This day was wild but this gin and tonic is really good and this lake is really nice. Caveat: I have not checked it for Nazis but if they're here they're at the bottom of it.

I did not have Charlie Kirk as Archduke Ferdinand on my 2025 Bingo card.

You may be delighted, as I was, to discover that the firstline treatment for spontaneous onset of TMJ is a cozy hot water bottle and a big fat Vallium. Very occasionally I feel I am winning at middle age.

NO CLUE AS TO WHAT THESE TWO WOMEN IN BED TOGETHER ARE DOING. Historians say they were close friends. h/t: www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comme...

If you're going to spend the day barricaded in the kitchen barking at the gas men, you might as well be comfy. (She is a Dogue de Bordeaux. They are built exactly like baby hippos. She could certainly maul you to death but she absolutely cannot jump across that box.)

Thoughts and prayers! 🤨 I have faith in your ability to cosplay as a normie <3

If you are a fan of back-to-back action films, you can skip the first 11 minutes of Heads of State because it's all backstory you do not need, and then after that it is FABULOUS CHAOS. Very recommended.

On a personal note, I'll just add that I think forgiveness is hugely overrated.

Day for the history books. On the macro level the world is in an absolutely perilous state. On the micro level I had two Menty B's, one panic attack, two valium, one beta blocker, and one 1-hour conversation with my solicitor cosplaying as my therapist.

HARD PASS

We have learned nothing. Vast cost overruns are not due to good design. They are due to no design. Also, why is our political system so aggressively mediocre?

In the hospital for my twice yearly hot date with the infusion unit. They have lost my 8K infusion. Let's hope they uh find it? I guess?

The only thing that would keep me up this late is conferring with my mother and ordering shoes online to be delivered to her three thousand miles away, because she has suddenly discovered she urgently needs gold flats. I have also snuck in some biscuits and a case of ginger ale for hydration.

New Yorkers, you gotta elect Zohran Mamdani today. We can't keep being the country that elects uncaring murderous rich sex pests into office then wondering why everything is bad You must not let moneyed interests and apathy continue to destroy our futures. Vote today, then do even more tomorrow

Spent the day among incredibly enthusiastic #astrophysicists huddled over laptops, excitedly sharing data with one another. A great and timely reminder of how science is *supposed* to work. Sadly no @drcarpineti.bsky.social at this year's European Astronomical Society annual meeting 😭

So it turns out that they key to getting a job as a woman actor over the age of 40 is to be cast in the Mission Impossible franchise where EVERYONE is over 40 in a very transparent effort to make 62 year old Tom Cruise look less like 62.

“Gaza is a killing field – and civilians are in an endless death loop.” - President Michael D. Higgins www.irishtimes.com/history/2025...

I started out really liking #TheGorge but Anna Taylor Joy has evolved from a badass to someone who is constantly having to be saved by this (extremely hot) doofus and it's annoying now.

Today the great legal team at Berlin based @freiheitsrechte.org have lodged complaints against Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Google and Twitter with the Irish regulator who oversees the EU's DSA, for failing to be transparent on why they shut down our accounts & content I am proud to act as complainant

Breaking: an Ethiopian man died from untreated HIV and tuberculosis in ICE custody Read my new investigation for @pogo.org www.pogo.org/investigatio...

Love this idea

There is nothing quite as irritating is listening to an American in Ohio hold forth about what makes an Irish pub Irish.

#TIL that while groups of readers may be good at reading very good books, they are almost universally terrible at reading Venn diagrams. I wanted to explore this theory, but instead spent the day explaining interlocking circles and how we all love @marthawells.com *Except the Terrible People

Kinder, simpler days. Imagine that.

I may not have consented to the training model but by God is it going to hear about the training I wish it fucking had.

No more money for the boys #DerelictIreland ffud.art #HousingCrisis with @judesherry.bsky.social

A not at all humble brag: I just discovred that NASA publshed a paper with my name in the title. Blimey, as we say in my homeland.

Every pride in the North has banned the political parties that banned trans healthcare for children from attending pride. It's now time for prides in the south to act in solidarity with trans children on this island and follow suit. Sinn Féin should not be welcome at pride.

If you are a Northern California person upset about Chuck Schumer’s @schumer.senate.gov ‘s craven betrayal of our country, his book tour will be in Corte Madera at The Book Passage on 3/22 Thanks to @chriswarcraft.bsky.social for the alert, now we know where to visit him in NorCal too 👍🏼

Excellent letter in the Irish Times reminding us that Irish builders did not build the White House as indicated by the Taoiseach this week. It was build by slaves including those owned by the Irish architect James Hoban.

Rage Project #6

Happy International Women’s Day to the most international woman of all: the woman trapped on the International Space Station

I planned to take the day off, but this made me too mad. jessica.substack.com/p/jd-vance-i...

1/X Happy International Women's Day. Have an appropriately unpalatable, discarded cupcake I found on a bus in celebration. First, you may not have known it is #IWD since both Google and Apple have removed this observance from their calendars in every country in which it is not a national holiday.

I'm incredibly excited to have finally found the motivation I need to get a leg wax and a pedicure. I am very much not excited that that motivation is getting my IUD yanked 😭

These are not sour. I'd like to speak to the manager.

If you are in need of, or know someone in need of, maternity and breastfeeding clothes, check out this shop by a former colleague of mine. She loves clothes, she’s kind and cool, and it’s not a corporate. motherdragon.ie/about-mother...

Granted, I am not a doctor, but I am PRETTY SURE this medicine will *not* make me sleepy. #ADHDmeds

Did I ever tell you about that time I almost missed my 4PM #ADHD appointment because my ADHD-ass had carefully booked it into my calendar for 5PM? (That time was today. At 4PM.)

Late night #blep

Update: nothing It's getting done but I feel very relaxed about it 😂😂😂

Breakfast of champions: coffee and waffles; 800 mg of ibuprofen; two Sudafed; one 5 mg Valium; one ventplin inhaler. Between the dust and the muscle pain, yesterday's cleaning blitz has absolutely 7;out of 10 fucked me. But I need to do another 90 minutes of cleaning this morning, so meds it is.

The nostalgia!

Oh dear God. The... treasures... I am unearthing in this clean up...

I mean, it's dirt. It's an entire cotton candy machine of dog hair strewn across the walls. It's spider webs. It's a bag that was eaten by mice. It's former objects that have disintegrated into dust piles. It's 10 years of life to be scrubbed and wiped. And I'm so tired I'm already crying.

The world is on a crash course, but the thing that has me supremely stressed out is that I made the mistake of pulling some furniture away from the walls and now I know it's back there. Despite being the messiest bitch on this planet, it is far too much to ignore and I have started dealing with it.

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

The #Sims has a new pack to create businesses from skills and hobbies, with different kinds of business models: pay per item, pay on entry, pay by time, etc. Normal simmers: I'm opening a flower shop! A bookstore cafe! A laundromat! Me: A legal brothel with independent, unionized sex workers.

Zoom tip: put on lipstick and you will totally trick everyone who joins the meeting into thinking you are showered and dressed like a grownup under your jumper.