Happy Holidays, You Bastard by blink-182 is the greatest Christmas song in existence

Lord, please never let me be hated by someone as skilled as that Vanity Fair photographer. Let all my haters be incompetent.

The base for my vintage ceramic Christmas tree got broken years ago. My partner just made this beautiful wooden base for me 🥹 I love it so much

I am looking for a TV show or movie that will keep me so engaged I don't want to simultaneously scroll on my phone. Have recently watched Pluribus, Heated Rivalry, Roofman, The Chair Company, Peacemaker. Hit me with your best shot, and assume I have access to all streaming services.

Had some real nerd shit going on this weekend. A good time was had by all, and somehow I won this six-way free for all.

It's my baby girl's second birthday today 🥹🥰

Neither my partner nor I are religious, so we never felt right saying "bless you," to each other after sneezing. We had a full-on discussion about what to say instead and landed on, "You sneezed." Acknowledgement felt necessary, but beyond that, /shrug.

I am, yet again, a bit late with October's wrap up, but here are the last two months. Kind of hit a wall in November, with the shorter daylight hours, busy work schedule, more gym time, and an adventurous (not a relax-and-read-on-the-beach) vacation. Hoping to finish strong in December!

I've been in a bit of a reading slump since finishing Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid, which was hands down my favorite book I've read since January 2024. But I started By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult yesterday, and I can't put it down 🤩 big Lost Apothecary/Weyward vibes, and I'm loving it.

Sat down with my uncle and cousin today and counted all the pets in my family. From Grandma to my niece, we've got 32 total (not counting fish), mostly cats. Here are my copy/paste Merry and Pippin!

Had our first snow of the season last night. Partner just told me he put a scraper and brush in my car. 🥹 It 100% is the little things.

Felt like putting up seasonal decorations for the first time in years, and it's the first time Merry and Pippin have seen a Christmas tree. Woke up to this, and I'm honestly shocked if made it through the night.

Asked my partner to push the cart after he put a bunch of heavy shit in it (not because I couldn't but because I didn't feel like it), and he's been singing Now You're a Man (featured in the Trey Parker movie Orgazmo) ever since and honestly it's hilarious

This was so unlooked for & so lovely -- I'm thrilled to share that the audiobook of THE RIVER HAS ROOTS is in Audible's Top 20 #BestOfTheYear for 2025 & Top 10 SFF lists, Audible UK's Best of 2025 Sci-Fi Fantasy picks, & Audible Canada's Book of the Year.

and so begins the annual tradition of the cats slowly figuring out ways to fuck with the tree

Meriadoc melted next to the fire

it's (darkly) funny that the tech titans' politics are basically "we have no choice but to end representative government because my employees asked for a slight raise in 2020"

Wow what a northern lights show in Minnesota! More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-weather/spectacular-northern-lights-put-on-mesmerizing-show-across-minnesota

Please allow me to interrupt the horrors to bring you: Chewbacca's fifth birthday, which he celebrated with a pupcake 🥰 (yes, we sang to him)

This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰

In a functional party system, this kind of capitulation in the face of authoritarianism could mean the end of the Democratic Party. In our system, it could mean the end of the two party system. Neither party can represent the pro-democracy majority. It's time for something new.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Caught a glimpse, just for a few moments tonight 🤩

Sometimes you just get really good news and wonder if maybe karma actually is real after all.

Don’t ever let them tell you that hope is a bad thing, that the odds are so stacked against you that you will never win, that it is too late to change the world. What has happened today in New York can happen everywhere.

MORE OF THIS K THX

Just found out that my (millennial) partner thought the song "Like a G6" was about a mediocre Pontiac until today, a solid 15 years after the song's release. Also the "turbalance, turbalance" interjection in the RedOne remix is *chef's kiss*

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Just overheard my partner, who has previously expressed discomfort with anyone fat-shaming the cats, call one of them "Biggus McLardface Jenkins." Apparently learning how to break into the cat food bin was his acceptable limit for calling them weight-based names.

I've always LOVED the way #AliHazelwood writes her female protagonists as brilliant STEM heroines. Imagine my shocked delight when I pick up Bride (I know, I'm late to this party) and the FMC is a pen teSTER I ALMOST DIED

Enormous thanks to @papamurphyspizza.bsky.social for making an actually delicious gluten-free crust AND having an also delicious dairy-free cheese option!

Pippin has become enormous.

I started and finished (in one sitting) what will almost certainly be my favorite book for the year two days ago and cannot stop thinking about it. I already want to re-read it. Abandon the rest of your TBR and read Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. You can thank me later, when you finish sobbing.

On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we honor the strength, wisdom, & stories of Indigenous peoples. Cameron Alam’s Anangokaa offers a glimpse into early Upper Canada, where a Scottish settler’s friendship with a Chippewa chief’s son reshapes her views of land & belonging. #Anangokaa #BlackwaterPress #booksky

My partner to Chai, after she went from fully at rest to chasing our unsuspecting cat down the stairs: "Why do you have zero chill? There's not even a tactical advantage to behaving that way."

Realized I haven't shared a reading wrap up in a while. I was also cranky pretty much all of September, for whatever that's worth. Here are my summaries for the last two months!

I for one am not at all worried that the most powerful people on earth have optimized my society and my brain to be ultra-reliant on the misery machine we keep in our pockets.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Merry and Pippin sure have toasted! They were little white floofs when they were babies, and now they're both a little over a year old and much darker. I love their coloring! 🥹🤩

Also, shame on any democrat politician who thought for one moment this was a radicalized progressive. We don’t radicalize toward weaponry and murder. We generally radicalize toward justice, protest, mutual aid, and community action.

This is a universal issue with practically every digital platform I use

Everyone has a second full time job being mad at the government now

Millennials are middle aged now but not me. I stayed young somehow

T. Swift, a billionaire white woman, aligning herself with racists and tr*mp supporters was so predictable. Side note: her latest album was talentless drivel. She wanted so badly for it to be poetic, but it sounded like pretentious ramblings of a spoiled adolescent taking AP lit. FOH with that trash

Read books. Become insufferable.