I turned off my headphones to make my whole family listen to this. That doggie is a musical genius.

Starting tomorrow, the Trump administration is set to send notices to 1,000 student loan borrowers (first round) noticing them of an intent to garnish their wages for student loan debt. This is cruel and unnecessary. If you receive a notice, send it to us and we'll try to help.

I love living in Massachusetts for many reasons. This is one of them.

I tripped over a curb while lining up for my college graduation, smacked my ankle, and fractured it. I didn’t realize it, so I walked through the entire ceremony and then walked to the ambulance that was parked on the green in case of emergency, diploma in hand. (1/2)

Whew — made it through circle back Monday and an after work board meeting. My brain is TOAST.

This will be amazing!!! I’m tempted to sign up even though I wrote a dissertation on Bishop, and Jonathan was on my committee! Or perhaps *because* of those things…

Wow. Today really is "circle back" day. My inbox is bananas. I am in full list-making mode.

This is where I once again feel sad for having lost Old Twitter and all my South Asian friends on there. I was sure there was a project mapping all the medieval and Mughal sarais (caravanserais) across India — anyone know what I'm talking about?

Follow Karen for reminders to pause your doomscrolling. I watered the plants and took my kid to the library.

Here it is! All of my sleep/insomnia visualized for 2025. One Z for each night. The thread colors represent the amount of sleep while the beads signify types of wakefulness. All tracked and coded manually in my sleep journal and stitched over the course of the year. #DHmakes

The attack is terrible in itself, but I’m also worried that he’ll use this as an excuse to ramp up domestic detainments — to copy Japanese internment but for Latine communities. He’s been building the infrastructure and directing massive amounts of money towards this already.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

all love and solidarity with the people of venezuela

Call your reps + please read the thread. Do it now, please. Script.

fwiw it’s been about six weeks since Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras who had been convicted of trafficking drugs into the US

One of my nephews (age 11) qualified for his state’s Olympics Development Program travel team for soccer, and the whole family is remotely watching a livestream of a tournament game and texting each other and this is so great. So proud of this kid.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

Here's an idea for the next Democratic president

Watching soccer, drinking champagne, closing out old notebooks, and setting up new ones. Happy new year!

Oh my goodness. This is awful.

Watching Frankenstein to close out the year. Which is so very us.

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

I love what Tauri has done, a lightweight version of Electron, where you author the backend code in Rust. But while I love Rust, I do not love it for app building, and I wanted to have that HTML-model for programming but available in Swift. 1/2

Already receiving summer camp registration emails. Of course some were booked up months ago (not by me — I can’t make arrangements that early!). Planning the summer in January still feels so weird and unique to US parenting.

“New York, Where your lucky self Waits for your Arrival, Where there is always soil For your root. This is our time.”

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

M & I got flu shots yesterday. I was distracting M with soccer scores. Nurse: Which game? Me: Sunderland v. Leeds N: Who’re you for? Me: Sunderland N: My wife’s from Sunderland. I’m a Liverpool fan myself. M: *lights up* Me: Us, too!

I had two library holds come in at the same time: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny and North Woods, and I may disappear for the rest of the year because that’s an intense pairing…

Christmas wasn’t extravagant this year, but we all felt seen by the gifts we received, which is really lovely.

This morning M told me that a cubing friend got a GAN cube for Christmas. Me: What’s a GAN cube? M: They’re the best speed cubes out there! *goes on and on about how awesome they are* We open presents. M gets a GAN cube. M: MAMAN. Me: Gotcha. A: *cracks up*

Total win. The kid is *so* excited — texted a photo of the book haul to friends and then started to read. Refused a Christmas movie. “No. Books!”

I was in the mood for something “old-fashioned” — unhurried and careful — so I’m reading some E.B. White essays, and they’re so charming. “Hatched June 19th, the turkey is a Bourbon Red, one of those beautiful, cocoa-colored birds with white tail feathers and a fine sense of catastrophe.”

The tweens negotiated a curfew for their main group text. No messages from 9 pm - 8 am. No one wants to miss anything, and everyone wants time “off” to unwind and rest. I’m honestly impressed by how they’re discussing things and setting limits for themselves.

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

A third minor miracle: after unseasonably warm weather melted what snow we had, we got some surprise snow tonight. It was supposed to be wintry mix with little to no accumulation, but there’s at least an inch on the ground. We may have a white Christmas, which the child wants. Snow + hot chocolate.

My vacation responder is on, and I have turned off all of the alarms on my phone. Whew! Currently at the kid’s piano lesson, but when we get home, I think I might crash. Presents are wrapped. There’s some food prep to do but nothing that can’t wait until tomorrow.

And a second minor miracle -- the book I ordered for my MIL arrived today from Ireland! It's something she wanted, and I tracked down a first edition that's in decent shape. 1925. I really didn't think it'd get here in time...

I am so very pleased with myself. I managed to pull off a minor Christmas miracle for the kid — saw a post that our local indie got a book that the kid *really* wants 9 days before the official release date, hopped in the car, drove straight over, and managed to purchase a copy right before closing.

OTD - On December 21, 1919, anarchists Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman were ideologically deported from the United States. They were sent to Soviet Russia with 247 others on the S.S. Buford, also referred to as the "Red Ark." 🗃️

I’m reading Smartphone Nation after some posts that I saw about it on here, and “girls being so afraid to say the wrong thing in friend groups that they were using ChatGPT to formulate text messages” (p. 67) is one of the worst things I’ve read recently. And there’s been a lot to choose from!

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Just saw a post about Hare Krishnas and remembered the time I danced at the Hare Krishna temple in WV (The Palace of Gold) as Krishna… I think I was 15 or 16 years old.

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

Well, there are a few things that I didn’t manage to finish this month (booking the final two speakers for the spring college fair), but work projects are in good shape, I wrapped my first town teacher award campaign, and the school Book Fair went extremely well (I did comms/promo). It’s been busy 😅

@hjm.bsky.social or @drhypercube.bsky.social ? This seems like the type of thing you might be able to answer...

Last full week before break, and I am running on stubbornness and coffee…

As I’ve been plugging away at my end-of-year to-do list, I’ve had the Mountain Goats running through my head. You know the song. We’re probably all singing it…

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...