Also Pete sounds like this because he worked for McKinsey. He’s bad now and has always been bad and nobody should like him the end

Belgravia is standard issue period fluff, except for the fact that their servants all hate them, and hate being servants, and are stealing and spying on them. This part I like!

A not-so-weird thing about not working anymore is that any Big Expense sends me into a doom-loop panic. I'm FINE financially. Not rich by any means, but I have savings and investments etc. But one medium-large medical bill and I have to talk myself out of bag-lady-terror.

As often the case he was more critical of that show than I was. I don’t want to say he was contrarian because that makes it sound like it was a deliberate stance but he had such a smart critical perspective. His analysis was always interesting and I’d leave smarter than I began. Donate if you can:

Ah. The insurance fuckery begins (actually I think it's the practice-I-left fuckery. Apparently they didn't get pre-auth. Fun!) Gotta love these high-deductible plans that are all I can afford.

Clearly it's time to go mute a certain name ...

First Northland, and now Sterling College. Two of the great, experiential, experimental small colleges that saved my brother and so many other people I know. To say I'm heartbroken is an understatement. www.sterlingcollege.edu/transition-p...

Prosperity gospel is manifest destiny for religion

Are there any active boycott campaigns re: the UAE and Sudan?

Zorhan has moved to the Transition Suit!

I have said it before and I will say it again you really gotta start asking why and admin with close ties to a child sex trafficker has built up an unaccountable police force that could easily sex traffick people. And has straight up disappeared people.

Sometimes I think about the question someone put on the bad site, asking women how old they were the first time an adult man came on to them or made a sexually suggestive remark to them. I want to say the vast majority of us were between 11 and 13. I've been thinking about it a lot today.

My annual plug for the late Laurie Colwin's glorious Nantucket Cranberry Pie for your Thanksgiving table. Takes like 5 minutes to put together. Everyone loves it. DELICIOUS. www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/nant...

I think lots of men believe women; they just don’t think it matters

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how stupid is it the “glass ceiling” probably just turned out to be “donors want dudes they can blackmail, not competent people who are good at their jobs”

Welp, another year on the HD Bronze plan for me. They've covered way more of the Current Investigations than I anticipated, and if the GQP kills ALL the subsidies, I can, barely, afford the premiums.

Oh my goodness, I just watched Jimmy Kimmel's monologue about losing his band leader and lifelong friend and I'm in floods.

In a way it reminds me of the pro-slavery propaganda about freedmen wanting to stay with their former owners. It serves the same psychological need in the believer.

Someone explain the appeal of "all-inclusive" vacations to me? What do you DO? You just LIE THERE by the pool? Doing what? You're not even reading a book? This sounds like torture to me.

we need a department of kerning

this is actually really something. The NY Times stuff is bonkers.

Welp. Apparently I have the "Margaret Atwood story" cysts on my ovaries! No word if they have teeth, but those puppies, along with their now-useless hosts are coming out sometime in the next few weeks. I can't decide if I'm fascinated or freaked out by the toothy cysts?

CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret

To all the "electrify everything" people. THIS is the problem. We cannot ask people to put all of their home power and heat on electric until we have taken control of the rates. I lived through electric price spikes in the 80s that had us paying more in power than we were in rent.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

my long-held and long-expressed opinion is that all the weird evil plans of our billionaires (#notallbillionaires) is them trying create a world where they can get away with being pedophiles without worry

Honey, I'm sobbing, yes, literally SOBBING after reading this review of TERRY DACTYL by Trish Bendix in the New York Times Book Review, which engages with the book on so many deep levels, yes, I'm reading it over and over, what a gift, this means everything to me!!!💞💞💞💞💞

Why am I not surprised that the only mention of evictions in this piece concerns tourists getting booted out of units because the company folded, and not the dozens of tenants (that we know about) who were evicted over the years so their landlords could cash in on STRs. www.nola.com/news/busines...

I want to thank the Northern Lights for gracing us during PG-13 hours! Watched them, had some dinner, reading in bed. Perfect!

So, this just happened! We've been outside for like 2 hours watching.

Fun times to be dealing with some medical stuff when I have no idea what my insurance situation is going to be after the first of the year.

You have to understand what pieces like this from the NYT are and are not. They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today. They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.

Yes people! Things are different because places are DIFFERENT. Cultures are different! The US is not the default for "normality."

Yay! High BP seems to be coming down. Sadly, it took sacrificing my nightly glass of wine, although I'm sure getting back on my treadmill (the device originally designed as an infernal torture device) also helped. Health is so boring!

Wendy Brown: "[T]he three schools of neoliberalism [Friedman, Hayek, Ordoliberals] share a rejection of robust democracy and of the expansive notion of the political on which democracy rests." Hope this helps.

Your comments are locked so I couldn't reply directly. I have this one, and have been sewing all my clothes on it for about 8 years? Nice machine, I don't need fancy stitches, just straight, overlock and buttonholes and it's been totally reliable: www.singer.com/products/sin...

Today I learned that one reason we like the smell of old books is that they give off the scent of vanillin, which is found in mother's milk.

The thing that's pissing me off the most is that "getting back SNAP" or backpay doesn't constitute a deal because those things were illegal. Making a "deal" about when and for whom laws exist is not it.

This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.

The thing about AOC & Mamdani is they *stand* for things. They care & mean what they say. These Congr. Dems who imagine some aging white Bob & Sue they must appeal to stand for nothing. They‘re feckless while thinking they can’t appear “radical.” And they flail on what issues matter.

Fingers crossed but the MRI results look fine. Not alarming. Phew! Especially with the current ACA situation.

Is it bad when you see a picture of a Ukrainian Army unit before the text describing it as such and assume you're looking at ICE agents coming for your neighbors

I was very late to the air fryer game, but it's so good for refried pasta for breakfast. Add a fried egg and 😘

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 18181999: "Write what you know" is limiting advice, which leads to limited writing. Instead, know what you're writing about. That means due diligence: good research, wide reading, specialist help and advice if you need it. Stay curious. Try new ideas. No limits.

TFW you have to cut the dog walk short your dog walk because there's big wet fresh moose footprints on the road.

I have to hand it to them, it's an incredible bit to publicly lose a game of chicken, admit that's what happened, and then spend the next day lecturing everyone about courage and tenacity