Erin Griggs
@wordslingeuse.bsky.social
Too old to be clever in bios or patient with abject willful hateful stupidity.
She/her. Kansas. Former English prof & medievalist, current empty-nester housefrau.
She/her. Kansas. Former English prof & medievalist, current empty-nester housefrau.
My fully-adult 23 y.o. son, up at 330 am to head to the airport via dad-cab: quietly, competently packing.
Me, en robe w cafe: DO YOU HAVE YOUR MEDS? TOOTHBRUSH? CHARGERS?
HERE'S SOME HOMEMADE BROWNIES I LOVE YOU BE SAFE CALL US WHEN YOU GET THERE!
He's been flying unaccompanied for a decade.
Me, en robe w cafe: DO YOU HAVE YOUR MEDS? TOOTHBRUSH? CHARGERS?
HERE'S SOME HOMEMADE BROWNIES I LOVE YOU BE SAFE CALL US WHEN YOU GET THERE!
He's been flying unaccompanied for a decade.
December 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
My fully-adult 23 y.o. son, up at 330 am to head to the airport via dad-cab: quietly, competently packing.
Me, en robe w cafe: DO YOU HAVE YOUR MEDS? TOOTHBRUSH? CHARGERS?
HERE'S SOME HOMEMADE BROWNIES I LOVE YOU BE SAFE CALL US WHEN YOU GET THERE!
He's been flying unaccompanied for a decade.
Me, en robe w cafe: DO YOU HAVE YOUR MEDS? TOOTHBRUSH? CHARGERS?
HERE'S SOME HOMEMADE BROWNIES I LOVE YOU BE SAFE CALL US WHEN YOU GET THERE!
He's been flying unaccompanied for a decade.
First year as my family matriarch.
Sister got inducted into the Chinese food out on Xmas Eve, then home for "Die Hard" aspect of her auntiehood to a Jewish kiddo, and now I'm drinking coffee in my full house, waiting for my 1st Xmas Day to start.
It's WEIRD AF, NGL, becoming the jefa.
Sister got inducted into the Chinese food out on Xmas Eve, then home for "Die Hard" aspect of her auntiehood to a Jewish kiddo, and now I'm drinking coffee in my full house, waiting for my 1st Xmas Day to start.
It's WEIRD AF, NGL, becoming the jefa.
December 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
First year as my family matriarch.
Sister got inducted into the Chinese food out on Xmas Eve, then home for "Die Hard" aspect of her auntiehood to a Jewish kiddo, and now I'm drinking coffee in my full house, waiting for my 1st Xmas Day to start.
It's WEIRD AF, NGL, becoming the jefa.
Sister got inducted into the Chinese food out on Xmas Eve, then home for "Die Hard" aspect of her auntiehood to a Jewish kiddo, and now I'm drinking coffee in my full house, waiting for my 1st Xmas Day to start.
It's WEIRD AF, NGL, becoming the jefa.
*Buttermilk brine for tomorrow's chicken
*Change guest bed
*Scrub toilet
*MAKE MORE COOKIES!!
*Wrap 1 last present
*Sister arrives
* Trash TV til Chinese feast at the Plaza
*PLAZA LIGHTS W THE FAM, meet friend & her fam on way to their candlelight service, say hey.
*Home to cookies & "Die Hard."
*Change guest bed
*Scrub toilet
*MAKE MORE COOKIES!!
*Wrap 1 last present
*Sister arrives
* Trash TV til Chinese feast at the Plaza
*PLAZA LIGHTS W THE FAM, meet friend & her fam on way to their candlelight service, say hey.
*Home to cookies & "Die Hard."
December 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
*Buttermilk brine for tomorrow's chicken
*Change guest bed
*Scrub toilet
*MAKE MORE COOKIES!!
*Wrap 1 last present
*Sister arrives
* Trash TV til Chinese feast at the Plaza
*PLAZA LIGHTS W THE FAM, meet friend & her fam on way to their candlelight service, say hey.
*Home to cookies & "Die Hard."
*Change guest bed
*Scrub toilet
*MAKE MORE COOKIES!!
*Wrap 1 last present
*Sister arrives
* Trash TV til Chinese feast at the Plaza
*PLAZA LIGHTS W THE FAM, meet friend & her fam on way to their candlelight service, say hey.
*Home to cookies & "Die Hard."
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Why do boy gods always be impregnating human wives on the sly? Weird-ass rapists -- "Hi, I can't even talk to you myself about it, but here's my boy Gabriel to tell you *I* knocked up up in your sleep, not ya boy Joe. Good luck, chosen bitch!"
I have seen so many Annunciations in which the Blessed Virgin is just trying to read her book, and there comes some angel to interrupt her....
"Mrs O'Nazareth we have your scans. Do want to know the divine status of your baby now? Or would you prefer it to be a surprise?"
December 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Why do boy gods always be impregnating human wives on the sly? Weird-ass rapists -- "Hi, I can't even talk to you myself about it, but here's my boy Gabriel to tell you *I* knocked up up in your sleep, not ya boy Joe. Good luck, chosen bitch!"
Rest in power, ma'am.
Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.
Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest U.S. Park Ranger and Trailblazing Historian, Dies at 104 | KQED
Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger and a pioneering historian at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, devoted her life to preserving Black histo...
www.kqed.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Rest in power, ma'am.
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Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email.
It must be read:
It must be read:
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Once when we wanted to show the ineffectual dithering of The Good Place Committee, we had one of them say, "There are rules, procedures. This is The Good Place -- we can't just *do stuff.*" We almost didn't include it, because we thought it was a little on the nose.
WELKER: Massie and Khanna say they are looking at options including impeachment and contempt for DOJ officials. Would you support those steps?
KAINE: I think that's premature
KAINE: I think that's premature
December 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Once when we wanted to show the ineffectual dithering of The Good Place Committee, we had one of them say, "There are rules, procedures. This is The Good Place -- we can't just *do stuff.*" We almost didn't include it, because we thought it was a little on the nose.
Preparing to go up to Iowa for the husband's family Xmas, just in time for dinner and the Friday night trivia contest at the local grill.
...the locals are not prepared.
...the locals are not prepared.
a man with long hair and a mustache is sitting in front of a stone wall and says `` you seem a decent fellow .
Alt: Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in "The Princess Bride," standing in front of a stone wall and says "You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you."
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Preparing to go up to Iowa for the husband's family Xmas, just in time for dinner and the Friday night trivia contest at the local grill.
...the locals are not prepared.
...the locals are not prepared.
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
My therapist brings her puppy to sessions a lot, and she made coloring pages of him for younger clients/clients' kids.🥰
December 19, 2025 at 12:40 PM
My therapist brings her puppy to sessions a lot, and she made coloring pages of him for younger clients/clients' kids.🥰
Loving my gothesque holiday mani 💕
December 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Loving my gothesque holiday mani 💕
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Ron DeSantis redirected $35 million in state funding for children in foster care and instead spent the money on television ads to defeat last year's pro-abortion ballot initiative
DeSantis admin diverted child welfare and medical funds for consultants, ads
A Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times investigation found the DeSantis’ administration’s use of public money to fund a campaign against marijuana and abortion access was more sprawling than previously kn...
www.miamiherald.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Ron DeSantis redirected $35 million in state funding for children in foster care and instead spent the money on television ads to defeat last year's pro-abortion ballot initiative
Oh, look: art thieves.
December 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Oh, look: art thieves.
As a former English prof, IBID.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
As a former English prof, IBID.
After hot-glueing dried orange slices, cinnamon sticks, and star anise to my Trader Joe's wreath (I gotta get twinkle lights and some velvet ribbon), I made a fucking pomander.
She smells real pretty! Wards off plague, too,
Crone AF, fear my grandma-level witchy jollitity! 😆
She smells real pretty! Wards off plague, too,
Crone AF, fear my grandma-level witchy jollitity! 😆
December 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
After hot-glueing dried orange slices, cinnamon sticks, and star anise to my Trader Joe's wreath (I gotta get twinkle lights and some velvet ribbon), I made a fucking pomander.
She smells real pretty! Wards off plague, too,
Crone AF, fear my grandma-level witchy jollitity! 😆
She smells real pretty! Wards off plague, too,
Crone AF, fear my grandma-level witchy jollitity! 😆
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Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.
December 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
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MAGA-like Marjorie Taylor Greene-never care about the type of pain they inflict on others until it happens to them
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she shared with Trump death threat she received that he incited, and his response was "extremely unkind"
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
MAGA-like Marjorie Taylor Greene-never care about the type of pain they inflict on others until it happens to them
I'm a Chiefs fan in KC, but my female petty is WAY stronger than my sport loyalty.
Fuuuuuuck you, butterfoot!!
Fuuuuuuck you, butterfoot!!
Everytime Butker messes up an angel gets its wings and the rest of us enjoy our petty.
Butker hits the right upright, naturally. Sounded appropriately clangin'
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I'm a Chiefs fan in KC, but my female petty is WAY stronger than my sport loyalty.
Fuuuuuuck you, butterfoot!!
Fuuuuuuck you, butterfoot!!
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Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
December 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."
Lolol although I lay down for a "nap" at 4pm...and *just* woke up, 13 hrs later.
Hi, autism recovery time, I guess. Nbd compared to meltdowns and PAs!
Hi, autism recovery time, I guess. Nbd compared to meltdowns and PAs!
My therapist needs a raise, because that was the coolest and calmest I've ever flown before, EVEN WITH a medical emergency on the plane home, even flying spontaneously to a funeral in winter.
I canceled a VACATION to Costa Rica in May bc of panic attacks.
Miraculous!
I canceled a VACATION to Costa Rica in May bc of panic attacks.
Miraculous!
December 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Lolol although I lay down for a "nap" at 4pm...and *just* woke up, 13 hrs later.
Hi, autism recovery time, I guess. Nbd compared to meltdowns and PAs!
Hi, autism recovery time, I guess. Nbd compared to meltdowns and PAs!
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"Officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
"Officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
My therapist needs a raise, because that was the coolest and calmest I've ever flown before, EVEN WITH a medical emergency on the plane home, even flying spontaneously to a funeral in winter.
I canceled a VACATION to Costa Rica in May bc of panic attacks.
Miraculous!
I canceled a VACATION to Costa Rica in May bc of panic attacks.
Miraculous!
December 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
My therapist needs a raise, because that was the coolest and calmest I've ever flown before, EVEN WITH a medical emergency on the plane home, even flying spontaneously to a funeral in winter.
I canceled a VACATION to Costa Rica in May bc of panic attacks.
Miraculous!
I canceled a VACATION to Costa Rica in May bc of panic attacks.
Miraculous!
Hey, first flight since I had to cancel my Costa Rica trip bc of panic attacks this a.m...and 8 woke up 30m before my 315am alarm.
For a grand total of 3h15m sleep.
Fun fun. And it's 15 degrees out.🫤
For a grand total of 3h15m sleep.
Fun fun. And it's 15 degrees out.🫤
December 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Hey, first flight since I had to cancel my Costa Rica trip bc of panic attacks this a.m...and 8 woke up 30m before my 315am alarm.
For a grand total of 3h15m sleep.
Fun fun. And it's 15 degrees out.🫤
For a grand total of 3h15m sleep.
Fun fun. And it's 15 degrees out.🫤