Them: need help doing things? Me: yes Them: we have a doing things medication Me: ooh Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it? Me: oh no Them: things.

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

Y'all! Personal Fitness Boxing: FIST OF THE NORTH STAR is on Switch store sale for like $5. It's a great workout (even for kids!) while still being hilariously cheesy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8d... The Hu - Wolf Totem

Me: Why's my stomach so upset? Brain: Well, you did eat an entire bowl of baked beans at dinner last night. Also Brain: But that was so yesterday. Brain: WTF is wrong with you. Also Brain: Lol, #soyesterday Brain: God, you're such a millennial. That song is 22 years old.

The number for those who need screen readers (855)435-7693

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

It was her birthday three days ago but there is never not a good time to celebrate the timing, wit, originality and sheer versatility of the unique Lily Tomlin. #RowanandMartinsLaughin #9to5 #TheWestWing #GraceandFrankie youtu.be/wptEXKxUh-M

No, *you* spent fellowship time after church debating KPop Demon Hunters & how the watching experience is affected by the studio using different voices for the speaking parts vs the singing parts of the central characters.

Kid: I think cats & dogs have a secret, zero-taste section on their tongues which explains why they have taste preferences for food but still lick their own butts. The zero taste part is for cleaning bc ewww poop.

So does the "after consulting with their doctors" bit mean we're going to need a prescription or referral to get the updated covid vaccine? Bc my doctor has a "if you're not dying, it's a 3 month" wait understaffing problem. 🫠

A 1955 writer casually dropping a “Germans tended to go along with Nazis just like your all-American wife goes along with segregation” is both the answer and the question for “how we got here”

If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::

Resist ICE Abolish ICE Prosecute ICE

KPop Demon Hunters is in theaters next weekend! Thoughts & prayers to all the parents (mostly moms) with long-haired kids who thought they had until Halloween to figure out Rumi's braid!

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

I know of this British accent/affectation of accent but it's funnier to me if the cavalry talk like Homestar Runner

I am very tired & need one (1) good reason not to stick everyone's toothbrushes in with the utensils & run the dishwasher on a sanirinse cycle.

solving my fear of “does enjoying the feminine and being feminine make me not a man?” by telling myself “only a man would think engaging in the feminine makes him less of a man” and it’s working

Kid: I didn't write myself into a corner. I wrote myself into a door & the door is locked so I just really need to figure out the key. Me: Wow, that's... huh. *gets a sudden story breakthrough*

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”-James Baldwin

Kid: I feel like I'm being punished for having a stuffy nose. Me: Sweetheart, you have a dust allergy. If you're only sneezing & blowing your nose at night, it means we need to reduce the dust in your room with dusting, sweeping, & clean sheets so you FEEL BETTER. Kid: I'd rather sneeze.

I have never met a left wing person who hasn't said something along the lines of "If there is evidence of Trump *and* Bill Clinton being pedophiles, and they are changed and convicted, they can share a cell and save us money on the secret service detail." I've *never* heard the right say similar.

I do not understand how Dancing With The Sharks is legal. Trying to hand feed supposedly wild sharks? Then grabbing them by the snout & yanking them around to imitate "dance moves"? WTAF?!?

Tonight's conversation: The kids are talking about all the things that could go wrong with flying cars, starting with mid-air accidents sending the cars crashing to the ground & smashing any cars in the lanes below them on the way. "Car parachutes?!? What?!? People will DIE."

A month can be more than one thing but there has to be an important meaning to it. Awareness to the thing being celebrated that month. Certain people clueless of how NOT VICTIMIZED they are for what they claim should replace that which needs actual awareness... Happy #DisabilityPrideMonth !

Since the choice now literally is cake or death… im going wit cake

A regular reminder that using Grok is actively poisoning my former home of Memphis, Tennessee, a relatively poor and majority Black major city in the American South. Allowing the DoD to use it will escalate this dramatically. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Precious summer tradition for beastly hot days- Family fun in the morning. After lunch, kids lovingly tuck me into bed, point a fan at me, turn out the lights, proclaim "naptime!", and "sneakily" watch Lego cartoons for 2 hours. Everybody wins.

To be clear on what they're proposing: human beings using water for drinking, washing, and growing crops will be rationed. The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.

Agh. Person 1 introduced me to Person 2 three months ago. Just now found out P1 mispronounced P2's name & P2 didn't correct them which means *I* have been saying it wrong for THREE MONTHS now. I know it's not my fault but I still feel like a complete tool. Names matter!

A guy friend is going through a testicular cancer scare. The research rabbit hole has taught me far more than I ever imagined about prosthetic balls. It's a form of gender-affirming care for cis men that medical professionals take very seriously. 🤔

Good hygiene, warts, & athlete's foot. Trying to delicately explain to the kids that the 1st reduces but does NOT prevent & does NOT treat the 2nd & 3rd, no matter how much soap someone uses or how hard they scrub. They're pretty worried (warts/viral) & grossed out (athletes foot/fungal). 😮‍💨

Kids & medical issues- one of the hard parts is NOT being able to give them the bodily autonomy, privacy, & freedom they deserve. I stopped tracking one kid's bowel movements 5 years ago- I don't want to start again now. They're a big kid! But the GI needs the data.

Hottie is amazed by how much I can get done naked. (It's hard to get dressed & put on mobility aids right out of the shower so it's a good time to sit in bed & make important phone calls.)

Read @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social’s on-the-ground breakdown of the ongoing activist response in LA to ICE raids & police repression (+the role of the Olympics). Creative grassroots action, including mutual-aid work & community defense hubs. Intvu w/ @igd.bsky.social itsgoingdown.org/interview-lo...

Oh that .. that’s such a tight and clear way to describe it Holly hell that was written well

Kat Cammack had ectopic pregnancy & care was delayed due to abortion ban Is she trying to change it? No. She’s blaming the left What enrages me most is she’s someone with enormous privilege. She was calling the Governor to help her access care If she was poor? Black? Disabled? She would be dead

Our pose reference pack with the @gnomedic.bsky.social is live! 💛 Small but mighty. Both the pack and Luca!

Extremely concerning: a woman in WA w/ T2 diabetes (a qualifying condition) reported going to Walgreens for her covid booster & being refused. The pharmacy tech asked if she had "any other [qualifying] health conditions, like cancer," but then “'didn’t even... 1/2 thesicktimes.org/2025/06/19/t...

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Happy #Juneteenth !! I’m black and make a Very Cool webcomic called RIDE OR DIE about queer black street racers, and their car possessed by a black man hellbent on getting revenge for his daughter’s murder! [: 🔥 More info/where to read: marsoid.net/rod 🔥 Support me on patreon! Patreon.com/marsoid

Thinking of the small public library that had the biggest collection of tropical fish books & magazines in the whole entire state because 3 retiree friends were SUPER into tropical fish, kept making purchase suggestions, & made sure all the books & magazines circulated regularly. #LGBTQ #Juneteenth

I'm stuck in a hospital waiting area. An elderly gentleman is trying to figure out TikTok, "for his grandkids". He has hearing loss. I'm more than 20 feet away & my ears ache. Didn't think I'd need headphones today!

My kids have 2 primary complaints about the card game Yokai Sketch: 1. Duplicate cards, so there's only 4 Yokai pictures in the entire game. 2. Yokai cards don't have the name of the yokai plus a sentence or fun fact on them so they feel like they're not learning anything about yokai as they play.

Now THIS is actually damn brillant.