Amy Cogan
@coganosity2.bsky.social
Married grandma, constant reader, loves cats, animals, gardens and Halloween.
No Religion here.
No Religion here.
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What I grew up with as “dumplings” was solely the clumps of doughy stuff in chicken and dumplings soup. The stuffed product? Well, not a lot of Dim Sum places in SC in the 80s.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What I grew up with as “dumplings” was solely the clumps of doughy stuff in chicken and dumplings soup. The stuffed product? Well, not a lot of Dim Sum places in SC in the 80s.
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You ever have a word that, due to a combination of where you grew up and who you grew up around, almost everyone else who speaks the same language uses differently than you do?
For me it’s “dumplings.”
For me it’s “dumplings.”
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
You ever have a word that, due to a combination of where you grew up and who you grew up around, almost everyone else who speaks the same language uses differently than you do?
For me it’s “dumplings.”
For me it’s “dumplings.”
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Oh, yay. Love to be told that my dental insurance for the year is maxed out right before a cleaning I have been sternly told I am not allowed to cancel or reschedule. Luxury bones are so great.
December 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Oh, yay. Love to be told that my dental insurance for the year is maxed out right before a cleaning I have been sternly told I am not allowed to cancel or reschedule. Luxury bones are so great.
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My owl bonafides have been questioned, so, here: the Ballad of Curly.
I promised animal stories, so: the Ballad of Curly, Best of Owls. CWs for thread: domestic abuse, animal-on-asshole violence.
December 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
My owl bonafides have been questioned, so, here: the Ballad of Curly.
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SFO has a yoga room. Has had it for decades. But that's not the exercise he means bc that's not for the kind of performative masculinity he practices.
Alternatively: man who has never left his bubble will be shocked to find his brilliant new ideas are already in place bc of people who are not him.
Alternatively: man who has never left his bubble will be shocked to find his brilliant new ideas are already in place bc of people who are not him.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
SFO has a yoga room. Has had it for decades. But that's not the exercise he means bc that's not for the kind of performative masculinity he practices.
Alternatively: man who has never left his bubble will be shocked to find his brilliant new ideas are already in place bc of people who are not him.
Alternatively: man who has never left his bubble will be shocked to find his brilliant new ideas are already in place bc of people who are not him.
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I'm sorry your kids hate you and you now want to have more time to *checks notes* work out at the airport. Please go back to rolling logs in WI, you (rumored) closeted man.
December 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I'm sorry your kids hate you and you now want to have more time to *checks notes* work out at the airport. Please go back to rolling logs in WI, you (rumored) closeted man.
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The boys, for the unaware, are two teens whom I functionally adopted when their grandmother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Their mom is great, and loves that they have a fairy geekmother who understands their weird shit and is willing to enable them finding it.
December 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
The boys, for the unaware, are two teens whom I functionally adopted when their grandmother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Their mom is great, and loves that they have a fairy geekmother who understands their weird shit and is willing to enable them finding it.
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Out of This Wood, the DVD extras. – Rose-Owls and Pumpkin Girls
seananmcguire.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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If we can magically find $12B for an agriculture bailout caused because of made up tariffs, we can find funding for trains, libraries, & clean energy. Btw the annual budget of the EPA is $9B. The whole thing! About the same with the National Science Foundation. Cut bad stuff, triple good stuff.
Not only can the country absolutely afford to do a lot more good things that help people– in housing, healthcare, infrastructure, and environment– there is no reason not to do it. Pretty simple: We should do big things that help people and not do things that hurt people. bsky.app/profile/cost...
How many times in your life have you heard a member of Congress or someone on TV say “we can’t afford it” when talking about something small but very important? It’s been happening my entire life. We can’t afford it? They’re putting seven times the annual budget of the EPA into immigrant detention.
December 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If we can magically find $12B for an agriculture bailout caused because of made up tariffs, we can find funding for trains, libraries, & clean energy. Btw the annual budget of the EPA is $9B. The whole thing! About the same with the National Science Foundation. Cut bad stuff, triple good stuff.
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Finally finished The Three-Body Problem, which I (eventually) loved, so I picked up the first chapter of The Dark Forest and - you know, actually, I think I’ll go to sleep instead
December 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Finally finished The Three-Body Problem, which I (eventually) loved, so I picked up the first chapter of The Dark Forest and - you know, actually, I think I’ll go to sleep instead
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Great to see this municipal climate leadership in NYC:
www.esgtoday.com/nyc-comptrol...
www.esgtoday.com/nyc-comptrol...
NYC Comptroller Calls to Drop $42 Billion Investment Mandate with BlackRock Over “Inadequate Decarbonization Plans” - ESG Today
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander announced that he has recommended that the city’s pension funds drop a $42 billion investment mandates with BlackRock, as well as those with Fidelity and PanAgora...
www.esgtoday.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Great to see this municipal climate leadership in NYC:
www.esgtoday.com/nyc-comptrol...
www.esgtoday.com/nyc-comptrol...
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Except now they are “war” contractors.
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Except now they are “war” contractors.
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First five will be from “Defense” contractors.
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
First five will be from “Defense” contractors.
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The year was 2006. "Temperature" by Sean Paul and "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield were on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. I was trying to survive high school.
And my breasts were enormous.
And my breasts were enormous.
An Open Letter to the Bra Store Clerk Who Gave My Enormous Breasts an Embarrassing Nickname When I Was Coming of Age
To the woman at the bra store who clocked me as a “Gerry” in reference to my G-cup breasts when I was coming of age, I’m certain you haven’t spared...
buff.ly
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The year was 2006. "Temperature" by Sean Paul and "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield were on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. I was trying to survive high school.
And my breasts were enormous.
And my breasts were enormous.
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The plan for dealing with the Supreme Court ought to start with refusing to treat nakedly partisan decisions as binding and rejecting the idea that courts alone decide constitutional questions.
December 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The plan for dealing with the Supreme Court ought to start with refusing to treat nakedly partisan decisions as binding and rejecting the idea that courts alone decide constitutional questions.
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The grandmother clock just ticks away,
In cloud castles it's warm they say.
The city is full of endless rain,
Stray cats and strangers, a constant pain
The city was gloomy, angry, and blue,
Everything wrong, nothing to do.
I dreamed of fixing the world one day,
But thank God, I didn’t know the way
In cloud castles it's warm they say.
The city is full of endless rain,
Stray cats and strangers, a constant pain
The city was gloomy, angry, and blue,
Everything wrong, nothing to do.
I dreamed of fixing the world one day,
But thank God, I didn’t know the way
December 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
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So so so many, but one that comes up more frequently than you might think is
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
So so so many, but one that comes up more frequently than you might think is
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
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Left out the best part:
"She compared these strikes to a story in the Bible, when Jesus healed someone on a Sunday, contradicting religious rules that forbid work on that day. Some laws are worth breaking for the betterment of mankind, she said, just like the biblical story was trying to show."
"She compared these strikes to a story in the Bible, when Jesus healed someone on a Sunday, contradicting religious rules that forbid work on that day. Some laws are worth breaking for the betterment of mankind, she said, just like the biblical story was trying to show."
December 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Left out the best part:
"She compared these strikes to a story in the Bible, when Jesus healed someone on a Sunday, contradicting religious rules that forbid work on that day. Some laws are worth breaking for the betterment of mankind, she said, just like the biblical story was trying to show."
"She compared these strikes to a story in the Bible, when Jesus healed someone on a Sunday, contradicting religious rules that forbid work on that day. Some laws are worth breaking for the betterment of mankind, she said, just like the biblical story was trying to show."
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Nearly all of these people revealed themselves to be monsters.
6 Republican Voters on U.S. Strikes on Boats Suspected of Smuggling Drugs
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Nearly all of these people revealed themselves to be monsters.
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this moment dropped pee-detecting dye into the pool of America. and Naomi? been pissin
December 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
this moment dropped pee-detecting dye into the pool of America. and Naomi? been pissin
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The liberal academic deference to SCOTUS may, at long long last, be crumbling, but it really never should have been there from the start.
We should have DECADES more work already on how to circumvent and weaken a reactionary anti-democratic institution like this.
We should have DECADES more work already on how to circumvent and weaken a reactionary anti-democratic institution like this.
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The liberal academic deference to SCOTUS may, at long long last, be crumbling, but it really never should have been there from the start.
We should have DECADES more work already on how to circumvent and weaken a reactionary anti-democratic institution like this.
We should have DECADES more work already on how to circumvent and weaken a reactionary anti-democratic institution like this.
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Like, at least in my line of work, there's really no Golden Age of SCOTUS doing enlightened things.
It's always been pretty bad! I know it grudgingly and precariously held or advanced the line on a few big social issues, but as a general matter, it's ALWAYS been a reactionary institution.
It's always been pretty bad! I know it grudgingly and precariously held or advanced the line on a few big social issues, but as a general matter, it's ALWAYS been a reactionary institution.
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Like, at least in my line of work, there's really no Golden Age of SCOTUS doing enlightened things.
It's always been pretty bad! I know it grudgingly and precariously held or advanced the line on a few big social issues, but as a general matter, it's ALWAYS been a reactionary institution.
It's always been pretty bad! I know it grudgingly and precariously held or advanced the line on a few big social issues, but as a general matter, it's ALWAYS been a reactionary institution.
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I know the current SCOTUS is distinctly bad, but reading student papers on past SCOTUS crim legal ops really drives home that, perhaps except for a few weeks under the Warren Court, all modern SCOTUS's have basically subscribed to the judicial philosophy of "please make sure prisoners suffer a lot."
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I know the current SCOTUS is distinctly bad, but reading student papers on past SCOTUS crim legal ops really drives home that, perhaps except for a few weeks under the Warren Court, all modern SCOTUS's have basically subscribed to the judicial philosophy of "please make sure prisoners suffer a lot."
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I’d rather my kids go to drag queen story hour. More fun, engaging, not to mention safer.
December 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I’d rather my kids go to drag queen story hour. More fun, engaging, not to mention safer.