Flight attendants just asked our plane if a passenger named Young Hacker was on board, which—how is that his legal name?

A difficult but important read. Taylor Cadle was raped repeatedly by her foster father while aged 9-13. She reported it and a corrupt investigation by police did nothing. Then she heroically recorded her own rape to convict him. Incredible work by @raeoflion.bsky.social and @julialurie.bsky.social

Christmas can be a depressing holiday. Behold—Your aging parents! Your personal failures! Eat some sugar and enjoy your physical decline. Your brother, who never tried at anything, is doing so much better than you at life. Toast to another year of your mediocrity. At least you’re still alive.

Is he auditioning for Scrooge in the next version of A Christmas Carol? Because these quotes are basically stolen Scrooge quotes.

Four Christmas movies to know me by

I had to check to see if this is real (yes) and they do in fact have a place on the website to ask and answer consumer questions.

Has anyone tried #Freefry, #Qobuz, or #Deezer for music? Curious to hear reviews.

Really enjoying The Mavericks' Hey! Merry Christmas! album, which my parents were shocked to learn was not a band from the 1970s.

That’s right kids, get ready to feel the acute pain of writing furiously for hours in a tiny booklet for your exams. None of you grew up doing this and spoiler, it’s gonna hurt.

When I was in high school the only #coffee I had available at home was was instant, so that’s what I drank daily for four years. Now my mom has a grinder, a French press, and a double lidded airtight container for beans. She’s definitely gone further than I ever expected!

Don’t forget to festoon your excavator this holiday season.

My parents’ dog has a rather fancy diet.

I’ve been home in #UpstateNY for two days, which means I’ve seen ten different bird species and heard all about the mating rituals of the pileated woodpecker.

It’s the time of year where I go home to visit my parents and am given the wifi name and password to a network they haven’t had for at least three years. No one knows the current network password. I guess that makes it extra secure!

Wrapping presents gives me a lot of joy, even when I know they will be opened minutes later.

Sharing my favorite annual playlist to compile: a song each from the bands and musicians @blueskybeth.bsky.social and I saw in concert together over the past year. open.spotify.com/playlist/0Dw...

Making party cocktail menus is fun when it’s done with @jacobgrier.bsky.social

Lucky for me, I ended up with quite a nice assortment of cookies from the swap. 🍪 ⭐️

Throwing a holiday party today and very sad that my last minute work trip and next-day trip expenses deadline meant I can’t partake in the cookie exchange I was so excited to host. At least I get to attend it, which almost didn’t happen.

If you are so sick you are coughing every minute for literal hours, do not travel. Do not get on a plane. Wear a N95 or K94 or equivalent mask. Take a cough suppressant like codeine. Make some—any—effort to limit contagion. Anything less is unbelievably selfish. Seat30B on DL2167, this is about you.

Dark humor is 100% the way to grieve a bad life event. Which is why I told my newly divorced boss, “Welcome to Club D!” and high fived her earlier today.

Spending a week in a labyrinthine office building in a frozen tundra. A bit like Severance, a bit more fun and hopefully without a lobotomy.

Who steals a poodle? Honestly.

Imagine if Biden wrote this a few years ago. The delusion only increases with age.

Balmy out tonight (8° F).

Sure feels like the right time of year to take a trip to the Midwest!

I paid Providence Medical Center $414 in October. Today the related radiology center says they have no record of payment and sent me a separate bill. It’s the only time I have ever gone there in my life. This will take me hours. Yet another example of the nightmare that is American health insurance.

Don’t forget your pets when amassing your advent calendars this year. Aubie has really been enjoying three types of Canadian jerky.

I am unequivocally in support of low and mandated nurse-to-patient ratios. This is an upsetting and deeply harmful deregulation for elderly care, which is already quite bad in America.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Can’t wait to ugly cry at the Ben Folds concert in a few hours among hundreds of people

dopdx.com/p/best-holid... Sharing an excellent list of holiday markets in Portland, Oregon for anyone looking to shop local and feel cheerful this month. I did not know about the German market!

I once toured a house for sale in Napa, California that only had jalousie windows. It was wild.

@jacobgrier.bsky.social surprised me with an advent calendar this morning and it is truly *the jam.* I am very excited to try every flavor!

I don’t know who staged Aubie’s squirrel on the plant like this at our last house party, but it’s been entertaining me ever since.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

All the flights to Syracuse for Christmas are $900, which has me in a quiet rage.

Seattle’s airport welcome sign showcases the “local beauty” of Rowena Crest in Oregon, which is both funny and sad.

Traveling abroad on Thanksgiving means you can make up whatever tradition you want, such as doing Armagnac bone luges in Paris. Happy Thanksgiving from me and @blueskybeth.bsky.social!

Very entertained by Apple’s wallpaper suggestions, which are never of me or me and other people together but of my dog or my boyfriend. It’s like the algorithm chose for most photogenic and I didn’t make the cut 😂

This sounds reasonable but is 100% wrong. Whether you or agree or disagree with a study is completely immaterial. What matters is whether the study was conducted properly and generates valid results. And it's impolitic to say but it's true: you have to have some level of expertise to judge that.

apnews.com/article/grey... #Greystar Properties led the way to price fixing to ensure profits well beyond supply and demand. I don’t think $7 million is enough punishment for a powerful real estate company amid inflation and a nationwide housing shortage. Greystar owns 30+ properties in #Portland.

I’m in Geneva this week and they graciously offer #lactosefree yogurts at the breakfast buffet for folks with a #dairy #alllergy. This morning, however, they had lactose-filled yogurts with identical packaging in the section labeled “lactose free.” I took one.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... Totally relatable story about decluttering.

If you have #COBRA and pay fees on time, but your company does not forward your fees to the health insurer, e.g. #UHC, the insurer thinks you have no #coverage and *denies every visit within that time period*. It’s on you to resubmit every claim or face thousands of dollars in #medical bills. Fun!

This morning the wolf barked bossily at me until I followed him outside and onto the dirt, where he happily settled down to chomp his chew with my full attention.

I have had United Healthcare for one year and I can say with confidence it is the worst health plan I have ever experienced.

Working for a health insurance company means I am well equipped to call about scary denied claims and reprocess others’ mistakes and understand that insurers are not looking to make care easy for members. They are looking to make care profitable. I do not take it out on customer service.

www.thecut.com/article/draf... Thankful @jacobgrier.bsky.social isn’t a sports fan (aside from his own teams).

Made a strange sound to get the wolf to consent to the photo.