Eleanor’s Trousers
@eleanorstrousers.bsky.social
My skeets represent your employer. Atlanta raised, in Pittsburgh PA since 2000 - my accent is weird wherever I am.
Go Dawgs.
Putting the Q in LGBTQ+. TERFs be gone. (she/her)🏳️🌈
Go Dawgs.
Putting the Q in LGBTQ+. TERFs be gone. (she/her)🏳️🌈
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I don't have the energy to post about every atrocity, so let me just state for the record - I am against all of the bad things.
One article of my personal faith is that if you play Dolly Parton’s music while you cook, it serves to bless the food and makes it taste better.
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
One article of my personal faith is that if you play Dolly Parton’s music while you cook, it serves to bless the food and makes it taste better.
Its important that I make the chicken and dumplings a day ahead so that I have 24 hours to get the flour out of my hair, the rug, every groove in the counters, and so on.
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Its important that I make the chicken and dumplings a day ahead so that I have 24 hours to get the flour out of my hair, the rug, every groove in the counters, and so on.
We live in a time of mysterious signs and wonders.
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We live in a time of mysterious signs and wonders.
Truly one of my most cherished traditions.
A reminder because it’s grocery crunch time: if you get a spare cheap pumpkin pie, you can have it for breakfast tomorrow while watching the Thanksgiving parade.
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Truly one of my most cherished traditions.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
The algorithm sent me an ad for hats for people with extremely large heads. It’s not wrong, but it’s not polite to point out either.
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The algorithm sent me an ad for hats for people with extremely large heads. It’s not wrong, but it’s not polite to point out either.
This man who put a Tuesday afternoon meeting on my calendar when I will be off the remainder of the week will not be meeting my best self.
November 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This man who put a Tuesday afternoon meeting on my calendar when I will be off the remainder of the week will not be meeting my best self.
Georgia game dive bar update.
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Georgia game dive bar update.
A friend brought me two loaves of fresh homemade bread, and I realize I’m thousands of years late on this, but we should all quit what we’re doing society-wise and just bake bread for each other.
November 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A friend brought me two loaves of fresh homemade bread, and I realize I’m thousands of years late on this, but we should all quit what we’re doing society-wise and just bake bread for each other.
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hearing that today was a pretty wild episode for you news stans
November 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
hearing that today was a pretty wild episode for you news stans
Explaining to my wife why I’m not very into Westerns or space stuff: I dunno. Men seem really into both of them. So that makes me wary about the whole thing.
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Explaining to my wife why I’m not very into Westerns or space stuff: I dunno. Men seem really into both of them. So that makes me wary about the whole thing.
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Move your turkey from the freezer to the fridge today!
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Move your turkey from the freezer to the fridge today!
On our final vet trip, I wasn’t prepared to make arrangements because I’d never lost a pet as an adult. They’re listing them off, and one was to have Janet cremated and scattered at a coral reef and all I could think in the moment was “…our cat never expressed a desire for the sea.”
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
On our final vet trip, I wasn’t prepared to make arrangements because I’d never lost a pet as an adult. They’re listing them off, and one was to have Janet cremated and scattered at a coral reef and all I could think in the moment was “…our cat never expressed a desire for the sea.”
Reskeet with a time you looked cool.
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Reskeet with a time you looked cool.
True story. Before ADHD meds, to fake highly-functioning, I smoked two packs a day and chased them down with a daily 12-pack of Diet Coke *and* 12 cups of coffee (or 12 espressos in to-go lattes). Every day. My whole adult life. Now I often forget to even finish my first coffee after I pour it.
I guess I can drink twelve coffees a day while chain smoking if you want me to do this in a socially acceptable manner, I just don't see how that's better for my physical or mental health than Vyvanse, y'know?
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
True story. Before ADHD meds, to fake highly-functioning, I smoked two packs a day and chased them down with a daily 12-pack of Diet Coke *and* 12 cups of coffee (or 12 espressos in to-go lattes). Every day. My whole adult life. Now I often forget to even finish my first coffee after I pour it.
Alert. Orville Peck has released a
cover of Maybe This Time from Cabaret.
cover of Maybe This Time from Cabaret.
Maybe This Time
open.spotify.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Alert. Orville Peck has released a
cover of Maybe This Time from Cabaret.
cover of Maybe This Time from Cabaret.
Ooh the Andrea Gibson documentary Come See Me in the Good Light is on Apple TV and so far, it will break your heart, but so did their poetry and I’m glad to see them remembered.
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Ooh the Andrea Gibson documentary Come See Me in the Good Light is on Apple TV and so far, it will break your heart, but so did their poetry and I’m glad to see them remembered.
My mom (usually amazing): You said you had a hard week. What’s up?
Me: Um. My next door neighbor burned to death in a house fire and then my cat died…
Mom: Oh. I thought you meant work or something.
M’am. Is this not enough for you?
Me: Um. My next door neighbor burned to death in a house fire and then my cat died…
Mom: Oh. I thought you meant work or something.
M’am. Is this not enough for you?
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
My mom (usually amazing): You said you had a hard week. What’s up?
Me: Um. My next door neighbor burned to death in a house fire and then my cat died…
Mom: Oh. I thought you meant work or something.
M’am. Is this not enough for you?
Me: Um. My next door neighbor burned to death in a house fire and then my cat died…
Mom: Oh. I thought you meant work or something.
M’am. Is this not enough for you?
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It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend
Every time I start to plan where to be when for holidays, I become convinced we should go back to the old ways where marriage means you become of the property of a new family too far away to be expected to ever see the other one again. Just a tasteful letter once a month. Feels more reasonable.
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Every time I start to plan where to be when for holidays, I become convinced we should go back to the old ways where marriage means you become of the property of a new family too far away to be expected to ever see the other one again. Just a tasteful letter once a month. Feels more reasonable.
Talked to a fancy statistician with a royal flush of degrees and it took him a full 30 minutes of lecturing to let me get in a word edgewise to let him know that I had been working with these new-to-him reports for a decade and didn’t need a primer. Be curious about other people first, sir.
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Talked to a fancy statistician with a royal flush of degrees and it took him a full 30 minutes of lecturing to let me get in a word edgewise to let him know that I had been working with these new-to-him reports for a decade and didn’t need a primer. Be curious about other people first, sir.
I really like the Sharpie fine-point felt tip pens and every time I leave the house I grab one and toss it into my purse in case I need a pen. I just found nine identical pens floating around in my not-large bag.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I really like the Sharpie fine-point felt tip pens and every time I leave the house I grab one and toss it into my purse in case I need a pen. I just found nine identical pens floating around in my not-large bag.
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Thing that rattles around in my head:
Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.
Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.
November 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Thing that rattles around in my head:
Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.
Fifteen or so years go I attended a book event for two ghost hunters. One of them just casually said, "As we all know, ghosts can't move anything heavier than a five-pound bag of flour."
I think about this ALL. THE. TIME.
One problem with liking spooky old house movies is that often you click to watch and expect the “family’s dark secret” in the description to be a ghost/
demon/ dark ritual, and it ends up just being generations of human violence against women.
demon/ dark ritual, and it ends up just being generations of human violence against women.
November 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
One problem with liking spooky old house movies is that often you click to watch and expect the “family’s dark secret” in the description to be a ghost/
demon/ dark ritual, and it ends up just being generations of human violence against women.
demon/ dark ritual, and it ends up just being generations of human violence against women.
You’d think a person from Georgia would be sick to death of The Devil Went Down to Georgia, but nah. Play it again.
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
You’d think a person from Georgia would be sick to death of The Devil Went Down to Georgia, but nah. Play it again.