I’ll remind everyone that Epic and Lovely is also about a young blonde fucking an old man and that I earn out at 1000 copies: annieblooms.com/book/9781959...

Hey everyone: skip this garbage and buy all your loved ones “Epic and Lovely” by @modaviau.bsky.social for the holidays instead!

Astonishing graphic, and an unfortunately necessary reminder of the miracle of vaccines; but I would like to speak to the editor about “year 0.” 😒

Sure it was more pervasive pre-, idk, ‘10, but just yesterday I saw a celebrity news headline about how a famous person’s 15 year old daughter “looks so grown up” at a public event. (Reader, she looked 15.) It’s still baked into our culture that teen girls exist to be ogled and interfered with.

This should be the final word on Epstein and his typing. It’s not that he didn’t know spelling and grammar; it’s that he believed that everyone else on earth was beneath him. He and Trump were pals because they matched in their titanic narcissism.

FUCK.

Having my morning coffee with a little cardamom in honor of Mayor-Elect Mr. Cardamom. Congratulations NYC!

No-recipe minestrone: 1. sauté in olive oil onions, garlic until soft 2. add any combo of these: diced bell pepper, leek, carrot, celery, cabbage, potato, other long-cooking veg, sauté until soft 3. add one of the these (optional): diced pancetta, sausage (veg or meat), salami, sauté /1

TIL Curtis Sliwa got caught cheating in a matzoh ball eating contest. TIL also that it is possible to cheat in a matzoh ball eating contest.

Enough of them realized that this country would collapse in hours if the price of coffee went too high.

Genuinely the moment in US (and to a significant extent, world) history in my own lifetime where shit went deeply, deeply wrong. If you believe, as I do, that a Gore admin would’ve likely prevented 9/11, then even more so.

I’m a bucatini hater. I like short tube pasta, but long tube? The sauce can’t get in there, so what’s the point?

I’m gonna have to break with the dictionary here and insist that “butt naked” is is own thing, and legit.

Best sign so far today at the Seattle #NoKings.

There are no kings in America, except the several restaurants around the country named Pho King. 🍜

Literally in 2004 I witnessed the University of Washington’s College Republicans holding an “Affirmative Action Bakesale” in front of the student union building, where I was working at the time. They have, in fact, always been like this.

Reposting for next weekend’s No Kings day.

Both “Andventures in Babysitting” and “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” are films based on Homer’s The Odyssey.

My favorites of these elsewhere are Houston St. in NYC and Couch St. in Portland.

Puyallup, Sequim, geoduck, and sometimes Puget.

I got a pic of my grandmother’s high school yearbook photo and senior bio from a complete stranger on twitter whose grandfather was in the same class. That was nice.

Go dawgs! (most of) the kids are all right. 💜💛

Gen X was right about sellouts

I’m firmly team text. I will not watch a video on my phone to receive information (I’ll watch a vid for entertainment sometimes). I wish accessibility enthusiasts on this site were as ardent about including subtitles in videos as they are about alt text for pics.

Apparently I have Thoughts about the existence of Peanuts-themed Clue.

Why does Andreesen’s head look pointier with each successive photo of him I see?

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

D is my obvious choice. What’s challenging about this map is the choice to split Italy into 3 sectors.

Hey Bay area: hire Dyna!

Felix the Cat, the primordial All-father.

Masses of physical media: video rental stores, lengthy magazine shelves (including a porno shelf in the back, stacks of newspapers and mags everywhere, paperback racks in drug stores, piles of vhs tapes in every home, cassette tapes, phone books.

oh no Fox discovered our secret.

The animal with the longest penis in proportion to its body is the barnacle. They are sessile animals, so the weiner has to do the walking.

The entire Trump administration is a death cult. They want people who aren’t exactly like them (white, het, cis, christian, “healthy” etc) to either leave the country or simply die, and for most of us, they’d prefer the latter. Once you understand this, all their actions and decisions make sense.

I am super duper basic: apartments in Manhattan (E Village/LES) and Paris (3e-6e); a spanish revival bungalow in LA (undec. which neighborhood, but east-ward); a cottage with a cute English garden in Cornwall or Devon; Seattle (the one I have).

This is a stupid idea and so is the Colbert suggestion. We have already had an actor and a reality show host as presidents, and both were terrible at it, not just because of their odious ideologies. Just because someone is liked by “our” side doesn’t make them more qualified. stop it.

Picturing some federales taking globs of dried-out, teriyaki-sauced rice to the face. Followed by a handful of iceberg lettuce that no one eats. Not effective as a projectile, but it would communicate the right level of disrespect. #Seattle

Furthest I’ve been: N: Reykjavik 🇮🇸 E: Patmos 🇬🇷 S: Hawai’i (somewhere near the volcanoes) 🇺🇸 W: Kaua’i 🇺🇸

The guardian often has great journalism in the news section, but their entire opinion section seems like it’s written by space aliens who are learning, haltingly and awkwardly, to act human.

Broke. Unemployed. Might have to start advertising commission work here— lettering (like return addresses) and Mad Men Yourself avatar updates are the easiest to sell, I think Would you want it?

The Challenger explosion.

I’m not in nyc and thus not familiar with the local situation, but thanks to @jasonjdelaney.bsky.social here for reminding me of something that I used to know more about and the likely reason “government run grocery stores” is on the Mamdani platform:

OK…in my (post 9/11 GWB era) experience, the security at NARA was already tight. 🤷🏻‍♀️ That post about “legitimate business” was either extremely poorly worded, or was meant to enrage and discourage people. Glad they’re clarifying, but the original announcement shouldn’t have happened.

btw you can’t just walk in and browse here like a local public library. They already have stringent security, you have to register as a researcher and they keep tabs on what you view and photocopy/photograph. The concern is theft of irreplaceable documents, not espionage.

This is extremely bad. In grad school I spent a lot of time at the College Park NARA facility doing research for my studies. It is literally the holder of PUBLIC records! “Legitimate business need” my ass.

Lol ty blocklist curators!

I think a lot of Americans, not just NYers, think NYC is a liberal town because of its one-party politics. It’s not. AOC’s informal survey of her constituents who voted for her + Trump was very illuminating. That & basically all of NYC history since the Tammany Hall era.

There are no kings in America, except the several restaurants around the country named Pho King. 🍜

This is why I quit Facebook shortly after Trump’s first inauguration. I quit twitter after Musk. I quit Instagram right after Trump’s 2nd, but for slightly different reasons. Anyway, I have an easier time taking a break from Bluesky when the TL’s a bummer than with my previous sm platforms.