And lo! The oil lasted for ten days! And the parents were exhausted, and potato supply depleted.

I don’t love a judge who sets their list for 9:30 and never takes the bench before 10:30, as should be obvious from my posting now.

Is this a portmanteau or something else @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social ? Spelling error aside — it should be underbusing. :)

I ordered a phone last week -- I had to, mine is shutting down without warning. They didn't have it in stock, so they said they would ship it. I live in a building with 48 apartments. I came home to find a fed ex "sorry we missed you!" sticker on the door -- with no name on it. Is it for me? WTH.

I hate to be an old person, but if 6-7 has no meaning other than to confuse adults (done), how do the kids know when to say it? @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social you're a linguist, help me out.

Should we all have a hunger strike? He could last a long time.

I couldn't wrap my brain around the idea that Julia Louis-Dreyfus wasn't Jewish. I couldn't. At all. That hair. She looks like us. Then I listened to her podcast, her delightful interview with Roz Chast, and her wrap-up conversation with her extremely WASP-y mother, and now I have closure.

There are so many reasons to be angry about the failure of some Americans to protect us from Trump. One small, indulgent, personal reason is that Dems are passionate about public transit, and I spent 5 hours on the Pennsylvania turnpike today. There ought to be a fast train between Pgh and Philly.

But Joe Biden didn't recognize George Clooney at a crowded party, so democracy had to die, and hundreds of thousands of immigrants (or people who *look* like immigrants) had to be abducted, and fishermen murdered in the ocean, and vaccines had to end, and historic monuments destroyed.

I’ll talk to just about anyone but QAnon for Hamas or Israel, no.

Sometimes you remember none of this would be happening without Bush v Gore & the corrupt court.

I cannot describe how much I despise packing. It should take five minutes. It takes hours. Get the toiletry bag. Put it somewhere. Wander around a bit. Talk to the dog. Check toiletry bag for toothpaste. Go to the bathroom, come out without toothpaste. Go back. Put underwear in bag. Lie down

My family doesn't normally make Susan Stamberg's cranberry horseradish relish, but I feel like we all should, to remember her and democracy.

Oof. It is really difficult, as a get mad, say why, and get over it sort of person, to deal with a retreat, ponder, return in a few days sort of a person. Literally the worst thing that can happen to me is for someone not to talk to me. People are hard.

Why does the expression "not in my name" set my teeth on edge? People condemning genocide and saying "this is not a ceasefire" -- I nod and agree.

People going after Danny Chamovitz, whether from the left or the right, don’t want peace or justice. open.substack.com/pub/danielch...

Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.” Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.

I deleted something I believe is right because I was swarmed by anonymous accounts, not disagreeing in a thoughtful way, and it felt just like the Other Place. Blech.

Just stumbled upon this snippet. In Hakata there's a festival in which sacred floats are carried to Kushida Shrine. The view to the sky should not be obscured while on the way, so the overhead expressways the floats go under have "cloud" written on them. www.hakata-yamakasa.net/word/sora/

I don't like to block people. If you QT me and won't let me respond, I will block, because you're not interested in a discussion. It's bad faith.

This is the best photograph I've ever seen.

People who QT and block responses are cowards. I would bet a lot of money I've done more than Calvinball to fight the occupation. I just have issues with people screaming "DEATH" outside synagogues. Mamdani does, too, but he added a "but." He was wrong.

also is the butter lady on here?

Sandra Day O'Connor was just as evil as John Roberts. See, e.g., Bush v. Gore.

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey. This isn’t controversial. A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

Today was not a good parenting day.

Procrastinator's dilemma: I need to thank people who traveled for my dad's 100th birthday -- on October 4th. It's now November. Because [ADHD], I now worry any thank you notes have to be twice as long, which makes me put off writing them. What should I write so I can do this? (I need absolution)

I tell people a little sheepishly that it’s amazing having my kid out of the house but she came home last night with two friends and honestly I had the best sleep I’ve had since September.

Surprise, surprise! David Brooks did an antisemitism: “[Xtian nationalism] is rigid and pharisaical rather than personal and merciful.” Oh how I miss JSX

This. But the kids thought “Genocide Joe” was a good strategy.

Some of FB's suggested birthday greetings are just . . . odd. Have you ever wished someone "wishing you another incredible year of life"? -- this is like a Yom Kippur greeting, not a birthday wish.

Frustrated with my people. I will never deny antisemitism. But the people freaking out about Mamdani -- I know they have intergenerational trauma, but these are private school, straight-haired, dollars to donuts haven't had the IRL experience with antisemitism I've had. And they're panicking. Why?

Previously this happened to asylum seekers from Russia, with US deporting them to Russia, now US deports Iranian to Iran en masse: www.timesofisrael.com/us-deported-...

My kid just facetimed me from her dorm room, giving her gay white Southern friend edges on his poker straight hair. She has brought her whole self to college.

thank you. this is my campaign slogan and it's a campaign against one weird thief

I say he’s ageist and he says this:

And, don’t bash Dems. King isn’t a Democrat at all. It’s less than 1/5 of the caucus.

Sigh. Do I need to take a $15 COVID test every time I have a cold? My office is closed tomorrow. If I stay home I can’t take a sick day without a note. I would rather not expose my colleagues to whatever this is. What do I do?

Josh Shapiro did not cover up a murder, that's dumb. Hebrew is less a colonizer language than English and Spanish in the Americas. Be pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli. If you didn't vote for Harris, you did all this. I didn't. Sick of this. Oh and G__W@n@nt is a heartless, awful person.

Did Ross Douthat Ruin The Workplace

@wajali.bsky.social I just watched your discussion with Debra Shushan: almost as uplifting as the elections and the sandwich acquittal, so much decency and compassion. But I initially thought you were tearing up at her mother's story, only it lasted the whole time. Are you allergic to the cats?

Does Middle Child have a bluesky account?

VOICEOVER: in the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet entirely opposite, groups: the police, who are afraid of sandwiches, and sandwich wielders, armed with food consisting of two pieces of bread filled with meat, cheese, and vegetables. these are their stories.

The utter hysteria in X -land from people who clearly have never set foot in NY about the crime wave they are sure will erupt — do they mean ICE?

Will he knock down the West Wing tomorrow?

My kid is Black, and dark, and neurodivergent, and the perfect storm for multiple pushouts, despite no instance of violence, ever. She has a ton of school trauma. And it's hard, because with each successive pushout the previous school used the next one to say, "see?" But the pushouts created her.

Not in the sky.

Rabin was assassinated 30 years ago today. He was not a saint. He was a warrior who saw another way -- isn't that what we want? @aoc.bsky.social the words of the director of Breaking the Silence. The next time you are asked to speak at a memorial for this man, I beg you, please go.

You know how I know we are no longer a free country for anyone? I am afraid of things I said to K*tie M*ller -- that they will figure out who I am and harm me. That I am literally going to delete them because snark isn't worth dyingfor, even if the right to be snarky might be.