So what do we figure are the odds that Eugene Meltsner from Adventures in Odyssey was a trans woman whose egg hadn't cracked yet?

Kids are so weird, man. Mine just requested and devoured a green bean and mayonnaise sandwich as a bedtime snack.

Theatre date and brunch with latte art!

One month into 2026 and I can already tell it's going to be the kind of year where my stock response to "how are you doing?" might need to be "how long do you have?"

I was well into adulthood before I realized that the story of how I stopped biting my nails was not, in fact, a cute childhood anecdote but rather a deeply fucked up origin story.

Fyi, if anyone else finds themselves in a similar situation to the letter writer, I suggest quickly and quietly sneaking jars of jam into the fridge or pantry (in a highly visible spot) of family members who do love it.

"Mama, I'm just doing some lab work in my room" (The shirt she's wearing is a child sized lab coat from her dress-up box)

Why did anyone think a Melania documentary would make money though, doesn't the subject of a documentary need to be interesting?

“Why are you so divisive?” My brother in Christ, he who began a good work in me will not rest until there is a Grand Canyon-sized division between fascist white nationalism and his church.

Canada’s entire strategy is focused exclusively on increasing GDP, which won’t help with the actual, authoritarian, political threat to Canadian independence. Actually addressing the crisis will require a U-turn on almost everything Carney‘s doing, particularly his attack on government capacity.

I have heard him in the whistles of the ones on watch for ICE I have seen him in detention with the ones who pay the price He calls us all to stand against injustice, hate and vice: his truth is marching on!

Really wish the asshole Europeans would understand that this isn’t the U.S. starting an imperial expansion. This is an eviscerated shell of a U.S. government being used as a weapon by *international* tech oligarchs to end traditional, democratic nations and replace them with a tech-run dystopia.

It is with great trepidation that I announce that my little shop is now live, and you can buy my handspun yarn for yourself. journeyman-fiber-arts.myshopify.com

EG turns 4 today! Happy birthday to a clever, curious, silly, kind, and affectionate little girl who has the entire Shrek soundtrack memorized verbatim by this point. She is the light of our lives.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

EG just discovered cheese strings and this might be what finally breaks me and forces me to get a Costco membership

EG is home sick today and we're watching (what else?) Shrek, but she's also got out her toy phone and is pretending to play games on it simultaneously 🤣

I have like 540 hours of music on my phone and yet all I ever play right now is the Shrek soundtrack, it might as well be a cassette stuck in my car's tape deck.

My new Instagram fave is this dad who turns the stories his three year old daughter tells him into songs. Also, this is an a+ way to do funny kid content while still respecting your kid's privacy online www.instagram.com/reel/DSI64cg...

No to tyrants, yes to cake! Happy Epiphany! (I did not make this cake, I bought it from a local Portuguese bakery)

The vaccine autism thing is bullshit but even if you believed it, it seems incredibly fucked up to then believe that raising child death rates is some sort of worthwhile trade-off to reduce autism rates

Saw this on IG and had to share:

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

EG loved seeing our families over Christmas but she is very excited to get back to our house later today because "my stuffies will have someone to be special to again."

I cannot be the only parent who is deeply concerned about how much sleep the PJ Masks crew is getting

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

The Lebanese fast food joint where we just stopped for supper has a playlist straight out of my high school years: See You Again by Miley Cyrus, She Will Be Loved by Maroon 5, Hot N Cold by Katy Perry...

One of my rolling resolutions is to check out at least one new to me local place each month. Here are the places I went for the first time in 2025.

Humanities programs have ceded scholarship of the premodern to bad actors on the right. This is a serious problem, not only because it represents a loss of current and future knowledge, but also because it enables white supremacists and Christian nationalists to twist history to their own ends.

Incidentally, by finishing this project before the end of the year, I officially accomplished my rolling annual resolution of ending the year with fewer unfinished craft projects than I began it. Started 2025 with a queue of 13 projects, and I'm starting 2026 with a queue of 12.

"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.) www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...

One really weird dynamic about having small kids is that said kids' grandparents tend to vary wildly in terms of how much time they spend actively playing with and visibly enjoying their company, but they still expect the grandkids to like them equally?

EG got one of those toddler digital cameras from my sister at Entz family Christmas this afternoon and she has already taken 250 photos lmao

Back in May 2019 I attempted something called Project A Day May, in which I started a new embroidery project every day for the month of May. The project continues to haunt my craft queue, but I am slowly finishing what I started in between other projects.

I try not to buy new lip balms because I'm still working through the ungodly amount I bought in high school, but the displaced Maritimer in me could not resist these

I bought a toy accordion for a Weird Al costume in like 2015 and got rid of it when we moved to Portland and I deeply regret that choice now that I have my own kid who would have loved it.

This is a cookie stamp stan account

Look, I also kind of gave up on the market and didn't really attempt to apply to jobs anymore after my first year, but that's just because the market is shit in my field in general, not because I'm white or whatever.

Another pair of Christmas gift beaded earrings finished

One thing that is really fun about having preschoolers in the house is that anytime they say something that seems completely out of left field it's actually quite logical once you follow their train of thought.

found an etsy shop that's doing a tremendous bit

I found a My Little Pony memory game at Value Village and EG is absolutely trouncing me and Aaron in it because she can tell the difference between the ponies and we cannot

Do I buy up a year's supply of Grinch Ziploc snack bags now, while they are plentiful and cheap, or do I give my daughter the gift of learning to deal with low-stakes disappointment when we run out in February?

I'm actually not sure there exists a movie anywhere that I have watched 6 times, but if I have it's this

Christkindl Markt haul! I was eyeing these mugs last year already so this year I went for it.

The magazine that brought you "FAQ: The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense" and "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers" bring you Isaac Chotiner's interview with Santa and it is OUTSTANDING. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

In hindsight Cyber Monday was the worst possible day to try to swing by Walmart for a quick curbside pickup

That OU paper story is obviously an attempt to ruin the life of a trans TA, but to be clear, not only is this obviously a bad psychology paper, it would fail a Bible class where the prompt was "what does the Bible say about gender roles?" There aren't even any scriptural citations, it's all vibes.