I never really thought of this as a milestone, but we are watching a show as a family, and yesterday my kid experienced his first major plot twist. Watching him process it and love it? One of my favorite parenting moments to date.

Ad: "Do you want to look snatched all the time?" No. No I do not. I did my time. I paid the pretty tax. I'm ready to embrace being pale, puffy, and alarmingly shiny.

Going to #[email protected] and @pixiedane.bsky.social and I are doing a panel about using fandom in activism. Did you know that fandom influenced social activism back in Dickens' day? What happens when a creator is at odds with the social causes of their fans? Come talk to us!

I love reading through the names of adoptable pets at shelters. It's always a list of normal pet names but with one or two insane ones, like: "Beans, Dexter, Sugar, Bella, Screaming Cheezit, Bailey, Fenway, Janet from Accounting"

An #infosec blog post quoting William Gibson.

A toaster is a Heat and Yeet

"Coastal grandma" is just Anthropologie with sleeves.

My brother and I speak in quotes from two films: The Golden Child and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Both are good, but I'd argue that Golden Child is the better film.

Introduced my kid to my very favorite #EddieMurphy movie ever this weekend: The Golden Child. A true forgotten masterpiece.

Not me, in a paper gown, going full journalism professor at my annual exam.

Hosting a playdate for 3 10 year-old boys while working from home is uncannily like a newsroom. People are loud, there are two competing blaring electronics, and males are causing problems for me and for each other. Maybe that's why I am uncharacteristically productive today.

WHO DARES DISTURB ME, MORTALS is a fun thing to say when kids ask you for something during a playdate.

I mean. Wow.

"In the 21st century, we will work from home, have video phones, and our kids will play with robots!" In the 21st century, I will sit down to work to find my keyboard unplugged because my kid wanted to use that port to recharge his robot.

*wind blows, power goes out, everything goes black* Me: "Hey, buddy?" 10 y-o: "I DIDN'T DO IT"

Every time I hear teachers refer to kids as "friends," there's this split second when I think they're just being refreshingly honest about their actual grown-up friends.

I like making bone broth because at the end when the bones have gotten all soft and crumbly, I can yell "I CRUSH YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS WEAK MORTAL."

I like making bone broth because I like pretending that the bones are the bones of my enemies.

I like making bone broth because there's just something about a big pot full of bones simmering on the stove for DAYS.

Going out to sand the driveway with ash AGAIN. In the wind.

Me: Now. What do I say before every playdate? 10 y-o: "Don't embarrass me in front of the good parents."

In my quest to get my 10 y-o on the bus, I've just decided to do Captain Janeway's voice and call him Ensign Davis. It's working surprisingly well AND I get to enjoy my coffee. #startrek #voyager #parenting

Thanks to the Muppets Take Manhattan, I - a grown woman who works in marketing - still believe in my soul that all sales problems can be solved by a whisper campaign. #genx

I should truly let my kid have a feral snow day as I used to, but the elder Gen Xers have shamed me into being an attentive mom, and his version of feral is "unlimited screen time."

I just yelled "STOP! COLLABORATE! LISTEN!" to get my 10-year-old's attention. #genx

I made bone broth and gave the crumbled bones to the chickens as a feed supplement. I haven't felt this smug since cloth diapering. I need to bake some bread and upcycle something before the feeling wanes.

Two hour snow delays: Just as big a disappointment to me as a parent as they were to me as a kid.

I *knew* my Wheel of Time Season 3 sense was tingling. It's almost back it's almost backitsalmostback

Because our space heaters keep blowing fuses, I've spent today touring the truly deranged electrical system in this house.

What is one simple act of resistance that will absolutely infuriate any authoritarian determined to make the world ignore pandemics and climate change? Wearing a mask.

I need to talk about the women in Encounter at Farpoint for a moment. When I was 9 I was psyched to see a lady sitting next to the captain (Troi) and a lady kicking ass (Yar) and completely wrote off Crusher as Just a Mom, Ew. In my 40s, Crusher comes off as the biggest badass. #startrek

Um. A lot of people on Bluesky claim to be cryptids in their bios.

Although to be fair, Star Trek is a show made on Earth by (presumably) a bunch of humans... so it makes sense that Farpoint was human-centric, but still.

More Encounter at Farpoint thoughts to distract myself from today: Q's putting humanity on trial... but Enterprise's crew isn't human. The Bandi aren't human. Even the bridge crew isn't completely human. You've got an android, a Klingon and a half Betazoid right there.

I heard the sounds of public speaking in the 10 y-o's room and thought "oh. He's listening to inauguration stuff. Better go listen with him then." He's listening to Dr. King. Kiddo is setting an example for me today.

Well here we go again with this bullshit.

Feeling this quote pretty hard today. Incredible amounts of preparation, and a big thing still didn't go right. Not to say that that there were not things to learn from it, because there most definitely were. Gonna take a knee on today, but right back up tomorrow to get back after it.

Watching Encounter at Farpoint with my family and I have a lot of thoughts about it: - Judge Q looks like Boy George - My kid would be an old man in Q’s 2079 court - I now get why my mom had a thing for Picard in the late 80s

Two hours of podcasting today (I can't say more about that until the podcast itself is announced) tired me right out. It's weird because I *love* podcasting and speaking but I came out of that session ready for a nap.

Personally I like to think women have better taste in podcasts.

Despite the fact that I have all this training for housekeeping and parenting, I have never wanted to be a homemaker. It always felt like a future that was trying to land on me. So the last few days of taking over housework because my husband is working ft has given me many Big Stupid Feelings

You know what's wild? Like many little girls, I was trained through play to be a mom and a housekeeper. It's shocking how many things I can do because of the games I played as a kid. I remember swaddling my son for the first time and my husband being like HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW TO DO THAT??

Three days into homemaking, I understand the lyrics to Mrs. Robinson better than I ever thought I would. My goal for this year is now to make enough money to hire a cleaner, and maybe a landscaper.

I just listened to Jed Lipiniski's third season of Gone South, which follows the 2018 murders of four women in Laredo, TX and was struck by how similar the murders are to the Jack the Ripper murders.

As a creative person I mostly agree with this. The exception for me is if the critique is calling a creator out for work that's actively harmful. Sometimes my privilege blinds me. While it's never the job of a marginalized person to educate me, if someone does reach out I want to hear it.

"I Can See Clearly Now, The Estrogen's Gone: A Perimenopausal Treatise on Why Most of the Guys I Once Had Crushes on Weren't Actually That Cute"

It's annoying that zippered coat extenders are only sold for expectant moms and not for those of us who really love cheesecake.

I do love me some Dr. Crippen. (Actually I don't love HIM but the story is fascinating)

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