My 4 year old wants to make 10 cakes for Thanksgiving. Which you could call toddler hyperbole, except for the fact that she wrote up her baking plan like a British pensioner on GBBO trying to get a handshake, and gave me drawn directions to the store, and has named the people who will get the cakes.

It’s very very very cool to see silly art that you made come to life (and geographically organized to boot.) Thanks for sharing this @alexgoyette.bsky.social, and to every AlxSkeets friend who’s supported this goofy project.

hell yeah I love us

I do love font-based journalism.

Guys I have good news. The official Evil Urbanist Agenda for Alexandria is out in convenient desk-calendar form (but I swear if any of you shows Bill I will block you). port-city-shirts.printify.me

Virginia Is For Lovers Unless You Love Tyranny

“How can Zohran Mamdani make free buses a reality?” Alexandria:

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

I mean, I’ve seen enough, if that matters to anybody.

I keep periodically looking at the State Navigate spreadsheet turnout reports like I know anything and just keep saying this:

I voted in person this morning, largely because my 4 year old wanted to know about “boteing”. She recommends choosing her as our leader, by the way. I ended up having to vote provisional because I forgot to bring my mail ballot to surrender 🤦‍♀️

This is my annual Halloween reminder that where I grew up (Des Moines) “Halloween” was two separate days of events. You had the 31st, Halloween itself, that had school parties and was generally the day that adults were going out to parties/bars. The kids had Beggar’s Night.

Just saw a Stumpy making its way to the Del Ray parade so good luck yall.

the duality of man

My 80 year old dad is out protesting today. Eighty. Hanging out with all his sept/octagenarian mall walking buddies at the state capitol. And if that wasn’t the shot in the arm I needed.

Me coming up with business plans ever since I got DOGE’d.

Started playing Ghost of Yotei tonight and uh oh! I’m way too into it for a parent with a teething baby whose sleep is crazy inconsistent.

“What do you mean, making silly internet pictures is not a valid method of coping with stress?”

Come over to our club, Shutdown Watch. We have everything: - existential dread - a case of Surfsides and a pasta bake that stayed cold in the fridge despite the power outage - Hades 2

Back in my teenage years, being involved in the UN and working in international diplomacy was a real goal of mine. The idea of ever being able to stand in front of that body and speak was mind boggling. This wouldn't pass muster at even a junior high Model UN. My god.

Took a hike to touch grass

Experimenting with something:

Nothing but questions for the driver I saw with a 1/4th eaten Domino’s pizza on the dash of her Mazda.

Found a good use for the spare pigeon art my husband had in the hopper:

Oh she’s fun

Who let this caption happen and who will let this keep happening because it’s great

So I noticed that the BIBA page had vanished from my links on FB. I assumed it might be related to something similar being said in the news and a possible page timeout, but it's not back yet. (This was before I made any stickers.) Out of morbid curiosity, does anybody know what's up?

West End, Best End art is officially updated! port-city-shirts.printify.me/category/all/1 I added it as a water bottle too, largely only to fill the sudden need *I* have for a surface for more stickers.

A few more updates for you! port-city-shirts.printify.me I’m going to be taking a break (stopping this chaos) since my freelance picks back up tomorrow, thank you for having some fun with me.

Drafting Pickles, Patron of King Street Station

I keep threatening to make weird shirts based on the stuff I see here. And now I'm just unemployed-enough to do it. port-city-shirts.printify.me

If you heard a banshee in old town tonight, don’t worry, that was actually just my toddler loudly letting me know I was a monster for not buying her two Spider-Man books.

Can we have a party for the tunnel winning an award? I need something good going on right now.

Post your last photo of DC to show what a hell-hole it is. Literal tigers live here yikes watch out

No but how is living in the DC metro real, because I was driving this morning and heard an ad inviting “warfighters” to a “classified hackathon”, right before a review of Freakier Friday.

We accidentally stumbled into a NNO event tonight - we were gonna have a picnic dinner at a tot friendly playground, and whoops, everybody was there with snacks and games. My children have insanely unrealistic ideas about how often we can go to “parties”, thanks Alexandria.

One of my first freelancing projects was a rebrand for a romance author. She gave me her material as a part of discovery. Fun! Light! Cute! My next project is a legal training series on immigration. They also gave me material for discovery. Worse! It’s real life! Take me back, romance!

Riding dash in the middle of the day on a Friday and this bus is 70% full. Just in case the naysayers wanna naysay.

Ah jeez

Hi guys! It’s me, a recently defunded slick D.C. consultant. That’s my 2011 Honda Civic that we will run into the ground because it’s paid off.

Got an email today that proved that I was right about something in a job I held years ago. And as an insufferable, first-born daughter, I might eat the rest of my son’s leftover birthday cake to celebrate.

Today’s my last day in my office with my team before our furlough begins, which is like the world worst last day of school before summer break. There are folks who’ve been here for over 20 years asking how to roll over a 401k, because they’ve never had to. It’s surreal and awful.

Hey BlueSky, long time no see, because: About three months ago, my husband got DOGE’d (he did get a new contract almost immediately thank goodness), and apparently, it’s my turn. While nothing is official-official yet, it’s increasingly more likely that I’m put on furlough starting in June.

Hey There Delilah. I was once flipping channels on my car radio to escape it and it was playing on three stations simultaneously. My own personal Sisyphean rock for a little while in the late aughts and still angry about it today.

A lot of us were talking DnD back in January - anybody in ALX still interested in local one-shots? Probably about time to start revving that engine!

A daycare mom called me fashionable today and I think I’ll ride that high for a full calendar week.

In light of everything (husband getting doge’d, son has stomach flu, trump wants a golden idol of himself) I lost my patience on a former colleague spouting hot garbage yesterday and she accused me of personally attacking her. All I have been able to think of since is this:

Elon Musk and Trump just caused my husband to lose his work producing documents that help disabled veterans access healthcare, that the government is required by law to make but very few people can actually do. Utter rage.

Reddit is having a NoVA Best Pizza Fight and I feel like people here would want to know that: www.reddit.com/r/nova/s/XSr...

When I was looking for new work, I very briefly considered a job at the Kennedy Center. And booooooooooooooooooy.