An aspiration: write fiction in a way that makes it impossible for a tech bro to name a product after something in your story. Caveat: may actually be impossible, because tech founders have a tendency to misread, or willfully disregard both text and subtext :(

When the leaves start coming back, I become very girl who will be ok.jpg

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I love my bicycle.

I do think we should send a poet to space. On the other hand, it sort of seems like the experience of space transforms you into a poet, in a way

I’ve never been an advocate for public spitting but shoutout to the runner I just saw who hawked a loogie with perfect aim into a public trashcan. If you’re gonna do it, have finesse

Will it hold water? We will find out soon.

Is this a safe space for whimsy

I love my Palmisano Bridgeport poster, why basically every self respecting Bridgeport resident owns and displays prominently.

I was thinking about this one again… when I’m making something my best ideas come from the process of doing it - the plan that didn’t come out as expected, the total accident, the salvaged failure

A pot can be such a lil feller. I pinched this one really quickly and gave it feet, and I’m just so chuffed by it, as the Brits say

The kids are alright!!

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

This one was really cool to see and so deserved. I didn’t watch the entirety of the baseball classic but in this game, Venezuela clearly wanted it… the US team was like basically asleep out there. And just soulless.

The more gaunt and doll-like celebrities become, the more of a weird, freakish crone I aspire to be

One of the most Bluesky-resonant things about OBAA was that even if you’re not taking op-sec seriously, trust that others around you are, and will act accordingly lol.

With the Oscar discourse still raging I have to say, expecting true revolutionary messaging from a Hollywood film will only bring you heartbreak

Interesting thing about the ANTM docuseries is that it seems to have been filmed right before GLP-1s went mainstream, so they keep saying strange things that imply we haven’t snapped right back to gaunt being the current standard

I don’t really care if AI can write as well as me. I write because I like it; I create things because I enjoy the process and get a kick out of improving. That process sometimes involves heartache and frustration, and that’s what drives me to continue

I just feel like lack of fiber may not be the only cause of the rise in colorectal cancers. Genuinely, I think its carcinogens in our food. Eating more fiber can’t be the only answer here. I think it’s carcinogens in processed foods

Over the weekend I talked with an old barista comrade who confirmed this :/

I’m craving a really beautiful shot of espresso of the kind I don’t think you can find in Chicago anymore

not only are the 12 billionaires uniformly evil, they can’t type for shit

"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.

Additional point: there’s a good chance ICE already IS in your city.

Five jobs I’ve had: Movie theater staff Lobster shack waitress Barista 3x Agency copywriter/ghost writer Comms for flute association None of these are my current job but the last comes closest to where I’ve landed

My take on the ~performative red hat~ saga happening on IG: I don’t care if you’re knitting as long as it’s not the end of your activism. But if you’re profiting off of it in any way without redistributing 100% of the profits back into the cause, you’re a grifter and should be called out.

I gotta say, I can’t count the number of times this has actually helped me to remember my meds. Social media can be community care if we want it!!

Glad to hear there is outrage now, but curious what exactly palantir workers think their company does… ?

I share this experience and I’m trying to get to the bottom of it. We had them lying around because, according to my mom, “Your dad liked buying them.” These are the only answers I have so far

Part of my username! That must be auspicious somehow

The piece below became this btw

Unreal to me that we also have one of these running around my neighborhood in Chicago. From the busted viaducts and alleyways of Bridgeport to the serene snowscapes of Yellowstone… this creature knows them all

ICE whistles work.