For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

It’s rather destabilizing that Apple Photos has started to group old pics into albums like “December 2022 Lausanne Trip.” That wasn’t a trip. That was over a decade of life!

Ugh this cold is getting worse instead of better. I'm so annoyed. I know rest, blah blah, but I get stressed by everything lingering on the list, and I want to cross things off. I also miss Switzerland whenever I get ill -- getting a doctor's note and not counting every sick day against vacation.

Fun part about last night (besides seeing everyone’s photos and enthusiasm) was having the whole family participate. I got M to come out with a cell phone, and A & I showed M how to take photos at night. Then we exchanged aurora photos on our family group chat 💗

A little bit of auroral activity visible in the greater Boston area tonight!

1) How can my head contain so much snot? This is not awesome. 2) The kid is working on a book report for English class but decided to read a book in French (the teacher okayed it), so now we're having conversations about translation. M is translating extracts of text, as is proper. And awesome.

My kid always laughs at me because I feel like I'm constantly breaking things and causing problems, but I have to say it's very fun to lob a problem into Slack and watch our awesome developers dissect it. (My superpower is breaking code in unexpected ways.)

Looks like Sarah Kendzior’s suspension isn’t an error. I don’t know Sarah, but I’ve followed her on and off for like 15 years and this is very surprising to me. I’m not big on assuming the worst based on partial information but this feels bad.

Blarrrghhh -- yesterday my throat hurt so much I felt like I'd swallowed glass. Today I can talk, but the cold moved into my head. My brain is fuzzy, and everything is taking too long. <cranky>

Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue." Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

Kid counted 28 turkeys at the bus stop. The bus driver had to honk at them to get them out of the road.

Well this is fun: throat so sore I can’t talk. Sigh. (Family has been passing around a head cold, and it’s apparently my turn 🫠)

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

This is so charming. apnews.com/article/louv...

This introvert had an absurdly social weekend. I don’t think I’ve touched my laptop since… Friday? Which is probably very healthy but also yikes I have a lot of prep before the week begins!

Saw a Swiss news headline that describes Rosalía as polyglot pop, and I’m so here for that.

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Thank you so much to all of you who donated to this food pantry, and to those of you who still might be able to. My kid went to this school and we love them so much. brooklyn.news12.com/brooklyn-sch...

You know what? Today is going to be all Proust and soccer with a little bit of activism to balance things out.

Watching part of Sunderland vs. Arsenal before the kid’s final soccer game of the season, and I’m yelling at the tv like it’s a vocal warm up for sitting on the sidelines 😅 (I only yell encouragement at the kids — and offsides warnings — whereas the tv gets a lot of “What was that???”)

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All right, the list is never ending, but I am *forcing* myself to pause. Went to dinner with friends last night. Got up this morning, made breakfast, and then returned to bed with a cup of coffee and a book. Errands can wait 24 hrs.

Saying, "Let's scale up the dynos" makes me feel like we're about to form Voltron. Dynatherms connected...

M: What’s a seminar? Me: *explains differences between seminars and lectures* I usually prefer seminars, but a lecture by someone who really knows their topic can be amazing. M: Like @notquitehydepark.bsky.social talking about Taylor Swift? Me: This is your reference point for lectures/lecturers?

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Lux dropped!! I know how I’m spending the next hour.

Being the PTO comms lead means I now have the principal’s cell — we were texting to coordinate some comms* — and I’m wondering how the kid will react. Mortification? Excitement to have an “in” with the admin? Total apathy? *a super cute thank you message across channels for someone who’s retiring

💗 We loved being part of this journey and helping NBU realize their vision. Please visit the Native Bound Unbound site -- they're doing such important work: nativeboundunbound.org

"Others will take time in catching up to that." whew

(your walkoff music) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUm...

“hope over big money and small ideas”

It's a big night for Poetry Professors / IYKYK cc: @senatorhashmi.bsky.social

GET IN LOSERS WE'RE GETTING A DOPAMINE BOOST

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

this is genuinely wild

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Now that Native Bound Unbound has officially launched, please visit the site: nativeboundunbound.org

Task for today: brainstorming better ways to visualize heavily annotated text. The more I think about it, the harder it gets... • Partial overlaps → clutter & a11y issues • Exact overlaps → even worse • Stacked underlines → work great... until they don't. Seen elegant solutions? I’d love to chat!

Okay, made it through tonight’s epic board meeting. Just need to get through tomorrow, and I should (🤞🏽) be able to breathe a little more easily.

Me, being a cliché with a fire going, piano music in the background, and my slow read. Kid: What’s your book about? Me: *attempts to explain Swann’s Way* Kid: It’s always good when a book has a famous madeleine scene. You know it’s going to be a good book.

The night before Halloween, the kid ran around giggling. Me: You’re sus. M: Nope. You’ll see! M had stashed little plastic skulls all over the house. Every time we spot one, M relocates it. We’ve had this macabre Easter egg hunt going for days, and every time I find a skull, I burst out laughing.

We were without power for over 12 hrs. It’s back at last. Kid: We have WiFi! I’m gonna iPad! Me: I’m making some COFFEE. And putting on a Premier League game. Because that was rough. *Due to uncertainty — a lot of trees down in our neighborhood. The wind was intense all night.

Omg my nephew (my cousin’s son, WHO IS MY NEPHEW) is Mamdani for Halloween — wearing the suit with the red tie, has a fake beard, and is carrying a campaign poster. 💯 no notes

A project that my company @performant.bsky.social has been working on for multiple years launches tomorrow! Launch events will be live-streamed on Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm MT. It's been such a privilege to work with the Native Bound Unbound team. They describe the project as follows... (1/4) #DH

Me: *tells the kid about SNAP benefits expiring and how hard it’s going to be for a lot of people* Kid: *hands me a wad of saved up allowance* I want to donate this to a food bank. ❤️‍🩹

🎶 Every morning I walk towards the edge And throw little things off Like car parts, bottles and cutlery Or whatever I find lying around It's become a habit A way To start the day 🎶

Oh thank goodness — I think M & I both have tomorrow evening off. No extracurriculars or board/committee meetings 😅

"In less than 36 hours since we announced that we will be sending payments to disabled SNAP recipients in the South—$100 to individuals and $250 to households—we have received more than 12,400 applications, totaling $2.7 million in requests." - they have to close the form tomorrow... no way to cover