If driving super slowly but a little confusingly in a very high stress situation is a capital offense, the parking lot at Trader Joe's is gonna be a bloodbath every Saturday. As a pedestrian I have interactions with cars that are basically exactly this (minus the murder goons) on the actual daily.

Sooooo can we revisit the role of misogyny in both the 2016 and 2024 elections now, or are we still pretending that this country isn't absolutely chock full of hateful misogynists who vote accordingly?

I fell off perfectly normal curbs not once but twice and broke bones (first time, fingers because I fell on my hand, second time in London and ankle--thanks NHS!)

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social just wondering, for no particular reason, are you currently in the greater pittsburgh area?

Hard agree but I'm the absence of that function this is a pretty great way to negatively polarize normal ass people against generative AI because holy shit

Waking up and checking the depression rectangle... Oh fuck sake. I'm gonna go back to sleep and when I wake up again this had better be an elaborate prank

One funny thing Elon Musk figured out about the media is if, instead of providing comment to reporters, you email back an automated reply saying "go fuck yourself," the reporters will just invent their own plausible-sounding defense of your conduct to balance their stories instead of punishing you

I been saying, man. It's wild to me as someone who grew up in the "morning in America" 80s that the central message of Republicans right now seems to be "no we can't, stop even trying, lie down and die". Like. Are we fucking Americans or what?!

At the age of 51, I recently got diagnosed with ADHD after a three hour evaluation and full report. How various people in my life responded is going to be excellent fodder for my therapist appointment next week because the two people closest to me responded with "oh just like everyone else 🙄"

These deeply unserious people are negatively polarizing me against police abolitionism.

Got my mom @rosemarymosco.com's Birding Dictionary for Xmas and it was a timely gift because her block is currently the epicenter of The Great Painted Bunting Sighting of 2025 and they've had random birders in their yard all week. www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2025/12/27/s...

Okay but I do have many pieces of paper stating that I do in fact write super duper good so, like, do I still have to use the thing that writes worse than me?

Converting to a new religion just to zeal something

My husband is an anarcho-syndicalist (who works at a law firm lol) and I'm a social democrat. Different political views! But same values. Because I'd never date or marry someone with a completely different values system, call me crazy.

I would like to speak with the manager of whoever designed the driving controls in Cyberpunk 2077. I have Mario-ed many a kart in my time but I cannot drive a block in Night City without running the curb and hitting a lamp post, two junkies and a technomonk.

I grew up in the city and then went to college in the actual middle of nowhere. Not even a college town, just a college in the middle of cornfields (St. Mary's of Maryland holla). Even us city mice use college to try on a whole different lifestyle

Gong Li gave me a snotty look once.

Today, while they are out being spoiled by their aunt, I am cleaning my thirteen-year-old's room. Please clap.

I...I know how to make a list, Gemini. And how the fuck would you know what I need to accomplish today, anyway?

You know what no one needs? A robot to make art for them! You can just decide with your own human brain that you want to learn a new skill and then you can do it. Finished a new painting today that I'm real proud of and I can *confidently* tell you that six years ago I just assumed I could never.

The time between Christmas and New Year's eve

I don't know what I'd call or, but I do know it'd have some banging potato salad

Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥

As someone responsible for supporting a LOT of SaaS used daily by thousands: FUCK YOU JUST MAKE YOUR CORE PRODUCT WORK Every vendor call I'm on since forever I BEG them to please just focus on making their core product/functionality perfect THEY DO NOT NEED ANY MORE ENCOURAGEMENT IN THIS AREA

Another holiday tradition is that my husband draws a cartoon to accompany his dad's gift of paying the annual premium on his mom's long term care insurance. There's a whole wall of them at their condo

My mom sewed this stocking when I was a wee babby. I rearranged the sequins from my name to my own kid's when they were a wee baby. Now they are a wee enby so I had to rearrange the sequins again. Nearly 50 years old and still going strong. My mama didn't make no weak-ass stocking.

Every Christmas me, my mom, mother-in-law and sister-in-law have a gingerbread contest with the theme chosen by the winner from the year before. This year's theme is Pittsburgh landmarks so I made the Three Sisters bridges

"women are used to being called hysterical for literally everything, it rolls off our backs . . . whereas for men, their worst fear is being associated with a woman, or anything womanly" www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/cassandras

It'll be fascinating to see if I ever get any Bari Weiss email forwards from my dad ever again. He's a charmingly credulous libertarian who took all of her Freedom of Speech hot air as a for real principled stance, bless.

Okay. First of all you do not have to post a goddamn thing on the Internet if you don't want to. Second of all, I do feel uniquely qualified to talk about this scenario specifically because I did this about five years ago. I went from "stick figures at best" to someone who has sold my art.

This is the argument I've been making at work: I thought the whole deal with LLMs is they use natural language, why are we spending any time whatsoever teaching people how to use them? Every model will happily tell you how to use it for your discipline (for better or worse).

Toby interviewed me for this and it's a really insightful analysis of those of us suffering under the Curse of Cassandra. Great read.

First day of walking lessons at the Ramada Inn.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Just random trying to keep warm while waiting for the bus thoughts: being currently in the midst of a bunch of diagnostic stuff for both me and my kid vis a vis mental health and neurodivergence and I think what people who immediately get judgy about "self diagnosis" often fail to appreciate is...

REJECT ALGORITHM RETVRN TO REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL

I say this fully understanding the irony of me, an American, asking this but... What on earth is going on over there with your supposedly center left government? Like, we have fascists in power right now, what is your* excuse? *general you, not you specifically, good reader

There's no time like the present for small businesses to stop using Instagram as their sole advertising platform. Then maybe I'd actually be able to see details on local events instead of a pop up insisting I log in to my non-existent Meta account.

When I say that the costume designers for Foundation understood the assignment...

Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.

If you don't know about anglerfish reproduction, I urge you to go and learn about it right now because it's wild.

i am all in favor of the rip-roaring return of shame

It's the 🎶Circle of Republican Liiiife🎵. Every generation in power thinks they can sow the wind amongst the rubes for immediate power, not realizing that they're gonna reap the whirlwind of the next generation of the party being those same exact rubes.

Good, nice perk, kinda makes up for low pay: having two weeks off for the holidays because you work at a university Bad, annoying, yet inevitable every year: A thousand meetings being scheduled the week before break as everyone tries to cram a month's worth of work into two weeks.

Skill issue tbh

pals you gotta quit spotify

Yesss put printed material out into the world! Break free from digital algorithms, put real shit on real tables for real randos to pick up and look at! Especially if you are not a private individual with limited budget and a whole-ass other full time job *cough*

In 1991, Wim Wenders made a movie called Until the End of the World. If you are a cinema-knower 🧐 of a certain age, you've probably heard of it and may even have seen it. If you're a true sicko like me, you own the 4.5-hour director's cut on Blu-Ray. But it's suddenly got a whole new relevance 🧵

I just learned about this person and now I'm making it your problem too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...