The deliberate overwhelm is exhausting. Trying to cultivate community is exhausting. Shopping secondhand, and local is exhausting, contacting your reps, pushing back with friends of friends, and always being mindful to be resistant in small way is exhausting. Make room for joy, it's OK.
“No work. No school. No shopping. Stop funding ICE.”
That’s the rallying cry behind the campaign for a nationwide general strike on Friday, seeking to galvanize opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Really the Matthew Sweet "Girlfriend" video.
Can someone tell them that Universal Healthcare would probably buy them a good 6 months without the media mentioning Epstein?
some scientists taught gorillas sign language and one would sign about his dreams, he called them, “sleep pictures.” and the president of the usa cannot pronounce acetaminophen.
The problem is that mental health professionals are trained to call the cops, and that's the advice they give people dealing with a suicidal loved one, so there's no other help coming.
Conservatives created cancel culture because they needed to pretend being unpopular was bullying.
It would be amazing to donate them to theater groups.
It must be rough to see how excited people are that you might be dead.
We have one of those. Samwise a former feral Maine Coon mix and he walks around and mutters. Sometimes he and Kwan the elderly Siamese mutter together.
We just stopped buying books after the 4th edition. I'm a big fan playing the way you like, regardless of what the company is doing.
With consent?
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION
Starbucks worker pay: $15,000
Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION
Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000
CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker.
In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more.
The system is rigged.
I guess it's accurate because how we scientifically define species is a mess. Some can interbreed, some can't. Sometimes it's a fairly trivial difference like great cats. My husband and I had a 30-minute debate about this the other night. It gets fairly arbitrary once you dig into it.
Up at 3:45, and now it's time to gather enough good cheer to teach a water aerobics class. It's ok though, the members can't tell us apart. They keep asking me about things the other instructors have done.
I give myself 20 minutes to go back to sleep in the middle of the night. More than 20 I get too antsy to succeed. I've viewed this as flaw of my own impatience but my fitness tracker has validated it takes me an average of 16 minutes to fall asleep. Guess who woke up at 3:45am this morning?
Raise Your Claw
I am irrationally proud my husband was able to look at a wall of sink faucets and accurately pick the one I was going to get.
My cats have a daily campaign to move treat time up an hour. 5:30 pm all 4 of them are in the living room staring at me.
Medical insurance is such a shell game. Even a doctor can't get straight answers. Universal Healthcare Now.
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A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it.
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Kwan, the cat that manages the house and does not like me to go outside, tried to stop me from coming downstairs all together by laying across the stairs and refusing to move.
Husband: "Yeah, just like sometimes there's bread in the mailbox."
Me: "What?"
Husband: "Sometimes I find bread in the mailbox."
Me: "That seems like a thing to mention."
Things are getting weirder at the Iron Mermaid.
I'm really proud of my little city for having good-sized showings for Pride and No Kings.
It could be one of the worse Buffy eps. Now I'm kind of concerned about what you guys are doing in the shower.
Once, a man was harassing the woman in front of him at the grocery store. My 6'4" husband interrupted by tapping him on the shoulder and asked if he was going to bully him next. Dude abandoned his cart and left the store without a word.
It's just an excuse to bully. 5 years of mask wearing, 5 years of asking people to mask or back up, no one has given me shit about it. I'm big, and I'm loud and no one even tries.
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole.
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