jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Just ordered E’s cap and gown and I’m fine, really, why do you ask?

The Repair Shop 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

As a lifelong short person, you have my permission. Go forth and make fun of him!

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Emergency cat pic!

Dear body: I know we have been very sick for several days, and that every system is likely screwed up, and I respect that. HOWEVER, given that I am nearly 3 years post-menopausal, can we NOT with the fucking menstrual cramps?!?!?!?!?!

“Opossums do not need to validate their existence by eating ticks like some sort of Pac-Man of the forest” outdoor.wildlifeillinois.org/articles/deb...

I may be sick af but I can still tap a few buttons to message my reps so there’s that.

Ok, I got up and had half a bowl of soup and had to lie down again. This flu is awful, y’all. (And I got my flu shot…)

Apparently I’m sick enough / look bad enough that Face ID doesn’t recognize me. 😩

Feverish musings: If God created the world and everything in it, and He created it for Man, then why the FUCK did He create viruses? 😡🤒

Why are pills meant to be taken when you’re sick and therefore like have a sore throat so damn BIG?!?

And I’m sick. Fuck.

"Attend department potluck; singlehandedly polish off a bottle of wine and start unabashedly on a second."

1. Villa Maria. Best lasagna I’ve ever had. Been closed for at least 30 yrs. 2. Minnie T’s. Donut shop w/sandwiches for lunch. I ate SO MANY grilled cheese sandwiches & blueberry filled donuts there in middle school. Ms Billie the owner promised to hire me when I was old enough. It closed b4 I was.

Carl is “helping” me put fresh sheets on the bed. 🙄

Just read the phrase “four years ago in 2022” and my brain is struggling harder to process that than it probably should be…

"someone else will surely tell him to hit the brakes," the Republicans say as trump smashes the gas pedal and drives towards the cliff, and mike johnson vaguely remembers something about having cut the brake lines a year ago

I am a meat popsicle. But if you get the chance to see the venerable monks on their Walk for Peace, do it. It really puts a lot into perspective.

i really need yall to be as skeptical about supposed left-wing news as you are about right-wing news. if it's not a source you already know and trust, vet before you share. lotta ragebait purveyors out there.

In my youth: sitting outside in the freezing cold for sports Now: standing outside in the freezing cold to see the monks How our priorities change.

IDK WTF I dreamed last night but I bit my tongue hard enough to wake up and it hurts like hell today. 😳

Me: looking desperately forward to getting home tonight (after the last 2 crazy days and this evening librarian shift) and collapsing in MY OWN BED Mom, on the phone just now: You left your pillow here Me:

Who are they sending? Wrong answers only!

I'm gonna say this with all the kindness in my heart: you aren't going to survive if you don't let your life have room for other things. This is not a short term fight where we can just go 24/7 and then it will be over. We've got YEARS ahead of us. Take a break. Hydrate. Go bake something. Breathe.

Answering student emails while taking care of my mother post-heart procedure and fielding phone calls from my dad the day after my stepmother died. I’m rocking the work-life balance thing, right? 😳😬

My dad is already saying he’s going to move back here now that his wife is gone. I want to be hopeful that this will be good. I also don’t want to get my hopes up. Sigh.

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

There have been 5 babies born in this hospital today. That, at least, puts a smile on my face for a moment.

So far today: My stepmother died I’ve spent all day in the hospital with my mom, and we found out her heart disease is considerably worse than we thought, and I’ll be taking care of her the next couple days My colleague will be out next week having surgery Could the universe please fucking STOP

My dad’s wife died last night and I may be working out some complicated feelings out loud on here for a few days. Fellow theatre peeps: you will get the last few lines of Nothing from A Chorus Line: I dug right down to the bottom of my soul And cried Cause I felt Nothing

Rocky River. And given the multiple floods growing up, home river is pretty literal here. (One of my earliest memories is stepping into a boat from my driveway…)

It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls. If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.

Hey, fellow UC grads/CA residents: 1. Contact the Board of Regents: regents.universityofcalifornia.edu 2. Contact your state assemblymembers: www.assembly.ca.gov/assemblymemb... Ask them why Hegseth gets to film propaganda at a UC location. /former Assembly staffer:

Important thread:

I must confess, had I been guessing where the civil war would start, I would not have guessed Minnesota.

The crunch comes from the fragility.

Timeline cleanser (sound on)

nodesian.medium.com/technically-.... #medlibs #ai

ICE agents anytime they see a car:

OMG HE BROUGHT HER FLOWERS THIS IS LIKE A REAL OLD-FASHIONED DATE 😍

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

E has a date with a new guy tonight and he is picking her up here at the house. I came home from work to find my living room, kitchen, and front bathroom cleaner than they’ve been in quite a while. 😳🤣

I had to turn on the fucking AC today. It’s January FFS!

A Coke Zero, an iPhone, a cat, and a Kindle

*Screaming this from the rooftops*