“Sometimes disappointment is painful because it’s the moment hope finally stops arguing with reality and just accepts it for what it is now. And while that hurts, it’s often the beginning of peace. 💜”

“When somebody wants us to lose funding, we’re going to lose it anyways. The difference is, did we lose it while bending the knee, or did we lose it while standing up for our values?” says school superintendent Wilmer Chavarria.

yeah so I’m way the fuck less worried about “teen takeovers” or whatever than I am about whomever burned a cross in Grant Park like can we shoot *that* person with a comically oversized Tommy gun and let the kids have a decent summer?

DHS just confirmed the plan to roll out a facial recognition app for local cops to scan peoples' faces to verify their immigration status. Agency said this is related to the 287(g) program; more than a thousand local and regional police departments are part of that www.404media.co/ices-plan-to...

Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...

I gotta finish felting my fungi this week. Tomorrow is portrait felting, not sure if I will follow along, or just work on this project and catch up for next week. Just going with the flow. But today was the first day in a long time that I have needle felted, and I am proud of that.

My sinuses are tearing my ass up! I got lazy and wasn't taking my meds, so, yeah, my fault. Take your meds and drink your water!

Making marinara sauce for dinner. Simple.

Going back to landline days or write letters lol

I would make my own first.

Chloe eats the same food every day. I wonder if she walks to her bowl and is like, “this shit again?”

But let a woman they aren’t attracted to hit on them. They get so offended lol.

the phrase "lipstick on a pig" has always inspired a deep sadness in me. I think of the pig, looking forward to her big night out, and I bring myself to the verge of tears.

If he had on a cowboy hat, I would have sang Rhinestone Cowboy

Well, one of us has edible rice, so . . .

I am supposed to be working on a crimson wax cap, but I tapped out, so I got a cap, a stipe, but they aren't attached and have no color lol.

This is a difficult question for me to answer. Now, there are things that I have never cooked, but I think I could do it anyway. There are other things that I do not cook, but that is by choice. Wait! I have one: inverse puff pastry, which is used to make chausson au pommes, and I love those.

same

I have been thinking about this story recently. This is a sign for me to read it again.

Mamdani erasing back rent owed for over 5000 tenants - saving them millions of dollars Showing how to use city power to force corporate landlords to fix unsafe apartments and end exploitative conditions gothamist.com/news/landlor...

Cancer vaccines based on mRNA advance, despite US cuts reut.rs/43q8ruD

So I guess my plant food arrives today instead of tomorrow. I ain't told the kids yet, it will be a surprise. they will be repotted, and fed soon enough.

I went to Utah to see what life is like in America's new reality, where vaccine-preventable diseases are common again. Utah's measles outbreak has lasted 10 months. Pediatricians teared up in interviews. Mothers were stressed. 🧵My latest @wired.com @kffhealthnews.org www.wired.com/story/anguis...

It is literally a power trip. They shut out the people they don’t like, thinking that will give a white person a chance, irregardless of their credentials.

Ooh! Here's the story I wrote on Joy Spence after that press trip. Until recently, she was the only female Master Blender in the spirits industry: www.refinery29.com/en-us/2023/0...

Well, I made it another day. (neutral statement)

A player on Iraq's World Cup team was held and questioned for nearly seven hours at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, an Iraqi official said

Les masculinistes sont la nouvelle menace terroriste en France, alerte la DGSI

SignalTrace "links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate." It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

I am about to finish this book and I am sad about it. but there is another book from the same author, so I am not too sad about it. after this third book though, I can't say I will recover lol.

One thing I love about 🦆🦆➡️ is that you can tell them not to include a website in future search results. I found a website that used ai photos, which made me wonder if the information was also ai, so I told them never to invite them to the search party ever again.

The new met@ glasses ad features a bunch of skinny women walking around taking pictures, dressed in shiny, tight, skimpy dresses. Trying to make non-consent sexy I guess.

I am at that age where I recognize more actors from the old black & white movies than I do the newer people lol. this is we tend to watch the shows and movies we grew up with, or watched with the adults in our lives. it is familiar, comforting.

One thing about me is, I do not like it when people and babies vomit. the sounds, the smells, horrible. I hate it when I vomit. I would much rather have a nosebleed (used to have them a lot as a child). well, last night, while sitting on me, Chloe vomited. I did not yeet her, but I was trying to

Since my stomach is still angry with me (I didn't even eat dinner because the food I ordered had a spicy sauce on the shrimp, but not listed in the menu description), so I am pretty hungry, and cranky about it. Guess it is a tea and ginger ale day. might make a small pot of soup.

I got a text about an instagram code. it is all letters in caps, not the usual number codes, and I received this unprompted. be careful out there, secure your accounts.

this whole idea of using tech to do the work for you will steal the joy of discovering information you never expected to exist while doing research. finding bits of information, following leads, learning more about something than you were aware of are like little side quests in your journey.

It is very humid in here today, so my plants are very happy. Me, not so much. But I will survive.

y'all got scrappy doo trending?

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

Goodness, I am still awake and it is not fair.

Today was a trial. I hope tomorrow goes better.

I haven't had one in so long because I can't buy them anymore, but damn if I'm not craving a TopoChico.

How soon until we have ai in the tampons?

made that dough, and my left eye was itching. now my eye is red and I don't know if I need allergy drops, or the other drops. I can't win, so I told C to put away the cream cheese and egg. I might put the dough in the fridge and figure it out tomorrow.

I do not have a celebrity look alike, but I did stumble upon my doppelgänger on ig. Like, it really messed with my brain, so much so that I sent a screenshot to my dad and asked him if he had something to tell me.

I found an air duster machine that is rechargeable so I do not have to buy the canned air, and can still dust my art.

If i go to this plant con thing, i have to take cash and leave my cards at home.

Scrappy was the opposite of Scooby and Shaggy. They were chill, wanting to eat and hide. But Scrappy was always trying to get into something and they had to save his ass. Writing checks with his mouth his lil booty couldn’t cash. I’d rather be eating and chilling too.

Naw, because when i went to Greece in college and saw the things I had read about in books—as well as the earth’s bellybutton—there aren’t words to describe that feeling. It changes something inside of you, it diminishes and expands you at the same time and reading about it can’t do that.