I was really excited to have a super productive day since my toddler went to her little playgroup today and then a very loud car crash happened right in front of my face while sitting at a light so instead I've spent the whole day trying to get my nervous system back under control.

Happy for everyone telling me that I'm stupid for still having FB but unfortunately it's the way to stay connected to town stuff especially when you have a little kid and our town buy nothing group is amazing. Congrats on the moral superiority though I guess.

I've been a member of a progressive Dutch Reformed church full of Midwesterners for more than ten years and I've never really felt like I fit in and I realized today (as a person raised by fast talking Irish and Italian New Yorkers) it's because nice Dutch people don't get cooperative overlapping.

So my Facebook page is suddenly all antivax autism Tylenol shit and all these ~holistic mamas~ are sure to point out that it's not just Tylenol and vaccines. It's formula and epidurals and prenatal nutrition and all kinds of things that mothers are doing wrong. So fun.

Very excited that Chris and I are gonna party like we're 15 years old tonight as he's going to play Risk with some friends and I'm watching the Lilith Fair documentary.

Live that my stupid MAHA former family friend is posting about how she knew 8 years ago during her first pregnancy that Tylenol caused autism so she's never taken it while pregnant but *checks notes* her oldest kid has autism.

Going apple picking with my mom today, can't wait to hear all her opinions about Charlie Kirk, a person she'd never heard of before his death.

I'm so mad about this autism Tylenol thing. This administration is hell bent on raising the birth rate but also wants to make pregnancy as miserable as possible for women? How does that make sense?

Well I guess the only good thing about this NJ gubernatorial debate is that I'm pretty sure almost no one is watching it.

Heck yeah Mike Sherrill coming out as pro phonics on the gubernatorial debate!

I've been going to 4H and county fairs all summer and fall and I'm so over these events having an absolutely rocking GOP tent and almost no Dem presence. I was just at Sayreville Day and there was an LD-19 tent with Coughlin signs but where's the MCDO or Sherrill campaign?

Parenting has such odd tensions. I just packed up a bunch of Amelia's stuffed animals and was like "what if I threw all these in the garbage?" But I'm also extremely pumped to take her to Build a Bear to build a bear on her birthday.

Interviewed myself about my new book for my newsletter, v easy assignment philipchristman.substack.com/p/publicatio...

As someone whose adolescence was punctuated by 9/11 in a big way (friends losing parents who worked in WTC, first responder family members getting sick, the smell of that big cloud of smoke, violence against my muslim neighbors in my super diverse town) I'm glad J.D Vance isn't at the memorial.

I have a spouse who lives in another part of the Internet so he tells me jokes he reads on reddit and I...well I don't repeat the things you people say on here.

Walkable neighborhood problems: a half gallon of milk is for people with no concept of value ($3.19) but if you buy the gallon of milk (4.60) you have to carry it home. With the rest of your groceries. And push a stroller.

I love that on the Daniel Tiger wedding episode where Dr Anna and Baker Aker get married there's a cookie table. Such Mr Rogers Pittsburgh energy.

I'm having so much fun planning our little fall family road trip, but did you guys know that if you want to go to a children's museum or pumpkin patch festival thing or Halloween event with a family of five, it will cost you one hundred American dollars? And that's only if one of you is a baby.

Since I know you were all wondering this was my prize!

It’s so pathetic how my friends love the Sopranos cuz it’s like bro the Sopranos wouldn’t like you AT ALL.

Just got a call that I WON A PRIZE FOR SUMMER READING AT THE LIBRARY! Don't even know what the prizes are but I'm so excited I don't know if I'll sleep tonight.

It's the last week for our pool club and I'm trying to be annoyed that it is absolutely not pool weather but this false fall weather is perfect so I don't care.

Everyone wants mutual aid and more civic engagement. No one wants to come to a fucking meeting after work.

I feel like my FB feed is all long schlocky stories and AI images. Who is this for? Are they also AI? Who likes this?

I'm generally ok with the post physical media world but the Plex server is down and the only CDs in the car are the Chorus Line soundtrack and the Best of the Laurie Berkner Band and like...I don't love those options.

Can't stop thinking about the lady that New Brunswick Police murdered last week in the the hallway outside her apartment because she had a knife and how I worked with severely mentally ill people for years and never even considered shooting anyone. newbrunswicktoday.com/2025/08/new-...

Decided to read Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel to Amelia. Did not realize this was pro coal propaganda.

This obviously isn't true and I've got a lot of friends with phds and...lol.

Truly feel like nothing feels more pathetic than pushing your empty stroller and carrying your wild toddler because they won't sit in it.

Nathan Lane is from Jersey City why is he doing this accent on the Gilded Age?

How am I only now watching Somebody Somewhere? Thought I couldn't be more enamoured with Murray Hill after seeing him in Asbury Park a few years ago but I was WRONG.

It's Six Feet Under even if you include those.

Today's weather is just too much excitement for me. I am from central New Jersey if I wanted to experience a tornado I would go to Universal Studios in Florida and ride the Twister ride.

So fun to be camped out in the dark during a blackout reading about the flash flooding we're gonna have tomorrow!

Every year I do a CSA and every year I am reminded that I am a bad vegetarian and I do not like summer squash at all.

Excuse me? Get this off my timeline. I mean I guess I did do this. Got married young (23) and have more kids than I can afford (1).

How do Jenkinsons rides not open until twelve noon? Do they not know that small children wake up at 6am?

Why in the world would it be We Didn't Start the Fire when the albums Cold Spring Harbor and The Stranger exist?

I feel like the constant cooking discourse on here could be a better discourse about cooking and shopping as feminized labor not being seen as a skill but people on here are too wacky to even think about that.

Sitting waiting for a table in a red sauce Italian restaurant on the Jersey shore and three older ladies in white capris sat on the bench next to ours and started talking about Gaza and how atrocious things are and about how the bill criminalizing homelessness and I'm shocked.

Hi Lidl shoppers, you do not get to use all the little kid carts instead of using a basket *and* be annoyed at my kid who will not sit in the cart and wants to run around because pushing one of these carts that are intended for children would have distracted her from such mischief.

So glad Highland Park library added this little step stool. Pretty sure this girl likes checking out books more than reading them.

She ate ice cream in it! I'm just so impressed!

Saw @mikiesherrill.bsky.social speak this afternoon and admired her purple sundress dress (and what she had to say about NJTransit). Doubly impressed that she also wore it to an event this morning and did not get any stains on over the course of a whole day. Can't imagine that life.

Love that Mikie Sherrill has the helicopter on her signs. We have a Little People figurine that's a helicopter pilot but we don't have a helicopter so we've taken to calling them Representative Sherrill.

Lots of people in my mentions talking about how plenty of Republicans live in different states and still hold office. This is true and this sucks and is not something people should do.

I was so spoiled by having a locked Twitter account. Whenever one of my posts escapes my normal little orbit the replies are just insane.

Real party tonight.

Love people talking about how Colbert should run for office in South Carolina as if he hasn't lived in Montclair New Jersey for decades.

Finally watching Clerks 3 and it's terrible and complete fan service but I can't really be that mad because I get literally every single joke.