Love these treasures

I am supposed to be a brain in a jar

I asked my 12yo if she ever heard of Carmen Sandiego and she was like "I have seen a picture of her...I recall she was... attractive" and I was like "yup"

It's legit crazy how much I'm happy to not work in tech anymore

Buddy if you want a few more of my hours feel free. I'm not using them wisely

Walking with my WHOLE ass

If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know? But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.

That's not true. But Amelia Earhart's plane actually disappeared shortly after her ground team radioed her to let her know Chotiner wanted to chat once she finished her flight, so like, draw your own conclusions.

No but I've seen Tegan and Sara AND CocoRosie

Impulsively experimenting with a substance I may or may not be allergic to, alone in a house, about to take a long drive. What could go wrong

One thing I have discovered since I moved is that skylights make the rain much more Loud

My kid is trying to figure out how many lollipops she can buy with her hongbao money and I feel like a broken record doing the math with her but repeating after every sentence "but you MAY NOT spend all your new year money on lollipops"

It's so weird to me that Slowpoke, the obviously cutest Pokemon of all time, isn't everyone's favorite. Just look at that little face

$5 doc martens. Happened in 7th grade and I'm still stoked about it

"finally I've cracked the code," I say, mixing two different brands of instant oatmeal packet together

you wonder, why do i get so bitter and acidic and cynical about politics? i grew into full adulthood watching bush's wargasm. this is the shit that got me into journalism and activism. this right here. this is the ballgame.

So ok I have a really clear sense memory of drinking yakult as a kid that had been frozen and mostly thawed but still had little ice crystals and it was SO good but if I put yakult in the freezer it just explodes past the foil. What am I doing wrong

My lunatic husband and children are out in the hot tub. It's 42 degrees out there and the kids are daring each other to get in the pool. How am I related to these insane people

My children experience many innovative modern entertainments but for sheer delight bang for your buck it's still hard to beat the simple air popcorn popper

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

I uh. I think I'm getting a sense of why the butlerian jihad might have got kicked off

Omigod news just take a fucking breather

So I feel like this is how I thought about Elon Musk buying Twitter but it turns out he definitely got what he wanted from that deal so now I'm not so sure I can predict what really rich people want or how it's gonna go for them

My child thought George Washington was "a GIANT person, that trembled across the land...a huge huge person made of huge skeleton bones...the problem is that he had a really big mother" wow I think I saw a YouTube video about this theory once

And they know people are gonna be mad about it. The email was incredibly defensive. I get that they want to maintain access to bases for events but holy shit, grow a spine. Show some fucking integrity

For reals. As my friends get older and they "suddenly" have joint pain in their forties it's wild being like "well I'm on about year 30 of approximately this much knee pain" it's sad to think of the adventures I might have tried if I'd ever had that painless young body everyone else seemingly had

The Millennium episode of the X-Files.

My kid had to borrow black shoes for a choir thing today and I think I'd never really thought about how many pairs of black or mostly black hi-tops or boots I own because they all serve such different functions in my shoe wardrobe but like. At least seven pair

Reading the kids a book with a character called Beryl and they both DEFINITELY thought it was Barrel until 6yo was reading over my shoulder today and went "wow that was NOT how I was expecting Beryl to be spelled"

Wasn't hungry enough for dinner so now I'm just eating candy for dinner. What could go wrong

Xfiles truly primed me for a life in the Pacific NW to such an absurd degree. Whenever I drive even fifteen minutes out of town it's like "here I am...where I was always meant to be...it's Spooky Country and I am here to Experience It"

Just realized I briefly lived a couple miles from Nancy Guthrie's house. Looking at Google maps it is WILD how much development has happened in that area. I guess I shouldn't be surprised but I still think of Oro valley as mostly cactus

Ugh I gotta get my swords and armor into the car but I have a zit on my chin and my helmet is gonna bump it all evening. Ugh, the way of the sword demands so much of me

Making pourover coffee for the first time. Worried it's going to make me sleepy cause I poured it wrong

My kid's new passport photo looks like an ID picture from an anime where promising boys are mentally tortured by a secret evil government project in hopes of developing their psychic powers

It always feels like such a win to recognize the extremely negative self-talk of my premenstrual brain for what it is. Usually I'm in it too deep but it's nice to at least have a slight glimmer of self awareness every once in awhile

Never stops being funny that the same toys are sold as "calico critters" in the US and "sylvanian families" in East Asia

Just told myself "imagine how it would feel to have to tell people that you, a 40 year old mother of three, got in a car accident due to singing along too dramatically to 'heard it through the grapevine' in 2026" but damn though

"you guys need to stop Fox News from saying all you talk about is pronouns"

Getting yelled at by a sick kid because she had peanut butter on her cheek and I ate it. "I WAS SAVING THAT FOR A SNACK"

BAT BAT BAT

It just got here and this album fucks just as hard as it did when I was a teen. Ugh I love Gorky's so MUUUUCH I'm so glad the suggestion to google the band came to me in a dream

Youngest has food poisoning and had toast for dinner and after we left the restaurant I discovered she had surreptitiously pocketed the tiny jam jar

Actually I take it back. Why aren't MORE people getting sunburns in February. Skill issue tbh. Losers

ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL

Ugh such amateur hour shit to get a sunburn in February. I oughta get fired

Man nobody dresses up for shit like Angelenos. I'm at go tour and people have such great shirts and cosplay. Only Japan does it better