“When my evening plans fall apart” will be the title of my one woman show.

Complying with the strong urge to lie down after sending a few, very annoying emails.

Booked a medical procedure i am not looking forward to. I shall now buy myself a small present for my bravery.

Honestly i need a second job just to be able to buy lotion for my dry, itchy skin this winter.

“A daily brisk walk might help you live longer.” Meanwhile… “We are not prepared for the next pandemic/weather event/global upheaval.”

All startup job descriptions are like “applicants must be hungry to build/grow/learn/lick our boots.” You can just be hungry for a paycheck to buy actual food.

Talked to someone at a big tech company who used the phrase “synergistic touch points” and now I have a headache and i have no idea what was decided in the meeting 🥴😭

The emotional and mental labor involved in being the first person to respond to an idiotic email on Monday morning…

Opened laptop, made a list of things to do, closed laptop. That feels like a full week of work already

Ricky Martin in #PalmRoyale! So Good!

It’s such an immense privilege to wake up, tend to one’s needs, think about exercise, breakfast, chores… and there are so many people who cannot do this in peace for fear of being dragged from their homes and their lives. Having a “normal day” has become impossible under this current regime.

I need laudanum to make a comeback so I can swoon in style like a Victorian lady.

I am so excited to not watch Melania's movie that I'm not watching it right now and will be not watching it all weekend!

What a year and a half this month has been.

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Please, Burned Out Crone is my actual legal name. I come from a long line of Crones who used to stir mysterious smoking cauldrons and cackle loudly. I am the first of my family to go to college because everyone just uses AI for their prophecies now. No one respects the old ways anymore.

I know so many people who order from Amazon on auto pilot even if other options are available. It takes conscious effort at first to disinvest from this company but it can be done.

Alex Pretti and Renee Good were murdered in plain sight and in open daylight. I don’t need 8 million articles analyzing how it happened but that’s where we are because of this depraved administration. Our grief and trauma should not be getting compounded by endless lies and responses to those lies.

I mean, Jensen has feelings too, guys! Just because he can curl up under a weighted blanked stuffed with actual dollar bills doesn’t mean he is not human.

Trying to communicate directly with people who don’t is so much emotional labor.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

That creepy moment when an algorithm truly knows you <shivers>

Ah yes, the time of year when my nose is bleeding just for funsies.

Hmm maybe another nor’easter next weekend? Yeah why not 🫥🥴

Being angry, heartbroken and completely distracted all day by state-sponsored chaos and murder, and then having to show up to work and “demonstrate value and visibility” as if those things are even a little bit important right now is … maddening and infuriating.

I don’t think i will have a regulated nervous system again.

They created a crisis to justify their wanton use of force. This was never about anything real.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

4 pm Friday meeting with 4 other women about minor corporate crisis. One asks: “why can’t the guy supposed to be running this org solve this?” Rest of us: total silence Then: hysterical laughter

Note to self: If you offer to “hop on a quick call,” then be prepared to hop 😭

PG Wodehouse’s books may not be to everyone’s taste/liking, but his consistent disdain for cops is one of my favorite aspects of his work.

In the age of AI, the slop thickens

Having a great hair day but terrible mental health 😭

Love how late stage capitalism has made job searching so much more degrading than it ever was or needs to be.

Is the NYT trying to pretend they came up with Scrabble with their new app?

Great and the NYT has a thinkpiece about Mamdani installing bidets in the mayoral residence because it’s so “unusual” in the US which is obviously code for this guy’s a foreigner. Uuuugh.

“Reality TV man embarrasses himself and nation on camera.”

Like most middle managers I have reported to, elected democrats love being polite, protecting the status quo, resistant to change, and protecting their jobs. They love talking but not saying anything. And gaslighting when things aren’t comfortable by accusing protesters of being rude and impolite.

Living every day in a state of terror does alarming things to your nervous system.

World Economic Forum but with people who actually have to work and worry about paying bills.

Increasingly it feels like we are in a real life version of Shutter Island with the entire architecture of our government catering to the delusions of a person with extreme main character energy 😑😭

The dietary discourse is now shifting towards “you eat plenty of protein, you need more fiber,” and I can sense a thousand fiberfluencers being born right now.

We live in a demonocracy

Today’s meals: half a baguette, donuts, pancakes

“It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune will start an AI company with a product no one wants.”

Me: no, don’t just buy stuff. Save money for the future. *looks at the news* Me: what future?

Oooh a job rejection. Well, thankfully i didn’t spend time thinking about it too much or how much i might enjoy working at that company… so it doesn’t really sting as much to be rejected… (I did think about it … and the sting is pretty harsh…)

Seeing images from MN and thinking of the former colleague who smugly told me that it doesn’t matter who is elected the day after the general in November 2024.

I am sad so i gave into the lure of a sale. Does this make me less sad? No. Will it make me cute-sad? Yes. It’s the small things.

The decline of America in one easy chart....