I’m torn between admiring the commitment of people who have both light-colored couches AND young children while also questioning their relationship with futility. Anyway, we have a dark gray couch and much respect for Crayola’s “Ultra-Clean Washable” variety marker game.

Really loved @taylorschu.bsky.social's essay in The Pom today. I often feel as if I can't keep up with what other families are doing for their kids and that I'm letting my kids down somehow. Two things can be true: I'm doing my best, and money buys margin sometimes. www.the-pom.com/p/all-the-pe...

It was an honor to revisit Philando's story & his people a decade after covering his death, & then co-hosting the 74 Seconds podcast on the officer's trial. Please like/share if you appreciate it because those numbers show our bosses that people want depth and nuance. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Already wanted to see it. Now I really, really want to see it!

Exactly 100 years apart. Same energy. #America #FourthofJuly

I was wondering that they were possibly luna moths and might (hopefully) still open. The cocoons disappeared (last night?) without a trace. 😳 Squirrels? Something else? picard-it-is-possible-to-commit-no-mistakes-and-still-lose.gif

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

Toddler Olympic sports: 🏆 Championship spoon throwing 🏆 Using yogurt as lotion 🏆 Loud noises 🏆 Antagonizing sibling 🏆 Pointing out big cars 🏆 Dinner table Jackson Pollock impersonations

If you're flying the old Minnesota flag it's the same as flying a Confederate flag. This isn't hard.

Where we used to live, Harold and Victoria (no particular reason for the names) would occasionally visit in the spring and *knock* on the screen door to see if we’d feed them. (This was amusing up until having to clean up after them.)

This. I need a Beaker feature film.

I wish the federal government would just leave Minnesota the fuck alone

We got a sheet of those “Life Magnified” postage stamps a while back, and while the designs ARE amazing, deciding if a greeting card should have “Mouse Brain Neurons,” “Starling Bone Tissue,” “Freshwater Snail Tongue,” or “Mold Spores” is a little amusing.

Happy birthday to Michael J. Fox! His foundation invested more in #Parkinson research than the U.S. government itself. "Optimism is a political act." In a world full of uncertainty, setbacks, and reasons to give up, choosing optimism is an act of courage. Video: Too Young for this Sh*t Podcast

Finally figured out how to use something other than Google without needing to download some other app. Hadn’t realized it would be that simple.

I just searched to see if this was already a part of the series, and it got amusing from there.

I probably have a memory like this for myself if I thought about it long enough, but the more prominent memory is my kid’s teacher who thought my kid was faking pain for attention. The teacher isn’t a bad teacher or a bad person, but that’s the point. Good people can still participate in harm.

I accidentally tested the effectiveness. Wore it on my face outside. Face didn’t turn pink; arms/neck did. Hard not to feel precious with it per cost, but I consider it a face sunscreen for (rare) makeup days. It’s difficult to find a good sunscreen without allergens priced cheaper than skin cancer.

guys we don’t have to have discourse about this app every single day, we don’t have to do this

This is what’s (actually, surprisingly!) grown so far this spring. We’ll see if the zinnia seeds I harvest last fall make it after being planted possibly too soon this spring before it got cold again.

There really should be a toddler OOTD. Recent contributions from my kid: hat, pajama shirt, shorts, snow boots hoodie, 2 emotional support band-aids, various neighborhood sticks/leaves t-shirt, jeans, socks, 4 bibs (1 as a cape, 1 sort of like an ascot, 1 for functional purposes, 1 just in case)

It’s really telling when a man’s reaction to finding out that Lupita Nyong'o was chosen to play a goddess in a movie is anything other than an emphatic “about time!”

Millions of peaches, sure ok. But peaches for free? I have my doubts

Please read and share this story. Grateful to @nbcnews.com for running this series on how cuts to Medicaid will dramatically alter how families care for disabled sons, daughters, and spouses. Great work, @mikehixenbaugh.com, and thank you for reporting. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I tried Unseen Sunscreen this week. While I haven’t been using it long enough to speak to how effective it is in preventing sunburn, I’m in awe over the prospect of a summer spent wearing sunscreen that doesn’t make my face look 2% oily all day.

Very amused that the ThriftBooks algorithm decided that based on my purchase of an out-of-print children’s book that I would be interested in a book about becoming rich. The book I bought was about sentient slime. I have some questions.

Same. And have enough wall space to display it.

Can’t help but wonder whether those interested in seeing this through are as enthusiastic about policies like all students having access to paid school lunches or medical care for all.

Recently learned AI religious art products are a thing. The one I saw was an image of a lone sheep with a figure running toward it, but my impression of the result was wondering if the prompt could have been “imagine if Jesus were a zombie in ‘28 Days Later’ running after a sheep.”

the song “I Dreamed a Dream” except all the lyrics are changed to being about spending multiple nights researching allergy-safe products 🎶

Noah Hawley experienced the world of the rich and powerful at Jeff Bezos’s Campfire retreat—and witnessed the new type of freedom the ultra-wealthy possess:

MAHA's leaders claim they want to end sickness, but they intend to do it by ending chronically ill and disabled people's access to the care that keeps us alive. The MAHA plan for ending chronic illness is simply ending chronically ill people.🧵 www.patreon.com/posts/156210...

I really should have assumed that my youngest would interpret the drawstring on pants as some kind of leash with which to pull me around, so that’s on me for buying them without thinking that through.

Not pretending I understand the scope of this at all, but it’s all just super comforting (/s) for Minnesotans imagining the implications of this with so much consistent surveillance here.

Had to read this article between a few long, deep breaths of recognition about the state of diagnostics relative to accessing treatment.

This whole bit is objectively hilarious. The most lively day of my old office’s group chat was the day we all swapped “this is what happened to me or a family member while in Edina” stories and goodness’ sakes the stories weren’t about crime. 😆

Pleased (more like genuinely surprised) to report that every bulb I planted last fall is growing. The bunnies found several, but that’s another matter.

every. week.

Not even ashamed to admit I’d watch this.

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More people should have caught on to him being dead in The Sixth Sense. He was spending ALL this unsupervised time with a minor. His wife NEVER interacted with him. Come on!

Always really humbling realizing that the reason Matchbox Twenty has played multiple times on the car radio in one day is because of how much cheaper it probably is to play songs from one’s youth.

It was nuclear war or half a dozen trans kids getting to play volleyball, and the country shrugged and went nuclear war it is.

Just having a normal Tuesday over here.

is it heartburn? it seems like it would be heartburn.

Same! (Though I often forget to post those things myself and ought to be better about that.)

if you don't like the social issues conversations in star trek then you just don't like star trek

favorite irl sign I saw was the “Veto the Cheeto” one, but am enjoying so many pics online from all over showing clever ones people made!

This week did not go as planned, BUT we got to keep our No-Hospitalization streak going. 🎉

It’s still super weird that flipping off sky bots has become a regular part of day-to-day life. Can’t help but assume that their handlers hope for their omnipresence to become as normal as taking the trash out, but it’s not and won’t be.