Nate's title was kind of sticking in my head all day, and I finally realized it was reminding me of this song that I'd heard years and years ago... just looked up a more recent recording on Youtube. 😍 My damaged brain goes to interesting, not quite relevant, places sometimes.

Immediately applying to join the Turtle Island Liberation Front

Always gotta pull out the Jewish party bands for #Hanukkah. Just got tickets to see Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars this weekend with a friend, too. Love them!

Big ol' meteor shower tonight (Geminids) if you live somewhere with clear weather. Get out there and see some astronomical phenomena.

Feeling a few percent more positive after taking a snow walk in the park and seeing that someone actually brought a real carrot to use for their snowman's nose 🥹 And for some reason a couple of celery sticks to use for its little arms? 😂 I guess they were stopping by the store already...

Sending love to Sydney 💔 and the Jewish community everywhere on the first night of Hanukkah. We all deserve safety and not hate and violence. Not another holiday under police guard and metal detectors.

Yet another corruption scheme related to the Adams administration. It's actually not too late for the governor to remove him from office!

Heads up for my charitable friends... "But starting next year, people who take the standard deduction ... can also take a deduction for direct charitable donations of up to $1,000 for single tax filers and $2,000 for married couples filing jointly."

I am having the weirdest hair day and then suddenly remembered that when I washed my hair yesterday I had the sneaking suspicion that I might have brain-fog-forgotten to put conditioner in my hair in the shower. Welp. Now I know.

Welcome, uh... (checks notes, hesitantly) Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, to the War on Christmas! 🫡

I don't want to be nosy but I actually would like to know why that guy just climbed out of a box truck revving a big circular saw in front of my building at 3AM.

Someone in my apartment building is trying to get rid of a "new loft bed - only slept in once!" There's got to be a story there... 😆

Searching for new specialists since I'm switching health insurance and found a place that has in big letters WE DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN MEDICAID, MEDICARE OR ACA which makes every search engine turn them up for "(specialist) takes Medicare NYC" or "(specialist) takes Medicaid NYC". Diabolical.

We're in the "is this a migraine and should I take a triptan or is it just a neckache making my head hurt" liminal space.

I pled “not guilty” in federal court yesterday. Someone did “unreasonably obstruct the usual use” of the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza. But it wasn’t me. Here’s why: open.substack.com/pub/bradland...

Hi Happy 5th Day of Acornmas, Let's go over my progress so far ⭐17/100 hours - I've been volunteering a lot at the local nature center to help them prepare for their annual winter holiday event. ⭐$1,100 Raised for Feeding America - 11,000 meals for those facing food insecurity

The last time I had a McDonald's burger I did not notice that it was cooked... rare? Not at all? until I had eaten part of it. I was a kid and used to their burgers being kinda lukewarm/room temp anyway. Never touched a cheap fast food burger again. 😬 I just can't.

Currently sitting on the subway hoping the feeling in my fingers comes back before I have to get off the subway again. 🫲🙂🫱 (waves hands around desperately)

🫡🇺🇦 Appreciated.

TFW you have concert tickets tonight and there's a cold front coming through with extremely low (for NYC) wind chill temps predicted. Uh oh!

Some random muscles that are sort of between my armpit and back have been twitching intermittently for two hours and I'm sure that's all very normal and fine and not exhausting at all.

I just now got a response from my senator about an email I sent in re: voting to reopen the government. It looks like a form letter but maybe she is typing them one at a time. 🙄

ICE are the worst people in the world. Get the GOP out of power and prosecute every one of them.

Will YOU be in NYC next Monday? WE NEED YOU! Come to Union Square at 3:30 for your rally to get the governor to sign the NY Freedom to Read Act. This is a joint effort with several organizations (including @authorsabb.bsky.social) and we need it to be BIG and LOUD! Please share!

Really proud of myself for all the inflammatory social media comments I'm NOT making today.

Just yesterday, I realized that I hadn't missed getting outside for my mental health walk (or at minimum "getting out of the apartment and seeing human friends/family/a doctor") even on my worst days in 2025. And then immediately I get hit with this! I guess we'll have to power through....

Hi, this month I'm hosting a 25 day long fundraising event called Acornmas to promote philanthropy, volunteerism, and civic engagement. I'm hoping to raise $2,500 for Feeding America while volunteering 100 hours. Please donate to or share my fundraiser teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participant/...

I had my iron supplement on my lunch plate to remind me to take it, and I just came SO CLOSE to popping it in my mouth and chewing it up with my food. Which, if you ever tasted an iron supplement, is about the most disgusting thing you could ever do. *shudder*

I just got an Rx for an MRI. It's half a page long and it says in bold: "MRI of left shoulder" and then gives the reason for the MRI as "Bursitis of left shoulder" (which we discussed in the office, as well as tendinitis). It's incredibly simple to figure out what is being scanned and why.

“Imagine if we truly understand complex whale communication & can extend our term ‘language’ to them. Such breakthroughs would not only rewrite biology textbooks but also fundamentally redefine what it means to be human & pave the way to instituting new protections for whales, the ocean & beyond”🧪

I just logged in to Facebook and before I could switch to the friends feed, it defaulted to the algorithmic feed - at the top of which was a post from a stranger in some group I'm not in, asking simply "WHY DO YOU HATE JESUS CHRIST" Happy Sunday! 😊

Having a very chill night in listening to Hilary Hahn and Yuja Wang play some concertos in my comfy chair with my favorite headphones. Trying to put a pin in this absolutely ridic week and calm this body and brain down.

Cross-section of the (now two-day-old) apple pie I almost slept through picking up at the bakery on Thursday 😅 They are so good. Thin sliced apple over a vanilla cream layer and a super crispy crust. (We used to bake three pies but with me in pain and mom in pain, it's a lot.)

Here's a question. Do you feel like peppermint flavored everything is specifically Christmas-coded, or is it more of a winter thing? Like a peppermint mocha or something, is that a holiday-specific thing to you, or just a cold-season thing? I know my answer, but I'm wondering about the consensus.

It's actually offensive when you look up something you genuinely need and have been waiting to buy on Black Friday and then it isn't discounted even a single penny.

Does anyone want a lil extra Christmas money and can do art? I want to get my mom custom digital drawings of her dogs and my grandma of her dog and get em framed all cutesy

The NY Times recommended my favorite tiny hole in the wall chocolate shop in their year-end gift giving thing *multiple times*. Like you can fit 3 customers in the store, total. There's going to be lines out the door for the next month! Thanks for blowing up my spot, NYT 😒

I got an offer for a flash sale on some concert tickets today, so I texted a few friends about it. One of them took me up on it so we bought some tickets together. Afterwards he said it was the first Black Friday sale he ever took part in. 😭 What an innocent soul. Well, formerly innocent.

I Survived Thanksgiving 2025! I'm so dang tired. I hope my back doesn't go out and I hope I don't wake up with a migraine. I don't know if holidays are worth it any more. I think my family's standards are too high.

Signs you are overtired: You set an alarm so your nap doesn't go too long on Thanksgiving (maximum volume, phone next to your head) and then you oversleep it anyway by 75 minutes and wake up in a total panic because you had to be somewhere 30 minutes ago 3.5 hour ass nap

In other news I just checked the NYT home page and one of the stories at the top of the digital website is entitled "How to Get Revenge" which I'm not sure is really in the spirit of the holiday

I saw that a local high-end chocolate shop was selling a Hanukkah chocolate box with (get this!) specific-to-Hanukkah truffle flavors and I was so impressed! And then immediately concerned when I saw they spelled Hanukkah with a KKK. Probably just a typo and not a dog whistle, right?? Yikes.

Always a pleasure to be a part of the matching fund!

I had an extremely weird night (big highs, big lows) and feel very ill and tired after a big asthma attack. And the next two days are going to be hard and a lot of work because the patriarchy means women still have to do all the cooking even when they are disabled? Blech.

I had to make so many transfers to escape the A/B/C/D horror delays tonight that it gave me an asthma attack and I'm still going to be 30 minutes late to meet my friends even though I left 15 extra minutes in my schedule for delays.

After cancelling yesterday's appointment because the doctor didn't have my MRI results, I have discovered that the MRI results were ready on Friday. The MRI place just didn't bother sending them. I called them up and they were like "Oh yeah. You want those? Sure." Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Logged on to Youtube to discover a comment I made about Thanksgiving food (about where some traditional Thanksgiving foods were originally cultivated) has garnered hundreds of comments that are about 80% racially resentful and 10% arguing over things I never said and 10% nice. WTF everyone be cool

Your loved ones will be so touched by the thoughtfulness of the gifts picked out by an LLM that knows nothing about them. 🥰

Ordering pizza on a Monday night because I've achieved high levels of Fuck It very early this week. Who's in??

This administration really is bad at being bad. Which is good? I think.