Every day I learn another thing I should have been told by a doctor decades ago

If only someone could have predicted this

Work is sending out emails to announce a toy drive, when they don't pay us enough for me to be sure I can even do Christmas for my own kid. 🙃

How do I have such a happy baby when I'm this miserable? And also, how am I this miserable when I have such a happy baby? It boggles the mind.

I've seen a few people (not here) saying they use ChatGPT to tell them what to make with whatever random food they have around. I feel like there used to be an app or a website that did that exact thing? It's been bugging me.

haha, a year. i am very sorry to report that somewhere in romancelandia, a white woman is probably writing this and is planning to self-publish something like this within weeks.

I miss my mom.

Posting this for myself to look at later when I need it. This is proof that my weirdness about food right now is not just me suddenly being a picky eater: Last night, we had chili. It's one of my favorite foods. I couldn't even eat half the bowl before I gave up and ate crackers.

honestly i think we should have the option to toss everybody out and start anew if the government won’t work properly for the people

Did you know that in Canada, if a budget doesn’t pass the government doesn’t shut down? Federal workers aren’t furloughed. Funding for social services doesn’t dry up. Failure to pass a budget triggers an election. It puts the politicians jobs on the line. They get the budget passed.

This is what those 8 Dems just voted for A return to a time when people died or became disabled because they couldn’t afford care People are terrified tonight that they will have to start rationing meds That they will lose their medical insurance That they will die Healthcare is a human right!

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

Welp, I'm guessing this week I'll finally get the email from work telling me how much I'm not going to be able to afford insurance. At least that'll put the $700/mo I'm currently paying back on my checks.

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Glad we've taught the Trump administration that starving 42 million people and disrupting air travel is how they get whatever they want, though. Good precedent with 3 years left in this nightmare.

With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

I may not have serotonin but I do have chocolate. (Shout out to @jlizhill.bsky.social for making sure of that.)

So...they're gonna cave, and then I'm betting SNAP is still not gonna come back. Fucking hell.

Food request! I need shelf stable diabetes-friendly food & medical supplies I cannot afford with my health issues. There aren't local food banks that can help me. All my food aid is from your kindness! Here is my list if you'd like to help this disabled queer trans artist. Thank you! #MutualAid

Correct

They started by DOGE coming in and randomly taking out pieces of Government like it was a Jenga tower. Know how a Jenga game always ends? Always.

i think the main thing a lot of you “the economy is better than it’s ever been” types are failing to grasp is that it really—and i mean REALLY—makes it look like you don’t give a shit about poor people.

The Walmart notifications I get keep getting more and more deranged. "Thanks for buying potato chips! We think you'll love this purse." What???

I've been up since 6am trying to get rid of a headache. I finally succeeded and could probably go back to sleep, but I guarantee B will wake up exactly two minutes after I fall asleep.

I can't decide if I'm horrified or amused by the fact that I have to spend $80 on a TV later this month, when I'm this fucking broke. It's absurd, but it's also necessary. It's literally the key to surviving WFH with the baby. (No lectures on screen time, k thanks. It's literally survival atp.)

Do I have $5 to spend on chocolate? No, not really. Do I need emergency chocolate so I can maybe not scream? Yep.

I still have to weave in the ends and seal these, but that's for after work. But yay, earrings! (They are purple, the lighting is just weird right now.)

I woke up early and thought I might get a few minutes to myself. But M is asleep on the couch, so when I turned on a lamp in the bedroom because I need to see to work on these earrings, it woke up the baby.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

It's hard enough forcing myself to eat lately, but then on top of the PPD stealing my appetite, it's also making the whole thing a sensory nightmare, so every night I give up on dinner after a few bites and get a bowl of cereal. This is an especially bad time for this to be happening.

Goodnight, y'all! Headed to bed with $1545 left to raise to cover November bills. Every dollar helps! It's been one loss after another this year, without y'alls kindness I don't know where we'd be. Thank you, thank you for making the difference for me and my little family.

Whomst among us has not explained to their 6 month old how silly 2FA feels? "I put in my password to unlock the computer, then I put in my password to open my email, but then I need a code from a text to open it for real. Then I put in the PW on this website but then there's a code in an email..."

I read this and immediately thought “well that would actually be awesome because then Marty can go back to the 90s where he probably had a really awesome time as a teenager” and then I was like oh wait his PARENTS would have been teenagers in the 90s and then I just sat here for like 45 minutes

Even though it’s true Republicans are in court demanding that American children go hungry, it’s unfair to not point out that the reason Republicans are doing that is to make sure American families also lose their health care coverage.

this administration has not worked diligently on anything except the starving and robbery of the people it is meant to serve

the fury i feel is indescribable.

*glares at everything* Stop that.

Could we get more eyes on this please? Im running out of time to find lodging. Any help would mean so much to me.

Here we go, another day in hell (aka the job I used to love)

Today in my brain is absolute nonsense: feeling guilty because I keep hugging my baby to make myself feel better and that seems selfish. Except...he doesn't care? He's glad he's getting hugs from Mommy? This is a win-win and yet my brain insists I'm being selfish

Second time dealing with postpartum depression during a recession: same as the first, a little bit louder and a lotta bit worse. Which is fucking ridiculous, considering I was also trying to survive DV the first time.

I keep seeing people argue about whether the cruelty is the point or if the money just isn't there, and at this point the word "both" is starting to not even sound like a real word from repeating it so much

One of the things that kills me about all this is that it’s just, like, maybe ten guys.

Once upon a time, if an American corporate CEO did the Nazi salute, he'd lose his job, not get a $1 trillion pay package.

Okay, fine, I wasn't going to do this, but I just had to choose between cheese and toothpaste, so if anyone wants to toss a coin, please do. (But only if you want to, and please don't make your own life harder or pass on helping someone in worse shape.) PayPal.me/brokenqueene CA/V: brokenqueene

B tried oatmeal again tonight. He ate the whole bowl! (Okay, he wore about 1/3 of it, but he didn't stop trying before it was empty.)

Yes

Putting the phone down for the night (probably, depending on how bad the insomnia gets). If this crosses your path, will you please share it? I was laid off last week for the second time this year. I'm pretty scared right now. $1695 secures everything for November. Thank you for your help!