I'm happy to report the sandwich guy jury did make sandwich jokes when they had sandwiches for lunch. (Gift link below)

I'm rewatching Mad Men and it's more of a mixed bag than I remember but it has an unmatched ability to create iconic scenes and moments. Yes, I just finished the John Deere episode and that stony British delivery of "The doctors say he'll never golf again" is an all timer.

So the Dems reopened the government to do Epstein stuff? They couldn't have just waited? Do they only care because they have the far right on their side? Idk honestly I'm just tired.

Just had my first half ass lunch (meaning I forgot to plan lunches for the week) from this batch of freezer burritos and it was DELICIOUS.

I'm blow drying my hair straight for the first time in at least a decade and I'm literally taking a break to rest my arms right now. A sweaty workout, thank god my hair is short.

The ACA is the last time (maybe the only time?) I remember being effectively messaged by the federal government. When this was the big issue, I heard over and over again what the central tenets of it would be and specifically how it would help and tbh I remember most of them!

I didn't like Bugonia. And I really didn't like Poor Things. I think it's time to break up with Lanthimos, which is a bummer because I was a real evangelist for Dogtooth for years.

I agree with a lot of this. I also find it interesting that no one is mentioning tariffs, inflation, decreased consumer spending. Companies are keeping their messaging in line with the administration.

Had a good date with a lady tonight and I'm feeling very

It's time for another episode of I Ate Too Much Pasta For Dinner. Which is at least better than the other regularly recurring option, I Forgot To Turn On The Rice Cooker And The Rest Of Dinner Is Ready.

I was playing this game in a bar trying to figure out what was on tv without any sound. I thought it was about this persecuted gay basketball player. Nope, he wasn't gay. He was just an asshole who played for Duke and it was the 90s when homophobic slurs were just how you were mean.

Letterboxd is the service that hurts me most when there's an outage. What do you mean someone just said they liked a movie and now I can't add it to my watchlist? What do you mean I can't look up that director's filmography in chronological order? What do you mean I can't see what's good on Tubi?

I've seen *a lot* of movies this year from male early career directors where they have a big budget national release with very little previous experience. When it's an early career woman director, it's lower budget, smaller release, and it's always someone who has an industry in.

good @thedextriarchy.bsky.social take www.theverge.com/policy/81406...

Kind of amazing to me that the right remains so committed to being the Leopards Eating People's Faces party. You just got a pretty sizable bump in Latino votes last year and you IMMEDIATELY turned on those voters in the worst way instead of making any effort to consider their interests.

They have been losing their minds over what went wrong in 2024 when the problem was always what we did wrong in 2020 by running Biden and then having a mostly do nothing administration. People react to the current leadership more than anything else.

All 3 seats on my town council appear to have gone to the Dems (there was only one GOP incumbent and she's out!) and according to @indyweek.bsky.social the successful candidates are at the local champagne bar waiting for returns, congratulations to these ladies!

Thank you, universe!!!

I am having a bad day, need it called for Mamdani before 10pm please so at least I have something nice before bed.

@heykellyjensen.bsky.social Not sure if you've seen this one since attempts to ban books are a smaller piece of it, but thought you might find it interesting since this stuff is even hitting *private* schools. www.theassemblync.com/education/pr...

Tbh I would start my own books publication--I've worked in media for sites big and small and I have the experience to build it and make money doing it--except that leaving Twitter basically cut me off almost entirely from the book community. But if anyone is thinking about it, hit me up.

Congratulations to The Flytrap on their successful subscription drive! I think they're one of the many great examples of how media collectives are the real next step to grow a successful independent media landscape.

Going to vote in my municipal elections this morning. Thanks to @indyweek.bsky.social for their coverage of these smaller races, which can be the hardest ones to find good info on!

Waiting for a package requiring signature that's supposed to get here in the next 20 minutes. Not feeling optimistic.

I am using a bunch of my fancy Rancho Gordo beans to make refried beans for freezer burritos. Because why shouldn't my half ass lunch when I suddenly realize I don't have anything to eat be spectacular?

Teen loved the Romantasy series by Brigid Kemmerer, we will be back at the library in a couple days for more to read. Any recommendations of complete YA series she might enjoy?

This is incredibly good & ties together so much that I’ve been thinking about lately. From “AGI is perpetually just around the corner” to Thiel’s fixation w/the Antichrist, Tech has completely assimilated Christian eschatology: specifically the belief that The End is always imminent but never here.

I spend way too much time typing my credit card information into my phone, why have they done this to us?

They moved my choir's email to a listserv and it is not going well. We have been messing this up my entire adult life, how is this still happening???

We didn't turn the porch light on and so did not get trick or treaters (which was the plan as the last few years had such a disappointing turnout) but 16yo stayed in for the first time and we had a lovely night watching Ready or Not and eating 13yo's candy.

The thing that always strikes me about these is that you can imagine the parent of a gen-z person telling their kid, "Hey you worked hard this week, just go have an ice cream or something," while simultaneously decrying the entire generation for doing the same thing.

13yo is reading a YA Romantasy and loving it and told me all delighted that it's a polyamory book because there are 3 different characters all connected and I'm honestly not sure if it actually is or if she is from a more enlightened generation that doesn't understand the point of love triangles.

I thought from the trailers that IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU was one of those unflattering projects with unlikable protagonists actors take on for awards but instead it's the closest work I've seen to Ferrante's THE DAYS OF ABANDONMENT.

Opened up LinkedIn this morning and it's one layoff announcement after another. It is really, really bad out here.

It's pointless for Google to try and sell me on AI when Gmail keeps putting emails into my main inbox even after I've told it repeatedly they go in Promotions. I swear it's getting worse.

I almost never use Amazon but I ordered a pair of pants there last week. Pants came, inseam was wrong. Returned, asked for replacement. Got another pair with the wrong inseam. And thanks to the fact that it's Amazon I have absolutely no faith that they are capable of fixing their error.

This is a Why Not Both situation imo

I have 19, and I've been to 18 of those multiple times. I guess I travel more than I realized?

Doing a Michael Caine plot twist double feature of SLEUTH and DEATHTRAP today.

I'm going today! In the Triangle it's at Chelsea, Silverspot, and Six Forks. Starting next week it'll be at Alamo.

I have been fucking around with astrology for a couple months and I've reached the point where I need to spend some time diving into my chart with a professional to get into the particulars. Any recommendations?

If I muted the word "tattoo" right now there would be no posts left in my feed.

hello, I am (seriously) looking for someone who's an expert in the etymology of either nicknames and/or dirty slang terms for parts of human anatomy. or both. this is (I feel like I have to say this) for a story

I am assuming the uptick of Sinners and Coogler mentions lately is the PR team doing smart work to keep it top of mind in the Oscar race. A very giftable physical version with lots of cool features for the holidays wouldn't hurt either...

Really appreciated this 1) because I have been leaning strongly towards skipping this and now I am absolutely sure that was the right decision and 2) because I am absolutely the person who says to my friend "This was terrible and I need you to watch it so we can complain about it."

I was laid off 6 months, two weeks, and 5 days ago. I'm accomplished in my field and it's been an absolute nightmare trying to find work. Finally finally got an offer today.

Ok this explains why I'm the person who always reaches out and never flakes, but clearly I need more ex-Mormon friends because the rest of y'all don't keep up!

God this is sexy.

There were several people up high on a balcony at a swanky luxury condo building in Durham looking down at the protesters as we marched by. Gave off a real king-looking-down-on-the-peasants vibe which is not what I'd recommend at an event that is called No Kings.

I forgot to read FRANKENSTEIN 3 months before the movie comes out, my preferred reread before film adaptation timeline, and now I can't decide if I should read it now anyway even though the movie is only a couple weeks away.