I used to have a theory that in Nashville we’re all so self-important so we don’t partake in celebrity worship. Like- Celebrity: do you know who I am? Nashvillian: uh, do you know who *I* am?!

an orange cat

I know it's a finger in a latex glove but with the cropped thumbnail it looks like a sext from Tobias Funke

“In the crucible of a crisis…” [THAT HE ALONE CREATED THROUGH RECKLESS ARROGANCE]—Professor Nancy Koehn on Ernest Shackleton.

You see this play out over and over again. When you look at antarctic history the fuckers who died went in all european like. The ones who survived spent time with the indigenous people in the arctics and took the lessons from them that they had to give.

Scout loves the farm 🚜

i stopped making "trans people are the canaries in the coalmine for fascism" analogies when i learned that miners would actually try to save the canaries after they passed out instead of going "wow, 1,000 more canaries and i might start to worry!"

there we go

i do not need another tote bag but the new MPR one is so funny

my nephews rn (haven’t even opened my gifted Lego set yet because they got a switch and Madden lol)

merry christmas to all, including the dead terrorists of which there will be many more 🎅🎄🎁⛄

“Merry Christmas to all, including the dead terrorists” is a WILD thing to say

The drive with my parents to my brothers is so much better when everyone has bike conduction headphones and audiobooks (3hrs, I am in the back seat with the dogs)

Drivers: “You can’t bike in the winter” Minnesotans: “Hold my hot dish”

Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences. AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade. Grab your beverage of choice.

My folks have cat magnets on all the exterior doors so they know if the cats are in or out, but where did they get these glamor shots taken?? 😂

cars and delivery trucks in bike lanes - they are literally risking people's lives. cars that double park in front of an illegal spot. You're still blocking the driveway or hydrant. Just commit and don't fuck up the flow of traffic.

Glad the Nashvillians of the Year are folks that actually make our city safer

How a pot hole almost ruined my Christmas: so on Friday, I was biking home from work and hit a pothole on 14th. The impact threw the items in my basket into the air (including my wallet), but when I pulled over to check, I only worried about my keys. Cut to Saturday…

my e-bike is a life-saving mobility aid, and i deserve to use it without being threatened or put at risk by people operating heavy machinery

Same smile

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

It’s been a heckuva semester (derogatory), but today a kid (whom I see every day but haven’t taught in 2 years) gave me this hat that he MADE for me 😭😭🥰🥰 can’t tell me NOTHIN NOW 😤😤🥹🥹

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

once again informing you that “Finding Mr. Christmas” is entirely worth the price of the Hallmark+ app

Bostonians Wanted More Bike Lanes: Now They Have Them, and Traffic Is Down www.goodnewsnetwork.org/bostonians-w...

It’s hard to explain how biking can be the most frustrating and angering thing, but it makes you so incredibly happy you can’t really imagine doing anything else. Those brief interludes with a smooth, car-free trail are a high that’s just 💯

Nashville is a NACTO member city. Why are we building dangerous, non-NACTO compliant bike lanes to preserve 8 paid parking spots? What was the point of the *years* we spent planning Connect Downtown? nacto.org/latest/urban...

Cyclists mourn Williamson County man killed in hit-and-run crash

One of my favorite things about aquarium visits is when you’re peering in a tank, wondering if anyone’s in there, and then all of a sudden you see.

We talk a lot about how race and gender grievance are offered to white men to distract them from exploitative working conditions that are in fact universal, and this piece is a beautiful example of how the work of that distraction gets done.

Not only could we easily ban our most rampant form of lawbreaking — a crime that kills over 12,000 Americans every year — we even have the technology to make it physically impossible. Yet it's hard to imagine because so many of you out there delight in breaking the law.

I too intend to live forever. So far it's going according to plan.

When I was a kid, cynics said "the president claims his war is about human rights but it's REALLY about controlling oil!". Now cynics are saying "the president claims his war is about controlling oil but it's REALLY about his own personal involvement in a mass child trafficking network!".

Alice has now seen “Wake Up Dead Man” which means now I can talk about “Wake Up Dead Man” as approximately one million of you have asked me to do. intermittent live-blog in the quoted thread. gay Catholic musings below:

my philosophy about Catholicism - as a queer person and a woman and just like a person who thinks a lot about systems of power in this mess of a country in which I live - is that no institution gets better if all the good people leave, AND ALSO no one ever has to stay in a place they were harmed

This thread on the Catholicism in Wake Up Dead Man is why Claire is the only Catholic I trust LOL

we should get the word out about this

A podcast asked me to record a voice note about my prediction for 2026 and here it is.

Water bears are actually cute from this angle

“I think people will look back at this and maybe feel some shame or sadness around the part that they played — or didn’t play,” she said. “Especially when there’s people missing in communities.”

We have a modal hierarchy prominently displayed. But we have not yet seen any instance of it being implemented. Circular logic of using existing trip data to project future car trips. More lanes don't fix traffic. Bike lanes & Bus lanes move more people than cars.

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

Just give me a world where we can walk/roll to most things. That’s it.

bananakkah sameach

Very happy to report that Hallmark is releasing another lesbian Christmas movie this year. They made BY FAR my favorite LGBT christmas movie a few years ago with Friends & Family Christmas. i'm telling you, those terrible people at hallmark know how to make a christmas movie okay

The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff