What the Senate Democratic defectors did is like the Montgomery bus boycotters calling it quits after 40 days because city leaders promised to “review” bus seating policies. History teaches us the status quo doesn’t change because of vague promises, it changes because people persist in resisting.

Sometimes I’ll wonder which people in government are doing things for nefarious reasons and which people are doing things out of ignorance, but since functionally the outcome is the same I’m not sure that it really matters.

Any time I see really cool heels, I know I won’t buy them for 2 reasons: the price and, more importantly, because I’ll walk like a newborn giraffe right up until the point I roll my ankle.

the weather app so far hasn’t mentioned it, but alas: I just saw first flakes of the season ❄️

Probably the next headline after this one: “Did Women Ruin the Workforce?” (Would seem they’ve since updated it to “Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace?” but nonetheless.)

There’s a LittlePeople™ Backstreet Boys toy set???? And it’s real?

I’m hoping the contents of these aren’t something like exotic termites that have gained my sympathy. However, since they are apparently going to hang out like this till spring, that means I need to find a safe place to put them before it snows but not so safe they emerge too soon.

Every time I see a December expiration date on dairy products in the fridge it gives me a mini surge of anxiety thinking about everything that will need to get done.

Do you ever look at some of the tea bags you forgot you even had and think to yourself “I dunno, maybe it’s none of my business when the expiration dates were”?

That time of year again. Also, it sucks how useless Google searches are for this.

We managed to get some Halloween stuff together, albeit last minute-ish. I’m grateful to have not done anything beyond hemming for kids’ costumes this year.

Youngest always refers to an “[American] football” as a “soccer ball,” but the reason it amuses me is that it’s always pronounced “sucker ball.” 🏈

I’m surprised with all the nostalgia for past tech there aren’t more options for something akin to a contemporary stereo that isn’t reliant on logins, phones, or Bluetooth. Every time I see my kid carrying the family iPad, I laugh to myself imagining younger me carrying the family stereo or TV.

Well, at least the rain isn’t snow. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I should have gone as my TBR list. That’s getting pretty scary.

My kid, expressing fatigue over the constant 6-7 talk at school and utter exasperation over teachers making 6-7 their costume choice: “I JUST want to have a NORMAL LIFE!!!” 😆

I feel like my to-do list is filled with: Reply to that thing Fix that thing Wash that thing Pay that thing Try that thing Unsubscribe from that thing Start that thing Organize that thing Make that thing Schedule that thing Follow up on that thing Finish that thing & it’s 400 items long

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Thinking of the time I was in a company-wide virtual meeting meant to welcome the new CEO whose salary was presumably multiple times that of entire departments and how when it switched to his screen there was a video game (quickly attributed to his son), followed by HR making an obvious scowl.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Saw an AI commercial posing as news at the gas station. The way they pitched one’s ability to make fantastical videos of riding dragons, etc. sure felt like an ad in a futuristic, dystopian movie in the sense of distracting the protagonist group from the fact they can’t afford to eat.

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straight to jail to the drivers on the interstate who slow down significantly before the exit when weather doesn’t merit it at all

I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

I should probably make some stew with our bountiful carrot harvest. 🥕

First we used and like the Ziploc 16 oz. Twist ‘n Loc containers to store frozen soup. Then when those became impossible to find and kept breaking, we tried some larger, snap-lid ones from IKEA. Now we’re trying some 16 oz. from Bentgo. Bring on soup season.

It’s really weird thinking about how someday aspiring historians are probably going to do dissertations on the evolution of frog iconography in the first quarter of the century.

I once asked a craft store employee where the bone folders were located. She looked at me like I’d emerged from a true crime podcast before she told me she didn’t think they carried those, so I asked if they carried paper crease folders. Wouldn’t ya know it, they do. Always makes me laugh.

Happened upon reviews of a picture book we’ve checked out from the library. Being upset over autumn being reduced to one color & then saying “kids are smart” as a reason why poetic imagery shouldn’t be used…is interesting. I guess only Robert Frost is allowed to reduce nature to one color then, huh?

This is Trump’s “Let them eat cake” moment. Dems should be doing nothing but talking about how he has used the presidency to enrich himself to a repulsive degree, is demanding more taxpayer money, and building himself a golden ballroom while letting millions of Americans go without.

Me, discussing child’s temporarily captive caterpillar: Number of times reading an Eric Carle book aside, based on the mess inside this bug house I still feel like I underestimated how much a caterpillar eats. Spouse: You and I of ALL PEOPLE should know how much a caterpillar eats. 📕🐛

I hope the ghost of Dolley Madison is cooking up something big.

Every time I read the heist headlines, Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman” plays in my head. (I know, I know. It was a different museum.)

I need to go back to using cookbooks to find cookie recipes since Pinterest has gotten so saturated with recipes that seem like they’ve never been photographed or even tested by the people who originally post them. That said, it’s nice finding a recipe that turns out exactly how the picture shows.

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All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

It’s the same dichotomy schools have when there’s not enough money to keep the EAs & nurses in the district, there’s absolutely no money for viral mitigation, but LOOK at the shiny, new extracurricular dept.! It’s sure too bad about those sick kids… Good thing it’s only those other people’s kids.

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Recipe reviews are unintentionally hilarious. Reviewer 1 (threateningly): I will sadly NOT be trying the recipe for my holiday brunch due to its lack of inclusion of 1 ingredient that I could easily add myself Reviewer 2: This burnt, I’m mad, it’s entirely the recipe’s fault

Youngest, living in the tension of an empty and then refilled bowl of applesauce: “Oh no. Dat’s right. Oh, yeahhhh.” Life comes at ya fast.

Listing something for sale online very, very sincerely makes me doubt most people’s reading comprehension.

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid. Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure. Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

Public health is not partisan. It is health for the public. That means all of us. Defend Public Health.

Have been seeing a bunch of sleepy ‘bumbees’ (as my youngest calls them) in the garden. While harvesting the dry zinnias for seeds, I nearly grabbed the one resting underneath the petal. Hadn’t thought to look for them there!

To understand what is going on in the world you need to know this universal strategy: Divide et impera Anti-immigration, anti- trans, anti-woke, racism, media ownership, social media breakdown... it all stems back to divide et impera. If we are blaming each other we do not fight the real enemy.

It now looks like they placed the pumpkins in rows (in a field they did not grow in) as IF they grew there. Is this…late-stage pumpkin patch capitalism?

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing. if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

I’m surprised that village-size lights that work via timer or RC aren’t so much a thing in stores.

Oh no. Just saw an ad for a self-published AI book that conflates Margaret Hamilton the actress and Margaret Hamilton the computer scientist. Yup. She and Hedy Lamarr were just out there promoting STEAM and Hollywood.