In retrospect, "Is It Cake?" was really the harbinger that tried to prime us for recognizing AI-generated images.

I have a strange active listening face when I hear Spanish and am trying to muster all of the forgotten language skills from 3 years of high school and some fruitless days of Duolingo. I can read it but I cannot speak it. V earnestly trying to change so I stop giving off "Speak American!" vibes.

Told my parents about the senate race; they may even vote in the primary (I will drag them to early voting). The old Black church folks (apparently) love Jasmine Crockett because she's a "fighter". who knew? (A lot of people. Most people. Everyone)

Unfortunately, between Friday and now I have become Jasmine Crockett's strongest soldier because the way some of these pundits who have never stepped foot in Texas talk about her irks my entire being and now I have no option but to vote for her in the primary. My hand was forced.

No one else caught that Colin Allred, Jasmine Crockett, and Marc Veasey all caucused, huh? Allred stepped out of the Senate race to let Crockett have better odds, Veasey stepped out of his House reelection bid to the county level to clear the way for Allred's run in 2026. Interesting.

Marking it. TX primary in March goes to Crockett (name rec, fired-up resist libs who actually vote in the primary love her). Paxton "somehow" carries the R Primary. The state of the economy and immigration enforcement will have to be/stay apocalyptic for a D win. Sigh. Bring on the suffering ig.

Just got jumpscared by the price of eggnog this season. It has always been $3 or less for my lil 32oz carton of Lactaid Eggnog. Now it's $4?! The price of milk comma eggs is not that much I have all the ingredients to make it myself ig. 25% in one year ooooh someone will pay.

I was a Sydney Sweeney stan from Everything Sucks to the Make Sixty Great Again post. I did break my "ban" to watch Immaculate. SS was always a capitalist riding trends: Savage X Fenty, Syd's garage tiktok/Ford brand deal. She horribly misread the room and assumed an actual right-wing culture lean.

Started the year with Spotify, then switched to Apple Music for 3 months, Then 3 months of Amazon Music (the worst by far) and finally Tidal (which was just okay). Trying Deezer next and then probably Qobuz. I like to keep the people guessing. As a consequence, I have no accurate "Wrapped" to show.

I need a Tubi Wrapped/Recap/Year in Review. I am not asking, Tubi. By next year.

As someone who was born/raised/lives in TX, Oklahoma is actually what the rest of the country visualizes when they think about TX as backwoods/irredeemable. IMO, the most surprising thing about the OU essay is not that the instructor is being unfairly targeted; it's that OU had any trans faculty.

I keep thr*wing up because my body is disagreeing with my white cheddar popcorn and Candy Cane Kisses overconsumption. I appreciate that I'm trying to protect(?) me but, like, respect my choices. (It has been like this since my late 20s; my body auto-rejects my sad attempts at food sometimes.)

Oop. I have been under a tornado watch all day today and I did not realize. TBF it was on my weather app I just thought it was for someone else I guess. Still going until 1AM and we do not have tornado sirens but I am taking my phone off silent so hopefully it will yell at me if something happens.

My Aldi grocery picker has done me a solid on the avocados. 1 is ready to use today, 1 is a day or two off ripe, and the rest are firm. Yes, he was Latino. He knows ball. We live in TX so everyone should. But no. Usually all hard. (I know I could ask for ripe in the notes, but I keep forgetting.)

It's always cute (derogatory) to see a cult of personality form based on vibes alone from a group of people who are constantly telling people not to idolize politicians (that they don't like). An aside, I do wish mental healthcare were more accessible in the US. It'd cut down on a lot of this.

*Through clenched teeth*: Thank you, Gavin Newsom, for adopting Texas' non-R constituency and fighting our governor for us.

Ever since I discovered how to use dark brown lipliner at the ripe age of now, my life has improved. Black eyeliner at 12, a revelation. Brown lipliner at **, a renaissance.

I know we’ve already decided on Mamdanistan for NYC. What are we thinking for Seattle? Wilsongrad?? There’s already Lenin in Fremont. It would be on brand.

Seattle has quietly been having its own Mamdani mayoral moment with Katie Wilson, but, because of all vote-by-mail elections, the story won't officially break until...Tuesday next week. Throwback to being anxious every election for two weeks before I found out Sawant was still my council rep in D3.

Quietly relighting the Blexas candle.

how is this real

I actually do want a data center in my backyard so bad I want to grow numb to the endless drone of a million electronic beehives I want to get testicular cancer from people I’ll never meet generating shrek porn in their basements

I wanted to enjoy my extra hour of sleep but ...somehow... I started developing a caffeine withdrawal headache at midnight, so I woke up in pain an hour ago anyway. I DID drink my lil energy drink yesterday but I've been caffeining too hard post-illness this last week and did not drink my usual 2.

Moisturized too hard yesterday and people were apologizing for drinking beers in front of me... I am 35. If you are short and have neotenous features, apparently you have to wear an "I am old" pin or else people will baby you on your hoodie and leggings days.

Soooo much of the Black braiding/salon/barbershop experience is having a stylist that you think is insane but being stuck with them for hours. Like, sure, we can totally talk about prophetic dreams and prayer warriors and demons. I am. Stuck here.

Had my yearly October ration of caramel apple. Delicious. Will hold me over until next year when I remember they exist again. Last year was Chocolate Turtle. This year was just caramel and peanut. The chocolate is definitely necessary.

This was wishcasting. The next day it returned and I am on day 2 of having an iffy sense of smell at best. Continue to take your multivitamins, folks. Do NOT let your guard down.

Demanding restitution from the storm that woke me up at 4am and kept me awake for a full hour and a half. Rem cycle: interrupted. Sinuses: congested (had already been but not made any better). Putting the next storm that will apparently be passing by from 5pm to 2am on notice NOW.

I muted everything related to the NY Mayoral race because I genuinely do not care and it will not impact me at all. Unfortunately, I have kept up w/the Senate races because they pass federal laws and I'm tired of a decade of having to *shocked pikachu* Manchin/Sinema/Collins/Murkowski's votes.

Watching Hard Candy for SpoOoOoky Season, and the first time I watched it was via Netflix, I believe, at maybe 17 or 18, post Juno, and I just developed a lifelong crush on Patrick Wilson. Thankfully, every time I've watched it since, I just recoil in horror which shows growth.

Woke up yesterday with a sore throat, progressed rapidly, turned into a full-blown fever and body aches, cat was ecstatic I was so warm. Rode it out. Took ibuprofen just to sleep comfortably. Woke up again, and now it's like it never happened. Was that a drive by one-day illness? what??

Red Thunder at my Aldi is only $3.29 now for a 4-pack of 12oz cans. Red Bull is at my HEB is $10, down from 12. Do I still miss Curuba Elderflower sometimes? Yes.

Tried out Jow (because it gave me 30% off. I love DEALS.) and it's not awful. My bank thought it was a scam and blocked the transaction at first but I like it. I was eating too much samefood at Aldi and gave myself tummy issues so I let it suggest salmon and sweet potatoes, elote, and a tuna bowl.

Tried the new Reese's Oreo cups only to realize that a (1) normal sized candy bar costs more than a mid-priced protein bar in a multipack (Pure Protein, Trubar) I used to just use protein bars as candy bars when I had sweets cravings and I can feel the spirit of frugality leading me back that way.

Old Macbook that I assumed was dead/nonfunctional after not even turning on for two years but has my FB files on its hard drive has been connected to a charging cord for the past two hours. Just heard the startup sound. I do not have to go to a PC recovery shop to get pictures of my dead friend now!

Acute recoil when someone you knew middle high school dies at the age of 35. Like, hello!?! If you make it to 30, then you have to hit 50 at least. Youthful misadventure or childhood disease is acceptable until 25. 25 to 50 in the suburbs, mind you, is a funeral-free zone. Aggravating.

Just when I was thinking, "Man, it'd be cool if Requiem for A Dream was on Tubi", I checked. And it's, in fact, on Tubi.

Tubi + (unspecified adblocker extension, name redacted) is really the best combination. I didn't even now Tubi was supposed to have ads until a few weeks ago and I've been using it since the Kendrickbowl. Making my way through 80s Goldie Hawn movies right now. Pleasant.

Ubereats keeps feeding me 50% off coupons for Aldi and I'm not complaining but it's very suspicious. Like, yes, I will happily save $25 but, uhh, what organ am I giving up for this later. I know it's something.

Mentally, I know Ariana Grande is a 32-year-old, homewrecker-adjacent divorcee. BUT I see a video of her crying in her Glinda outfit because she wrapped on Wicked 2 and she is instantly just a smol bean, only 3 apples tall, never done anything wrong in her life. I fear I have been compromised.

They need to go ahead and pass around pictures of Lauren Sanchez now.

And this is why the black community collectively disengaged from causes and spaces that weren't directly impacting us. This was all incredibly transparent. The privileged choices of nihilism and accelerationism were on full display.

An unfortunate but highly-predictable side effect of the Black community's near-unanimous agreement to narrow their focus of mobilization post-election is that, since we ignore the constant baiting of this admin, they've upped the trans panic and Islamophobia to levels not seen since the 2000s.

I had to retake my driving test in January 2024 because I'd let my license lapse for too long, was riding dirty, and had to rent a car for a contract in Georgia. The evaluator marked me down for looking both ways at a green light when I'd just seen a car run one on the drive to the DPS. Still angy.

Finally got around to listening to Gigi Perez's debut(?) album last week after having Sailor Song and Fable on heavy rotation for the past year and had a dream where 'Sleeping' was playing last night, so I obviously woke up and listened to 'Sleeping' + some others.

Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone needs to hurry up and... I mean I will be waiting patiently for her to break the all-time 400m WR and I maintain that she could have done it in Tokyo if it hadn't been raining. She literally only needs to go .19 seconds faster. Sorry to Marita Koch, we are now enemies.

If you're a white leftist who wants to be an organizer, the #1 way I know coalitions will fail is if you're snide to Black people online. Calling marginalized folks cowardly and stupid for trying to keep themselves safe while protesting? You don't have what it takes.

Getting an AARP membership I guess. Was playing the Linkin Park/Jay-Z Numb/Encore mashup and a 20something who was “just listening to Linkin Park” was so fascinated that it existed. I was confused because it had to have been recent. Reader, the Collision Course album was released in 2004.

My most transhumanist coded belief is that our bodies exist to humble us. What do you mean that I finished eating a lil Buc Ee’s breakfast bowl and then upchucked less than 15 minutes later because my body decided to reject it. Embarrassing. Had to run to the toilet like a cartoon character.

"incomprehensible politics" "the internet humor of [Gen Z/Gen Alpha] is impossible to understand for anyone over 25" To everyone over 30: it's just another cycle of Dadaism. Pundits/the online journo class don't need to catastrophize it or mark it as the end of analysis. You will make it through.