Current* conditions near Lakewood, OH:

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

Merry Christmas from this portrait of Phoebe. Artist credit: my almost-niece.

I am!

If you ever become wealthy, be like Rick Steves

Cleveland is usually so eager to claim any celebrity with a tenuous connection to northeast Ohio. Except the Paul brothers

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

I miss Nerdette so much and can’t wait for Happy To Be Here

🎄Happy Hater’s Guide🎄

Does Amazon think I need my pills wrapped in something tasty in order to be tricked into taking them?

I still own nine movies on DVD and two of them are When Harry Met Sally and The Princess Bride. RIP Rob Reiner

I had a hysterectomy on Wednesday and did not realize becoming a man is a side effect! So looking forward to making more money, walking alone at night without worry, and having pockets in all my clothes.

Every day. Sometimes multiple times per day. Stop the madness

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."

is there anything more 2025-coded than “white” being the pantone color of the year

If women doing better in school and becoming more financially successful is a sign of the masculinity crisis, why would a woman care if a man buys dinner? She can buy her own dinner (or drinks, or dessert). His personality is the dealbreaker, not his wallet.

I went to happy hour in the flats. I was delayed for 10 mins because a very large boat was going under a bridge. And that made all the seagulls angry so the flats looked like a scene from The Birds #ClassicCleveland

Keith Olbermann dated Olivia Nuzzi when she was 21 and he was 55. I'm not defending her terrible book-I'm just wondering why this guy is gleefully showcasing the bad review of someone he hasn't dated in a decade-someone who was *considerably* younger. Some men DO NOT GET IT. Highlight that shit.

Weird political move, unless it’s specifically targeted at someone? A decent piece of the donor class has dual citizenship. Italy lets you be a dual citizen if one grandparent was born there, I think? At the same time, I don’t know if rabid Ohio MAGA knows it’s possible to have dual citizenship 🤷🏻‍♀️

If ever there was a time to use this meme, it's now:

Current* conditions near Lakewood, OH:

I love Sir Paul, but this is a terrible song only slightly redeemed by this post

I would like to clarify that I attended the original OU, in Ohio, which has not yet thrown a grad student under the bus for trying to teach a shit-stirring religious zealot.

One must imagine Ulysses S. Grant dreaming of his ballroom

Maybe another way to think of it is as the "participation line" - the income one needs to fully participate in expected aspects of US life without worrying about plunging into deprivation one way or another (gift article) wapo.st/3MeOGki

Hello, @profanity.accountant. How am I doing?

I made the mistake of clicking on this ad on FB and now the pig toy filled with its own tasty food products will not stop following me around the internet

Happy Pie for Breakfast Day, Bluesky! No pics, the pie did not want to come out of the pan so it’s more of a crumble

It became surprisingly snowy in northeast Ohio so I decided to stay overnight at my parents. Their BIPAP and CPAP create an interesting white noise but I can’t fully separate it from the storm noise

Rude

The ironic thing is that conservative parents started pushing Boy Scouts to allow girls to participate because they felt Girl Scouts became too progressive (i.e. feminist and supportive of trans and NB kids). Regardless, I can’t see this playing well with anyone except the most extreme MAGAs

Timeline cleanse. This is delightful. I love the background laughter of the people filming the dogs. #9 is my favorite.

The History of the American Economy should be right up there with Econ and Accounting 101 for business majors. Speaking of Econ 101, some people should really look into the sunk cost fallacy.

ken have i told u about the humble potato

I was recently diagnosed with uterine cancer. Very early stage I am so lucky none of my docs/NPs dismissed me. Told me to lose weight. Told me random heavy bleeding was just peri. Told me to eat more protein/leafy veg/probiotics Everyone’s reaction was “no, that’s not normal. Let’s look into that”

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I think people my age and older forget, and people younger have no idea, but Bill Clinton was legendarily charismatic and charming. Not in a creepy way (although that def contributed to the womanizing). Many people talked about how he made you feel like the only person in the room

Mamdani has charmed Trump after one meeting? This is wild

Excellent headline (For non-locals, Bobby George is a prominent business owner and notable piece of shit even before he was a convicted felon)

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

Today I was on a Teams and my male coworker’s sound cut out. He did not notice. My female coworker and I had a whole conversation about how long this could go on, her Christmas decorations, and were near cry-laughing 😂 before giving up and messaging him. It was 5 mins at least We were on camera.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

“Walmart and others.” It’s a lie that the cost of food is down, but also clear the man cannot name another grocery store.

A thread of two photos, each worth more than 1,000 words: The Rev. Michael Woolf of Lake Street Church in Evanston, Ill., is detained by Illinois State Police at a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility Via Freelance photographer Jim Vondruska/Reuters 1/2 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Gleeful reminder that all your friends and family members with birthdays from now until Thanksgivingish are Valentine’s Day babies.

It is literally about snowflakes. That kevlar isn’t very warm and the material over their faces isn’t very thick. Stepping in slush higher than your boot is unpleasant. Falling on your ass one an icy sidewalk, even more so. ICE is fleeing winter.