Tonight I met a goat named Teddy, roughly the size of a Great Dane. He peed on my foot but I love him anyway.

Building is at capacity and standing room only at the Upper Merion Township meeting about a proposal to build 5 data centers. Zoom streaming link is also at capacity - at 600 people.

Catching up on my movie backlog through the rainy weekend. I have survived Wuthering Heights. Why was this made. No.

Where can you recycle AA batteries anymore? Target and Whole Foods both cut their programs.

Paint me like one of your French girls.

I have work out in New Letters' just released issue. 'Libras' is the most personal thing I've had published to date and I would love for you to read it. www.newletters.org/current-issu...

COVID wastewater positivity is currently at its lowest level since 2021, so I am blitz-scheduling all the repair people to work on the house repair backlog. Bathroom fan, replacing a window that was leaky after this winter, etc.

Just realizing I have scheduled PT on May The 4th. Is it bad form to wear a wookie onesie to your appointment. Will all the sports jocks think I'm cool.

I can't decide if this is an odd or brilliant choice given the specialty, but the waiting room at the gynecologist has SVU on.

It's an important election year in Philly, which means I have canvassers knocking on my door at all hours. Officially at the stare-through-the-window-and-close-the-blinds-while-making-eye-contact part of the campaign. I know who I'm voting for. I have never missed a primary. Please go away.

Enemies to lovers: in progress

Past me thought it was a good idea to sign up for a semester-long course on Tuesday nights after work. Present me is absolutely brain melted after 5pm and just wants to lie down on the sofa and stare at the wall.

They keep talking about needing to check for noxious gasses coming from the astronauts and every time I hear it I giggle because inside I am a 5th grader.

Nuremberg was an important symbol of German nationhood so I say with 100% sincerity that this is a job for Philadelphia

Surprise book store cats are the best book store cats.

I woke up to two acceptances in my inbox this morning, which is the dream, except that today is April Fools day, and I have been preconditioned to believe everything is a lie.

I am 'had to explain Rathergood.com to a coworker today' years old.

How long does it take you to eat a loaf of home made bread? Asking for a friend 😅

This post is very popular on Reddit today and I figured some people here might like to see it TL;DR a woman was detained by ICE and later one of the detaining officers reached out to her in and attempt to take her on a date He said she he found her attractive because she was "cute" and "obedient"

This week, in the state park in the town I grew up in, they found human remains. Then two days later the coroner issued a retraction - sorry, actually it was a deer. How.

Sage advice for anyone else in their 30's surviving shoveling this winter: get the XL heating pad. Not the little wimpy one with an auto shut off. The one sized like a bath mat that could burn your house down if left unattended.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

I read this in one sitting and can't stop thinking about it. Usually I have a hard time connecting with translated books - something feels awkward and distant. But this time that may have even improved the read.

"Just go with it because it will be worse if we fight back" is not a good strategy when confronted with an authoritarian regime.

My last acceptance of 2025 is live today on The Bookends Review: thebookendsreview.com/2025/12/26/c...

Do you -also- listen to weird new age pseudoscience on YouTube ? Then maybe this one's for you. I have a new poem out today in Stink Eye Magazine: stinkeyemagazine.com/lisa-dellapo...

When a pillow is unavailable, apparently a kindle will do.

RIP to all of our inboxes on this Giving Tuesday.

Alice Wong was so important to so many of us. A huge loss for the disabled community. But I'm comforted by how vocally we seem to be mourning her: what better way to honor a writer than to urge people to read their work.

Met the superior Pittsburgh penguin last weekend

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

It's always good to drive through the middle of Pennsylvania and get a reminder of why I live in Philadelphia

I know it's ancient tech at this point, but I will never not be wowed by xrays. It's your bones! You can see INSIDE TO YOUR BONES. What a time to be alive.

Broke my foot and I'm anticipating a lot of stationary time to kill in the near future. Send me your recs for the last excellent book you read or movie you watched. (Nothing medically scary, please 😅)

Rubbing a cats stomach is a form of self care

I'm a lifelong jinx for the Phills and my act of goodwill to the people of Philadelphia is that I did not watch any of the games last night, just lurked on social updates. They did all that on their own. 💀

**Keanu voice** Whoah

Watching the federal government send troops into fairly tame metros while living in a city with a reputation for its mayhem even when we’re happy is odd. Is there an order of importance to the deployments? Are we being judged against others for levels of…. Something?

Why did no one warn me that a significant part of aging is looking down at random appendages, finding weird bruises, and having zero memory of how they happened.

I've been experimenting with BlueSky lists and so far the organizer in me is loving them. For my writing and submitting followers, here's a list of every lit mag I've come across on BS, which gives you a specific feed for their calls. Who am I missing? bsky.app/profile/did:...

This is the only good thing about this garbage heap of a year and I am SO EXCITED.

I was in 8th grade in September 2001. Our district had a return date that was 2 weeks later than usual due to construction delays, and my parents took advantage of post-Labor Day prices to book a quick three day jaunt to the beach.

Honestly, same.

Someone sent me this picture and I’d say this pretty much covers all the bases 🦅💚

Again, louder so both parties can hear it -STOP NOMINATING SEPTUAGENARIANS FOR POLITICAL POSITIONS.

It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.

Unexpected score at Thunderbird Salvage's UArts estate sale today: a huge stack of lit journals back issues for $20. TBR is laughable at this point but we buy them all anyway 💃

The price of vegetables rose 38.9% in July.

ER stress marathoning update: things have dramatically declined in quality but skyrocketed in weirdness