Fugazi should play the Superbowl halftime show.

Although this is in Illinois, the same is true in Pennsylvania: elected officials are not being let in. The PA Prison Society has access to do monitoring visits at all Commonwealth & County correctional facilities, but not ICE detention centers (or federal prisons. Or juvenile detention centers).

I feel like I’m just screaming into the void at this point but this man was just released after serving 40 years for a crime he didn’t commit AND THEY TRANSFERRED HIM TO ICE DETENTION WTF.

I’ve been seeing the same Psych PA since 2018, so honestly probably the longest I’ve seen any provider. I had my last appointment with her earlier this week (she’s moving). Bad timing, with the State of Things in the Universe (or, more specifically, my country).

Does anyone have any idea what the fuck is going on anymore?

My primary care doctor believes I tore my meniscus and possibly a ligament; I see ortho on Monday. I’ve been pretty much laying around. Getting restless and also gaslighting myself; I can’t really determine how bad it is because it never swelled much. Couldn’t feel 2 toes last night though.

Up all night because my knee hurts. I bet the cats are gearing up to tear ass throughout the house in about a half hour, as one does if they’re a cat.

Of course they blamed women for autism. My pap pap literally worked for the railroad, OK?

How soon do you think they start accusing/persecuting people for witchcraft again?

Well I think this SUCKS.

“Mom’s playing @lowtheband.bsky.social covers in the basement; let her cook” - to my kid today.

I think Smashing Pumpkins original lineup should reunite without Billy Corgan.

Update: I think it might be possible that I broke my leg, which tracks. I have only ever injured myself in ways that make ER staff say, “Come again?” I hope I can just go to urgent care.

I survived falling into a ditch in Mexico, PA on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.

r/flute is so unhinged.

There was another school shooting in the US today.

RIP Meep, you were a fine example of The Goodest Boy for your nephews, never eating plants or cords or other mischief. There was no lap you did not love to sit on, and your purrs on my chest comforted me through the toughest times. Love you Meepy baby.

I have my first practice with the flute orchestra tomorrow. I still play the $100 Gemeinhardt flute I got in 5th grade. Runs good.

My friends from other countries can’t wrap their brains around me declaring bankruptcy because I got sick last year, even though I had insurance. “What happens to people without insurance?” They die, usually.

I wish I could like this x1000 times.

I am starting to fear that there will be some sort of national emergency for which I’ll be stuck on the toilet.

I am dealing with a lot of bullshit right now and what I do not need, and I certainly did not have on my 2025 bingo card, is partner’s unhinged former bandmate finding our spare key and letting himself into the house.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.

Attn PA you may be able to see aurora borealis tonight between 11PM and 5AM.

Prob Pretty Persuasion.

I’m going to throw my phone into the fucking river.

I have acquired the flute music I need to learn for fall, and instead of starting that I ate a gummy & now I’m going to read the new Rax King book in the tub.

My tummy: it hurts.

Mentally composing a song about seeing a kid leaving my kid’s Democratic magnet school wearing an Elliott Smith Figure 8 t-shirt today. Truly the Bard College of Central PA public high schools. My kid’s taking Latin 2; a dead language, they say.

I’m sorry if I owe you attention. I’ve been immersed in houseboating research.

Who would have guessed teens now would get into shoegaze.

PA has this program called SunBucks that covers the amount your kid would have received in school lunches over summer in EBT. I thought it was just a 1 time thing for Covid, so I threw away my card. Trying to get another has been a headache. Please my teen drinks 5 gallons of whole milk a week.

My kid keeps talking about a gap year. I don’t know. I think it’s a bad idea.

Also, if you haven’t ditched Spotify yet, today is the second best day to do that.

Meepers is still hanging in there. I’ve given him some ham, as a little treat. Now he won’t start meowing for ham. I think by the end of the day he’s going to be able to say, “ham.”

I want to sit on my porch but a weird little bee won’t leave me alone.

It’s nice when you start to recycle special interests. The learning curve isn’t as steep the second time around.

I’m trying to finish a song and I know this is definitely generational, but does the store DEB mean anything/ring a bell for you? Not sure if it’s regional.

I’ve been teaching myself Don’t Get Me Wrong by The Pretenders on guitar, and when I looked up the lyrics the other day I found it was written for John McEnroe (tennis guy)? What. Also, when I first moved to Chicago a guy who told me I had a “Chrissie Hynde haircut.”

Other weird things about my gym, aside from the tanning beds: (1) there’s a guy who lifts there who looks like Jeffrey Dahmer, I call him Buff Dahmer. (2) People blatantly just don’t rerrack their weights. Who raised you?

Not only this, but tanning beds are back, baby. I was kind of shook when I discovered my gym has them. Who the fuck TANS y’all are going to look 95 when you’re 50.

This song’s been in my head for (cough) no particular reason (cough) today.

I had a sleep study done last night. I thought it would be really strange to sleep in a lab in some random office building, but I was exhausted, the bed was really comfortable, no snoring partner, no cat Olympics at 4am. Best night of sleep I’ve had in ages.

My take is that if you have more than one child and the eldest is female…please for the love of god don’t expect her to or let her take on the Eldest Daughter role. Also, now that I have multiple cats I’ve confirmed y’all have a favorite.

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Most of the both cool (music, free-range) and uncool (everything smelling like smoke, bad brows) things about Gen X are true. But what they leave out is that until at least about 2010, you were sleeping on a really uncomfortable bed unless you had money. Putting 2-3 foam toppers on that bitch.

My nap might have been longer than I intended. It is still Friday, right?