My dude bought a replacement range for the cabin, and it has KNOBS! No clock to reset every time the power goes out. No clicking a button 14 times to get to 350. KNOBS!

I think we underestimate the impact that joyless corporatism has on society

Why do all the baking IG reels show them squishing the baked goods at the end? Squishiness isn't the prime characteristic of baked goods? This question brought to you by 4 days of illness scrolling and So Much Boredom.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Walked the dog, did the dishes, made some breakfast and now I apparently need a nap. I just woke up! I have things to DO! Grr.

I told you they were stuck in the 80s. Check the Wayback Machine, Mr. Peabody. Operation Just Cause. 1989. US invaded Panama to arrest/depose Noriega. Justification: N indicted in US for drugs & corruption Threat to U.S. nationals Election interference / illegitimacy

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

My beloved was horrified to discover, via tv advertizing on a basketball game, that "overnight oats" exist, and that people willingly eat them.

Belatedly watching Mamdani inauguration& Jumaane Williams speech: “That’s the thing about uncertainty- anything can happen. But also, anything *can* happen. We could make NY more affordable, more safe and more just. We could, we can, and we have to try.” That’s it, y’all. That’s radical pragmatism.

God recovery is boring. It's 10:30 and apparently I need a nap.

By separating beauty and life, the world objectifies & determines what is beautiful. We're thus content to live lives largely deprived of beauty, happy to occasionally glimpse it at museums & on screens. Grasping the beauty in/of life is nothing less than a refusal of this world.

“The work continues. The work endures. The work, my friends, has only just begun.” 🍎❤️

I left New York in 1988, but a little splinter of New Yorker came with me, and I'm just more than thrilled to see Mamdami sworn in. Let's do this.

"They want to know if the left can govern [...] they want to know if it is right to hope again. So standing together, with the wind of purpose at our backs, we will do something that NYers do better than anything else: we will set an example for the world" - Mamdani

It's amazing to hear your political and social beliefs shared aloud by the new mayor. Thank you @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and @demsocialists.bsky.social #BestNewYearEver

This is the hope we deserve. This is the hope we must practice. And it is with this hope we will win.

"Faith without works is dead," Jumaane Williams. Then weeping as he promises to build a better city for every kid like he was. "Just hold on. We're going to be all right ... " Who me? Weeping as they all hold hands and pledge to hold on for the duration.

I have never been so impressed by a speech by a comptroller in my life. Hello Mark Levine.

The whole vibe of the Mamdani administration swearing-in is giving me hope. Cheerful. Let's-get-to-work. Loving. Joyful.

The sheer level of violence to women's bodies that modern medicine takes for normal is really stunning. I didn't have kids, so I'm coming to this late, and I'm outraged for all of us. (I'm fine. Recovering as I should. But boy howdy.)

A joyful burst of a ballgown, ruched in rosy silk & the perfect party dress if New Year’s Eve is your thing. It isn’t mine, I am wrapped up in a cosy knit on the sofa but I would like to say a big thank you for your connections this year. Charles James dress, 1953 #museumatFIT #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Hey it's a new year, here's some life advice from me: - any time you think to yourself "I'd love to do [creative endeavor], but I could never" — just do it. Learn embroidery, write a novel, try doing synchronized swimming, take a ballet class. The worst that could happen is you suck at it.

What. No. Don't use their language, @newyorker.com that is not even a real word. What the hell is wrong with "flee" or like. "Flee this godforsaken country"

Chuck just found mountain lion tracks underneath our shed (I think I've seen them all week while dog walking). And now there's a pack of hound-sounding dogs out there, and we're hoping it's not "cat hunters" who go out with dogs this time of year. Here kitty kitty! go back under the porch!

There are worse places to convalesce.

I would not have piggyback this 2nd surgery on top of the 1st one, but I needed to get it on this years deductible. Broken system at all levels (except for my surgeon who was great)

This is everything good in the world

I feel like we haven’t fully reckoned with the with the implications of the reality that in the past generation, many have lost the ability to concentrate long enough to read a book.

The nice front desk person refunded the night I didn't stay. Thank you Bozeman Springhill Suites.

Welp I screwed up and booked this hotel room for last night, not tonight, so I'm paying for two nights and staying for one. Grrr.

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

This is certainly making me feel better about skipping both a family wedding and Christmas so I don't get sick and blow this surgery apt. tomorrow (which would kick it into the new year and a whole new High Deductible).

These guys have done great work across the state, giving ranchers a tax credit for animals that would be culled anyway, and providing nice burger to schools and food banks. Now they've raised $$ for school freezers too. nbcmontana.com/news/local/p...

I seem to have made a pot roast ahead of my invalidism. Himself really dislikes it, but I've been weirdly craving meat lately so I made one to freeze in small portions for days like this where I want rice and meat and scallions and green chiles for breakfast.

Aww! We had all of these. MouseTrap and Rockem Sockem Robots were our favorites ... RIP

What is with all these people leaving their vehicles running when they go into the store? I'm looking at a round pickup truck that was running when I went into the store 15 minutes ago and is still out here parked and running. Guess we've all just given up on saving gas?

In an essay drawn from her critically acclaimed book “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” Yiyun Li writes about the loss of her sons, and the type of sorrow for which there is no language. Read her account: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/cwGt5m

'Healing is not about forgetting or achieving comfortable closure; it is about recognizing that trauma is not confined to the past.'

Unless you are actively pulling a 6 horse trailer, your fucking giant truck is a crime.

Dude parked his giant ass Ram truck so close to my drivers door that I couldn't get in, got all fucking OFFENDED when I found him in the store and told him to move. "Can't you be *nice*? he said before going back in the store and refusing. No I CAN'T FUCKING BE NICE YOU DELIBERATELY BLOCKED ME IN

Off to make a lasagne and check the leftovers inventory in the freezer ahead of another surgery.

I'm still not over the books podcast host chirping at Samin Nosrat that she'd never really thought before about what it might mean to "build a Good Life." We have so failed everyone younger.

I think my lovely man had a harder time than he thought he would this first Christmas without parents.

I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.

Reading Zadie Smith on Celia Paul sent me down a rabbit hole about Susie/Suzy Boyt. "Loved and Missed" is the best book I've read in the last few years and it turns out that Suzy is the daughter of Susie + Lucien Freud. Boy howdy is that island a little bit too small. Also, the Zadie essay is lit.

Lego kits make me cranky as a member of the Free to Be You And Me generation who remembers when they were GENDER NEUTRAL CREATIVITY TOYS. If you just want to follow directions, go do a jigsaw puzzle.

So, a version of IT"S A WONDERFUL LIFE on Amazon cuts 22 minutes of the movie including the entire Pottersville sequence.(via @pematson.bsky.social ) bleedingfool.com/blogs/buy-ph...

This is the most beautiful Christmas story.

I listened to a book podcast on my way over the pass and back this morning, and the host seemed annoyingly GirlBoss! so I looked her up when I got home and ... she used to be a spin cycle instructor? What in the what?

Well at least the pre-authorization has come through.