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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.
Is there a name for that specific sort of pervasive dread that lurks on the edges of your psyche when you know there’s a distinct possibility of getting very bad news, but you don’t know when or if it will actually happen?
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Is there a name for that specific sort of pervasive dread that lurks on the edges of your psyche when you know there’s a distinct possibility of getting very bad news, but you don’t know when or if it will actually happen?
I’m just a girl, looking at Petfinder, wishing the “good with other cats” filter actually worked.
In related news, I really think a third cat would fix me. (But only if they didn’t spark conflict with our current cats.)
In related news, I really think a third cat would fix me. (But only if they didn’t spark conflict with our current cats.)
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I’m just a girl, looking at Petfinder, wishing the “good with other cats” filter actually worked.
In related news, I really think a third cat would fix me. (But only if they didn’t spark conflict with our current cats.)
In related news, I really think a third cat would fix me. (But only if they didn’t spark conflict with our current cats.)
Today’s dinner brought to the table by the dollar deals at Neighborhood Produce - $2 for 8 (smaller) ears of corn, $1 for 2 big leeks, plus baby potatoes from a few weeks ago (stored from an earlier CSA share) - turned into delicious leek and corn chowder.
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Today’s dinner brought to the table by the dollar deals at Neighborhood Produce - $2 for 8 (smaller) ears of corn, $1 for 2 big leeks, plus baby potatoes from a few weeks ago (stored from an earlier CSA share) - turned into delicious leek and corn chowder.
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“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
Obit:
Obit:
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
Obit:
Obit:
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Pretty much.
I think a lot of cis people, even allies, don’t really understand that we’re not doing this for fun.
So they think if they just make it inconvenient enough to be trans, we’ll all go “okay, fine, whatever” and stop, and then there just won’t be trans people and we can all move on.
I think a lot of cis people, even allies, don’t really understand that we’re not doing this for fun.
So they think if they just make it inconvenient enough to be trans, we’ll all go “okay, fine, whatever” and stop, and then there just won’t be trans people and we can all move on.
cis people do know that they don’t *actually* want us “using the bathroom of our assigned sex at birth” right? it’s to make us feel unsafe using *any* bathroom in public as a way to make us unsure about heading out into public *at all*
November 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Pretty much.
I think a lot of cis people, even allies, don’t really understand that we’re not doing this for fun.
So they think if they just make it inconvenient enough to be trans, we’ll all go “okay, fine, whatever” and stop, and then there just won’t be trans people and we can all move on.
I think a lot of cis people, even allies, don’t really understand that we’re not doing this for fun.
So they think if they just make it inconvenient enough to be trans, we’ll all go “okay, fine, whatever” and stop, and then there just won’t be trans people and we can all move on.
We are living in some dark times, and there’s a lot of awfulness all around. But today I got to see my kiddos connecting with others and having fun as their genuine selves, and it was beautiful.
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
We are living in some dark times, and there’s a lot of awfulness all around. But today I got to see my kiddos connecting with others and having fun as their genuine selves, and it was beautiful.
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Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
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The correct number of disposable people is zero.
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The correct number of disposable people is zero.
Exciting news of the day: the cabbage I set to ferment on Wednesday is starting to smell like sauerkraut!
Every time I make sauerkraut, I think “I should get a proper sauerkraut crock or other setup” but then I remember I do this MAYBE once a year, I don’t need a unitasker cluttering up my kitchen.
Every time I make sauerkraut, I think “I should get a proper sauerkraut crock or other setup” but then I remember I do this MAYBE once a year, I don’t need a unitasker cluttering up my kitchen.
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Exciting news of the day: the cabbage I set to ferment on Wednesday is starting to smell like sauerkraut!
Every time I make sauerkraut, I think “I should get a proper sauerkraut crock or other setup” but then I remember I do this MAYBE once a year, I don’t need a unitasker cluttering up my kitchen.
Every time I make sauerkraut, I think “I should get a proper sauerkraut crock or other setup” but then I remember I do this MAYBE once a year, I don’t need a unitasker cluttering up my kitchen.
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People are in denial about how quickly they could become disabled, unhoused or food insecure
It can happen to anyone & it can happen in an instant
Folks act like those receiving assistance have failed
That they should “try harder”
The system is rigged. It’s failed us, not the other way around
It can happen to anyone & it can happen in an instant
Folks act like those receiving assistance have failed
That they should “try harder”
The system is rigged. It’s failed us, not the other way around
November 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
People are in denial about how quickly they could become disabled, unhoused or food insecure
It can happen to anyone & it can happen in an instant
Folks act like those receiving assistance have failed
That they should “try harder”
The system is rigged. It’s failed us, not the other way around
It can happen to anyone & it can happen in an instant
Folks act like those receiving assistance have failed
That they should “try harder”
The system is rigged. It’s failed us, not the other way around
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Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.
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Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
Cursed Cross-Stitch:
There are 7 different colors here.
Thanks to symbols that are WAY TOO SIMILAR, I had to redo a chunk of it. 😩
There are 7 different colors here.
Thanks to symbols that are WAY TOO SIMILAR, I had to redo a chunk of it. 😩
November 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Cursed Cross-Stitch:
There are 7 different colors here.
Thanks to symbols that are WAY TOO SIMILAR, I had to redo a chunk of it. 😩
There are 7 different colors here.
Thanks to symbols that are WAY TOO SIMILAR, I had to redo a chunk of it. 😩
Get all the stuff set up to brew my morning coffee… and forgot to turn the kettle on.
It is unfair that I have to make the coffee before I have my morning coffee.
It is unfair that I have to make the coffee before I have my morning coffee.
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Get all the stuff set up to brew my morning coffee… and forgot to turn the kettle on.
It is unfair that I have to make the coffee before I have my morning coffee.
It is unfair that I have to make the coffee before I have my morning coffee.
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Acting like "home-cooked meals" are some sort of universal moral good and that street food and prepared fresh food is some sort of luxury that only people with lots of money should be able to access.
Really pisses me off.
Really pisses me off.
December 24, 2023 at 5:39 AM
Acting like "home-cooked meals" are some sort of universal moral good and that street food and prepared fresh food is some sort of luxury that only people with lots of money should be able to access.
Really pisses me off.
Really pisses me off.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
Cursed Cross-Stitch:
BEHOLD, all of the colors, accounted for and prepared!
BEHOLD, all of the colors, accounted for and prepared!
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Cursed Cross-Stitch:
BEHOLD, all of the colors, accounted for and prepared!
BEHOLD, all of the colors, accounted for and prepared!
Today I got up early and hustled on over to a routine medical appointment and then did errands afterward and I would just really like a sticker or a head pat or a cookie.
My brain is firmly in “don’t wanna” mode when it comes to everything so sadly accomplishing so much before noon is a big deal.
My brain is firmly in “don’t wanna” mode when it comes to everything so sadly accomplishing so much before noon is a big deal.
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Today I got up early and hustled on over to a routine medical appointment and then did errands afterward and I would just really like a sticker or a head pat or a cookie.
My brain is firmly in “don’t wanna” mode when it comes to everything so sadly accomplishing so much before noon is a big deal.
My brain is firmly in “don’t wanna” mode when it comes to everything so sadly accomplishing so much before noon is a big deal.
All I can think of is that series The 100, where Earth was ravaged by nuclear explosions after a rogue AI figured eliminating humans was the best way to solve the climate crisis.
(Sorry if I just spoiled a show that premiered 11 years ago.)
(Sorry if I just spoiled a show that premiered 11 years ago.)
Every time a tech entrepreneur says “we don’t need to stop global warming because AI will” I want to slap them with a fish that says, “if a superhuman intelligence came into being and we asked it how to stop global warming, it would say ‘stop burning fossil fuels, you fools.’”
I’m going to regret asking this, but… what mechanism are people proposing whereby AI will “end scarcity”?
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
All I can think of is that series The 100, where Earth was ravaged by nuclear explosions after a rogue AI figured eliminating humans was the best way to solve the climate crisis.
(Sorry if I just spoiled a show that premiered 11 years ago.)
(Sorry if I just spoiled a show that premiered 11 years ago.)
Cursed Cross-Stitch update: walked to the craft store and FINALLY obtained the correct color (3817). Burned my (non-dominant) hand last night while making dinner. Husband forgot to print the pattern pages yesterday while in a place with working printers.
The curse continues.
The curse continues.
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Cursed Cross-Stitch update: walked to the craft store and FINALLY obtained the correct color (3817). Burned my (non-dominant) hand last night while making dinner. Husband forgot to print the pattern pages yesterday while in a place with working printers.
The curse continues.
The curse continues.
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A Comprehensive Timeline of J.K. Rowling's Descent Into Transphobia
From beloved children’s author to funding the legal battle to codify transphobia into law, we charted how Rowling became “queen TERF”
Next time someone asks how JKR is transphobic - send them this!
From beloved children’s author to funding the legal battle to codify transphobia into law, we charted how Rowling became “queen TERF”
Next time someone asks how JKR is transphobic - send them this!
A Comprehensive Timeline of J.K. Rowling's Descent Into Transphobia
From beloved children’s author to funding the legal battle to codify transphobia into law, we charted how Rowling became “queen TERF.”
www.them.us
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A Comprehensive Timeline of J.K. Rowling's Descent Into Transphobia
From beloved children’s author to funding the legal battle to codify transphobia into law, we charted how Rowling became “queen TERF”
Next time someone asks how JKR is transphobic - send them this!
From beloved children’s author to funding the legal battle to codify transphobia into law, we charted how Rowling became “queen TERF”
Next time someone asks how JKR is transphobic - send them this!
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Occasional reminder: Elon Musk’s -very- first move when Trump handed him the keys to the federal government was to smirk about spending a weekend ‘feeding USAID into the wood chipper.’
He should be remembered as a racist mass murderer and nothing more.
He should be remembered as a racist mass murderer and nothing more.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Occasional reminder: Elon Musk’s -very- first move when Trump handed him the keys to the federal government was to smirk about spending a weekend ‘feeding USAID into the wood chipper.’
He should be remembered as a racist mass murderer and nothing more.
He should be remembered as a racist mass murderer and nothing more.