This article is giving big 'we're looking to find the guy responsible for this' vibes. WSJ all: 'we're so mystified that the insurance companies can't maintain accurate databases' GTFO. You know perfectly well that it's because if patients can't book appointments, insurance companies save $$$.

Well, he's completely fucked over homebuilding with tariffs on materials and ICE terrorizing the workforce so the only way to make homeownership accessible would be extending our terms of debt servitude, I guess

I turned in the same essay twice in the same high school class, just wrote a different title at the top and a different date. Don't need AI to be a slacker if your teacher DGAF! This was in 1981

Candy corn. Love it. Love it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2Ji... I got into this when I was living in Tokyo.

Maybe "Diva"?

People in libraries working with rare books while wearing white cotton gloves

I think maybe the Descendents?

Space Island One! Sexy Eurotrash cast, premise is that space exploration is all for-profit companies instead of governments and some of the plots involve the corporation interfering or cutting corners in ways that endanger the crew

Small good thing: spent 10 minutes in my sideyard watching a monarch butterfly struggling out of its cocoon in the sunshine. We have it all: tiny caterpillars, big fat ones getting ready to pupate, cocoons hanging off the undersides of patio furniture and fence posts, empty cocoons AND butterflies

Age verification? The first I heard of Matt Groening was reading Life in Hell when it was being syndicated weekly

Seinfeld. Like, they tiptoe riiiiiight to the edge of 'these folks are narcissistic assholes' and then they back off every! single! frickin'! time!

Beach boys

Posting these around my neighborhood. The plastic bags are $2.25 for 50 at Daiso. Thank you Megan! @meganpiont.bsky.social

WaPo: CDC Director Ousted WSJ: CDC Director Removed From Post NYT: CDC Director Leaves Abruptly Leaves abruptly? Like the problem is she didn't give two weeks' notice? smh

Small good thing: just watched Priscilla Queen of the Desert with my kids and they said it was weirdly sweet, funny and compassionate.

Sly and the Family Pebble

Thank you CA Attorney general for stepping up to defend our kids' right to their own bodies and the health care they deserve!

thank you, muckraking journalists of the bari weiss tribune, for exposing the awesome stuff zohran mamdani has tweeted about like abolishing medical bills and seizing the property of millionaires

@scottwiener.bsky.social Thanks for showing up at the Kaiser vigil protesting Kaiser ending gender-affirming care for trans youth!

1980. Perfect except for the n-word, which they don't say anymore when they're performing.

@pelosi.house.gov I see you voted for the completely scuzzy crypto currency act! I can't say I'm surprised, but disgusted? Yep. Please step down; you're not capable of meeting the moment.

Fascism For First Time Founders Over the last year or so I've seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump train. Yes, there are the big name folks who everyone knows about and who…

Small good things: my kid speaking at last night's city council parking spaces vs bicycle infrastructure meeting, and our Mayor's amazing rant after the vote where she blistered the bike path opponents for their disingenuous rhetoric.

Small good thing: called the bass player from the band I tried out for Monday and said I wasn't moving forward cuz their leader's a jerk, and he was cool about it and did not try to gaslight me into thinking the problem was I'm too sensitive.

Small good thing: sitting in front of the house knitting, listening to the sweetpea pods cracking open and the sound the seeds make rattling into the gravel.

370092-deep-blue-ocean

They don't need a popular podcaster; they need to take popular positions AND FIGHT FOR THEM. When individuals do that (AOC, Van Hollen for example) they get attention & support & votes. Just get to work, you fools: get angry, be specific about why, don't stop talking about what's at stake

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

Asking to take my required-by-employment-law lunch break

me too!

David Letterman's Top 10 list of things that sound dirty but they're not: Shaking hands with Abraham Lincoln Glazing the donut Tethering the blimp etc

Similarly, don't take the job if HR tells you that egg-freezing is part of the benefit package; they are expecting you to put your life on hold until they have no more use for you.

If someone gossips about other people with you, they are gossiping about you with other people.

Pope Kielbasa IX

These tariffs! Pretty much every material I use in my work (repairing rare books) comes from outside the US. I'd be happy to buy from domestic sources if there were any. Paper: Japan, Korea, Italy and France. Cloth: Japan and Italy. Paste: Japan. Thread: Ireland.

Just a reminder for Californians that if you are calling Senator Alex Padilla, the voicemail cuts you off pretty quickly so be concise!

Filled with love for the trans folk in my life, today and every day. I am so lucky to have such brave, imaginative and loving people in my life, in my community. Dear friends, I will fight alongside you as long as I have breath; these are scary times but you are not alone, we are not alone ❤️

Big yearbook. I can't read Cyrllic but from the contents it seems to be a yearbook of the Russian community in Shanghai in the 1930's. It got damp and the pages got stuck together but not catastrophically so, luckily. Clay-coated paper can get 'blocked' if wet and it's permanent. #morningdesk

Just did this! Q

Shout-out to buffywicks.bsky.social and her staff for their compassionate and speedy help with my trans family member's birth certificate change! So glad to have their support ❤️ 🏳️‍⚧️

3/11 Russian publication, don't know what exactly but the owner says the important part is the artist who made this pictorial cover. I will be re-sewing the signatures so you can actually read the thing but I don't think the owner actually cares about that! #morningdesk

If you want to call Adam Schiff, here are his office phone numbers: LA: (310) 914-7300 FR: (559) 485-7430 SD: (619) 231-9712 SF: (415) 393-0707

My god, it's full of stars.

3/10 Not dustjackets! I don't actually know what this is: it's a periodical, in Russian, from 1919, and it has occasional words printed in Hebrew and a map of Palestine labeled in I assume Russian. It came to me unbound and I'm binding it. #morningdesk

3/7 more dustjackets. Someone's working through a Nero Wolfe/Rex Stout collection, clearly. It's fun to see a bunch of late 40's to mid-50s djs all from the same series of books. This is 3 of 9 I did today, mending, cleaning, inpainting. #morningdesk

Dustjackets. The client's a really sweet guy, the work is not my favorite thing to do. Modern First editions: I used to have a lot of these clients but over the years I've been fortunate enough to get to be more choosy about what I spend my time on. #morningdesk

My mistake! They are etchings, not engravings; here's the title page. #morningdesk