[boring youth preacher sitting in a chair the normal way] You know, when you think about it, the first actuary was Jesus Christ.

These guys were all over my college campus in St. Pete. Truly magical.

fledglings! on a balcony #pigeonsofoakland

We are all children of god

Texting 20 people "hey haven't talked in a while hope you're doing well" then putting my phone on a little wooden ship, pushing it into a lake and shooting it with a flaming arrow

inject it into my veins

me in my application for a Canadian citizenship certificate

this bucket of iced coffee will fix me

our country hates children our country hates children our country HATES children

FRANCE: we're fancy WORLD: ok FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich is our national lunch WORLD: FRANCE: a fried ham sandwich with an egg is its wife

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

HOT OFF THE PRESS: worker-owner @nicolefroio.bsky.social went long on children's rights and how they intersect with feminism:

The morning so far

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

Not to be that guy, but: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org#/portal/signup

The hairdresser holds up the mirror so I can see the back of my haircut but she accidentally uses the mirror that reveals how you die. I see my 80-year-old self tumbling down a hill after slacklining for the 1st time. I never know how to react in these situations, so I just mumble "wow I love it"

The first-Sunday-in-January scaries mental process:

“I’m here to search your child care center for fraud.”

our country hates children our country hates children our country HATES children

Outlook can go straight to hell actually

~nesting~

Nature Discovery #Florida #HumansofBlueSky #Photography

today I learned what a “hypervexatious litigant” is and not for a good reason!

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Every single time a decision about K-12 or college education is made with "career readiness" at the forefront, we are doing harm to students, our mission, and society at large.

Borb alert

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

solidarity with all my taylor swift agnostics

It is a high holy day

Everything after LiveJournal was a mistake.

Carti B at the Oakland Public Library

A needs-based community care pop-up every Thursday morning in downtown Oakland ♥️

🙌

Silicon Valley is always announcing it's bringing on utopia for the whole world (and maybe some exoplanets) while creating hideous dystopias personally and locally (and sometimes internationally).

“you probably didn’t really laugh out loud though” yea but I did in my soul lol

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

my moment has arrived

As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.

Ms. Rachel’s clear and unbending advocacy comes as zero surprise to me, a former preschool teacher; most in childcare and early childhood ed do not fuck around when it comes to our children (and EVERY child is our child)

love mr darcy's fake ass like "oh elizabeth bennet isn't even that hot" and then spends the next year staring at her like oh my god. oh my fuckign god

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

When I search my feelings

should I still register for my conlaw class tomorrow or

The name "Alligator Alcatraz" reminds us that America is currently run by adults who are like malicious, giggling children using magnifying glasses to burn ants.

none of the alligators signed up for this