This feels about right.

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Remembering that love conquers all but cats.

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it. Everyone, give @skatunenetwork.bsky.social your money. They deserve it.

Spooky cats are spooky

"IT: Welcome to Derry" should have been a crossover with Derry Girls.

Almost forgot to to share the pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting made for @skepchick.org's birthday! Frosting done in her favorite color, and liners done because she's now a cougar.

And you share a birthday with VP Harris's husband, so that's nice.

There are no ethical billionaires. Which should shock exactly no one. Article shared with me by @mariadsouza.bsky.social: ips-dc.org/report-givin...

Crazy Train has maybe the best guitar line in rock and roll. I can't think of another song which gets you in that headspace from the first opening riffs. Randy Rhoads was a genius.

Happy 14th wedding anniversary to my seatmate on this flight to Chicago, @cworthdynamics.bsky.social

TIL about the correlation between nicotine and ADHD and I understand my current levels of inattention and fixation (off the charts) so much better now. Quit smoking three years ago and BAM.

Hey, @adambecker.bsky.social, I got a thing!

@adambecker.bsky.social, you know what to do.

Congratulations, @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social!

Can we just have one show that doesn't use sexual violence as shorthand for "this is a villain?" It's exhausting and lazy. Please stop using r*pe as a cheap plot device, especially when female characters are required to forget about it by next episode because it didn't even matter. #andor #starwars

I can't pretend I'm withholding alumni donations because of this because they haven't gotten a dime from me since I graduated but WHAT THE FUCK. It's like they forget what being a university is even FOR. Fuck! 6abc.com/post/nyu-den...

There’s a vote for the REI Board! If you’re an active member you can vote at vote.escvote.com/REI/ The board has union busted and endorsed Burgum for Dept of Interior. They are unfit for their roles and need to be voted out.

omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain

Christmasy AF

I need your help, internet. My in-laws and others are asking me what I want for Christmas and/or birthday. I have no idea! What DO I want for a present? All ideas welcome.

When @caglet.bsky.social comes to visit, she has to earn her keep.

Childless cat lady doing my part!

Fun fact: if you have an adjustable bed and you have the head and foot both raised to hang with your cats to watch TV and the power goes out, you'll just have to sleep like that?

I need to know if other people's #ADHD presents this way: being super focused on a hypothetical situation for months or years (like time travelling to 1906) and then using that focus to hyperfixate on lots of different details 1/

Can we stop calling them Trump and Kamala? It's either Donald and Kamala or Trump and Harris. Or former President and Vice President. Or felon and not felon. But it seems condescending to constantly call the VP by her first name and everyone else Trump, Vance, and Walz. Okay, that's all.

The paperback of my Iliad translation will be out tomorrow, August 6th 2024, and it's already available in some indie bookstores (pic from Napa Valley, with other tempting books). Some reviews here: www.emilyrcwilson.com/the-iliad-se...

New Iliad just dropped!

This November, women will be choosing Bear. Help fund my new Super PAC, The Right to Bear Arms.

Special delivery today! The perennial favorite, the Strawberry Chocolate Truffle Cake! A whole pint of fresh strawberries goes into this devil's food cake with ganache buttercream.

Google Photos just sent me a slideshow titled "Heartfelt Hugs" and the opener was this gem of @cworthdynamics.bsky.social and Murphy:

Married for 13 lucky years! I think I'll keep him. @cworthdynamics.bsky.social

Love you, @cworthdynamics.bsky.social. Happy anniversary!

Turns out, @cworthdynamics.bsky.social and I both decided that the traditional 13th wedding anniversary gift is not lace, but weapons. Mando rifle for him, Klingon batleth for me!

Seating at our new dining table: approximately ten. Meals per year we'll eat at the dining table instead of the couch: approximately three.

I just referred to sending door dash to a house with a death in the family as a "digital casserole," and it felt right. If you're not a southern woman, you may not get the joke, but you probably get the vibe.

Celebrate Spring with these Tres Leches Cupcakes with Dulce de Leche Buttercream!

Amazing work from @natalieericksonart.bsky.social for my BFF Indiana Bones Watson. @rebeccawatson.bsky.social has promised to frame it. Oil painting! On a patch! Pencil for scale.

The Tyndall effect!

"Why is this your performance goal for 2024 and how do you hope to achieve it?" Well, it's important because my boss said so and I'd like to stay employed and have health insurance and food. I will achieve it by constantly panicking about not having the above.

Only about a decade late, but playing Beyond: Two Souls is just one big Milgram Experiment and @cworthdynamics.bsky.social shouldn't be allowed to make decisions.

[email protected] and me lookin' fancy in front of a train.

@cworthdynamics.bsky.social surprising me with the wine train for my birthday!

In my stocking this year from @cworthdynamics.bsky.social

It's true; I have one. "Undefeated since WWII" isn't something to scoff at.

Have a decidedly merry Christmas, good sirs and ladies.

Resigned Murphy.

Merry fucking Christmas.

Finished our Christmas diorama! #Gremlins