I finally found my line in the sand today. It felt good.

there’s a construction crew (excavator, dump truck, the works) digging up the road across from the preschool. this is like the Super Bowl for preschoolers. these workers have achieved Beyoncé-like fandom

I’m so confused this week. I don’t know what day it is; I don’t know what time it is.

On this Labor Day, remember the unions who pushed for 8 hour work days and weekends off in the first place. Those used to not be a thing!

“He lived a life of song till the very last breath…” A beautiful tribute. Have one with a salt rim for us in the Great After, Jimmy Buffett.

I think the lesson we've learned from the invite system is that no one is more than two degrees away from someone who would absolutely ruin a party.

I am what I am and that’s enough.

Canada warns #LGBTQ+ travelers that they may not be safe in the US because of bigoted #GOP laws. [gift link]

there were like 2 years when american internet culture was obsessed with bacon and at the time we thought that was as bad as it could get

based on the law where i live, i can be arrested for doing a poetry reading anywhere that isn’t exclusively 18+. i had to quit my job leading a local book club at a bookstore. i don’t think people realize how surreal things are becoming for trans people on the level of day-to-day life. crazy shit.

If you ever write a sentence that begins like this, you should delete it and probably consider a career change.

me: what’s crazy is that rudy giuliani first rose to fame because of 9/11

teen born in 2006: ohh. like he helped do it

me: ok no, but i see how you got there

*whispers* they already know, they just don’t care.

Holy shit it’s not “quiet quitting” it’s called not being worked to death