It’s okay to be blue today too. The food is good but the feelings are hard

I regret not silently cramming leftover stuffing into my purse

Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

Meet Misu. She is all at once curious, glamorous, suspicious, lurking, and aggrieved

Everyone should have a teenager in their life if only to watch their faces while you explain “The Love Boat”

Maybe I should have gone into maritime law

Reading Charles Willeford’s detective thriller “Miami Blues” while spending Thanksgiving in Miami was one of the best decisions I’ve made in a long time

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

I met a very naughty cat and a very sweet and fluffy dog

Proofreading is their passion

Happy thanksgiving to everyone except for the coughing woman at the airport who isn’t even bothering to cover her mouth

Stove Top stuffing made with low sodium chicken broth and additional sautéed onion and mushrooms is a guaranteed hit

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Are you a woman between the ages of 40-60 with a story about paying off debt that you’d be willing to share ANONYMOUSLY? It’s for a chapter about coping with debt in midlife We all have debt! Like, literally, all of us! Your story will help others ♥️ I’d love to hear from you. DM me!

Has anyone ever used all the tables in a nesting table? It’s just a table with little useless stools for ants!

Trash Cat has utterly collapsed, only the scent of fish gruel may rouse him

Here I go, here I go, here I go again Girls, what's my weakness? (Men!)

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Trash Cat has a temporarily discombobulated ear

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Reuniting with Trash Cat tomorrow and I’m going to kiss his massive doofus head a million times

Are you a woman dealing with suddenly difficult parents? Like, they’ve become paranoid about crime or politically obsessed with one topic? You’re trying to deal with them with love and compassion but you’re also going a little out of your mind? DM me with a story, it’s totally anonymous

“What necessary perspectives do we lose, and what questions go unasked and unanswered, when Black journalists are among the first to be seen as disposable on a masthead?”

Dilbert Mints (1999-circa 2006): A line of licensed "intense peppermint" breath mints, featuring the characters from "Dilbert". Available in collectible tins with punny names such as Accomplish-Mints, Postpone-Mints, Harass-Mints, Appease-Mints, Improve-Mints, Manage-Mints and Perform-Mints.

I’ve learned more about economics from chatting with a jeweler in the diamond dust text than I have from reading endless analysts

This piece was great and very educational!

What the heck? It’s too early in the year for Christmas melancholy!

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

OMG! My friend is on her honeymoon in Waikiki and she found my book when she went to a naughty store for romantic accoutrement!

I love my furry little brother

I am forming a band made up entirely of aunts and it will be called

Accidental album covers

I’ve seen the best minds of my generation lose their minds arguing with chatbots on the internet

I just spent 3 hours watching this show with my best friend and we laughed and gawked at the costumes and it’s so bad but I loved it

I'm up all night to have fun, he’s up all night to look grumpy

h/T to @baddestmamajama.bsky.social who did this and really made me laugh: Olivia Nuzzi bio Mad Libs GO

I bought this iconic 1995 Casio and I’m definitely feeling like a Hundred-Dollar Baby

I will never stop vomiting

Book me on your podcast so I can shriek like a banshee about my favorite films by the directors that changed my brain: Nancy Savoca, Susan Seidelman, Alison Anders, and Claudia Weill

We're still here, for now. Help us be a pain in the ass until Congress starts doing their jobs, restores CFPB funding, and fires Russ Vought: 5calls.org/issue/cfpb-f...

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I think a lot of people in HHS own telemedicine companies and the plan is to gut health insurance so people head there for what seems like less expensive options on the surface. Some telemedicine companies do good things, but others exist to upsell people with products and services.

All these years later, I can still make a little lopsided bracelet out of string

“I’d like a ticket for one R-rated movie please”

One day, we’ll all look back on Courtney Love as the last of the non-scripted greats

My husband sent me this and it’s so gross. They’re WOMEN!

If a non-Jewish writer wrote this, it would published in the Heritage Foundation Review www.vulture.com/article/jewi...

That government is a profit center vs. public service. Excited to see all the ways this “savings” will improve our failing infrastructure

The Louvre heist is the story that keeps on giving. This is a delight.

I sent my 14 year-old niece a Yo La Tengo song. She loved it. I believe the children may just be our future (I love them)