Was just trying to tidy the house yesterday when all of a sudden this Caroline Bird poem came on the slow down and then of course I was crying

It feels like we are about three weeks away from sea shanties getting popular again.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

You don't even have to use it to chip in. 💸

You absolutely should not dismiss the AT Protocol technology that runs this place as boring nerd stuff, because that is the exact technology we are going to need to ensure that usable social media that isn’t controlled by Nazis continues to exist.

I walked away from a fifteen year old Twitter account long before this place was an option. I love all y'all and I'll be happy to follow all my anti fascists and anti racists to the next location. I'm in the certified elder class wherever I go. There's no reason to drag this out.

Like, it sucks that you don’t get to have fun because everybody wants to keep pointing out how you fucked up, but *that’s what the group chat is for*. Go talk to your exec coach or your therapist. Nobody in leadership should be publicly woe-is-me-ing about users saying their trust is broken.

You ever listen closely to the lyrics of Joe Jackson's piano ballad Real Men (1982)? No reason.

Today I attended a birthday party for someone I met at random 22+ years ago and stayed friends with (obvs). I made two brand new friends and scored an invite to a weekly bike ride group and a monthly synthesizer meet up. If anyone wants to know what it's like to live in St. Louis, this is typical.

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that knowledge will help set you free.” - Assata Shakur 🥀

I started a high-yield savings account for funds we'll need if Missouri decides we are no longer officially allowed to live here. The fact that I chuckled lightly to myself when I decided to call it my 401Gay is probably a bad sign. If you don't laugh, though... 😬

True fact: I never uncancelled Ken Jennings after he made an ableist joke many years ago. You don't see Ken Jennings on any USPS stamps.

LOL

IT IS TIME.

95% of my scrolling habit is just desperate searching for stuff like this, the stuff that reminds me people can also be so very good.

Elderly gal by herself at Costco, only had three things in her cart as she was leaving: a bottle of whiskey, a bottle of wine, and a case of chocolate mousse. LEGEND.

Rewatched 1998 film PLEASANTVILLE and it's still got a lot of problems, but William H. Macy moving frantically from room to room in a darkened house repeating HONEY I'M HOME to nobody until he has a nervous collapse really hits different these days. Good reminder to read a book while you still can.

This... helps? I'm just going with it.

I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

I don't know about millennial complaint but the combo of whole coffee beans, a burr grinder, and a good drip coffee machine lets you set up your coffee before you go take a shower and get dressed and you come back to hot coffee like someone else made it for you and I think that's neat. #getoffmylawn

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

Don't buy SLSO tickets on your phone. The new website design makes it real easy to get scammed into paying $170 for $36 seats ASK ME HOW I KNOW. (do not ask me, I don't want to talk about it.)

We got invited to an apartment warming party for a friend's teen toda. We're bringing a renter-friendly home repair book (Laine) and this unhinged flower arrangement (me, obvs). We support brand new St. Louis citizens! ⚜️

Our household is now fully boosted for COVID, flu, tetanus, and measles. Get your jabs while you can!

we must tear down Online and replace it with the Internet of Parrots. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

Happy birthday, Fiona!

My wife cut her finger w/ the electric turkey knife cutting up old memory foam and she's all disinfected and bandaged and holding her hand above her heart talking about how this injury is going to set her back from unloading storage units and her pawn shop doesn't have workers comp ins and y'all...

One of my all-time fave bands who haven't played together for 13 years just sent an email out to their dusty old fan list. Girlyman! m.youtube.com/watch?v=ytfI...

In anxious times, I turn to music. Join me in the chill vibes of the iconic Thundercat: music.youtube.com/channel/UCUl...

As someone who once spent six months editing a book on the lives of Catholic saints, I'm really getting a kick out of how many people are discovering the word 'hagiography' today. The joy, it is sparked.

Finished reading @sarahgailey.bsky.social's Have You Eaten and I've never been closer to crawling back to my lesbian book club. I imagine it'll pass eventually but right now, unless someone is paying me, I only want to be around queer/trans people for the rest of my born days.

this is your annual reminder to please take off your hetero-imitative frogskin and dance to a lesbian/gay spirit

I think it should go without saying at this point, but just assume "in spite of the horrors" prefaces all my posts.

not here for a long time, or a good time, but a secret third kind of time

My next door neighbor is on his roof cleaning his gutters out with his leaf blower. #STL #innovation

It's Friday and I sob while Chappell Roan sings "She got, she got away" on a loop and the text, "...but the rest of us still live in the only state in the US whose governor's highest level of education is a high school diploma" scroll across the screen. 😭 #notleavingbut #ihateithere

I don't want to get banned or anything, but Mom's Deli isn't trendy or interesting or quirky. I've been eating there for 20+ years, it's just always exactly the same and exactly what you expect. Oh, I see it now. Mom's Deli is not allowed to close down ever again, proclamation forthcoming.

Struck out again at Mom's Deli (this time, they ran out of bread), but my window screen got re-splined 5 days early at the Tru Value down the street and my home office window's open for the first time since the hail storm in March, so I got that going for me. 🍁🍂☕

Mom's deli reopened and we tried to pay our respects but it's 11:30 and there's a line down Hampton. 😭 Maybe tomorrow.

I was just telling my girlfriend the other day that the old world is dying. And, my stars, the new world is struggling to be born. And now is the time when you meet such INNNNteresting monsters.

Stunning rainbow in Hazelwood at sunrise this morning. My eyes teared up. Maybe it'll happen today.

Lunch at Fritanga, our favorite Nicaraguan restaurant. It's Labor Day weekend in St. Louis so pork steak seemed a no-brainer. 🌈🇳🇮

Hanging at the Farmers Market at Rockwell Beer garden on this gorgeous false fall evening. 🍂🍁🪾

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

If you're looking for a protective case for your Fuji X-half that doesn't discourage you from throwing it in your bag all the time, look no further: it fits perfectly inside a can koozie. #fujixhalf